It’s spaces like this I think of when people complain about modern open plan offices.

This is so claustrophobic, and luckily for me, I like a bit of chatter in the background.

https://mander.xyz/c/theydidthemath

https://mander.xyz/post/33834863

The celebrations when Thatcher died we’re very appropriate

I think the original commenter means that Google got off with a tap on the wrist

Oh, I never knew this was a thing (also Voyager user), thanks!

\ is the escape character in markdown. Gotta do a double \ and then another \ for the underscore

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I wasn’t even aware there were any because the client I use (Voyager) doesn’t have them.

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.

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).

🫡 Edit: such a missed opportunity, since you can both say it back to each other

Wait until Tremp finds out all digital services now need to charge GST in Australia (10%) since like 10 years ago.

Some of you are. Another portion is in poverty, another is apathetic, and another is straight up cheering him along.

Considering what’s happening to the rule of law, the first group is far too small.

We’re counting on you, wishing you godspeed from the provinces.

I hate how we (Australia) are so closely tied to a country that is speed-running the late Roman republic.

It’s all there, a “democratic” system run by the wealthy, for the wealthy, physical intimidation of voters and politicians, a rigged voting system, ignoring the law for the benefit of a populist leader promising to deliver the masses from the corrupt establishment.

How many times per day does your boyfriend think of the Roman Empire?

Recently, surely dozens

Can the supreme court just straight up ignore the constitution, under the constitution?

Surely no, right?

Perhaps once you get preferential voting in, then primaries won’t be as necessary.

They’re not a big thing here (Australia), because most people aren’t party members, and each party has various methods of choosing candidates.

I’m just out here proselytising for preferential voting (for single member elections, that is).

Good on the new york democrats for using it at a party level 👍👍👍

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 :)

If I were near the equator: is this a joke I’m too 0° lat to understand?

Oh my apologies, I thought we were talking about the number of lanes.

Yeah the traffic here looks photoshopped, though, I’d be willing to bet there are times where this freeway almost looks like this*

*Statement based on vibes, not actual evidence

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.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Bbb8EnScBd7Ffk46

Go count them for yourself (or just search Katy Freeway into Google maps and turn on satellite view if you don’t want to click this link)

The number of lanes is insane