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UW administration hates its students.

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How is this in any way difficult to grasp?

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lol cope harder

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Being okay with genocide as long as you have other interests you don't wish to risk by taking a stand against it is kinda basically "complicit", isn't it?

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Perversely, while it would be easier for someone with no equipment to maintain in their home, it would be a bigger pain in the ass for a bike shop here to maintain than a typical cargo bike would be.

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Naaah, just privatized suicide services. Oh wait, we have those, we call them long term care.

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not even remotely similar to what "back to nature" would mean

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No, riding on the sidewalk was never "fine". I know it FEELS more safe, but cyclists are struck more often and killed more often per km of sidewalk than road. And I am never okay with pushing risk off on other people because I'm afraid to accept it myself; even if riding on the sidewalk were safer for me, it is less safe for everyone else, so I don't fucking do it.

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I am 47 and this has been the case my entire life. We have data.

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Only if you consider only the safety of the vehicle's pilot. Another perhaps more rational way to look at it is to look at how it affects the safety of all people. And then it's clear that the car is still more dangerous than the bike, even on infrastructure specifically designed for car safety above all else.

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As much as I hate that this is just unabashed kleptocracy dumping public funds into corporate coffers, I don't think it's good that the state is addicted to ruining people's lives for revenue and I'm kind of glad to see a shift here. But, not like this...

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I don't know what you mean. What is "the other thing?" I didn't reference any such. The existence of government management over alcohol and its taxation does not necessarily mean that money has to become "addictive" by going into general revenue. If the exploitation of vulnerable people is to be avoided, this money must go to strictly to dealing with the societal and personal effects of alcohol.

The same goes for government involvement with gambling.

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... aren't you angry??

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Yeah well, I prefer Tim Burton before he got happy.

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I feel like this is just enabling Microsoft.

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That's exploiting a power dynamic to force themself sexually on an unwilling person. That's rape. Laws don't define words, it does not matter what the definition of the crime of the same name is, that woman was raped.

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You just fucking said you weren't making a legal argument, that the term was not defined in the law in the relevant jurisdiction. But now that you realize you've crawled out too far on a shaky limb, you're still turning to "it's not my opinion, it's just the law!"

Doesn't work that way.

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He used his authority and position in the community to sexually exploit someone who was vulnerable and IN HIS FUCKING CARE BECAUSE THEY WERE A VULNERABLE PERSON. You're being such an asshole right now, how can you not understand that.

When there is a power dynamic, what might in another context be a simple conflict between two equal people completely changes in nature.

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Yeah well the rest of us really don't care if "all y'all" kill each other on the road so knock yourselves out

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When you argue for housing reform to legalize denser development in our cities, you quickly learn that some people hate density. Like, really hate density, with visceral disgust and contempt for any development pattern that involves buildings being tall or close together.

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People do not live in Downtown Toronto. It is that dense because it is the entire country's financial district. Residential developments cannot pay the premium demanded, it is all office towers. The tiny minority of Torontonians who can afford to and choose to live there are apparently willing to put up with that.

Residential density looks more like Montreal's walkup residential buildings.

Even if you could point out an example of density done poorly, you would have to ignore all the examples of density done well for it to be meaningful.

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I see you were having a bad day, my guy. Hope you're feeling better.

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Poor people don't need cars. So it saves a lot of money.

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