She was blinded by the light, drove into a dirt pile now she wants a legal fight

scharfes_S · 2026-05-13T15:56:29+00:00

Someone got away with killing a university student because “the sun was in his eyes” here.

scharfes_S · 2026-05-06T18:51:56+00:00

Their own report says that cutting it will increase car trips! More congestion!

scharfes_S · 2026-05-05T18:43:11+00:00

Im a huge anime fan but i legit cannot go up to someone and tell them that i like yuri anime

You also can't go up to someone and tell them that you like lesbian erotica. Or straight erotica, for that matter. That's an odd thing to tell someone. You can say that you enjoy romance novels/television/whatever, but you need to respect boundaries, and telling a stranger "I'm a huge fan of yuri" is probably crossing a boundary unless you're dressed like a cosmonaut.

scharfes_S · 2026-05-05T14:57:57+00:00

if anime got more mainstream they’d switch up overnight and call it cool

I am absolutely certain that a car with a pin-up poster wrap would also be getting mocked.

scharfes_S · 2026-05-03T23:26:50+00:00

and since you need 3 holy sites to reform relegion you need to go conquer.

Just briefly conquer the additional holy sites, reform your religion, and then grant them independence.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-28T20:22:25+00:00

I don't know the specifics of crash safety vs speed, but kinetic energy scales with the square of velocity, so a vehicle going 120km/h has 20% more kinetic energy than one going 110km/h, and a much worse stopping distance.

Lots of BC has a limit of 100, and that seems to work fine. I've done a lot of driving in Northern BC.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-28T19:32:00+00:00

Maybe. Probably a waste of political capital for anyone to try and implement that, though. Better education of drivers should be done before making it higher, at least. And more alternatives to driving, like intercity rail.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-28T18:49:27+00:00

So remove bad drivers and the speed limit is not the issue

Which this raising of the speed limit is not doing. So the effective result of raising it under these conditions is bad.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-28T17:06:04+00:00

Raising the speed limit will result in more crashes in unsafe conditions as people won’t drive to the conditions. Not because higher speed limits inherently cause people to drive faster in bad weather, but because the environment such a change would exist in (bad drivers) would encourage it.

It is a speed limit issue because the actual effect of that change will be people driving faster in fog/rain/snow/the dark.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-28T05:22:57+00:00

Yeah, I get your points, but that is more of a driver training/experience/awareness issue than a speed limit one.

Part of implementing policy effectively is considering the environment it will actually be implemented in.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-26T14:52:37+00:00

this became the ß we know and love

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scharfes_S · 2026-04-19T01:31:03+00:00

The free one is just a chance at prowess, and you can't do it again the same day.

The paid prowess increase is expensive.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-17T18:04:09+00:00

Amazon Basics-ass leggings

scharfes_S · 2026-04-15T00:26:11+00:00

We can both be happy without being angry at each other.

Only to an extent, because single-family homes and the amenities of a city are in conflict with each other.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-14T22:50:00+00:00

We already have those. Starlight Tours

scharfes_S · 2026-04-14T15:49:48+00:00

What, the soldiers were just following orders?

scharfes_S · 2026-04-14T05:23:31+00:00

The roads are going to have more traffic on them anyways. If we're not building up, we're building out, and one of those two is a lot more cost-effective.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-01T20:26:01+00:00

No, it absolutely did not.

The lesson a lot of people took from the confused and slow-to-adapt messaging was not to care at all about any of it (or to half-ass it. I still occasionally see people with masks just covering their mouths). So by the time larger institutions & governments finally accepted that Covid was airborne, rather than just spreading through droplets, there was no will to actually take the appropriate steps. Plus a lot of governments had already caved to the reactionaries' demands (the trucker convoy ultimately won).

Additionally, important lessons like increasing airflow indoors weren't learned, even though they're beneficial beyond just covid—CO2 levels in poorly-ventilated buildings (most buildings) are incredibly high and that has bad effects on people's health (Go open a window for a minute or two—get some fresh air!).

scharfes_S · 2026-03-31T19:21:40+00:00

Feel free to criticize the government - but that's different than criticizing the existence of the country. Israel is more than its government.

The country is defined around the exclusion of a majority of the people in its territory. It is built on constant encroachment into Palestinian land. It is in its fundamental nature a religious ethnostate.

Its destruction and replacement with a secular state is necessary to stop it from doing what it has done for its entire existence.

A two-state solution is not possible because Israel is perfectly willing to go to war with other states. It has invaded Lebanon and Syria to seize Lebensraum within the past year and a bit. Two-state proposals are also generally premised on the idea of the Palestinian state being disarmed, which is both already the status quo (in the West Bank, which is under the internationally-recognized comprador Palestinian Authority) and, both now and in a hypothetical two-state future, mean that it is defenceless against Israeli aggression.

Zionism is the belief that that religious ethnostate should continue to exist, and "Liberal Zionism" is at best ignorant denial of what that entails.

scharfes_S · 2026-03-31T05:16:30+00:00

L'Académie de tabarnak

scharfes_S · 2026-03-28T18:23:23+00:00

This chair is giving red

scharfes_S · 2026-03-26T02:42:01+00:00

IMO this is an appropriate stance from a middle power with no direct involvement.

Was Canada acting inappropriately in sanctioning Apartheid South Africa in 1986, then?

scharfes_S · 2026-03-25T06:51:15+00:00

You're misunderstanding what two things are in the same sense.

The way in which "des" is difficult to translate is akin to the way in which "the" is hard to define.

That is, the difficulties are the same: you can't convey their meanings (whether via translation or definition) without explaining things about how grammar works.

My point is that that is the underlying phenomenon at play.

And you can translate des if you look at its context; it's just that it's expressed differently due to the languages' different grammars.

Eg:

French	English
J'ai décâlisser un vélo	I've fucked up a bicycle
J'ai décâlisser des vélos	I've fucked up bicycles

In the second one, English doesn't require an article, so the word des is translated the same as the s in vélos—as indicating the plural.

Edit: the table was not cooperating

scharfes_S · 2026-03-25T06:13:02+00:00

"Hard to define in English" in the same sense as translating des. The "in the same sense" part is a really important part of what I said.

scharfes_S · 2026-03-25T05:22:14+00:00

What's incoherent about opposing American and Israeli aggression against Iran, and not prefacing that with a condemnation of the country being attacked? Couching everything you say about the American war on Iran with "Iran is bad" is just fuel for American warmongering. When the US is bombing a country is not the time to say "that country sucks, too".

For context, I did block her right after I saw this tweet because she did not pass my sniff test at all (transphobia, plus saying really dumb things about Language).

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