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lobster shirt posted:a bunch of poeple on nextdoor got really mad at me because i said, on a post warning of a nearby speed trap, that people should just go the speed limit I got banned from Nextdoor because some lady said that she found small holes in her front yard and was concerned that drug dealers were hiding drugs in them, and I responded that they were probably just from moles or the like and she probably watches too much television. All the advertisers on that site are security system providers, it depends on paranoia to continue to exist
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:All the advertisers on that site are security system providers, it depends on paranoia to continue to exist
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Mayor Dave posted:https://twitter.com/GernotWagner/status/1580607541838761986?s=20&t=Gem0H7wYHXU0xNwf0q3cjw Requiring a cop to help people cross the street safety is going to create jobs and increase the police state, it's a win win.
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The ultimate US transportation infrastructure is that everyone has get everywhere by car, but the cars are also driven by cops and you are technically under arrest while you are in the car
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Xaris posted:i still get ND emails and it has absolutely turned into a 24/7 paranoia crime blotter rss feed. infact, pretty much the only email round-ups i get from ND are all about crime alerts and poo poo, its insane. there used to be more mix of people asking for babysitters, does anyone want my cat, i'm giving away a couch, im hosting a garage sale next saturday, etc etc and now it's pure I WITNESSED CRIME / MY FRIEND TOLD ME ABOUT CRIME WATCH OUT spam. i'd be almost convinced it's more than 2/3rds astroturfed bots if i didn't know babby bombers were paranoid giant pieces of poo poo there's probably algorithms that promote that poo poo (I don't know exactly how Nextdoor works because I'm not on it) but it feels more organic if the posts are from real paranoid freaks, so no need for bots.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:The ultimate US transportation infrastructure is that everyone has get everywhere by car, but the cars are also driven by cops and you are technically under arrest while you are in the car Also the car is sometimes parked with you insode on train tracks
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gently caress cars that pass on the right on single lane roads because they don’t wanna wait for the person in front to turn left. Like, you’re just making it take longer and more dangerous!
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Yes, all cars are bad. As George Orwell once said, "two wheels good, four wheels bad". Precambrian Video Games has issued a correction as of 01:28 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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eXXon posted:Yes, all cars are bad. the buses were quite upset with this until the bicycles that had replaced the cars as rulers of the road after the revolution agreed that because a bus was at least twice the length of a car they are not a four wheeled vehicle, but rather two two wheeled vehicled that have been conjoined
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Anecdotally, it seems that red light cameras are disproportionately installed in poorer neighborhoods, and that's hosed up yeah, mondo hosed up, if i wanna speed through a poor neighborhood on my way into the city and turn a child into a crimson mist i should be allowed to do that the funny thing i've run into before with speed cameras and red light cameras is that lots of people want them on their own street but not any others. like, please don't do burnouts at 800 mph on my street... but also please don't do anything to stop me from doing that on streets where other people live
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FreeRangeHexagon posted:the buses were quite upset with this until the bicycles that had replaced the cars as rulers of the road after the revolution agreed that because a bus was at least twice the length of a car they are not a four wheeled vehicle, but rather two two wheeled vehicled that have been conjoined 
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:yeah, mondo hosed up, if i wanna speed through a poor neighborhood on my way into the city and turn a child into a crimson mist i should be allowed to do that Teriyaki Hairpiece has issued a correction as of 06:42 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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Boywhiz88 posted:gently caress cars that pass on the right on single lane roads because they don’t wanna wait for the person in front to turn left. Like, you’re just making it take longer and more dangerous! That's why this exists  It's a two lane road with a post office on one side. So if there's people trying to make a left into the parking lot of the post office and holding up traffic, there's a weird little lane for people for people to go around them on the right
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:My argument is that traffic cameras should be more evenly distributed and that taxpayers should see all the money from them, not private companies, ever. Also the process by which citations are issued and fines levied should be transparent and subject to appeals because robots shouldn't be policing humans alone, not yet at least Once the cameras can recognise the "friends of the police benevolent association" stickers we can go back to fully automated
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It's pretty sad, nowhere in the UK has trains as nice or as functional as these unless they stop in London. And even then not always. It's an Italian train station although the train we were on was operated by the Swiss railways. I much prefer the single decker ones, more spacious and loads more luggage space, and I don't think they actually lose that many seats. One thing the UK does do ok at is level boarding - it's much more common, at least in the South, than in most of mainland europe.
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Boywhiz88 posted:gently caress cars that pass on the right on single lane roads because they don’t wanna wait for the person in front to turn left. Like, you’re just making it take longer and more dangerous! literally two days ago: Shocking video shows Toronto driver slam their car into a terrified cyclist quote:In the Twitter thread, Watkins explains that "she (the driver) was trying to squeeze past the cars ahead who were waiting to turn left. She failed to look for a cyclist as she crept into my bike lane to pass the cars." unprotected bike lanes are more than useless - not blaming them but cyclists feel a false sense of protection and then poo poo like this happens  thankfully it ended w/o injury this time
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802.11weed posted:i hate cars and i hate driving hey, same!
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802.11weed posted:i hate cars and i hate driving This reminds me to recharge the lead battery in my car again. I need to pick up a bunch of lumber. Wait... how long does gasoline last? <Googles search> Are you loving kidding me? God drat it. I need to start buying fuel stabilizer.
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this contractor working on our building has a brand new ford raptor lol i was standing right next to it talking to him, jfc i'm 6'1" and i could barely see over the front quote:It's a trophy truck for the masses and it makes very few compromises in pursuit of this mission. actionjackson has issued a correction as of 15:55 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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distortion park posted:One thing the UK does do ok at is level boarding - it's much more common, at least in the South, than in most of mainland europe. The station near me (up north) has such a big gap that they have to announce warnings for it before the train gets there. It's less a step and more of a jump. I got on a train in Calais a few weeks ago, and it was the saddest platform I've ever been on, like it legitimately looked abandoned, and I'm pretty sure the walkway over the tracks was an asset from half life 2. The train that arrived was so dusty that it was impossible to see out of the windows, but it was easy to get on and it was bang on time, which none of the trains back in the UK were, once we finally managed to get home.
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actionjackson posted:this contractor working on our building has a brand new ford raptor lol I hope you were both wearing respirators.
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a new train line just opened up near me and now I can get to some of my favourite bars without needing to go all the way into the city centre and then back out again via bus
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distortion park posted:It's pretty sad, nowhere in the UK has trains as nice or as functional as these unless they stop in London. And even then not always. It's an Italian train station although the train we were on was operated by the Swiss railways. I much prefer the single decker ones, more spacious and loads more luggage space, and I don't think they actually lose that many seats. That's a double decker? How? It looks pretty short. I've never been on a passenger train that isn't light rail so I can't wrap my mind around it
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Milo and POTUS posted:That's a double decker? How? It looks pretty short. I've never been on a passenger train that isn't light rail so I can't wrap my mind around it that's a single decker. I literally just got on a double decker regional train though  you can see the very un-disability friendly height difference (the newer high speed trains have steps which are better, but still not ideal)  It's hard to get the inside layout in one photo but you can sort of see how it works here. it's from the upper level looking down into the entrance area. the ends of each carriage are single level at the middle height - I think the center double level parts go down into space that the wheel axles require. this one has a fairly efficient layout since there are no loos or luggage areas 
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distortion park posted:two great tastes etc if someone had shot my son my first priority would be to go to the hospital, however, i recognize that other people can have valid and equally important priorities
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yeah it's pretty common to have double deckers for commuter rail here, i think all of the trains italy commissioned in the last 10-15 years for commuter rail purposes have been double deckers that train above, the vivalto has been a powerhorse of regional rail i've been on a lot back when i was traveling a lot from uni to and fro. we have a bunch of variants of those all named around a music theme. so there's the vivalto (from vivaldi), pop, jazz, and rock trains. recently rome has put in use these new trains, which thanks to european regulations have now by design mandatory disability-friendly access with retractable ramps and on-level entrances. they're also pretty sweet although i have no idea how hard our maintenance people are loving the brakes as the noise from one of these braking legit feels like it's on the edge of bursting my eardrums every time mortons stork has issued a correction as of 16:41 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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Let me tell you about my new boulder-centered urban planning initiative.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:That's why this exists this would be better as a dedicated left turn lane with traffic going straight always forced to curve around it as a traffic calming measure. it would be even better than that if cars didn't exist
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:My argument is that traffic cameras should be more evenly distributed and that taxpayers should see all the money from them, not private companies, ever. Also the process by which citations are issued and fines levied should be transparent and subject to appeals because robots shouldn't be policing humans alone, not yet at least this is much closer to a cogent argument than ending your post with "but sure, cars bad, always, no matter what" more than redistributing existing cameras, we'd be way better off adding more cameras basically everywhere. and yeah, get the private companies out of there, and take the money from cameras and put it into building out transit, bike lanes, and pedestrian infrastructure. you could even give a portion back to everyone as a kind of traffic dividend, so people who aren't endangering others get a nice little bonus and people who are endangering others still lose a ton of money. im not sure where you're living where fines aren't transparent or subject to appeals, and while i'm going to go ahead and take you at your word i guess you're probably already aware that there are a ton of people who just dont like having traffic laws enforced on them at all who will say pretty much what you're saying because they know that saying "it should be okay for me to speed and run red lights with impunity" is gauche and arguments like the above sound much more palatable
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Gripweed posted:Let me tell you about my new boulder-centered urban planning initiative. A few of the apartments around here already have small boulders protecting the sidewalk.
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