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  • I get this is a joke, but speed limits shouldn’t be set by politicians (which I’m hearing apparently is/was a thing?). Politicians have a role to play in getting regulations standards re-written by people who understand the decades of research on this.

    Speeding is mostly a design issue, but I still expect people actually follow the rules.

    Strong Towns, NotJustBikes, City Beautiful, Practical Engineering, among others have made great videos on this topic.

    A lot of people justify speeding, and it’s kinda dumb, if you ask me.

    Just because you “feel” it’s safe, doesn’t mean it actually is.

    Plus, there’s a fantastic way to reduce road deaths, just have fewer cars, switch to public transport, but that takes a long time to implement if the political will doesn’t exist.


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    Engineers should absolutely include traffic calming features to get people to naturally slow down, but everyone should drive the limit.

    Speed kills, kinetic energy is not linear.

    Cars are tonnes of metal hurtling down the road. Thousands upon thousands die every year, and since the increased prevalence of massive US style trucks fatalities have RISEN, undoing decades of progress. (Both in the US, and elsewhere)

    People driving 20 over the limit are arseholes (or have been influenced by car centric infrastructure and culture). Change my mind.

    Speeding is never okay. Just that lots of people have convinced themselves it’s no big deal.

    Edit because of downvotes: https://www.bts.gov/content/motor-vehicle-safety-data

    Y’all are really justifying some shitty behaviour. Yeah, I get it, streets are designed shittily, and feels like it’s fine to speed (especially, from what I can see, in the US), but this doesn’t absolve you from doing the right thing.

    Like, if it were 5 (km/h) over, I could perhaps forgive you. But downvoting me for suggesting 20 mph over is arsehole behaviour? You don’t deserve a licence.

    Fuck these carbrains putting their feelings over completely savable lives.

    USA is cooked (and Australia, somewhat cooked, since people are buying ridiculously sized cars here too).

    Don’t speed, you fuckwits. Better yet, take public transport if you live in a city with cilivised transportation (obviously, not your fault if it doesn’t exist).








  • My 5D chess move would be:

    • Go: ok bet, you wanna shut it down? Your stores are now in immediate administration under some eminent domain law
    • In order to mitigate political backlash, make it known that they’re able to sell their business to someone else, or the city, provided that the subsequent owner is bound to either run it, or sell it to the city

    Watch them get mad because you haven’t technically seized it, they can still sell the business (maintaining the sacrosanct rights to private property capitalists love so much), you’ve just prevented them from closing it down, and everyone gets to keep their jobs :)




  • Iran’s theocratic regime aside (which the US is largely responsible for creating), why exactly are the US (and a handful of other countries) somehow more worthy of having nukes than others?

    It’s some bullshit if you ask me.

    The question of “do we really want X country having nukes?” seems to come off as: “it’s okay for country Y (the US) to have nukes”.

    I for one, am not a fan of anyone having nukes, but if we’re not planning on getting that number to zero, not sure how it’s justified to say a certain country doesn’t deserve them, other than maybe North Korea who are completely unhinged, but how can we draw the line? The USA is literally just committing acts of war because they’ve unilaterally decided that Iran has nukes, without evidence, and that means they’re justified in doing pre-emptive strikes.

    I don’t think any country is ever justified in pre-emptively striking another without extremely strong evidence.

    I’m thoroughly unconvinced that any war the US has fought other than World War II has been justified.