The community title must have influenced me haha

As I’m from Australia and also say maths

I think metric is not your native system.

45 km/h is very very fast, like world record fast.

A jog is more like 12 km/h

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usain_Bolt

https://mander.xyz/c/theydidthemath

https://mander.xyz/post/33834863

What kind of stupid-ass system of government allows an executive to repeal laws?

The celebrations when Thatcher died we’re very appropriate

Thanks for sending this through, I don’t think this guy is Australian though. Definitely not grown up here anyway.

What a fucking shit guy though.

I think the original commenter means that Google got off with a tap on the wrist

We’re they being serious? If so, please do share their name.

Also, do you mean 2GB?

Whole different line up on KGB radio I’d imagine haha

Oh, I never knew this was a thing (also Voyager user), thanks!

\ is the escape character in markdown. Gotta do a double \ and then another \ for the underscore

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I wasn’t even aware there were any because the client I use (Voyager) doesn’t have them.

What the fuck. When are you required to do so?

Not in practice, but they do claim to be (and in fairness, do some things in a more “socialist” way - looking at you privatisation in the west…)

I think this what OOP means with “aesthetics”, it’s that they claim to be a socialist state, when in many ways, it’s rather capitalist.

Regardless, holding up any country as a beacon of all that is good is pretty silly, if you ask me.

No where (that I know of) should be emulated in every regard.

I get this is a joke, but speed limits shouldn’t be set by politicians (which I’m hearing apparently is/was a thing?). Politicians have a role to play in getting regulations standards re-written by people who understand the decades of research on this.

Speeding is mostly a design issue, but I still expect people actually follow the rules.

Strong Towns, NotJustBikes, City Beautiful, Practical Engineering, among others have made great videos on this topic.

A lot of people justify speeding, and it’s kinda dumb, if you ask me.

Just because you “feel” it’s safe, doesn’t mean it actually is.

Plus, there’s a fantastic way to reduce road deaths, just have fewer cars, switch to public transport, but that takes a long time to implement if the political will doesn’t exist.

Engineers should absolutely include traffic calming features to get people to naturally slow down, but everyone should drive the limit.

Speed kills, kinetic energy is not linear.

Cars are tonnes of metal hurtling down the road. Thousands upon thousands die every year, and since the increased prevalence of massive US style trucks fatalities have RISEN, undoing decades of progress. (Both in the US, and elsewhere)

People driving 20 over the limit are arseholes (or have been influenced by car centric infrastructure and culture). Change my mind.

Speeding is never okay. Just that lots of people have convinced themselves it’s no big deal.

Edit because of downvotes: https://www.bts.gov/content/motor-vehicle-safety-data

Y’all are really justifying some shitty behaviour. Yeah, I get it, streets are designed shittily, and feels like it’s fine to speed (especially, from what I can see, in the US), but this doesn’t absolve you from doing the right thing.

Like, if it were 5 (km/h) over, I could perhaps forgive you. But downvoting me for suggesting 20 mph over is arsehole behaviour? You don’t deserve a licence.

Fuck these carbrains putting their feelings over completely savable lives.

USA is cooked (and Australia, somewhat cooked, since people are buying ridiculously sized cars here too).

Don’t speed, you fuckwits. Better yet, take public transport if you live in a city with cilivised transportation (obviously, not your fault if it doesn’t exist).

This take makes a lot of sense, fair enough.

I guess I’m just expecting the worse because of all the norms they’re breaking. Maybe not a war, but I would not be surprised if the CIA leans on us a little more heavily than they already have (allegedly, but let’s be honest, very likely).

I’m still (probably naively) hoping people wake the fuck up and resist like their lives depended up it.

This voting system does not spark joy (thanks for the explanation!)

I feel like your (the US’) only hope is a proper grassroots campaign.

Preferential voting or bust.

Because it’s really going to be bust, at this rate.

I feel like what the rest of the world doesn’t understand (I am from the "rest of the world), is that the USA is VASTLY more powerful than the Nazis ever were. Barely any country is sounding the alarm seriously. Just “oh we’re concerned about what’s happening”.

We are truly fucked.

And we’re under the US’ thumb (Australia).

At least we’re majority white… maybe that’ll keep us safe, temporarily.

I hate this timeline, so very much.