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It's a neat idea, but comes back to some of the same issues we already have: the market is dominated by a few large corps, actual property costs a lot, freight and distribution costs are still a thing and disproportionately affect smaller operations more, and shelf space is limited.

We do have a small store in the neighborhood within 15 minutes walk, that suffers from pretty much all of the above.

Yeah, frozen groceries aren't going to make it home unspoiled if I bike down and up the significant hills between my place and Costco, and because of the way the buses work it's also a 1-2h trip each way instead of a 10-15m drive so that's not really viable either.

I also can't see myself carrying the 2x4x10's or slats for my fence replacement on the car.

Biking to work is somewhat more of an option, though the way back does need to deal with the aforementioned massive hill so in that case I'd rather go down by bike and up by bus.

You're thinking too small.

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Canada needs this. Also either a full fucking ban on the remote-updated epaper price tags, or at the least very strict rules on when they can be updated (i.e. once a day before opening or after closing to the public)

Yeah, and there does seem to be an increasing number of people who self-diagnose medical conditions such as autism, and then use them as excuses for their own shitty behavior.

Or sometimes that of others. I had a relative try to excuse Elon's bullshit as autism. No, aunt Grace, autism does not make people throw out Nazi salutes.

Often it's the same people who dismiss legitimate challenges other people face due to medical conditions yet have one of their own (self-diagnosed) they use to excuse shitty behavior.

I was thinking Richard, since he tended to think with his dick a lot, but yours works too!

Microsoft is deep into the vibe coding now, but even before that it was cheap devs who could write somewhat functional code but had little concept of optimization, amidst a sprawling bloated OS that has only grown fatter over time.

The mentality of RAM and storage are cheap has suddenly come to a screeching halt but it's taking to take them a long time to find talent that can actually fix the mess they've already built, especially as they try to grab more AI crap into every nook and cranny of their product line.

I just saw an ad for using ChatGPT to "come up with new recipes and baking ideas"

Yeah I'm sure having a bunch of people decide to eat whatever a hallucinating AI comes up with isn't going to be dangerous at all...

Yeah, all things considered anyone without a very specific (and nasty) fetish is probably gonna have more luck getting off with a lint-filled dryer vent

Canada, and still not mandatory here apparently. Which is weird because a lot of our automotive requirements do tend to follow the US due to common production lines and other such factors

Are you sure on the TPMS date? I've got a vehicle that's much newer than 2007 that doesn't have it

Yeah IIRC emissions shit was like that. So you can get a truck that weighs 2500kg puts out 158g/km of emissions but not an Asian style mini-truck that weighs only 1500kg and puts out i.e. 130g/km of emissions because it's in the same weight-class as say a Corolla (for which the max emissions might be only i.e. 100g/km)

So the mini truck might produce less pollution than the bigger truck and be perfectly useful for many people, but it's too much PER WEIGHT and thus doesn't qualify under the emissions regulations