Affordable housing can still be profitable to the land/building owner, It just isn’t as profitable. Under our capitalist system line must go up and profits come before providing enough housing for all.

How the hell does luxury=affordable to build. Affordable housing would be cheaper to build wouldn’t it?

What they meant to say was “we have built luxury housing because it is more profitable”

I’ve climbed with 10 year olds and 80 year olds. Ive climbed with people who could climb 8 hours straight and those who can only do a few routes a day. So long as you have a good attitude, climb safely and respect others you will likely fit in fine at your local climbing gym.

I get by fine with a 2wd car. Unless you are rural you can usually manage unless weather is bad enough to justify canceling your work/plans. Winter tires are defintely a must but you don’t absolutely need 4x4.

I miss my bouldering gym so much. It was always a great vibe there and people from all skill levels could climb together, chat, help each other out. Any time I went intending to climb alone I still ended up chatting and making friends because so many people are just friendly and happy to be there

Where I moved to has a proper climbing gym but it isnt the same vibe.

Flavoured tobacco (and nicotine pens/juice) is more appealing to young people, especially those who aren’t educated on the risks and haven’t developed self control.

Part of the problem people have with these large trucks is many of them rarely carry more cargo than the cargo capacity of a sedan. Is the extra fuel, maintaince, bigger tires and upfront cost really worth it to move 2 or 3 over sized items a year?

We get if you are hauling trailers, equipment or tools frequently but many people buy these trucks just so they can commute to an office job or other job that doesn’t require that power or capacity.

How much of that wealth is tied up in ridiculously inflated home values?

That will only work if the teacher accompanies the videos with critical thinking skills including fact checking using multiple sources and asking “who stands to profit from these messages?”

I agree, everyone thinks cars, bikes, buses, and people all should follow the same line along the same corridor. Having bike lanes seperated more can be very benefecial and helps seperation without need for physical barriers. For example a road could run down the center of a commercial area, with a dedicated BRT lane, and bike/ped pnaes closer to the businesses or even a seperate enterance/laneway behind the businesses dedicated to people.

But most of North America thinks a painted bicycle gutter along a busy road, crossing many car intersections and entrances is the best we can build.

What animals are being killed to harvest vegetables?

I see where you are coming from there. My comment is mostly concerned with north america and our street/road design and layout is awful. There are many school zones where cars could easily exceed 100km/h if the driver wanted to. Because of these deisgns I think it is best we keep cyclists and pedestrains as seperated from cars until better street design and traffic calming can be massively implemented. The scale of the street redesign is massive and would have to be city wide to be truly effective.

An easier and cheaper start to pitch politically would be proper bike lanes along major corridors. A few years down the line streets along those lanes would improve and the city could slowly redevelop.

I wish I could just snap my fingers and have safe streets but stroads and the attitude of driving is so bad in much of north america we are going to have to fix it in stages. We can’t just convert our stroads overnight unfortunately.

As a kid who vacationed around various natural and themed resorts like this, I distinctly remember feeling like I had way more freedoom than compared to home due to how easily and safely I could bike anywhere. It was often easy to meet other kids as many of them were enjoying the same freedom.

A better option is to make seperate intersections for cars and bikes. Bike lanes do not exclussively have to run right next to the car lanes.

The victims involved in crashes aren’t always rich. People in other cars or pedestrians and cyclists can be injured by these mistakes.

Thats why cities should build seperated lanes so cars and bikes mingle as little as possible

I wonder how much energy google wastes on its AI service in the regular search just to give me a worse answer than the top results I was actually looking for.

A city where everything I need is within 15 minutes of walking? Whats so bad about that?

I walk to my grocer frequently (1-2 per week) in northern ontario and have no difficulties due to snow or ice. I use a small backpack and some cotton bags to carry my grocceries. I have a nice coat and good boots.

Compost with weekly pick up while garbage is picked up every 2 weeks seems to be effective in my area. Since food waste smells quickly in the regular garbage most people use the compost to get it gone faster.

Others will complain about how stupid the city is wasting thier tax dollars and failing to collect their piling up stinky garbage all while refusing to recycle or compost any of their garbage.