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Baronjutter posted:Yeah, doing like 120 on a 90 signed highway when there's no one around to crash into is fine. But doing 50 in a 30 zoned neighbourhood street in a city is absolutely deadly. It's way easier to give tickets to people speeding on the highway than neighbourhood streets though, so the cops enforce where the money is rather than where the safety issues are. The biggest issue I've seen is in the "in-between" zones. Like in Calgary, coming out of Bowness on the Trans-Canada. Bowness is 50, and believe me, it loving needs to be 50. But then after the final traffic lights, it's 50 km/h for a little while before it goes up to 80 km/h. Lots of people hit 80 km/h right away, but it's not safe, because there's unprotected left turns across traffic and whatnot. Likewise, it's 80 km/h all the way out of town, until it goes up to 110 km/h. It would be mostly safe to do 110 km/h the whole way along, after the last set of lights in the city, except for the cases when it's not -- and you can't know if it is or not ahead of time. What really shocks me is the people who will do well under the speed limit on an expressway, then over the limit on a residential road. Or the people who will go 90 km/h on a 100 km/h highway, and then just keep trucking at 90 km/h when the limit drops to 80 km/h. I think one of the best choices I made was to simply stop speeding altogether instead of using "my judgement" as to whether it's safe or unsafe to do so in a particular place. It's just not worth the risk, and gently caress it, I fly planes now -- I don't want to get in the habit of casually disobeying rules and regulations, and if I feel the need for speed I can go burn avgas and smash bugs for an hour or two. I got lucky to never have an accident or a ticket, so I'm gonna step away from the table while I'm ahead.
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My favorite is the people who do 40kph through all residential areas, whether it's a 50kph zone or a 30kph playground zone. Speed limits do not average out. 
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May 31, 2017 23:30
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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cowofwar posted:Civil engineers design road banking, corners, materials and other factors around the signed speed. It isn't just a random number. Speeding is unsafe regardless of the absence of other traffic. Big expressways and highways in particular, civil engineers usually recommend different speed limits for varying conditions and vehicles and whoever chooses the speed limit (provinces and municipalities) pretty consistently lowball it. A guy had (has?) a topic about his traffic engineering career on A/T that talked about this a lot.
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PittTheElder posted:My favorite is the people who do 40kph through all residential areas, whether it's a 50kph zone or a 30kph playground zone. Speed limits do not average out. I've noticed similar things on the sea to sky. Lots of people drive 90 in the 100 zone, 90 in the 90, and maybe 80 in the 60 sections. I don't see why driving the limit is so hard for people. Also if driving the speed limit on the S2S cuts an hour off your time I think maybe you should slow down. It only takes a little over an hour to get to west van.
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maybe the average cat drives at the speed he considers being safe and doesn't mindlessly follows whatever the government tells him to do
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Guys on motorcycles seem to ignore speed limits around where I am. They also love to blare their loud rear end dickrockets at night or early in the morning. I'm certainly seeing poo poo like techbros saying "learn to code" or just general "gently caress you poor people" kind of comments. The only opinion I saw that I do agree is getting rid of tipping. It's used to cheat wait staff out of wages More than a few said "do what I did, move to Alberta" gently caress that poo poo. I don't want to move to some wannabe American province with tons of shitheads. Everyone I know who did go came back hating the whole experience or going full on racist. Seriously, one guy went to be a security guard in Fort Mac and came back and turned his Meme facebook group into "Muslims all deserve to die". Also, I really wish people would stop suggesting "go into the trades". Like not everyone is cut out for an office job, or retail, or food or whatever, not everyone is cut out for trades. I am way better at dealing with people than anything. So on a another topic, how much money is it going to cost to fix the Toronto islands and the Beaches? I live near Woodbine beach and its at least 80% underwater. While the weather has been poo poo lately, it won't stay that way, and a lot of people rely on summer crowds in both places for a lot of their yearly revenue (seriously, come to the beaches in winter and its a ghosttown). No ones going to either place if most of the location is unusable. Though I can just see the Sun now attacking it, becuase they hate everything. Except the Leafs.
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smoke sumthin bitch posted:maybe the average cat drives at the speed he considers being safe and doesn't mindlessly follows whatever the government tells him to do I guess we should have everyone just decide which laws they'd like to follow and which they shouldn't.
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twistedmentat posted:Guys on motorcycles seem to ignore speed limits around where I am. They also love to blare their loud rear end dickrockets at night or early in the morning. I have a really good friend from high school who also turned out pretty crazy and racist after a decade in Alberta. He was pretty socialist and progressive back in the day. This was a real shift. But white dudes who are pretty smart but don't do anything with their lives turning out angry is hardly a problem I can blame on Alberta.
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cowofwar posted:I do the 24 hrs crossword and sometimes I leaf through it and jesus gently caress is it an abominable lovely rightwing rag. There was some dude sucking Scheer's dick in words yesterday. Your supposed to balance it out by reading the lovely centrist rag the Metro! Do you ever read 24hrs' The Duel? I feel stupid afterwords but I can't help it, this loving goof's opinions are like looking at a car crash http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2017/05/28/katy-perry-a-useful-idiot-in-wake-of-manchester-bombing , like jfc the cold war's over charlie brown
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cowofwar posted:Civil engineers design road banking, corners, materials and other factors around the signed speed. It isn't just a random number. Speeding is unsafe regardless of the absence of other traffic. Civil engineers design the road for one speed, then politicians set the speed limit to some stupid lower speed. This creates situations where it feels ridiculous to actually obey the speed limit and hence why people tend to 'speed'. See: a shitload of BC highways.
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Engineers are dumb and politicians are bad, welcome to the last 100 years. Also every senior coming in to pick up prescriptions to day was freaking the gently caress out about the min wage raise. One even told me to my face "No offense but why would you deserve a raise that big? You just count pills!" There are days my patience and stupidity tolerance are greatly tested. Today was one of those days.
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Black Bones posted:Your supposed to balance it out by reading the lovely centrist rag the Metro! uh ah covefefe (the cold war is heating up again if anything)
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Furnaceface posted:Engineers are dumb and politicians are bad, welcome to the last 100 years. "if I count the pills wrong, you might die. have a nice day."
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Furnaceface posted:Engineers are dumb and politicians are bad, welcome to the last 100 years. Wait, you guys make minimum wage? Is that why you're so slow?
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I wonder how much of it is people who got hired at $20.00/hr twenty years ago, whose wages barely kept pace with inflation, not realizing how little their labour is actually worth today.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Wait, you guys make minimum wage? Is that why you're so slow? Thats kind of what made me mad. I already make over $15 an hour.
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Jordan7hm posted:I have a really good friend from high school who also turned out pretty crazy and racist after a decade in Alberta. He was pretty socialist and progressive back in the day. This was a real shift. But white dudes who are pretty smart but don't do anything with their lives turning out angry is hardly a problem I can blame on Alberta. He worked security at one of the oil fields so he was probably around lovely wannabe SEALs or something. Friends who were up there told me that the security they had were almost always people who failed to either become real cops or join the army, or guys who really, really wanted to exert authority. A lot of people are trying to crunch numbers, but they're all dismissing the idea that spending will actually go up, because, I don't know, they think poors are going to put it all in a mattress? Also they're going "And the government will get more money in taxes!" Uh yea that's a good thing because then they have money to spent on things like infrastructure, healthcare, fire and police (always bring that up because these types are always pro police beating brown people) and education. I want to know what these people think the government does with its money, yes it does things like a big duck, but it also goes into services you use all the time. but then I realize they're thinking that poors who don't have jobs will be living high on the hog because of this new fund. twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Arivia posted:uh ah covefefe (the cold war is heating up again if anything) With Russia sure maybe, but they ain't commie no more. That op-ed is saying that the real problem with isis attacks is . . the rise of marxism within our culture. loving nazi conspiracy theories, tyool smdh
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Terence Corcoran: Bernier didn’t lose the leadership, it was stolen by dairy-lobby fake Conservatives I hovered over the link to see what the real headline was and not your joke one. That is the loving headline, lol, in a national newspaper.
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I've never heard of a pharmacy tech making minimum wage what the gently caress.
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Excuse me, I will gladly and proudly vote for Niki Ashton. Baronjutter posted:I've never heard of a pharmacy tech making minimum wage what the gently caress. The entry level wage is $15.80 in Ontario, that's not minimum wage.
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Furnaceface posted:Also every senior coming in to pick up prescriptions to day was freaking the gently caress out about the min wage raise. One even told me to my face "No offense but why would you deserve a raise that big? You just count pills!" Hey man, you're the one keeping them alive way longer than god intended with all those fancy pills. "Just doing my job" didn't work at Nuremberg and by gosh it shouldn't fly in CanPol either. 
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My job is literally keeping the worst generation around longer to inflict more sadness and misery on the world.
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Furnaceface posted:Engineers are dumb and politicians are bad, welcome to the last 100 years. this is when you give them the wrong pills
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Furnaceface posted:Engineers are dumb and politicians are bad, welcome to the last 100 years. God forbid if someone is being paid below the poverty line they get a raise that will improve someones quality of life. This also improves outcomes for working families and their children. What I'm trying to say is gently caress you got mine I'm not paying 30 cents more for this POOR person WHO CHOSE to pour coffee as a career. MINIMUM WAGE isn't a career. 
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So I guess in 2019 post-docs will be making minimum wage
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cowofwar posted:So I guess in 2019 post-docs will be making minimum wage basically true today?
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Has anyone ever really noticed or significantly changed their purchasing habits because of a price increase of like a dime?
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Lightning Lord posted:Has anyone ever really noticed or significantly changed their purchasing habits because of a price increase of like a dime?
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Lightning Lord posted:Has anyone ever really noticed or significantly changed their purchasing habits because of a price increase of like a dime? Seniors. They probably still end up buying it anyway but not before complaining at the minimum wage clerk for 5 minutes. Combo of being on a fixed income / being mentally stuck behind inflation for about 30 years cause time subjectively passes faster the older you get combined with your brain getting mushy in general.
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Listen death is certain and no one gives a gently caress about sad brain seniors grumbling about cost of living increases because they vote conservative like clockwork no matter what. They could be declaring national hitler day is everyday and still vote for them so long as they get plush handouts that are dumbed down enough for them to understand.
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Nova Scotia News: Moron PC voters have decided that MacNeil's win was due to the NDP voters not voting PC and are stamping their feet and shaking their little fists
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Lightning Lord posted:Has anyone ever really noticed or significantly changed their purchasing habits because of a price increase of like a dime? The fact that this woman thinks a mild price increase will drive her customers to switch to Coffee Time or Tim Hortons pastries probably says everything you need to know about the quality of her baked goods.
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Lightning Lord posted:Has anyone ever really noticed or significantly changed their purchasing habits because of a price increase of like a dime? Around here, that would get the jerry can brigade out big time.
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smoke sumthin bitch posted:maybe the average cat drives at the speed he considers being safe and doesn't mindlessly follows whatever the government tells him to do idk personally I don't think cats should be driving at all
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The economy in Ontario will begin to collapse January 1 2018. We will now have two classes. Lower class and upper class. The middle class with be gone. I feel sorry for the people working our current minimum wage jobs that simply do not understand economics. You will not have more money after the wage increase, you will not have 'breathing room', you will also not be further ahead than you are now.... It's a little thing called inflation. ( which will be hyperinflation in this case), which actually further weakens the dollar and costs us even more money. For many people making 16-20 an hour, most will not see a wage increase. They will just become closer to lower class. Your $1.90 large double double will now cost $2.75-$3.00. Your big Mac combo that costs you $ 10 bucks now will be closer to $15. Your weekly groceries that cost you $150 will cost you $225. Anything that is less costly right now, will cost the most after January 1st. The government likes to claim they are bringing everyone up to middle class but that's not true.... Actually it's simply impossible. Our economy was never structured for everyone to be able to live freely and debt free.. For people like myself whom have busted their asses to do well and earn more in life this is nothing more than a kick in the face. For those who spent 60k+ and dedicated years of thier life sitting in a classroom, all will the hopes of doing better in this life this is even a bigger kick in the face. Here we have the liberal government hard at work. Rewarding people for nothing, removing the middle class, increasing the debt load and again.... Crashing the economy. Moving to the US has never looked this
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source your quotes
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vyelkin posted:Moving to the US has never looked this vyelkin's based brother from another mother.
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Or maybe it's just that the middle class was an accidental creation of the economy's performance before and directly after World War II, the capitalist system was always only supposed to have two classes, and we've been spending 50 years trying to have our cake and eat it too rather than fix the system?
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My favourite part is "Our economy was never structured for everyone to be able to live freely and debt free" as if that's just The Way Things Are instead of a reason for us to change the way our economy is structured.
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