Edmonton resident working towards a denser, less car dependent city. Posts about urban design, city politics, bikes, transit, and stuff completely unrelated to any of those things.
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Last Notes npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm I think it's just that there isn't a noticeable quality gap for the extra money. L'OCA and Freson Brothers are comparably expensive, opened around the same time about 10 blocks apart, in an area with lots of people who aren't terribly price-sensitive. One of them is always busy. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm Just a note to clarify, as I think "vote in the NDP leadership race at its convention in March" might discourage some. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm Your selected quotes do have a survivorship bias. You can find these same kind of predictions for technologies that did fail. NFTs being a recent example of much hype, no follow-through. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm Small victory, or a meaningless concession? My guess is that it was removed because indigenous consultation is protected by treaty and the constitution. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm I'm thankful that criminal law is federal. And while Carney swings right on many things, I don't think this is one of them. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm Yeah, I say AC, but ours is also a heat pump. I'd put it off because I'd heard heat pumps were really expensive, but it ended up not being too bad. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm Having only recently acquired AC, I'd say 27 is fine if it cools off overnight. What forced us into AC was having heat waves where overnight temperatures stayed in the mid-20s, so each day just built up more and more heat in the house. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm Would have a lot more sympathy if he didn't hold significant responsibility for folding the mainstream conservative party into the nutcase/separatist party. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm The problem being that there's a decent chance the original was written by an LLM, and that's why it doesn't fit together and communicate clearly. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm Conservatives everywhere use the concept of "fiscal responsibility" as a cudgel whenever there's a centrist or (good forbid) leftist government. Governments that are usually more responsible than Conservatives, if only because they're willing to exercise the revenue side of the equation. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm That was my initial thought, too. If I knew it was good training for the real world, I would have tried it out a long time ago. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm You know that when a new actuarial report comes back and says it's underfunded, they'll come looking for higher contributions so the pain is "shared" between employer and employee. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm Pay facilities are uncommon outside of Paris. We certainly found adequate free facilities on our bike tour. npub1xljzudangvy24pm2ceaa6458yg6k5wp89nqu9ef2n7xwqph58evqcqnl5g UrbanEdm I would consider a trip to Ottawa for this. And I'm not generally a poutine fan.
