Via Rail is a complete disaster imo. They take the bad from air travel and bring it to rail. They act like their service is a premium luxury one, with huge numbers of staff per train, multiple checks of your tickets, etc.

One example of how bad their operations are (not to get into reliability which is a whole other problem) is that when arriving at a station they ask that you remain seated until the train is fully stopped, and then slowly help people get off. Contrast this with trains in Japan as an example, where the announcement says a stop is coming up soon, please be ready to get off as soon as the train doors are open.

In my opinion we don’t just need politicians riding Canadian trains. I want them to travel to Europe and Asia and then come back and suffer on via rail. It’s not just new dedicated tracks that are needed, it’s a complete restructure of the passenger experience!

No, it’s because you can trace at least some of this specific problem directly back to British imperial rule in the middle east.

I think you’re misreading it. In the same way as there are people that need to ride on planes (for example for their job, or to move to where they have a job, etc), there are people that need to use social media.

For example, if you own an online store you really need to have a social media presence. Same if you are an artist, and live off of commissions. I’m sure there are plenty more examples.

I try to live by the rule of I would rather be alive than dead. Being “right” is no consolation when you’re in a hospital bed dying.

The same goes for cars and especially bikers. You may be right, but being right doesn’t stop the giant SUV next to you from flattening you.

The whole point of this sub is advocating for changing that and getting rid of car centric development.

This is an android enthusiast community. For a lot of people here the answers to that are going to be yes, yes and yes.

Registering to vote is pretty normal. You might not have to because the government already has records of you and that is the same in America for a lot of people. For immigrants in Europe you still have to register!

If you change municipality or state in Europe you might also have to register again so they have you voting in the right local elections.

I find the wait times have gone up as they prioritise both drive thru and delivery options ahead of people actually at the counter.

This just sounds like an unemployment insurance program. Love that they call it “universal” when it isn’t at all.

I would disagree with a big part of this characterization. Specifically that prices are out of control beyond housing (which is completely fucked), but outside of that Canada has done better than most comparable countries when it comes to inflation over the last few years.

Taxes are not that crazy unless your only comparison is the US, which is a bad comparison.

I mostly agree with this but more than shorter code I value readability, I would rather take 3 lines to be clear to any developer than use some obscure or easy to misunderstand structure to write it in 1.

I just hope it works so that people can shut up with the high speed rail only works in other places garbage. Just tell them to go visit california and see how good it is… Only works if they finish it so I hope they do.

But without main population centres is it going to be done successfully? Imo they should have started with one of the ends, so that at least there is a big trip destination.

Too late for that now and I really hope it works out and we get a good example for north american high speed rail projects to point to despite everything.

Its a shame because it is something I am actually really good at, and now it’s a completely useless skill!

This is exactly my experience as well. It doesn’t help that my peripherals are purchased based on if they work with windows so half the functionality is missing on linux, and I’m not about to go buy new ones.

That and fixing any issue can be such a frustrating experience because when you search you end up with fixes for every distro except yours, or the fix for your distro that worked 5 years ago but now doesn’t.

My current forray into linux is going well except for taking all day to configure the dual boot though, so maybe some things have gotten better!

1. Commute as part of working hours.
2. Reliable public transit, with the monthly pass paid by work.
3. Salary increase of at least 15%.

I feel all of these are relatively realistic and achievable by my workplace except for reliable public transit which is out of their hands. Thankfully they’re still remote first though there have been a few indications that this might change.

Most stores near me don’t let you use the self checkout with more than a basket, but then they will not have anyone at any of the normal checkouts while having 3-4 employees just chilling “watching” the self checkouts.

OK, travelling as a group that large completely changes things! I’ve never travelled as a group that big and to be honest I doubt I even know that many people total!

I honestly don’t think travelling as such a large group is a good idea. Most guides recommend groups of less than 6, which even splitting up you will be well over. The reason for this is you will run into issues with everything. For example if you want to take the train you will practically fill up an entire train car. Most restaurants will not be able to seat you, and those that can will require a reservation. The best restaurants are very often the small hole in the wall ones that seat 10 people and half are taken by regulars!

As far as accommodation goes you probably want to stick to hotels for the simple reason that you would have to book multiple Airbnbs anyway so at least with hotels you can have all the rooms together rather than everyone spread out all over the city.

I’m sorry if I’m sounding negative here but honestly travel in such a group sounds like a nightmare!

No, Suica can be used for all trains in Tokyo. It can also be used in various other cities across Japan as well but that is beside the point.

Different types of card exist (pasmo, Suica, etc) but they’re all fundamentally the same and can be used interchangeably.

Exact same situation, and I’m slowly converting my money over to different ETFs that are pulling me back positive.