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.
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
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.
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”?
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.
I call bullshit.
Are you going to speed up when you see a cop car?
Folks temporarily slow down until they’re gone. Which causes traffic jams and accidents.
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.
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!
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.
Niether did this comment.
Neither.
You’re so lucky you found a meme. Otherwise you would have had to think for yourself.
calm down, dude
I’m past calm; you’re so boring it’s hard to stay awake.
Send me a message when you have something clever. Feel free to steal it, I don’t expect much from you.
Abolishing the police is the solution.
Mind providing an actual plan on how to do it?
I don’t owe you shit.
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.
Huh, you should take your advice, you’re the one playing with yourself.
The first person who resorts to insult is the one with no idea what to say next.
Thanks for proving it.
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.
Almost as if it’s incumbent on us to seek out the good ideas other people have proposed.
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”?
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.
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.
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.
What does “dealing with what I wrote” look like to you?
How about dealing with things I’ve written and not trying to turn back the page?