Gates has always used philanthropy as PR. He doesn’t give a shit about climate change, famines or infant mortality. He was doing it for the PR while still investing and making money. Now that the political wind has changed and he doesn’t need to pretend, he can just be neutral and still seem like the “good billionaire”.

It depends a lot on what you do and how chill your employer is. This one was an IT outsourcing company and I was taking support calls from multiple other companies. Officially calls were routed to an office with a call centre, and that’s what clients were shown, but most of us preferred to WFH. The clients obviously knew it’s outsourcing but sometimes their employees didn’t. Sometimes I had to make them think they were calling ABC Inc’s tech department. So the only “rule” was not to openly talk about it. We could be in “another building” but still be working for their employer. Just don’t say that the “other building” is your summer house. Being in IT with that outsourcing company have let me get away with a lot of things that normally wouldn’t be allowed if I would have been an employee of their clients.

By law the minimum is only two weeks though. My contract gave me four weeks of paid vacation after a few years of employment. The other six weeks were just out of my pocket. I wasn’t paid and just took this time off. And that’s when my employer started to suggest that I could, maybe, work from remote places.

It’s kind of the same in Canada even if we have mandatory vacations. At some point could WFH and had about a month of vacation every year. I love bike touring and travelling in general, and one year I took about 10 weeks of vacation in total. My boss started to suggest that I could also bring my computer to other countries and work from there.

I must say it was tempting to continue earning money while being able to live in another country. I could have spent a few months in some places, instead of a week. But I wasn’t a fan of having schedules while “on vacation”. Also, more paperwork.

That’s why road diets and reducing road capacity is also important. Like Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Madrid or Vienna, the space dedicated to cars also have to be reduced in order to incite people to use something else than a car.

Cynical take from today’s fucked up point of view: The teacher was woke and entirely wrong. The proof is that climate change is still not happening today. Caring for the environment is economic terrorism. There never was anything to worry about in the first place. Drill baby drill.

However I’m pretty sure that a standard transit system not made up of single cars that can only transport one or two person at a time and spy on them is also much safer.

Not that odd. Death by car is easily accepted by society. They are “accidents” and a “necessary evil” for society to function.

There’s around a million people dying from cars every year and we just shrug and normalize them. Human or not, we just have to have cars and “accidents” are just that.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in 2016. That is, one person is killed every 26 seconds on average.

Nobody cares about cars killing people and animals. So she’s probably right.

I don’t have a car nor a house and I’m in my 40ies. I’ve been told multiple times that I’m not a responsible adult as long as I don’t have one of these.

Do horses also stab people 37 times in the chest before eating their hands?

But killing civilians wasn’t taboo at the time

At the time?

An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. Of these, more than 432,000 were civilians. The number of people wounded or ill as a result of the conflicts is far higher, as is the number of civilians who died “indirectly,” as a result of wars’ destruction of economies, healthcare systems, infrastructure and the environment.

Ah, I didn’t realise. I’m in bed and don’t want to bother with this so, I’ll just delete the comment.

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Have you worked as a Customer Advocate for a hosting company at some point? Because that looks like the training material they showed me when I did this job.

Je me sens tellement plus en sécurité à Montréal que dans une plus petite ville. J’ai de la famille et des amis à Drummondville et je m’y rend fréquemment à vélo, et c’est un tout autre monde. C’est un peu ironique car les gens qui habitent dans ces plus petites villes ont souvent tous la réaction “ah mon dieu, tu fais du vélo à Montréal, moi j’aurais peur!!”, mais c’est surtout de la projection car faire du vélo dans leur ville est effectivement effrayant.

Aussi, vive l’interdiction de tourner à droite sur les feux rouges. Ça aurait jamais dû être permis ailleurs au Québec.

Like, isn’t his entire DOGE team made up of young people?

This must be worse than IP over Avian Carrier.

It’s one of the things that made me prefer using Linux a long long time ago. It’s nice to be able to rename, move, and delete files while they are used.

In two parts.

1. The before map would be of the only high speed train the US currently has, and it’s the Acela Express. So, something like this.

2. If lots of people are consuming Tylenol in day to day life, and it causes autism, and some autistic people love trains, then the US should have a system like the map posted.

Broken clock theory. He’s right, obviously. It’s also interesting that he doesn’t say anything about Trump doing the same thing.