I'm seeing a lot of discourse on how the blockade is not representative of Canada. Well after living here for a year we decided to go back to Europe because BC is the most racist place I've lived, and I grew up in FL. I experienced more racism in 1 year than I have in FL for 10.

Releasing an emissions reduction plan last week and then approving Bay du Nord today has the same vibes as this 2019 move.

So excited to listen to this. The band is awesome. ✨

No one is going to fix the housing crisis. No one is ever, ever going to fix the housing crisis. theline.substack.com/p/jen-gerson-n…

turns out not coding for 6 months and then writing code is a whole full experience 🤯

Compared to White Americans, Black Americans are ~4x more likely to die while biking, ~2x while walking, and ~1.5x while driving. Graphs below show deaths per 100 million miles traveled. Matthew Raifman, PhD🚶‍♂️🚲🚇🛴 ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-…

New Postmedia-bot talking points appear to be (i) healthcare system had collapsed before covid and (ii) investment in our healthcare system to patch it up again is “communism” Again, I think this is strategic…”it was already broken and only privatization will fix it”.

The California grid faces another massive challenge this evening. CAISO kept the lights on last night as electricity demand surpassed levels last seen in the August 2020 blackouts. Load is forecast to test all-time records today through Thursday.

Uff

I wish more people deeply understood that being able-bodied is temporary.

But Look, I Made You Some Content 🎵

Just realized the keyboard I'm using has a "CD eject" button and got sad that it didn't do anything when I pressed it.

Martyn Schmoll S Peyton Ladner When Agustín's family visited Vancouver in November to receive his honorary Masters from UBC they hadn't received a VPD Traffic Section report yet. Unfortunately his fiancee can't file a claim with ICBC until she has the police report.

lol this is true in Canada too (for both OAS, CPP and, EI) and it is MIND boggling that it doesn't piss more people off.

Yet again, it is wild to me that Canadian cell plans make it nearly impossible to phone a US number (The next country over) for an affordable price. For the record my current plan would charge me $1.50/minute or I can buy an add on for $7/month to get unlimited calls to the US.

This is frustrating - if you're homeless, what is more disruptive than having to get yourself to the CoV to get services when your family, workplace/school (or child's school) and community are all in another place.

Tech geniuses: self-driving vehicles are a difficult engineering problem, but trust us, we’re going to solve it Vancouver for the last 40 years:

Remember how big the interconnection queue for new generators was last year? Guess what – it’s 30% bigger now! It is now TWICE the capacity of currently operating power plants. See the annual “Queued Up” report from Berkeley Lab at emp.lbl.gov/queues. Thread!

I just...don't want to have to install a specific app to handle 2FA or always have cell service to be able to log in... Sendgrid get a grip.

Cursing past me because 5 years ago I wrote some code but did not write down even 1 line of docs on how to create a build (CI would count as docs here but alas).