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He shouldn’t be, unless he can demonstrate he has learned to drive safely (how? No idea). But he’d get his license back after being in prison, too. Unless we’re escalating to the death penalty.
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Absolutely. But this is a structural problem: our roads are death traps. The guy should face consequences but throwing him in jail won’t improve bike safety. Take his license, but fix the roads.
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(Unless you do have data? Please share if so, i strive to update my priors.)
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Neither of us can support our assumptions here.
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It was negligence. It caused death and caused sorrow but it wasn’t a willful murder. To me, those are different categories of crime.
If someone wants to kill, you take their gun they’ll go get a knife, so prison may be the answer. If someone is shit at driving, don’t let them drive.
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I’d be fine with his license being permanently revoked. That seems fair and justified. It prevents him from killing more people with his bad driving.
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What would sending him to jail solve? If this was negligence, jail won’t make him more attentive. It probably won’t deter others from negligent driving either. Jailing him would be punitive, compounding harm with harm.
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I think having him spend the rest of his life installing bollards to protect bike lanes would be a better outcome for everyone than sending him to prison.
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Well at that point he’d be driving without a license, not sure what the punishment is for that.
There’s no good answer here, but yanking his license at least takes his weapon away. Based on the description this was dangerously reckless driving, not intentional murder.
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He’s got a fine, community service, and will lose his license for some period of time.
What more punishment do you want?
Nothing can bring back a stolen life, but throwing the guy in jail won’t solve that either.
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A hippo superhero taking flight?
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Anti-Communist propaganda is one of the core functions of the US government.
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I’m guessing a wedding this expensive is more likely to end in divorce.
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Via collect call.
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I didn’t want to disappoint any temporally-displaced starfleet officers who might see my post.
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there should be a warning label for low entropy accounts
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Dude can’t even order doughnuts.
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May i recommend
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“Are you a cop or something?”
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With a carve out for PPP loans of course. Forgiving PPP loans is morally sound.
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its changed my life - I originally took out 90k in 1992
for 25 years I paid almost a thousand dollars a month and the day that my account was set to zero by Joe, my
REMAINING BALANCE WAS 98K STILL TO PAY
after paying almost 188K over 25 years
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Musk, in his infinite wisdom, is burning the 6th largest market of Twitter (formerly: Twitter) because he can't follow country laws.
Twitter (formerly: Twitter)'s death spiral continues unabated.
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Same, and same. Taking a break at a dodgy motel in yreka is better but also worse.
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Here’s the opening, where she makes clear that she is taking white women to task for the narrowness of their political imagination.
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Every person who has tried to have the “art should be made out of love, not a desire to get paid” argument with me has also been trying to get me to work for them without being paid. 🙄
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Ooh, eew. Blocking.
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The delete post button is right there dude.
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What is that? Another ambassador from TERF Island?