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Interests: liberal, atheist, urbanism, public transit, Tolkien, Silmarillion, walking, anime, yuri, Bujold, Liaden, fanfic, KF94s, N95s.
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Also try searching here on ShiMao, or Shisui's names. Not a ton, but some. Probably more on Xitter or Danbooru.
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tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
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To be clear, "they" is the restaurant themselves, posting higher menu prices on the services (probably to absorb the 15-30% they're charged by the service.)
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So you advocate not trying to reduce danger?
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How about the adults who knowingly designed, funded, and built a deadly environment?
Drivers, abetted by traffic engineers and policymakers, kill 40,000 Americans every year. Those deaths are preventable. We choose not to prevent them.
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23 is a lot less likely to kill than 35.
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Overpasses can be useful, especially in Japanese cities where there are often shops on what is a wide upper deck, but they're not a panacea for bad street design.
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A walking bridge is not a perfect solution. It's expensive. It doesn't admit people in wheelchairs, unless you add a ramp which takes even more space and money. It's disruptive even to the healthy, never mind people who might have trouble climbing to the required height.
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So you feel that driving 35 MPH near children is a responsible thing to do?
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Americans, children included, are a lot more likely to be killed by a car driver than by someone with a gun.
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A well-reported story might include this context:
(Caveat: I'm not sure this is where the impact happened, but it seems to match reporting)
- There is a curb cut (presumably to cross the entranceway), despite no road paint.
- Speed limit is 45 mph outside school hours.
- "Real" xwalk is 500 ft away.
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In the Netherlands, drivers are in principle always responsible for accidents with weaker participants in traffic, such as cyclists and pedestrians. And more so children. It is NEVER a kids fault that they are being a kid.
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Kids are known for that. I don't know about your country, in Germany its even notetd in the StVO/Highway-Code:
You must only use the speed that there is no chance to endanger children, handicapped or old people and you must always be ready to brake and stop.
If you hit someone, its your fault.
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The chance goes up exponentially with speed, though. 20 MPH is "only" 5% of killing someone. 30 MPH, it's close to 50%. 40 MPH, almost guaranteed kill.
When you choose to drive fast around people, you choose to risk killing them.
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Maybe you shouldn't drive fast enough to kill people, then.
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How fast would you drive in a city if you were presumed liable for anyone you hit, as in the Netherlands?
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A driver at 10 MPH is much less likely to kill someone they hit, as well as less likely to hit them in the first place. Going 30 MPH on city streets is a large part of the problem.
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Imagine the same incident but a black driver and white kids...
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"No one should be charged here"
Maybe the traffic engineer who designed the road.
Article says the driver wasn't speeding, but the legal speed, in a town, could have been well high enough to kill anyone struck.
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An alternative (the Dutch way) would be to investigate the scene and re-design the environment to reduce the chances of such 'accidents' happening again.
I would bet good money that will not happen here.
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The walls and ceiling are distressingly unfinished. But the pillow placement, while non-standard, strikes me as putting your head as far as possible from potential noise/vibrations from your neighbors.
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Caltech singles were as small as 6 square meters. Bunk bed with desk in the lower 'bunk'. But you had more freedom to leave a dorm room than a prison cell.
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hope it's a warm day, despite the leafless trees
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Like I said, not fun, but I think having a refuge, so you only worry about one direction of traffic, does a lot of good in terms of safety. And the lights guarantee breaks in traffic (apart from turning cars).
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And given the density (tall buildings and all) I'd expect a lot of pedestrians do use it.
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Naively, it actually seems pretty usable to me. There are nearby stoplights in either direction, and a pretty wide raised median. So you can wait for a guaranteed break in left-hand, cross, and wait for the break in right-hand traffic. Not _pleasant_ but fairly safe.
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Screenshotted because I’m sure they don’t even remember they still have this info available online and would take it down if they did.
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Thanks for sharing this. More here:
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
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Though different parts of the Americas. Corn/maize from Mexico (probably non-rainforest parts), potatoes from the Andes (not at all rainforest). North Americans had their own tobacco, though the one we farm today came from South America.
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Nah that's not accurate
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Gotta collect them all
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It's natural to want your sister to get along with your wife
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they're feeding the agenda so much and honestly I think it's great
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Will the author do her own 'translation', since I think she's American to begin with?
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Nah, earth. Gotta follow the Avatar cycle.
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"a lid on it"
>_>