Photo of an estimate from a local mechanic? And same with you - take all the physio you need and bill the hell out of them. Hope the knee’s settled down now but an expert opinion might spot something long-term that can be corrected now.

Sorry to hear :( Feels like we’re all one momentary lapse of concentration (usually someone else’s) away from a life-changing coming-together. I’ve lost track of the situation with the shifting sands of ICBC and what they will/won’t do these days, but can you claim against them for a) any out-of-pocket medical expenses (eg physio) and b) damage to bike/helmet?

Ahhh right, sorry - must read more carefully - I see you’ve already said ICBC will cover the helmet. If you get the bike in for a mechanic to look over & give you an estimate then presumably they’ll cover that as well?

I’ve never understood why there’s a fuss about default wallpaper. It ships with a dozen options and you can obviously install your own. I guess it’s the opportunity for a news story and a sign that things have reached a certain level of development and are getting close to release.

Personally, I saw the item on installing your own dynamic wallpaper at https://www.omglinux.com/dynamic-wallpapers-for-gnome-desktop/, followed the instructions on github and set up a lovely time-of-day based wallpaper based on the game Firewatch (https://github.com/manishprivet/dynamic-gnome-wallpapers#code-firewatch) - I love all the sunrise/sunset options there but if you’ve played Firewatch then this one might speak to you :)

sometimes it’s better to take the Evo than my own car just to avoid parking and dodging traffic on the way back.

I know right? Sure, the Evo concept is not a solution to every traffic/vehicle related problem but there are so many use cases where it’s hellishly handy. I’ve definitely done the same - an Evo into town and no worries about parking… lock and WALK AWAY :)

One Evo can replace a fair number of parked cars…

A rep from Evo told me once that their data suggests each Evo takes 7 privately owned cars off the road. (I know that’s worded badly and yes I’ve seen the way some people drive Evos…)

Absolutely - I think there’s some real estate mantra about how land is the only thing they’re not making more of. Using 18 sq m of it for possibly storing one vehicle is a heck of a waste. I saw some stat that there’s apparently 8 parking spaces per vehicle in the US - they need one at home, one at work, one at every mall that you might want to visit. So that’s 144 sq m of asphalt for storing each car.

True re condo prices… it might work if there was competition and sufficient supply… but we all know that’s not the case.

I would love to see the occasional development that goes hard against parking. Build it over or across the street from Skytrain, provide 10% or more Modo/Evo spaces and zero or near zero residents parking. Then cut the price of everything by $60/120K given you’re not having to build the cost of underground parking into the prices.

But even if you could persuade the appropriate council to do away with their parking minimums AND there was some way to discourage car owners from buying (have a neighbouring building with lots of parking? Sign some sort of contract?) I know people’s lives change. Just because you work downtown and can take the Skytrain today, doesn’t mean you’re not going to be working in White Rock or Maple Ridge next year. Or a bunch of people are going to shrug, lie about car ownership, buy the cheaper unit and plan to park on the street somewhere - then complain about how they don’t have parking in their building.

Actually, my GENIUS PLAN is for nobody to “own” any parking in a building. Have all the spaces owned by a parking organization that rents them out on a month-by-month basis. That way you reduce the price of every unit by the $60K that each space costs to build and the family buying a 2-bed who don’t need parking don’t pay for it and the couple buying a 1-bed who need two spots can get it too. Also there’s none of the “I drive a monster truck but my unit came with a ‘small car’ space” or “I’m disabled but my unit’s space is miles from the elevator” issues… you just rent out appropriate spaces to each unit depending on their needs.

But obviously the developer is going to want their money up front for the parking they built so whatever organization owns & manages the parking is going to need DEEP pockets and the return on investment is very very slow.

Small and dense Canadian city here… not sure we even have school buses although I’ve seen them in other nearby school districts where I assume the catchment areas are wider.

And yes, they’re the standard yellow school bus 🙂

There is a nice sweet spot when they’re old enough to have phones but not old enough to complain about having you track them 🙂

It’s great to have them walk, even when they’re very young and you need to walk with them.

Back in my day (insert grandpa Simpson gif here!) I had a 10min walk to a bus stop and caught a public bus. Felt sorry for the adults that had to catch the same bus with 40 wild children.

These days I think my friends’ school age kids all walk or cycle - we’re in a small city with fairly good bike infrastructure.

someone high up had a shitty idea and told engineering they had a month to figure out how to make it real

Ever see that Simpsons episode where Homer gets to design a car? Always reminds me of that.

It’s also pointy as fuck. Mobile guillotine.

North American trucks in general are death on four wheels for pedestrians, cyclists etc. The tall vertical leading edges hit pedestrians in the hip and torso and then toss them under the wheels.

In the EU there’s regulations about this stuff, designed to ensure that people are hit (ideally not hit at all, but you know what I mean) in the legs and thrown up onto the hood. Plus regulations about spacing underneath the hood to the hard engine components which allows for a certain amount of cushioning deformity when the victim hits the hood. Would love to see that sort of thing regulated in North America but not a chance in hell of it happening.

so it would not be a surprise if Reddit administration or spez personally decides to usurp those mod teams.

There was some comment about “we’ll do whatever’s necessary to keep reddit online” so I think the implication there is that if high-traffic subs went dark for an extended period then he’d evict the mods and replace them with his yes men.

Personally I think the subs should go dark for 3 days each & every month. You can still run a successful community with those restrictions but it’s a pretty visible signal to investors that hey your userbase hates you and is itching for the opportunity to leave your sorry ass.

You can’t expect parents to let their kids WALK to school can you? It’s not safe - there’s so many cars around! 🙄

Migrated to Debian 11 from Ubuntu 6 months ago. Loving it.

With Ubuntu I used to stick to the LTS releases and wait for a .1 upgrade. But I’ve been running a Debian 12 VM in anger (ie actually doing work on it - I needed PHP 8) for the last month or two and it’s been faultless for me. Might break the habit and upgrade the main machine early :)

Edit: almost pulled the trigger a little early tonight. Ironically the one package I have that doesn’t seem to exist for 12 yet is Virtualbox - not something I could install & test in my Debian 12 VM…

As the manual says you should run

apt list '?narrow(?installed, ?not(?origin(Debian)))'

before upgrading to check what non-Debian packages you have installed.

It’s gone pretty much as you’d expect:

#1 doubling down on everything and saying “I’m sorry that you were upset about this”

#2 ignoring the untrue allegations he made about the convo with a 3rd party developer and calling him out for having recorded the convo instead

Interesting that this is about the brand and not specifically about the cars. Expect a lot of this is down to their CEO’s rapid fall from grace.