His personal Vietnam.

And Greg Graffin from Bad Religion.

Graffin obtained his PhD in zoology at Cornell University and has lectured courses in natural sciences at both the University of California, Los Angeles and at Cornell University.

HAHAHA… AAAAAHAHAHA. Banana republic.

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Some animals are more equal than others.

Me too, but I wanted to find out how bad it was by myself. I knew St-Martin/St-Maarten didn’t really have public transit per se, and I would probably be stuck using taxis, but not to that extent. It made me think about Not Just Bikes’ video on the Bahamas. I planned to rent a bike once on the island but the shop I saw online had two locations, and the closest to me had no bikes. Plus, the trafic was not encouraging. I ended up walking everywhere and stayed close to my accommodation. Otherwise anywhere I wanted to go was like $70 US to and fro in a taxi.

I also wasn’t sure about how public transit worked in Guadeloupe, but at least I knew it existed, there are plans and schedules online, and an app. So I also went “to see”. The routes are not always direct, the buses have no AC, they are stuck in traffic, but the service exists. I was able to spend my whole vacation there using only buses and ferries. The highlight was renting a bike and cycling around the island of Marie-Galante. As someone living car free, I really appreciate that this was possible.

I’m sure there’s other “old” people here that never stopped sailing the seas. I started to use a computer in the mid 90ies and internet a few years later. From the start, there has been attempts at streaming. I remember using RealPlayer trying to stream some video while on dial-up, only to be just a bunch of pixels in a very tiny window. So you downloaded everything, and kept it because you didn’t want to spend 45 minutes to download the very same song once again.

And I never stopped this practise. I still have my MP3 collection that I started 25 years ago. I still have .rm files from movies that I captured myself. I can’t believe how much bandwidth we just waste on streaming stuff again and again.

Once, the zoomer trying to sell my a data plan for my phone couldn’t believe I didn’t need more than a few gigs a month. No, I don’t stream music. No, I don’t stream movies nor series. I download them once, store them, and enjoy them whenever I want. No censored episodes, no missing episodes, no ads, just the content.

Although I do buy some of my MP3s now if possible. If I can straight up pay to download MP3 files, like on Bandcamp, I will. I wish we could do the same for series and movies, but since we’re absolutely not there, I’ll just continue to sail the seas and fill up my hard drives.

I kind of understand where you’re coming from, but you are delusional if you think Canadians and Europeans don’t already have extreme right groups growing within their borders. We don’t need to allow Americans in to have their propaganda spread through different countries. It does via cultural hegemony.

At one point my very Québecois friend was listening to Joe Rogan podcasts and parroting his anti woke crap. When I go see my family in the countryside, I often feel like I’m talking to deep south rednecks. They say they hate Trump but they hate the person, not the politics, because it’s the same anti immigration and anti woke rhetoric.

And I’m not an expert about Europe as a whole but I know a bit about Germany and AFAIK, the AfD is making gains there. Is it because of americans and/or latinos going there?

I’m lucky that I can cut my own hair.

Every time I went to get a haircut, they never did what I wanted anyway. Maybe its because I wasn’t clear enough, or maybe I went to cheap places, but I was never happy to pay for something that simple. So I gave up and started doing it myself. I can do a crew cut with mirrors and guides. It’s okay, I think.

My other issue like this is with taxis. I already hate paying for someone to drive me around in a car, then I have to talk to them?! No thanks. I’ll take the bus and silently watch outside.

This actually changed my view on vacation places. I went to St-Martin and there were only taxis. I hated it. But then I visited Guadeloupe, was able to use local buses, packed, with no AC, and I was much happier.

If Bill Gates is involved we can be sure it’s to help humanity, and not to help capitalists and rich people to get richer.

He has a very good PR team because this man was also backing the former Monsanto company, with proprietary grains, supposed to help solve famine in the world, but causing poor farmers to be sued into bankruptcy and commit suicide. Oh and the grains also commit ‘suicide’ so if you are not sued because the wind flew proprietary grains to your field, you better have enough money to buy new grains from corporations every year.

So I’m sure anything he does can’t be bad. It’s all altruistic and for the good of humanity. Surely nothing proprietary there. All open source. For humanity.

Fuck Bill Gates.

I don’t know. I’m not sure if the refrigeration cycle is neutral. Even if we ignore the energy source, creating cold also creates heat, so that ice might just about counteract the heat generated to create it.

Hard to believe when they pollute more than entire countries. If they believe in it, it’s because they know they have to prepare for the consequences, not because they want to avoid it.

Weird to equate airships with communism, but I guess lacking education will do that. The British and the French also had airships.

I live in Montréal and there are historical pictures of a British airship flying over the city and moored at the St-Hubert airport. There’s even a song about people going to see it at the airport.

Are those trophies gifts from his good friend Epstein?

Deliciously ironic that we are warming the environment by making those blocks of ice.

No they will not fix traffic problems because the problem is cars.

If there is less traffic people will still choose to drive, because there will be less traffic.

Cable cars can work in some specific conditions, but they absolutely do not have the capacity to influence traffic. We need functiong trains, not gadgetbahns.

More fucking trains! I want people to finally be able to bring their bikes on VIA trains between major cities. I want frequent departures. I want passenger trains that are not stuck behind freight trains!

Not even that. The intercity coach services that I was using 20 years ago are actively degrading, cutting routes and departures.

For fuck’s sake. Can we just have normal boring transit instead of those flashy projects?!

Pedalling with crocs sucks. I do it sometimes when I go to my cabin and need to get back to the entrance 300 metres away. It’s soft, pliable and uncomfortable.

I suspect this is a possibility for me but I don’t have a diagnosis. I’m at an age and in a country/region where they don’t really give you a diagnosis as an adult. They gave me a report with some possibilities. It also included PDA, but nothing official. I think this way the government avoids helping people like me. I have to push the system a lot just to see more specialists, and gave up a long time ago. If I want a proper diagnosis, I would have to see with a private practice.

Strangely, this report but lack of diagnosis allows me to ask my doctor for Concerta. I did at some point but the people at the pharmacy treat you like a drug addict or reseller and it was not worth the hassle.

Is there an easy way to poison the input? Is there something we can slip in our comments that could make the data useless?

This is only missing like, what, 10 million people and 4 provinces?!