Morgan Tittysprinkles

This reminds me of when Paul Martin tried to drop $13B on DND to make a splash ahead of an election. But they have the same problem now as they did then: there aren’t enough employees to create the contracts to spend that kind of money in time to have delivery by March 31st. Even if you got a contract or two out, can a manufacturer churn out billions in product that fast without having to first build more infrastructure? Can services be procured without hiring and training enough people first? Didn’t fly for Martin either. The investment only paid dividends by the time Harper was in office, so guess who the CAF rank and file was grateful to.

Yeah, we’re pretty close. Put a stronger front bumper and a DRL module on an American car, and it’s about the same. But we also aren’t that different from Europe either. Build a Canadian car with a weaker roof, rear bumper, and child seat anchors, while beefing up the side impact ratings, and adding ESC, AEB, ACC features as standard and you have a European car. Maybe we can agree to take the best of all standards and agree to make them that way. Seems the best way to open things up without just arbitrarily agreeing to adopt another country’s standards wholesale in an attempt to get some market share. We have enough problems with that as is.

Yeah, I looked them up out of curiosity after posting. They look pretty similar. In CanUS, most LATCH seats use a lap belt with clips on either end to connect to the anchors. This lets you slip it between the upper and lower parts of the seat more easily. Looks like ISOFIX is designed so the seat latches right to the anchors, and there is a removable part of the seat that exposes the anchors. The top tether in Europe usually goes to a roof while it is usually on the bottom of the rear part of the seat in CanUS. I think the Euro implementation would likely minimize installation issues, which was the whole point of both standards. To get the lap belt tight enough is a real pain, so they get installed wrong a lot over here. Apparently there are LATCH car seats that also connect directly to the seat anchors, but I have never seen one. Seema like it would be rougher on the interior given how we hide the anchors over here, but it would probably result in fewer bad installs.

I know one of the problems is the clips we use for attaching car seats for small children. Since they don’t match what we use, we’d probably have to switch to European car seats too. No idea which is safer or why we have the differences, but I’d bet there are lots of little safety things that don’t line up between countries. I’m not sure I’m willing to give up our autonomy in this regard just so we can have more products. While I think Europe would probably have better standards than the US, I don’t like the idea of relying on any other countries to determine what is safe enough for Canadians to use.

Right? Ignore him and let him fade back into obsurity.

Yeah, it just sucks that we are all paying about an extra 3% more on everything we buy to cover the interchange fees charged on credit transactions, even if we pay cash. It’s built into all the pricing. Years back, there were places that would discount a price by 3% if you paid cash, but I haven’t seen that in years. Best we can do now is get a cash back card to recover some of the loss. The annual fee cards usually get you more back, so if you use a credit card for everything you can, you might be further ahead.

Doing my marsh-wiggle boy dirty there.

I think a boring, active, hot top is exactly what much of Lemmy is looking for.

Everybody on Lemmy thinking Windows 10 users have to choose among buying a new PC, switching to Linux, or waiting for Microsoft to blink, but six bucks and my right nut says the overwhelming majority aren’t going to do squat when their machine stops updating.

Ok, didn’t realise I was responding to a mouth breather. Go back to reddit, clown.

It’s in the picture. Doesn’t look like one of the newer stupid large ones, but the fronts of all pick up trucks are pretty tall compared to most cars (and to humans) anyway. They still aren’t releasing much about this, and they still haven’t identified the victim yet.

Maybe take it down about 20 percent there, friend. You commented that Ottawa drivers speed up to 90 between speed cameras. I replied, a bit tongue in cheek, that Ottawa drivers don’t drive 90, not even on the 417, where they’re supposed to. Ottawa is the only city I have driven in where significant numbers of people drive at or below the speed limit, even when traffic would permit them to go faster, and that was the case even before the speed cameras. That generally forces everyone else to be honest enough, but I concur, Ottawans definitely hammer the brakes down even harder right before a speed camera. Or while merging on the 417.

No, and they really don’t need them. Ottawans merge somewhere between 60 and 80, and drive more slowly in general. In most Ontario cities, driving at 100 in the left lane will get you run over. In Ottawa, you will be passing everyone.

Aware, and I fully agree. I am just adding to the point that not only does it fail to address the safety issue, but the massive uptick in tickets generated by this solution will inevitably spill over into an already overwhelmed court system, which will cost us economically and socially.

Nobody drives 90 in Ottawa. Especially not on the 417.

Then you tick the court date box and mail it back to them. Then two or three years later, you get a court date, so you dust off your form letter charter 11b challenge, send it off to all relevant parties, head down to the Winchester and wait for all of this to blow over.

Still better than the Gwyneth Paltrow Oreos. Would not recommend.

People here laughed at those and traded them around like cards. Banning tobacco in all public places though, that got very noticeable and immediate results. The public health campaign “helped” about as much as a 3 year old making cookies with mom.

I want Dragon Half to get a full run. Shit was hilarious.