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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:California has become the second state to legalize jaywalking (Virginia just barely beat them to it). This is great to see. The quoted activist is 100% right that we should ban turning right on red, as well, but I think that's a lot harder of a political sell for now. I'd also like to see more pedestrianized streets, more bus lanes, wider sidewalks, better protected bike lanes, less driveways on busy streets, and a hundred other little reforms to make it more pleasant to not drive everywhere. Luckily, it seems like this is becoming the Democratic consensus, with both federal and state Democrats pushing for these sorts of reforms.
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Yeah the last 14 times I've almost hit a pedestrian it has been my fault for not looking well enough turning right on a red.
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VikingofRock posted:This is great to see. The quoted activist is 100% right that we should ban turning right on red, as well, but I think that's a lot harder of a political sell for now. I'd also like to see more pedestrianized streets, more bus lanes, wider sidewalks, better protected bike lanes, less driveways on busy streets, and a hundred other little reforms to make it more pleasant to not drive everywhere. Luckily, it seems like this is becoming the Democratic consensus, with both federal and state Democrats pushing for these sorts of reforms. No such thing as Right On Red in NYC, plus universal speed limit of 25 unless otherwise posted. Ofc it doesn't stop everything, but it helps a lot.
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Randalor posted:
I believe he can pay 10 billion dollars to not buy it, which honestly might be the best deal for him at this point.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:No such thing as Right On Red in NYC, plus universal speed limit of 25 unless otherwise posted. Hasn't traffic enforcement in NYC basically ceased causing a full mad max environment with spiking ped deaths
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I believe he can pay 10 billion dollars to not buy it, which honestly might be the best deal for him at this point. No, that is not the case.
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slurm posted:Hasn't traffic enforcement in NYC basically ceased causing a full mad max environment with spiking ped deaths No.  Year after year, pedestrian deaths have declined since the implementation of vision zero. 
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Oct 5, 2022 23:15
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There is a problem with bicyclist deaths, but that's a totally different set of circumstances
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In 2021, NYC had a huge surge in pedestrians being hit by cars (but, not necessarily dying from it). The NYT article about it even semi-hilariously interviewed someone who got hit by a car after the interview and another person who said they had been hit by a car twice at the same intersection that year.
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I got a nice chuckle out of the bill being named The Freedom to Walk Act, I gotta admit.Leon Sumbitches posted:No such thing as Right On Red in NYC, plus universal speed limit of 25 unless otherwise posted. Ah, yes. The Ratso Rizzo Act.
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susan b buffering posted:No, that is not the case. Welp, I was misinformed then. I guess he could still get out of buying it by just doing the usual rich guy thing of doing something blatantly illegal and suffering no consequences from it because as a society we've just sort of decided the wealthy are allowed to do crimes?
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In Massachusetts, jaywalking is a crime, for which the fine is $1 for the first three instances in a year, after which it doubles  https://www.mass.gov/how-to/pay-a-jaywalking-ticket posted:Fines for jaywalking within a year are:
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:In Massachusetts, jaywalking is a crime, for which the fine is $1 for the first three instances in a year, after which it doubles is it a law from, like, 1893 and they just didn't update a single part of it since then.
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Apparently this happened earlier https://twitter.com/axios/status/1577786591401107456?s=20&t=9bqOUZqSucLDxA9cHNrS9g The panel was all Republican appointees. This is now the 3rd admin that has had to fight in court over DACA.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Welp, I was misinformed then. Delaware is the beating heart of corporate law and also where several of his companies are incorporated, so if he goes with "actually i will simply not pay the judgement" the judge can trivially go either "okay I am confiscating X billion dollars of tesla stock to pay twitter" or "okay I am making you pay Y big number per day for contempt of court until you comply, which I will ensure by confiscating Tesla stock" also he's a wealthy person going up against a wealthy corp so
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if there is one thing American courts are good at doing, it is moving money from one party in a lawsuit to the other based on judicial edicts
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GreyjoyBastard posted:if there is one thing American courts are good at doing, it is moving money from one party in a lawsuit to the other based on judicial edicts American courts are actually exceptionally bad at this 95% of the time. Most state civil judgements aren't even valid in another state until you file in that state and get a reciprocal approval. Wage garnishments are almost always handled by the employer and not automatically applied. It's also on the person who won the judgement to find out where the person works and get wage garnishment set up. That's why so many judgements go to collections or just never get paid. The 5% of the time where it is good at this is in Chancery court, which is wear Musk's suit currently is. So, in this case, it would be pretty bad for Musk to decide he just won't comply.
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Yeah I dealt with that at the local level with small claims court, where I would have to explain to some people that yeah, you won in court, but now you have to find a way to enforce the judgment and that's a whole secondary issue that will probably go nowhere
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FlamingLiberal posted:Apparently this happened earlier It's worth noting that this particular ruling doesn't really mean anything, because it's only ruling on the three-page memorandum of intent that was used to originally establish DACA. But that memorandum expires for good on October 30th. The Biden administration, in an attempt to ward off some of the avenues for legal challenges, has replaced it with a 400+ page formal policy established through the official executive rulemaking process, which goes into effect on October 30th and will replace the old DACA memorandum. Will this actually affect anything in the long run? Hard to say. But in the short-term, the court has explicitly declined to rule on the upcoming rule at this time, despite literally everyone in the case requesting that they do so. So the court is only overturning the existing DACA memorandum, and expressing no opinion on the replacement DACA policy that comes into effect at the end of the month. It'll take another round or two of litigation before that one comes up, and the Fifth Circuit (which I feel will likely overturn the new rule as well) seems well aware that the case will eventually end up in front of the Supreme Court and that the SC is not necessarily fully on board with their reasoning.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:California has become the second state to legalize jaywalking (Virginia just barely beat them to it). Good to see. So much needs to be changed about car centric culture. VikingofRock posted:This is great to see. The quoted activist is 100% right that we should ban turning right on red, as well, but I think that's a lot harder of a political sell for now. I'd also like to see more pedestrianized streets, more bus lanes, wider sidewalks, better protected bike lanes, less driveways on busy streets, and a hundred other little reforms to make it more pleasant to not drive everywhere. Luckily, it seems like this is becoming the Democratic consensus, with both federal and state Democrats pushing for these sorts of reforms. It's drat near impossible to walk anywhere in many municipalities if your day isn't fully located inside of a downtown urban district and even then you can expect to run into situations where you basically HAVE to walk in roadways or through traffic to reach some areas. It was insane that we ever allowed car companies to destroy the walkability of American life, much less criminalize something you're forced to do if you don't have a car in most states. Example in my (usually pretty ok) locality: I can walk up and down the street my apartment is on towards a metro station, I can walk past that to the local strip mall, and I can push it a bit more to reach a Costco. That gets me MOST things if I wanna walk/bike. Wanna do something fun though? Oh no, past the Costco, just another quarter mile is the "old town"/nightlife restaurant district.....and there's a series of onramps and highway to get past to get there from where I am. Cannot pass on foot or bike legally. And yes it's also the rich part of town. (I technically CAN get there without car/buss but it requires going the opposite way and joining the river walk path 2 miles down the road and then taking a small trail that connects with a park at the edge of Old Town. Oh and all of that is "closed" at dusk and is regularly patrolled at night to keep homeless away so good luck trying to go to the bar/get dinner and get home without hassle, fines, or an overnight) I could take the bus, but again: trying to do anything in the evening/nightlife related is nearly impossible outside of special event nights where they keep the busses running later than 9pm. 100% constructed to keep poor people away from the rich part of town.
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You mean to tell me those Jay Leno segments were against the law?
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Push El Burrito posted:You mean to tell me those Jay Leno segments were against the law? Leno never crossed the intersection to interview people. Plus, it's only illegal if you get caught.
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Main Paineframe posted:Based on both his public claims and private stuff that came out during discovery, Musk's plans for Twitter include convincing a bunch of people to sign up for optional paid subscription services (like Twitter Blue), mass layoffs of Twitter employees to cut costs, maybe a Twitter-based payments system, and assuming Twitter's actual human userbase will triple within three years after he bans all the bots and unbans all the brave free speech warriors of the far right. There's also other ideas he's tossed around but clearly hasn't thought through, like charging important people a fee to tweet, creating a blockchain-based Twitter database to resist censorship, or turning Twitter into a WeChat competitor. Oh, he's utterly hosed on this then. Too bad being a billionaire means that you can gently caress up almost as much as you want and still be a billionaire
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Main Paineframe posted:
It seems like the whole impetus of the lawsuit from Musk's perspectivewas that musk thought he could catch Twitter on discovery worse than they could catch him. Based on the chatter I've been seeing (which granted could be full bullshit in which case my feet go in my mouth) , it seems like musk folded when they started pushing for discovery on communications between himself and that fired chief security officer. I'm guessing there's some sort of payola or fraud to do there.
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Actually, you do have to let people shoot each other on Fifth Avenue and get away with itquote:A federal judge in New York on Thursday temporarily blocked parts of the state's new gun law to allow the Gun Owners of America, an advocacy group, to pursue a lawsuit challenging the legislation. The order strikes down some of the places in which guns were banned (Times Square, theaters and arenas, public transit) while leaving others in effect (schools, polling places, government facilities). It also reverses some of the tightening of requirements for concealed carry permits. It will go into effect in three days unless the state can get a higher court to overrule it first. The judge who issued this order was appointed by George W. Bush.
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DeathSandwich posted:It seems like the whole impetus of the lawsuit from Musk's perspectivewas that musk thought he could catch Twitter on discovery worse than they could catch him. you're overthinking it the impetus of the lawsuit was musk sobered up and realized he bought twitter at double what it was worth, while tesla stock (where all his wealth is) was sliding. so he said gently caress you im not going to do it because, well, he didn't want to. unfortunately for him, he signed a binding contract (he may not have understood this, he seems to not really grasp the M&A process), so twitter sued him to enforce it. because he has lots of money, he said "make this go away" to some high-priced lawyers and they charged him lots of money to give it the ol' college try because when you're on the hook for $44 billion for something worth, maybe, $22 billion, spending a few tens of millions for a few percentage points of chance you can get out of it is very much worth it.
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The Urban Institute is out with their first comprehensive study on the U.S. housing market in two decades and the news not good. They also predict it will get worse without major changes. - With the exception of California (whose changes are still too new to assess their impact) every state in the country has made it more difficult to build new housing in existing areas since 2000. - Private and public development for new housing has also slowed dramatically since 2000 with especially huge slowdowns that never recovered in 2009 and 2020. - Communities that have seen housing prices surge have walled themselves off from new housing construction out of a combination of desires by long-term residents to keep housing values high, avoid "gentrification," and backlash against an influx of new out of state residents. - Poorer communities have also seen housing supplies dry up because these low cost communities don't draw anyone who wants to buy houses and the rents are too low to justify private developers building new rental units. So, the U.S. has twin housing problems: On the one hand, there are about 25 major metro areas where new housing is extremely hard to build, but huge amounts of people want to live there. But, local governments and property owners are doing everything they can to prevent people from being able to move there cheaply. On the other hand, you have communities in the rust belt and similar areas that are dying and have cheap housing, but nothing to attract people there and nobody is building any new housing there to support a revival even if one did actually happen. These communities desperately want more housing and jobs to be built there, but nobody wants to move there or build there. quote:Housing construction in the United States has failed to match population growth for decades. Growth in housing availability depends on developer interest in responding to local real-estate market demand, but local governments also influence housing production through land-use regulations. Is the location of additional housing supply aligned with what we might expect given developers’ interest in investing in more expensive, in-demand communities? Or do certain local characteristics undermine the production of new housing? https://twitter.com/yfreemark/status/1578054567169851392 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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Biden is de-scheduling weed, pardoning everyone convicted of federal weed charges, and asking states to do the same. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1578097875480895489 https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1578097879390031874 https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1578097882070192129 https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1578097883395592207
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holy poo poo the crime bill guy is pardoining weed possession that's really good in a vacuum but boy is it weird coming from him editing in the actual comic to spite the posters below me 
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Brandon needs to smoke up so he doesn’t get too pissed off at OPEC+ countries.
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Finally, Biden has stopped giving a hot gay gently caress what Congress says
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Biden is de-scheduling weed, pardoning everyone convicted of federal weed charges, and asking states to do the same. Goku-Scream-Legalize-Weed-Dude.png It's about goddamned time. loving sucks my state's new chud governor is undoing all the progress we've made at the state level as fast as he can, but I don't think he's going to get much further with this hanging over him.
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I'm gonna spend the $10,000 I saved in student loan payments on weed now.
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HisMajestyBOB posted:I'm gonna spend the $10,000 I saved in student loan payments on weed now. No!!! That’ll lead to inflation!
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Full statement is here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/ quote:As I often said during my campaign for President, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit. Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And while white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates. A lot of the review for schedule revision is up in the air- Biden's not explicitly asking for complete descheduling. I interpret this as the admin having received word from Senate actors that the cannabis legalization bills are moribund and needing to take action for an October surprise. I gotta note that while I believe the market's not as bonkers as it was say five years ago, the actual process of moving cannabis to legal status and the ensuing regulatory buildout is an absolute nightmare- we've really not got any precedent for it federally, and there are a bunch of severe problems not remotely addressed by the state regs. I say "though the market's not as bonkers" because a lot of the issues come from the sheer degree of capitalism headed into it from all directions- big ag, small ag, "small" ag, pharma, organized crime, dietary supplements, tobacco, and venture capitalists of all flavors have been trying to tear off their slice of what they see as the next alcohol or tobacco market, and that is a lot of externalities being constructed and exploited by every means possible. This is part of why the cannabis bills have all gotten stuck, despite not having the same partisan divide as usual. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Full statement is here: Is the last part that much of an issue now? Weed is legal in 19 states, a lot of this apparatus exists already. I would think enough states have gone through the trial and error of legalization that the feds could figure it out.
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Eric Cantonese posted:No!!! That’ll lead to inflation! Gonna be as high as the CPI 
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