I’m mostly planning on working, because I need to afford rent and groceries.

If I’m lucky, I might try to get some time off and do a small bicycle tour in PEI.

Then they did some consultations with the public and said that not enough people wanted it.

Worse than that, Trudeau straight up said “People wanted electoral reform because they were unsatisfied under the Harper government, now that we’re in power everything is fine and people don’t care about electoral reform anymore.”

Source article in Le Devoir (French), I’ll quote the relevant part here:

« Sous M. [Stephen] Harper, il y avait tellement de gens mécontents du gouvernement et de son approche que les gens disaient “ça prend une réforme électorale pour ne plus avoir de gouvernement qu’on n’aime pas”. Or, sous le système actuel, ils ont maintenant un gouvernement avec lequel ils sont plus satisfaits. Et la motivation de vouloir changer le système électoral est moins percutante [ou moins criante] »

If your VPN has Canadian servers, CBC always has a very good website for watching the Olympics and IIRC you only need a Canadian IP address to access it.

Contrapoints and PhilosophyTube were two big ones

Care to share why you stopped watching their channels? Because without context, the only potential reason that comes to mind is that they’re both trans women…

Jim Davis sold it as authentic Garfield™ memorabilia and quickly replaced it.

I blame Nabisco.

Fat-shaming is definitely an issue across the political spectrum, unfortunately.

People in this comment section being shining examples of why some fat people would feel uncomfortable at the beach.

Original artist is Adam Ellis, here’s his Instagram.

I’ve mostly worked retail jobs in my life, but I got lucky and avoided any public-facing work during peak COVID. Customer service is rough at the best of times, but I can’t imagine having to deal with the anti-mask crowd.

Our country is becoming unliveable for anyone who isn’t rich, must be because of immigrants and trans people!! (/s)

I wish people would band together to hate the wealthy instead of minorities.

A pedestrian being hit by a small car or big car is likely ruined either way.

Vehicle size actually has a huge effect on the severity of vehicle-pedestrian collisions.

I find that full-size SUVs and pickup trucks pose a particular danger for pedestrians. A pedestrian hit by a full-size SUV is twice as likely to die than a pedestrian hit by a car under similar circumstances, while being hit by a pickup truck rather than a car increases the death probability by 68%. I find that high-front-end vehicle designs are particularly culpable for the higher pedestrian death rate attributable to large vehicles. A 10 cm increase in the front-end height of a vehicle increases the risk of pedestrian death by 22%.

Source study.

The 87-year-old pontiff reportedly made the homophobic remark in a closed-door meeting last week as he told Italian bishops that gay men shouldn’t be allowed to train for the priesthood.

The newspaper articles, which were translated from Italian, claimed the Pope had said there is “frociaggine” – which translates in English to “faggotry” – in some of the seminaries.

Francis’ comments were made in the context of proposals from the Italian bishops to amend guidelines on candidates to seminaries.

“Faggotry in the Seminary” sounds like a Catholic-themed porno movie from the '80s.

As gross and homophobic as this is, I doubt it cracks the top 1000 worse things the Church has done.

“Quand l’appétit va, tout va!”

Surtout de la part de mon père dans sa meilleure interprétation d’Obélix qui chante (et par meilleure je veux dire très médiocre)

I don’t think they’re saying hills make cycling impossible, I think they’re saying Dutch-style bikes are not the best tool for the job if you live somewhere hilly.

Most of the features of a Dutch-style bike are absolutely great for cycling as transportation regardless of your location, but riding a heavy steel frame with limited gearing? It’s absolutely fine if you ride somewhere mostly flat, but it isn’t a well-adapted bike for inclines.

I still had the thought that it might be something brought about by seeing people they look up to being a certain way and not from internal, intrinsic reasons.

Funnily enough, that’s very similar to the thought process I had regarding masculinity when I came out to myself as non-binary.

Thanks for supporting your kid.

If I were you, I’d check around your area for a bike co-op. They often have great deals on used bikes they tuned up, so you’d save money and end up with something as good (or even better!) than entry-level hybrid models. Plus co-ops tend to be staffed by the hugest bike nerds who are sincerely eager to help new cyclists.

If you’d rather buy new, I’d recommend an entry-level (starting at around 600$) hybrid from any of the big bike brands (this advice is a bit location-specific, I’m talking about North America here). I ride a Trek FX1, but all the big bike brands have similarly-featured models.

Whatever you do, please stay away from cheap, big box store bikes. These are usually assembled by people who are not trained bike mechanics and shoddily assembled bikes can easily be dangerous. They also often have non-standard parts, making repairs and maintenance frustrating.

As a fellow unicycle owner, the thing I hate the most about it is that I can’t find anywhere to practice riding it where I don’t feel like an attention whore.

I mean I am an attention whore, but I don’t want to feel like it.

Not at all, I just misread your comment!

Record company be like:

sudo systemctl disable suicide && systemctl enable chop.suey