It's one of the things that made me prefer using Linux a long long time ago. It's nice to be able to rename, move, and delete files while they are used.

It was difficult to accept but after talking with a therapist, and years of being discouraged every time I talked to her, I made the same realization and stopped telling her about most of my life. Everyone is much happier if we don't talk about this. Otherwise she will tell me I took all the wrong decisions and that I should have stayed miserable because that's how it works.

She (and all of her family) is afraid of pretty much everything. So as soon as you can secure a job, you keep it; for life! Even if it destroys your body or your mental, you have a job so keep it! Don't go to school, it's just a waste of money. Don't look elsewhere because it's not going to be better anyway. It's even causing conflict in her family because one of her sister is a nurse and is "too educated". They consider her snobbish.

It's my mother, I love her, but I can't tell her anything or it's going to be worse for both of us.

The Route Verte network is great, but just like Germans wanting better trains, I want better cycling infrastructure too. Most of the dedicated network is made out of rail trails. Even new stretches that are opening are because of disused rail lines being converted to rail trails, which in a way does make excellent bike paths. However there's a lot of parts shared with cars and you have to be very careful with the network and the map. Sharing with cars to connect two parts is fine in small residential streets, but not on provincial roads in rural areas.

For example, there's a Route Verte between Montréal and Gatineau but it's just an itinerary on provincial route 148 where cars are zooming around you. There's three Route Verte itineraries between Montréal and Québec City, but none are entirely dedicated. And yet, I know that a network like this is not very common in North America, or even in other parts of the world. I'm very grateful to have what we have. Some parts are beautiful and very much worth cycling. Just choose carefully.

Also, what's helping me a bit is being in Montréal, I can take advantage of the suburban Exo trains to access paths that are a bit far. The St-Jérôme line is very popular for that reason and there's always a few cyclists with panniers in every train. So I'm wondering, is this something also possible from Toronto? Is it possible to take a GO train to Barrie or Hamilton and explore a few paths from there?

AFAIK they did that because of GSM interference and the phenomenon mostly disappeared not because those cheap little speakers are mostly extinct, but because the technology used by cell phones changed. In fact, GSM is being phased out in most countries.

That reminds me of a story I saw about a handicapped athlete in Montreal's metro. He was literally dragging his wheelchair while going upstairs and holding to the handrail.

He shouldn't have to do that but the metro here is only partly accessible, and not his station.

Add a handrail and this might be for him.

Even the ghost in a candle story?

If you consider god as capitalism then it makes sense.

J'ai un moins gros jugement sur l'avion car c'est quand même un transport collectif où les gens ordinaires sont cordés comme des sardines pour un voyage qu'ils ne feront que quelques fois. C'est difficile de prendre l'avion pour aller au dépanneur, à moins qu'on soit milliardaire.

Of course. It was so predictable. And by Drainville, which has no qualifications to be there.

Plus, he's the fucking idiot that literally cried because at some point his stupid conservative party said it might not build a 10 billion new bridge/tunnel in Québec city. Which is BS because they really wamt their damn new bridge instead of funding schools and hospitals.

Fucking corrupt and incompetent CAQ. We laugh and think Americans are stupid for electing Trump and Republicans but the Québécois re-elected Legault and his conservative right leaning party.

Les mots me manquent pour exprimer à quel point je déteste la CAQ et ses acteurs. Je me souviens du jour ou ils ont été élus, en discutant avec ma soeur et en se disant qu'on venait nous aussi d'élire un populiste de droite. Criss qu'on a juste des osti de partis de droite qui sont élus, ou bin des fanatiques linguistico-religieux, avec le même criss d'opportuniste Drainville qui passe d'un parti à l'autre pour bien étaler sa marde et son incompétence. Pis on vote pour ça!

L'humanité ne court pas à sa perte. Elle y va en voiture.

Seeing how we also do this with public transit, hospitals, libraries and other public services, this point of view is disappointing and unfortunately very prevalent. The only thing where we can dump billions without ever asking if it's profitable, is roads. We can expropriate and build a 4 lane highway extension in the middle of a corn field for a little half a billion, multiple times, but funding hospitals, schools, public transit, clean water, the mail... ugh, such money pits!

Whatever you do, they will slowly lose their original colour over time and a patina will form.

As long as Zombo doesn't learn other languages he'll be able to cherish that accidental flattery.

It's less romantic to be called an hominidé.

EDIT: Yes, AN. French is cool enough to have to types of h. A mute one and an aspirated one. They both are not pronounced, obviously, but the mute one must be linked as if the words were starting with a vowel.