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Cake day: February 23rd, 2025

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  • Speed cameras aren’t the problem, but implementation is. When you’re 5km over, well within variation of seasonal tire size difference impact on speedometer, and variations in acceleration/deceleration and road incline changes, and you get dinged not only for each of the kms you are over , but also get charged victim surcharges and administrative surcharges and a fuck you surcharge. Before it’s all said and done the surcharges make it a $100. When the surcharges are more than 70-80% of your ticket it’s an indiscriminate money grab.













  • Good point, China alone can get India driving in EV’s . One nagging thought Is that if US can’t have dominance by alliance, market control or coercion it will try to create dependence through war. If the world is at war, it knocks all directly involved parties way down the economic ladder, needing financial and industrial support from the US. Removes competition, creates highly indebted dependants , not unlike WW2. Speaking to some old timers , it’s clear that whenever the US economy falters they export war. Why would this be any different. Perhaps what we’re seeing with abandoning Europe to deal with Russia is a setup for EU to get economically degraded again. But if US is really trying to corner China as they say, leaving Europe vulnerable is counter productive as China will benefit.




  • Canada has the lowest National Debt to GDP ratio out of all the G8/G7 partners, and while cutting taxes would take money out of the federal purse, it would increase spending power on the street at a critical time, without having to run the money printers. At a federal purse level there is ample room to take a hit, this can be offset with bond sales etc , while the Country pivots to new trade relations/partners.

    You need to spend money to make money. And I’d trust a Canadian banker with that over some empty suit who can only complain.