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Cake day: February 15th, 2025

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  • It isn’t. Not yet, at least.

    Most Americans still have jobs, can afford food, can find food, and have their cars and homes. Some have lost some of the former, it’s true, but not enough to ignite any real change.

    Imagine a scenario of Trump enacting martial law and beginning to mass arrest and imprison US citizens in detention camps. Not immigrants, refugees, or tourists - actual US citizens taken from their homes. Imagine the US government gathering troops on the Canadian border. Imagine the government disappearing members of the Democrat party. Imagine the government enacting a China-styled internet blockade.

    Those are the things that will likely spark some kind of call for change.


  • The guaranteed abuse of this technology far FAR outweighs the benefits, imo.

    A better solution to combat those disorders would be to prevent their formation in the first place with early detection and improved medical sciences and procedures.

    The human brain is one of the last places we have left that isn’t entirely owned and controlled by some corporation or state agency. I do not trust any government to regulate it properly and I do not trust a single corporation to develop it with good intentions. It would be abused instantly as shareholders pitch tents in their pants over selling it to law enforcement and advertisers.


  • Totally unsurprising. Calgary is a car-centric urban sprawl of the worst sort. Entire urban districts are completely cut off and surrounded by either large stroads or actual highways. There are some houses near my grandparents place that literally live on a highway exit ramp. My sister came with us once while we were visiting and I took her for a drive around the city - she was in awe at how poorly planned the city is, and we are both from Vancouver which is a circus even on the best days.

    $1mil isn’t even going to make a dent in this. Not even make a scratch. It won’t even pay for 1/8th of the initial investigation to determine where to best place the scratch. Calgary has sunk billions into horrible urban planning decisions and they continue to do so every day. That entire city is one giant web of stroads.




  • I’ve always thought of fat-tire bikes as being the Dodge Ram pickups of the bicycle world. They absolutely have their place and their uses but a lot of people get them because they look cool and “tough”.

    The amount of fatbikes I see in my city, being ridden on on the road and paved paths, is mindboggling. Even more mindboggling is the incredible road noise coming from their tires as I pass them as their riders struggle to move the damn things without high levels of electric assist. I have also seen several riders fall off their fatbikes as they try to take sharp corners.

    There is a place for fatbikes but I don’t think a busy urban city is that place.