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Hot Karl Marx posted:It was $1.65+ in southern Ontario yesterday for me closing in on 1.60$ in Ottawa but not quite there yet. Bit cheaper on the Quebec side? maybe proximity to Montreal a factor
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Vintersorg posted:please dont bat signal the gun nuts from these very forums who gently caress and cum in them Maybe we'll finally get decent snow plowing of walking and cycling infrastructure when gas hits $2.50 this summer barely comes back down next winter and people are faced with either going broke just to commute, getting stabbed on the bus, or bundling up and getting there under their own power.
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Unfortunately my commute takes me on Wellington Cres and no matter how bad it gets I'm cursed to encounter an rear end in a top hat threatening to run me over with their Audi at least once per day.
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Remember at the start of covid when gas was $0.67
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EvilJoven posted:Maybe we'll finally get decent snow plowing of walking and cycling infrastructure when gas hits $2.50 this summer barely comes back down next winter and people are faced with either going broke just to commute, getting stabbed on the bus, or bundling up and getting there under their own power. this post is mostly a joke but try last time gas prices jumped suddenly when Iraq kicked off there was a demonstrable reduction in GHG emissions for severally years. silver lining (not serious please don’t take this seriously)
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Karach posted:I completely agree with your take on the aesthetics of gun ownership. hell if I know. I originally wrote that post back in 2020 when the Liberals were first doing their big list of gun bans in response to the Nova Scotia shooting, and I haven't followed how it's progressed at all since then
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vyelkin posted:hell if I know. I originally wrote that post back in 2020 when the Liberals were first doing their big list of gun bans in response to the Nova Scotia shooting, and I haven't followed how it's progressed at all since then The amnesty ends next month and there's still no information on the compensated confiscation that was supposed to roll out. It's more or less playing out as expected, with the prohibition simply being a way to get votes and appear to be doing something while not having any sort of plan or actual effect on crime.
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Nice post, vyelkin. It's all fascinating stuff to see how the aesthetics argument stacks up. As someone who used to be a huge gun nut (ironically those were mostly my airsoft days; when I got my PAL and real firearms I cooled off significantly), I know some of the arguments and the whole "the RCMP just looked through an issue of Soldier of Fortune and banned stuff that looked scary" have large nuggets of truth to them. But it's disingenuous, borderline bad-faith arguing, to use that as a primary point of contention as to "why I should be able to own this thing." You can't even use the classic Mini-14 vs. AR15 argument anymore because the Mini-14 is banned now too. There are plenty of things that make an 'assault rifle' what it is that any reasonable person with access to statistics would agree increases their potential for dangerous misuse. As someone upthread mentioned, it's peculiar that we expect gun laws (really, any laws) to be perfect in their application. We have waiting periods and background checks to reduce crimes of passion. We have magazine capacity limits and don't allow cyclic fire to make it (just a mote bit) harder for any potential mass shooter to send out dozens of projectiles in seconds. We have ATTs and rules about storing ammunition separately for similar reasons. We don't let you own a loving rocket launcher for exactly the same reason. On the flip side of that coin, something Karach mentioned above about the ease-of-use of the AR platform is important: How easy it was to hit that gong target multiple times. These are guns that were designed to make being an infantryman easier. They're lighter, more accurate, easier to handle than their battle rifle predecessors, and any competent instructor can take an untrained person and in about a day or so make them relatively accurate at range. You can say "yeah but it's a great varmint rifle" for the same reasons, but the tool exists to make killing multiple people significantly easier. Dance around the nomenclature all you want, we should be making such tools harder to acquire.
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Gun nuts being very particular and mad about incorrect terminology just makes me think of a kid telling his grandma that it's a playstation, not a nintendo.
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Oxyclean posted:Gun nuts being very particular and mad about incorrect terminology just makes me think of a kid telling his grandma that it's a playstation, not a nintendo. call a bullet container a clip. I dare you. or a cartridge a bullet.
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ban all guns up to and including the NES light zapper just for the posts IMO. Super Scope 6 must remain legal tho 
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The SNES Super Scope isn't an assault rifle because it doesn't have a rifled barrel
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Karach posted:call a bullet container a clip. I dare you. [slowly and with great enjoyment] a cartridge is a bullet
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Actually prior to may 1 2020, it was entirely legal to own rocket launchers, anti tank rifles, grenade launchers etc. Except owning explosive ammo was banned First I own guns  But if the government wanted to ban certain firearms for being very mass shooting-able they should be able to put out the criteria that makes them that way. So it's clear what is being affected rather than it becoming a popularity contest of banning certain guns by name/look every year because it's the most popular gun. I did disagree with vylekin back when he first posted that long post because the ban by name just shifts the problem to a different firearm, and ad infinitum. I do agree with coxswain that it's the LPC issue to gain votes without doing anything to make Canada safer. C-71 hasn't been fully activated yet after its passage in 2019 (so important to gun safety but spend 3 years not actually implementing it), the OiC banning certain firearms is reaching its amensty expiration date on April 30 2022 where people will become criminals for the crime of waiting for a government buyback or grandfathering (guns too dangerous for people to own, but they can keep them until they die), and the delay yet again of the firearm marking regulations to 2023 because they couldn't figure out how to make a long gun registry using it (a joint CPC and LPC boondoggle juggling since 2004). Every time a gangster shoots at each other with prohibited pistols, the government needs to ban certain named rifles by what they look like to protect Canadians.
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:gas about to skyrocket. Russia just announced cutting off all oil and petroleum products to US Link? I can't find this.
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even if it is/were true would it really matter? it's 3% of the us supply, they get 61% from canada alone second-order effects might be more likely
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Hand Knit posted:[slowly and with great enjoyment] a cartridge is a bullet 
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It rained on the pipeline. Better jack up the price 10 cents. Bunch of O&G bullshit IMO, always quick to raise the price when anything happens but never go down.
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i loving wish this were true and gas prices had been slowly ratcheting upwards for decades faster than inflation
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i read it all motherfuckers! and always appreciate vyelkin effortposts and that comic you linked is very good https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/ my bro-in-law has adopted the MMA/AR15/Punisher culture. One of my friends who grew up in actual war in Lebanon met him and described him as a 'wounded little boy', a description that has stuck with me and that comic echoes.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Link? I can't find this. https://web.archive.org/web/20220303181049/https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/150550-russia_usa_oil/ http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/jpmorgan-says-185-oil-is-in-view-if-russian-supply-hit-persists-1.1732005
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:closing in on 1.60$ in Ottawa but not quite there yet. Bit cheaper on the Quebec side? maybe proximity to Montreal a factor $1.57/L currently in NS with a 10c jump tomorrow. Good times!
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Karach posted:call a bullet container a clip. I dare you.  Are you implying doom is wrong?
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Oxyclean posted:
unless the gun has an internal magazine and those are stripper clips, then I'm not yet prepared to be john romero's bitch
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so like now that gas prices are up is Calgary booming again or what?
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Starks posted:so like now that gas prices are up is Calgary booming again or what? I can feel the reverberation of Jason Kenney's climax from here
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looks like alberta should just invest in destabilizing governments of oil producing nations. way higher roi than picking fights with ottawa over pipelines
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Starks posted:so like now that gas prices are up is Calgary booming again or what? Nah literally the boom is equating to like zero jobs. Its hilarious. Jason's doing a victory lap for his balanced budget though, and announcing a lot of poo poo for Red Deer where his leadership review is happening. Also had a hard on for pushing pipelines due to the Russia/Ukraine situation to the point where even some conservatives were like dude... read the room.
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Starks posted:so like now that gas prices are up is Calgary booming again or what? god bless are truckers
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rapidly accelerating toward the time when it's just too expensive for people to drive to work I can't wait
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Karach posted:rapidly accelerating toward the time when it's just too expensive for people to drive to work work from home! or don't work from home, if you've got no work or don't not work from home, if you've got no home just quietly die in the street, ok?
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Mexicans pay around the same gas prices on 1/5 of the salary. we’ll be fine. maybe it’s time for everyone to stop buying 50,000 CUVs though
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apatheticman posted:Nah literally the boom is equating to like zero jobs. lol drat
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Starks posted:Mexicans pay around the same gas prices on 1/5 of the salary. we’ll be fine. maybe it’s time for everyone to stop buying 50,000 CUVs though how am I supposed to roll into the middle class if it's not in a 2,500 kg Ram with cat delete?? on a bike?
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leftist heap posted:eager to see how this somehow still results in worse car culture, bigger vehicles and worse public transportation/bike/ped infra. i'm confident it will happen we need more direct and higher speed roads with less stops so we don't have cars wasting gas idling. all pedestrians will have to use bridges or tunnels to cross roads so less cars need to stop at cross walks
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leftist heap posted:eager to see how this somehow still results in worse car culture, bigger vehicles and worse public transportation/bike/ped infra. i'm confident it will happen the bigger the truck the more owned the libs are
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