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admiralteal , to risa in Jellico did nothing wrong

I'm not entirely sure that seven's catsuit was really what boosted ratings with adding her to the crew though.

The fact is, she was a good character with interesting development. She put life back into a kind of meh show and quickly became one of the stars over most of the original crew.

But ratings was, without question, the intent of that stupid outfit. It just makes me sad to think back that they might not have needed it.

admiralteal , to technology in Robots Are Already Killing People

The older I get the more I realize the luddites & saboteurs were definitely on to something.

admiralteal , to news in Over 100 Connecticut State Troopers Accused of Faking Traffic Stops

I disagree. Strongly.

Good road designs self-enforce safety.

There's only a short list of things that ROUTINELY get people pulled over.

Speeding, which is better enforced by cameras than cops. Relying on human enforcement means people pull the lever on the gamble. Automated enforcement means you will get caught, and there's no better deterrent to crime than that. And road design is STRONGLY correlated with prevailing speed. You can calm a road with better designs -- if a road is rife with routine dangerous speeding, most likely it's the engineer's fault for putting in a racetrack instead of a street.

Running red lights. Same as above.

Vehicles out-of-spec. Expired tags, damaged tail lights, etc.. A lot of this stuff should simply not result in a pull-over. Key in the plate then send the person notice and/or a fine in the mail.

Running stop signs/failing to yield to pedestrians. Not even that routine, but anywhere where this is a routine problem is SURELY an intersection that needs a redesign (e.g., roundabout treatment, traffic calming) to eliminate bad behavior.

DUI. This is deviant and unacceptable behavior. Cops should be enforcing this and people caught driving intoxicated should see their rights to operate motor vehicles RAPIDLY escaping them.

Using cell phones. Largely same as above.

And there's one other routine traffic stop -- the pretextual traffic stop, where the cops are just making the fuck up some bullshit reason to stop you in order to try and get you on some other crime / violate your civil rights.

There's a litany of other common and bad driver behaviors that happen routinely. Failure to yield, merging on people, pulling out without looking, et cetera... but most of these do NOT generate traffic stops because no cop sees it happening and even if they do they don't give a shit.

admiralteal , to technology in New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits

Ah, who else does that logic apply to? We should treat South Korea the same as DPRK because they're all Korean, right? It's easy for Koreans to spy on other Koreans since they're all the same. And DPRK intends to one day annex South Korea! Ditto for Ukraine and Russia. I bet we can do a lot of these, where we racially categorize nations based on western cultural ideas that have nothing to do with local political conditions and declare them to be the same.

Fuck allll the way off you fucking racist fuck.

admiralteal , to news in Over 100 Connecticut State Troopers Accused of Faking Traffic Stops

There should be no such thing as a routine traffic stop. That kind of adversarial police interaction should NOT be happening to citizens behaving normally. It should be reserved only for people behaving in a truly deviant way, which modest speeding is not. Normalizing this kind of interaction is part of what it means to be in a police state.

You can automate highway speed enforcement for a lot cheaper than the wage of police officers sitting and waiting at a trap all day, and will catch everyone instead of just a bunch of arbitrarily (or worse) chosen randos from the pack.

For outside of highways, you can still automate speed enforcement, but you also need to be designing roads that discourage speeding. Current ASHTO/MUDCD rules do the opposite, constantly pushing roads to have higher speeds in pursuit of better letter grades even though this represents a constant one-way ratchetting of road danger.

The purpose of road rules, including speed limits, needs to be SAFETY, not funding. Pretty much every municipality outside of the US that pursues vision zero programs does so primarily with engineering rather than enforcement, and when enforcement is used, camera-based enforcement is more effective and less likely to murder some random person of color.

admiralteal , to technology in Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube

The literal subject of this thread.

You're in here arguing with people without even reading the headline of the article.

admiralteal , to mildlyinfuriating in wow thats great mate cheers helpful

I really hate the attitude that everything is exactly the same and that nothing is ever worse than anything else.

There is nothing naive here.

Reddit changed policy and philosophy significantly and that's what led to the backlash and lots of users leaving. You know that and clearly agree with it. And using my comments for display purposes as part of the community under the terms and understanding I had 15 years ago is very different than using my comments to train AI and their new attitude that started this year.

admiralteal , to technology in Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube

This is a thread about YouTube shorts and its bad algorithm, dude.

admiralteal , to technology in That OTHER time Boeing tried to cover up a design flaw at the cost of people's lives (United Airlines Flight 585)

There was also that Greek flight where they killed an entire plane load of people with hypoxia because the alarm for cabin air pressure was the same as the alert for arriving at cruising altitude so the flight crew didn't realize it was going off. And thanks to post-9/11 locked cabin policies, which has basically certainly killed more people than they helped, the captains weren't in proper communication with the rest of the crew.

admiralteal , to technology in The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website

It's weird to me because the first time I ever heard someone being seriously critical of any absolute idea to free speech, at least at a high-level, was on the EFF's how to fix the internet podcast.

I'm with you. Their logic makes some sense, but it's just not practical or reasonable to me. I just don't see the slope as particularly slippery. Kiwi Farms was enthusiastically engaging in dangerous, heinous, and illegal activities.

Perhaps we do need some kind of serious due process for this kind of intervention. I'll sign that petition or forward to my reps that letter. But in the meantime, I'm happy to say bye to this scumb.

admiralteal , to technology in New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits

Are you legitimately saying that we should treat Taiwan as the same as China just because its citizens are the same race? Jesus fucking christ, dude. Take a deep breath, look in the mirror, and reconsider that racist ass position.

Straight up Tankie shit, the rest.

admiralteal , to technology in Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube

Yours, on the other hand, is predicated on the belief that they're all super-incompetent and have no capability of doing anything right ever

Nope. It's only this specific thing that I necessarily think they're doing a bad job of. And I'm right; they are. Their algorithm is a struggling baby compared to TikTok and YouTube at large is not a major profit center (and indeed may not be profitable at all -- but they maintain it because abandoning it would be too costly for them).

TikTok is so good at doing this thing that it is a profitable business for them. YouTube is struggling, and we can clearly see why.

admiralteal , to mildlyinfuriating in wow thats great mate cheers helpful

It's your account and your comments. You can do with them as you wish.

That's the point. If you don't wish to leave them behind to be profitable to Reddit, that's also your choice. I don't feel strongly about your choice to do it one way or another. Personally, I nuked my 15yo account and all comments completely because I don't want to leave anything valuable behind to make profits for a company that I feel doesn't deserve them.

The point is, those comments were mine, not theirs. I don't want them selling them for profit, especially to an LLM mill.

admiralteal , to mildlyinfuriating in wow thats great mate cheers helpful

Fediverse stuff is essentially not commercialized by nature.

We should hold commercial actors to entirely different standards than non-commercial ones. There's no hypocrisy in doing so.

It wasn't that Reddit was going to do so. It is that they were going to do so in a fundamentally proprietary way -- they were treating the content as THEIR property to monetize and sell.

admiralteal , to mildlyinfuriating in wow thats great mate cheers helpful

And also stops Reddit from monetizing this volunteer-made content they intended to disrespectfully pilfer.

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