Well, that and when the forests don’t grow back fast enough to provide new fuel. I.e. when what was forest becomes desert.

Past mistakes with forest management are only part of the problem.

I am all for leaving Granville as pedestrian-only (permanently) and running transit down Seymour and Howe. I’ve been saying Vancouver downtown needs that for years.

But spending $300k a week “for sanitation and traffic work” is fucking ludicrous. What the fuck are they smoking? Are they hiring staff to pick up garbage 24/7 on every fucking corner? Are they fucking polishing the asphalt like it’s a marble countertop?

And $200k a week for security? You don’t need to put 60 extra cops on the street just because it’s pedestrian only.

Again, this is extra budget. On top of what would already be spent just by having Granville St be Granville St - which already gets regular sanitation and police patrols. There’s no fucking way this is just to maintain it as pedestrian only.

This is absolute madness and is just a setup for it to fail because “it costs too much.”

Canada lost today.

I wrote my MP as well, but focused on the privacy industry exiting Canada if logging was required for them to operate legally (and how that would affect me, personally), and how forcing services to add a back door for the government to access data would compromise everyone’s security. I cited Geist and various other articles.

Love Rossmann, but what a terrible video. “I’m too busy to make a video, so I’ll blast a bunch of information at you in triple time, you plebs.”

No, it’s not the single year loss making me say that. The CEO has basically said they can’t compete with BYD, they’ve been chasing hydrogen with no progress, for 2 decades they have been actively avoiding the EV market (sticking only with hybrids), and now, even when the writing is on the wall that the future is Electric, they’re running away once again with their tail between their legs. They were looking for an excuse to not do electric (as they have for ages) and the US tax credit expiration was exactly what they were looking for.

And the biggest issue is that the EVs from BYD (and pretty much everyone else) are going directly for their core market: value-plus compact cars, cross-overs and small SUVs. Their market share is about to tank in Europe and probably Canada, like is already happening in China. I can even see it getting hit in the US with gas prices and inflation killing ICE sales this year.

The funny thing is that they’ve seen it for motorcycles, but not for cars and SUVs. So maybe that will save them.

Honda is done unless they change leadership and direction. I expect a buyout/merger/bankruptcy announcement soon.

I meant specifically about the Insight.

I think the prevailing theory is a SpaceX vehicle venting fuel after launching from California at 8:30pm and orbiting once (approx 90 min) to be seen over BC at 10pm. Given the speed it goes across the sky and the very wide range of locations it was spotted from, something very high up (like LEO high) makes sense.

Cool to see though!

compliance car

I’ve never heard that, what’s the deal there?

Honda needs new leadership. They’re already talking about how they will fail because they can’t compete with BYD. Yeah, well you can’t compete if you don’t even try, clearly. It’s sad that Honda will die because they refuse to go electric, when the original Insight hybrid was so forward thinking.

I’d tell ya, but then I’d have to kill this account.

Quilts maybe? That’s the “traditional” Canadian blanket. And you can probably get one locally made.

Omg, I actually do think and say it this way. Why Why Zed sounds wrong :(

Yeah another one I thought of is XYZ

For me it’s Zed-axis, but Ecks-Why-Zee coordinates.

Lemon squee zed

Username checks out, maybe…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Who_Say_"Ni!"

Like many things, it depends. I’m curious about the context where you’re actually hearing YouTubers say the letter.

It’s usually “zed” and we’re taught it as “zed” in school - at least when i was a kid.

If I’m spelling something it is Zed. I don’t think I’ve ever said Zee in that context.

The alphabet ends with Zee when singing it, due to the rhyme with Vee (and probably Sesame Street).

In my head I will say Nissan Zee for a Z type car. Though if I was to speak the phrase “Nissan Z type” I would say Zed.

When it is used in online slang (GG EZ) it is “Zee” for “easy”.

ZZ Top is Zee Zee Top. Zorro draws a Zed. Things are Zed-shaped, not Zee-shaped in general.

After the Clownvoy, ‘trucker’ is a term that carries a specific kind of weight here

I don’t personally associate “trucker” with the convoy automatically. There were a lot of yahoos in the convoy who weren’t truckers.

I bought marbles for cheap at the dollar store last summer. They’re good for camping games when you don’t have a lot of space.