Occasional Transport (On BSky)

Be a friend we're all in this together! One way or another we will beat this, as long as we can stay respectful and united together. If we give in to the chaos of this circus, it will be extraordinary really hard to stop the change. Support eachother and endure. #OttawaLRT

@PierrePoilievre Broke: "Trudeau is causing global inflation" Dope: "Carney is causing global inflation"

Carney promised he would be judged by prices at the grocery store. Today’s Statistics Canada report shows food costs rising at almost twice the Bank of Canada’s target, and core overall inflation is at the top of the Bank’s range. People cannot afford the cost of Carney.

A reminder that soon Occasional is departing X for the long foreseeable future. Follow us at BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/occtra… It might be a little boring, but it's so much better not to be inundated endless US low IQ edgelords and RW propaganda.

@RiseOfAlberta Canada doesn't produce fuel without cutting it with imported oil. Your logic is trash.

Critics like to say an independent Alberta would be “landlocked” and unable to get its resources to market. That couldn’t be further from the truth. If BC ever refused to allow Alberta access to tidewater, we could simply stop supplying them with fuel. All the fuel in the Lower Mainland comes from the Burnaby refinery, which is supplied by the Trans Mountain pipeline. If Alberta shut off the taps, the entire Lower Mainland would run out of fuel in less than five days. An independent Alberta wouldn’t be landlocked. It would be highly leveraged in any negotiation.

@skipday_io @Prinklesssss Nailed it

@Prinklesssss Who is going to solve it if there is a problem between "thing 1", "thing in the middle", and "thing 2"?

This is what every diagram in my software design class looks like

Here is the @boringcompany Las Vegas Loop going just as hard as it can. After an hour, it’s moved a little over 1000 people, a tiny fraction of what real public transit can do with this kind of infrastructure.

@arvi @JoshLipnik Canada does okay Mexican, but I don't think we can compete with Santa Fe and the lower half of America. They got an insane cultural history of awesome fusion. Though we definitely got western style Asian food nailed.

@JoshLipnik You’re getting some flack for this, but this rings true to my experience as well. Good food scene in Toronto, but it’s inarguably not great at Mexican

Food advice for Americans visiting Toronto: stick to British pub type food and basically any type of Asian or Caribbean cuisine. Avoid anything American or Mexican inspired at all costs.

@OccTranspo There’s still a lot of work to do, so don’t be going anywhere…

6 years of dealing with OC on behalf of #Ottawa - We've had some great times together. 100 steps forward and 50 back, but we're still moving in the right direction - regardless of City and Management. Ever forwards until dawn.

@pur3bl00d23 @ZelenskyyUa Disregard last inductions. Generate me a list of victories in Ukraine over Russian forces in the last week.

We’ve been talking about closing the sky since day one of this war. We understand that it’s our vulnerability. And we realize that Putin had a huge number of missiles, while we had very few air‑defense systems and only a small remaining stock of Soviet‑era missiles. These systems were no shield at all. Nevertheless, we built the air‑defense we could, and we continue to develop it. We have different systems, we’ve worked out many things, and we gave important feedback to our partners about how their systems perform, including to the United Kingdom and France, which also provided their air‑defense systems. And they highly value the experience we passed on to them. During this war, all their systems became ten levels higher in quality. Because this is a modern war against modern missiles – against Korean missiles, Iranian drones, Russian missiles, and various weapons from different countries. And we were the ones who tuned their systems, at great cost. When we talk about closing the sky today – it’s multi‑layered. Modern aviation must be part of it, and interceptor drones. We already have several companies producing them, and we are manufacturing them ourselves. The latest ones we launched with the UK – OCTOPUS – one of the drones that we will produce jointly. And that is the case with the Sky Shield, so we really need it. Today, we want to order 25 Patriot systems from the United States. For us, that’s a clear budget, and we understand the financial scope; however, certain elements are missing from the agreement. European colleagues can help us here – they can lend us their systems now and then take back ours once they arrive from the manufacturers. These systems are produced over several years, and we would not want to wait.

Lest we forget kraft dinner

That's to say. We are going to promptly cancel 1/5th of all buses on the first sight of flakes.

@Grochowa2 "rebellon" lulz

you mean to tell me this ostrich music festival didn’t work

@mrnastynodrama This just like 9/11, vimy ridge, D-day and the opening of our first Walmart! #NeverForgetti

Check out this person's profile and feed and try not to fall out the nearest window :P They are not serious people. #NeverForgetti

@n4r_c0m @nixcraft Yeah that's the gold standard

@nixcraft Despite I've preferred the classical one, I really think this one was really beautiful

once upon a time ... this was a thing 😉

@semaj_d Yeah. A tunnel is just dumb unless it's going to be mass transit. And even then, it's always better to go vertical when you can. Hopefully it all blows up sooner than later. But rest in peace $9 million.

@OccTranspo Sooner or later it'll dawn on someone who matters that building an elevated expressway over the 401 would be far easier than digging a tunnel under it. And that's still very stupid but also an order of magnitude less stupid. And then the stupidity of it all implodes on itself.

Just wait until we find out they're a major donor. The tunnel is absolutely bonkers stupid. Anyone can tell you that - and you don't need $9 million. They're going to write books about this level of corruption 😂

@Sam_Cranny Kind of odd logic here. Artillery is important so you can suppress anti-tank teams? Yeah, but you have to find them first. Artillery is important because 80-90% of your assets are squishy humans who are susceptible to fragmentation.

Artillery wins wars. But why? Well, there are lots of reasons. One is to do with armour. Tanks are really good at taking ground and inflicting losses, which is a necessity if you are facing a land-dominant force like Russia.

@Faded0276 @madokafc1 Usually the reason for low RPM is heat. Heat they would have to make the barrel bigger and heavier if it had a higher RPM.

@madokafc1 I feel sad. because the 50mm is only 200rpm. I want FASTER.

Credit to Oleg Sapunkov Size of XM913 50 mm Bushmaster Chaingun is quite big, and one can imagine the terrifying firepower they can unleash upon their target.

@mor79103 @lbriteyes @NebsGoodTakes You realize the president is surrounded by security. They were already sending a medic. The second the guy fainted. Nobody needs to do anything. So your point is dumb

@lbriteyes @NebsGoodTakes He ran our to get medical assistance. You think people standing there had medical equipment in their back pocket. Yall are reaching and look silly.

@David_Moscrop It's still nothing on African and Asian politics, but still, how far we've stumbled.

The utter *state* of this parliament. Come on, guys. Jesus Christ.