Because speed limits are designed for the largest, clunkiest vehicles on the road (semi trucks, specifically). If they can’t handle the road at a certain speed, then the speed limit is dropped to a level that can be comfortably driven by them.

Don’t you guys have any generic laws about driving “carefully and considerately”? It’s completely common in my country for the speed limit to be higher than what many vehicles can safely handle. That just means those drivers have to judge for themselves how fast they can safely drive while remaining “careful and considerate”.

Stop signs in the US are so damn common you guys invented the “rolling stop”. Outside the US I think I’ve met like ten stop-signs total. You can bet your ass I’m coming to a complete stop when I see one, since they’re so rare I know they’re there for a good reason.

For some reason the US decided to put stop signs all the places everyone else just has a “yield” sign (unsure of the proper English term, but it’s the upside down triangle indicating you have to yield to any other traffic), or just ordinary right-hand rule with no sign at all.

This makes prosecution via camera problematic; the camera can’t be called into court for questioning and no person personally witnessed the event occur.

By this logic you can’t accuse someone in a situation where your only evidence is security camera footage. That may be the case? Either way it’s just one of a plethora of examples of how wonky the US justice system is.

• We have security camera footage of the murder.
• Too bad the camera can’t witness in court and the only other witness (the victim) is dead.

Interaction dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

Thanks, that was a much more nuanced take that I have a much easier time agreeing with :)

I think the population problem has some in common with food distribution: There’s enough food in the world, it’s just distributed in such a way that some places have obesity as a societal-level issue, while other places people are dying of malnourishment.

Similarly, the global population is increasing, however it’s increasing far more rapidly that sustainable in some places, while declining more rapidly than sustainable in others.

There’s only so much you can do by redistributing wealth in a better way (which I think we should, regardless). It doesn’t help to tax the rich if there isn’t any manpower you can buy with that tax income to actually do the work that needs doing. I think that’s the scary part about a rapid population decline: We’re heading towards a situation (in some places) where the ratio of capable workers to people needing care approaches 2:1, which means a far larger fraction of the population will need to spend their entire working career as direct care providers than is currently the case. You can’t really alleviate a manpower shortage with just money.

I never knew regex could be so beautiful <\3

It’s a dog whistle every time.

Population decline isn’t inherently a problem (unless you’re a racist worried about “your people” losing power). Too rapid population decline is a big problem. We’re already seeing the effects: When the sum of birth rates and working-age immigration fall fast enough, the ratio of working-age people to care-needing people also falls. I don’t think I need to explain why it’s a problem that every able-bodied working age adult will be responsible (directly or indirectly) for taking care of more people. It puts more pressure on everyone, and impacts societies ability to care for those in need of it.

A controlled, slow, population decline would probably just be a good thing at this point. However, that’s not what prognoses are pointing towards, and that’s why (non-racist) people are worried.

never had more than one week off here or there

Wat?

I live in the US

That explains it…

You’re welcome to hop over the pond if you ever want to combine fulfilling work with proper time off :)

Why would you do such things? Just let me log in using some trusted authenticator please. If you can’t do that, you may as well replace everything with a confirmation mail every time I log in, cause you bet I’m going to click “forgot my password” Every Single Time and get in via the reset-email anyway.

You forcing me to change my password all the time just adds extra overhead to the inevitability that you’ll let me in after mailing me a confirmation code.

Oh, just wait till you hit that sweet sweet python “Everything can have an else block”

if some_shit:
    try: 
        for stuff in thing:
             if stuff is bad:
                  raise ShitHitTheFanError
             # Massive block comment
             do = the_thing()
             if do is good:
                  break
        else:
            do = the_other_thing()
            if not a_thing:
                help_me() # May raise NoHelpFoundError
    except ShitHitTheFanError:
         my_life = recover()
         if my_life is bad:
             for fuck in my_life:
                  try:
                      fix(fuck)
                  except NoHelpFoundError:
                      break
             else:
                  fuck_this_shit()
    else:
         wat_is_going_on()
else:
    theres_another_one("?")

Footgunscannons

Gen Z is just as smart and capable as any other generation.

The introduction of social media, with all the addiction, depression, anxiety, etc. associated with it has somehow managed to not affect peoples problem-solving skills? There are so many studies confirming how fucked the younger generations are regarding all kinds of mental health that it’s frankly absurd to believe those findings are completely independent of things like attention span and problem-solving skills.

Also:

• Article: Refers to an actual study.
• You: “This article is pointless speculation”.

So… when used at a population level rather than at an individual level, and used for comparison between generations from the same place… they’re a good metric?

Great reading: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2023/12/13/the-persistence-of-tradition-the-curious-case-of-henry-symeonis/

We have civil war, corruption, and murder, all wrapped up in a 550 year long mysterious grudge!

• Alcoholic suffering from alcoholism
• Best I can do is take away your alcohol

The holocaust impacted many groups of people. It’s definitely most well known for the systematic attempt at wiping out all Jews. Talking about “Jews and other victims” in relation to the holocaust isn’t about neglecting the “other victims”, it’s emphasising the fact that the Holocaust targeted Jews specifically more than any other group.

These companies literally design their product with the intention of making people overspend. As long as micro transactions have existed, the problem of kids over spending their parents money because they were allowed a single purchase has been a problem.

The companies in question are making bank off this. They know it’s an issue, and they actively exploit it to make more money. It’s extremely unethical.

Sure, I’m not advocating for doing what he did, regardless how he paid for it. I’m putting myself in the shoes of a young father that just wanted to make his kid happy and didn’t properly consider the bigger picture.

People buy their kids all kinds of things that are bad for them with the best intentions. We usually don’t conclude that they deserve debilitating debt as a consequence.

• 9 yo Kid is making vidya
• Doesn’t have many viewers
• Want to make kid happy
• Spend 20 $ on ads
• maybe_a_couple_views.png
• Three weeks later
• I’m literally 118 009 $ in debt

MFW

Honestly, if you can’t understand how absolutely debilitating this is over a tiny misstep, I hardly know what to say. People commit manslaughter and get off easier that this. It’s in no way reasonable to say that “Oh, you shouldn’t have used the company card to pay 20$ for your kid - you deserve life-ruining debt”.

Blame the dad

Honestly, it shouldn’t be legal to pull more than like 100 USD off a card without re-verifying the card holder. Fuck these companies that take your card once and have no fucking limit on how much they’ll pull from it without verifying it’s you.

Sure, you should have a limit on your card. That doesn’t make it okay for others to exploit you when you make an obvious mistake. Let’s not pretend these companies aren’t aware how much money they’re making off people’s kids spending more money than they’re allowed to.

I’m no expert, but a quick Wikipedia search was enough for me to not immediately brush it off as pseudoscience.

It’s not claimed to be exact of course, but it does appear to me that consensus is that it can be done with reasonable accuracy.