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If white liberal Americans were serious about police reform, they’d call for objective speed cameras to replace subjective and thus no doubt racist traffic stops. But, instead, they don’t because they would prefer to explain to cops that, while they might have been driving a little too fast, hey, they aren’t the gangbangers you are looking for.
For example, liberal historian Rick Perlstein kvetches:
Hey @LoriLightfoot,, maybe it’s not crime that’s driving people (and corporations, who some say are people too…) out of Chicago as much as the daily nickle-and-diming speeding tickets that show up in the mail almost daily for going 41 mph in a 35 mph zone?
Apparently, the city of Chicago cut the grace zone from 10 mph over the speed limit to 5 mph without telling anybody to close the budget deficit.
Yes. But then Blacks would get disproportionately more tickets and disproportionately not pay them. So eventually they’d have warrants, get pulled over for that, then resist arrest, and then we’d have a bunch of George Floyd incidents. May sound Cynical, but probably true.
— Jon (@Jon14644688) September 19, 2022
Yeah, I could see that happening.
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OT, but watching QE II’s funeral now.
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?
After such beauty, what forgiveness?
A question I ponder five or six times per month. I'm a cultural Anglophile -- the work of English writers, musicians/composers, and filmmakers is a wellspring of inspiration. Whilst a big dopey kid I seemed to gravitate more towards English mythos than American. Still, I attempt to reconcile this attraction with the known knowns of British darkness. Yeah, colonial blah-blah-blah. I get it. But it is the bloodline institution, and the tributaries that branch off into a parasitic aristocracy, that reek of sulfur. It would be nice to turn back time and prevent the Venetian Babylonians from transferring their base of operations from the Netherlands to London. The Magi injected a spiritual decay that corrupts to this day. Part of that corruption involves wiping away Pictish, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman, DNA, to be replaced by the vibrant colours. It's time for Arthur to cut short his Avalon sojourn.Replies: @Anon
https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1571884465953046531Replies: @epebble
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that machines, particularly AI, but all machines are racist. Apparently Highways are racist too.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-starts-fixing-racist-roads-grant-dismantle-highway
https://i.ibb.co/ccH53jK/090858970b3635a825bec6cc0f4fba41348fdb35-14.jpg
Disparate health outcomes are the result of medicalized white supremacy.Replies: @Sam Malone
The original road is racist. However the non-racist version of the road will be racist since it will lead to gentrification and kick all the black folks out, as well.
Let’s just blow the road up and leave us all in peace.
Good lord. Thanks for sharing.
"Objective standards ... blacks hit hardest". I.e. objective standards are racist.
Well, the truth is ... standards are "racist". Reality is "racist".
The most important sociological and political truth is the one hammered at--yet again--a few posts back on IQ and economic growth: Different groups of humans are different.
More wordily:
Since modern humans emerged from Africa 100-50 thousand years ago and especially since the neolithic revolution of agriculture 10,000 years ago, evolution--call it a process of gene-culture co-evolution--has shaped different peoples in different areas with different resources, agriculture and cultures ... differently. And those differences cause different peoples to have widely varying behavior--economic and sociological success and "fit"--in modern technological societies.
Diversity means ... differences.Replies: @The Alarmist, @Alden
If it goes down the middle of a black neighborhood, it splits the community.
If it goes along the edge of a black neighborhood, it separates it from nearby white communities.
If it is far away from a black neighborhood, then that neighborhood has been bypassed and cut off.
All three claims are being made about different highways right now in different parts of the country.Replies: @Steve Sailer
Speed cameras here in Australia will soon rival the sports pages for prominence in the media. Individual cameras even have league ladders (what you call standings, I think) based on both the number of fines and total revenue. I look forward to the racial breakdown of those fined. In vain, of course. They’d never release those numbers.
Local young black guys now have started driving Dodge hellcat challengers at breakneck speeds close enough to where I stays that it sounds like somebodies gonna get killed any second. Out for a walk yesterday along that road and here they came! Two of them accelerating to about a hundred right past me. I’m jealous.
More likely they were black women, racing to get to the daycare center before the $1/minute late fee clock started ticking.Replies: @John Johnson
The biggest problem with speed cameras is that rich folk don’t care. Us normies have to slow down to the pace of a fast bicycle but mr big can blow through the stop lights and do 40 mph in the 25 zone (which was 35 a few short years ago) and chalk it up to the price of doing business. What’s a few hundred dollars in red light and speeding tickets to somebody who makes millions? These guys pay upwards of four hundred bucks everytime time they call a car service and don’t blink. Just another way of letting us know who are the serfs and who are the masters. IF we had real world police pulling over the red light runners and speeders, it would at least add the inconvenience of ten minutes on the side of the road. So while pretending to give a “blind eye of justice” color to the camera scheme, the biggest benefit is to the rich folk, who dgaf.
In all fairness automobiles today accelerate effortlessly with very low cabin and engine noise which use to help in judging speed. Trying to keep them under 25 MPH on Queens Blvd when they behave like dogs pulling a leash takes some effort. Since I drive an automatic transmission 1993 Volvo 240 around the City I really don’t have a problem with speed cameras.
Liberals seek to end disparate impact and they know speed cameras would result in disproportionate impact on Blacks. The goal is an attempt to conceal Black misbehavior and underperformance. This is the same reason Universities are no longer using the SATs for college admissions.
The goal of progressives is to reduce Black incarceration rates. Thus they decriminalize drugs, speeding, shoplifting , driving without a license, etc… The agenda is not better policing but less policing. Thus speed cameras may soon be banned when they have disparate impact.
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
Jews and negroes have already begun writing articles about how racist and evil the queen was. Not surprised at all.
That might have been true in the past, but with big cities implementing no-bail laws for most crimes, they would quickly implement no-warrant rules for traffic violations; instead of warrants, they would just go right to attaching wages (making sure that it’s only enforced for people who have income to attach).
After all, it’s clear that in Chicago, New York, LA, Philadelphia, etc. (not to mention the federal government) the goal is not to reduce crime, but to raise income. Therefore, law “enforcement” will continue to move from incarceration to monetary penalties and seizures.
Arrest warrants do not have be issued for unpaid moving violations. The Denver Boot and or t0w truck can be used to immobilize and impound vehicles as is done for unpaid parking violations. This would remove police from the enforcement operation ( unless the miscreants attack parking enforcment personnel booting or towing vehicles) which would make the police happy if not the car owner. Since the police would only become involved upon receiving a request from parking authority personnel being threatened or attacked there would be a non police witness and request for help in case the police have to subdue or shoot a motorist.
There is no final solution to blackness.
People keep writing about the death or imprisonment of violent thugs as if it’s a bad thing.
Not only is it good, it’s good irrespective of race or age.
On a separate note, what is it about Rick Perlstein that makes him think he should be entitled to break a speed limit free of consequences?
Shouldn’t he be setting an example to reckless young men by assiduously behaving in a civilised manner? Or does he think that being a “liberal historian” should accord him privileges above the common herd?
The police catch a lot of criminals in traffic stops. Or so I read. Are there stats on how many?
Speed Cameras: No.
They violate Bill of Rights, Amendment VI:
It’s going to be more than license plate character recognition after a while. AI will determine that you, Steve, are a racist White guy and need to be pulled over first.
Coz a slabery!
I plead a couple tickets down by paying a visit to the county prosecutor, who said "Are you going to make me bring the officer to court?" No points and a much lower fine.
(2) the witness you confront is whoever authenticates the camera evidence, same thing if a security cam catches you shoplifting.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Dave, in court: "Admit it, you soulless AI, you faked my speed data to get back at me for junking my smart fridge!"
Hal: "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was the same way. This about the only thing left the British get right.
Speed cameras, like breathalyzers and radar detectors, are one of those weird areas of law where courts have basically allowed defense attorneys unlimited range to challenge the accuracy, often times with success. Every few years a “new” breathalyzer or speed camera comes out, and then a few years later that model is banned or found to have “severe” flaws, so old convictions based solely on the machine get thrown out. And a good defense attorney in an individual case can demand the “working” machine at issue against his client and pick it apart to make it seem unreliable.
Most other areas of law with machine-reliance don’t have this kind of play. The only explanation I can come up with is that judges must get pulled over a lot more than we think.
N.B.: Cops have found that the best way to get a conviction to stick is to basically follow the speeders for a mile or two, note the speed the cop car is going to maintain pace, and then report that speed. For some reason, their car speed’s calibration isn’t challenged successfully.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-starts-fixing-racist-roads-grant-dismantle-highwayReplies: @bomag, @Polistra, @International Jew, @BosTex, @AnotherDad, @Sparkling Wiggle
$100 million to rebuild one mile of highway? Why so little? (LOL.)
…many longtime black residents worry they may be priced out of the city as the improvements will lead to gentrification.
You can’t win.
They violate Bill of Rights, Amendment VI:It's going to be more than license plate character recognition after a while. AI will determine that you, Steve, are a racist White guy and need to be pulled over first.Replies: @bomag, @Pat Kittle, @The Alarmist, @guest007, @GeraldB, @Pixo, @Cloudbuster
Well, I suppose a human from DMV observes the traffic camera and becomes a witness against you.
And Merrick Garland observes the color of your skin and gleefully becomes a witness against you.
Are you guys watching the Queen’s funeral?
Very well done, if you ask me.
They violate Bill of Rights, Amendment VI:It's going to be more than license plate character recognition after a while. AI will determine that you, Steve, are a racist White guy and need to be pulled over first.Replies: @bomag, @Pat Kittle, @The Alarmist, @guest007, @GeraldB, @Pixo, @Cloudbuster
Officer, why did you pull me over?
Coz a slabery!
They violate Bill of Rights, Amendment VI:It's going to be more than license plate character recognition after a while. AI will determine that you, Steve, are a racist White guy and need to be pulled over first.Replies: @bomag, @Pat Kittle, @The Alarmist, @guest007, @GeraldB, @Pixo, @Cloudbuster
Maybe they can bring the camera to court.
I plead a couple tickets down by paying a visit to the county prosecutor, who said “Are you going to make me bring the officer to court?” No points and a much lower fine.
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
Another question: how could a culture like this have been turned completely suicidal in just a few decades?
I seem to recall reading that speed cameras cause a lot of accidents from motorists suddenly remembering/spotting them and hitting the brakes abruptly.
From the CDC website: Speed cameras can reduce crashes substantially. [Decina, Thomas, et al., 2007] reviewed 13 safety impact studies of automated speed enforcement internationally, including one study from a United States jurisdiction. The best-controlled studies suggest injury crash reductions are likely to be in the range of 20 to 25 percent at conspicuous, fixed camera sites.
https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/calculator/factsheet/speed.html#:~:text=Recent%20Research%20on%20Effectiveness,-A%202010%20update&text=Speed%20cameras%20also%20reduced%20total,data%20collected%20near%20camera%20sites.
Newer cars already have the speed limit showing up on the dashboard telling you whether you're over the limit or not. The computers everywhere could tabulate who drives safely and who doesn't.
My son got a good driver discount by putting an app on his phone that relayed all his driving to the insurance company. For 3 months they tracked him to tell if he was peeling out or slamming on the breaks a lot. After that trial he deleted the app.
I could see the insurance companies rating people not on their demographic or locale, but directly on their driving. "Hey, you drive like you're drag racing all the time. Are you? Your insurance will cost $1000/month."Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Arclight
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
Unfortunately, yes.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-starts-fixing-racist-roads-grant-dismantle-highwayReplies: @bomag, @Polistra, @International Jew, @BosTex, @AnotherDad, @Sparkling Wiggle
And diets. Ain’t nothing more racist than whitesplaining that some food is supposedly more “healthy” than whatever tastes good. That’s not even good science yo.
Disparate health outcomes are the result of medicalized white supremacy.
They violate Bill of Rights, Amendment VI:It's going to be more than license plate character recognition after a while. AI will determine that you, Steve, are a racist White guy and need to be pulled over first.Replies: @bomag, @Pat Kittle, @The Alarmist, @guest007, @GeraldB, @Pixo, @Cloudbuster
This would be an argument against all video evidence since there is no witness but then again, all the state needs to do is have someone testify how the video was taken and to attest to the date and accuracy of the speed camera. The idea that the courts cannot evolve past what was done in 1790 is laughable.
It's not 1984 either yet, buddy. How do you feel about your prosecution and conviction being completely automated, with not a human involved? Fuck that.Replies: @guest007
One should probably put in the five minutes of Googling to find those studies rather than just speculate.
From the CDC website: Speed cameras can reduce crashes substantially. [Decina, Thomas, et al., 2007] reviewed 13 safety impact studies of automated speed enforcement internationally, including one study from a United States jurisdiction. The best-controlled studies suggest injury crash reductions are likely to be in the range of 20 to 25 percent at conspicuous, fixed camera sites.
https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/calculator/factsheet/speed.html#:~:text=Recent%20Research%20on%20Effectiveness,-A%202010%20update&text=Speed%20cameras%20also%20reduced%20total,data%20collected%20near%20camera%20sites.
A question for everyone is whether they would rather have higher property taxes or more speed cameras. Property taxes are a tax on those with wealth, with the ability to save, and the ability to plan for the future. Traffic cameras are a tax on the short term thinking of the stupid. I would rather that the stupid pay more.
Kind of OT but really not. NY state taking Steve’s advice;
https://www.thecity.nyc/justice/2022/9/13/23352167/convicted-pot-dealers-promised-first-licenses-process-difficult
Steve is kind of the shadow Clark Clifford of our time. The unacknowledged ’eminence grise’ behind many current proposals. I think Clifford’s gig was more profitable, though.
My State has gone crazy.
Let me get this straight: you can shoplift up to $950 with no consequences, but 6 mph over the limit and a warrant is issued?
Geofencing.
10-20 years from now.
Mark me.
10 years hence ubiquitousReplies: @countenance
Yes. Red light camera tickets at intersections are particularly dangerous. They are known safety hazards, but, hey, they make big bucks! And politicians can boast at election time that they didn’t raise your taxes.
Just to make sure they earn a handsome profit, the municipality (through its contractor, who shares in the ill-gotten gains) usually shortens the duration of the yellow light, to catch more of its citizenry, People who know it’s a red light intersection panic stop at yellow lights, only to be rear-ended by those who don’t.
I wish the commenter who argues that traffic cameras are unconstitutional had a case. But the payments we’re forced to make are not criminal sanctions. They are civil fines. As long as you pay up, the politicians don’t care if you’re a dangerous driver. That’s not the point.
You can't even drive around on an empty road that you have all to yourself without feeling the sword of Damocles hanging over your head.Replies: @Colin Wright
https://www.thecity.nyc/justice/2022/9/13/23352167/convicted-pot-dealers-promised-first-licenses-process-difficult
Steve is kind of the shadow Clark Clifford of our time. The unacknowledged 'eminence grise' behind many current proposals. I think Clifford's gig was more profitable, though.Replies: @kaganovitch, @additionalMike
The details of the proposal, as is befitting for the Empire State, are an absolute grifter’s paradise, of course.
Similar thing happened in Ohio with regards front license plates. I don’t know for certain if the de-policing angle allowed it to get over the line or if the general right libertarian hostility to front lisense plates was enough but it certainly was a narrative that emerged in the years leading up to them removing the law.
This came after a cause celebre where a guy got stopped but couldn’t produce his lisense since he didn’t have it on him. Officer suspected he might be driving with suspended lisense and proceeded to take steps to get him out of the car for a longer encounter rather than just issuing a warning or fine. Officer claims he was or thought he was being dragged as the guy began to take off as he had his hand inside the car. He shot the guy in the head.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/31/front-license-plate-ohio-law-samuel-dubose
Seems like simply being stopped for not having front lisense plates wasn’t key to what happened at all. He could have been stopped for anything and got caught driving with a suspended lisense, panicked and drove off in a way that panicked the officer in turn. But the argument still stands that the fewer times guys like this are stopped the less likely they are to do this. That’s the problem not that people do that.
https://cincinnati.com/story/news/local/2015/07/23/eliminating-front-license-plate-helped-shooting/30545935
The elimination of laws requiring front lisense plates is a weird one to have such success in North America but it seems it only go in one direction, against such laws in US states and Canadian provinces. The only people organised to oppose such moves are police since not being able to ID a vehicle plate half the time doesn’t help them much. Now there is the de-policing angle pushing for it too.
(This assumes that the reader doesn't know that joyriding is basically the same as grand theft auto, except that the thief is kind enough to stop driving the car once it's wrecked or runs out of gas.)
"Panicked and drove off" is not a truthful description. People who hit the accelerator and flee from the police are by definition dangerous, and dangerously stupid, people. Normal people don't do this. Criminals do this. If they get shot while fleeing, it's okay with me.
Build your own highway.Replies: @Adam Smith
Not only white liberals, but white libertarians, would object to cameras which would threaten their precious right to violate the traffic laws. Antinominanism comes in left and rightwing flavors.
That’d be the case with red light cameras even more so. Been there, done that.
OT: You will be shocked, I say shocked, to find out that the new head of DIE at DoD is an anti-white lunatic.
Sample quote: “this lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too…I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS…we are not the majority, we don’t have power.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-defense-department-has-a-chief-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-officer-heres-why-she-hates-you/
ANY law, if equally enforced,will lead to an unequally large proportion of blacks getting prosecuted. There is no category of law that they dont lead all races in violating. Therefore we can conclude that any and all laws will be called “racist” at some point, prompting calls to have them repealed, up to and including murder.
They violate Bill of Rights, Amendment VI:It's going to be more than license plate character recognition after a while. AI will determine that you, Steve, are a racist White guy and need to be pulled over first.Replies: @bomag, @Pat Kittle, @The Alarmist, @guest007, @GeraldB, @Pixo, @Cloudbuster
It’s a speeding ticket, not a criminal prosecution.
They have outsmarted us. A huge percentage of black malefactors drive around with no tags, rendering the cameras and racist AI totally impotent. The only way to get the tagless drivers is with real live traffic stops, as those decline expect tagless driving to increase accordingly.
This experiment already ran in Rochester, NY
https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/lovely-warrens-right-about-red-light-cameras/Content?oid=2935008&media=AMP+HTML
Red light camera were removed by order of the black woman mayor (since removed for her own scandals) because they disproportionately affected “poor people”.
That Cincinnati.com piece has an interesting variant of “Mostly Peaceful” that I don’t recall seeing too often:
Translated: he could have been charged with up to 37 violent crimes, but the “most” lets us get away with pretending he’s just some guy who the police shot because they’re a bunch of killjoys, and the “joyriding” makes him seem even more fun!
(This assumes that the reader doesn’t know that joyriding is basically the same as grand theft auto, except that the thief is kind enough to stop driving the car once it’s wrecked or runs out of gas.)
Speed cameras will work, but the fines need to be lower, and there needs to be plenty of warnings showing up in the mail… maybe on your phone?…
Newer cars already have the speed limit showing up on the dashboard telling you whether you’re over the limit or not. The computers everywhere could tabulate who drives safely and who doesn’t.
My son got a good driver discount by putting an app on his phone that relayed all his driving to the insurance company. For 3 months they tracked him to tell if he was peeling out or slamming on the breaks a lot. After that trial he deleted the app.
I could see the insurance companies rating people not on their demographic or locale, but directly on their driving. “Hey, you drive like you’re drag racing all the time. Are you? Your insurance will cost $1000/month.”
One of the stupidest things I ever read….
Apparently, the city of Chicago cut the grace zone from 10 mph over the speed limit to 5 mph without telling anybody to close the budget deficit.
But the city only gets something like $3 or $4 out of every $100 ticket. The rest gets split up between the County, courts, traffic education and safety programs, and a bunch of other government hands.
“Unarmed”?
No, he had a weapon weighing at least a ton and a half – his vehicle.
Stop lying.
OT — Sky News has a magnificent feed of the funeral of QEII
I’ve been pulled over a few times in my life for speeding. At no point would I have ever even considered hitting the accelerator and fleeing to get away from the police.
“Panicked and drove off” is not a truthful description. People who hit the accelerator and flee from the police are by definition dangerous, and dangerously stupid, people. Normal people don’t do this. Criminals do this. If they get shot while fleeing, it’s okay with me.
There was that cop in Saskatchewan who ticketed a driver for going 41 kph in a 40 kph zone or thereabouts). The man had merely passed the cruiser, which was driving well under the limit for some reason. The cop apparently took it seriously.
But then, a Saskatchewan cop’s life is going to be pretty dull. Off the reserve, anyway.
They violate Bill of Rights, Amendment VI:It's going to be more than license plate character recognition after a while. AI will determine that you, Steve, are a racist White guy and need to be pulled over first.Replies: @bomag, @Pat Kittle, @The Alarmist, @guest007, @GeraldB, @Pixo, @Cloudbuster
(1) this right doesn’t extend to infractions
(2) the witness you confront is whoever authenticates the camera evidence, same thing if a security cam catches you shoplifting.
(2) This is about a witness in a court of law. If more people would take these camera-recorded "infractions" to court, we'd see how this turns out. The State and the Big Biz running the cameras and collecting the dough don't expect this to happen, due to people's concerns about their time and opportunity cost in court.
Since the front plates are useful to highway authorities, shouldn’t the vehicle owner pay more for the privilege of going without? Same with cycle helmets. I’ve never understood the “libertarian” argument against such things, as the deeper argument is that the owner of the property has the right to make up any rules he wishes for others crossing his land. So suck it up.
Build your own highway.
The state may own the fee, or it may own only an easement, but the result is the same; the highways are held by the state for use as public thoroughfares. "The streets belong to the public, and are primarily for the use of the public in the ordinary way."
Or, well, that used to be the case before the criminals masquerading as "government" went bankrupt and pledged us all as collateral for their war debt (while few good thinking people even noticed much less objected).
So pay your victory tax! All your commerce are belong to us, partner.
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What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
First thing that came to mind!
His follow-up tweet proves Perlstein’s Talmudry on this issue even more:
Perlstein is a liberal for sure, and not to be trusted, but he’s at least the kind of liberal who finds other liberals dull. His books on Goldwater/Nixon/Reagan are readable.
Agreed. Perlstein's political histories of the 60s and 70s are literary panoramas, stuffed with well-documented info. His leftism, and I agree with some of it, does not overwhelm the page.
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
It’s the beauty that’s the problem. People are jealous.
After such beauty, what forgiveness?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-starts-fixing-racist-roads-grant-dismantle-highwayReplies: @bomag, @Polistra, @International Jew, @BosTex, @AnotherDad, @Sparkling Wiggle
I can live with antiracist highways but I draw the line at maintaining the US/UK left-right binary; I will not tolerate anyone on an American road identifying as British and driving on the left.
https://transportationhistoryorg.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/takutu-bridge-air-guyana.jpghttps://www.thetinytravelogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/P2054145-1920x1440.jpgReplies: @International Jew
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
The crowds lining the streets look nothing like the tv adverts. Problematic for the directors so we have had significantly fewer shots of the sea of white faces.
The future is China.
China is high IQ, but is indeed a "low trust" society. So more prone to stuff like corruption, corner cutting and associated debacles. Really only the one-people Western Christian nations and Japan (through some quite different route) are high-trust societies. (And the West is tossing that away.) But even with "high trust" Western nations have had--and still do--their share of screwups.
My guess is that because of this lower trust, China will never quite be able to be as "nice" as its IQ would indicate. "Never" that is until the age of routine genetic selection and then we're off into some different world anyway.
But China is still "the future", mainly because they are smart, have a huge population and are not suiciding themselves quite like the West.
(And as a learned on the IQ-of-nations thread, that--seemingly easy to understand--reality drives a whole bunch of mouth breathing commenters batty.)Replies: @megabar, @nebulafox
Differing rates of speeding by race were found in a large study in New Jersey, and said findings quickly swept under the rug by the US Department of Justice, way back in 2002:
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/nyregion/study-suggests-racial-gap-in-speeding-in-new-jersey.html
(2) the witness you confront is whoever authenticates the camera evidence, same thing if a security cam catches you shoplifting.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
(1) An “infraction” is a term for a criminal act.
(2) This is about a witness in a court of law. If more people would take these camera-recorded “infractions” to court, we’d see how this turns out. The State and the Big Biz running the cameras and collecting the dough don’t expect this to happen, due to people’s concerns about their time and opportunity cost in court.
A Irish wag once suggested a compromise for those nationalists wanting to switch: cars would use one system, buses and lorries the other.
In the early days of driving, Canadians were most confused, with not only different traffic régimes in different provinces, but even between various cities within the same province. Insular Newfoundland was the last to go right, in 1947, just before joining the Confederation. Thus, the only place in either the US or Canada to drive on the left is the USVI.
You can practice switching without leaving the hemisphere at the Brazil/Guyana and Suriname/French Guiana borders.
Now here's puzzler for you, Rege (if I may address you by the vocative): if the US were to switch to driving on the left, would our existing highway interchanges still work?Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @AnotherDad
OT – Biden on 60 Minutes:
Biden then distractedly turned his head and wistfully added: “mmmmm…………………pudding.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-starts-fixing-racist-roads-grant-dismantle-highwayReplies: @bomag, @Polistra, @International Jew, @BosTex, @AnotherDad, @Sparkling Wiggle
The ZeroHedge linked article is hilarious. Basically:
The original road is racist. However the non-racist version of the road will be racist since it will lead to gentrification and kick all the black folks out, as well.
Let’s just blow the road up and leave us all in peace.
Good lord. Thanks for sharing.
Many drivers now identify as non-binary and just drift over the line.
I’d laugh, but splitting my time between the UK and the Continent and the USA, I sometimes need to remind myself on which side I should drive … I don’t have diplomatic immunity, so I can’t just run over a local in any country and then run away with impunity like that Sacoolas lady.
https://transportationhistoryorg.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/takutu-bridge-air-guyana.jpghttps://www.thetinytravelogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/P2054145-1920x1440.jpgReplies: @International Jew
I’m sorry but neither of those borders are convenient for me. Do you have anything closer to northern California?
Now here’s puzzler for you, Rege (if I may address you by the vocative): if the US were to switch to driving on the left, would our existing highway interchanges still work?
For Reg or Rege, I understand the Guyana thing (formerly English) but why left in either the former Dutch and (still somewhat) French colonies?
I drove on the left in Ireland recently. That alone was not so bad, but doing it in a crowded European city like Dublin was stressful. My wife had to do the nav with the GPS or I couldn't have handled it. The "roundabouts" were ... interesting... Next, time, it's the tour bus, haha!Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Achmed E. Newman
The biggest thing issue is that we build up the "wait" side of intersections. For example, a typical urban throughfare might have left turn, through, through and right turn lanes for "waiters", while the "receiving" or "sucking" side has only two through lanes.
Where the highway is undivided you can restring the lights and get out the paint sprayer and fix that up.
But where a highway is divided you've got much more serious construction to do. Knocking down dividers and laying pavement--if there is even space for it. Think of a typical urban/suburban highway exit. It is usually two or three or even four lanes wide where it intersects the cross street, to handle the exiting traffic waiting to go left or right. In contrast the entrance ramp is often nicely widely curved to easily accept traffic either way but is basically one (broad) lane onto the highway.
My understanding is the Brits looked into switching after the war, but decided it was too pricey even then. The Swedes converted in the early 60s (i think). Simple roads switch with little effort--sometimes nothing beyond moving signs. But the more big highways/throughfares/interchanges you build out the more prohibitively expensive it becomes.
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BTW, from the math perspective this looks like a symmetric "just pick one" issue. And that's how it evolved historically. People in different places had varying traditions.
But I've read that LHT--driving on the left--is actually more natural for right handers, or maybe right handers who are right eye dominant (the majority). And results in a slightly lower accident rate as a result. Not sure.Replies: @International Jew
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
Was, not is. It’s an elaborate theatre set now. Give it twenty more years and the Archbishop of Canterbury will be a Muslim.
Now here's puzzler for you, Rege (if I may address you by the vocative): if the US were to switch to driving on the left, would our existing highway interchanges still work?Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @AnotherDad
The cloverleafs would, but not the diamonds.
For Reg or Rege, I understand the Guyana thing (formerly English) but why left in either the former Dutch and (still somewhat) French colonies?
I drove on the left in Ireland recently. That alone was not so bad, but doing it in a crowded European city like Dublin was stressful. My wife had to do the nav with the GPS or I couldn’t have handled it. The “roundabouts” were … interesting… Next, time, it’s the tour bus, haha!
There is pressure from the neighbors for one's traffic to conform to theirs. Hence Canada, Belize, and several former British colonies in West Africa all drive on the right, and several of Portugal's still drive on the left.
Actually, it was Portugal which changed, in 1928. Mozambique, Macau, Goa, and Timor just stayed put. East Timor changed three times.
To us of a Roman stripe, he essentially has been for 500+ years. Though we do honor his baptisms and (valid) marriages.
James Patrick of St Thomas More U in Dallas said the British were the world’s champions of gutting institutions while leaving their outer shells unchanged.
For Reg or Rege, I understand the Guyana thing (formerly English) but why left in either the former Dutch and (still somewhat) French colonies?
I drove on the left in Ireland recently. That alone was not so bad, but doing it in a crowded European city like Dublin was stressful. My wife had to do the nav with the GPS or I couldn't have handled it. The "roundabouts" were ... interesting... Next, time, it's the tour bus, haha!Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Achmed E. Newman
Do you know of any French colony that now drives on the left, or ever did? Perhaps St Pierre and Miquelon when nearby Newfoundland was still independent.
There is pressure from the neighbors for one’s traffic to conform to theirs. Hence Canada, Belize, and several former British colonies in West Africa all drive on the right, and several of Portugal’s still drive on the left.
Actually, it was Portugal which changed, in 1928. Mozambique, Macau, Goa, and Timor just stayed put. East Timor changed three times.
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
I began sobbing the moment the first bagpipe song rang out as the procession to Westminster began
The last week of ceremonies make me proud to be English
Today was heartbreaking and beautiful
The Queen would be so proud
“We’ll Meet Again” dedicated to QE2
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
“But … can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as commonly claimed?”
A question I ponder five or six times per month. I’m a cultural Anglophile — the work of English writers, musicians/composers, and filmmakers is a wellspring of inspiration. Whilst a big dopey kid I seemed to gravitate more towards English mythos than American. Still, I attempt to reconcile this attraction with the known knowns of British darkness. Yeah, colonial blah-blah-blah. I get it. But it is the bloodline institution, and the tributaries that branch off into a parasitic aristocracy, that reek of sulfur. It would be nice to turn back time and prevent the Venetian Babylonians from transferring their base of operations from the Netherlands to London. The Magi injected a spiritual decay that corrupts to this day. Part of that corruption involves wiping away Pictish, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman, DNA, to be replaced by the vibrant colours. It’s time for Arthur to cut short his Avalon sojourn.
CS Lewis has a short beautiful book about the types of love; one of the simpler ones was the love of the land that saw a person born. Patriotism. That love can rightly be bestowed both on a land and on its culture: the people, the language, arts, idiosincrasias, rituals, esthetics. It’s normal to love the products of the high point of the Anglosphere.. and normal also to decry its pollution.
Latin Americans call Spain the “Madre Patria”, or “Mother Homeland”.. a way of recognizing the bonds that tie these nations together, and that transcend any shenanigans by the elites. Way more poetic than the rather dry burocratese of “special relationship”.
https://twitter.com/rickperlstein/status/1571524708901740545?s=20&t=1G0Ml3nKcAL3G-CClmpgyQReplies: @Altai, @Redneck farmer
Perlstein seems to be a prototypical post 68 ‘new left’ archetype. Unconcerned with social cohesion or class politics just a cluster B fuckup who aligned with the left but who is actually a parast upon it. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the parasitic took over and now all we have is a left which preaches social and economic individualism.
This anecdote from his wikipedia shows him to be a tedious high arousal threshold sensation-seeking impulsive cluster B fuckup. They hate rules because they can’t abide by them. They find them oppression.
The arts are full of people like this and their control of peoples’ perceptions and values through Hollywood is significant. Often you’ll hear actors etc talking on talkshows about things ‘everyone relates’ to without irony. They spent their lives around people like themselves and have no idea normal people don’t have their instincts or impulses.
Perlstein’s ethnocentrism might also have informed his hostility to the ‘jail’ of suburban Milwaukee in the 70s/80s (Which was by all accounts a pretty cool place to grow up in) and his lack of regard for rules of his ‘host’ society.
So the university was more prison like than Milwaukee where he could ride his bike walk to school, playgrounds, to hang out with friends and even take public transit without being killed.
Largest police force in the state of Illinois and UofChicago students and staff are still victimized
Steve,
Chicago has bigger issues than speed cameras 📸. The ¡Vibrant! Population of the city took a page from the Diverse population of the city and did a good old fashioned Street Takeover for Mexican Independence Day this past weekend:
https://cwbchicago.com/2022/09/2-shot-as-mexican-independence-day-revelers-overwhelm-chicago-cops-in-the-loop.html
I do so hope the good people of Chicago were culturally enriched by the fireworks, loud music, and street racing.
Newer cars already have the speed limit showing up on the dashboard telling you whether you're over the limit or not. The computers everywhere could tabulate who drives safely and who doesn't.
My son got a good driver discount by putting an app on his phone that relayed all his driving to the insurance company. For 3 months they tracked him to tell if he was peeling out or slamming on the breaks a lot. After that trial he deleted the app.
I could see the insurance companies rating people not on their demographic or locale, but directly on their driving. "Hey, you drive like you're drag racing all the time. Are you? Your insurance will cost $1000/month."Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Arclight
Sounds like a good idea. For example if you are over the limit three times within a week, then you get a fine, and the fines are progressive if you continue to offend. If you are a frequent offender, then you can link a debit card or credit card to your speeding account, so it would work a bit like the tolls in Florida.
I am sure the technology is there because even here in Ecuador, every time I use my ATM card to buy groceries or withdraw cash, I immediately get a text message summarizing the transaction, and asking me to report it to if it is fake.
There’s something not quite right about using speeding fines to boost city and state revenues. The purpose of speeding laws should be to reduce speeding and improve road safety, and they should be reviewed every so often to see if they are achieving that end. Otherwise states and cities may actually encourage speeding to increase revenue.
In cities with congested traffic, that should also be evaluations of improvements to roads to determine whether the commute times are on average improving or getting worse. One would need to identify the circumstances that cause delays, for example bad weather, or accidents, and work on things like getting accidents cleared away quickly.
A few years ago, north of Jacksonville in Florida, there was a very unfortunate incident when an illegal immigrant was apprehended at a gas station by border control and cops, at about 6:30 in the morning and run away across the road.
A cop ran after him and was hit by a passing car and killed. 5 hours later the whole 4-lane highway was still virtually closed with detours round the stores, and traffic backed up for miles with people getting very impatient. I was one of them.e
If circumstances that make people get impatient or make them late for work could be reduced, you might get a reduction in overall statistics for speeding.
Insurance discounts for not speeding, as demonstrated by an app on a phone could also discourage speeding, especially if surcharges were imposed when speeding was identified. This would have the effect of discouraging speeding without bringing law enforcement into the equation.
Another intervention might be for cops to drag speeding motorists out of their vehicles and beat them to death. Pour encourager les autres.
Whichever way, there ought to be a lot more research into ways of reducing speeding. The current laws seem to go back to the era of horse drawn vehicles.
“His books on Goldwater/Nixon/Reagan are readable.”
Agreed. Perlstein’s political histories of the 60s and 70s are literary panoramas, stuffed with well-documented info. His leftism, and I agree with some of it, does not overwhelm the page.
10-20 years from now.
Mark me.Replies: @mike99588
here now
10 years hence ubiquitous
https://twitter.com/rickperlstein/status/1571524708901740545?s=20&t=1G0Ml3nKcAL3G-CClmpgyQReplies: @Altai, @Redneck farmer
And in 20 years, he’s going to be arguing for more traffic enforcement in his neighborhood.
https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/lovely-warrens-right-about-red-light-cameras/Content?oid=2935008&media=AMP+HTML
Red light camera were removed by order of the black woman mayor (since removed for her own scandals) because they disproportionately affected “poor people”.Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
They had these posted in the nicer parts of Rochester I frequented, so I’m fine with this.
For Reg or Rege, I understand the Guyana thing (formerly English) but why left in either the former Dutch and (still somewhat) French colonies?
I drove on the left in Ireland recently. That alone was not so bad, but doing it in a crowded European city like Dublin was stressful. My wife had to do the nav with the GPS or I couldn't have handled it. The "roundabouts" were ... interesting... Next, time, it's the tour bus, haha!Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Achmed E. Newman
No, wait, the diamond interchanges ought to work too. Had a brain fart, because it’s hard to think that way. Lots of Americans would do a nice job over in England – they like hogging the left lane on the highway.
The more you know!
The choir of St. George’s Chapel has been all male since it’s founding in the 14th century. This year it was announced that girls will be added.
And so it begins.
And so it begins."
Yes, the UK is much farther gone than the US. It's horrible.
Meanwhile there's this choir, founded in 1996.
The comments are worth reading, especially the one by Oksana Oksana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcDihq0aXF4&feature=share&si=ELPmzJkDCLju2KnD5oyZMQReplies: @YetAnotherAnon
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qKRLJ9DlHNQ/UdYwJrEN27I/AAAAAAAAAxk/uDglgHU4wSA/s281/Chatsworth+Osborne+Jr.jpg
You’ve got every right to a jury trial.
Right, get someone to come testify, and we’ll go over the calibration, the conditions, and so on.
It’s not 1984 either yet, buddy. How do you feel about your prosecution and conviction being completely automated, with not a human involved? Fuck that.
Do the defense contractors making the red light cameras and license plate readers still get a sizable cut of each ticket? I know this was the case in the D.C. area for a long time. I was just researching this and found other instances of jurisdictions having or having had this arrangement.
Build your own highway.Replies: @Adam Smith
The “state” does not own the highways, it holds them in trust for the people.
The state may own the fee, or it may own only an easement, but the result is the same; the highways are held by the state for use as public thoroughfares. “The streets belong to the public, and are primarily for the use of the public in the ordinary way.”
Or, well, that used to be the case before the criminals masquerading as “government” went bankrupt and pledged us all as collateral for their war debt (while few good thinking people even noticed much less objected).
So pay your victory tax! All your commerce are belong to us, partner.
☮
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-starts-fixing-racist-roads-grant-dismantle-highwayReplies: @bomag, @Polistra, @International Jew, @BosTex, @AnotherDad, @Sparkling Wiggle
This is the gist of it. Steve can–and will! much to our delight–roll out a 1000 posts, across every human domain–tests scores, school discipline, policing, marriage, illegitimacy, credit scores, home ownership, AI, speed cameras …. –that amount to the same thing:
“Objective standards … blacks hit hardest”. I.e. objective standards are racist.
Well, the truth is … standards are “racist”. Reality is “racist”.
The most important sociological and political truth is the one hammered at–yet again–a few posts back on IQ and economic growth: Different groups of humans are different.
More wordily:
Since modern humans emerged from Africa 100-50 thousand years ago and especially since the neolithic revolution of agriculture 10,000 years ago, evolution–call it a process of gene-culture co-evolution–has shaped different peoples in different areas with different resources, agriculture and cultures … differently. And those differences cause different peoples to have widely varying behavior–economic and sociological success and “fit”–in modern technological societies.
Diversity means … differences.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/teeth-fossil-human-history-evolution-development-germany-rhine-mainz-archaeology-a8010506.html
As this confounds the “Out of Africa” hypothesis, The Science™️ have twisted themselves into tortured prezels to claim that the “Out of Africa” hypothesis is indeed the truth.
In further news, The Science™️ reminds you that COVID vaxxes don’t stop you from catching the syndrome, but are nevertheless effective, and in any case are as safe as they are effective.
How can a Person of UNZ believe liberal racist lies?
It's not 1984 either yet, buddy. How do you feel about your prosecution and conviction being completely automated, with not a human involved? Fuck that.Replies: @guest007
A speeding ticket is not a conviction but a citation almost everywhere. In addition, most states do not add points to one’s driving record based upon speed camera or red light camera since the state did not prove who was driving. Look it up.
Shoplift to pay the ticket, I guess.
New Yorkers getting what they voted for, good and hard.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/18/mcdonalds-ax-attack-suspect-michael-palacios-freed-without-bail/
For those localities with mayors and minions not chauffeured about, a perusal of their parking spots should yield all the data necessary to dupe up facsimiles with which to cause an avalanche of tickets to arrive irregularly in the mailboxes of the nomenklatura.
Geez what is it with a bunch of you guys. Supposed “Americans”.
She was some old lady–not your momma–in a foreign country. Who, btw, was a crappy queen. “Reigned” over the worse 70 years of British history–bar none. While not directly responsible, did absolutely nothing with the political and persuasive powers she had to halt her nation’s slide into the abyss. And if a modern monarch has any purpose beyond “looter” and “tourist attraction” it’s that.
Seriously some pomp with dudes dressed up like they’re from the 16th century and you get all excited. What are you all homosexual royalists?
Hahs Hermann Hoppe makes the case that monarchies are more stable than democracies-- yes, that's a mighty low standard, and "constitutional" monarchies fit more into the latter category-- because it is in the long-term interest of the king and his progeny to keep them so. Long-term interest is alien to democracies.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCeSZX1X0A0PRie.jpg
Speed traps have been around forever.
Long before speed cameras existed, little towns along highways would post ridiculously low speed limits. Travelers would suddenly see Barney Fife behind them in his cop car with the lights flashing, the speed limit having just dropped immediately down from, say, 55 mph to 20 mph before they even realized it.
It was all for revenue, and it was part of the culture in certain places. Passers-through would pay the fines instead of staying in town to enjoy whatever the local procedure was for those who wanted to contest it.
Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
https://www.al.com/resizer/Uypf2xuuPqT0Y0_eDvwMdh57X54=/1280x0/smart/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/IQCPYP77KNDUXHEEQFX77FVM2A.jpg
The dog's name says it all.
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I generally drive 85 to 89 in California 65 zones when traffic is light and do not get speeding tickets.
Going 90-100 is risky, and my only ticket was going about 95, but kindly marked down as 90. Hitting 100 however you face a $2000 fine and your insurance will go up by $2500 over two years, so don’t go nuts here. When I was young and dumb however I’d go 115 for long stretches on the 10 in the desert east of LA, hitting 135 for short stretches, and used a radar detector. While I don’t advise you to do the same, it was really fun.
"Objective standards ... blacks hit hardest". I.e. objective standards are racist.
Well, the truth is ... standards are "racist". Reality is "racist".
The most important sociological and political truth is the one hammered at--yet again--a few posts back on IQ and economic growth: Different groups of humans are different.
More wordily:
Since modern humans emerged from Africa 100-50 thousand years ago and especially since the neolithic revolution of agriculture 10,000 years ago, evolution--call it a process of gene-culture co-evolution--has shaped different peoples in different areas with different resources, agriculture and cultures ... differently. And those differences cause different peoples to have widely varying behavior--economic and sociological success and "fit"--in modern technological societies.
Diversity means ... differences.Replies: @The Alarmist, @Alden
Yeah … about that….
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/teeth-fossil-human-history-evolution-development-germany-rhine-mainz-archaeology-a8010506.html
As this confounds the “Out of Africa” hypothesis, The Science™️ have twisted themselves into tortured prezels to claim that the “Out of Africa” hypothesis is indeed the truth.
In further news, The Science™️ reminds you that COVID vaxxes don’t stop you from catching the syndrome, but are nevertheless effective, and in any case are as safe as they are effective.
You can also steal $949.00 or something worth $949.00 and not get charged. Shoplifting robbery its all theft.
"Objective standards ... blacks hit hardest". I.e. objective standards are racist.
Well, the truth is ... standards are "racist". Reality is "racist".
The most important sociological and political truth is the one hammered at--yet again--a few posts back on IQ and economic growth: Different groups of humans are different.
More wordily:
Since modern humans emerged from Africa 100-50 thousand years ago and especially since the neolithic revolution of agriculture 10,000 years ago, evolution--call it a process of gene-culture co-evolution--has shaped different peoples in different areas with different resources, agriculture and cultures ... differently. And those differences cause different peoples to have widely varying behavior--economic and sociological success and "fit"--in modern technological societies.
Diversity means ... differences.Replies: @The Alarmist, @Alden
Modern humans didn’t emerge from Africa 100-50 thousand years ago. The skeleton of a fully modern human 750,000 years old was found in Indonesia the island of Java.
How can a Person of UNZ believe liberal racist lies?
Located in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the country, UofChicago and the immediate neighborhood are basically fortresses against the surrounding hordes.
So the university was more prison like than Milwaukee where he could ride his bike walk to school, playgrounds, to hang out with friends and even take public transit without being killed.
Largest police force in the state of Illinois and UofChicago students and staff are still victimized
Now here's puzzler for you, Rege (if I may address you by the vocative): if the US were to switch to driving on the left, would our existing highway interchanges still work?Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @AnotherDad
Most everything “sorta” works, but it would still be hellish.
The biggest thing issue is that we build up the “wait” side of intersections. For example, a typical urban throughfare might have left turn, through, through and right turn lanes for “waiters”, while the “receiving” or “sucking” side has only two through lanes.
Where the highway is undivided you can restring the lights and get out the paint sprayer and fix that up.
But where a highway is divided you’ve got much more serious construction to do. Knocking down dividers and laying pavement–if there is even space for it. Think of a typical urban/suburban highway exit. It is usually two or three or even four lanes wide where it intersects the cross street, to handle the exiting traffic waiting to go left or right. In contrast the entrance ramp is often nicely widely curved to easily accept traffic either way but is basically one (broad) lane onto the highway.
My understanding is the Brits looked into switching after the war, but decided it was too pricey even then. The Swedes converted in the early 60s (i think). Simple roads switch with little effort–sometimes nothing beyond moving signs. But the more big highways/throughfares/interchanges you build out the more prohibitively expensive it becomes.
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BTW, from the math perspective this looks like a symmetric “just pick one” issue. And that’s how it evolved historically. People in different places had varying traditions.
But I’ve read that LHT–driving on the left–is actually more natural for right handers, or maybe right handers who are right eye dominant (the majority). And results in a slightly lower accident rate as a result. Not sure.
Ideal solution, Mr. Sailer, especially in suburban neighborhoods where Ford 150 and Ram truck drivers routinely speed without fear of consequence.
Do you know James Patrick? Twenty years ago, I had the very good fortune to work with him for two years or so in the development of a Renaissance encyclopedia, on which he was credited as editor. He and I found each other thanks to gracious assistance from Thomas Fleming, then still the editor of Chronicles. For that and other reasons, my gratitude to Fleming will endure as long as I do.
My understanding is that Thomas More had to close down because of the unyielding opposition of the bishop of Fort Worth to the doctrines and Traditional rites of the religion in whose liturgical structure he is nominally a prelate and a successor of the Apostles. Religious poseur and pseudo-Catholic Taylor Marshall assisted at the execution.
Fleming and I are of an age, and my sense was that Patrick was, if anything, a bit older than we were. I’d be delighted to learn that he is still alive.
Well, more seriously…
Tickets are for breaking the law and not carefully watching for cops.
You can drive at 80 mph quite safely — if you are watching the road. If you are watching the road, you will notice everyone else slowing down, what could be a cop up ahead or a cop moving up behind you — and you’ll slow down, and you’re less likely to get a ticket.
The cops give tickets mainly to people who are driving fast or dangerously — and at the same time are so oblivious of their surroundings that they don’t notice the cop.
And isn’t that how it should be?
It’s Big Brother.
You can’t even drive around on an empty road that you have all to yourself without feeling the sword of Damocles hanging over your head.
Yeah -- but face facts. That Sword of Damocles does make you a safer driver.
I have driven long distances innumerable times whilst thoroughly plowed. Fact of the matter is, my intense aversion to a DUI ticket did make me drive extra- super-duper carefully.
...and that would seem to have been for the best. At any rate, I never ran off the road or went head-on into a minivan carrying a family of six.Replies: @anon
“The choir of St. George’s Chapel has been all male since it’s founding in the 14th century. This year it was announced that girls will be added.
And so it begins.”
Yes, the UK is much farther gone than the US. It’s horrible.
Meanwhile there’s this choir, founded in 1996.
The comments are worth reading, especially the one by Oksana Oksana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFaxOv3nnU
So are female ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE02T8rB0wU
I'm not sure mixing them doesn't lose something.
Correct.
China is high IQ, but is indeed a “low trust” society. So more prone to stuff like corruption, corner cutting and associated debacles. Really only the one-people Western Christian nations and Japan (through some quite different route) are high-trust societies. (And the West is tossing that away.) But even with “high trust” Western nations have had–and still do–their share of screwups.
My guess is that because of this lower trust, China will never quite be able to be as “nice” as its IQ would indicate. “Never” that is until the age of routine genetic selection and then we’re off into some different world anyway.
But China is still “the future”, mainly because they are smart, have a huge population and are not suiciding themselves quite like the West.
(And as a learned on the IQ-of-nations thread, that–seemingly easy to understand–reality drives a whole bunch of mouth breathing commenters batty.)
> [China is] not suiciding themselves quite like the West.
Possibly, these two are related.
Chicago has bigger issues than speed cameras 📸. The ¡Vibrant! Population of the city took a page from the Diverse population of the city and did a good old fashioned Street Takeover for Mexican Independence Day this past weekend:
https://cwbchicago.com/2022/09/2-shot-as-mexican-independence-day-revelers-overwhelm-chicago-cops-in-the-loop.html
https://twitter.com/TaqiSalaam/status/1571017304762351617?s=20&t=C4wO51CV3JMtHdsv8qQGnQ
https://twitter.com/YetAnotherJoe/status/1570964911743995907?s=20&t=wOIxvozt2hn8c43ybec41Q
I do so hope the good people of Chicago were culturally enriched by the fireworks, loud music, and street racing.
https://twitter.com/gingermaddoxtv/status/1570958324337889281?s=20&t=Rdq6digYTwp99WnWkk5DXwReplies: @puttheforkdown
Aren’t brownsters great? I know Ron Unz must be thrilled, what with his “muh Hispanics can assimilate!”
No, you don’t.
Here’s a street-savvy New York lawyer explaining why:
https://www.villanuevalaw.com/a-new-yorker-s-survival-guide-to-fighting-a-speeding-ticket.html#:~:text=New%20York%20traffic%20tickets%20%28non-misdemeanors%29%20are%20not%20entitled,punishable%20with%20more%20than%20one%20year%20in%20jail.
When you do this, it becomes a game of who can waste more of the other's time. You request a jury trial, they call you in for roll call (i.e., they do some yakking, don't settle it, and you have to be there), they you make motions for this or that. I personally don't have the patience for that - maybe when I'm retired it'll give me something to do - if they let me comment here from the audience... sometimes they are touch about that ...Replies: @Ben Kurtz, @bomag
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
If you thought the Queen’s funeral looked nice, you should’ve seen George Floyd’s. Floyd got a golden casket, unlike the Queen:
Speed cameras are essentially a tax on stupid and impulsive people.
And in totally unrelated news, they are inherently Structurally Racist.
Sometimes I fear that reality has a Structurally Racist bent.
Hmm... wondering. Who buys the lottery tickets, anyway? I wonder if it's the same people that run red lights and drive too fast.
AGREE and LOL.
That site’s about NY, and I’m not even sure I believe the lawyer. I don’t live in New York. A friend of mine will request a jury trial for a ticket for beeping his horn in a gas station parking lot… I know … it was a purely racial thing on the part of one of the cops.
When you do this, it becomes a game of who can waste more of the other’s time. You request a jury trial, they call you in for roll call (i.e., they do some yakking, don’t settle it, and you have to be there), they you make motions for this or that. I personally don’t have the patience for that – maybe when I’m retired it’ll give me something to do – if they let me comment here from the audience… sometimes they are touch about that …
More broadly - yes, you can insist on every procedural safeguard that exists in your state (Confrontation Clause and Due Process means there will be a fair few, even if not a jury) in order to drive up costs for the other side a force the prosecution to retreat somewhat. And you can wait until retirement until that's feasible time-wise.
Or you can hire a traffic ticket lawyer to do all that for you at a very reasonable rate. He spends all day in the traffic ticket courthouse and does tickets in bulk, so he's always around to attend whatever hearing is calendared.
A good traffic ticket lawyer is a useful name in your Rolodex.
China is high IQ, but is indeed a "low trust" society. So more prone to stuff like corruption, corner cutting and associated debacles. Really only the one-people Western Christian nations and Japan (through some quite different route) are high-trust societies. (And the West is tossing that away.) But even with "high trust" Western nations have had--and still do--their share of screwups.
My guess is that because of this lower trust, China will never quite be able to be as "nice" as its IQ would indicate. "Never" that is until the age of routine genetic selection and then we're off into some different world anyway.
But China is still "the future", mainly because they are smart, have a huge population and are not suiciding themselves quite like the West.
(And as a learned on the IQ-of-nations thread, that--seemingly easy to understand--reality drives a whole bunch of mouth breathing commenters batty.)Replies: @megabar, @nebulafox
> because of this lower trust, China will never quite be able to be as “nice” as its IQ would indicate.
> [China is] not suiciding themselves quite like the West.
Possibly, these two are related.
Kingdoms are a relic of homogeneous populations. We threw one off because we were already too diverse 250 years ago. That should have been a warning right there.
Hahs Hermann Hoppe makes the case that monarchies are more stable than democracies– yes, that’s a mighty low standard, and “constitutional” monarchies fit more into the latter category– because it is in the long-term interest of the king and his progeny to keep them so. Long-term interest is alien to democracies.
Speed cameras aren’t about ensuring fairness for the little guy it’s about reducing the overall number of deaths/accidents. A tiny minority of millionaire speeders continuing to speed because they can afford the ticket does not detract from the usefulness of speed cameras. Most people who speed are not rich and will be inconvenienced by the cameras, pay more attention to their surroundings and lower their speeds. And as a result they are somewhat less likely to recklessly plow into another vehicle while scrolling TikTok.
Tickets are for breaking the law and not carefully watching for cops.
You can drive at 80 mph quite safely -- if you are watching the road. If you are watching the road, you will notice everyone else slowing down, what could be a cop up ahead or a cop moving up behind you -- and you'll slow down, and you're less likely to get a ticket.
The cops give tickets mainly to people who are driving fast or dangerously -- and at the same time are so oblivious of their surroundings that they don't notice the cop.
And isn't that how it should be?Replies: @S. Anonyia
That system breaks down when the cops give up on pulling people over altogether, as has been the case in many municipalities post-Floyd.
No no no you don’t understand you can’t just enforce existing law and carry out procedures which have existed for decades Look THIS IS ABOUT THE CLIMATE.
When you do this, it becomes a game of who can waste more of the other's time. You request a jury trial, they call you in for roll call (i.e., they do some yakking, don't settle it, and you have to be there), they you make motions for this or that. I personally don't have the patience for that - maybe when I'm retired it'll give me something to do - if they let me comment here from the audience... sometimes they are touch about that ...Replies: @Ben Kurtz, @bomag
Some states might give you that right, but it’s not guaranteed by the Constitution so it’s not universal across America. In the states I am familiar with it is generally unheard of. But I’ll concede that there may be some states where you can do that.
More broadly – yes, you can insist on every procedural safeguard that exists in your state (Confrontation Clause and Due Process means there will be a fair few, even if not a jury) in order to drive up costs for the other side a force the prosecution to retreat somewhat. And you can wait until retirement until that’s feasible time-wise.
Or you can hire a traffic ticket lawyer to do all that for you at a very reasonable rate. He spends all day in the traffic ticket courthouse and does tickets in bulk, so he’s always around to attend whatever hearing is calendared.
A good traffic ticket lawyer is a useful name in your Rolodex.
And in totally unrelated news, they are inherently Structurally Racist.
Sometimes I fear that reality has a Structurally Racist bent.Replies: @ForeverCARealist
Hey, you know, we used to say that the lottery is a tax on stupidity.
Hmm… wondering. Who buys the lottery tickets, anyway? I wonder if it’s the same people that run red lights and drive too fast.
I remember speed cameras at the Cermak & Clark intersection that one day acquired Black garbage bags in Chicago. Located near Black public housing.
China is high IQ, but is indeed a "low trust" society. So more prone to stuff like corruption, corner cutting and associated debacles. Really only the one-people Western Christian nations and Japan (through some quite different route) are high-trust societies. (And the West is tossing that away.) But even with "high trust" Western nations have had--and still do--their share of screwups.
My guess is that because of this lower trust, China will never quite be able to be as "nice" as its IQ would indicate. "Never" that is until the age of routine genetic selection and then we're off into some different world anyway.
But China is still "the future", mainly because they are smart, have a huge population and are not suiciding themselves quite like the West.
(And as a learned on the IQ-of-nations thread, that--seemingly easy to understand--reality drives a whole bunch of mouth breathing commenters batty.)Replies: @megabar, @nebulafox
Other developed East Asian societies-Taiwan, ROK, Singapore-have trust levels high enough that you can leave valuables in cafes safe in the knowledge they won’t be stolen, just like Japan.
Mainland China isn’t a high trust society, to put it mildly, but a lot of that is due to more modern history and the PRC-specific cultural traits that resulted. It’s only been recently that not being poor anymore has become insufficient to fill the spiritual void in many people’s lives. It remains to be seen how things continue from here. As long as the CCP rules, my guess is that China will become high trust when it comes to things like petty crime and low trust when it comes to higher level, white collar or corporate interaction.
If there’s one fundamental psychological gap between older and younger Americans, IMO, it’s the difference between growing up in a high trust society where people interacted freely with each other from childhood onward, and a low trust one where you were hyper managed if affluent and left completely adrift if you weren’t. Growing up in a place where you could trust other individuals or institutions to not arbitrarily harm you just gives you a different psychological makeup.
Long before speed cameras existed, little towns along highways would post ridiculously low speed limits. Travelers would suddenly see Barney Fife behind them in his cop car with the lights flashing, the speed limit having just dropped immediately down from, say, 55 mph to 20 mph before they even realized it.
It was all for revenue, and it was part of the culture in certain places. Passers-through would pay the fines instead of staying in town to enjoy whatever the local procedure was for those who wanted to contest it.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Pixo
How Alabama’s most notorious speed trap town was shut down
FFJC Op-Ed in CNN: Alabama scandal shines national spotlight on taxation-by-citation
Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
The dog’s name says it all.
Are you sure they were black guys? Black guys usually don’t drive fast.
More likely they were black women, racing to get to the daycare center before the $1/minute late fee clock started ticking.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-starts-fixing-racist-roads-grant-dismantle-highwayReplies: @bomag, @Polistra, @International Jew, @BosTex, @AnotherDad, @Sparkling Wiggle
Highway placement is a funny no-win situation.
If it goes down the middle of a black neighborhood, it splits the community.
If it goes along the edge of a black neighborhood, it separates it from nearby white communities.
If it is far away from a black neighborhood, then that neighborhood has been bypassed and cut off.
All three claims are being made about different highways right now in different parts of the country.
If it goes down the middle of a black neighborhood, it splits the community.
If it goes along the edge of a black neighborhood, it separates it from nearby white communities.
If it is far away from a black neighborhood, then that neighborhood has been bypassed and cut off.
All three claims are being made about different highways right now in different parts of the country.Replies: @Steve Sailer
Thanks. Can you give examples? I want to do something on the current Racist Roads obsession.
I-93 in Boston is kind of a racist road in that it skirts Roxbury and cuts it off from the terrible racists in South Boston and all the South Boston magic dirt which makes Southie perfectly great to live in and walk around in at 2 AM (unlike Roxbury) and access to the South Boston beaches, which is bad because we know that black people like to swim.
This major truck highway will be reduced to a surface city boulevard, with plantings, evocative banners, traffic calming devices, and lots of red lights, to address Equity.
Gov. Hochul, that Botoxed zombie, has promised that work will commence right away.
What happens to North-South traffic when the existing, inadequate, traffic loop around the city (481) is closed because of a truck crash, perhaps due to a spectacular snowstorm?
Don't nobody know.
If I worked for NY State DOT, I would be embarrassed.
https://archive.ph/zIU7I
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1568910896440791041
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567902269110366210
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567902707020603394
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567903424024399875
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567904289070190599
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567904916131414017
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567905732636381186
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567906266311434242Replies: @BosTex, @Pixo
More likely they were black women, racing to get to the daycare center before the $1/minute late fee clock started ticking.Replies: @John Johnson
Are you sure they were black guys? Black guys usually don’t drive fast.
LOL have you never driven in a Black area?
Pick a Black area and find a restaurant with outdoor seating on the main drag. Eat a meal and watch the show.
Black guys love to drag the stoplights. Slam on the gas when it is green and then slam on the brakes when it is red. Doesn’t matter if it is one block.
Blacknecks are also known to hunt, play softball and wear Lee jeans.
I guess she didn’t circumcise her sons.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Snowman
Will William and Kate call for the rabbi?
https://www.virtualjudaica.com/Content/listingImages/20140117/a34b3c73-6fc4-4b8f-8b4d-dbd896bb4a36_fullsize.jpg
You can't even drive around on an empty road that you have all to yourself without feeling the sword of Damocles hanging over your head.Replies: @Colin Wright
‘…You can’t even drive around on an empty road that you have all to yourself without feeling the sword of Damocles hanging over your head.’
Yeah — but face facts. That Sword of Damocles does make you a safer driver.
I have driven long distances innumerable times whilst thoroughly plowed. Fact of the matter is, my intense aversion to a DUI ticket did make me drive extra- super-duper carefully.
…and that would seem to have been for the best. At any rate, I never ran off the road or went head-on into a minivan carrying a family of six.
This over-optimization of society sucks for individuals... it's great for the billionaires, I guess.
The daddy doth protest too much, methinks.
I-94 in Saint Paul is a racist road. It ran over the Rondo neighborhood which was the black neighborhood in the Twins Cities. Very, very racist. It is also racist to have a black neighborhood, so I 94 should have been routed elsewhere, cutting the black neighborhood from something or other, causing more racist mayhem.
I-93 in Boston is kind of a racist road in that it skirts Roxbury and cuts it off from the terrible racists in South Boston and all the South Boston magic dirt which makes Southie perfectly great to live in and walk around in at 2 AM (unlike Roxbury) and access to the South Boston beaches, which is bad because we know that black people like to swim.
Newer cars already have the speed limit showing up on the dashboard telling you whether you're over the limit or not. The computers everywhere could tabulate who drives safely and who doesn't.
My son got a good driver discount by putting an app on his phone that relayed all his driving to the insurance company. For 3 months they tracked him to tell if he was peeling out or slamming on the breaks a lot. After that trial he deleted the app.
I could see the insurance companies rating people not on their demographic or locale, but directly on their driving. "Hey, you drive like you're drag racing all the time. Are you? Your insurance will cost $1000/month."Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Arclight
In theory not a bad idea/incentive but since like all punitive measures it will disproportionately impact those with the hardest time following the rules in the first place no doubt the disparate impact would result in ‘reforms’ that gut the entire purpose.
How high do the fines have to be to get me to stop speeding without simultaneously immiserating me?
Probably an entire generation of speeders would have to die off before the next generation learned from day one that it's better to be late than to pay a fine. I guess this is the Exodus principle in action.
Is that you, Chatsworth?
https://www.thecity.nyc/justice/2022/9/13/23352167/convicted-pot-dealers-promised-first-licenses-process-difficult
Steve is kind of the shadow Clark Clifford of our time. The unacknowledged 'eminence grise' behind many current proposals. I think Clifford's gig was more profitable, though.Replies: @kaganovitch, @additionalMike
Once the NY State Dem Party discovered that it could do the most outrageous things without acts of journalism being committed against it (OK with the exception of Fox News and the NY Post), all bets were off.
My State has gone crazy.
Of course not. No mother does. She called in Dr Snowman for the job:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Snowman
Will William and Kate call for the rabbi?
WTTW-TV weights in.
Syracuse, man. Try Syracuse. Republicans allegedly routed a major North-South elevated interstate (81) to split a vibrant black neighborhood in the early ’60’s to destroy their voting power.
This major truck highway will be reduced to a surface city boulevard, with plantings, evocative banners, traffic calming devices, and lots of red lights, to address Equity.
Gov. Hochul, that Botoxed zombie, has promised that work will commence right away.
What happens to North-South traffic when the existing, inadequate, traffic loop around the city (481) is closed because of a truck crash, perhaps due to a spectacular snowstorm?
Don’t nobody know.
If I worked for NY State DOT, I would be embarrassed.
https://archinect.com/news/article/150321692/segregation-by-design-using-visual-data-and-spatial-analysis-to-highlight-the-racist-legacy-of-urban-renewal
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban-highways-segregation.html
https://archive.ph/zIU7I
My NYT pitch:
Murder and armed robbery from the 1960s to today always and without exceptions are disproportionately committed by ¡¡¡BLACKS!!! against white families. In a visual essay, you can use an interactive chart to see how ¡¡¡BLACKS!!! (pbuh) commit murder at about 11 times the non-hispanic white (yuck!) rate, and armed robbery and carjacking at 20 and 50 times whites.
Our interactive tool also allows you to see how more than 25 million whites fled the cities they grew up in and loved due to black violence, corruption, and theft, including those whose lifetime of hard work and savings was wiped out by black rioters and property value destruction, and the thousands of whites murdered, maimed, raped, and disfigured by ¡¡¡BLACK!!! crime.
They lost World War II.
A question I ponder five or six times per month. I'm a cultural Anglophile -- the work of English writers, musicians/composers, and filmmakers is a wellspring of inspiration. Whilst a big dopey kid I seemed to gravitate more towards English mythos than American. Still, I attempt to reconcile this attraction with the known knowns of British darkness. Yeah, colonial blah-blah-blah. I get it. But it is the bloodline institution, and the tributaries that branch off into a parasitic aristocracy, that reek of sulfur. It would be nice to turn back time and prevent the Venetian Babylonians from transferring their base of operations from the Netherlands to London. The Magi injected a spiritual decay that corrupts to this day. Part of that corruption involves wiping away Pictish, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman, DNA, to be replaced by the vibrant colours. It's time for Arthur to cut short his Avalon sojourn.Replies: @Anon
Bravo.
CS Lewis has a short beautiful book about the types of love; one of the simpler ones was the love of the land that saw a person born. Patriotism. That love can rightly be bestowed both on a land and on its culture: the people, the language, arts, idiosincrasias, rituals, esthetics. It’s normal to love the products of the high point of the Anglosphere.. and normal also to decry its pollution.
Latin Americans call Spain the “Madre Patria”, or “Mother Homeland”.. a way of recognizing the bonds that tie these nations together, and that transcend any shenanigans by the elites. Way more poetic than the rather dry burocratese of “special relationship”.
https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1571884465953046531Replies: @epebble
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/30653e2fa811047d4c560d2383991fd8
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/george-floyd-funeral-thousands-queue-to-see-golden-casket-to-pay-respects/news-story/05423091452b0433a8327038ef05cd10
Long before speed cameras existed, little towns along highways would post ridiculously low speed limits. Travelers would suddenly see Barney Fife behind them in his cop car with the lights flashing, the speed limit having just dropped immediately down from, say, 55 mph to 20 mph before they even realized it.
It was all for revenue, and it was part of the culture in certain places. Passers-through would pay the fines instead of staying in town to enjoy whatever the local procedure was for those who wanted to contest it.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Pixo
California doesn’t allow this. There’s an anti-speed-trap law, and there’s also not a lot of random tiny towns on 55mph country roads that are ideal for speed traps.
I generally drive 85 to 89 in California 65 zones when traffic is light and do not get speeding tickets.
Going 90-100 is risky, and my only ticket was going about 95, but kindly marked down as 90. Hitting 100 however you face a $2000 fine and your insurance will go up by $2500 over two years, so don’t go nuts here. When I was young and dumb however I’d go 115 for long stretches on the 10 in the desert east of LA, hitting 135 for short stretches, and used a radar detector. While I don’t advise you to do the same, it was really fun.
https://archive.ph/zIU7I
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1568910896440791041
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567902269110366210
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567902707020603394
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567903424024399875
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567904289070190599
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567904916131414017
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567905732636381186
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567906266311434242Replies: @BosTex, @Pixo
Thanks Meh, this is very good. I was joking about Boston, but son of a gun, I93 is the racist road outlined.
https://archive.ph/zIU7I
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1568910896440791041
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567902269110366210
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567902707020603394
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567903424024399875
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567904289070190599
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567904916131414017
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567905732636381186
https://twitter.com/SegByDesign/status/1567906266311434242Replies: @BosTex, @Pixo
“ Urban renewal projects in the 1950s and ’60s almost always disproportionately displaced nonwhite families, notes @SegByDesign. In a visual essay, you can use an interactive chart to examine the disparity, city by city, around the country. ”
My NYT pitch:
Murder and armed robbery from the 1960s to today always and without exceptions are disproportionately committed by ¡¡¡BLACKS!!! against white families. In a visual essay, you can use an interactive chart to see how ¡¡¡BLACKS!!! (pbuh) commit murder at about 11 times the non-hispanic white (yuck!) rate, and armed robbery and carjacking at 20 and 50 times whites.
Our interactive tool also allows you to see how more than 25 million whites fled the cities they grew up in and loved due to black violence, corruption, and theft, including those whose lifetime of hard work and savings was wiped out by black rioters and property value destruction, and the thousands of whites murdered, maimed, raped, and disfigured by ¡¡¡BLACK!!! crime.
Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, tells the story of the man behind much of NYC’s traffic infrastructure, and it offers up a number of examples purported to show that much of it was designed to keep the brown folk down. The most famous examples are the low bridges on the Southern State Parkway, alleged to be purpose-built to keep busses full of brown people from coming out to Long Island beaches, and the Cross-Bronx Expressway, which tore the low-income neighbourhoods of the South Bronx asunder.
Here is but one of many discussions of Pete Buttigeg’s racist road crusade:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/04/12/republicans-mock-buttigieg-for-saying-highways-are-racist-but-heres-what-he-meant/
https://www.usnews.com/object/image/00000168-3e1a-d068-a5e9-fe1bd2fd0000/190111-camera-editorial.jpgReplies: @The Alarmist
And for that they are heros of the République.
Vive les Gilets Jaunes … Vive la France !
And then came covid, the lockdowns and the jab mandates.
The Yellow Vests, like monkeypox, dropped off the face of the earth. I wonder what the current status of speed cameras is in France now. I bet they’re all back in place, plus 20%.
10 years hence ubiquitousReplies: @countenance
I mean it in the sense of limiting the speed of automobiles within a genofence.
“Jews and negroes have already begun writing articles about how racist and evil the queen was.”
In Afua Hirsh you get a two-for-one deal!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/13/queen-reign-death-elizabeth-ii-uk-minorities-british-empire
The first case I think is the most common claim, and it’s what buttgieg said about Detroit.
For the second one, I35 here in Austin is always said to have created some kind of impenetrable boundary between black communities in the east and the rest of Austin. Somehow the gentrifiers found a way to breach it though. Now they’re talking about “cap and stitch,” basically making it a tunnel through downtown with parks on top to remedy the highway’s racist past.
I’ll get on google and see if I can find where I last heard the bypassed/left behind by progress narrative.
They violate Bill of Rights, Amendment VI:It's going to be more than license plate character recognition after a while. AI will determine that you, Steve, are a racist White guy and need to be pulled over first.Replies: @bomag, @Pat Kittle, @The Alarmist, @guest007, @GeraldB, @Pixo, @Cloudbuster
“…to be confronted with the witnesses against him”
Dave, in court: “Admit it, you soulless AI, you faked my speed data to get back at me for junking my smart fridge!”
Hal: “I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
And so it begins."
Yes, the UK is much farther gone than the US. It's horrible.
Meanwhile there's this choir, founded in 1996.
The comments are worth reading, especially the one by Oksana Oksana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcDihq0aXF4&feature=share&si=ELPmzJkDCLju2KnD5oyZMQReplies: @YetAnotherAnon
Male voice choirs are fantastic, although this has a slight if unintended Python feel.
So are female ones.
I’m not sure mixing them doesn’t lose something.
They could run experiments in white areas to see how the cameras affect crashes/road deaths. I suppose this had already been done, but if it’s effective, why not trumpet it to the public?
How high do the fines have to be to get me to stop speeding without simultaneously immiserating me?
Probably an entire generation of speeders would have to die off before the next generation learned from day one that it’s better to be late than to pay a fine. I guess this is the Exodus principle in action.
“Yellow Vest Protesters Destroy 60 Percent of France’s Speed Cameras”
And then came covid, the lockdowns and the jab mandates.
The Yellow Vests, like monkeypox, dropped off the face of the earth. I wonder what the current status of speed cameras is in France now. I bet they’re all back in place, plus 20%.
Yeah -- but face facts. That Sword of Damocles does make you a safer driver.
I have driven long distances innumerable times whilst thoroughly plowed. Fact of the matter is, my intense aversion to a DUI ticket did make me drive extra- super-duper carefully.
...and that would seem to have been for the best. At any rate, I never ran off the road or went head-on into a minivan carrying a family of six.Replies: @anon
Maybe. But in the same way that banning guns would probably lead to less annual homicides, there are other considerations at play.
This over-optimization of society sucks for individuals… it’s great for the billionaires, I guess.
The biggest thing issue is that we build up the "wait" side of intersections. For example, a typical urban throughfare might have left turn, through, through and right turn lanes for "waiters", while the "receiving" or "sucking" side has only two through lanes.
Where the highway is undivided you can restring the lights and get out the paint sprayer and fix that up.
But where a highway is divided you've got much more serious construction to do. Knocking down dividers and laying pavement--if there is even space for it. Think of a typical urban/suburban highway exit. It is usually two or three or even four lanes wide where it intersects the cross street, to handle the exiting traffic waiting to go left or right. In contrast the entrance ramp is often nicely widely curved to easily accept traffic either way but is basically one (broad) lane onto the highway.
My understanding is the Brits looked into switching after the war, but decided it was too pricey even then. The Swedes converted in the early 60s (i think). Simple roads switch with little effort--sometimes nothing beyond moving signs. But the more big highways/throughfares/interchanges you build out the more prohibitively expensive it becomes.
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BTW, from the math perspective this looks like a symmetric "just pick one" issue. And that's how it evolved historically. People in different places had varying traditions.
But I've read that LHT--driving on the left--is actually more natural for right handers, or maybe right handers who are right eye dominant (the majority). And results in a slightly lower accident rate as a result. Not sure.Replies: @International Jew
Thanks, you’ve raised a host of interesting issues I didn’t think of (and I have thought about it; we batted this around the lunch table at work awhile back).
The most insightful comment from my colleagues was: imagine filming traffic from a helicopter. If you then replayed the footage backwards, would anything look off?
What’s the over / under for the first article criticizing it for being so overtly Christian and white?
More seriously, look at Westminster Abbey and listen to the hymns. Very fashionable to criticize the how evil and rotten Western culture is. But my goodness, can a culture that has created this much beauty be as bad as is commonly claimed?Replies: @Clark Kent, @Barnard, @Polistra, @usNthem, @Carol, @SFG, @Janbar, @International Jew, @Thoughts, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anon, @Prester John
In a word: no!
But that’s becoming increasingly a minority view.
How much of an issue is petty crime in the PRC?
You must live in a part of the country where the indigenous black culture has been corrupted by the influence of rednecks. I.e. “Blacknecks.”
Blacknecks are also known to hunt, play softball and wear Lee jeans.
I don’t think speed cams are racist. I think they’re a tool of a police (fascist if you will) state. Get rid of them.
When you do this, it becomes a game of who can waste more of the other's time. You request a jury trial, they call you in for roll call (i.e., they do some yakking, don't settle it, and you have to be there), they you make motions for this or that. I personally don't have the patience for that - maybe when I'm retired it'll give me something to do - if they let me comment here from the audience... sometimes they are touch about that ...Replies: @Ben Kurtz, @bomag
Since everyone but you is getting paid here, it falls in the category of “punishment by process.”
It exists, but more in the form of pickpockets than muggings. Foreigners are significantly less at risk than natives are because the criminals know the government will crack down hard on them targeting the former too much. Main thing foreigners need to worry about is fraud related stuff. Needless to say, Chinese cities are safe at night in a way American ones often aren’t.
Like in Malaysia and India, there are “beggar mafias” as well who intentionally cripple beggars to make them look more pitiful. In China, cultural views toward begging are intensely negative, so Westerners are targeted more here. One of my first memories of China was a couple of chemically deformed beggars-including a child our age-being beaten by the police after trying to beg from me and my brother.
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Disparate health outcomes are the result of medicalized white supremacy.Replies: @Sam Malone
Saw this on Breaking Points. That black woman doctor goes by the title “Black Nutritionist” or something. Turns out she works for one of the big junk food companies and is coming up with creative ways to enrich them.
After all, it's clear that in Chicago, New York, LA, Philadelphia, etc. (not to mention the federal government) the goal is not to reduce crime, but to raise income. Therefore, law "enforcement" will continue to move from incarceration to monetary penalties and seizures.Replies: @Rob
Fewer traffic stops seriously makes drug dealing easier. I guess cities need a major industry to be competitive with internet retail?
As you can see in the video, I-93 parallels existing major thoroughfares Morrissey Boulevard and Dot Ave. where it’s “racist”.
As a malaysian ,beggar mafia here are run by ethnic rohingyas , Pakistani nationals and Cambodians.Rohingyas are notorious for using babies and children in their begging acts while the Pakistanis would approach you asking donation for some non existent madrasas in their home country.Cambodians are the ones you normally see employing crippled individuals to beg.no one knows whether they are crippled by birth,by accident or being crippled by their handlers.However they are getting rarer lately and the rohingyas and Pakistanis are replacing them.we even have local male beggars who are blind and they usually operate with an Indonesian lady who will guide them on the street.the latter will receive some of proceeds of the begging.sometimes she’ll get more if she satisfies him lol