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EvilJoven posted:A few days ago someone was driving and texting and t-boned an SUV and the SUV got catapulted on top of a cyclist. She's in critical condition. Good chance she'll die. I doubt the driver will get so much as a suspended sentence. I loving hate cars. Eh, accidents happen, just a good ol' innocent accident. Can't blame a person for an accident, that would be a war on cars. Accidents are guiltless and totally unpreventable through both infrastructure design and driver training,, pretty much an act of god like a flood or a 13 year old drowning in the grain silo of his family farm. Maybe we could stop them but the costs are just too high.
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You don't want to sacrifice jobs do you?? We have to protect them at all costs!
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I want a more Draconian criminal justice system for the things I dislike, and a more rehabilitative criminal justice system for the things I do like.
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What the gently caress is rehabilitative about the consequences of injuring or killing someone with your car being everyone going 'poo poo happens' and doing next to nothing?
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the trump tutelage posted:I want a more Draconian criminal justice system for the things I dislike, and a more rehabilitative criminal justice system for the things I do like. Death penalty for white cishet men, community service for queer black women.
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Baronjutter posted:Eh, accidents happen, just a good ol' innocent accident. Can't blame a person for an accident, that would be a war on cars. Accidents are guiltless and totally unpreventable through both infrastructure design and driver training,, pretty much an act of god like a flood or a 13 year old drowning in the grain silo of his family farm. Maybe we could stop them but the costs are just too high. What is it when a woman sleeps, her head bright In your lap, in your hands, her breath easy now as though it had never been Anything else, and you know she is dreaming, her eyelids Jerk, but she is not troubled, it is a dream That does not include you, but you are not troubled either, It is too good to hold her while she sleeps, her hair falling Richly on your hands, shining like metal, a color That when you think of it you cannot name, as though it has just Come into existence, dragging you into the world in the wake Of its creation, out of whatever vacuum you were in before, And you are like the boy you heard of once who fell Into a silo full of oats, the silo emptying from below, oats At the top swirling in a gold whirlpool, a bright eddy of grain, the boy You imagine, leaning over the edge to see it, the noon sun breaking Into the center of the circle he watches, hot on his back, burning And he forgets his father’s warning, stands on the edge, looks down, The grain spinning, dizzy, and when he falls his arms go out, too thin For wings, and he hears his father’s cry somewhere, but is gone Already, down in a gold sea, spun deep in the heart of the silo, And when they find him, he lies still, not seeing the world Through his body but through the deep rush of grain Where he has gone and can never come back, though they drag him Out, his father’s tears bright on both their faces, the farmhands Standing by blank and amazed - you touch that unnamable Color in her hair and you are gone into what is not fear or joy But a whirling of sunlight and water and air full of shining dust That takes you, a dream that is not of you but will let you Into itself if you love enough, and will not, will never let you go.
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EvilJoven posted:What the gently caress is rehabilitative about the consequences of injuring or killing someone with your car being everyone going 'poo poo happens' and doing next to nothing? Arivia posted:Death penalty for white cishet men, community service for queer black women.
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Stickarts posted:What is it when a woman sleeps, her head bright Jesus, is this a real Atwood poem?
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EvilJoven posted:A few days ago someone was driving and texting and t-boned an SUV and the SUV got catapulted on top of a cyclist. She's in critical condition. Good chance she'll die. I doubt the driver will get so much as a suspended sentence. I loving hate cars. This poo poo is so infuriating. This morning they said stable but still critical - so still a chance she may die. I saw the video and this loving vile rear end in a top hat just runs the red. To save 30 seconds? maybe? FUCKERS! The same goddamn morning I am driving and twice people just changed lanes in front of me with no blinker - zooming in and out. I get so angry at this poo poo. Last month I was coming home and saw someone run right through the red going at least 90 (it was an 80 zone and I couldn't keep up to her at all when I made my turn). I honestly felt like following her and screaming to smarten the gently caress up and if it was goddamn worth running a red to potentially kill someone. gently caress THESE ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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# ? Jun 2, 2017 17:34 |
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This is why red light cameras, random and sometimes obscure speed limits and massive ticketing in Winnipeg makes me smile, gently caress all Winnipeg drivers. I actually had a friend argue with me that that making texting and driving illegal is more dangerous because now he can't have his phone up on the wheel to text and has to hide it.
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# ? Jun 2, 2017 17:36 |
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No actually the obscure speed limits and red light cameras actually don't help with safety because people are so busy focusing on their speedometer and trying to spot the speed limit signs that they aren't paying as much attention to their actual driving. They also end up having to stop and start at intersections a lot more, increasing the risk of collisions, because traffic gets all stop and go because the lights are timed for 60 or 70 in some sections and everyone's doing 50 because they didn't see the single speed limit change sign that's hidden by a tree. This city needs better signage, speed limits that make sense on the main thoroughfares and lower speed limits on residential side streets. And speed bumps. I love speed bumps. As long as the city makes the effort to paint them orange so they don't blend in.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Jesus, is this a real Atwood poem? Written by a "TR Hummer". If it was Atwood, the father would have been impenetrable and distant, the woman would be internally sexually conflicted and have an eating disorder, and there would be awkward similes everywhere, like seagulls at a garbage dump.
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Arivia posted:Death penalty for white cishet men, community service for queer black women. Dickapitation for park loving
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# ? Jun 2, 2017 17:47 |
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Today I was entering Deerfoot Trail (the main highway running through Calgary for any unfamiliar, 100kph limit), and heard one hell of a grinding noise to my left. I look over, and there is a pickup truck dragging a brand new barbeque along the road, only thing securing it to the truck was the random plastic wrap around it. That's my
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EvilJoven posted:No actually the obscure speed limits and red light cameras actually don't help with safety because people are so busy focusing on their speedometer and trying to spot the speed limit signs that they aren't paying as much attention to their actual driving. They also end up having to stop and start at intersections a lot more, increasing the risk of collisions, because traffic gets all stop and go because the lights are timed for 60 or 70 in some sections and everyone's doing 50 because they didn't see the single speed limit change sign that's hidden by a tree. gently caress off no pays attention to their speedometer in Winnipeg, everyone just does 70km/h an hour and hopes for the best That's the same bullshit argument people use against 30km/h schoolzones, ohhhhhh it's not safe because I have to watch my speedometer to make sure I don't go over 30. If you can't go 30km/h without watching your speedometer you shouldn't be loving driving. DariusLikewise fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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e: I had something else here but nah. I've become attached to this avatar though so no complaints here Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Sep 10, 2022 |
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Here the moment you see Alberta plates you know they're going to swerve in and out of traffic while doing the 20 over the speed limit. From what I've gathered the policy on school zones in Alberta is to speed up as fast as possible to get through them before any children might be crossing.
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Jordan7hm posted:e: I had something else here but nah. Wear it with pride
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BGrifter posted:Here the moment you see Alberta plates you know they're going to swerve in and out of traffic while doing the 20 over the speed limit. From what I've gathered the policy on school zones in Alberta is to speed up as fast as possible to get through them before any children might be crossing. In Victoria every time a driver has left me wide-eyed in disbelief for the sheer brazen speeding and reckless aggressive driving it's been alberta plates. Passing in the oncoming lane on a double yellow in a school zone because they've gotten road rage having to do 30 for a few min and then have to slam on the breaks because children were using a crosswalk around the corner but blasting thier horn at them anyways? Alberta plates. Running a red doing about 80 in a 50 zone and nearly taking out someone finishing up their left turn then honking at them? Alberta plates. Taking their truck up onto the sidewalk and through a bike lane because they didn't like that people were doing the speed limit then peeled out through a red? Alberta plates. A long continuous rage-honk because you correctly stopped at the stop bar of an intersection you can't clear due to gridlock? Albeta plates. They seem to get instant road rage the moment they're forced to ever do the speed limit or below for any reason, and the idea that bikes and pedestrians exist is personal affront. Not that Victoria drivers aren't bad, boy oh boy are they bad, but they're not bad due to rage and entitlement they're just old and stupid. Just last night me and my wife were nearly crying laughing at this lady trying to parallel park her car in front of our apartment in a huuuuge spot and after 15 min just gave up and left her car about 1.5m from the curb, she also made contact with the car in front and behind her during her fruitless maneuvering.
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every time they have to tap the brakes they're reminded of the devil Rachel Notley putting the brakes on prosperity in Alberta
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THC posted:every time they have to tap the brakes they're reminded of the devil Rachel Notley putting the brakes on prosperity in Alberta
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Seeing the number on their speedometer go up reminds them of rising oil prices, and the good times. Seeing the number go down brings back the bad memories and the anger.
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New Coke posted:The full text of Mulcair's comments aren't as bad as they've been painted, but "Homolka has paid her debt to society" sounds like a sick joke. Is he, like, at all aware of the circumstances around her sentencing? Meanwhile, Rosie DiManno literally advocates criminally harassing her.
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The Butcher posted:Seeing the number on their speedometer go up reminds them of rising oil prices, and the good times. Seeing the number go down brings back the bad memories and the anger. Also explains the rising BAC on a breathalyzer.
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Hey speaking of killing children, you'd think I'd link to Rosie DiManno's hot take on Karla Homolka, but I refused to click on it so have this instead: Ottawa spent $707,000 in legal fees fighting decision that protects Indigenous children The Toronto Star posted:Ottawa spent $707,000 in legal fees fighting a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal order since January 2016 that insisted they stop discriminating against Indigenous children, according to the attorney general’s office. Unfortunately, this article isn't terribly clear on what's going on besides the usual Liberal foot-dragging. Have they actually funded all of these programs that should have been approved in the first place now or what? Is that $382.5 million being spent now? It says "up to", and we all know that can mean absolutely gently caress all.
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BGrifter posted:Here the moment you see Alberta plates you know they're going to swerve in and out of traffic while doing the 20 over the speed limit. From what I've gathered the policy on school zones in Alberta is to speed up as fast as possible to get through them before any children might be crossing. Well actually *pushes glasses up* Edmonton school zones are 30 during school days and are constantly monitored by the police.
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Stickarts posted:Written by a "TR Hummer". If it was Atwood, the father would have been impenetrable and distant, the woman would be internally sexually conflicted and have an eating disorder, and there would be awkward similes everywhere, like seagulls at a garbage dump. This guy gets it.
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eXXon posted:Unfortunately, this article isn't terribly clear on what's going on besides the usual Liberal foot-dragging. Have they actually funded all of these programs that should have been approved in the first place now or what? Is that $382.5 million being spent now? It says "up to", and we all know that can mean absolutely gently caress all. I haven't seen much detail on how much of the funding has been used, or how. Probably very little.
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I enjoyed this tweet. https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/870718547105853443
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eXXon posted:Hey speaking of killing children, you'd think I'd link to Rosie DiManno's hot take on Karla Homolka, but I refused to click on it so have this instead: Sunny Ways and all that, they will probably pull a Harper and budget funds to a department and then ask that department to spend nothing and give the funds back at the end of the year to create a better looking bottom line. Leofish posted:I enjoyed this tweet. Conservatives do have a sense of humour!
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The one time I had to drive through Calgary I saw I poo poo you not four accidents and almost got driven into like three times.
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HookShot posted:The one time I had to drive through Calgary I saw I poo poo you not four accidents and almost got driven into like three times. Yeah, our drivers are awful. Just today, I saw a guy stop on the X by the C-Train tracks, get hit by the crossing arm, and then promptly back into the person stopped behind him.
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# ? Jun 2, 2017 21:22 |
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It's kind of easy to spot the bad drivers lovely raised truck, confederate sticker, loud/no muffler, drives way too close to others, alberta plates Just give them a wide berth so they can slam into a semi instead of you
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PT6A posted:Yeah, our drivers are awful. Just today, I saw a guy stop on the X by the C-Train tracks, get hit by the crossing arm, and then promptly back into the person stopped behind him. ... Was it you?
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HookShot posted:The one time I had to drive through Calgary I saw I poo poo you not four accidents and almost got driven into like three times. Got cut off by two pick up trucks doing 130 on deerfoot this morning as I was driving to work. It occurred to me that while I grew up in this city, I'm thinking we should firebomb cowtown and scatter her people to the four winds.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:... Was it you? It was not.
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Fried Watermelon posted:lovely raised truck, confederate sticker, loud/no muffler, drives way too close to others, alberta plates I would support genuine police state style legislation as long as we were using it to crack down on these idiots in particular.
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PittTheElder posted:I would support genuine police state style legislation as long as we were using it to crack down on these idiots in particular. There's already a lot of laws in place regarding vehicle noise and emissions they are so so rarely enforced. I'd lower the noise threshold and do a big crackdown.
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The best is when it's an off duty cop in the loud truck
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