Sure, Uber brought competition. But in certain places they got banned and the local taxi authority greatly improved on the service, learning from the gig apps’ offerings.

You can probably still use Firefox. It’s FOSS. The same contributors and devs work on it like always.

And in the end it may fork and become something else, when enough people are fed up with the corpobro bs. But still better than Chrome.

Where do you live that only has 5mbps? It must be somewhere really remote.

Slutsky. Heh.

CARRIER HAS ARRIVED

It’s not. The Hungarian government is a dictatorship though that controls the media and thus the narrative. It has an aging population glued to the radio and television.

The language barrier is the biggest hurdle to overcome. Magyar is so unlike any other language in Europe, many never made the effort to learn another, where it’s not just different words that they would have to learn, but entirely different syntax, grammar and intonation as well.

Budapest is like a beacon of enlightenment within a country of darkness. They just need to launch a bunch of rpgs from the top of Gellért Hill towards the Parliament when it’s in session. They can always rebuild it again later.

Star wars and other similar sci-fi fantasies with their single biome planets are bullshit

Why’d I never think of this?!

Because I’m not gonna watch it unless it’s about something that really interests me, but OP didn’t even bother to post it with a summary and their train of thought on it.

Alright. So let’s assume NB is no longer a province, but rather a state entirely controlled by Irving, in every asset. Can’t vote them out. Can’t chase them away. Can’t legislate against them.

That leaves Canadians (and Americans that care) with the same option that you would target Russia and Israel associated companies: boycott, divest, sanction.

Someone smarter than me tell us what we are aiming at.

If you shoot a pellet gun into the air and it lands on your neighbour’s property, it will do less damage than hail pellet.

vorletzte Land in Europa

Welches ist denn die Letzte?

Ach, Starnberg ruft wieder.

Now here’s another funky bit. Sometimes taking a break from a game and coming back to it weeks, months or even years later will make it feel like you’ve never been better before. And the numbers or scores might validate it.

I’ve personally experienced this with:

• QuakeWorld in the early 2000s, where my shaft hitscan rate went from low 20s to mid 30s and my movement control got even more fluid. Factor here might have been a PC upgrade
• WoW around 2008 -> 2010 where I went from struggling in arena to hit the lowest rank to duelist. Factor here might have been my aging reflexes starting to compensate more strategy instead
• Enter the Gungeon from 2013 -> 2015 where I was struggling to get past the first few biomes to maxing out the whole game and attempting streaks with 9 curse and turbo on. This definitely came after watching a few streamers trying to do speed runs and their movement and situational awareness of the mob patterns inspired me.

I’ve also revisited these games since, again, and definitely only gotten worse at them.

I’ve only seen raccoons on camera here oddly. The one time we left for fifteen days and I set up a camera on our back porch next to the fire escape, I see a big fat one chill there for a couple days.

As a comparison, whining younglings during the night and poop on your porch in the morning was a daily thing in Toronto. They really have that as their mascot there.

Pyongyang’s Gardiner Expressway.

I’ve moved here little over three years ago now from Toronto, and I have to say Montreal is much dirtier. But I know the exact causes, at least at the first level for this:

• Medium density renters are less organized than single family or high density zoning: with so many people renting (one of the highest in Canada among the big cities) it has people moving around more often, and they are uncaring about their environment. In contrast Toronto high density often comes with property management, while single family zoning areas, even when the house was converted into multiple units, comes with obligations towards the neighbourhood in the form of bylaws.
• Ruelles are somehow an afterthought: Whether plowing in the winter or cleaning (with a street sweeper/washer truck) in the spring and fall, they are completely ignored by the city, letting residents fend for themselves. This comes back again to transient renters in an area then not really caring about their back yards in medium density.
• Garbage collection is very unorganized: Sure, everyone gets green bins and compost bins, but the actual garbage bins don’t come from the city and it’s the wild west. In contrast, in Toronto bylaws regulated the size and number of the bins the landlord had to purchase based on the number of occupants. Collection was a lot less messy when it wasn’t individual guys throwing various sized bins and garbage bags around, but just pulled it up to the lifting mechanism instead.
• Gravel creates a lot of dust: This is especially bad in the spring when the snow melted, but the city is very dusty year round. Either there’s too much gravel use in the winter for the roads or there’s not enough space to capture it. I think the city could do better here by just embracing the snow and ice instead of putting down gravel and salt after they did such a good job of hauling away the snow anyway.

But I’m no urban planning expert, so I don’t have a more abstract insight into these issues.

Edit: to add, I love Montreal despite all its flaws.

Well, it’s summer.

So it’d be picket fence, decks and patios, planter boxes, Adirondack chairs…

A Parliament.

Source on those figures? Not that I doubt you. I just need to cite for stupid.