You know what I think is a sign of a broken culture?

holding on for dear life to government-run rail networks

no matter how many obvious practical reasons why these are not a good investment

the kinds of people who hold on to wishful thinking about the technology are the worst

I love trains, I love riding them, I think they're really cool, and they're great for freight.

But nobody wants to pay what they cost for passenger carriage, nor should they.

if you spend the same amount of money adding a motorcoach-only motorway or some similar thing

you *still* save money the first year, second year, etc.

U know what one funny similarity between Canada and Belarus? When people travel to botch countries, they surprised how good it looks, and how clean it is. And when u tell locals about that, they like `yeah, yeah, u should live here a couple of years and then come back to me`

heheh

what do you think they're getting at there?

that people will get used to it?

sounds like they wanna tell u to not judge a book by its cover. like the country is great and all, but it has tons of underling problems, few of which u can't even discuss, cause u'll get in trouble

heheh

well, those people are also kinda the problem

it is currently possible to discuss these things

but if they continue not to, it will soon be impossible

I have a legitimate fear that in five to ten years, shit I've already said online could be considered some sort of twisted human rights offense.

and that I could be retroactively punished for it

true, in Belarus u could endup in jail, but still :]

Belarus is a different matter

different types of problems

i did my 60 days in prison back in 2011 lol

but well... even in Belarus you can *sort of* talk about *some* things.

but yes

you must leave Belarus and never come back

if you want to be honest about what you don't like about it.

that's not yet true in Canada

but I am concerned that it will become that way the more people expect it to be

maybe JBP will be able to save Canada

yeah, maybe some actual force will be created behind all of that intellectual renascence

meh

the modern west is the best place in all of history and geography to be a man

BUUUT

some things which make that true are eroding

which is why it needs work

Windows is the best operating system for playing modern AAA PC games.

and it has advertisements in the start menu

Canada and the U.S. have advertisements in the start menu

despite being #WestIsBest