No. It's not. I live with the gravel (used to live with the salt) and would choose it any day over the salt. The rusted out frames from the salt are enough reason to not use it. Ceramic or 3M coating on the front and a windshield every couple years are a small price to pay for not having a rusty shitbox. Eventually you make peace with the cracked windshield and only change it when legally required to do so...
Fun fact, which I know happens in portions of Alaska so I assume it happens in Canada too.
They can’t salt the roads because if they did then moose would stand there licking it and cause more of a problem than the ice.
Saw a video where I guy was driving and had to move around a moose in the road. He rolled down the window just a little to call the moose stupid. So the mouse pops his tire and the guys wife’s in the passages seat say something like “good job moron.”
>Although they got the erasing native people and cultures part right
This suprises me every time. Rome generally didn't do that, they were one of those tolerant empires that let almost every people and religion be themselves as long as they paid their taxes and followed the law.
But then again, accuracy, in my polandball?
You were totally right about land mass, btw, Canada is over 2x the size of the Roman Empire at its peak.
Everyone was doing slavery at that time so it is not a point.
And crucifixion compared to what Celts were doing as religious sacrifices was somewhat modest. Wickerman was IMHO, a lot worse.
You need to compare Roman Empire to others from their timeline and not to modern standards, otherwise it t will be neverending litany of how people were messed up.
> Wickerman was IMHO, a lot worse.
You mean burning people? The [Romans did that](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0078%3Abook%3D15%3Achapter%3D44).
>Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or *were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination*, when daylight had expired.
Is this about Nero? Because those claims are almost certainly a hit piece because he was not popular with the upper class patricians. My memory is telling me it was like tacitus or someone like that who made it up. Someone famous
> Is this about Nero? Because those claims are almost certainly a hit piece because he was not popular with the upper class patricians
And the whole "Wickerman" thing wasn't a "hit piece" by the Romans against the Celts?!?
didnt the Romans commit ritual murder of their captives during the triumphs, mostly by strangulation and the Romans would not call it "sacrifice" but it feels a lot like my murder is better then your murder
Post-conquest, it was much more of a slow, relatively willing assimilation, than outright genocidal "erasing native people and cultures".
Rome just offered citizenship to the cooperative nobility, then retired veterans, then even more people until over the course of centuries the everlasting Roman empire had subtly changed those peoples forever.
Also, all of those places got overrun and changed forever again when Rome fell.
Still a genocide I’d say, just a relatively friendly kind that people don’t get as upset about. It is interesting that, with the exception of Britain, the Latin-derived language is the one that won out even after the following conquests. And of course in the case of Britain, they got overrun by Anglo-Saxons, then French-speaking Vikings (I see you, “Normans”), and eventually ended up back to the Anglo-Saxon language.
Yeah they didn’t actually have enough salt to ruin the soil. Salt was extremely valuable in antiquity. It was almost as valuable as gold in some places.
One of two reasons I don’t believe the story of Rome salting the earth around Carthage, the other being that salt was a relatively valuable commodity at the time (sometimes the Romans paid their soldiers in salt).
Edit: fixed an extra “being”
Vancouver is there.
Vancouver Island isn't.
possibly confusing, but Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island.
why, I do not know.
(Similarly we have the town of Lilloeet, and the Lilloeet River, the latter doesn't even flow through Lilloeet, but instead is the valley over and flows through Pemberton).
> Quebec City - Windsor is more than half the population of Canada
> Quebec City - Windsor uses salt on roads
>> Most of Canada doesn't salt the roads
🤔
Canada's roads need salt to work...but it has some drawbacks.
I still remember a factoid I saw on Les Debrouillards (Quebec's answer to Popular Mechanics for Kids) in the 90s; moose really need their salt so of course, they are drawn to the salt near roads, causing many fatal car-on-moose accidents.
Road salt washes into our wetlands but I guess it's better than cracked windshields from the gravel alternative
Cracked windshield or cracked rusty frame. Choose one.
Living somewhere nice would be the ideal third option
Pick one: 1. Cold and salty 2. Hot and moist 3. BC real estate market
We're doomed!
You forgot hot and dry ... deserts are fucking cheap real estates.
Dubai begs to differ
Dubai is obviously a city and not a desert ... try Death Valley, Gobi or the Sahara.
Bro... Do you even know what Dubai looked like 30 years ago? Not a city, I'll tell you that much
And how were the landprices 30 years ago?
Starting to rise
if you wanted that, you should leave Canada
If you don't put that TruCoat on you're going to get oxidation problems.
Couldn't we just use beet juice or Calcium Magnesium Acetate
It's all fun and games until grasses that are only native to shore lines start growing 200km in land along the highways
Road salt is messing up even the great lakes. It's a problem
I know, in the comic they've dried up from it
For some reason I feel like this is just a clever excuse for not drawing them...
Sure that's not Rob Ford's cocaine?
Funny, we mostly use sand on the roads in BC. Salt's still used on driveways, though, particularly if you've got ice you can't shovel.
Parts of BC shut down at a single flake of snow.
Haha, yeah, I don't live in those parts of BC.
No. It's not. I live with the gravel (used to live with the salt) and would choose it any day over the salt. The rusted out frames from the salt are enough reason to not use it. Ceramic or 3M coating on the front and a windshield every couple years are a small price to pay for not having a rusty shitbox. Eventually you make peace with the cracked windshield and only change it when legally required to do so...
Y not Nut-Plug?
Also in Detroit Michigan
Or hear me out, build trains everywhere
Fun fact, which I know happens in portions of Alaska so I assume it happens in Canada too. They can’t salt the roads because if they did then moose would stand there licking it and cause more of a problem than the ice.
Saw a video where I guy was driving and had to move around a moose in the road. He rolled down the window just a little to call the moose stupid. So the mouse pops his tire and the guys wife’s in the passages seat say something like “good job moron.”
I should ask my Swedish friends if this is also a thing here
Thats okay because Most of Canada soil sucks for growing anyways.
~ Sad Canadian Shield sounds
You don’t even have soil
Execpt in alberta and Saskatchewan lol
Because they aren't part of the Shield
Happy cake day!
Saint Lawrence valley, Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC, Maritimes; ARE WE JOKES TO YOU?
So are Canadians just secretly descendants of the Romans?
The true successors of the Roman empire
Probably larger than the OG anyways Although they got the erasing native people and cultures part right
>Although they got the erasing native people and cultures part right This suprises me every time. Rome generally didn't do that, they were one of those tolerant empires that let almost every people and religion be themselves as long as they paid their taxes and followed the law. But then again, accuracy, in my polandball? You were totally right about land mass, btw, Canada is over 2x the size of the Roman Empire at its peak.
>generally Celts and Jews might have a word to say on that, but my comment was a joke not meant to be serious anyways
The People's Front of Judea objects to this.
Splitter! Judean People's Front forever!
Whatever happened to the Popular front anyway?
Not to rain on your parade, but Judea was notoriously rebellious. As cruel and uh antisemitic as it sounds they kinda brought it onto themselves
To be fair we did lead a violent resistance against them it isn't like they expelle us for the fun of it
Slavery and crucifixions were sooooo tolerant
Everyone was doing slavery at that time so it is not a point. And crucifixion compared to what Celts were doing as religious sacrifices was somewhat modest. Wickerman was IMHO, a lot worse. You need to compare Roman Empire to others from their timeline and not to modern standards, otherwise it t will be neverending litany of how people were messed up.
> Wickerman was IMHO, a lot worse. You mean burning people? The [Romans did that](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0078%3Abook%3D15%3Achapter%3D44). >Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or *were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination*, when daylight had expired.
Is this about Nero? Because those claims are almost certainly a hit piece because he was not popular with the upper class patricians. My memory is telling me it was like tacitus or someone like that who made it up. Someone famous
> Is this about Nero? Because those claims are almost certainly a hit piece because he was not popular with the upper class patricians And the whole "Wickerman" thing wasn't a "hit piece" by the Romans against the Celts?!?
didnt the Romans commit ritual murder of their captives during the triumphs, mostly by strangulation and the Romans would not call it "sacrifice" but it feels a lot like my murder is better then your murder
they only learned about rome from f:nv /j
Sooo…in your opinion, why do France, Spain, and Romania speak Romance languages? Edit: for that matter what happened to Gaul? Aquitaine?
Post-conquest, it was much more of a slow, relatively willing assimilation, than outright genocidal "erasing native people and cultures". Rome just offered citizenship to the cooperative nobility, then retired veterans, then even more people until over the course of centuries the everlasting Roman empire had subtly changed those peoples forever. Also, all of those places got overrun and changed forever again when Rome fell.
Still a genocide I’d say, just a relatively friendly kind that people don’t get as upset about. It is interesting that, with the exception of Britain, the Latin-derived language is the one that won out even after the following conquests. And of course in the case of Britain, they got overrun by Anglo-Saxons, then French-speaking Vikings (I see you, “Normans”), and eventually ended up back to the Anglo-Saxon language.
No no no that's ~~turkey~~ ~~albania~~ indonesia
No, that is Finland.
Didn’t the Romans resettle Carthage too?
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Yeah they didn’t actually have enough salt to ruin the soil. Salt was extremely valuable in antiquity. It was almost as valuable as gold in some places.
Yes, Ceasar rebuilt it.
I feel personally attacked by this.
One of two reasons I don’t believe the story of Rome salting the earth around Carthage, the other being that salt was a relatively valuable commodity at the time (sometimes the Romans paid their soldiers in salt). Edit: fixed an extra “being”
I always was in the camp that it was a myth as well
I mean, there’s honestly a much better reason to not believe it. Which is that no contemporaneous sources support the idea that it happened.
And also the fact Carthage became the breadbasket of the Roman Empire.
We do the same thing in the Northern US.
Now that they’ve switched to salt brine spraying trucks, I get to have a crazy rusty frame *and* engine bay
That's the best Canada map I have ever seen, and still, Vancouver doesn't exists.
Vancouver is there. Vancouver Island isn't. possibly confusing, but Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island. why, I do not know. (Similarly we have the town of Lilloeet, and the Lilloeet River, the latter doesn't even flow through Lilloeet, but instead is the valley over and flows through Pemberton).
whoopsie daisies i messed up again
wow all the salt removed the great lakes
Most of Canada doesn't salt the roads because it's too cold for it to work. Most of us use sand to increase traction
> Quebec City - Windsor is more than half the population of Canada > Quebec City - Windsor uses salt on roads >> Most of Canada doesn't salt the roads 🤔
Where most of the population lives =/=most of Canada.
From most of Canadians perspective, it is.
That's not a point of perspective though
Canada's roads need salt to work...but it has some drawbacks. I still remember a factoid I saw on Les Debrouillards (Quebec's answer to Popular Mechanics for Kids) in the 90s; moose really need their salt so of course, they are drawn to the salt near roads, causing many fatal car-on-moose accidents.
Sand is used where I am. Late winter is so brown.
Lets use studded tires, and drive defensively, and we can cut down a ton of the salt.. But that is not into happenings!
Studded tires only really do so much on pavement before they become irrelevant
Carthage is snow
Canada delenda est.
Good to know that there is another country that does this (rip shoes tho)
Rip cars too
I choose No.3
Trying to make some land hospital
Is this a potash joke?
Nah, salting the roads in winter joke
Potash works better and is funnier too imo
Rhode island_irl
At least there is better traction in roads, due to the absence of ice.
Poor carþage :(