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Cake day: February 4th, 2025

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  • Romania and other places in European have unlimited data for under $10/month. Meanwhile here in Canada an unlimited plan is over $100/month. God forbid you have a non-unlimited plan (which is still more expensive than an unlimited plan in EU btw) and you have a cap on your data, because with the way the internet is these days the amount of bloatware on every website will kill your data allocation in a week, and then you’re left with overage charges that double your monthly fees. You either get screwed now or get screwed later. Those are your choices when it comes to telecom companies in Canada.







  • As uninspiring and dystopian as a parking lot is, I think in this particular place we’re at, it can be helpful. There’s lots of car traffic by the lakefront after people exit the highway, and instead of them trying to drive up the narrow streets looking for parking at various residences and roadsides they can now leave their car here and potentially take public transport for any further uptown activities. It might help relieve some congestion and it’s owned by the government of Ontario so the profit it generates can be helpful. I’m not a fan of the whole Ontario Place debacle and the 99 year lease for a spa, but I can see the upside of this one. Or maybe I’m just overdosing on copium because there’s nothing I can do to keep DoFo’s meddling fingers out of Toronto.



  • Neat lil promo video, but not much meat on the bones. I think it would be real great to do a similar short video that focuses entirely on the negatives of car dependency:

    -wasteful infrastructure (parking lots & car-only roads) -damage to the environment (gas emissions, microplastics from tires, road infrastructure killing greenery, noise pollution, temperature increase from lack of shade due to car infrastructure) -damage to psyche (traffic aggression, isolation due to distance, detachment due to distractions and physical encapsulation) -damage to health (pollutants, deadly accidents, muscle atrophy and cardiovascular disease from sitting all day) -economic burden (paying for car, paying for gas, paying for parking, paying for insurance, paying for maintenance, increased taxes)