aidanglc.bsky.social
Economist, Cat Dad, Wife Guy living in Ottawa, ON.
It's chaos; be kind.
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The same cousin who asked about the Episcopal Church asked if I was a universalist, and ultimately, I'm not because I'm convinced some people will one day stand in God's presence and miserably slink away because they think Jesus Christ himself and the whole host of heaven are too weak and gay.
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Never thought I'd play an open world game that topped Skyrim for the sheer number of moments of genuine awe. And then Horizon Zero Dawn did it with ease.
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Ultimately, and I mean this, Americans have to stop being giant babies about paying taxes. taxes are the price of a functional society. Everything we complain about in US...the disorder, the mess, the lack of services and support is because we don't pay taxes.
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See also: prep for comps exams
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Ridership numbers for New York's subway, bus, and commuter rail systems (including NJ Transit) in the last week disagree.
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Of the five most talented musicians I personally know, three of them are organists. Turned pages for one of them when they played BWV 564 and got a courtside seat to watch them doing things I did not think human limbs were capable of doing.
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"What if Bridehead Revisited had even more repressed old money hornyness?"
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Heroism this and special forces that, 49 modern wars out of 50 the side that's better at math wins.
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Dropping coins into the machine on the bus to get a ticket.
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It'll be doable once Dows Lake is open - I live near Bayview Station, so the plan is to skate from downtown to Dows and then hop on the LRT for the final bit home.
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It is one of the most unwieldy electoral coalitions in Canadian history, but I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a while for the Liberal brand to detoxify among swing voters (helped by party insiders presumably learning all the wrong lessons from JT's decline and fall)
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Honestly, the only sustained downside of Budget 2018 is that the dream of another February Budget now hangs over the Central Agencies like an ex they can never quite get over.
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I hate how well all of this holds up
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I think one of the things the NYC Transit Museum does best is make clear that the subway is a feat of mega-engineering on par with anything in science fiction.
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The estimate I saw yesterday was around $15 per second (so around $2.5 million by yesterday)
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The Virgin Subway vs The Chad Tube (vs The Gigachad Metro)
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With a suitcase! And sometimes at truly ungodly hours of the morning to catch the 7am United EWR-YOW flight.
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I'd take the under on three weeks tbh
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Mickey becomes a regular guest on the Money Stuff podcast.
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I know I keep harping on the carbon price rebates but I think it's really illustrative of the problem: it took them 8yrs to finally realize "oh, we should explicitly tell you that this deposit you're getting is your carbon price rebate".
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So they ate all the costs of being seen as "too woke" but got very few of the benefits of being able to plainly say "we delivered X" because X was too often mired in implementation challenges or poorly branded or years behind schedule.
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The Gardiner has always struck me as the most obvious candidate for congestion pricing in the whole country (unless we opted to demolish it instead, which I would also be fine with)