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I have no earthly idea what you're talking about (replied in the wrong place, maybe?), but that is some prime internet weirdness.

Oh the irony.

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. Making a whole post about a mod decision/lack of decision you disagree with is not polite behavior, even if OOP was a nut.

I mean, political apathy is pretty standard in any culture, and there's no some doubt people - particularly women - enjoyed the wonders of progress and democracy, but there's always been support for the Taliban as well. That's how insurgencies work.

I wasn't there, but it was mostly fought from within convoys and fortifications, and even when there's contact you don't usually tell the guys with guns if you think they're crazy. Are you sure your sample of local opinion was representative?

Yeah, but why the swipe at environmentalism? At least, I think it was a swipe. But, you know, Poe's law.

I'm pretty sure that will be a minor inconvenience at the worst, right? Turbine engines are built to handle ingestion of most minor things, and paint will just burn off. If they actually wanted to keep them down, they should have used wet concrete or something like that.

I feel like saying that on Lemmy is kind of self defeating. We're the people that were too nerdy and online for Reddit.

The old internet was just an intermediate stage between the standardised internet, and before the internet when you had to find a clear channel through the ionosphere. Congratulations, however old you are, you've lived long enough to be bitter that the world has changed.

Now if we're talking about the specific way it's developed with a new generation of robber barons controlling everything, obviously few here will disagree.

Is this a reference to shipyards being shut down over environmental concerns? Has that happened much?

For a while there, I could tell the wingnuts apart from the convoy-style flag accessories, which sucked. You don't really want your own flag being co-opted. The whole "elbows up" thing where we oppose the US has changed that a bit. I'll have to watch out for black ones.

So basically, they're funneling tax money into holding lightly used parking lots right now. Yes, they should absolutely sell that land for someone to do something with, and then take the funds and put them into non-stupid programs.

More than $100 million in land value,

I know it's Toronto, but that still seems like a very significant amount.

Deputants also said New Toronto needs the parking lots due to poor transit access.

I bet people say they don't need public transit because there's so much parking, too.

New Toronto resident Matt Lawrence criticized the city-owned land-use policy, saying that “ rich neighbourhoods get pools and community centers. Poor neighbourhoods get subsidized housing and shelters.”

I'm kind of interested in this quote. Is Matt implying these are both bad things, or that it should be the other way around? It seems to me the latter, at least, is a good thing.

What if you wake up from the Matrix and it turns out the world actually descended into an ice age?

I mean, it's a silly, kinda extreme scenario, but we're talking about big picture stuff and you can't ever convince me would cover it as well.

(it wasn’t until years later that I learned the full story behind that)

Okay, I can't be the only one that's kinda curious about your trainwreck neighbors. Obviously they fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole, but was there more?