baconisaveg @ baconisaveg @lemmy.ca

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On the other hand... there's an ad in our elevator for a Little Warrior Camp, for children of sexual abuse. In the background it plays images of kids, with a disclaimer at the bottom that "these are just models, not actual victims". Seriously, that seems like the perfect use case for AI generated people. Imagine posing for a picture as a child and finding out it was used as an example of a CA victim.

I moved here 4 years ago, I share your sentiment.

And yet all of them taste better when deep fried in animal fat.

“They say shelters are the number one resource for us to go, have you ever spent time in a shelter? It’s not the best option.”

Uh, how is that not the bigger issue? Why are people fighting to let them stay on the streets and not working to fix the locations they're expected to go?

Which would be the only reasonable way to do it. Do people actually think they give their drivers license to pornhub? Is it fucking 1988 still?

The question was rhetorical. They fucking do, it's an absolutely horrible place for anglophones to live, and Quebec can go fuck itself.

English is also an official language, yet it's perfectly ok for Quebec to discriminate against Anglophones?

Not to mention incredibly poorly insulated. I remember my dad lived in one and holy shit was it cold in the winter.

Burgers have already gone up 250% in the past couple of years. Slow your roll there guy.

So is turning cows into ground beef, which many agree is far more delicious.

Can confirm. Have been working from home since 2019, haven't gotten sick once. Y'all can keep your germs.

I don't disagree, but burdening the users, especially new ones, with all these common tasks will make Lemmy a pretty dismal place.

No one cares?

Drivers already have to stop at red lights, stop signs, crosswalks, train crossings. Point out where a driver is saying they shouldn't have to stop for those things? You think I don't get pissed when I see the guy in front of me turn right on a no-red right? Or roll through a stop sign? Do I enjoy driving after dusk and seeing idiots in cars who can't turn their headlights on? Or when it's raining? Do you see me saying "well if only taxpayers would pay for more streetlights I wouldn't have to remember to turn my lights on!"

Of course it would, that wasn't my initial point and I don't feeling like talking about how things should be. All I asked was that bikers who are using the existing infrastructure take the necessary safety precautions, and people got incredibly pissy because actually having to stop and push the button was a huge inconvenience for them, which is pretty standard for how many cyclists present themselves. Entitled twats.

All of your suggestions inconvenience others for your own benefit. You're demanding the infrastructure change simply so that you don't have to come to a stop to push a button, and yet I am not the one asking for cities without red lights, stop signs, train crossings, and traffic slowdowns.

I don’t like generalizing drivers or cyclists, but “jesus it’s like some of them go out of their way to avoid safety measures” could apply to all types of road users.

Neither do I, but I'm not advocating for treating red lights/stop signs as yields, nor am I complaining about how stopping at them is a major inconvenience for me.

For reference, this is the crosswalk I'm talking about: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BfiysRy4uVC511zFA

That's a 60kph zone with a bend and a tree line that can make cyclists hard to see when they don't feel like stopping. You're perfectly entitled to feel that stopping to push the button is inconvenient, but you can't turn around and complain about the number of cyclists hit by cars each year when they willingly avoid safety precautions.

Surely if you want people to drive less (which is a good thing for all commuters, especially those who drive!) then wouldn’t it behoove municipalities to design infrastructure that’s conducive to efficiently cycling, right?

And there is, except in cases where it isn't. In cases where it isn't, it's in your best interests to stop and push the button (you don't need to get off your bike, it's on a pole).

To me, having to stop at every single road crossing is incredibly discouraging.

The alternative is expecting a vehicle doing 60km/s to stop on a dime. I don't want to hit a cyclist, but jesus it's like some of them go out of their way to avoid safety measures.

Can you imagine if every light on your commute was red?

Can you imagine if cars treated every red light like it was a yield?

After seeing who Canadians continually elect, I'm tired of hearing about what we "deserve".

You get what you pay for.