Was this comment made on the correct post?

I mean, I don’t think usage statistics are a great way to evaluate what needs to be done to any given road. If a road has a speed limit as low as 25 mph there probably shouldn’t be more than one lane per direction.

Might I suggest trying to update the app, both the pre-patched one and the patches applied.

Ultimately the answer, at least in my view, is that the people who need to be held responsible for road safety need to be the ones most capable of inflicting harm and most insulated from risk of harm. To be clear, when I say responsible I don’t just mean being punished when there is a fuck up, though there definitely needs to be that, I mean making an effort to ensure that drivers exhibit reasonable levels of competence and designing the environment they exist in to encourage safe behavior.

I mean, good to have data that lowering speed limits does actually help. Still would be better to revamp the roads to have a safer design speed.

If they don’t integrate Proton as part of this to allow all those Windows games to just work, and then also don’t subsequently make at least a token effort to contribute to Proton’s codebase, this isn’t enough for me to care. On the other hand, if they do actually do both of those things I may be willing to end my nigh on a decade boycott of their services.

Counterpoint, Next Thursdayism, reality doesn’t exist yet and your memory of reading this was manufactured at the moment of creation to try to convince you it had already happened.

I’m not talking about on mobile, I mean I’m being locked out of new reddit even on desktop.

Police testimony should never be admissible as evidence without bodycam footage to back it up, not these days.

It’s also been forcing login to access new reddit, so as far as I can tell the site is just completely unusable for anyone without an account.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti's_constant

People would in general change either their living place or place of work to be about a half hour’s trip. That would take some time sure, but people mostly aren’t going to bike an hour every day for many of the same reasons they don’t drive an hour every day.

Elon Musk’s biographer has apparently confirmed exactly that, that all the hyperloop hype was intended to derail investment into high speed rail.

Actually, I think I know what the thing we’ll be disappointed in will be: rubber tires. Tire wear releases non-trivial amounts of carcinogenic particulate into the air, and as far as I’m aware that problem just goes unacknowledged.

Is there a reason it can’t be plastic? Surely it’s not like the negative effects of lead poisoning were unknown 50 years ago, with people instead just ignoring it because it was the only option or was cheaper or everyone else was using it or something, all of which excuses apply equally to plastics.

You know, and I know you know, that that’s never what is meant by saying it’s “safer to travel at the speed of traffic”. It’s tragic to be sure, but it’s not a counter argumement against obeying the law.

Reading through the executive order I see three categories of people it’s trying to affect.

1. “Terrorists”. This is the category I expect to be used first, and as such is the one I expect to get struck down first.

2. Diplomats and other individuals with diplomatic immunity. This one frankly I assumed already didn’t get birthright citizenship, as my reading of the “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” clause was that it was these people it was excluding.

3. “Birth Tourists”. This is the one that I have been exposed to the most fearmongering about. To be frank I am skeptical it happens often enough to matter, and the government would probably fare better simply denying access to the country anyone pregnant enough for it to come up. I also expect this part of the order to be struck down the moment an attempt is made to apply it.

That’s all assuming the order doesn’t get suspended and subsequently struck down by the courts immediately, which is unlikely.

Isn’t that mostly because the federal government cut funding to the program, and Arizona was just hit disproportionately hard by the changes? It can’t just be because it’s a moderate in charge, there are other states with moderate leadership.

Look, a Mamdani style Democratic Socialist would be my first choice as well, but if a moderate is what is needed to be electable in the region over a trumplican I can cope.

I mean, he’s a republican that endorsed Kamala Harris, so to me it sounds more like a moderate teaming up with another moderate in a state where that seems to be the best option.

I’d rather the government pay people a reasonable rate for jury duty, but I suppose something is better than nothing for people selected.