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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If we all ate only hunted meat, we would wipe out every land mammal on the entire planet in little more than a single day. This is not an exaggeration. If you want to eat meat, factory farming is not optional. But eating meat is. The more meat you eat, the younger you die, and the more major diseases you experience.

I see you are resistant to processing this very simple fact, but it’s okay, I can break it down for you.

There are 2.7 million tonnes of raw white-tailed deer. There are 390 million tonnes of humanity across 8.3 billion individuals. Lets generously assume every fucking gram of those deer are edible and yield about 1,500 kcal per kg. That gives humanity food for LESS THAN SIX FUCKING HOURS.

You just wiped out every white-tailed deer. A couple hours after that, you’ve wiped out every deer on Earth.

Now what the fuck do we do? Deer make up one fifth to one quarter of all wild land mammal biomass, and you just ate it in a fucking afternoon. Keep eating wild animals and there are ZERO wild animals left at the end of the next day. Do the fucking math.

Why don’t you read the original comment again and decide whether you want to respond to THAT, or if you are going to respond to the voices in your head a second time.

Humans and livestock make up 95% of the mammals on Earth. If we hunted all our food, we would wipe out life on Earth almost immediately.

Don’t blame me, I thought we should all host static FOAF/RDF on our personal web servers.

Timberborn recently hit 1.0, it’s good.

Abiotic Factor is pretty amazing. I’ll play with ya.

The downfall of any good indie game is that it’s a target for acquisition. Anything we love can be turned against us. ROCKET LEAGUE.

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