|
Ottawa wasn't designed, it just happened around us.
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 02:54
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 26, 2024 13:34 |
|
|
Stickarts posted:This didn't take long! Not looking to crunch numbers to donate less money, so here is my receipt for $500 for my local foodbank: And here is mine. Reached out to CPEP and they asked that I donate here instead: 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 03:40
|
|
|
tagesschau posted:Meh. That Atwood-ajacent condo isn't that bad, but it is absolutely the truth that developers in Toronto have no answers other than building things twice as tall as necessary because they could only get half as much land as you'd really need. It's not possible to replace a streetscape of five-story buildings as far as the eye can see with one made up of mostly two-story buildings with an eighteen-story building thrown in every other block and maintain the same quality of life. Sorry, do you mind explaining the quality of life thing? Are we talking about the stairs they’ll have to climb if the elevator is out?
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 04:28
|
|
|
Chicken posted:Somebody mentioned Steven Erikson (Malazan author) earlier and he hates the entire concept of CanLit. He literally wrote a book about how bad the culture is. The blurb on the back: Someone should write a book about what a loving trash heap Malazan is, but a reasonable summary is that it's ten 1000+ page volumes of a loser neckbeard's lovely D&D campaign filled with characters and dialogue as compelling as the English dub of Dragonball Z. Fight me if you disagree. Chicken posted:I genuinely like Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy. I liked Oryx and Crake, although I never read the sequels. It's a better read than the Handmaid's Tale but still hamfisted at times. Unfortunately, I think there's better social commentary to be had in mere genre fiction (The Dispossessed/Left Hand of Darkness, Kindred/the Xenogenesis trilogy). Even in the dare-I-say subgenre of post-apocalyptic fiction, Parable of the Sower is more relevant today, while Station Eleven is a somewhat more engaging read with a higher dosage of CanCon. The Testaments tried to shoehorn more just slightly ridiculous pro-Canadian pandering, but made a slight error of having 2/3 insipid point-of-view characters and a transparently predictable plot.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 05:18
|
|
|
eXXon posted:Someone should write a book about what a loving trash heap Malazan is, but a reasonable summary is that it's ten 1000+ page volumes of a loser neckbeard's lovely D&D campaign filled with characters and dialogue as compelling as the English dub of Dragonball Z. Fight me if you disagree. The thing about "respectable" fiction vs. genre is that if something gets big enough it just sort of magically stops being genre fiction. Kurt Vonnegut wrote sci-fi, but you don't typically hear people call him a "sci-fi author".
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 05:24
|
|
|
eXXon posted:Someone should write a book about what a loving trash heap Malazan is, but a reasonable summary is that it's ten 1000+ page volumes of a loser neckbeard's lovely D&D campaign filled with characters and dialogue as compelling as the English dub of Dragonball Z. Fight me if you disagree. I'm already fighting the drat books, no time to take up another battle. 35% of the way through book 8. It just keeps going on. I check the percentage counter from time to time. It doesn't move. I am trapped in in the swamp of endless mediocre canlit.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 05:25
|
|
|
eXXon posted:Someone should write a book about what a loving trash heap Malazan is, but a reasonable summary is that it's ten 1000+ page volumes of a loser neckbeard's lovely D&D campaign filled with characters and dialogue as compelling as the English dub of Dragonball Z. Fight me if you disagree.  Its just an unending slog with very little payoff. I gave up around book 5.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 06:35
|
|
|
I knew my academic career was doomed when I realized I just didn't enjoy reading anymore, especially if it was dry academic writing. These days, I read trashy webnovels. Plenty of them, some of them actually can be decent half the time, and they take up no shelf space.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 09:28
|
|
|
yippee cahier posted:Sorry, do you mind explaining the quality of life thing? Are we talking about the stairs they’ll have to climb if the elevator is out? The issue is more the concentration of so many people artificially in one spot for no good reason. Munich and Barcelona are both significantly denser than the old city of Toronto, and they do it with almost no high-rises. Toronto's planners seem to believe that the solution to increase density is to plop down high-rises instead of uniformly increasing density in that neighborhood, and it just isn't. It's a lot easier to rubber-stamp developers' plans, though.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 13:31
|
|
|
I was out at Riverdale East last night for a gorgeous sunset, park was the busiest I've ever seen it, lots of groups over 5 people but every group was far distant from each other. I had to explain to boomers at work why so many young people are going to the parks. It's almost as if they've forgotten that nobody living in a condo has a backyard, and developers tricked the city into the idea of "parkettes" so what the gently caress else are our options to go outside? My condo has one of the best rooftop patios in the east end and it's been closed along with all the other amenities since COVID started.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 16:41
|
|
|
gently caress that was supposed to be in the Toronto thread my bad Protest starting at Nathan Phillips square. Saunders knelt with protesters, that's a big wet fart.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 17:53
|
|
|
Copaganda is in full effect with cops kneeling with protesters, loving gross
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 17:57
|
|
|
Nairbo posted:Copaganda is in full effect with cops kneeling with protesters, loving gross I saw a video (from Montreal, I think?) showing cops kneeling. The crowd loved it until it dawned that they were just masking up to start gassing the crowd. There's also this gem from US 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 18:07
|
|
|
Nairbo posted:Copaganda is in full effect with cops kneeling with protesters, loving gross Torinto activists are trying to figure out if this was organized by the cops or a bunch of well meaning but clueless social media influencers.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 18:16
|
|
|
Oooh and Douglas Ford is reverting to his larval state, says he doesn't support paid sick leave. Get hosed Douglas.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 18:43
|
|
|
MA-Horus posted:Oooh and Douglas Ford is reverting to his larval state, says he doesn't support paid sick leave. As a disabled person I am expecting that half of that federal benefit for disabled people (the one time benefit on top of the absolutely extravagant ~$1200 a disabled person in Ontario gets per month) is going to get clawed back by Ontario; Doug Ford has not really done anything to hide his spite for us. e: lol even the federal cons are calling it not enough support for disabled people Arivia fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jun 5, 2020 |
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 18:51
|
|
|
Arivia posted:As a disabled person I am expecting that half of that federal benefit for disabled people (the one time benefit on top of the absolutely extravagant ~$1200 a disabled person in Ontario gets per month) is going to get clawed back by Ontario; Doug Ford has not really done anything to hide his spite for us. It also totally leaves out people who aren't eligible for CPPD, which is a poo poo ton of disabled people. I have a buddy on AISH who I know could use any extra cash, but he's not eligible for CPPD and I guess the loving UCP would claw it back too, anyhow. I don't understand how we have so many cartoon villains in power.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 19:53
|
|
|
Mask off motherfuckers https://twitter.com/DFLamont/status/1268952657437343747?s=20
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 20:03
|
|
|
Another Bill posted:Torinto activists are trying to figure out if this was organized by the cops or a bunch of well meaning but clueless social media influencers. Looks like cop poo poo to me. Nobody should go.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 20:06
|
|
|
lol https://twitter.com/ChrisKurys/status/1268990752094408704 https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/1268989469803380742
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 20:54
|
|
|
Trudeau doing a symbolic gesture but not addressing the underlying issues?!?
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 21:06
|
|
|
apatheticman posted:Trudeau doing a symbolic gesture but not addressing the underlying issues?!? I'm sure he's working on defunding the RCMP right n 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 21:11
|
|
|
It’s a very Ottawa protest right now but there are a gently caress ton of people out here which is at least something.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 21:36
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/Gray_Mackenzie/status/1269017847671459843
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 22:35
|
|
|
I think I'm just impressed that Justin shut the gently caress up and didn't try to grandstand. Staying silent in that situation was the best thing he could have done.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 22:50
|
|
|
It's kind of dispersed but the whole area from Elgin to the embassy is packed.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 22:50
|
|
|
MA-Horus posted:I think I'm just impressed that Justin shut the gently caress up and didn't try to grandstand. I don't think any politicians said anything. I know the mayor and the police chief were in the crowd, but didn't deliver any addresses or anything that I saw. Peter Sloly is still a cop, but he's, like, a good? cop? He's only been chief since October but what I've seen of him wanting to clean up the Ottawa Police has been decent. It will probably need more than just a new chief though.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 23:03
|
|
|
The amount of gnashing of teeth here over Trudeau isn’t any different than the right wing chuds all over the web. One in the same. Indistinguishable.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 23:10
|
|
|
Vintersorg posted:The amount of gnashing of teeth here over Trudeau isn’t any different than the right wing chuds all over the web. Source ur quotes
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 23:18
|
|
|
Arcsquad12 posted:It's kind of dispersed but the whole area from Elgin to the embassy is packed. Yeah it was jammed. The organizers didn’t do a great job but they got people out, which is a big deal.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 23:18
|
|
|
 Crowd had cleared a bit but the ones at the front were going strong
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 23:56
|
|
|
 The downtown CIBC boarded up all their windows in terror of the violent Ottawan mob. We mocked them mercilessly.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2020 00:12
|
|
|
Leofish posted:I don't think any politicians said anything. I know the mayor and the police chief were in the crowd, but didn't deliver any addresses or anything that I saw. Oh snap, you guys got Sloly? I was wondering where he got to after TPS snubbed him for Saunders because he was just a little too earnest about implementing reform
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2020 00:22
|
|
|
Doopliss posted:
 I missed thisLike what the gently caress man
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2020 00:38
|
|
|
Jordan7hm posted:
One of the CTV parliament reporters tweeted about this and a bunch of her replies were like "ANTIFA'S A-COMIN'!" https://twitter.com/atRachelGilmore/status/1268910025113849858 infernal machines posted:Oh snap, you guys got Sloly? Yeah, he's the new top cop now that Charles Bordeleau retired. Like I said, he seems good on the surface about wanting reforms and rooting out poo poo like racism or the cops who were doing a kickback scheme with shady tow truck operators, but it hasn't even been a year yet. I'm hopeful, but it's not something that can be done overnight.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2020 00:56
|
|
|
When you have "Imperial" in your name and you hear the protesters are coming, it's probably just reflex.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2020 01:25
|
|
|
Close your eyes and think is the empire when doing your duty. 
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2020 01:29
|
|
|
flakeloaf posted:When you have "Imperial" in your name and you hear the protesters are coming, it's probably just reflex. We got IMPERIAL and COMMERCE in our name... we gonna die!
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2020 01:49
|
|
|
Jordan7hm posted:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1268752335884423169 They've boarded up a big chunk of downtown surrounding where the video was shot. So far there ain't no one out there, but someone is convinced antifa's coming
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2020 02:28
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 26, 2024 13:34 |
|
|
https://twitter.com/sarahleavittcbc/status/1269019511937593344 neat
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2020 03:06
|
|
