Put it in your cupholder and drink it at home??

Insane that you’re getting downvoted for this. I feel like alcohol abuse is so normalised in a lot of places. This really shouldn’t be a controversial comment.

I find it interesting to hear 5% ABV beer being described as “premium”. Here (Canada) it’s basically the standard for every macrobrew lager, or around 4% for their light varieties. More high-end, craft beers will vary between 3% and 10% depending on the type of beer.

I found this source with some info. Quoting a relevant bit:

Most studies that considered sidewalk-riding suggested that it is particularly hazardous for cyclists, with estimates of 1.8 to 16 times the risk of cycling on-road [29,66-68,71]. However one study found that the risk of traveling on the sidewalk was the same or lower than riding on residential streets [64]. Another considered the direction of travel and found that the elevated risk when sidewalk cyclists entered intersections was almost exclusively related to cycling against the flow of adjacent on-road traffic

It can seem counter-intuitive that riding where the cars are is safer, but if you think about it, it makes sense. Cars don’t expect fast-moving vehicles on the sidewalk (they often barely expect pedestrians…), the constant curbs impacts your flow while riding, people more often ride against traffic on the sidewalk than on the road, and honestly people riding on sidewalks probably tend towards more inexperienced than people who feel comfortable riding on the road.

I was in theatre school for a while. We touched on everything related to a theatre production, including sound. Our tech would always test his setup with Paul Simon’s Getting Ready For Christmas Day.

I’ve heard that song used to calibrate audio setups so often that it’s become easy to identify any issues when I hear it.

(and lights […] should be treated as stop signs).

Bicycles aren’t held to the same safety standards as cars because bicycles are inherently way less dangerous than cars.

Your question is like asking why BB guns aren’t held to the same safety standards as actual guns.

New Brunswick here, it’s much the same with the speeding and the huge pickups, but I’ve found drivers give me a lot more space when passing on a rural road than a busy city street. Like usually half a lane away from me at a minimum, if not an actual proper pass.

I’m assuming it helps that I don’t really “look like a cyclist”, at least in the eyes of motorists. I feel people might be more aggressive towards someone wearing lycra on a road bike, whereas my goofy ass riding a hybrid-cruiser-city bike and wearing a high-vis vest is novel enough on a rural road for them to take notice of me.

Stop signs should really be a yield for cyclists (and lights, especially at intersections with sensors that aren’t triggered by bikes, should be treated as stop signs).

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I don’t disagree (I’d be in favour of bike lanes anywhere with a road or street) but I feel a lot more comfortable cycling in the lane on a low-traffic rural road than on a busy stroad in the city.

Cattle sure, but if you include poultry and porc that shoots up to around 80% of soy used for feed.

I mean, he’s not wrong that many of Halifax’s residents don’t care for bike lanes; it’s an inevitability of how Halifax is made up.

The Halifax Regional municipality is huge, clocking in at 5475.57 km^2. That’s almost 10% of the entire province of Nova Scotia by area. Here’s a street view picture of a random spot I picked in Halifax, this is what most of Halifax looks like:

(Of course, most of the population lives in the urban core. Density drops from around 1500 inhabitants per km^2 to just 64 when looking at the whole municipality)

This is just one of the many reasons urban amalgamations are a scam, one often proposed by conservatives to (among other reasons, like subsidizing suburbia) drown out progressive voices in cities that support things like bike lanes. Toronto is a great case study in this, where the surrounding suburbs have been choking the city proper and slowing progress since 1998.

It’s frankly ridiculous to entertain the notion that someone living in Tangier (location of the above street view) should have a say in how streets and neighbourhoods are organised in downtown Halifax. Let them decide what happens on the road in Tangier, and let the people who actually live in the neighbourhoods of downtown organise them to their wants and needs.

In conclusion, Tim Houston is an absolute fuckwit. And his coffee and doughnuts suck.

No worries, one can never overemphasize the grossness, unhealthiness, or stupidity of smoking cigarettes.

I have no plans to quit in the immediate future but that doesn’t mean I won’t tell anyone who’ll listen how much tobacco sucks.

I will say though, avoiding smoking indoors or inside cars goes a long way to avoid reeking too much. I’ve had non-smoker friends confirm this to me. I do however usually still reek from carrying butts around 'cause my momma didn’t raise no litterer!

• my electronics are all designed to break by themselves way before smoke damage would have any effect

• wait that’s not the point? then why do they advertise so on the packs? checkmate, healthy-lungs

• I only smoke outside

• I only smoke outside (and don’t have pets)

• I only smoke outside

• I am extremely careful about making sure I don’t leave any lit embers around (I almost lost my apt in a fire years ago due to a negligent smoker)

• yeah I admit I am trash

• again, they advertise it on the packs! is it not the addiction that makes you cool?

This post is satire, don’t smoke kids. If you won’t do it for your lungs, do it to not constantly smell like an ashtray.

Your parents sound like shitty psychiatrists.

I think this is something I might be too French-Canadian to understand, here we’d call it “pot” or perhaps “herbe”, both of which don’t translate to “bad grass”.

Unless overseas “herbe” translates to weed. We use it pretty interchangeably with “gazon” (which just means grass)

Yeah because making clearly false claims and refusing to back them up is totally in good faith and the peak of civility. I don’t tend to be civil with people who’d gladly take away my rights.

I know what you’re selling too, and don’t consider not having to talk to you to be a loss :)

I’d love some examples if you care to share!

There is a difference between “calling everyone a nazi, racist, and transphobe” and calling out Nazis, racists, and transphobes, and a lot of people fail to grasp that nuance. From what I’ve seen so far in your comments, you’re giving off the vibe of someone who either doesn’t understand that nuance, or willfully avoids it.

Again, would love some examples if this isn’t the case.

I’ve learnt that never reading Twitter replies is actually a form of self-care. No matter how vile the tweet, the replies are always somehow an extra level of unhinged.

I work in a café and the comments I overhear men saying to my feminine coworkers are insane. I get some weird comments sometimes (I’m pretty visibly queer) but it’s nothing compared to them. I honestly don’t know how women deal with it.