• Noxy
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      92 months ago

      Folks temporarily slow down until they’re gone. Which causes traffic jams and accidents.

    • @[email protected]
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      212 months ago

      No, but it doesn’t mean I’ll never speed again as soon as im out of their view. I’d say at best they delayed a crime from happening. But I get how that has its legitimate usefulness too.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’ve definitely come around to speeding as a civil engineering problem more than anything else (partly due to Lemmy but started on that other platform).

        In general people don’t take speeding seriously nor believe they will be a victim of dangerous driving. I don’t see how police enforcement does anything to change that. I’m sure it does for a few but in general, no. It even causes worse situations when you have people with their license taken away, no way to get insurance, yet have to rely on cars. Our current approach to speeding is just busy work for police and a tax on the unlucky.

        Yet different road design helps people drive at a reasonable speed by default, reduced collisions, protects the more vulnerable travelers from car travelers, and gives people multiple choices to get around. Most importantly we can have more scalable choices than simply “add another lane”

        Lets build infrastructure such that police are not spending so much time enforcing speed limits where we all know people will speed right up when the cop is gone

        DOWN WITH STROADS!

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        I get annoyed by people who post about a problem but haven’t done anything to understand it or come up with a rational solution.

        Screaming ACAB a million times may make them feel good, but it doesn’t do anything useful.

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          Screaming ACAB a million times may make them feel good, but it doesn’t do anything useful.

          Niether did this comment.

        • Noxy
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          72 months ago

          Abolishing the police is the solution.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 month ago

                You should have just kept quiet.

                If you had an actual plan you’d be showing it to everyone, including me, if only to make me look silly.

                Congratulations, you played yourself.

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                  You should have just kept quiet.

                  Huh, you should take your advice, you’re the one playing with yourself.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    11 month ago

                    The first person who resorts to insult is the one with no idea what to say next.

                    Thanks for proving it.

        • @[email protected]
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          152 months ago

          Not everyone is qualified to propose good ideas, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t qualified to point out a problem. I also feel that some things are hard to avoid on certain parts of the internet. I fully back BLM, but there have been times that I just want to enjoy memes without seeing yet another BLM post. That’s not because I think its been said to death, but it gets tiring to constantly be reminded of something terrible happening in the world. Sometimes you just need a break from it. ACAB is another example of that i think many people feel. I think you’re right though that not many people have offered good solutions, but I think we are still in the phase that there are plenty of people who still fully back the terrible acts being done by American police. So for now it’s still mostly just saying ACAB.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            Not everyone is qualified to propose good ideas,

            Almost as if it’s incumbent on us to seek out the good ideas other people have proposed.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          I get annoyed by people who post about a problem but haven’t done anything to understand it or come up with a rational solution.

          If I take, for example, your phone and smash it to a million tiny pieces do you need to understand, in depth, how a phone works to the point of creating a complete and rational blueprint of a replacement before you can say “smashing someone else’s things is a dick move”?

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            11 month ago

            Screaming ACAB a million times may make them feel good, but it doesn’t do anything useful.

            You can’t actually deal with what I wrote, so you have to come up with some fantasy scenario.

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              31 month ago

              You’re missing the point of the metaphor and isn’t saying the exact same thing over and over again what your original complaint is?

              You’re not wrong that screaming isn’t going to directly repair/replace your phone, but it’s not about “feeling good” or “doing anything useful” it’s about preventing further damage.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 month ago

                I’m not missing the point of the metaphor; I’m saying you are using a metaphor to avoid dealing with what I wrote.

                It’s funny that you’d want police to defuse a tense situation, and then say yelling is a reasonable way to stop the cops from getting angry.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    11 month ago

                    It’s funny that you’d want police to defuse a tense situation, and then say yelling is a reasonable way to stop the cops from getting angry.

                    How about dealing with things I’ve written and not trying to turn back the page?