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they are called coops

No they are not.

Of course coops exist in Canada but it’s not the same thing

That's fair, though I also think it's fair to criticize the use of BMI and acknowledge all of its flaws. Perhaps mr givesofmefucks is just stating this position but with harsher wording.

The alternatives to YouTube already exist, like PeerTube. The issue is lack of content and the critical mass to attract content creators.

So you also agree that studies point that BMI doesn't work very well in diagnostics? Because you're replying the statement with a boldened sentence agreeing with gp.

Or perhaps was the point that it's not true that "it doesn't really mean shit now" since the BMI still has some usefulness at the population level?

BMI is a somewhat valid indicator of health for most members of society, which makes it a reasonable population health metric.

That's a half truth to some extent. Muscle mass isn't the only thing that fumbles the BMI math. The calculation is also notoriously less useful for women in general, and for black/latino women specifically even more misrepresentative. And even outside those groups BMI isn't really a "reasonable" health metric by today's standards. But it ins't totally useless either, so I guess it depends on what we mean with "reasonable".

I don't disagree but TransLink is a top performing transit agency in North America and their governance has been pretty solid, so I'd focus the energy on lower hanging fruits like improving how the metro region and the province finance it more permanently for operating costs instead of just line expansions

Please use the correct headline for the post title. The original headline isn't bad, the chosen title is trash

I'm with you aspirationally but this is just a beaverton benign joke on language purists, nothing to be so angry about

Indeed I don’t disagree, I think it’s worth experimenting with this and driving fines look like a good place to start

I'm in agreement that we need systemic solutions, and those involve improving road design, so we agree for the most part on the most important aspect of this.

punishing people for being successful.

But issuing bigger fines for breaking the law is very, VERY far from punishing people for being successful. It's a correction of an unfortunate truth: if you're wealthy, you can afford to drive recklessly.

What does the top speed of a car has to do with how safe it is to go 10 km/h over the posted speed limit?

So let's push for that instead of pushing to remove cameras. In fact, proportional fines would probably increase the revenue, which would bring the funds to improve the road design so folks don't get the wrong impression of the speed they're supposed to be in. Also let's push for better transit so poor people are not forced to drive and risk getting fined.