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I make things, including bike rides, state housing laws, bread, and trouble. Quality varies with rainfall, political winds, and tire pressure. Run comms at @cayimby for the love of cities.
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How much should California ratepayers continue to subsidize housing in extreme high fire hazard zones through rate increases to cover PG&E's aging infrastructure causing fires in those zones?
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Transit is climate action
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you're free to keep believing the myths you want to believe about the car industry. no amount of evidence can break through an ideological barricade. And your numbers aren't even right, or honest (avg 17 million/year US, 7 million is Tesla's global sales total since inception in 2008)
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But it's laughably naive to think that self-driving cars are an effort by the car industry to save lives. Their top-selling products are literally designed to kill people, and are very good at doing that.
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You're free to pretend Waymo will result in an incremental improvement. I think that's silly, but also, I spent 15 years trying to work with the car industry on reform before I realized it was beyond salvation. Maybe in 20 years, after another ~ million traffic deaths, you'll realize the same.
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There are 1500 Waymos in the galaxy. As recently as a month ago, they were not ready for prime-time. For them to have a statistically-meaningful impact on safety and saving lives, there would need to be at least ~ 50 million Waymos, which will never happen. www.businessinsider.com/waymo-recall...
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At the point where you realize that people promoting driverless cars don't care about human lives as much as maintaining car culture and suburban sprawl.
The developed world has mostly solved driver violence, passed tense. The US car industry doesn't want to solve it.
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can you clarify why your sense of proportion should be the standard as opposed to, say, mine? I like mine better.
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From the scanner right now: LAPD is taking rubber bullets from LASD. I am not joking. (They're in each other's crossfire, it's a clusterfuck that they've largely brought on themselves)
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wait ... you're saying the invention of agriculture and markets/trade was all a ruse to feed the war machine 7,000 years later?
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I also really don't want a civil war, which is why I've been warning against one for 30 years. But each passing year made it seem more inevitable as nobody took Confederate Republican traitors seriously, or literally -- even though they are serious, and literal, in hatred of the United States.
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So you think what we're seeing right now -- illegal deployment of troops domestically, illegal kidnapping of random people on the street, fascist takeover of cultural institutions -- is not what early stages of a Civil War look like?
I disagree. Read up on Yugoslavia ca. ~ 1990. We're there now.
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There's no way back to normalcy without war. And we still refuse to even see the war that's already being waged against us.
Denial all around.
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... with the next election.
Even if America wins, we'll be thick with violent and massively armed traitors and terrorists who've made clear they'll stop at nothing to destroy the United States.
These things that Republican traitors have broken, they can not be put back together again.
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... when they are not actually American citizens, but rather, enemy combatants from a hostile occupying force -- with different laws and certainly different values?
I think people are in for a pretty rude awakening because not only are we at war with the Confederacy, but no way this ends ...
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To achieve the desired behavior change you have to put the consequence where it will actually change the behavior. Smaller forces, different unions etc. don't do that. Only making the criminal cop realize he will face normal criminal consequences for his criminal behavior can do that.
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no the problem is the union itself. it ensures zero accountability for individual thugs and forces the cost of all violations of human rights onto taxpayers via higher city liability insurance payments and often, direct payouts.
Cops all know this. None of them care.
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it's a really interesting idea. France and Italy did it, to mixed but I think mostly good effect ... Italy better than France, IMO.
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The "simple" answer would be to abolish the police union, and make each employee individually accountable for their crimes, but then you'd open up the can of worms for all public sector unions -- most of which are good and necessary.
And so, we're stuck.
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yes
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to be clear -- there are great journalists at Politico, just as there are at the Wall Street Journal, etc. But the national mission of those organizations' owners is to destroy democracy, and they hire executive editors who advance that mission, even when some coverage is quite good.
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... which bought it from a Texas Republican who was literally Pinochet's banker, whose family also owns most of the right-wing radio stations east of the Mississippi
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LOL not really. Politico was founded by Joe Allbrjtton, a Texas Republican who was, quite literally, Pinochet's banker (among other murderous dictators). He hired Allen and Jim Vandehei to buy credibility with the notoriously cliquey and shallow White House press corps; it worked.
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well, yes, qualified immunity gives cops special privileges around violence that normal violent drivers don't have access to. That said, millions of normal violent drivers use it anyway. everytownresearch.org/road-rage-sh...
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this isn't special treatment. Any driver in the United States can kill anyone they like any time they like. Only difference is cops can drive away; normal drivers just have to stay with the body and say "I didn't see them," and they're free to go.