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although it is obfuscatory and extremely dishonest, i regret to inform you that "cyclist who collided with a car was a woman and she died" is, in fact, written in the active voice
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in fact actually using the passive voice - "the cyclist was struck by a car and killed" - would be a significant improvement
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if anything it is their efforts to try to write it in an active voice while maintaining "neutrality" that lead it to be a confusing, victim-blaming disaster of a headlinelobster shirt posted:in fact actually using the passive voice - "the cyclist was struck by a car and killed" - would be a significant improvement exactly
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Motorist nearly hit a pedestrian crossing the road yesterday at a yet to be opened signalized crossing, went crying to the news and got an entire article in a national paper about how traumatizing it was for her to have to slam the brakes on, and how difficult it's going to be for other motorists once the crossing is in use These car freaks are insane
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lobster shirt posted:although it is obfuscatory and extremely dishonest, i regret to inform you that "cyclist who collided with a car was a woman and she died" is, in fact, written in the active voice I think "passive voice" has taken on a sort of colloquialism where it's no longer referring to the precise grammatical construction, but merely just the exculpatory tone of the writing
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Mister Speaker posted:Thank you duomo for finding the article. Infuriating. Honestly, what is with the passive voice in journalism? Is it out of some toxic desire to maintain 'impartiality' above all else, indoctrinated into journalism students by their dinosaur professors? Are the editors in the pocket of some nefarious lobbying interests, like police unions or car companies? It's mind-boggling that more people don't see right through this sort of language. look at the lengths news outlets will go to obfuscate the story whenever cops kill someone. these cases are telling because they show who has protective structures built around them, culturally and semantically and legally, to defend them from being held responsible for their actions it's probably inaccurate to trace it all back to one particular thing, but the day AAA managed to make the made-up fantasy crime 'jaywalking' into the law of the land was definitely a portent of what was to come: the concept of streets as public space essentially disappeared that day, and from then on if a driver kills you it's generally your own fault, not theirs by now everything from insurance to licensing to the city and state governments in charge of roads all kinda depend on that fiction, and these newspaper headlines are just downstream reflections of the idea that the traffic must flow
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gradenko_2000 posted:I think "passive voice" has taken on a sort of colloquialism where it's no longer referring to the precise grammatical construction, but merely just the exculpatory tone of the writing The passivity in the voice is in its water carrying for the status quo
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‘Motonormativity’: Britons more accepting of driving-related risk https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/motonormativity-britons-more-accepting-driving-related-risk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Based on this study - this is a thread about it by one of the authors. https://twitter.com/ianwalker/status/1615248156186247169?t=2w6o4k_qmV9LN6MmHfBXcQ&s=19
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I apologize in advance to Americans in this thread for feelings of rage this post may cause, but the new bicycle storage in Amsterdam just dropped https://twitter.com/BicycleDutch/status/1615037853951758336 https://twitter.com/fietsprofessor/status/1614217606080204800 Highlights: It took 4 years to build It has room for 6300 bikes And an additional 700 shared bikes (OV-fiets, 'public transportation bikes') It's always free to use for the first 24 hours It's located next to the main railway station of Amsterdam It's loving underwater Oh, on the other side of the railway station another storage for 4000 bikes will be opened a few weeks later. This means the current, above-ground storage can be removed. The space will be used for: Broader cycling lanes Bigger tram stops More trees More water
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imagine drowning to death in an underground bicycle storage facility when something goes wrong
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Martian posted:It's loving underwater I think a lot of American cities have unintended ride share bike storage underwater, too, thanks to people having an unusual hate boner for them 
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Spergin Morlock posted:imagine drowning to death in an underground bicycle storage facility when something goes wrong yeah the Dutch might want to read up on climate change a lil
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Spergin Morlock posted:imagine drowning to death in an underground bicycle storage facility when something goes wrong
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drowning to death in an underground bike parking facility sounds like a dream come true Anyways, I've seen Daylight(1996) enough times to know how to deal with these circumstances
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Spergin Morlock posted:imagine drowning to death in an underground bicycle storage facility when something goes wrong I would simply choose to swim against the surging water current by using the powerful thigh muscles attained by cycling everywhere
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https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/crews-respond-train-versus-pedestrian-incident-fayette-county/XGWZHGPSLBEI5MSKW7R6MOFAWU/ Crews respond to train versus pedestrian incident in Fayette County
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BalloonFish posted:‘Motonormativity’: Britons more accepting of driving-related risk Lol I knew carbrain was real but it's interesting to see numbers on it
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Does that bicycle station have portals in the ceiling to look at all the fishes? That's awesome.Martian posted:This means the current, above-ground storage can be removed. The space will be used for: Hell yeah. BIG TRAM STOPS!
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Admittedly, public transportation in the Netherlands is weirdly expensive like a 90 min pass good for both the tram and metro is over 6 Euros.
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Ardennes posted:Admittedly, public transportation in the Netherlands is weirdly expensive like a 90 min pass good for both the tram and metro is over 6 Euros. that's about the same as Switzerland for a la carte transit. but you can buy an annual Half-fare card for 180 francs and point-to-point subscriptions are way more reasonable. are Dutch residents paying that full 6 Euro fare often?
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webcams for christ posted:that's about the same as Switzerland for a la carte transit. but you can buy an annual Half-fare card for 180 francs and point-to-point subscriptions are way more reasonable. are Dutch residents paying that full 6 Euro fare often? There is a discount on train service but I don’t know about public transit. I have friends in the Netherlands that constantly complain (and they don’t want to bike either). That said, even if you had a half pass and you were still paying 6 euro or so a day, it would be an additional 180 a month + the pass, not that cheap. In Moscow, I think an all inclusive pass is like $250-70 bucks a year. Obviously, it is better than the US since most people are going to spend far more on their car.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/crews-respond-train-versus-pedestrian-incident-fayette-county/XGWZHGPSLBEI5MSKW7R6MOFAWU/ Yeah I'm hurting pretty bad but you should see the train! I hosed. It. Up.
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Ardennes posted:There is a discount on train service but I don’t know about public transit. I have friends in the Netherlands that constantly complain (and they don’t want to bike either). Yeah, the Vienna pass is, or used to be, 365€. Not sure if they changed it since covid started, but seems hard to change for numerological reasons. The whole country pass is about 3€ a day? Netherlands gets ripped off.
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The underlying market logic of public transport has made it terribly expensive in Denmark at least. The idea is that fares should field the cost of the service, without looking at indirect effects of having working public transport. It's dumb, but very politically correct.
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iraqi republican guard? in my police department? its more likely than you think
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The NYPD probably has a bigger budget than the whole Iraqi military. They're the biggest police department in history's most prolific prison state, I don't think anybody even knows what their budget is anymore lmao
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Being a cop looks like it kicks so much rear end. You just beat up people you don't like all day long and they give you a Ferrari for it.
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Epic High Five posted:The NYPD probably has a bigger budget than the whole Iraqi military. They're the biggest police department in history's most prolific prison state, I don't think anybody even knows what their budget is anymore lmao the nypd budget is indeed greater than the iraqi military budget (10.8 billion vs ~7 billion)
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i think beat cops should walk around on foot unarmed or maybe with a billy club at most and become friends with the people on their route and generally be normal people rather than driving around in monster trucks and only deploying to riddle teens with 9999999 bullets and bazooka blasts but what do i know
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If they were a military they'd have the 29th largest budget in the world
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Smythe posted:i think beat cops should walk around on foot unarmed or maybe with a billy club at most and become friends with the people on their route and generally be normal people rather than driving around in monster trucks and only deploying to riddle teens with 9999999 bullets and bazooka blasts but what do i know they would still terrorize people on foot the problem with the cops is the cops
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Cup Runneth Over posted:they would still terrorize people on foot the problem with the cops is the cops yeah, even a bully club would still allow them to, well, bully people. better solution is for beat cops to be put in a wheelchair and wheeled on a set route through the neighborhood while restrained in some sort of gimp suit, blindfolded, with bully clubs attached to the side so that passersby can freely beat them if the need arises. that way they can get to know something about the neighborhood and theoretically maybe help talk through disputes without endangering anyone
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The basic problem with cops is that society is set up so it needs cops on the first place. The more immediate problem is that society sees poor and black people being unbeaten and unshot as the main problem to be solved by cops.
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i know that you can make a lot in OT but it would have to be an insane amount to afford that vehicle, which is maybe 350K. or maybe they just sold their tags to the actual owner
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