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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • driver’s education

    100% this.

    I got my permit about 10 years ago at age 32. In Quebec, classes are mandatory now so I had to do them. It is absolutely insane the number of dangerous and stupid decisions I see drivers make when I go out on the road. Changing lanes while turning because you go too fast to keep in your lane, stopping in the middle of roundabouts to give priority to someone waiting to get in, taking an exit from the fast lane cutting every one without looking at the last second. Going too slow on the middle or fast lane on the highway or too fast inside school zone, not even bothering to do a rolling stop, turning full speed in residential areas onto bike lanes… Just a few…

    Speed is not the main cause of accidents in my book, unpredictability is. Go at the speed of the traffic or even a bit faster but be predictable, put your fucking blinker on when you turn and when you change lanes, don’t stop in the middle of the road to be nice to someone but do stop if signage says you must and if for a reason you absolutely need to stop or slow down fast because traffic or something dangerous in front of you, put your hazards on to warn people in the back. If you go fast, take to the fast lane and do slow down when you cross people in the middle lane so that you get time to react if they do something stupid.

    My driving instructor told me one thing that stuck with me. Drive as if everyone is trying to kill you. I believe it saved me from a lot of accidents and the one accident I got into was because the other driver tried to exit from the left lane while I was in the right thinking for some reason that I would stop to let him pass when we were both going 50 kph.






  • I work in the gaming industry and every week I receive emails about how AI is gonna revolutionize my job and get sent to time wasting training about how to use Figma AI or other shit like that because it’s the best thing ever according to HR… and it never is obviously.

    At best, it’s gonna make middle managing jobs easier but for devs like me, as long as the “AI” stays out of our engines and stays into the equivalent of cooperative vision boards, it does nothing for me. Not once have I tried to use it for it to turn actually useful. It’s mediocre at best and I can’t believe there are game devs that actually try to code with it, can’t wait to see these hot garbage products come on the market.






  • GRS Montréal does nothing to keep that monopoly they’re simply the only provider for that type of care in the province and the province doesn’t care enough about us to invest in a public solution. We’re a niche population with niche needs and so they believe it’s fine to handle us this way.

    Was I treated well at GRS? Yeah. Did I wish I had options for such a life changing surgery? Absolutely. I would have chosen another type of surgery if it was available.

    But in the end, to me, the main issue with trans care in Quebec is more about the blind spots in the coverage than the monopoly of GRS Mtl…