michaelmrose @ michaelmrose @lemmy.world

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Actually in most of western europe its half think he's their enemy 40 some percent think he gives zero fucks either way and only 7-9% think he's on their side.

If doctors regularly harvest healthy people's organs nobody goes to the doctor. The families of the harvested regularly kill themselves, recipients, and doctors, and sometimes go on mass shooting sprees. Everyone lives in fear. Nobody on earth would want to live in such a community so all the best and most mobile folks leave. Others organize against it and can only be suppressed by a fascist dystopia.

It's only actually a dilemma when considered in absolute isolation. Its against utility to harvest the organs in the sense that the system required to effect it is a massive negative.

What about decreasing the harm of the employees by suing him or reporting him to the state labor board or even just kicking his ass or any combination thereof. The above seems overly simplistic.

You appear to be drawing a conclusion based on your experience with Portugal and elsewhere in Europe but America has no red light cameras at the majority of intersections and areas with and without and areas that have them and haven't before. In general this correlation doesn't appear to be so universal as you suppose or indeed hold. The citizens of one city or state can "fix" banning red light cameras in theory in many places wherein the citizens can pass initiatives. Those without means regulating those with them just doesn't work in America. America is a country firmly for the rich.

Shortening yellow lights to cause people to unintentionally run them, people slamming on the brakes and causing accidents, and a monetary transfer between citizens and a private company are not problem?

I don't need a system of law not to shoot people or walk out without paying. Some of us have ethics. I have found authority in America broadly garbage from bottom to top. It's not just the top that is fucked.

I guess I figured on an English language online forum most of the folks here are US and Europe

In America we like to build roads in such a way as they cannot reasonably work at posted speeds force everyone to speed somewhat and just pull over the minorities for speeding whilst black. For 20 years the maximum speed on the interstate highways was 55 mph or 88 kph. In case you aren't familiar with the vernacular.

Interstate: A high-speed, controlled-access road in the U.S. network of highways designed for long-distance travel and linking major urban areas

It's still common for there to be areas that for practical purposes roll at 10-15 mph over posted limit where literally every car is going that speed and being pulled over is basically a random act of police rather than actual normal law enforcement.

https://ww2.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-shortening-yellow-light-times-for-profit/

Personally I have found authority in America to be stupid, abusive, incompetent or all 3. Do you live somewhere else?

There are plenty of areas where the speed that is safe and reasonable to travel is substantially different from the one set. This is only not wildly broken because everyone disobeys the law and the cops refrain from stringent enforcement because forcing the traffic to all slow down would completely break traffic flow.

Maybe this works well in Canada but America governments are about as stupid as Americans.

Photo enforcement cameras are problematic for several reasons.

A) It has been shown that yellow lights with such cameras are very often set to a yellow duration briefer than generally accepted engineering practices to increase revenue *1

B) They discourage a rare misbehavior, actually running red lights, whilst causing another to become common. That is slamming on the brakes even when it isn't safe to stop. Exacerbated by A. Better slam on the brakes when it flicks yellow even if you are way too close to reasonably stop whilst going only the speed limit.

People who are caught up by it are almost always those who found themselves a bit too far into the intersection to safely stop. EG those who cross the threshold right as it is changing. There is for reasons of safety a few seconds between one light turning red and another green. At 30 mph (44 feet per second) someone will fully clear a 40 foot intersection in less than a second. That is to say the only people you catch aren't those who would have collided.

They are those

1. you fucked with the shorter duration yellow oops
2. people who hesitated because of 1 and slowed but ultimately decided to proceed thinking they can make it
3. People with poorer brakes and or dealing with rainy conditions reducing stopping time.

C) Most of the money goes to the contractor who owns the cameras. Essentially you are letting a private company prey on your citizens as long as government gets to keep the scraps.

*1 https://ww2.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-shortening-yellow-light-times-for-profit/

BNPL is generally for people who are too high a risk to put it on their normal credit card. It's also normally configured to auto draft from the relevant bank making it hard to default on. Americans needing BNPL is an indication of the weakness of the economy.

Does it cost $3000-$5000 for a family of 4 to go anywhere you would need one and require the family to shell out an extra $700 when half the population is living hand to mouth?

People that live as their chosen gender are happier. People who don't are much more likely to kill themselves. Hard to argue with that.

In America its still not ok to be an atheist. Truly weird that it is ok to be part of several different mutually exclusive cults who all believe things that if they were not connected to a proper religion would get you laughed at but if you don't have a cult its not ok.

It costs 165 bucks per person or almost $700 for a family of 4. Then they need $3000-$5000 to travel round trip once to a destination in Europe.

Yes. We can travel over 3000 miles and still be in the same country with about every climate. Meanwhile for a family of 4 it would cost almost $700 to get passports and involve waiting weeks. Then flying say Seattle to Paris for instance would cost about $3000 before actually doing anything there. This is in addition to the $300-$400 spent every 5-7 years on normal identity documents that you need for other purposes. This cost varies substantially state to state.

Meanwhile families here are facing drastically escalating costs especially housing and medical.

Compare that to a European who could travel 100 km on the train and be in another country.

Americans have both increased dis-incentives and less incentives to travel internationally compared to Europeans.

Tell a bad joke, people don't get it and now whining about it

This normally isn't a thing.