There are some little organisations like Pedal People that collect and dispose of waste via bicycle. I don’t have something like this in my area, but it’d be nice.

I can’t speak for Sudbury, but I remember Toronto doesn’t even start plowing until 4-5cm of snowfall. In Finland, is the city of Oulu, where they give priority to cycle paths, plowing within a few hours of 2cm snow. The snow services in Oulu guarantee there will always be less accumulation that what it takes for Toronto to even begin.

Additionally, they don’t just push it off to the side, and call it done. They pack some of it down into a walkable and rideable surface. This allows year round use of the cycle network, with the largest dip in ridership being 20% when it’s colder than -20C.

Of course, this all must start by having such a network in the first place. Sidewalks are a good starting place. Hopefully, if Sudbury can keep them clear, the usage through the winter will help justify a higher budget to build out walking and cycling infrastructure.

Having experience in waste handling, I’m not sure how that estimate at the end came to be, indicating a year long effort to collect and transport the material. It is a remarkable amount of material to be disposed of like this, but it certainly wouldn’t take a year to tidy up.

Ah look at that, a prime example of working class against working class.

May the one percent smile upon you.

It’s not an excuse, but it is a reason. It’s not like YouTube is required for living.

Should people living in an area served by only one electricity provider disconnect their service and just go without if the company pulls an abusive maneuver?

Most people don’t even consider alternatives to the status quo. For the few that do consider pros and cons of YouTube, the pros of the platform are winning. So long as that’s where the creators are posting videos, YouTube is in a position to keep winning.

The library analogy may not be prefect but I figured my point was clear in that you’re allowed to look through all the books for free despite not owning them, and the librarians can remove any book at any time for any reason.

Good suggestion, funnelling is a good idea. Could work well if there was more content on PeerTube than YouTube. Pretty much what Dropout does with their content now that I think about it.

They don’t even funnel in just their audience - their funnel also converts them to paying subscribers. They seem to be growing healthily, so I’d try it if I were a video creator on YouTube.

You’re not wrong, though if I didn’t like the people running the local library, where else do I go for book lending?

Ideally, video creators would just host on their own website (remember those) and maybe let viewers pipe the video through a frontend of their choosing. That’s a big leap to ask of your audience though, and even bigger for a non technical creator.

I’ve seen some of them using Patreon to share videos with paying fans, sometimes exclusively, but with YouTube having the larger slice of the audience pie, they continue to upload to the platform.

When I think about why people might meet you with vitriol for proposing they stop using YouTube, it may be that they interpret that suggestion as you telling them not to watch the creators they enjoy. Bit of a logical fallacy there, but an appreciable one given YouTube’s monopoly on small scale video content.

Statistically, that is true.

I’m adding this comment to the list of reasons I am thankful to not be in the job market.

Kill death ratio - or rather, kill save ratio - would be rather difficult to obtain and more difficult still to appreciate and be able to say if it is good or bad based solely on the ratio.

Fritz Haber is one example of this that comes to mind. Awarded a Nobel Prize a century ago for chemistry developments in fertilizer, used today in a quarter of food growth. A decade or so later he weaponized chlorine gas, and his work was later used in the creation of Zyklon B.

By ratio, Haber is surely a hero, but when considering the sheer numbers of the dead left in his wake, it is a more complex question.

This is one of those things that makes me almost hope for an afterlife where all information is available from which truth may be derived. Who shot JFK? How did the pyramids get built? If life’s biggest answer is forty-two, what is the question?

As I commented in another thread, they chose this location because of Waymo access. No resident parking, sure, but not exactly car free.

Are you asking about single family homes specifically, or commenting about the architectural uniformity this place appears to have?

Part of the reason we chose Tempe is it’s right in the middle of Waymo’s first market. Today, you have investors that were skeptics saying things like, "My daughter sends my grandkids to school in a Waymo and thinks Waymo is the best thing that ever happened because she doesn’t have to be a chauffeur anymore.”

sigh

In the defence of the powers that be, the bicycle industry hasn’t been lining political pockets for a century like the auto industry has. Cervelo has got to look through the cushions and buy an election or two.

What you describe strikes me as reaping enjoyment from technical accuracy. I think of it like mastering Moonlight Sonata as opposed to riffing something jazzy with friends. Both enjoyable, but quite different.

I’m adding this to the list of things that I would have used if not for learning about it from a shutdown announcement.

I disagree they are bozos. I’m actually coming around on the idea. Not the mirror thing of course, but the VC grift using a flashy idea. Millions of dollars and the only thing you make is a slideshow? Brilliant.

This reminds me of the venetian shade idea. ‘Trillions of dollars’ hahaha okay let’s see who wants to pitch in.

Perhaps the two areas should recolour as one another for the next Halloween season. It would make for quite the postcard.