I was using E16 years ago and liked it but eventually switched to Gnome (2, I think), after waiting for E17 for too long.

What made me quit was the wait. All the other DEs at the time were releasing new versions frequently but Enlightenment took forever.

Have fun with your real life in real reality because of your obviously right choices. Here’s a view from the side of fantasy land, where others made different choices, and are apparently not serious, and not real adults for this.

Hi, I live in fantasy world. I get my groceries on foot, making multiple trips a week instead of one big trip. Sometimes I go to a bigger store with my bike trailer and my panniers. I live in an apartment (even more signs that I’m not a real adult), so no renovations. And for recycling stuff like old computers, tables and stuff like that, I also use my bike trailer. Otherwise there are companies specialized in moving stuff. Either on bikes, or they own the truck and deliver stuff to me. Or take it somewhere else.

I go camping with my bike in national parks. I pull my folding kayak with a trailer. All in fantasy land. I will never be an adult because I don’t drive a car or own a house. I’m not even a real human. It’s true that everything is made around cars and sometimes it’s a pain to have to use or rent one, but most of my life can be done without it. We are millions like this. Just not being real enough for you.

And of course, the goal is to force you cycling everywhere and get rid of your precious F150, and not just motivate a few more people on kids bikes or into shitty public transit so you and your precious real life can have more space on the roads.

It’s so ridiculous. I know it’s a provincial matter but some suburbs around Montréal are trying to build TOD and they get threatened by the transit authority to have their train lines reduced or cut. Even if they are already not in function during evenings and weekends.

And VIA Rail trains have been extra late for a few months now, with no end in sight.

Plus, the coach industry is continuing to reduce and/or cut routes. Fifteen years ago I could go from Drummondville to Victoriaville, and be back the same day. Now there’s three coaches a week. I once heard a guy in a train from Drummondville to Montréal, saying that he was visiting his brother in Victoriaville when he had to leave a day earlier and discovered there were simply no coaches leaving the city that day. He paid $80 for a taxi to get him to Drummondville so he could then take a train home.

As someone that tries to get around without a car, some days, all levels of governments make me wish I had one.

The region where I’m from is trying to re purpose an abandoned rail line into a rail trail. The project dates from 2012 (in French). All the bureaucracy involved makes the process take forever. Meanwhile the extension of a multi lane highway plowed through a wooded area, some farmland, required the construction of a bridge, is now completed.

Same for public transit always being cut, while highway extension is like the proverbial carrot on a stick for voters.

VIA Rail won’t even take fucking bikes in the Corridor, yet! Going from Montreal to Drummondville with a bike involves paying $35 for the coach ticket, $15 for your bike, that must be in a box or a bag that they will sell you for $15 if you don’t have one, and pay the same again to get back! Oh and there’s two coaches per day, for your convenience. Also, even if you ditch the bike so you can take a train, it’s going to be seriously late.

But if we’re so worried about the environment and quality of life, instead of trying to get everywhere using public transit and/or a bike, maybe we should buy an electric car. That’s a very good message from our “leaders”.

Cars cars cars! Buy a car! Do you like your new car? You can go to places in your new car! Because you won’t get there using public transit, and cycling will make you fear for your life.

Making sure Canadians can buy affordable e-bikes? Naaah. Buy a car! It’s good for the economy! Everyone needs an affordable car! Cars cars cars!

The rural region where I grew up has always been neglected by big telcos, so there were multiple local ones offering the same as the big ones, but for cheaper, or deep in the countryside.

Every village had its local phone company because Bell didn’t think they were profitable enough to deserve service. Unfortunately the last independent provider, Maskatel, was bought by Bell in 2018.

There is only one left, Cooptel, and it’s a cooperative. This is how my parents living on a rural road can get FTTH. If it weren’t for the fact that it’s a cooperative, Bell would probably have bought it too.

It’s frustrating to see that big telcos won’t put a cent into building a network into rural areas because they see no profit in it, but once a small local company becomes successful in doing that, they often end up being bought by big telcos.

Oh I’ll continue to say it because it depends where. In this specific case it was indeed the case. However my riding had 99% chances to go to the Liberals, it did, and my vote wouldn’t have made any difference.

Pretty pathetic to hope to impress children with a truck. In fact, just trying to impress people with a vehicle tells me all I need to know about that person.

In a twist of irony, I don’t think people buying Swasticars care about the environment. They probably say they do, with the electric car and all, but it’s just a convenient excuse.

I’ll entirely believe them if they have previous Tesla models, but anybody buying that “truck” would have to be pretty naive not to see what’s going on.

Also, your sentence could apply to a lot of other car makes right now.

As someone that doesn’t drive a car, I will consider a vehicle to be full self driving when people that can’t drive will be able to use them without a driver’s licence.

Oh don’t sell those things short. They can also kill people around them and not just their occupants.

It varies a lot. In my mother’s family it’s all informal, but my father uses formal vous with his parents and grandchildren do the same.

I’m also working with the public and I’m used to vouvoyer pretty much everyone except people clearly younger than me. I sometimes pass for a bit of a pedantic asshole but that’s just what I’m used to.

Just switch when the other person asks.

Bikes may not have a flatbed but I think some can tow more than the Swasticar.

In my city there’s a moving company that moves sofas and refrigerators using bike trailers.

Possible. However as a non native English speaker myself, I kind of take pride in making sure I’m understood, and grammatically cromulent.

And i’ve seen multiple people apologizing for their English, then having a better vocabulary and grammar than most native speakers.

Of course some people can barely make a sentence in a second or third language. It’s quite possible. I’m really bad at making coherent sentences in German, even after many years of studying it. But in my experience, non native speakers tend to be careful about this.

At some point, pretty much everything becomes political. I like to cycle, walk and enjoy nature. Me not wanting to get killed by a car driver is political, and me thinking we shouldn’t dump toxic crap in the environment is political. The new stop sign at the corner of the street is political. Housing is political. The high price of goods is political.

It’s understandable to want to escape, avoid all this crap and take a break for a while. But memes are also a way to vent and express the frustration about the current political climate.

Unfortunately those two are narcissist shit stains that enjoy having people talking about them every day so they are nearly impossible to avoid for a while.

I like to go touch some grass. Close social media and go take a walk or cycle. Think about how all the fucking money is… eeerh… touch some grass… go camping and hiking, admire the views that are about to get destroyed by capit… eeehm, that makes you feel small. Hear the beautiful sounds of nature accompanied by the dirt bikes illegally riding in the forest. All free of politics! Even when they’ll invade and annex my country, I’ll just be like “can’t we all just stop talking about politics and share memes, please!?”

If only those idiots wouldn’t be on public roads. Cars are already one of the most dangerous thing in the US. No need to add even more deadly metal boxes everywhere.

In the United States, motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death, and kill over 120 people every day.

Yeah, the brave Canadian resistance fighters that defended Canada in Afghanistan. Or the brave heroic American resistance fighters that defended the US from the invading Iraqis, by killing and torturing thousands of civilians. So noble. Thanks for their service.

Source: from Tom Gauld on Twitter

I know it’s more complicated than that but this post gives me this kind of vibes. The soldiers invading on the other side are being told the same thing and are willing to kill others for the same reasons. How noble their sacrifice is! All soldiers! Thanks for fighting amongst yourselves and doing little bits of “collateral damage” in order to save your country from the barbarians.

If the US ever invades my country and I somehow need to kill Americans, I won’t be a fucking hero, I’ll be a murderer, just like them. It’s nothing to be praised. Even if I just help others “defending” my country using my tech skills, it’ll still be helping to murder others. I really really can’t understand doing that willingly. If you have to, yes. But those doing this willingly are also those willing to invade other countries and take the lives of others based on what they see on their side. Again, nothing to be praised.

What? It’s just enhanced interrogation!