Paul Nijjar's Internet Landfill -- Firehose

Against Forester and Also Zealots So the Not Just Bikes guy recently dropped a scathing critique of some guy named John Forester, who strongly advocated for something called vehicular cycling.

On Mamdani I am resentful that I have paid so much attention the New York City mayoral election, but here we are.

On Winter Although the weather is nice now I am in dread.

Supply Management is Okay, Actually If there is one thing conservatives hate it is supply management.

A Home is Not a House I have no doubt written about this before, but (lucky you) I'm writing it again.

"I Hope" Means 'I Do Not Want to Get Involved' When somebody says "I hope you are well," what they mean is "I don't wish you harm, and also I don't want to get involved with your drama."

'Feel Free' Considered Harmful Sometimes people will solicit input or questions or reviews using the words "feel free".

Riding After Dark I used to have a strict rule when cycling: I would have to be back under the light of streetlamps before dark.

What is AI Good For?

Weird Al Creative Categories, Ranked During the pandemic, "Weird" Al Yankovic's collection of cover songs during his 2018 "Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour" was one of my repeated listens.

Mediocre You may have noticed that the quality of my blog entries has diminished.

Disabling AI Results in DuckDuckGo So DuckDuckGo has introduced AI assisted search results.

No Regret Software Sometimes people talk about "dark patterns" -- user interfaces and system designs intended to trick people into acting against their own best interests.

Lately I have been listening to a lot of Volts, a (mostly) good-news podcast about energy transitions.

COVID-19 Five Years Later Everybody else did their five year retrospectives two months ago.

Federal Election Postblather People are celebrating Mark Carney's victory.

One Vote MMP Whenever some government (like that backstabber Trudeau ) dangles the promise of electoral reform in front of the Fair Vote zealots, the Fair Vote zealots immediately rips themselves to shreds with internecine warfare about "the best voting s…

Federal Election Preblather I am writing this the Friday before the federal election.

Wishful Thinking 011: Lower the Voting Age We should lower the voting age.

Air Travel is the Only Acceptable Mass Transportation For some reason we accept any number of limitations when travelling by airplane than we do any other transportation.

Content Cadence One of my many failings is that I am a completist.

Carney and Freeland So the federal Liberals had their leadership convention on March 9, and Mark Carney won in a landslide.

Cycling is No Longer Enjoyable Over the past couple of years cycling has become less and less enjoyable.

Poilievre via Peterson It very much looks like Pierre Poilievre will be our next prime minister.

More Inflation I do not know whether it has been the US Tariffs or the end of Trudeau's GST holiday or just plain greedflation, but I have noticed that many of my junk foods have jumped in price over the past couple of weeks: City Pizza slices used to cost