Recent content by nm1

this shouldn't be surprising - people who say **** like "its the cars I don't trust" - are deluding themselves this hobby isn't extraordinarily dangerous but if you don't actively take courses and practice emergency stopping skills you're one surprise away from a potentially fatal crash

nope the arrivecan portion isn't mandatory for land crossing - because they know it's not legal to force people to use an app. source: crossed probably 10-15x since they started bitching at people to use it....have never used it, will never use it. honestly if you don't feel like its an...

yep, if you're flying - SOL but driving across they are essentially telling people its mandatory when it isn't. it doesn't make Canadians any safer, and actually doesn't really speed up the border process either, it's just so JT and his merry band of idiots can hand out a lucrative contract...

^ the responses tell me all I need to know about why they can get away with it. if you had a clue about how that phone you use actually works you wouldn't want to use it for government business. responding to the dude who asked if I get hassled - yes occasionally, well worth it. they can...

Don't let the idiots bully you into using "ArriveCan" - just tell them you don't have a phone you can install it on. The more people go along with this clearly illegal (charter does not say 'you can freely leave and re-enter the country as long as you have a smartphone') BS the more brazen...

the abuse of the alert system (forcing these alerts to be the highest possible priority) is going to kill people when there is a serious natural disaster or nuclear leak before the pathetic response to covid this was a huge indicator to me that we simply don't have competence in government. I...

I'm not a multi-millionaire but I have a fairly successful career in technology and I have to say - this mentality is actually completely incorrect. What you want to do is find small ways to be happy every day, and shift your life and mindset completely to achieve this - the most successful and...

I'm late to the party and too lazy to see if anyone already said this, but the issue with your posters is essentially that seeing them could make your female coworkers feel like they aren't valued for their contributions (that coworkers would openly display objectification posters during...

we already have the "I saw you" thread where there are regularly posts like "to the RECKLESS CRAZY PERSON riding <x make/model> - you made me defecate in my adult diaper with your 20km/h over the speed limit antics!!!! I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY" let's close this one and not spread the delusions out...

overcoming fear is a real problem both for 4 wheels and 2 it's much easier in a car but you shouldn't assume adrenaline will chase it away for either one if anything you need to find a way to minimize your adrenaline and stay calm that "shaking" you're talking about - if you were doing real...

the TLDR of this thread is essentially if you post on here - its very likely you're not qualified to comment on the riding of others - especially to say it was "bad" at least that's what I was trying to explain but...for those who enjoy self-delusion we already have this thread where people...

we've built up a society where having a car is a right, even though we pretend it isn't - for most jobs you need a reliable car, for most cities and any rural setting - you need a car. people hate on e-bikes - but it's one of the few transportation options people have if they've lost the...

Sims are good because you can practice what you do with your eyes - the most important thing for both cars and bikes, and the reason the F1 guys use them is because it keeps those basic fundamentals practiced and sharp - but it doesn't really translate to real driving or riding that well. If...

its much harder to get your driving license in Ontario than it is in most US states - both the tests and the graduated system. California's full license test was easier than the Ontario G2 test (not the exit - the initial one). People are annoyingly polite here and clump up but they're not...

vehicles moving at highway speed are significantly less likely to move into each other you basically just have to mind the dangerous "gaps" where cars might be thinking about lane changing source: have about 60-80000 km of riding where its legal to do both and got pretty good at it I don't...