thomas

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Your particular commute might not be feasible without a car, but many are. Adding bike infrastructures allows those who can commute by bike to do so, while freeing space on the road for those who can't..

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 hours ago

Most people will think traffic behave like water that you need to send through a network of pipes. It is not, traffic is made of humans and humans reactions will make traffic behave wildly differently than waters in pipes.

  • Some people and businesses will move next to the new highway for its supposed ease of access, creating traffic
  • some people might change their habits and go shopping to this place instead of that place, or getting a job far away from their home (or a home far away from home)

The exact reasons for the increase in traffic is complex and my example could be totally off. But we don't need to know the exact reason for the increase in traffic, we know it happens because it has been observed on every road enlargement projects in the last decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Je sais pas, j'ai pas pensé pour l'instant

Ça résume assez bien

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It's a survey, so it relies on the surveyed to tell accurately the date they meet and how, so I won't be surprised that the line here is incorrect.

Or maybe they refer to using classified ads in the newspaper or over of those "romantic meeting agency" (I don't know the name in English, in French it is agence de rencontre) that existed back in the day

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Attention, on ne peut pas additionner simplement les résultats des Européennes et espérer obtenir un chiffre réaliste pour les législatives. Il y avait environ 52% de participation aux européennes et on peut supposer sans risque une plus grosse participation aux législatives.

Où iront les voix de ceux qui n'ont pas votés aux européennes est une inconnue encore plus grande.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That is the one billion dollars question that every one at Silicon Valley is asking.

We now have a clearer answer to that. We know that the answer they are looking for isn't whatever this thing is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] draw for me a poster indicating that a Quebec business is closed for Patriots day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Great use of the Nazi flag : seized from the enemy, thrown into a pile of junk.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Basically all i kno about haiti is: only country to successfully throw off colonizers

Not exactly. Other countries have done that (the US for example). What sets Haiti apart is that they are the first and only successful slave revolt. Slaves gained their freedom through revolt, which terrified every nations that used slaves (basically every Western powers and their colonies at the time).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Nope : you work 20 days and get paid 5

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I just finished a pouch to protect my mechanical keyboard when I go to the office. There is a very visible unwanted fold on the front and the magnet button is off center, but I love it.

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