And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.
Loss of revenue per year 28 million.
If the fines were directly proportional to income and net worth, I would have absolutely no problem re-instituting those speed traps.
But if it’s a flat rate… any fine that that is a fixed number is meant to punish the working class for the crime of being poor.
And the wealthy will just see it as the cost of having fun, and pay the fine with the spare change they normally forget about in the bottom of their pockets. They’ll just continue doing what they’re doing because fines fail to impact them in any meaningful manner.
Can’t recall where I last saw it, but many larger roads are designed for speeds up to twice the posted rate without significant increases in accidents.
Now granted, a big problem in Canada is driver training and vehicle condition, but if Germany can have autobahns with no speed limits, why can’t we? All it would take is a decade or so of gradual re-authenticating skill levels, and a significant inspection system for vehicles. But that’s the trade-off needed if you want to have safe roads at any speed.
Note: for training, it would include extensive mandatory training, pass/fail limits that are far more stringent than what we currently have, and include new driver behavioural features like two lanes pulling apart when a traffic jam occurs, so that emergency vehicles have unrestricted passage -- with no non-emergency vehicles using that “shortcut”. For vehicle inspections it would be a level that demands showroom-pristine condition for all vehicles: no visible rust, no nonfunctional parts (even superfluous ones like AC), and the ability to take hydraulic rams to different body parts (underside, body panels, etc.) without the ram punching through due to rust-weakened panels.
This would absolutely trigger the “muh freedumb” people, but you cannot have higher speeds without more stringent safety measures in place.
Should he lose, his political career would be over.
That’s a full-chub, full-mast outcome if I ever heard of one.
More criminalization of the destitute for the crime of being poor.
He was being defensive, borderline hostile.
He was correct. He was direct. There really isn’t any other way to handle an asshole when they’re celebrating their own assholery.
Aye, that’s a Pavement Princess bought with more money than sense.
Science wouldn’t function by this metric. We aren’t in a universe where opinion shifts reality, we can make very solid axioms that are broadly true and testable.
It’s why science relies on the test of disproof. If a premise survives the test of disproof, it graduates to a hypothesis because it is seen as a reasonably accurate description of reality, in that nothing else comes as close.
I'm assuming no one can actually tell I'm using LibreOffice.
Trace formatting issues aside, it will show up in other subtle ways such as smaller *.docx files and cleaner doc-to-PDF conversions.
You can still acquire non-365 licenses that also come bullshit-free with no AI.
Once those are no longer available, I’m sure I’ll be fully over on Linux/LibreOffice by that time.
Being a good programmer is harder than it seems. Lots of people can code, but many are just script kiddies. Even I consider myself at the lower bounds of what it means to be a software developer - and I don’t consider myself to be knowledgeable in low-level hardware in the least.
Some people, despite their odious natures, manage to unlock talents and skills that others can only dream of. It’s no different than trying to separate a troublesome artist from their art.
Conservatism needs its masses of ignorant and near-illiterate electorate who cannot think for themselves and cannot use critical thinking to realize how badly they are being hoodwinked. This hollowing out of the educational system has been done on purpose to bulk up the Republican electorate.