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How a Toronto police complaints officer belittled a criticism about bike lanes — and why advocates say it’s a problem

“When you do see a police car in the bike lane and they walk out of a Tim Horton’s, that’s not a good look,” she said. “I personally think that those police officers should be held accountable because that’s not right. But again, it’s not my job to police the police.”

Your job title is "parking enforcement officer" who the fuck else is going to do it

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I’m not trying to destroy art, says man planning to do just that if Assange dies in jail

Instead, the artist added, he is trying to spark a discussion over why “destroying the life of people means nothing but destroying art is a huge taboo in the world”.

I always feel a visceral hatred of the narrow definition of art as 'technically impressive paintings'. This act is itself art, it doesn't have to be for everyone.

Yes the threat is permanent and destructive, it kind of has to be, that's the point.

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PSA: Don't just eat peanut butter

The quantity doesn't seem right to me, a normal american peanut butter jar is about 2 pounds. I feel like if the only thing you eat in a day is peanut butter that by itself would be about a half a jar right? Calories would put it at ~1/3 a jar for daily caloric intake but obviously you're going to overshoot if you're eating straight peanut butter. Half a jar in a week just doesn't sound that crazy to me, thats barely over 2 servings/day.

Also peanuts are low in oxalates compared to other nuts. The number I keep finding for a low oxalate diet is 100 mg/day. Apparently 200-300 is a typical amount. The highest number I found is 20mg of oxalate to a tablespoon of PB so 2 pounds a week is only 160mg/day unless I messed up the math.

*I think what happened here is OP is either predisposed to kidney stones and is generalizing the special diet they should be on to everybody else or is just overweight and leaving out that detail since everything I'm reading about NAFLD is that it's caused by obesity not oxalates.

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Noise Pollution ruins quality of life

I wish I could find a city that actually enforced noise ordinances against loud vehicles. Every city I've lived in has been way too fucking loud for me to handle, so now I have to drive everywhere because the alternative is live in a city and be driven insane by noise pollution.

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Just kind of makes sense no?

When solar farms are more than like 0.01% of land utilization then maybe its worth caring about.

For the same land you can power a household or get like 14 pounds of beef. who cares.

Just install solar panels where its cheapest, which is going to be an empty field where you can install a ton and get better labor efficiency during the install. Making green energy more expensive to install only benefits fossil fuel companies. ::: spoiler back of napkin math

Average household is about 10000 kWh annually Solar farms conservatively produce 350MWh/year/acre

so 1/35 of an acre to power a home

roughly 3000 pounds of soybeans per acre becomes roughly 500 pounds of beef/acre.

500*(1/35) = 14.2


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