Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Traffic Noise, San Fran Contracts, Cartoon Ban (Vol. 15)" video.

I live in Vancouver Canada, and everywhere here has them banned and it’s so funny because according to what I read, you have to reuse a cotton bag 50 times to make up for its equivalent in plastic. Very few people are using their bags that many times. I have scores of them that get given to me free by businesses all the time.
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@notme222 I've seen so many different conclusions. All I know is that every single reputable science outlet says that paper v plastic is more of a draw than a knockout victory. Environmentalists who pound the table about plastic bags are simply not looking at the whole story.
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@lkjkhfggd it’s not that people forget to bring the bags, it’s that you get them with many purchases for free. I have tons of those bags that I didn’t even ask for. I could never use all of them enough times to cover the equivalent of the environmental issues plastic ones create.
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@LC-uh8if I will admit that the bag ban helps you remember because I used to remember 5% of the time before the band, and now I remember 90%. When I forget, it's infuriating though. I have to leave everything at the checkout and run out to the car and get my bags, which is super awesome in a Canadian winter.
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These videos could be 20 minute segments coming out once a fortnight if they really wanted to.
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@notme222 In Vancouver even suppliers are bag-free and it's insufferable. When I go to a hardware supplier for work stuff I'm not bringing a damn reusable box with me. They took it way, way too far. And most places here don't have paper either.
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@herknorth Yeah, They have NW, NE, SW, SE and the streets and ave's are mostly numbered.
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In Vancouver, there are places you can go and bring your illegal street drugs to test them for purity. You can also get peyote and mushrooms and all kinds of stuff here in a retail establishment. Did I mention the drug problem is absolutely out of control here and the homeless problem has skyrocketed since they started safe injection sites, etc.?
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Yet the best city to navigate. It’s a giant grid and when someone tells you the nearest intersection, you know exactly where they are. I miss that. Sidenote: I’m absolutely blown away that Alberta allows automated speed traps. That seems like the least Alberta thing ever.
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@herknorth Numbers alone are the answer. Look at downtown Calgary and what a mess that is with numbers. Tell somebody you're at 2nd Street and 3rd Avenue and that could be in four different places.
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@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat Plastic bags are made of fossil fuels. Make no mistake about it, this was the global warming crowd behind this.
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Edmonton might have more pickup trucks per capita than any place on earth. Lots of them are big and loud. He showed a sports car making noise but that’s not what it was. Big diesel F350s for sure.
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In my city in Canada, they just have either a smiley face or a frowny face depending on if you’re under or over the limit. It’s cute, but going barely over the limit gets you a frowny face so there’s no incentive to go any faster.
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@user-hm5zb1qn6g Haha. Fair enough.
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At the federal level, nobody ever admits a mistake. They just blame it on the other guys. I guess it happens even at a more local level. A city can be run by democrats for 40 years, in a blue state under blue governors under a blue president and they will still somehow blame the other team.
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@user-hm5zb1qn6g Really? Haven't heard that one yet. I worked construction on a project in the absolute worst part of town, so I saw the most horrific parts of this stuff every day. Nothing would surprise me at this point.
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I don’t even live there anymore and I got kind of excited to see that too.
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The San Francisco one is so gross and so California. You can be on your iPhone made by borderline slaves, and using cobalt mined by small children in horrific conditions, but God forbid another state has a policy on bathrooms you don’t like. Virtue signalers make me sick.
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The San Francisco one is so gross and so California. You can be on your iPhone made by borderline slaves, and using cobalt mined by small children in horrific conditions, but God forbid another state has a policy on bathrooms you don’t like. Virtue signalers make me sick.
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