Canadas family doctors apparently have the shortest residency in the world.

I agree. Do you feel this proposal doesn’t address that? My hope is that sibling communities would allow us to keep redundancy and diversity while still enjoying some of the benefits of sometimes coming together.

This is an incredible project. This channel has made me realize that the plain angular modernist aesthetic is really limiting.

It always drives me crazy that, in Canada and the US, there’s a “charming part of the city” and we all lament that there’s not more of them. We could, at any time, decide to build more, but instead we make it illegal, mostly for the sake of cars.

But, like you said, the foreign makers are also making big cars to comply with our corrupt pro-corporate regulations.

EVs are looking to be both more expensive and more dangerous. I have zero hope that they will be an improvement in any way except emissions.

We need weight and size based taxation to discourage big cars. More than that, we need to move away from car dependence.

Consumer preference is part of it, but car manufacturers have also intentionally stopped competing for the low end and small vehicle market. It’s textbook tacit cooperation.

During the pandemic, there was a chip shortage that led makers to prioritize high margin cars like trucks and luxury SUVs. Many makers decided that they liked being a low volume high price seller and just cut their lower priced cars altogether. If everyone does it at the same time, there’s no market mechanism to punish them. Many people can’t buy smaller cars even if they wanted. It doesn’t help that all of our car regulations in the US and Canada encourage this by having much weaker regulations for bigger vehicles. The whole market is a mess.

“Instead of seeking happiness, save money with misery”

ah yes, the 0.3 meters difference in car length makes this completely “dishonest”. Throw the whole thing out because they used 4.5 instead of 4.2.

I don’t even get your point about car following distance. A line of totally immobile cars bumper to bumper is illustrative of nothing. Using the ideal scenario for car storage is hardly “more honest”. I have no idea what is motivating all this weird nitpicking.

The comparison is completely honest. It is dishonest to pretend that trains aren’t generally full and a line up of cars ever are.

I wonder if this is more effective than just narrowing the streets.

Can someone explain this to me?

Edit: haha of course BotW. Didn’t make the connection. Thanks.

I was curious about this topic, so I looked it up and found this Atlantic article.

It begins:

if the purpose of academic grading is to communicate accurate and specific information about learning, letter, or points-based grades, are a woefully blunt and inadequate instrument. Worse, points-based grading undermines learning and creativity, rewards cheating, damages students’ peer relationships and trust in their teachers, encourages students to avoid challenging work, and teaches students to value grades over knowledge.

Also, to clear up a possible misunderstanding (that I had and others may have), getting rid of letter grades does not mean getting rid of evaluation. Instead, students are assessed on whether they are achieving/not achieving proficiency in specific skills.