Urgh... ehm... we should... we should tip cashiers and self-checkouts as well?
That's the answer, right?
frostbiker
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If I want to buy a weapon, even for target practice, I need a license that is pretty hard to obtain. Why don't we do the same with dog breeds that are known to maim children disproportionately to other types of dogs?
If you really are a great dog owner and your dog is really as friendly as you say, you wouldn't mind having both of you tested once a year in order to prevent bad owners from spoiling the image of that breed.
Next time I fly WestJet I will rehearse my stand-up routine, given the precedent they have set. I'm sure they will allow me.
We can also build larger appartments suitable for families. It is not rocket science.
Not that I have anything against mid-density mixed-use developments, quite the contrary. But in the downtown I can see why even taller buildings make sense.
It's the sprawl of necessarily car-dependent single-family homes that I have a problem with, because while it means comfort for the rich, it only brings externalities for everybody else.
Suburbs are not economically viable, they are being subsidized by denser areas.
I am tired of living in a cramped appartment suffering the traffic caused by suburbanites 24/7, all while knowing that us appartment dwellers are actually subsidizing suburban sprawl. Do you want to live in a single family home? Great; pay your fair share.
They’re not supposed to call the police when they’ve been robbed? Theft of service is a crime is it not? If the police aren’t doing anything that’s the problem
I'm speculating here, but I guess it boils down to the amount of money involved combined with the absence of threats or violence.
In general it makes little sense to spend resources investigating a non-indictable offense where the perpetrator is unlikely to be found in the first place and even if they are found the cost of even finding and processing then is much higher than the monetary damage they caused.
What a horrible act of violence. A few years back we suffered a similar terrorist attack in Toronto, that time against women, and it left many of us in the community shaken. A terrorist attack in the news feels very different from one in your street.
I hope the Muslim community in London is healing. Our thoughts are with you.
Personal insults do are not conducive to civil conversation. Perhaps you would feel better after going out for a walk or a bike ride. Have a great day!
It’s the graphic ads that work, they stick with you and make you remember them.
Then show how bad the driver feels after killing a pedestrian, instead of blaming the pedestrian for having been killed.
On top of the potential physical impossibility of pushing a wheel chair through snow, they might literally die on their way to their doctor’s appointment.
If they are so frail that they won't survive a trip to the nearest bus stop they should take an ambulance to the hospital for hospice care.
Again, how are you getting through a snow storm? Or a rain storm? Is your load of thousands of dollars worth of power tools going to be fine sitting in a bike trailer in extreme weather?
If the weather is that inclement, chances are that their oh-so-important hockey practice will be canceled that day. Or they can learn a little bit of gumption, if appropriate.
Bruh, tell me where I said that.
You didn't. I was presenting a common example of today's car culture.
Cities still need to be designed to be able to support cars
Did I say the opposite? But today's car infrastructure is far more extensive than it needs to be. People don't need a car to commute, they choose a car for their convenience at the cost of everybody else's.
I live in a car-infested neighborhood where ironically most people don't have a car -- the constant traffic is largely produced by the suburbanites that come here, ironically to save themselves from the traffic that the suburbanites are causing. And I'm furious that we suffer their convenience day and night, when we shouldn't have to.
Our streets should serve the people living in them, rather than being designed to maximize the speed and convenience of the people driving through.
Buses don’t go to a house, they go to a bus stop, and the point is that there are people in society too sick and frail to walk. You’re not about to put a 90+ year old in an electric wheelchair and tell them to wheel home from the bus stop in the rain or snow.
Why not? A family member can help, just like family members drive frail 90yo people around. What 90yo people shouldn't do is operate heavy machinery such as a car.
How are you getting your kids and all their sports gear to practice in the winter?
With a cargo bike or a bike with a trailer. Or by walking around with a utility wagon.
How are you transporting building materials to your house or condo through snow?
Rent a van the one day a year that you need to do stuff like that. Don't pretend it is reasonable for one person to use a 4000lbs pickup truck to commute to work, given the externalities that imposes on other people.
Many families like mine live car-free, so instead of claiming that is impossible you may want to figure out how they do it.
By that argument we would be legally obligated to murder all bees and ban peanut butter, since some people are deadly allergic to them. We don't want to be responsible for their death, do we?