thebestaquaman

Because speed limits are designed for the largest, clunkiest vehicles on the road (semi trucks, specifically). If they can’t handle the road at a certain speed, then the speed limit is dropped to a level that can be comfortably driven by them.

Don't you guys have any generic laws about driving "carefully and considerately"? It's completely common in my country for the speed limit to be higher than what many vehicles can safely handle. That just means those drivers have to judge for themselves how fast they can safely drive while remaining "careful and considerate".

Stop signs in the US are so damn common you guys invented the "rolling stop". Outside the US I think I've met like ten stop-signs total. You can bet your ass I'm coming to a complete stop when I see one, since they're so rare I know they're there for a good reason.

For some reason the US decided to put stop signs all the places everyone else just has a "yield" sign (unsure of the proper English term, but it's the upside down triangle indicating you have to yield to any other traffic), or just ordinary right-hand rule with no sign at all.

This makes prosecution via camera problematic; the camera can’t be called into court for questioning and no person personally witnessed the event occur.

By this logic you can't accuse someone in a situation where your only evidence is security camera footage. That may be the case? Either way it's just one of a plethora of examples of how wonky the US justice system is.

• We have security camera footage of the murder.
• Too bad the camera can't witness in court and the only other witness (the victim) is dead.

Interaction dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

I never knew regex could be so beautiful <\3

never had more than one week off here or there

Wat?

I live in the US

That explains it...

You're welcome to hop over the pond if you ever want to combine fulfilling work with proper time off :)

Why would you do such things? Just let me log in using some trusted authenticator please. If you can't do that, you may as well replace everything with a confirmation mail every time I log in, cause you bet I'm going to click "forgot my password" Every Single Time and get in via the reset-email anyway.

You forcing me to change my password all the time just adds extra overhead to the inevitability that you'll let me in after mailing me a confirmation code.

Oh, just wait till you hit that sweet sweet python "Everything can have an else block"

if some_shit:
    try: 
        for stuff in thing:
             if stuff is bad:
                  raise ShitHitTheFanError
             # Massive block comment
             do = the_thing()
             if do is good:
                  break
        else:
            do = the_other_thing()
            if not a_thing:
                help_me() # May raise NoHelpFoundError
    except ShitHitTheFanError:
         my_life = recover()
         if my_life is bad:
             for fuck in my_life:
                  try:
                      fix(fuck)
                  except NoHelpFoundError:
                      break
             else:
                  fuck_this_shit()
    else:
         wat_is_going_on()
else:
    theres_another_one("?")

Gen Z is just as smart and capable as any other generation.

The introduction of social media, with all the addiction, depression, anxiety, etc. associated with it has somehow managed to not affect peoples problem-solving skills? There are so many studies confirming how fucked the younger generations are regarding all kinds of mental health that it's frankly absurd to believe those findings are completely independent of things like attention span and problem-solving skills.

Also:

• Article: Refers to an actual study.
• You: "This article is pointless speculation".

So... when used at a population level rather than at an individual level, and used for comparison between generations from the same place... they're a good metric?

Great reading: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2023/12/13/the-persistence-of-tradition-the-curious-case-of-henry-symeonis/

We have civil war, corruption, and murder, all wrapped up in a 550 year long mysterious grudge!

• Alcoholic suffering from alcoholism
• Best I can do is take away your alcohol

These companies literally design their product with the intention of making people overspend. As long as micro transactions have existed, the problem of kids over spending their parents money because they were allowed a single purchase has been a problem.

The companies in question are making bank off this. They know it's an issue, and they actively exploit it to make more money. It's extremely unethical.