Malfeasant
@Malfeasant@lemm.ee
- Comment on Eat lead 1 week ago:
Shriveled, and a little to the left.
- Comment on Eat lead 1 week ago:
Last Thursday.
- Comment on hard to argue with 1 week ago:
Mine are… 🧛
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 weeks ago:
Self sustaining budget was a secondary goal.
Are you sure about that?
The paper does not delve into the stated primary goal, increased safety.
Is there a word for a goal that’s stated for the sake of appearance, but not actually valued? It’s “lie” isn’t it?
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 weeks ago:
I think most people who challenged lost, but it didn’t stop them from trying… Regardless, the courts weren’t getting the money from the fines, at least not enough to compensate for the amount of time people took up.
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 weeks ago:
They tried that for a few years. People went to court to challenge them, overwhelmed the court system, and made it not cost effective to pursue people.
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 weeks ago:
Do you think speed cameras will slow them down? Or do you think they’ll just figure out how to get away with it? When my city put in speed cameras everywhere, it didn’t slow me down. After the first one (which was a surprise btw- same route I drove to work every day, but after they put in the speed camera, the speed limit was reduced by 10mph mysteriously…) I researched the fuck out of the topic and found
A: they can’t act on a mailed ticket unless you voluntarily respond (so I didn’t) or it’s delivered by a process server (which costs money, and the local government isn’t going to bother when there are plenty of pigeons that don’t know better)
B: they have to be able to identify the driver- as in see your face. There was a famous case of a guy wearing various zoo animal masks, and I have a couple pictures of me in a cheap Spartan mask doing 90 in a 65 that never went anywhere.
C: even if they serve you, and even if your face is plainly visible, it may still be worth a shot going to court. I did the one time one was properly served, which was another surprise one, not one of the times I was taunting them. It was another case of the speed limit being temporarily reduced, this time for construction - except the speed camera had been set up after the end of the construction zone, and I had just gotten on the highway, there was no signage indicating the construction zone or the reduced speed between the on ramp and the camera, and again it was a familiar area where I knew the limit was 65 normally… Anywho, tangent. I went to court, and I got to see which arguments worked and which didn’t. It was pretty comical, one woman was trying to argue that she didn’t know the speed limit had dropped, but she had been clocked at 79- the judge yelled at her “even if you thought it was 65, you still would have been going nearly 15 over! Pay the fine and get out!” Anywho, one thing I noticed was they always gave the measurements of how far the speed camera was after the speed limit sign, so that was going to be my angle- I would just ask how far that was from the on ramp- but I didn’t get the chance. They got to me, and the prosecutor said he didn’t have the evidence to pursue my case, so he moved for dismissal. No further explanation.
So that’s just what works in my jurisdiction, it’s likely other places close some of those loopholes, but introduce some of their own. And you can bet assholes like me will be better at figuring it out and will overall pay less in fines than suckers like you that just get caught by surprise once in a great while. Is that fair?
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 weeks ago:
Where I live, going the speed limit gets you run off the road. I’m not even exaggerating.
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 weeks ago:
You sure showed them…
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 weeks ago:
How do cameras make any difference?
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 weeks ago:
And good luck getting a judge to hear your side of it. Not impossible, but then you’re missing a day of work for a maybe…
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 weeks ago:
What is “implemented properly” and how often does it happen?
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 weeks ago:
Speed cameras also won’t stop someone like that. Though they might take nice pictures of the wreck.
- Comment on Oxygen 5 weeks ago:
Which side is the front? I don’t think it’s fallen off yet.
- Comment on Oxygen 5 weeks ago:
The sun isn’t space, it has plenty of oxygen.
- Comment on Anon falls in love 5 weeks ago:
Don’t be silly, there are no women on the internet.
- Comment on Anon falls in love 5 weeks ago:
Also “she gave me her number.” And? Did you call her?
(I guess I’m dating myself here because texting is a thing, but…)
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 month ago:
No, if you fall off the rollers, your wheels just stop. Bicycle wheels don’t have anywhere near enough mass for their momentum alone to move your body.
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 month ago:
Actually, the gyroscopic effect (specifically precession) has more to do with making the steering go the right way than keeping the bike upright directly.
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 month ago:
Gyroscopic effect is not even significant. Lock your steering and you will fall over no matter how fast your wheels are spinning. (Which can happen with a badly pitted headset)
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t say easy… But yeah, you don’t just fall over.
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 month ago:
It’s not that. Gyroscopic action exists of course, but it’s fairly weak against the weight of your body. Balancing a bicycle is just like balancing an umbrella on your finger, except you can easily move your finger any direction you need. To move the bicycle sideways, you need to already be moving forward.
- Comment on Burning Up 1 month ago:
I live in the Phoenix area - if it ever gets down to 32°F I’m dancing in the street.
- Comment on Burning Up 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t classify 0°C as very cold, just cold. 0°F definitely deserves the very.
- Comment on I hate people like this 1 month ago:
Having worked both retail and call center, no, they’re not in the same league. People can be assholes over the phone, absolutely, but it’s quite different from face-to-face. Someone threatens to kill me over the phone, I can say “I’d like to see you try” and hang up, and the worst that happens is I get fired. In person, they can carry out the threat.
- Comment on I hate people like this 1 month ago:
It’s nice when you have a boss that has your back. I worked at RadioShack back in the day, and the manager of the store I stayed at the longest was like that. Of course we didn’t have the whole x items or less, but we were in a busy college area, only on-street parking, so we’d get people running in and wanting to be served immediately regardless of how busy we were because they were double parked. The boss empowered us to tell them to fuck off, politely of course. “Come back when you have more time, we’ll be happy to help”. Also, we were next to a parking lot, it wasn’t ours, though we did have a couple of spots that were clearly marked employee parking only. Few things gave the boss more pleasure than calling a tow truck… Literally rubbing his hands with glee on multiple occasions.
- Comment on I hate people like this 1 month ago:
I never worked food service, but I did my time in retail… That “Well we’re here now” just gave me a PTSD-like flashback…
- Comment on Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement. 2 months ago:
They’re safer than humans already. It’s just you hear about every robocar crash because they’re unusual, and every time one happens, the whole industry learns from it. With humans driving, it’s doubtful the people involved learn from a crash, let alone anyone else, we just accept it as inevitable.
- Comment on I once did a toke at a party and then I died true story 2 months ago:
Just to be the man who died 12000 times to … rise up at your door? Bbbrains…
- Comment on I once did a toke at a party and then I died true story 2 months ago:
Holy poeslaw Batman!