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@Leader_Post @regina-leader-post-news-Leader_Post

More news on #Regina's elimination of #coin payment at downtown #parking meters. For those who missed the last episode of "Clueless Elected #Politicians Who Think Everyone Lives Exactly Like They Do", the city switched to electronic-only payments that (a) absolutely require you to use a cell #phone to pay, and (b) route all payments through a US-owned company that won't guard your personal information.

From the article:

> Council also approved #Mayor Chad #Bachynski’s suggestion to introduce prepaid parking
> vouchers as an additional option [...]
>
> The pre-paid vouchers are [...] offered in packs of five for $13.75 at city hall and are
> valid at any regular parking meter.

Note: you can't park at city hall without plugging a meter. So you'll need a parking #voucher before you can go purchase parking vouchers.

This price also means it costs three times as much to park for a half hour as it did previously. If you were used to running brief errands and only plugging a quarter into the #meter, it'll cost *twelve* times as much.

> “[The vouchers] are less convenient than the #app,” acknowledged the city’s director of
> community standards, Faisal Kalim, after the meeting. “Our message for residents is
> to download the app. It is a good system and it is a practical way to park.”

"You don't have a smart phone? Our message is just go get a smart phone."

#Arrogant asses.

#privacy #YQR #SK #Saskatchewan

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Atreides Feb 28

@nllgg Weet je wat het leuke is dat wat de #meter doorgeeft aan de #netbeheerder aan standen jezelf niet bij kan. Je moet dus maar vertrouwen dat het allemaal goed gaat. Zelf kan je dat niet controleren. Zelfs geen #email van we hebben een stand opgenomen met een interval. Wel kan je van de #energieleverancier een app gebruiken tegen betaling over jou data om inzicht te krijgen. DE WERELD OP Z’N KOP

General Strike Now Feb 4

Those who couldn't close for the day found alternative ways to pitch in, from selling out taco trucks to donating sales.#hp-top-stories #meter #retailnews #yahoo #spirits-newsletter #section:retail
‘Are you still involved in your community?’: Open or closed, here’s how Portland businesses fared during the nationwide strike

‘Are you still involved in your community?’: Open or closed, here’s how Portland businesses fared during the

Those who couldn’t close for the day found alternative ways to pitch in, from selling out taco trucks to donating sales.

oregonlive

General Strike Now Feb 2

Which Portland businesses are participating in the Jan. 30 general strike? This parent-owned Portland toy company sells perfect replicas of TriMet ...#hp-top-stories #meter #retailnews #yahoo #section:retail
Seattle-based outdoor retailer expected to close all North American stores

Seattle-based outdoor retailer expected to close all North American stores

Founded in 1920, the veteran retailer once operated more than 500 stores nationwide.

oregonlive

TOV Jan 31

Open Sound Meter is a sound measurement application for tuning audio systems in real-time
by Pavel Smokotnin.

#open #sound #meter

https://opensoundmeter.com/en/

Mx Verda Jan 30

We are mundane and biological.
We are gross and physical.
We are erratic and chemical.

We are beauty in math/s from minima-bound graphs.
We are dull and prosidical, sharper mit flaws a'full.
Cores of a corps, in course of a gull,
Not crows but stroll in a droll sort of form.

Encircle no pleading and suffuse your meaning to make plain your greeting: unfanciful fleeting as when now we live.

Concern yet afford to fear none aboard nor differ them shored. Let thus be adored!
And when we are not: let strain have forgot, rage unfair not wrought, and druthers yet taught.

Your pain and your rage and your fear and your shame,
your worries, woes, injury, illnesses plain:
Feel and let fall, befell any pall
by knowing or awe. (Be who Young!You sought.)

Your choices are yours of what will come forth.
(Now wait for commenters' witty retort!)

#poetry #poem #words #wordsing #rhyme #rhythm #meter #prosody #IDFK #literature #OrSomeShit

21 Sekunden - Der Podcast Jan 29

Meter / Kilogramm

Folge Zwei der Vier Folgen über SI-Einheiten. Wie lang ist eigentlich ein Meter? Und warum ist er genau so lang, wie er ist? Und warum wiegt ein Kilo einen Kilo? Das erkläre ich heute. Viel Spaß beim hören.

https://21-sekunden.de/2026/01/30/meter-kilogramm/

Meter / Kilogramm

21 Sekunden

🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉Nov 21

The International System of Units (SI) and the #meter, which is a fundamental unit in the SI system, both originated in 🇫🇷 France. The metric system, upon which the SI system is based, was first established during the French Revolution, with the metric system legally adopted in 1795 and the first prototypes of the meter and kilogram made in 1799. ⚖️🗓️ #FunFact 📚

Ethan Siegel Nov 10

How the “meter” came to be exactly one meter long In the search for a universal standard of distance, scientists have defined and redefined the meter over and over again. After centuries of change, this 1983 definition should last forever. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #physics #measure #meter

How the "meter" came to be exa...