• Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      The roads in Norway are better in winter because the snow plows scrape the snow and ice flat so its actually quite smooth.

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        9 months ago

        I like the parts of Canada where we don’t plow. Just toss a bit of sand on it and drive over top of it until it melts in the spring. Kinda works in like a “lowered expectations” way.

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          9 months ago

          I’ve seen roads in Finland where they’d basically rake the road like a skiing piste. If you just leave it, it’ll turn to ice eventually, and with several centimetres of rock hard ice the only traction is from making the ice uneven.

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            Me, descendant of Finns: I need to return to the Motherland, this America thing seems like it’s going down hard

            Me seeing comments like this: Oh, nvm, I’d rather do a civil war.

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              9 months ago

              Snowpack is really nice to drive on, you just have to slow down a little. it’s way better than the fucking corrosive salt brine they use so morons can keep driving 80mph in a blizzard here. Not to mention what dumping all that sulfurs and magnesium chloride into our lakes and rivers is probably doing to us.