It’s almost like letting freaks take over your political movement can drive away normal people.

A pleasant reversal from the usual situation. Like, all the regulations that sandbag against housing are municipal, which can only be overridden by the provinces.

Various detectors you use when trying to debug a problem – ethernet testers, decibel meter, battery discharge tester, thermal camera, wifi and cellular signal analyzers, air quality testers, radon detectors (edit: hah of course this is what article is about), stud finders, etc.

Overly-specific tools – ethernet crimpers, obscure driver bits.

It was already public to anybody willing to put in the work and extract the data.

I like diverse opinions too, but like “lower taxes are good for the economy” not “climate change is fake” or “trans people are all pedos and should be put to death”.

Fuck their opinions.

There’s a local brewing supply co that does cannister swaps for SodaStream things and I’m trying to figure out how to diplomatically ask “so are you actually paying SodaStream for rights to do this or are you just DIYing it?”

Since, like, I assume Canadian Tire pays SS for like official vendor status for swapping the cannisters.

And I don’t wanna pay SodaStream. I mean I’m not gonna throw out my old stuff either, it still works, just needs fresh CO2.

I agree but the ability to have a public conversation with these organizations is excellent. It’s something I’ve really missed since I left Twitter. “Hey <company that puts you on hold for hours when you call for support> fix this crappy problem!”

Right? Especially now that BSky and Threads are bridging to the Fediverse, it should be reasonable to have gov’t run Mastodon instances.

Lol conservatives being conservatives “we want to be tough on law breakers except for the ones who break the laws that I break”.

If the speed limit is too low then it should be fixed. Non-enforcement is stupid.

Let the robot do the robot’s job instead of having expensive police officers arbitrarily pull over unlucky losers to sit on dangerous shoulders and hope that nobody will accidentally kill the cop or the speeder.

K but the V = trains.

If a normal LRT is possible then it is the gadgetbahn.

They’re only useful in very specific scenarios, because they can have very few stops, aren’t very fast, and people don’t like them over their yards.

For GTHA where we don’t have a lot of mountains or islands and what we do have has established roads? Just. Build. A. Train.

While that’s awful that’s not really a municipal issue like housing and water treatment.

Sorry we’re too busy preventing you from having your own home, we can’t squeeze in not poisoning you.

So did did Visa and MasterCard ever stop payments to… like… Infowars? I know PayPal went after them but the credit card networks are a level even higher.

As much as I love their direction, i still have trouble taking their commentary seriously because they played a part in creating the gen X/Millenial bump of wierd conservatives who think they’re smarter than everybody because they’re “independent” conservatives.

Like their central ethos was “caring about people is for losers”.

You can’t redistribute your way out of a shortage. Any solution to the housing crisis that doesn’t involve a shitload more housing is rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic.