If you are a teacher, your job is to do everything possible to ensure your students don't fail, especially if they are working hard. People have already dropped out of the program, and I think this class is probably one of the biggest reasons why.

Another professor, on the other hand, has been so awful, disorganized, and caused me so much stress I want to leave the program. He doesn't believe in accommodations without the letter from UBC. He announced to the class on the first day that students would fail.

That professor was very organized, and graciously gave accommodations during the ridiculous 8-week wait to meet with the Office of Accessibility at UBC.

I'm working on my master's in landscape architecture at UBC. I just found your work and would be interested in meeting some time to talk about the intersections of infrastructure and landscape.

Building actual sovereign AI is something Canada should be capable of given the skills of its researchers in the field. Why rely on Open AI and be yet more beholden to a country that has threatened the sovereignty of Canada?

Because NYC is the country's largest city and metro area by far and the home of its news media.

Don't have NYC envy. And I'm not sure MARTA is even vaguely comparable to MTA.

But really most people don't care about your visionary leadership skills that aren't that interesting anyway. It's boring. If you're going to share something, stop playing main character and think about the quality of information you're sharing with other people.

Also I was pregnant around this time too. I remember transit was dangerous for me as my pregnancy progressed because I had to practically yell at people to give me a seat when I was seven months along. I just started taking a car everywhere so that I'd be safe if it was too far to walk.

The taxi system was horrible and they weren't playing by the rules. Lynn Breedlove and others started Homobiles around that time so queer people have safe transportation in that city because taxi drivers were so bad.

In California at one time it was Republicans opposed to gerrymandering, because of how bad it was in that state due to Democrats.

This shouldn't be a partisan issue. All people have a right to fair representation, even if I disagree with them.

And what on earth is up with listing Democritus? This just shows you these people have an issue with science. By listing David Hume, they just are showing they have a real issue with empiricism.

I don't approve of what Uber has become or all the unregulated gig economy mess, but the early instance of it was a welcomed thing in that time and place.

Uber was a very particular solution in SF at the time. Transit in SF could be really unreliable on some routes (I remember once walking two miles before a 22 Fillmore showed up). Taxis in SF wouldn't go to parts of the city or would harass certain passengers (Homobiles started as a result as well)

What an odd grab bag of humanity they listed there. Ayn Rand and Dawkins are about as intellectually grabbing as a puddle of vomit, while Chomsky and Foucault have contributed so heavily to the intellectual growth of humanity.

And the result is a a world of pure enshittification.

"Build more houses" out here is stupid. Build more housing, yes, but building more single family housing in areas such as WA that don't need more concrete, and in CA where available land is probably a fire trap? That is a really dumb idea.

The mythos of efficiency in that state is ridiculous. It's never been efficient. Given the proliferation of news stories and gossip remembered from childhood, efficiency is only generated from a generous infusion of cash.