Yeah the difference between PNW truck drivers and Midwestern ones is night and day.

Social accountability is a euphemism for punishment. Someone is engaging in a behavior that is discouraged and so when they do that something is done to them that they don’t want to happen. In this case a camera simply automates fining people.

People who need a reminder or are new to an area especially benefit from better road design or cheaper alternatives (where I live some residential streets have concrete planters that make the road wind and force you to slow down). For a person new to an area especially, the speed camera functionally serves as an expensive toll for driving the speed the road is designed for, but one you receive in the mail a few weeks later.

Good speed reduction should make speeding look and feel reckless ro everyone, including someone who’s never been there before and didn’t see the speed limit. Good design is intuitive.

Yeah, I’m married and would like to stay that way so I’m going home after 8 hours

Yeah, grew up catholic here in the US and got called a satanist from time to time

Or to start it late in the work day so you can throw it in the dryer when you get home without leaving clothes wet for 9 hours. Some may not understand why that matters, but some of us have fairly busy social lives and turning the active part of a load of laundry from 2 hours to three 5 minute increments that can be done at my convenience sounds really nice actually

Now, personally I’m unwilling to let my washer speak to the internet directly, but it is why if I had a house I’d look into something I can connect to my homeassistant setup without letting it speak to the internet directly

Yeah all this sounds really nice for with a home assistant setup. I’d love to be able to start my washing machine to start while I’m at work so it’s done when I get home and can throw it in to the dryer real quick even though I’m busy that day.

It’s old enough that most can see through them, ergo it’s an age after which women must be insulted by them and deemed undesirable, hence we’re hags.

You can bother figuring out why. Or I might be forced to in order to iterate…

You’re not allowed to criticize orphans either. They don’t rule over you, they just have it hard enough already and really don’t need the criticism.

Ok, but I’m not seeing people saying that on here. I’m seeing a lot of people doing the big business < small business < co-op attitude, but not much of the fellating small business owners

Ouch, that hurts to hear as a millennial

Yeah it’s a tone indicator “this may be taken as having a serious or upset tone, but wasn’t meant that way” though it also can mean “please don’t be upset” in the case of something like “sorry I disappeared for a bit, life happened lol”

Because in most aspects of human endeavor close to success means try again. You may say that that’s true, but only for games of genuine skill, and yes, but part of why gambling fucks with our brains so much is that for a lot of people that difference isn’t instinctive.

Yeah if your finances are exciting then you’re either taking massive risks or you’re investing in companies that feel it’s worth spending money that could go to investments or dividends to ensure investors are excited. Either way it’s a bad position to be in

Yeah if anything gambling is the hot new addiction for young people. Gen Z drinks less, does less drugs, and even fucks less, but they gamble more. As a millennial I remember when gambling was mostly old people at casinos, but that’s not the face of modern gambling. These days it’s online casinos and sports betting apps. It’s increasingly stuff like polymarket.

Yeah, I’ve had the misfortune of meeting some of them irl. Like, theoretically I’m all for people engaging in informal academics, striving to be more thoughtful, and generally trying to challenge their thoughts and be better. However, these people keep going on insane paths such as inventing a hell based on artificial intelligence using game theory to ensure it gets created and so fucking much race science.

Unfortunately these people are increasingly relevant to everyone’s lives. Sam Altman comes out of it, as did the effective altruism movement and Sam Bankman Freid. They’ve got a strong following in Silicon Valley and have some overlap with the technofascism movement coming out of it.

There’s a community on lemmy to mock them at their craziest if anyone’s interested called sneerclub.

Yeah that’s basically what anyone who knows a lot about the culture that formed in the wake of the fanfic thinks. That and the fact that members of that community are too insufferable for lemmy

Would she be sleeping with them otherwise?

Not if they’re talking about it like that. I’d be pissed if a partner or metamour was talking about it like that

Surely that post wasn’t that long ago…