• @[email protected]English
    29•8 days ago

    Fatalities per capita is probably less interesting than fatalities per unit of distance driven.

    • Not a replicantEnglish
      5•7 days ago

      There are states in Australia that can swallow Texas whole. Long distance driving is unavoidable, so it’s less useful as a metric because it can’t be changed easily. It would mean improving public transport, subsidising domestic flights, etc - and we all know how likely that is.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•7 days ago

        I mean, you guys have 6 states covering a landmass roughly 75% the size of the US…

        Get more states 😜

      • @[email protected]English
        2•7 days ago

        I mean, you guys have 6 states covering a landmass roughly 75% the size of the US…

        Get more states 😜

        • Not a replicantEnglish
          2•6 days ago

          You’ve heard the term “balkanization”? You’ve just invented “US-ification”.

          More states = more politicians 🤮

          • @[email protected]English
            1•6 days ago

            I’m really hopeful people get their heads out of their asses and flip the majorities in the house and senate next year…