[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

We donthat because we found that wide roads make people drive faster unconsciously. If you design roads badly, people will speed, it will be dangerous. Design roads better and you save lives.

Putting up signs is what most countries have done for decades with exactly 0 results.

A slightly different post had road fatalities in a graph for the US, Canada, and Australia, showing insane levels of road deaths. A secondary graph was added showing the Netherlands at a fraction of those countries, even though the Netherlands is much more densly populated.

Wanna know why? Because the Netherlands does this all the time. Any time an intersection has a lot of accidents, they break up the damn thing and put in a completely newly designed one, and traffic deaths go down. A road has too much speeding? They'll tear out that crap, put in a new road designed in such a way that people will automatically drive the correct speed et voila, speeding stops, Ross fatalities go down

That's why you want to do that

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

This is something that has been proven over and over. Make the roads smaller and people automatically start driving slower.

Sure, thereay still be an eventually asshole but with the right design you could make a risky (for you) 80 in a 60 zone, but you can't do 100 because you wouldn't make it. That already helps curbing the worst but it's also a psychological thing that makes most people slow down to the speed that you want. It's much more effective than speeding cameras but it doesn't make money

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago

Because its true?

Barely anything had been done these past decades and the result is that boat loads of people now believe conspiracy crap over the actual truth that climate change will milk us all

I fully expect that even less will be done in the next years so yeah, were screwed

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Technically, we can. We probably will be able to do that a few hundred years from now and a few hundred years is nothing to something like the sun

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Revolut has nice virtual cards, i use them all the time

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

How about instead of speed cameras you change your road designs? People won't speed if they cannot speed safely.

Make your roads less wide. Add some curves, depending on required max speed, you make the curves larger or smaller. On lower speed roads, add obstacles to drive around.

There are many forms of traffic management that don't require speeding cameras but then again, speeding cameras are for making the government money, not for traffic safety

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Kudos and keep up the good work!

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So shes basically saying she wants to see all Latinos dead

I wouldn't call for someone's death but if she wants to see an entire population dead, I'd like to see her dead first. She's the hateful problem, not Latinos, not me

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Nobody should have a net worth over, say, 10 million.

20 is okay ish, I suppose, but beyond that it's just not fair or normal

You have 100 million dollars?

You didn't get it through hard work, or the McDonald's burger flipper who also cleans houses on the side would have been a billionaire by now

You didn't get it by being intelligent or smart or scientists would all be rich

You did it through playing the system as it currently exists, and you were lucky

Nobody should have the right to have that much money. Not even half of that.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I think that oversimplifies the issue.

I have no problem with a millionaire that has a net worth of, say 3 million

I have a problem with someone having a net worth of 30 million

I have a huge problem with someone being worth 300 million

All are millionaires

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

Not just a fifth of the people

First of all, that only covers the Latino community. What about all those blacks that are all criminals because they're black? That is yet another millions of alligators that could be fed!

Fuckin just feel needing a shower talking like that...

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago

So basically:

Allow us to pollute everything band everyone and become stinking filthy rich in the process, or we will make pouty faces!

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