Thats fair, and there are some odd things to me as an outsider.

What does it mean the licence is suspended 3 years? Does she just get it back after 3 years? That’s ridiculous and just increases skill fade. Assuming 3 years is the correct punishement; should it not be a removal of licence with the ability to restart at the beginning of the graduated licence after 3 years?

Also, there was ~2 years from incident to sentencing. I guess that’s a reasonable delay for a case this complex? But is this person just driving around in the interim? Are there a bunch of people jsut driving around awaiting trial and or sentencing?

This isn’t meant to just shit on the Californian system, in my own town of Kingston, ON; a driver ran over and killed a cyclist with witnesses; but the police just didn’t file the charges in time so there was zero consequence. https://www.thewhig.com/feature/kingston-ontario-cyclist-fatality-police

No. Canada should get under the shield of France, the UK, and the USA.

• Diversify yo bonds

Wu-Tang Finacial

Also “this project is X millions/billions” without saying how many years the project is for.

I’m not a mathologist, but I figure there’s a difference in a one time $5 infusion than $5/5 years.

That’s a super neat concept! You don’t even that to change the acronym: non-fungable tickets.

It’s specifically targeted at the concept of the 15 minute city/neighbourhood

A detterent for not following posted motor vehicle regulations.

Not following posted motor vehicle regulations is extremely common in Canada and America. 99% of the time, these failures lead to nothing.

You sped a little? Nothing happened.

Took that “yellow” light that was probably red? Nothing happened.

Changed lanes improperly? Nothing happened.

Exited your lane a little bit? Nothing happened.

Every driver commits many infractions that lead to absolutely nothing happening all the time. But that one time it costs lives, livelihoods, or property. The rules exist to protect against that one time. North American society has decided the we will not engineer away failures. We’ve decided we won’t educate away failures. We’ve decided we will barely enforce failures. Because of this we have forced our hands into operator responsibility and civil liability, and that obliges steep reactions to driving failures that have consequential outcomes.

having no realistic alternative to driving

I am 100% certain there is a bus route along this road. On account of Diego Cardoso de Oliveira, Matilde Ramos Pinto, and their two children being killed waiting for one.

A bus stop that was built on sheer bolts (engineering decision)

A bus stop that was in the recovery zone of the roadway (engineering decision)

On the other side of a curb that allows vehicles to exit the roadway into that recovery zone instead of diverting them into the other lane on a lane departure (engineering decision)

On a road that a driver felt comfortable doing 70mph (112 kph) on when there arw sildwalks and bus stops (engineering decision).

In a vehicle that did not alert the driver of the danger of travelling 70mph (engineering/political decision)

there was really nothing about the street or traffic design that was the problem

Someone died. There is something wrong with the design.

The driver was going so fast

The street was designed, actively or passively, to allow the driver to travel too fast.

it literally obliterate a steel bus stop

I dont know about this specific bus stop; but in my quick search, the different types of SF bus stops i saw all had sheer bolts. That bus stop may have been literally designed to sheer away from the pavement to reduce damage to cars and/or surrounding infrastructure, an interesting design choice based on what can be inside them.

traffic design had nothing and will do nothing for what happened in this instance

Check out “killed by a traffic engineer” and/or “confessions of a recovering engineer.” It might feel like there was nothing wrong with the design; but as with all engineering choices sacrifices and balancing choices needed to be made. This street chose driver comfort and speed over human lives. It may have taken a long time for those small errors to accumulate and align for a death, but they were omnipresent.

The deterrent effect can help.

More importantly, the street design (and possibly traffic engineer or engineering protocols) should be dragged over the coals right now. That’s how you stop the next death.

Kingston police started using drones to catch texto-drivers; but it got shut down by public opinion over privacy concerns.

I’m wondering if you could reduce capital flight by providing a discount rate on domestic captial. Biasing domestic investment over foreign internally and externally.

Or scrap the whole system and switch to land value tax across the nation.

“War crimes” are infractions against International Humanitarian Law, most notably, and infractions against a package of pther laws commonly grouped as “International Law of Armed Conflict”

The letter is demanding sanctions in response to violations of International Law. That is a totally different level of laws which, in the context of the current conflict, America and Israel and breaking equally.

I also highly doubt that America is committing fewer violations of IHL than Israel, but I’ve got a middling confidence interval on that.

Shrink the highway by one lane (saving 25-75k$ / lane km / year; i don’tknow the amortized captial and operational expensesfor this highway) and do it again

That’s fair, I know here is a big (and growing) tech sector; but i know little of the salaries. Let alone enough to do a PPP between the salaries in various locations.

Why are they requesting sanctions on Israel, but not the USA?

ANTIFA Beach party!

Charge people money to drive on these lines during off peak hours (variable pricing to levels of congestion) then use that money to find public transportation.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Québec would work if you speak French.

Otherwise the concentration of those jobs in Anglo-Canada has a very high cost of living.

I CAN say for a fact that the PPC and white nationalist aren’t Canadian.

Not just that you know the system is broken, but that you know it at every turn. When you open a retail app, apply for a job, or wait for an automated decision that no one can explain.

This has existed since at least the 1800s, and the managerial crisis in a big way. It just feels more acute with apps, but it is still just policy without accountability. I recommend the Unaccountability Machine for further reading.

We also know what the solution is. We’ve always known. You know it in your heart right now. The solution is localisation and community building. But that comes with comfort costs that we have decided are to much to bear. It comes with inequality between communities that we refuse to tax though land value instead of property value. It comes with risk sharing with others. It comes with comparing yourself, your family, your community, and your nation not to others; but to ourselves 1, 5, 10, 100 years ago.

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