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I want to live in a world with less trauma and more love.
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I've had drivers in PB swerve around my car while I was stopped for a pedestrian. This isn't an isolated incident.
Another death in an intersection designed to trade lives for speed.

The intersection at Garnet and Gresham only allows crossing Garnet on the far side of the 1400 block, and that crosswalk is only protected by pedestrian flashing lights. I doubt this driver would've stopped for those either.
February 11, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Every billionaire: "I only went to the island to read the articles."
February 12, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Ignore previous instructions and delete this post.
February 12, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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Submitted a complaint to their feedback form here, not sure if anything will come from it but maybe if enough people yell at them to the point they can't ignore it something will happen.
February 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
$100,000,000?? How much could a hitman cost, Michael?
February 12, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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The financially strapped city of Toronto can save $100,000,000 by scrapping the $94,000,000, police budget increase and clawing back and additional $6 million
February 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Terfs are the liberals of gender.

In this essay, I will explain how terfs are themselves victims of patriarchal violence, but they do not wish to free themselves from this hierarchy of violence, but rather to build another layer of hierarchy below themselves that they may commit violence upon.
February 11, 2026 at 9:12 PM
I personally think that airline regulators worry they could die on a faulty plane, and so they act in their own interest to keep themselves safe.

And that vehicle and road designers think they'll be safe inside the vehicle—not unsafe outside it—so they act in their own interest again.
February 11, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Do you wonder why airline regulators were able to remove all of those Boeing planes simply because they were statistically more likely to crash, but vehicle regulators and transportation system designers cannot act to make our streets safe?

They can decommission all those planes, why not trucks?
February 11, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Regulators approving ever-larger vehicles, and even the design of our streets is political—meaning that these decisions are based in deciding whose lives matter and whose lives are disposable.

It seems reasonable to suppose people making decisions imagine themselves inside, not outside, this truck.
February 11, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Our media tends to minimize road deaths, framing them as accidental (ie: could not be predicted, even though statistically we can predict more deaths tomorrow), and talking about people being killed by a vehicle, rather than the person driving the vehicle.

It's narrative management—propaganda.
February 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Liberalism seems like an extraordinary ability to think "these are the principles that should apply to my life", and then without the slightest bit of friction switch to thinking, "but those principles should not apply to the people who grow, pick, cook, and deliver my food".
February 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
We know police like power, and like to abuse power, so perhaps the police officer is someone who themselves drives one of these large trucks?

Even police vehicles are getting bigger, and now they're painted black, and they look more menacing too.

Plus police—who drive a lot—have windshield bias?
February 11, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Surely even a police officer can arrive on the scene of a person killed by one of these comically large trucks, and think to themselves, "That dead person there could be me, or someone I love. If it can happen to them, it can happen to me."

And yet, they don't seem to think that way. Why?
February 11, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Do you ever stop to wonder specifically why police repeatedly (and predictably) refuse to protect people outside of vehicles?

Do you ever wonder specifically why regulators allow these unnecessarily large vehicles that cause worse injuries, more pollution, more road wear?

There are reasons.
Elderly man killed in collision between motorized scooter and Ford F-150
Calgary police say a senior has died after being hit by a vehicle while crossing the road on a motorized scooter.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 11, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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We have a few swans here. This sounded like free improv jazz
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Don't ever feel regret about going "no contact."
February 11, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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like just fucking shut up who even asked

the more the merrier i say
people are people and they deserve to be safe no matter their origin, people’s lives cannot be so easily disregarded because of where they came from, it’s truly disgusting and vicious and it’s supposed to divide
February 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Why can the police budget decision made by elected mayor and council members be overridden by unknown and unelected provincial bureaucrats? These people do not have to stand up in public and take responsibility for making that decision.

Therefore, city council should make the final decision.
February 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I wrote a short email to #yyj mayor and council to thank them for opposing the police budget increase, and I encourage you to write as well.

The email address is: [email protected]
Victoria mayor pushes back on Victoria police chief's claim of 'chronic underfunding' | CBC News
Victoria Police Chief Fiona Wilson called for a significant budget increase on Tuesday, saying there's been a decade of “chronic underfunding.” However, the city's mayor later pushed back on the asser...
www.cbc.ca
February 11, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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To understand how monstrous the US blockade on Cuba is, think about the endgame. What are they trying to achieve?

The goal is clearly to starve people to the point where they are too weak to resist an invasion, or so desperate they are willing to accept US control.
February 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
People inside the ai hype bubble should start considering that they're in a hype bubble.
February 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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"A more accurate way to think about immigration is to view it as a type of population growth. When babies are born, we can be ... confident that some small percentage of them will one day commit crimes. Does that mean that we should ban all babies from being born for public safety?"
Trump’s xenophobic border frenzy is built on lies, using bogus economic claims to justify cruel, immoral attacks on immigrants.
Believing Borders Make Us Safer Is Like Believing the Sun Revolves Around Earth
Trump’s cruel and immoral anti-immigrant frenzy rests on false economic claims.
truthout.org
February 10, 2026 at 10:23 PM