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Zaktor ,

Most people here speak English as a first language and you’re making the choice to switch to the foreign word here for a reason.

Zaktor ,

This both isn’t one and I don’t for a moment believe you’re using it in the name of multiculturalism. You’re a reliable apologist for Israel and want to make “schools” sound like something scary.

Zaktor ,

You are very much not off target with your suspicions about this account’s motivations. And it’s not to show off their familiarity with Arabic.

Zaktor ,

You are very disingenuous.

Zaktor ,

A “vigilante” isn’t just a person acting outside of the law that some people agree with. They’re usually about punishing wrongdoers, not protecting them.

Zaktor ,

Just because some rich people can effectively ignore laws does not make fines for breaking those laws a tax. Not being financially able to ignore speed limits isn’t “suffering”.

Zaktor ,

How was the officer involved, headline writer?

Only five bodies delivered to Belgorod morgue after mysterious Russian plane crash, Ukrainian intelligence suggests (www.cnn.com)

Ukraine says it has intelligence suggesting only five bodies were delivered from the crash site of a Russian military transport plane to a nearby morgue, a Ukraine military intelligence official told CNN, casting doubt on Moscow’s claim that dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in the explosion....

Zaktor ,

I don’t even get how the op is supposed to work. Ukraine shooting down an unannounced military plane approaching the war is the right thing to do. Even if everything Russia said was true, it’s not like Ukraine should just stop shooting down enemy aircraft because sometimes they might be carrying POWs rather than munitions. It would be unfortunate for the POWs if it were true, but if I were Ukrainian I wouldn’t question the military’s choice at all.

In-N-Out to close first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of car break-ins and robberies (apnews.com)

In-N-Out Burger says it will close its first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of car break-ins, property damage, theft and robberies affecting customers and employees alike at its only restaurant in Oakland, California....

Zaktor ,

I like how they list a single-digit numbers for a few crimes and then 1,174 car break-ins. 9 robberies and 2 burglaries in 4 years is almost nothing, but sounds like car break-ins are basically constant.

Zaktor ,

Remember when the bill to ban stock trading well was tabled so Democratic leadership could introduce a bill to ban stock trading poorly and then that bill was quietly delayed until after the Democrats lost the house?

nytimes.com/…/stock-trading-vote-congress.html

Zaktor ,

You don’t, just just need localized broadcast and a receiver in the car. Or cameras and signs as other people have mentioned.

Zaktor ,

You realize your car already knows what speed it’s driving without GPS, right?

Zaktor ,

Do you think GPS units are broadcasting their location to know where they are? They just download maps and use the signal to localize themselves. Too many people acting like they know how tech works without understanding the basics of the largely non-networked world that existed before smartphones and spyware apps absorbed every feature.

Zaktor ,

Yes, enforcing “laws” is authoritarian.

Zaktor ,

Pre-download speed maps or passively receive speed broadcasts from the roadside.

Zaktor ,

What, that up to date speed databases are an impossible problem to solve? Or that you couldn’t possibly get current speed limits from a non-GPS method? These aren’t hard problems.

Zaktor ,

There’s always going to be some room for random variation causing a few locations to have worse outcomes after speed cameras are installed, but the overall statistics show a reduction in both accidents and severity.

Zaktor ,

This will cause traffic slow downs

That’s literally the point.

Zaktor ,

Generally temporary speed limit changes just go down, so the worst case is for a little while your car will let you speed. And if it goes up but the town fucks up and doesn’t update the database, people will complain while being forced to drive a little slower than the new maximum.

Zaktor ,

You’d be amazed how many problems can be solved when the people involved have legal liability. My first GPS unit was out of date from the moment I bought it. It wasn’t because keeping a map up to date was hard, it was because they didn’t care, you’d already bought the GPS and it was better than not having one at all. This isn’t a technological problem.

Your car’s GPS-localized speed map is wrong because no one cares enough to make it right, not because it’s an unsolvable problem. It’s a gimmick to get you to buy the car, and you already bought the car.

Zaktor ,

Again, they don’t have any liability or financial need to be right. It’s a free tool that’s better than not using the tool. No one is going to get in trouble if it’s wrong, you’re not going to buy a competing brand if they’re wrong. It’s a neat add-on. I don’t know why people assume that just because they’re a big company they’re especially dedicated or competent at managing minor features of free apps. Apple and Google apps are regularly worse than third party developed apps. They’re not bad because this is a hard problem, they’re bad because they don’t care.

And all this “but sometimes they’re wrong” is for exceedingly rare errors. 99%+ of roads are right, for the simple fact that permanent speed limit changes are rare. Maybe a database doesn’t update for temporary construction speed limits, but in that case we’re no worse than we are right now, where your car is perfectly capable of going as fast as you want if you ignore all the posted signs. The only time a limiter impacts driving is when the speed limit goes up, which almost never happens, and simply means people drive a little slower than the maximum while lodging complaints to the repository.

Zaktor ,

People (generally young men overrepresented on platforms like this) get really defensive about not being able to speed. They’re the exact problem these laws are aimed at addressing, so of course they get all upset at methods to force their compliance with the laws they’re regularly breaking. I’ve been there. I sped excessively too, then I got a really massive ticket and realized maybe that 2 minutes I was saving in my commute wasn’t actually that important.

Zaktor ,

“But what if there’s a nuclear attack followed by a tsunami!?!” vs. “speeding drivers regularly kill people”. These aren’t legit worries people have, they’re excuses because they regularly speed and get upset that they might be compelled not to.

Zaktor ,

I’m a software engineer with colleagues who work with various localization and short range communication. This is totally technologically feasible. All the “what if it’s not sure” cases just default to the higher limit. It won’t be sufficient for self-driving cars to know how fast to drive, but it will prevent the vast majority of excessive speeding.

The what-ifs are just people either flailing around to not have their speeding curtailed or people who assume half-assed apps from companies that don’t have any reason to care if they’re right are the state of the art. They always come up with absurd reasons why they need to speed or why implementation is impossible whenever any road safety improvement is proposed. It’s a boring and pathological response.

Zaktor ,

Because they went through apartheid and are sensitive to oppressive, violent, and racist governments.

Zaktor ,

♫ Proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free conforming for unity. ♫

Zaktor ,

Can’t believe this guy’s ideological allies paid to put these words into print. This is the sort of parody statement you’d put out to make fun of him.

Zaktor ,

To get there they’d have to risk being charged with perjury since it sounds like they were directly asking that question.

Zaktor ,

Yeah, I thought one of his strong points was supposed to be foreign policy, but his stance on Israel has isolated the US and seems to be fueling chaos in the Middle East. If he wanted to just say “I’ll do what I want, I’m the president”, he could have at least had the decency to not seek reelection and doom us all.

Zaktor ,

I wouldn’t go so far as to say “coast to victory”, I think both men are deeply disliked by factions of their electorate and thus could lose, but if it was literally anyone but Trump, I’d say it’s already a foregone conclusion.

Zaktor ,

And the more war crimes he does while Biden blindly supports him, the more likely he is to get Trump. Since Biden seems to be pathologically incapable of actual pushback there are no downsides to Bibi for just being as bad as possible. He gets to pursue his lebensraum while also helping elect the US fascist he prefers.

Zaktor ,

Which is aided by being as shitty as possible while Biden refuses to take a hard opposing stance. He doesn’t have to just sit back an wait, the stuff he’s doing is helping bring about that outcome.

Zaktor ,

This is definitely not in service of Murdoch-aligned politics. BI highlighted a rightwing billionaire’s hypocrisy and after the billionaire complained to his fellow rich people at AS they put out a statement saying “our reporting is good and we won’t be quashing it”.

Zaktor ,

From the article:

Business Insider would not say who conducted the review of its work.

This article is reporting on a what is basically a press statement by another news outlet, though given the story, that top-line response is the real story. No one really cares what’s in the report, the facts of the original reporting aren’t in question, the real story is simply that they rejected the billionaire’s attempt to pressure them to quash it and/or punish the writers.

Zaktor ,

Seriously. The US has retreated from public health IN THE US. You don’t want us guiding international measures. Kicking Trump out just replaced the guy who was actively promoting COVID with someone that just saw it as a political and economic inconvenience to be swept under the rug. We have either the highest or one of the highest COVID death rate among rich nations. We’re objectively awful at public health.

Zaktor ,

The only Trumpers were appointed, and maybe in places like border control. If any Trumpers remain in health related positions, it’s because Biden decided to keep them. He’s fully able to choose who leads his departments, and for public health he chose people who have been relentlessly pushing to just go back to normal regardless of what the data indicates.

Zaktor ,

Russia regularly allows fall-guy opponents to play the part of opposition without threatening the regime. This guy will either have his signatures disqualified (if he’s legit) or get some single digits votes proving his ideas are not supported. If he starts to catch on he’ll fumble in some way to make sure it putters out. They reject actual opposition that could threaten the ruling party and can’t be controlled.

Zaktor ,

They didn’t actually present any argument that this isn’t a genocide, nor did they even try to address anything the South African delegation have presented. This is state speech for “nuh uh”, so the only reason you could see that “they got it right” was if you just liked their conclusion.

Zaktor ,

Nazi Germany’s extermination camps are not the only genocides in history, nor does either entity have a special say in what a genocide is. Calling modern Germany the “side” of the Nazis is incredibly offensive, nor is Israel the “side” of the Jewish people. There are plenty of Jews around the world who have lost family in the Holocaust who very much do believe the term does apply.

U.S. Missiles Strike Targets in Yemen Linked to the Houthi Militia (www.nytimes.com)

The United States and five of its allies on Thursday carried out military strikes against more than a dozen targets in Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, in an expansion of the war in the Middle East that the Biden administration had sought to avoid for the past three months....

Zaktor ,

Did that just happen recently? It certainly didn’t happen months ago.

Zaktor ,

As long as the AUMF exists and is in effect, it is both legally and effectively the role of the President to act under its grant of authority in accordance with its purpose.

Nah, this bullet is an off the wall insane interpretation of the AUMF. They were 100% right to mock you for it. Not to mention that the AUMF is actually about September 11, and specifically textually so, not just in motivation. Did the Houthis plan, execute, or shelter those responsible? It’s been a huge stretch to even use it how it’s been used. It’s not in any way, shape, or form a requirement to go fight other random Islamic groups, whether or not they deserve it.

Zaktor ,

Maybe that’s a good default stance when the topic is war.

Zaktor ,

And the “terrorism” one is actually textually targeted at the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. It’s not even itself overly broad, it’s just been twisted into a global war on terror because the executives want to do that and no one stopped them.

Zaktor ,

None of these representatives objected to us sinking boats involved in piracy operations. They’re objecting to attacks on land against a group that is pretty close to a government. There’s some point at which on-land operations turn from being defending against piracy to regime change. Which may be warranted, but should be decided by Congress.

Zaktor ,

They were on land, but may be believably related to the sea attacks.

Zaktor ,

They didn’t actually sink any ships.

Zaktor ,

From where did you get this opinion? None of the articles I’ve read about the US attack have mentioned an attack on the US Navy. The closest I could find in a search was missiles that landed 10 nautical miles away from a Navy ship in November. Which, at the scale of the ocean is sorta close, but it’s a stretch to call it an attack in need of immediate retribution. All the direct justifications presented by the US are that this is in response to and designed to deter their attacks on commercial shipping.

Zaktor ,

This doesn’t seem to be in response to the thread. The Axios link doesn’t say anything about an attack on the US Navy. The second link has a mention by Biden of “US ships” (not Navy) as targets, but the linked story only says a British navy ship may have been targeted, but they weren’t sure. I’m well aware they’ve been attacking shipping, that’s not in question and not what I’m responding to.

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