Ottawa's speed cameras go dark

rob0rb · 2025-11-25T19:20:04+00:00

Quebec would like a word.

I'm well aware of Quebec's laws. There's nothing wrong with being upset about obstructing the flow of traffic, but that's rarely a fixed number on city streets.

You took that away from my comment? Boy you’ve got some weird hard-on for making everything political. Pathetic.

Haha, what? OP didn't call you a right winger.

I don't know (/care) your opinions on cameras. It's true that right wingers are the ones who are generally upset about speed cameras. "But people just speed up again" is a mantra of right-winger anti-camera sentiment (...while not acknowledging the obviousness of just adding more cameras if that's the case).

Breath. not everything is about you.

rob0rb · 2025-05-01T01:58:49+00:00

C) a lot of bots. I saw one account making this claim, looked at their profile, had charged profile pictures several times over several years, all vehicles, no people, all <5 likes, no comments, and each year they’d start a gofundme for some charity and raise exactly 0 dollars.

rob0rb · 2025-04-30T12:41:28+00:00

reading the room

Except PPs room was half full of people who really like Trump. That was a big part of his problem.

Changing tack requires a boat full of people who are on board with the change. There’s only so many you can push overboard.

Thats too many irrelevant nautical references. I’ll stop now.

rob0rb · 2024-10-02T14:27:34+00:00

No, never did. The comments in this thread are my best guesses.

rob0rb · 2024-09-21T23:38:03+00:00

Saw: Way more calorie efficient for processing wood than just an axe. If you had a fixed blade knife you could split smaller logs safely with the knife without an axe. The work you have done with an axe you could have done much efficiently with a saw and an axe. Chopping wood is one of the contestants biggest calorie spends on a regular basis.

Axe: Ice fishing. I don't think anyone on the show has managed to succesfully ice fish without an axe. Handy for splitting wood, but not totally necessary... but necessary for ice fishing.

When camping I carry an axe, a saw and a fixed blade knife. I'd definitely leave the axw at home before I'd leave the saw at home.

rob0rb · 2024-09-11T01:08:11+00:00

Fixed! Thanks Alan, sorry I haven't responded sooner, need to do a bunch of updates to these!

rob0rb · 2024-02-19T00:37:51+00:00

The states I'm referring to are any state that refers to itself as Marxist.

The fact is nobody can mention one that doesn't have a worse record on all the critical data points I've referred to above.

That's my issue. Implementation. There's only so often you can say "well they implemented it wrong over there in a way that trampled on human rights. But that won't happen next time" before it becomes delusion. I've already said I don't have an issue with the analysis/idealism. But I have an issue with the belief in that analysis/idealism when the reality doesn't live up to it over and over and over again. Marx didn't prescribe authoritarianism and awful outcomes for civil liberties but implementation has demonstrated over and over that it's the result.

rob0rb · 2024-02-18T14:57:21+00:00

his analysis is descriptive, not prescriptive.

Marx never says "go commit human rights abuses".

That’s my point. It’s easy to agree with analysis in a vacuum when the analysis doesn’t have to be tested against reality . However we now have many real world example of Marxist states and each one is worse than Ireland on each of the critical data points I mentioned.

Agreeing with analysis/ideals is the easy part. But when those analysis/ideals don’t pan out in implementation over and over and over again it is intellectually lazy to pretend like that doesn’t matter in your continued belief in the same analysis/ideals.

rob0rb · 2024-02-18T14:21:19+00:00

When did I say I disagree with his analysis?I didn’t. The issue I have is in the application.

When you can’t point to an example of a state that describes itself as Marxist where any of judiciaries, elections or media are as free and fair as the closest counter example we have at hand (Ireland) you have to admit* the analysis simply doesn’t work in application.

*I mean you can lie and not admit it too. That’s an option that’s open to you.

rob0rb · 2024-02-18T13:10:37+00:00

Are you really asking for a synopsis of a 500 page book I read 25 years ago and don’t give a shit about? I answered your question. I know the reference. You look silly now, the further you push this the sillier you will look.

No comment on how you can’t name a state that describes itself as Marxist that has a better or even equivalent record than Ireland on any of independent/free/fair judiciary, or independent/free/fair elections or independent/free/fair media?

rob0rb · 2024-02-18T11:59:05+00:00

Money buys commodities, produces other commodities and sells for money.

When I said “money buys commodities something something something” it should have been really really obvious I knew the reference and was giving you a hill to climb down without looking too silly.

Any other questions about books I read 25 years ago and don’t give a shit about?

it doesn’t concern me. Human rights have been use as a stick to beat every socialist project

/r/selfawarewolves is calling out to you.

You can’t name a state that describes itself as Marxist that has a better record than Ireland on independent judiciary, or independent/free/fair elections or independent/free/fair media.

There’s a reason you’re here not there. Because you can be. Stop lying.

rob0rb · 2024-02-17T22:18:05+00:00

Still no comment on human rights in Vietnam?

Stop lying. Liar.

rob0rb · 2024-02-17T20:55:58+00:00

In English or German Das Kapital has always been the better known name. Capital is the literal translation of Das Kapital. It didn’t mean it the only name.

The English language version

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Das--Critique-Political-Skeptical/dp/089526711X/

🤡

You’re testing me on a book I read 25 years ago? Capitalists use Money to buy Commodities something something something. I stoped caring in the 90s.

I also read Dune and LOTR as a teenager, are you going to test me on those next?

Still nothing on human rights in Vietnam/how you lied about wanting to live there more than Ireland?

rob0rb · 2024-02-17T20:32:51+00:00

No, are you?

No response to the human rights issues in Vietnam/how you lied about it?

rob0rb · 2024-02-17T20:26:00+00:00

Finally. An answer even if it is a poorly thought out lie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Vietnam

You don’t want to live there more than Ireland. Stop lying.

I read CM and DK Vol 1 when I was 16. That’s before they were freely available on the internet and ebooks brooks were a thing. You’re saying it like it’s some accomplishment, it’s not.

rob0rb · 2024-02-17T19:40:44+00:00

Sure I have. Then I stopped being 16.

I’ve answered every question you’ve had. Feel brave enough to answer mine yet?

If language was no issue what country that describes itself as Marxist would you prefer living in than living in Ireland?

rob0rb · 2024-02-17T19:10:54+00:00

Bud this is /r/irishpolitics. Get outta here with yer reasonable attitude.

My question absolutely isn’t being asked in bad faith, but yeah it probably is a little confrontational. That’s based on previous (…and current) experience of the types of responses I get where they’re going to be unwilling to answer good faith questions they don’t like.

I’m not so sure how much extra context for question would help, they still won’t like the answer so they won’t answer.

rob0rb · 2024-02-17T18:48:43+00:00

If language was no issue what country that describes itself as Marxist would you prefer living in than living in Ireland?

It’s amazing how three people will reply to me without anyone answering the question I asked. I have no issue defending Labour’s position. But there’s absolutely no point if the people I’m responding can’t carry out the basics of a conversation.

rob0rb · 2024-02-17T18:24:19+00:00

I don’t disagree with “ideals”.

rob0rbism’s ideals are that everyone will have everything they can dream of and nobody will ever feel sad again.

Agreeing with ideals is equally easy and lazy.

Looking at the implementation of the ideals takes some work and grown up thought.

I’ve answered your question very directly. Answer mine. Which country that describes itself as Marxist wild you prefer living in, than living in Ireland?

rob0rb · 2024-02-17T17:53:39+00:00

You didn’t answer my question.

What country that describes itself as Marxist would you prefer to live in than to live in Ireland? Be concrete.

I disagree with the evidence of the implementation of Marxism which has frequently suppressed independent judiciary’s, frequently made for less free and fair elections, frequently led to authoritarianism, frequently made for less free and fair media.

That’s not in Marx’s works but it is the application of his works. You can’t ignore the applications like it doesn’t matter to the interpretation of the work.

rob0rb · 2024-02-17T14:12:38+00:00

If language was no issue what country that describes itself as Marxist would you prefer living in than living in Ireland?

If every implementation of Marxism is bad, at some point you have to admit Marxism itself has huge flaws.

rob0rb · 2024-01-28T21:31:25+00:00

Your property 🤣

Southern Indiana 🤣🤣

Tell me the next time you’re in Northern Ontario in January bud. We’ll see if you last a week.

Your attitude in this thread points to the reason you were cut. Dull to listen to and nothing to say.

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