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that just because the UCP received 54-ish% of the popular vote in the last provincial general election, it doesn’t follow that 54% of the population of Alberta is anti-trans.

It does mean that 54% is willing to promote UCP even though UCP as an institution is supportive of anti-trans politics. So while not everyone in those 54% might be anti-trans themselves, they are consciously supporting anti-trans politicians, and are effectively helping the anti-trans ideology.

Blind spots are blind because there's no direct path from any part of the bike to the driver's eyes. If the design is specifically worried about being in a blind spot, ironically the better design is to concentrate the LED power with narrow beam of light so the bike can cast light further away outside the blindspot.

Anyway, being in a blindspot is dangerous even for cars that have those ridiculously overpowered bright headlamps. When a driver says the "cyclist came out of nowhere" it just means the driver was driving carelessly. More lamps won't solve that.

Interesting idea but I'm not sure the benefit is worth the cost and the bulky gadget. Regular bike lights don't have such a narrow beam of light, unless by "regular" they mean the most laser-focused bike lights of the market. My two lights are pretty diffuse.

In what situations are said cyclists hard for motorists to see that a combination of normal bike light and high viz material won't work? Foggy day, cyclist and driver are perpendicular on an intersection? If it's foggy, the fog works as light diffuser. If it's not foggy, any piece of reflective material would do the trick... unless truckers are not turning on their headlights in total darkness, at which point normal bike lights are enough again.

Having spent that much time in a truck, he understands what makes cyclists difficult to see.

lol no, that's not how it works, there are professionals that dedicate their lives to studying vehicle lighting

Lift or Cardero's. Not because of the food, just because I'd want to enjoy the view.

Welp, at least it's a non-profit and the amount of people under care is increasing.

I'd say this kind of thing is in the best 1% of UCP moments, considering everything else. It's a low bar but still.

It's exactly as (un)secure as I expected. It's a wireless device made by bike part manufactures... can't expect better, realistically.

Still, I wouldn't recommend someone against buying one because of this. The threat model for cyclists is getting maimed by vehicles or psychopaths laying booby traps out there. Hackers messing with my gear shifting is the least of my worries.

I don't understand. Ending Translink to fund who?

If you're sure it's more than you'd expect, then you have some idea. You can just say how much you expect and then we have a lower bound to verify.

In any case do we even know who commissioned the poll? Might as well have been some institution with discretionary spending. Maybe I missed it in the article but it's not clear that this is government funded research in the first place.

How much money is being currently "wasted" on this? And how much of it is taxpayer funding that could be redirected?

IMHO Canadians are not significantly friendlier than most nationalities. At most they are friendlier than the average big-city dwelling Americans, and that's where the meme came from. Up until a few years ago Canada was a country of small cities, and these comparisons are all inherently flawed given the myriad of factors involved.

There is a LOT of conservatism brewing in Canada, and this hasn't much to do with friendliness. Some of the most astoundingly friendly people I've met were midwesterner Americans... and these same people were very bigoted in some regards. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.

Of course there's a theme, and big truck jackasses playing heavy metal with "Fuck Trudeau" & MAGA stickers abound. But visit an assembly from any affluent neighbourhood residents association and you will see highly educated and courteous old ladies parrot genocidal talking points.

Both, because what people believe to be true dictates their behavior and policies should account for that.

But in any case, we were not talking about policy. We were talking about "complaining" about policy. What I said is that it is helpful to "complain".

Complaining that it’s not preventing crime isn’t really helpful, since that’s not what it’s supposed to do.

It is helpful, because a large extent of the voter base does think that increasing the police personnel will prevent crime.