nbailey

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[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 71 points 4 months ago (7 children)

One more reason to never go there again. Lots of countries that actually want visitors out there.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago (8 children)

It’s a Skill issue, just don’t speed, it’s literally so easy. If you can’t control your speed just take the bus or a taxi!!

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They should be made to support Canadian food banks with at-cost bread and shelf stable food until they pay off the fine. Gift cards are just insulting.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The electric vehicles we should be subsidizing are trolley busses and trams. Or, if we want Future Technology Self Driving Hype we can invest in the original electric self driving vehicle, the electric metro train with ATC. Not some dentist-ass Lexus that’s still going to sit in traffic and make life miserable for everybody else.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 20 points 6 months ago

100% agree. I love driving, road trips, windy roads, and take pride in having a clean and well maintained car. But I despise the car-centrality of most western cities. Any chance I get, I park well outside a big city and take a train in. It’s almost always faster and far less stressful. Even though I can parallel park, yield to cyclists, not run over pedestrians, and safely follow the rules of the road, most other people can’t or won’t because of how normalized bad driving is. Even worse, most people don’t really want to be driving and do it simply because their job/home are not properly accessible, so they have no other choice.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 months ago

Commuter rail is hilarious for this. All the same people that were in orderly lines, holding doors open, giving seats to older or disabled people, and saying “oh you go first” for the last hour spend thirty seconds back in the “safety” of their white SUV and they’re acting like absolute animals to all the same strangers.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Ah lovely, another grey egg shaped “luxury” electric EV. Groundbreaking. This one has some nationalism attached to it too.

These won’t really solve any problem, other than in the best case scenario keeping some people employed in southern Ontario. If we actually want to increase our independence or even become climate leaders this isn’t how to do it.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

I moved several years worth of emails off their platform and closed my subscription on Friday. Enough is enough. I’m not giving this guy another dime. I specifically pointed to andy88’s behaviour in the “why are you cancelling” dialogue. I feel for the good people who work at that company and don’t support this, but we all have choices to make.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, real “efficiency” would come from standardizing tools and procedures, getting rid of “shadow IT”, making annual budget requests more flexible (ie if we don’t use it this year we won’t get it next year), and empowering the workers to make more decisions and initiatives without involving committees, managers, etc.

They are not doing that. It’s not about efficiency, it’s a libertarian crusade to strip out anything valuable from the public sector and leave what’s left to rot.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I donate about $5/month to a bunch of nonprofits that I benefit from.

  • Debian project
  • openbsd project
  • wikimedia foundation
  • EFF
  • Internet Archive

My career wouldn’t exist without these folks, so it’s the least I can do.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

My grandfather had a stroke at 81. He did not in fact become an asshole, he just got a little slower and spent less time working on his old truck. This is 100% on fetterman for having shitty opinions and being bitterly dug in. I don’t think it’s fair to all the wonderful people affected by strokes to give him that out.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Terry Fox, Red Green, Bob & Doug, an angry goose, literally anybody other than that guy.

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