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hot take: There should not be any area in the country that only allows detached SFHs. Townhomes, duplexes-triplexes-quadplexes, and 3-4 story walkups should be allowed everywhere in the country. If you start making exceptions, everyone wants an exception. Just open it up everywhere. Make these buildings as fast and easy to build as a detached SFH.

And before anyone complains about parking, we massively overbuild parking everywhere. Even in most of Vancouver, you can often find parking if you are willing to walk one or two blocks away. And before people say we first need more public transportation, I hate that the lack of density supposedly justifies not building public transportation, but the lack of public transportation also justifies not building density.

The "front page" of lemmy, either the local of the instance you're on or the "all", is pretty bad. Low quality, uninteresting, obscure, sometimes vaguely rude. News about small video games, hyper specific gripes, obscure memes, uninteresting articles with no comments. Compare that to reddit when it was good, which reliably emphasized the biggest world news stories, genuinely interesting user anecdotes or personal stories, academic knowledge (especially AskHistorians), videos or images that grip you, etc. I'm not sure what the issue is with lemmy's front page. Is it an algorithm problem? Something to do with federation? Is the user base merely too small for now and this will improve on its own with more engagement?

It's too bad because the "front page" is the user's first taste of lemmy. Most users will browse without making an account for a while before finally making an account and subscribing to specific communities.

In general, I think lemmy is already great. There are starting to be lots of cool communities, and even if the quantity is lower, the quality seems to be higher.

I often hear this repeated, but I've never seen any evidence for this claim. I'm a highly educated immigrant to Canada, and I can't imagine ever going back to the US. And it's not like most immigrants can just easily shop around for other countries.

Can someone more talented than me set up a bot to automatically post local CBC articles here?

ah, I see what you mean now. Yes, Vancouver is MUCH more dense than Calgary. But Calgary isn't just sprawling, they also deliberately planned for more housing supply throughout the city, including more density. Vancouver and the LM have not implemented such a plan.

Technically yes, but in spoken french the "ne" is often elided. "Je l'ai pas lu" is perfectly normal spoken French.

To disambiguate between "ne plus" and "plus", the "s" at the end isn't pronounced in the negative, and is pronounced in the positive.

I think there needs to be some disambiguation.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop One is literally a train. They themselves call it a train. I guess the idea is that they're small individual cars (called pods) instead of a chain of train cars connected together, which seems really energy inefficient.

Elon Musk's Hyperloop is a train for automobiles, which has all the inefficient downsides of a personal car, with none of the energy benefits of a train. It is the worst of both worlds. And it relies on car infrastructure at both ends, so it will bottleneck just like a highway on/off ramp. Completely nonsensical.

Maybe I need to test it more, but I wasn't very impressed. The output images were fine, but it didn't seem to use the reference sketch much at all. Did others have the same experience?

These people are not vermin. Social housing should be distributed across the city, like it is in Helsinki, Tokyo, and other successful models, instead of concentrated into a ghetto of "undesirables". Every city that segregates itself like this in the name of "safety" causes problems in the future.

Vancouver geography is not that constrained. Land use is just very bad. The classic Vancouver skyline is a surprisingly small area. It's surrounded by SFH suburbs. The Lower Mainland has tons of strip malls and parking lots due to car culture. It's not a lack of land, it's a bad use of land.

• BC Lower mainland: 36,000 km^2. Population 3 million.
• Netherlands: 41,500 km^2. Population 17 million.
• Belgium: 30,500 km^2. Population 11.7 million.
• Switzerland: 41,250 km^2. Population 8.7 million.

These countries are not Hong Kong. They have nature, a mix of big cities and small towns, and lots of low density areas. Switzerland is a famously mountainous region with lots of untouched nature and rural areas.

haha I thought it was a good question!

There is a pinned post on this community. It reads:

Firstly, the issue of donations. Since the inception of this instance, your most frequent request has been the ability to make contributions to support my initiative. While initially, I had never intended to accept donations, I’ve come to realize the value this brings in ensuring our platform’s sustainability. In response to your requests, within the next week, I will be introducing several options for those of you who wish to donate. I want to emphasize that these donations are entirely optional and will directly support our instance’s operational necessities - dedicated hardware, colocation fees, email services, and more.