NENathaniel

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[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

Unpopular opinion, I agree.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

2001: A Space Odyssey

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'll prob get him votes depressingly, so I guess he's not wrong to do so

But it's a shame that we've let the auto industry brainwash so many people into thinking bigger and bigger car infrastructure is the only solution

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dude's banking on getting votes from people who don't know how traffic works

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry but this is wildly oversimplified. I walk and take an e-scooter almost exclusively and couldn't possibly hope to gather all the information about my city happenings.

Proposed plans by my councillors are often not posted on posters or billboard on my street, and the ones that are may not give me sufficient detail.

And aside from politics, cafe's a 60min+ walk away are never going to be advertising their events on my street lol.

Also yes of course far more people should go to council meeting in-person, but often work or other responsibilities can get in the way.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You realize you’re shaming people on Lemmy, the people who clearly already support a more privacy centric and less profit-driven approach to social media.

We don’t live in a Utopia where all 7 billion people have already followed suit, and shaming won’t help. Providing a welcoming community will.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lol what a silly statement.

I like being up to date on what my city councillors are doing, events my local cafes host, local art exhibits, etc. Things that have tangible benefits to my community.

If you can convince them all to share that content on Mastodon be my guest :)

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit has communities without active alternatives here 🤷

I have switched to using a WPA version with Adblock

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (13 children)

For staying up to date on my local shops and events, Facebook is just the easiest and more reliable option.

Not sure we should be shaming people about what social media they use lol

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How would you handle apartment buildings?

Making them all Condo’s possible I suppose but, there’d be a lot of poorly maintained buildings no one would want to actually own part of

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yea this isn't really believable to me for most cities.

In my Canadian city: "While each of the locations would have different operating budgets, the average annual cost is almost $111,759 per bed."

I don't get it

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my city the annual cost of a bed and support was about $80,000/year, not sure what's different 😅

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