Skytrain in Vancouver, a Linear induction motor based metro system, has been driverless since 1985, without platform screen doors. There are cameras on each platform and a system to detect people entering the track area.

Hmmm, while they do their job investigating Trump, I'm wondering why don't Democrats just give him gaudy looking prizes and call him the best president ever, make AI Trump Jesus healing leper style paintings and a little money on the side to pass Medicare for All and other priorities? He is attracted to flattery, vanity projects and faux gold trinkets, he has no inner morals, so his signature on a bill might not be as hard to get as some might think...

Election night in 2024 was a downpour as well, funnily enough it does affect turnout in a measurable way.

People seem to be more interested in voting for a cardboard cutout controlled by a chaotic coalition of racists and billionaire bootlickers promising the moon along with tax cuts, rather than an imperfect but well-meaning leader with a good team and an ok platform, or a great leader with a good platform but an underdeveloped team.

It's not over til the last ballot is counted but I'm now just hoping for the best, preparing for the worst.

I'm not as cynical as you but there are grains of truth in your insight...

DRIPA and the Cowichan court case was tearing the party apart from the inside, the public sector union negotiations were prolonged fights that hemorrhaged labour support, whatever they did negotiate combined with US tariff-related economic slowdowns blew big holes in the already optimistic budget. The LNG pipeline stuff and deal with the feds helped with funding Massey replacement tunnel and some of the problems with the budget, at the expense of the environmentally-minded BCNDP cohort. I think part of Eby's calculation in calling the election is that he couldn't get much done over the next 2 years to enact his promises with his own slim caucus majority strongly divided.

In the face of a clear left-wing victory and repudiation of wealth-led politics in Vancouver, staying upset that the perfect Marxist party hasn't magically come together and marched into city hall, is definitely a choice.

When military leadership cares more about operational optics than servicemember safety or even at least operational logistics and readiness, this is the result.

The US military is strong, yes, but it's like as if the strongest person in the world were given a lobotomy, you can't do much with the muscle if your brains are MIA.

I think all parties were caught off-guard this time around. Anyway, I'll be canvassing in Yaletown today for the BCNDP which polls suggest is a tossup, so at least I can say I tried something to manifest the outcome I want.

Finally getting time to sit down and play Transport Fever 3

In terms of actual concrete action, I forsee nothing will be done about the other 9 questions. However, the 50-some percent yes questions will be a convenient basis for Danielle Marlaina Smith to continue with the "blame Ottawa for our problems" game.

It's not over til election night, and I voted on Wednsday, but unless there are a lot of latent voters that begrudgingly go out and vote NDP that haven't been polled, signs are not looking positive. BCCons may run the board in Surrey, they've spent a lot of time campaigning there and I think that's their ticket to power unless the NDP vote can get out there.

So if you're in Surrey, now would be a great time to GOTV.

Start the clock in January, Democrats will have 6 years maximum to legislate away the Citizens United loopholes and enaxt long-overdue court reform as well.

Huuuuuuh? I would have supported a Penalosa run but Bradford isn't listening, he's just running a vibe-campaign that is running on promising everything that crosses his ear without any plans to keep the city running well.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/20/indian-certification-authority-emudhras-private-keys-compromised-one-of-them-was-the-number-4/5304312

It was discovered that one of India's Trusted Certificate Authorities, eMudhra, tasked with signing website certificates to verify authenticity of HTTP traffic was using the number "4" as the signing key along with 7 other keys less than 250. The key is supposed to be a unique number hundreds of binary digits long, but with such a simple key anybody can spoof a certificate that they could claim was signed by eMudhra and CA-checking lists would accept that.

The fact that I haven't heard of any major webservice involuntary taken over so far makes me increasingly skeptical, though I can also attribute it to preemptive action, partially. I presume an exploit chain might come in concert with some other insecure configurations or some malware developed eventually, but it wouldn't be the first CVE with inflated scores in recent years.

Congress needs an Executive Babysitting Committee where they bring in Trump for questioning and answering to his administration's crimes every day with a rotating inquisitor. That should occupy him enough to keep him from doing dumb shit because on the weekend he'll only have energy to go golfing.

And it's also proof that a wealth tax doesn't harm Zuckerman's or any other billionaire's lifestyle by an iota.

If Ms Stiles knows what's good for the party, organize, organize, organize! Doing it once the OLP wakes up or close to an election is far too late.

Hey maybe we should expand my Executive Babysitting Committee idea to the whole swath of people that need their evildoing stopped by wasting their time!

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