u/Straight_Park74

ATTENTION CITOYEN !

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ATTENTION CITOYEN ! ATTENTION !

Ceci est le Comité central de l'Office québécois de la langue française. Votre historique de navigation et votre utilisation de mots anglophones ont attiré notre attention. VOTRE ACTIVITÉ EN LIGNE A ATTIRÉ NOTRE ATTENTION. Vous avez été surpris en train d'utiliser un anglicisme sur le subreddit ! Ceci est un avertissement, vous avez commis un crime grave !

-100 credits sociaux (points de francophilie) ont été déduits de votre compte Hydro-Québec !

C'est une opportunité importante pour tous nos futurs citoyens. Cessez l'assimilation immédiatement. Stop the english ! Ne recommencez plus ! Si vous recommencez, davantage de crédits (-11115 points) seront soustraits de votre profil, entraînant la saisie de vos rations de sirop d'érable. (Redistribuées par le Ministère du Québec). Vous serez également envoyé dans un camp de refrancisation au Lac-Saint-Jean.

Pour la gloire de la Charte ! Vive le Québec libre !

Je reviens qu'un 2 sem de road trip dans les maritimes passant par la Gaspésie.

Quel splandeur qu'on a chez nous. Pas besoin d'aller en Europe ou aux États-Unis pour voir de la beauté. En plus, on ne cuit pas à 35°C, c'est plus frais, mais c'est pas nécessairement une mauvaise chose. Et on évite de la pollution en sauvant un long voyage en avion.
Il y a des magnifiques plages et on peut en profiter amplement si on choisit une journée avec la meteo favorable.

Gardons notre argent chez nous surtout dans le contexte avec les États-Unis.

Plus, je vous conseille de chercher de petits hotels/auberges, et réservez directement avec eux. Évitez booking.com et autres, du moins pour faire la réservation. Vous allez probablement payer pas mal le même prix, sauf que 20-30% de commission va dans les poches d'une multinationale au lieu de l'établissement. J'aime autant que mon argent aille directement dans les poches de la business locale. Et c'est souvent pas mal plus simple de rejoindre l'établissement directement que de devoir passer par un intermédiaire en cas de problème.

Bref, si vous vous demandez où aller en voyage, considérez rester chez nous.

Not too long ago I saw a pt on:

• 3x100mcg/h patches, and 1x25mcg/h patch, at the same time.
• PLUS hydromorph contin 24mg twice daily + 12mg of hydromorph contin at night.

t wasn't even OUD, it was (catastrophic) chronic pains. 1080mg MME/day

I saw some stuff I thought was already high but this beat even the palliative care or cancer patients I've seen so far.

What's the highest you've seen?

I'll be vague in some things I say to not dox myself.

I grew up in a North American suburb that was very much car-centric. The car was always the only default way to move around. Anything else was either if you have literally no other choice or leisure.

There were nice bike paths (not on the road, in the forest and all) which I used a lot in my teens to bike for fun. I enjoyed it, but never biked for commute, besides once or twice for school when it prevented me from waiting 2 hours from a ride (but there was a huge hill and I was way too lazy to do it regularly).

Now I moved to a medium size city (500-900k population). There's acceptable public transit, "not great, not terrible". For North America it's probably getting a B grade. Covers pretty well, decent frequency, always late also.

My daily commute is 4 km. By bus: around 30 mins, with 1 connection. By car: 15 minutes, with traffic. Walking: maybe 50 mins. And by electric assisted bike: not even 12 minutes on a good day. Thankfully my city has pretty good bike infrastructure, with bollards, paths, etc.

Again staying vague not to dox myself but my job essentially forces me to pay for a monthly transit title, but at a discount. This got me using it since it was already paid for anyways. Cuz why not, saving, might as well use my car less, and not bother with paying parking.

I've found myself spending 2 weeks not using my car. Which where I come from, would be actually impossible. And I love it. The most annoying thing is being stuck in traffic, what a waste of time. On the bike, no such problem. On the bus, I can actually do something else while waiting.

Now, to travelling: I had the opportunity to go to Japan and I was mindblown. Literally not even once did I need to use a car in 3 weeks and I never felt stuck at all. Busses, subways, tramways, trains, affordable and NEVER late. Everything close, malls within the same building on 11 floors. It was absolutely heaven mobility wise for me. In the large cities I visited, very good pedestrian infrastructure, and a city smaller than the one I live in had a friggin tramway wtf.

I also visited relatives in Eastern Europe. In a small rural city of 10000-20000 hab, away from the sea. I spent again 2 weeks using a car maybe once or twice. From where I was staying (house): the store, hospital, grocery store, pharmacy, etc. all within less than 15 minutes of walking. Dystopian 15 minute city we've been hearing about lol. No biking infrastructure, but pedestrian infrastructure was OK (sidewalks, lights with signals); a "poor" country with even better than in my own North American suburban area. Surprisingly, drivers were very respectful of pedestrians at crossings in my experience. And it certainly wasn't because of police because it seemed to be a rule that was more consistently respected than, say, wearing a seatbelt or talking on the phone.

Anyways these two trips kinda opened my eyes to how shit it is to need to drive 10 minutes through 15 different stop signs, to drive 4 km to just go to the grocery store.

Biking is peak. In my city I think it's the best, it gives me independance, it is usually faster than public transit, and avoids parking fees and traffic entirely. I absolutely love it. Only downside is weather, and I usually try to use the bus or sometimes resort to my car, but only exceptionally.

My realisation is:

If my job never forced me to spend like 40$ of my paycheck on a transit pass I probably would've stayed a carbrain my whole life and never realized real alternatives existed arounds me. Also, if parking hadn't been expensive and there had been little to no traffic, there would've been no incentive to change my behavor.

My take now: lets make more bike lanes, more pedestrian infrastructure and way more reserved lanes and public transit lines or systems. Make it good. And then unleash absolute hell on cars. Public transits needs more users to get better. Less lanes, slower speed limits, poorly programmed traffic lights, just make it so fucking painful that people give it up. Expensive parking, expensive plates. Tax cars and use the taxes to subsudise absurdly cheap public transit, like 20$ per month or some shit

You want a pick-up truck for nothing? 1500$ per year to renew your license place, going straight to public transit. Fuck it, cut all the fucking lanes and turn them into bike lanes. Heck, make 4-lane bike highways and turn these 8 lane boulevards into 2-lane constant traffic jams with a reserved lane for busses.

Nothing will change habits like forcing it. It's the only way.

Plus honestly it's such a great public health policy: less pollution, way more physical activity for everyone, in a time where health is at it's absolute worse.

Now I find going back to my childhood place incredibly depressing, spending an hour per day in a car anytime I wanna go somewhere outside of my neighborhood.

Btw, not to get too deeply into politics, I'm not partisan and would say I have a very open mind to change. I'm more of a right wing guy for sure though. But I voted for the "CRAZY COMMIE" who will turn the entire city into bike lanes at the city election. And I'm very pissed off at the liberals in the Canadian government... because they removed the tax on fuel temporarily. Lol. If you made it that far thanks for reading

Edit: typo