Isn’t the constant ignorance of global warming and funnelling money into fossil fuels basically “weather modification”?

Funny how people hoarding all the money and preventing it from getting back into the economy are choking out the economy and crippling the country.

Who knew parasites did this to their hosts?

Wtf, has this idiot forgotten about what it’s like getting stuck behind a cyclist on the road?! Absolute brain-rot.

Oh we knew, then we voted him in a second time. Fucking surrounded by idiots here.

Speeding is inherently a human problem because speed limits are a human constraint. There’s no reason why we should have 4 lane roads (2 in each direction, sometimes even with a middle turning lane) at 50-60km/h. There’s also no reason why they should be going from 80 down to 50-60.

Like literally right on the curb, sometimes on the road edge of the road itself, making it incredibly difficult to see around them when making a turn.

It’s next-level stupid. Like should some dipshit lose control of their car or take the turn too sharp, that person is fucked.

This is more “fix the symptom instead of the problem” though I do agree that we need better pedestrian infrastructure.

That’s fair, but easy to do: don’t have the cops issue tickets for driving slowly on days where there is inclimate weather.

Depends on how often the camera needs to be repaired/replaced and where the money goes for the tickets it writes.

Cops need to start ticketing:

• people changing lanes without indication
• people turning without indication
• people driving in the inside lane when they’re not passing
• people who take more than 2 seconds to react to a light change
• People following bumper-to-bumper forming left-turn trains through yellow/red lights
• People who take more than a few seconds to get back up to speed

And also:

• Pedestrians who stand on the edge of the curb at the corner waiting for the light to change so they can cross
• Pedestrians standing literally on the edge of the road at the corner waiting for the light to change so they can cross

Instead of wasting money on speed cameras and reducing speeds, we should be aggressively ticketing distracted drivers and pedestrians, and people who struggle to reach the limit in the first place.

I don’t think there was any distraction. We had two shit choices and NDP. And since this country fails to elect NDP time after time, it was a given that we were pretty fucked. The main difference during this election between the parties that I saw were:

1. The Liberal platform didn’t contradict itself every point or two

2. The Liberal platform focused a lot more on domestic tourism, accessibility, and making it easier to transport our own goods across provincial borders.

I don’t see how bill C-5 fits into any of the platform they put forward.

I think it’s for show. “Look, we tried. The problem isn’t Canada.”

If that was true, then we wouldn’t see people bitching about the cold while I’m out in a t-shirt and jeans in 50°F weather. Seems fucking stupid to base a measurement system on something so subjective.

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Nah, there is no strawman in my point. Speeding is not an issue - especially on streets that have gone from 80 down to 60. Of everybody on the road, speeders are the least of my concern, even before I had my license though back then there was also far more bitching about slow walkers, too.

Sorry you don’t have the reaction speed to handle driving a vehicle at a moderate pace. I hope you stick to side streets for your own safety.

Nah, I’m advocating for people using the currently designed system to not be a bunch of slow and distracted morons.

The topic of completely gutting current city Laputa and restructuring them to be designed for pedestrian traffic at the forefront would be ideal, but was not the topic being discussed.

Sure, if you’re going to make the city fully designed for pedestrians and cyclists, with proper public transit connecting cities that would be fantastic.

Shit, Europe also has the Autobahn, but we’d be fucked if we tried to have a highway like that over here.

Hundo, and if the person I let in front of me drives like shit, I’ll hope that there isn’t also an idiot blocking me in so I can get around them.

They can’t understand, much like they can’t process things when driving 80kmh. They are, no doubt, one of the people doing the limit in the inside lane with 0 intention to pass the car beside them and get back into the appropriate lane.

But here they are telling us how everybody else is a problem.

Boy, nothing gets by you eh? I was pretty overt from the get-go that I tend to drive slightly above the limit when it is safe to do so.

As for people who can accelerate and people who speed being the biggest danger on the road, I’d say the people retarding the flow of traffic, the people who expect us all to be psychic and know when they’re about to change lanes without a blinker, and the people turning left on a long yellow light or sneaking in behind on the red are far, far worse.

It’s difficult living in a world of mentally slow people who can’t process for shit, so there’s no sense trying to argue with you here. Just keep driving like a putz and enjoy the fact that while you can’t grasp the concept of a blinker or reaching the limit, cops are aggressively going after people who can reach limits and are able to process things at an above average rate.