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Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Bug Squash posted:

I don't think anyone who is transphobic or liable to complain about gender swaps would go anywhere close to a Discworld property.

Didn't the TERF crowd already have a run up on Discworld by claiming that the way magic is handled in it means that Sir Terry was sympathetic to their cause? It took his daughter yelling at them for them to move on iirc. One of those moments where you can't possibly convey how stupid people are being because they just have no conception of how insanely wrong about every single thing they are

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Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



That specific bollard setup has shown up on World Bollard Association's twitter a few times by now. Bollards are great, if the signage there isn't up to snuff put in some rumble strips or something. If they get taken down I hope lorries keep them up all night ripping up their roads with all the extra weight


Conflict of interest report - I like to take long walks and live in a US city so my relationship to motor vehicles is basically that it's warfare and bollards are one of the few comrades I have

Mr Phillby posted:

Isn't the point of these things to force drivers to slow down?

Designing a self driving car that can navigate these things with maximum efficiency is like designing a car that can jump over speedbumps to avoid slowing sown.

Tesla is literally programming their self-driving systems to break laws in exactly this way lol.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



NotJustANumber99 posted:

Do they have a newsletter?

https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1485701877396295681


*Daytona USA voice* ROOOOOOLLIIIIIIINGGGGG STOOOP

I think that's just one example of them programming to allow the sort of law breaking people are used to instead of, well, anything that would make cars being actually autonomous possible. Pure lifestyle poo poo

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Call me crazy but I feel like if privatization schemes were capable on delivering on some vague promise of solving inequality and poverty, it would've done so on Earth already where even the water is privately owned.

In fact I feel like somebody already nailed down what enclosure is, its likely future course, and the implications therein quite a long time ago, I wonder why nobody has tried using the stuff he talked about as the basis for one of these articles :thunk:

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



What happens to the corgis when the Queen kicks it? Are they entombed with her or...?

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Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Guavanaut posted:

Wait, if you burned bales of weed at the right points, could you turn the entire Bristol channel into a bong?

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