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It also argues that municipalities create far too much parking space, reducing the amount of useable area in cities. This is one big reason why most US and Canadian city centers are dying, as more downtown plots are dedicated to parking, and new plots need a crazy amount parking.

New constructions all have huge parking lots like big box stores and fast food islands, surrounded by a sea of pavement. The lower density reduces propery taxes (as they’re usually calculated by the number of properties, not the used land area), and increases the need for a vehicle to reach locations.

Free parking in general may help to keep things accessible to everyone (with a car), but the amount of parking is choking everyone out and increasing reliance on car manufacturers and roadwork companies.

I could see Carney have several long term plans that involve appearing to appease US admin. Unfortunately, I doubt those long term plans are good for Canadians, so much as donors.

Moonbase Alpha has DECTalk as text to speech, and so in-game chat is spoken out by DECTalk. Anything stupid is immediately 10x funnier when a robot says it earnestly, especially when that robot has to interpret it.

It’s 14 years old now, dang

AEIOU repeating is the famous example, and spawned Moonbase Alpha covers of songs and similar text to speech implementations (like in R.E.P.O.).

Jagmeet was a nice enough person, but his communication never seemed to be about making changes, only criticising the other parties. It’s possible I missed the more constructive messages, but the constant tearing down in political messaging is why I don’t ingest much of it. NDP would also be my choice (outside of a spoiler situation), but the default answer isn’t very inspiring.

FPTP isn’t the only fucked up voting issue we have though, as the vote for leader also affected so many local representatives, and I thing that’s where the NDP is currently strongest. Losing local reps is a sad price for opposing a national lunatic.

I’ve thoughs about similar restrictions to bring high-level politicians down to Earth. Hard limits to effective income from all sources of perhaps 2.5x minimum wage. Six months of consecutive retail or food service work.

There is a silver lining in giving the NDP a wake-up call. Hopefully they can manage to have an actionable platform soon.

It’s one of a few things generative AI is legitimately good at.