frostbiker

I've heard of hunters placing wires strung across MTB trails at neck height. In Spain several people have died or become tetraplegic due to them. You can't see the wire in time to do anything about it.

Yes, but the uk doesn’t have the spare non urban centres

There is plenty of space in the north of the UK, where the climate is far milder than in the immense majority of the territory in Canada.

Windsor to Montreal is also really one big city. Unsurprisingly since it's one of the areas with relatively mild climate, compared to places like Nunavut.

Space is not the problem. The problem is that we welcome over a million people coming to the country per year and we are not building nearly enough housing for them.

Canada is just as urbanized as the UK. The population in both countries is largely concentrated in a handful of cities.

I'm surprised that Canada doesn't have the #1 spot in housing unaffordability. Things are grim here.

He watched a pedestrian cross the road on a green pedestrian light, and complained about the pedestrian not looking

On the one hand, the pedestrian would be safer if they made sure it is safe before crossing. As a pedestrian and a cyclist I'm constantly looking around.

On the other hand, the only reason there is danger in the first place is because of motor vehicles driving fast around pedestrians.

We don't blame women who get assaulted for "not being careful", we blame the people who have assaulted them. The burden of safety should be placed first and foremost on the people who put others in danger.

Thoughts?

I have a dream that we will one day live in a nation where people will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

“Small price to pay for the freedom to travel”

Well, they pay a small price for their freedom to travel. It's everybody else that has to suffer the externalities of their choices.

Let's tax antisocial behavior, so that these externalities are internalized. Carbon tax, vehicle weight per passenger tax, vehicle volume per passenger tax, etc.

And here I was walking to work trying to suck some coffee through a damp piece of cardboard, while it turns out that the suburban Panzer IV commuters were to blame? What's next?

The clean drugs will kill you eventually, the street drugs will kill you today.

The most common way people die of heroin/opiate overdose happens when they have reduced/stopped their consumption for a while and then something happens in their lives that makes them go back to it. On the first time they use it again, they overdose because they have lost some of their tolerance.

This very common path to overdose will happen whether the drug was pure or not. The root cause is that there is fairly narrow band of dosage in which you get high but don't stop breathing altogether.

Providing pharma grade hard drugs isn't the panacea that some people believe. Nuance is necessary. I haven't even touched on the very real downsides of living next to a clinic that provides services for people addicted to drugs.

At this point it has developed into its own thing over there. It's just as British as tempura is Japanese.

Q: why is it dangerous?

A: because it’s illegal.

Plenty of street drugs are addictive and dangerous even in their pure form. See for example the opiate crisis where many people started their addiction with pharmacologically pure prescription opiates.

In my opinion, and personal experience, it also has a lot to do with not having enough time and energy to think about anything other then putting food on the table

On the other hand, let's not pretend that we don't all waste time on Kardashians, Lemmy and other inane activities. I think the bigger problem is that we are overwhelmed with information, much of it inconsequential stuff, and that detracts from our ability to focus on and prioritize important but difficult topics.