TheDoctorDonna

I'm obliged to point out the recent Doctor Who episode where the aliens were owls. Well, shape shifting, cosplaying owls to be more accurate.

Clearly you do not understand: 1) how addictions work, 2) how mental illnesses that aren't addiction work, or 3) that almost no one chooses to be homeless but people do fuck up.

There is no excuse to dehumanize anyone and if you've got yourself convinced that these people somehow got themselves where they are then you've fallen for the capitalist propaganda cause guess what? People who are happy, stable, and well provided for do not generally start doing drugs and people with good mental health support do not typically just stop taking their meds, but people who are comfortable with the status quo will make any excuse to make sure they get to keep what they have while ignoring that everyone has a right to that same comfort but some people need extra help getting there.

This perfectly encapsulates my comment, thank you.

Seriously though, the amount of money I saved by not owning a car gets me a pretty nice place in a city with transit, it's not great transit but I can't afford a larger city like Vancouver. Unfortunately where I live is also notoriously hostile towards pedestrians and cyclists.

The person probably wouldn't have been homeless if not for capitalism. I also make a habit of not believing third hand stories off the internet.

Maybe disenfranchised people who are forced to live in the street have something to be angry about in a system that trains the wage slaves to dehumanize the people who don't fit in the same box so that we have something to fear if we stop contributing to the machine.

"Don't be like him, Little Timmy. You need to go to school and be a good little cog in the machine until you get ill or make a mistake and then it will abandon you and villify you for not being a perfect cog for the billionaires to use up like an infinite resource."

Traffic and car-centrism exist because of capitalism. Fuck the man, take the bus.

I must be old cause for me it's "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of Yum!" and I was already babysitting the target audience for The Rugrats by the time the movie came out.

That's what I miss about Edmonton too. If I had to go back to Alberta for whatever reason it would definitely be to Edmonton because at least they have a decent transit system.

The ones that come attached to other cars and go to pre-planned destinations on a regular schedule are the preferred ones for me. Give us trains!

I am going to get a bike trainer so I can ride in my garage safely or take the bus to a park and ride the trails. There was a pretty big accident in my town that killed a cyclist in an RCMP charity ride near me this past summer and it really stuck with me. The drivers will bowl over anyone and you never know who's intoxicated. I don't want to ride in traffic anymore.

I have a really hard time with hand signals so I'm too scared to ride my bike in public because I had a driver yell at me for getting stop and right mixed up. I don't know why the car couldn't just stop at the stop sign and wait an extra second for me to pass regardless of the hand signal. So now even though I love taking to it to my shopping I don't.

And people say my city of 100K is too small for a train.