FireRetardant @ FireRetardant @lemmy.world

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The romans had engineers and fire fighting crews. Nearly every society has had some kind of police/army/guard to enforce laws. Farmers actually opened the door to most other jobs/careers because people didn't have to rely on themselves to grow or collect their own food which left more time to become an engineer, learn math, become a salesman or any other job that could be filled.

I'm glad hes addressing he'd like to move them from the parks. Like it or not, people don't love seeing tents and shelters in their public spaces and there are some health and safety concerns with needles and human waste. Hes both building shelters and trying to move them to less impactful locations. I think this will overall get him more support from the public if the public starts seeing results like cleaner parks and an illusion of housing. The shelters are far better than tents but still not a forever solution, as the article states.

This might not be the best thing for Canada either given the state of some provincial politics. With more power politicians like Doug Ford could go beyond banning just bike lanes and completely ban bike ownership. Then he would brag how he managed to get 0 cyclist deaths.

What we really need is stronger municipalities and regional politics. It would make it easier for cities or counties to experiment with new ideas for housing, transportation, and energy.

But remember, hes totally for the working class, what if the working class suddenly had 1000s in capital gains, wouldn't want the big bad government taking money from working people.

/s

There often is a button or too within the dash cluster to change things like the trip meter or cluster brightness

Dunkin loot boxes when?

My bike got stolen recently. I haven't bought another yet because there are no bike lanes to safely bike in my area and I'd otherwise use a bike for trails which i dont typically do in the winter. I have to commute along a 4 lane, 80km/h road with average speeds closer to 100km/h. There is a rough gravelly shoulder and it is a snow bank in the winter. An e bike would turn my 20 minute commte into 40, something i'd be willing to do if the ride was enjoyable and safe, which it is not.

People need somewhere to bike to justify investing in the ebike. Nobody would buy a tesla if it wasn't allowed to drive on the road. Nobdy wants to bike next to 100+km/h traffic injaling tire particles abd listening to a subaru redlining their engine through a needlessly loud exhaust.

Yes this was my understanding. I could see some DIY people making it work but I doubt we would see a massive scale industry around re using the motors. The amount of work and refurbishment coupled with relatively low power productions would make it hard to keep economically viable i think. People would worry the used motors would wear out prematurely when investing in their own power supply. Unlike something like solar, the motor needs rotational force, where as solar almost always makes at least some energy in the day even if cloudy.

How exactly does an EV become a power plant? If EVs were power plants they wouldn't need charging stations or to be plugged in over night.

It isn't a fair choice when a province makes it illegal to build safe bike lanes.

I bet a lot less people would drive year round if it was illegal to have any windows or a roof on a car. A lot less people would drive if there wasn't a road to their destination. A lot less people would drive if we got rid of all modern safety equipment like airbags. Yet we can't encourage people to bike by making places where it is safe to do so without signifcant risk of an SUV running you over.

You would need a lot more salt than that to significantly damage the ecosystem. For example, many roads are salted all winter, it does impact local ecosystems, especially waterways, but it doesn't comepletely kill them in most places. Plus a lot of the ash from the fires can be quite nutritious for plants which can help with recovery.

"Thank you, over, eh"

But bike lanes cause traffic congestion, do you really want to slow down all these drivers just so you can leisurely ride a bike?!??!? /s

We can't just keep throwing money at help groups in hopes that will magically solve homelessness, we need to address the economic factors pushing people there, the high and ever increasing costs of living. From a ponzi scheme housing market to ever increasing groccery costs, people are being priced out of their apartments and homes.

We need to invest in affordable housing and transit, we need to break up the groccery cartels that keep getting away with price fixing, we need to slow immigration to ease the pressure on rental units, we need to rework the temporary foreign worker programs to be less exploitative which would open up more low skill jobs available to homeless populations.

But our governments don't want to do any of that because it hurts their sweet sweet profits and the oligarch shareholders. Best they can offer is some cash for local outreach groups that often don't have the resources to make meaningful change (at least compared to the reaources available to governments).

And if Howells had followed common self custody advice, he'd have had his seed phrase written down somewhere safe so he could recover his wallet and BTC to any other hard drive.

A great tag/grounders arena

Connecting infrastructure costs roughly the same to maintain regardless if 10 amps or 1000 amps is running through it. The crypto miner pays the same fee for their standard service connection then pays per Kwh just like everybody else. Other customers are not subsidizing their connection nor their power.

By your logic, you are subsidizing anyone who uses more power than you and you are being subsidized by anyone using less power than you.

An industrial facility to the scale you are refering to will likely have its own electrical substation. Either maintained by the facility itself or contracted out to the power supplier.

Its actually a good thing to have diversity of incomes in a neighborhood rather than just "oh thats the poor neighbourhood."

Functional transit could bring massive changes to the emissions and housing issues facing this country. It would also impact big auto and big oil profits, the people our politicians actually tend to work for.