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Cake day: August 22nd, 2025

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  • Yes, but they honestly believe that’s the right thing to do. Or at least they’ve convinced themselves that it’s excusable. They believe they have a right to do things for themselves at the expense of others. That’s why they won’t ever have remorse. It takes more intelligence to empathize with others; they don’t have that. It’s actually kinda sad.
    People who wig out and do what they know is evil are very distraught, and often suicidal.








  • Of course. Counter tariffs cancel out the effect of tariffs and in most cases have much more effect than the tariffs - 100% tariffs on cheap shit from China is still relatively cheap. But any tarif on US made products will kill the business as U.S. stuff is usually already at the cusp of being too expensive. On top of that, the general psychotic governing dissuades business with the U.S. Throw in how population in other countries, especially Canada, have collectively become super pissed at the U.S. and do everything they can to stop buying US products - and the U.S. economy will be fucked for decades if it ever recovers.


  • Yes, some people hit the gas just after the camera. They also peel off on smaller streets to ‘make up time’. I suspect these are people who are in a hurry / late, or just impatient. People do this on the highway too after clearing radar traps. Or after overtaking someone traveling slowly. I don’t know if the effect is significant. People are weird and side effects can be unexpected. I’m just not sure that we should totally assume cameras that slow down measured speeds actually increases safety.
    I haven’t seen data like you mentioned- it seems strange that there wouldn’t be an array of speeders like anywhere else. I think most people’s complaints about these things are that they trigger at too close to the limit - doing 52 in a 50 zone is not unsafe, and can help with the flow of traffic. It probably depends on the area. I can afford a ticket, but I still avoid areas with cameras. With all the traffic calming stuff and cameras, I actually just avoid going out more and order stuff from Amazon instead of supporting my local stores.