My pet example is Americans and “ironically/unironically”.

Please don’t do this to me

It’s almost like the “meritocracy” under capitalism is a bald faced lie.

Funnily enough, this is my even more preferred solution haha

I am for public transport centric cities, where you can safely walk across streets, and cities are designed for people, not cars.

I am 100% for everything you’ve said, including socialism.

It’s just I’m also living in the world as it currently is, and if we’re gonna have car-centric hell holes, I at least want to make breaking the rules have consequences, so car centrism is A BIT safer. Income based fines to boot.

Most certainly is a band-aid, though. Do agree.

But I just get pissed when dickheads think speeding isn’t a bit deal, or red-light cameras are just for revenue raising, as if driving a massive hunk of metal is a serious responsibility, not to be taken lightly.

Yeah, love this guy’s videos

Hence my carve out. I don’t support the privacy nightmare the US has.

I do support road safety cameras in general, if managed properly.

People don’t have the right to have no consequences for their dangerous behaviour.

Sounds like a police/privacy problem, not the idea of having cameras at all.

Police should need a warrant to access the videos.

The software should not log licence plates of every single car that comes past.

The software should be open source and developed by the public sector.

I agree what’s in place in the US is a privacy nightmare, but the idea of having cameras in general isn’t fundamentally bad.

Skill issue USA, git gud.

I don’t want the government or private companies tracking my every move

This is an issue with how the cameras are operated. I’m taking issue with people complaining that these cameras exist at all.

People claiming no system could ever be privacy-preserving aren’t being very imaginative.

I agree the surveillance state is bad, but taking a picture of someone running a red light and sending them a fine is a good thing, sorry.

What’s bad is allowing cameras to passively record every single licence plate at all times and store that information. A speed or red light camera should only take a photo/video when it detects someone speeding/running a red light, and no other information should be stored.

So, we agree. This is specifically a US police problem.

But many people argue against speed cameras and red light cameras in general, as if they have the right to endanger people’s lives.

Pit maneuvers are insane, and aren’t done in most other civilised countries.

Gonna be downvoted, because apparently this is car brain central, but the amount of mental gymnastics people will do to make red light camera enforcement “bad” is crazy.

The US’ private company control over these cameras notwithstanding.

Fuck me, so many people die on on roads, and especially at intersections.

Personally I’d make an exception to my moral stance that work as punishment is slavery, and would prefer to keep him around forcing him to work 70 hours a week, in addition to doing all the other chores required so that he can live - in prison - for the rest of his life.

Maybe we’ll make it 84 hours a week just for good measure, can’t be giving him a day off.

Seems more poetic

In fairness. First past the post necessarily leads to a two party state.

I’m sorry, but the only option is to single-mindedly campaign for pretentitial voting.

Voting for another party that protects his views is cute, but totally incompatible with the voting system in place in the US.

*Disclaimer that I feel entitled to comment on US politics as a citizen of the provinces (Australia)

Does it really cost what Kagi is charging? I would love to see some research on this if people happen to know where to find such articles.

Like, in theory to pay for Kagi or a similar service but it’s just extrotionately expensive.

I pay for other service which are offered for free (like email hosting), but those are reasonably priced.

I’m not from the US, but it would seem to me that public cameras should only be accessible for legitimate purposes.

Police should need to request footage, but similarly, you shouldn’t be able to just request any footage willy nilly, because of stalking.

Seems that it should be tightly regulated and require multiple people to gain access, and be documented who was given access.

Overall your comment seems like a great suggestion to me. If footage “goes missing”, they had better have way more evidence to back up their charges.

Nah buddy, we all went to school, and it’s abundantly clear that in modern English, an animal is part of the Kingdom Animalia.

So, the only people (in the English speaking world) who don’t think of insects or fish an animals, either are of a much, much older generation, or didn’t do very well in school.

Most fucking 6-year-olds, in Australia at least, would be able to answer yes to “is a fish an animal?”.

My mind immediately went to Stargate

You’d have to bury it fairly deep.

I’m Australia at least, you’d just be warming up your beer.

Glass bottles at the beach is a big no no though.

This is why I strong dislike it when anyone from Australia, or another metric country, ever mentions calories.

My brother in weight tracking, kJ is right there on the packet.

It hurts.

Royalists are such simps

Well, given where it’s posted, I’d argue that it is a bit of a dick move to kill yourself in a way that hurts others.

I’m obviously for saving people from suicide if possible, but if someone is forsaken by capitalism, has no one that can help them, and does commit suicide, there are nicer ways to do it than throwing yourself in front of a vehicle (train, car, whatever) and scarring someone else for life.

The act of suicide though, is not a dick move, but rather a failure of society to take care of everyone.

I hope the customer service representative was granted permission to ask if they required assistance applying to education programs.