It's a strawman and you know it. I've said several times that right of way is not a replacement for due care and attention. e.g. "And - duh! - of course we’re careful crossing the street.", or "Again, we just look both ways and make sure any driver heading in your direction has made eye contact so you know they’ve seen you."
You're the one who invented this "the law will protect me so I can jump into traffic blindfold" strawman, not me.
What you seem to be saying in this comment is that, despite crushingly authoritarian laws prohibiting jaywalking, people in your state are just arseholes who deliberately try to get hit by a car? Or, maybe you're saying that people in countries with jay-walking laws are more likely to be suicidal, because this is behavior you've seen in person?
I don't quite understand what your point is any more. I've never been hit by a car. No-one I know has ever been hit by a car (except one friend who bounced off the hood of a Ferrari but - by his own admission - that was entirely his own fault).
The fact that pedestrians have right of way here seems to mean drivers (I'm a driver too) are more inclined to anticipate hazards - including pedestrians - than in a country where pedestrians have no freedom. We do hazard awareness testing as part of our driver licensing programme. And - duh! - of course we're careful crossing the street.
But you still seem to be utterly fixated on the 'determined at fault' thing. Who is at fault is irrelevant when people aren't being mowed down by Bubba Joe in his Mustang racing between the lights.
Well if you think people who live in countries with no jay-walking laws 'lollygag in the street or cross irresponsibly' or '[jump] in front of 2,000+ lbs hunk of mostly plastic', I don't know what to tell you. I guess we just live in countries with more personal freedom and a greater expectation of personal responsibility.
Again, we just look both ways and make sure any driver heading in your direction has made eye contact so you know they’ve seen you. My 10-year old walks to school on his own and crosses a road twice. I have 0% expectation that he'll be hit by a car.
It's bizarre to me that you fixate on what happens when you're dead.
I'm more interested in the impact of the cultural component of drivers knowing that pedestrians can cross anywhere. I feel like that makes a huge difference. In countries where jaywalking laws exist, I imagine it's dangerous to cross the road anywhere other than a pedestrian crossing. In countries where car companies never managed to get the government go along with victim-blaming pedestrians and so never enacted jay-walking laws I assume it's much safer.
I'm in my late 50s, and have never worried about crossing urban roads, never come close to being mowed down by a car (a bicycle a couple of times, but never a car). I've lived everywhere from tiny villages to one of the biggest, angriest cities in the world, and it's simply never been an issue.
You just look both ways and make sure any driver heading in your direction has made eye contact so you know they've seen you. Oftentimes they'll wave you across.
One bastard nose hair. It grows long and it grows fast. Like sometimes it curls round inside the nostril and I don’t notice it for a week or two, then all of a sudden it pops out of my left nostril and it’s an inch long.
I try to get ahead of it some times but plucking a nose hair makes my eyes water like Niagara.
I think the issue isn’t AI stealing your content but AI flooding the web with slop.
Once upon a time you could find a niche without much content, write a blog and maybe even monetise it with some ad space to pay for costs plus a coffee. A friend of mine used to make a surprisingly decent income with a blog about coi carp.
There was always the risk someone else would start posting in the same niche and then you’d be competing for attention.
Now, though, it’s trivially easy to spin up an AI powered blog on any topic with dozens of SEO optimised articles per day and no human effort required.
So now you’re not competing with one or two other humans in your niche, you’re competing with potentially hundreds of AISlop blogs.
Personally I’d look to publish your content in video format. Text is pretty much a lost game at this point, video might hold out a little longer because it’s the personalities of channel owners that keeps people coming in.
It's a strawman and you know it. I've said several times that right of way is not a replacement for due care and attention. e.g. "And - duh! - of course we’re careful crossing the street.", or "Again, we just look both ways and make sure any driver heading in your direction has made eye contact so you know they’ve seen you."
You're the one who invented this "the law will protect me so I can jump into traffic blindfold" strawman, not me.