ChonkyOwlbear @ ChonkyOwlbear @lemmy.world

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I hope the people living in Trump tower have a nice view of the burning police cars. Maybe it will make them think twice about living in this city l.

Poloticians don't see this as a problem to solve. They see it as the solution to holes in their budget.

Any ticket that is a flat cost is a regressive tax. I think we both know that income based tickets would never fly in the US.

That's a great policy California has to limit local government from using it as revenue generation, but it far from normal. I'm in Chicago and we don't have anything like that.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-speed-cameras-take-90-9-million-from-drivers-in-2024/

Chicago speed cameras issued $90.9 million worth of tickets and fees to drivers in 2024, handing motorists a fine every 24 seconds for a total of 1.84 million violations.

https://www.propublica.org/article/chicagos-race-neutral-traffic-cameras-ticket-black-and-latino-drivers-the-most

That link title should be self-explanatory.

You assume that the system is fair. It isn't. Its rigged to generate revenue. I've gotten automated tickets for legally turning right on a red light. My city got busted a few years back for shortening yellow lights just so they could give more tickets. Now they are adding speed traps to any road that is vaguely close to a school or park that will ticket you even if it is the middle of the night on a Saturday where no kids should be around anyway.

In theory these are good for safety. In practice they are revenue generating machines for local government and a regressive tax on the poor.

Let's make Daley Plaza the new Dealey Plaza.

The only scenes I remember from the whole trilogy are from Last Jedi. Hyperspace blasting a starship into a star destroyer was a cool concept. And the whole final with Luke force projecting across galaxies was a good sendoff I thought.

Between this, Israel, and deploying troops domestically, how long til Trump institutes a draft?

Depends on where. Go to a Walmart in rural Indiana and people won't think twice.

I almost miss the old days when everything conservatives didn't like was CRT.

Gun nuts HATE being reminded of this, but historically carrying a concealed weapon was considered cowardly and something only a criminal would do. Because of that it was common for the practice to be illegal.

I've heard of these but I didn't realize they were so tiny! Neat!

They accomplished nothing! Republicans are still going to get 5 new seats, exactly like before the Democrats did this.

They should have stayed away until the session expired and have Newsom add more anyway. This is a war and the sooner they realize it the better.

No, thw rounded corners of the intersection

Cars would be hitting and driving over those 4 lens shaped bits of curb all day.

Why the fuck did they go back!?!

If we had a functioning supreme court this would be easily overturned for interfering with interstate trade.

Let them. Just have the ring draw them into even bigger trouble every time they do. Like he saves you from being chased by a pack of owlbears by setting the forest on fire. Now you are being hunted by a circle of pissed off druids.

Reminds me a bit of Fizban from the Dragonlance novels. Pretended to be an old senile wizard who couldn't remember his spells half the time. In reality was a good god playing 5D chess to position the heroes to save the world from evil.

You could have him say a bunch of inane stuff and then throw in "Back in my day there was a powerful enchanter living that ruined castle. I wonder what happened to all the magical artifacts he made?"The heroes obviously jump at the chance for treasure but stumble upon cultists trying to resurrect an evil dead god that need thwarting.

If a player is about to die, he "remembers" a spell to help save them but needs to sleep for a few days after.