All this is to say the primary purpose of speed cameras is still revenue generation.
That's not what Doug Ford said when he deployed them. He, citing the actual designers of the infrastructure, said it was a safety measure. But for some fucking reason, pedestrian safety and anything that inconveniences a motorist have become issues in the Culture War. Now his idiotic base is convinced that speed cameras are somehow a revenue issue, and so Doug Ford has changed his tune. But it's just not reality. The speed cameras they we are talking about right now are deployed as a traffic-calming (ie pedestrian-not-killing) measure.
PEDESTRIANS DO NOT GET REAR-ENDED. IDGAF if motorists are hitting each other more often. That's explicitly not the fucking point. Are you even aware that pedestrians are getting killed more now than any time in the last 40 years? There is a crisis happening right now and we need these interventions. So sorry if it inconveniences you.
Like I just said, you have clearly never even encountered serious, informed discussion on these subjects. Go watch some Oh The Urbanity and get back to us when you have an opinion that wasn't given to you to enlist you in the Culture War.
I suppose a product of growing up with anti-intellectualism is that it seems threatening when someone stops everything and turns everyone's attention to a word that you just used without conceit.
Optimism and pessimism are qualities that are independent of the underlying reality. There is no situation too good or too bad that cannot be viewed optimistically or pessimistically. Humans at baseline have an in-built bias for optimism that is invisible to oneself unless you know how to look for it, and even then, only when you look, and only sometimes. It's quite certain that you are being ridiculously optimistic about several things in your life. It's one of the tricks our meat plays on our mind so that our mind doesn't just lie down and wait for death.
oh god it's a fucking figure of speech that means for practical fucking purposes when multiple people are involved they all have to act more predictably if they want to fucking coordinate their fucking actions
if you want to have a meal with others, you all need to have the meal at the same fucking time. it's fucking tautological. the "demand" if you want to read it that way comes from the funda-fucking-mental nature of fucking time and fucking causality
The pros are that it cannot be used as leverage against your interests by the vendor, and it's basically UNIX. But I mean, by that criteria, one should run BSD.
The point isn't to punish people, it's to keep people un-killed. If speed cameras don't work on 2% because they are wealthy sociopaths, that's not a reason to abandon the intervention that has been clearly proven to work at the intended purpose of keeping people from getting killed. This is such a bizarre objection. Perhaps it is a reflex earned from decades of looking for how the poor get screwed and that's admirable but it kind of looks like looking for any excuse not to have to slow down.
This is a life-saving intervention that is empirically proven to save lives. The lives of pedestrians are more important than the income of gig workers. Pedestrians are an even more disadvantaged and vulnerable class than gig drivers.
It's a tiny problem, we can accept that it is a bit regressive and adjust taxes elsewhere to compensate. For this, I should die? Sort it out, bud.
Get banned, child. I know, you don't read the article, and you don't read the fucking rules, do you? You're coming here just to be an asshole and vent your hurt feelings. Fuck is wrong with you? GTFO.
That's not what Doug Ford said when he deployed them. He, citing the actual designers of the infrastructure, said it was a safety measure. But for some fucking reason, pedestrian safety and anything that inconveniences a motorist have become issues in the Culture War. Now his idiotic base is convinced that speed cameras are somehow a revenue issue, and so Doug Ford has changed his tune. But it's just not reality. The speed cameras they we are talking about right now are deployed as a traffic-calming (ie pedestrian-not-killing) measure.
PEDESTRIANS DO NOT GET REAR-ENDED. IDGAF if motorists are hitting each other more often. That's explicitly not the fucking point. Are you even aware that pedestrians are getting killed more now than any time in the last 40 years? There is a crisis happening right now and we need these interventions. So sorry if it inconveniences you.
Like I just said, you have clearly never even encountered serious, informed discussion on these subjects. Go watch some Oh The Urbanity and get back to us when you have an opinion that wasn't given to you to enlist you in the Culture War.