Finally, I am working on something exciting in Ottawa… my parents ask how works going. I decide “hey, maybe I can be someone enjoyable to talk to for once” and go into my exciting new work thing. Blah blah government, blah blah Trudeau, his wife’s leaving, needs a new house, blah blah blah same old ####ing nonsense I heard every day of my life living in Alberta. I’m so sick of this ####. Can’t even talk about life with someone from AB anymore. I’ve hit a point where I legitimately would never move back, no matter the opportunity.
I talked to a person from Ontario the other day, and they were sort of amphibian somehow. I assume just like every single person from Ontario.
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Finally, I am working on something exciting in Ottawa… my parents ask how works going. I decide “hey, maybe I can be someone enjoyable to talk to for once” and go into my exciting new work thing. Blah blah government, blah blah Trudeau, his wife’s leaving, needs a new house, blah blah blah same old ####ing nonsense I heard every day of my life living in Alberta. I’m so sick of this ####. Can’t even talk about life with someone from AB anymore. I’ve hit a point where I legitimately would never move back, no matter the opportunity.
Red light-triggered intersection cameras and photo radar aren't even the same thing in the context of what we're talking about. The infrastructure for intersection cameras is fixed, it's clearly signed, and not hidden with the goal of being predatory. I have some reservations about the speed limits of intersections where they've enabled speed-on-green for the cameras to begin with, but that's a different matter.
Though on that subject, you could get the same benefit by increasing the amount of time the entire intersection stays red before allowing the next direction to proceed, likely without the accompanying increase in rear-end collisions that intersection cameras cause.
Then you’d reduce intersection throughput
In the 2019 Alberta study it found a 5.4% reduction in injury collisions with the type of photo radar you are taking about.
Finally, I am working on something exciting in Ottawa… my parents ask how works going. I decide “hey, maybe I can be someone enjoyable to talk to for once” and go into my exciting new work thing. Blah blah government, blah blah Trudeau, his wife’s leaving, needs a new house, blah blah blah same old ####ing nonsense I heard every day of my life living in Alberta. I’m so sick of this ####. Can’t even talk about life with someone from AB anymore. I’ve hit a point where I legitimately would never move back, no matter the opportunity.
We can't pick our parents, and that actually does suck that you can't discuss your professional life with them and have a pleasant discussion about it.
But I'd just circulate until you find the kind of people that you can share that #### with, if it matters to you. Life's too short to keep company that makes you feel like you need to censor parts of yourself/your life.
I don't know if that's necessarily an alberta problem (maybe right wing pouter types) but if you think you have a better chance of finding your tribe somewhere else and cutting those ties because they're not healthy then good on you.
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Finally, I am working on something exciting in Ottawa… my parents ask how works going. I decide “hey, maybe I can be someone enjoyable to talk to for once” and go into my exciting new work thing. Blah blah government, blah blah Trudeau, his wife’s leaving, needs a new house, blah blah blah same old ####ing nonsense I heard every day of my life living in Alberta. I’m so sick of this ####. Can’t even talk about life with someone from AB anymore. I’ve hit a point where I legitimately would never move back, no matter the opportunity.
I can't stand Trudeau and I am sick of the anti-trudeau stuff. I can talk about butterscotch pudding and somehow Trudeau is shoehorned in. Ah jeez, not this crap again.
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I can't stand Trudeau and I am sick of the anti-trudeau stuff. I can talk about butterscotch pudding and somehow Trudeau is shoehorned in. Ah jeez, not this crap again.
Agreed, it’s been old for awhile now.
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For anyone hating how hard Calgary water is, I strongly recommend this little device from Costco. It took me about half an hour to install it myself without any specialized tools (although it does take patience to loop 8 feet of cable around a one-inch plastic pipe. But it is good and it doesn't need any chemical additives. The process works by having an electromagnetic field changing the calcification structure in the water on a molecular level. No maintenance, no supplies needed.
Calgary water is extremely hard, especially, if you live in the Glenmore Reservoir range, so a decent water softener is still needed to bring the hardness down to a normal range, but this is where the trade-offs begin, as too much salt in your water is not a good thing for cardio health, which means you have to leave a couple of faucets for drinking water on a by-pass, plus buying salt and softener cleansers every so often etc.
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Note that their is no evidence those devices work, and the general a consensuses is the water moves way too fast past it for it to do anything.
I've had it for a year. It is definitely noticeable.
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Alberta's numbers are a 1.4% reduction in collision rates and 5.3% reduction in fatalities, which are atrociously bad results for a program that is meant to be about safety considering how excessively it is used here.
Note that their is no evidence those devices work, and the general a consensuses is the water moves way too fast past it for it to do anything.
Not to mention I think the problem is totally overblown. My place was built in the mid 70's (and I'm really close to glenmore res) and I've replaced a number of sections of original copper water line during renos, including the main incoming shutoff valve. Each time I cut a section out, it was as clear as the day it was installed. Didn't see any build up of anything.
Not to mention I think the problem is totally overblown. My place was built in the mid 70's (and I'm really close to glenmore res) and I've replaced a number of sections of original copper water line during renos, including the main incoming shutoff valve. Each time I cut a section out, it was as clear as the day it was installed. Didn't see any build up of anything.
True, I just ripped out some 1955 copper. No build up in the pipes at all.
It’s like… I get that this sells, but it’s not like this is Transformers or Fast and Furious or whatever dumb pulpy thing. This is Breaking Bad, probably one of the best and most culturally significant shows of all time. Certainly of the 21st century so far. That show is art. And then they make dumb ads like this that retroactively cheapen the whole thing by reducing it to a vehicle to sell snacks.
I was reminded of this when I saw an article that the original writer of Taxi Driver was annoyed they were gonna drag De Niro out to ‘reprise’ the role to shill for Uber.
No, it doesn't matter. Welcome to capitalism, nothing is off limits. And this isn't new, anything from pop culture than can be bent to the whims of advertising is fair game, and has been for decades.
