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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I had a casual conversation yesterday with a woman who walked up to us to pet our dog.

    She talked about how she works for an organization that tries to rescue dogs world wide from danger zones, like war zones. Super interesting person, very nice

    She talked a bit about how they rescued dogs from Gaza and then how apparently the Israel government of all helped them rescuing those dogs. She then stopped for a second and the sad look in her eyes shows she very clearly understood the point that for Israel, dogs are worth more than Palestinians.

    But criticizing Israel is the same as antisemitism now, so I guess I’m an antisemite









  • You don’t say!

    And it even mentioned the hot air balloon Tesla which is overvalued by at least a factor of 10 of not 100

    I’ve been saying this for years already; all Elmo Musk companies are bullshit companies

    SpaceX got 3 billion dollars to get the US to the moon. They burned through that and got zero results. Those shit starship rockets barely reach LEO empty, and they never got any of the other hardware ready. If I do that, I’d go to jail for theft or something, but here? Meh…

    Repeat after me: Elmo Musk is a command, every word out of his mouth is a lie, and that is how he got rich. Well, Lucky with rich parents, lucky with a company buy out, and lying lying lying


  • Canada, in a single image? I’ve driven cars in most European countries, Canada, US (small amount), Mexico.

    Canada has the worst road designs of them all, though since almost everything here is modelled after the US, I guess it could still be worse there

    I regularly see road situations where I can only wonder how high they were, what they were smoking, and where I can get some

    Intersections where only one lane has traffic lights, the other doesn’t. How are you supposed to cross that? Simple: you throw a hail Mary, close your eyes, andale a run for it while praying to some non-exist God. This is howy stepson got sideswiped, by a guy having to do exactly that.

    Making a left turn in Canada? Great, you got green! Go? Well no, cars are still coming from the other side, they inexplicably got green too so now the intersection with traffic lights also acts as an intersection without traffic lights. Amazing designs!

    But wait, there is more!

    Once those cars from the other side are gone, you might be tempted to think that you can now just drive, but noooooooh, this is Canada! Pedestrians also got green so now you need to try and avoid those too if you can. The amount of near misses that I’ve had and that I’ve seen with others is staggering, crossing roads in Canada is fucking dangerous.

    All this adds up to that going left basically means that you get green light and you can’t do shit until it gets orange, then you quickly squeeze yourself through and pray that you didn’t murder a school class by accident.

    This, in turn, means that going to the left is an exercise in patience, because each green red cycle, about one car will be able to go to the left. If each cycle takes a minute, and you have ten cars in front of you, that means you’ll have to wait ten minutes I shit you not.

    Compare that to the Netherlands, where intersections get redesigned and rebuilt every time when anyone sees there are tooany accidents, and there are soany amazing traffic flow control designs there. Here in canada, traffic flow designs is “road, done”

    I love Canada, I feel proudly Canadian, but Canadian road designs are removed as fuck.