is cleaning not part of the operational cost of a highway?

our streets in Halifax are made with brownie, AND we pay up the ass in taxes

They pay for maintenance

Along with tax money

brownie? as in black people or the food?

yeah bwe were talking potholes

lololol

soft brownies

lol

My old hometown has potholes so bad they killed someone last year

das wut our roads are made of

oof

"I like having roads"
"I do too, too bad our taxes never go to actual roads"

^^^

"We need a gas tax *fast forward a year* we need super fancy toilets in all government buildings and paid 6 day weekends."
"we don't have the budget for that"
"raid the transportation fund"
"but how do we fix the roads"
"add tolls and a car tax"

https://twitter.com/aoc_dances

Meming a dip stick into power.

Speaking of tax
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-taxes-netherlands-idUSKCN1OX1G9

you know
if you buy a woman lunch, you can actually just assume her sexual consent due to the social contract, you don't need it explicitly

social contract theory is one hell of a drug

it's actually just bullshit.

You can do whatever you want, if it's illegal, don't get caught. Done.

or you could just legalize crime

for your tribe

I'd certainly agree with making some things not crimes.

doesn't really change what I said though.

yeah
maybe one qualification of something being a crime is that it produces a victim

sure, but we might disagree on what a victim is.

yeah
hurt feelings doesn't count imo

I was thinking more along the lines of animals, and animal abuse. Some people don't think animals can be victims, they are just property.

oh right, yeah
humans are really weird when it comes to ethics and animals

Then you have to find the nuance between a farmer and a sociopath that just wants to hurt a thing.

Or a hunter, etc.

what, farmers don't care about animals

they are literally just property to them

some don't. but they also don't usually go out of their way to be cruel either

I'd ask the chickens how they feel about that

To what end?

i'm just saying, farmers will be cruel to animals if it increases their profit

Well, ignoring that there are different types of farmers....You're not wrong.

well even if you draw the line between using animals for practical utilization or not, then maybe that would put horse riding as an entertainment sport in the unethical camp?
i think the lack of consistency when it comes to animal ethics/morals just made me give up on it, so i'm pretty agnostic/apathic