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I bet this has more to do with more gay and trans people more often being neurodivergent than anything else.

I hope not.

Bad take.

It’s not a lie, it’s tactical misinformation. You can’t let the voters I mean enemies know what you are going to do!

Don’t exploit things that have the capacity for love.

They are disposable. Meta is deploying them in tents. Elements of the infrastructure like power generation and heat management could be made durable, but I imagine that isn’t a huge cost compared to replacing the entire guts of the thing every generation.

All this is to say the primary purpose of speed cameras is still revenue generation.

That’s not what Doug Ford said when he deployed them. He, citing the actual designers of the infrastructure, said it was a safety measure. But for some fucking reason, pedestrian safety and anything that inconveniences a motorist have become issues in the Culture War. Now his idiotic base is convinced that speed cameras are somehow a revenue issue, and so Doug Ford has changed his tune. But it’s just not reality. The speed cameras they we are talking about right now are deployed as a traffic-calming (ie pedestrian-not-killing) measure.

PEDESTRIANS DO NOT GET REAR-ENDED. IDGAF if motorists are hitting each other more often. That’s explicitly not the fucking point. Are you even aware that pedestrians are getting killed more now than any time in the last 40 years? There is a crisis happening right now and we need these interventions. So sorry if it inconveniences you.

Like I just said, you have clearly never even encountered serious, informed discussion on these subjects. Go watch some Oh The Urbanity and get back to us when you have an opinion that wasn’t given to you to enlist you in the Culture War.

I suppose a product of growing up with anti-intellectualism is that it seems threatening when someone stops everything and turns everyone’s attention to a word that you just used without conceit.

I hate it when people stop a conversation to talk about a word I used. It doesn’t land as a complement.

Good.

The pros are that it cannot be used as leverage against your interests by the vendor, and it’s basically UNIX. But I mean, by that criteria, one should run BSD.

What are you even doing in this community? Go watch Not Just Bikes for a few hours before you post here again.

The point isn’t to punish people, it’s to keep people un-killed. If speed cameras don’t work on 2% because they are wealthy sociopaths, that’s not a reason to abandon the intervention that has been clearly proven to work at the intended purpose of keeping people from getting killed. This is such a bizarre objection. Perhaps it is a reflex earned from decades of looking for how the poor get screwed and that’s admirable but it kind of looks like looking for any excuse not to have to slow down.

OH WELL.

This is a life-saving intervention that is empirically proven to save lives. The lives of pedestrians are more important than the income of gig workers. Pedestrians are an even more disadvantaged and vulnerable class than gig drivers.

It’s a tiny problem, we can accept that it is a bit regressive and adjust taxes elsewhere to compensate. For this, I should die? Sort it out, bud.

oh you read this thread too, eh

No, we reap what they’ve sewn.

Last time I heard this was 30 years ago, and a man was asking a genie who was going to give his wife double to scare him half to death.

I mean, it’s not AI doing this. AI doesn’t have a gun to anyone’s head.

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What do the principles of anarchy tell you about treating an individual as a means instead of an end?

So the have-nots should suffer for the benefit of the have-gots. They can’t even take a little bit of a hit for buying into the most overheated market of our generation. They should be protected from their mistakes because they’re rich and therefore matter. If people are living homeless and dying on the streets, well, they should have had the foresight to invest in a ponzi scheme that the government is propping up.