WhateverHappenedToNorman
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WhateverHappenedToNorman
1d ago
I don't believe that has come fully into effect. Nonetheless, none of the other members had the bright idea of combining it with generous welfare policies.
WhateverHappenedToNorman
1d ago
Argentina
Not us, we just had a retarded de facto open borders policy.
WhateverHappenedToNorman
4d ago
I don't believe any of it is antisocial on purpose: stopping and starting again is a drag, particularly if you're in a high gear, so you (general you, not you in particular) just don't stop at the red light, the street you have to get to goes the other way, so instead of going all the way round you just hop onto the sidewalk, the pedestrian crossing has the best vantage point to see incoming cars (in order to cross a red light), so that's were you choose to stop. The call of the siren is strong, and I won't claim I'm a perfect citizen when I'm on the bike, but it's still kind of bullshit how "we" as a group behave, and I believe a big part of the reason is that there are basically no consequences to it.
WhateverHappenedToNorman
4d ago
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has started issuing criminal summonses for bike riders committing a slew of seemingly low-level fouls. Now, if caught running red lights, stopping in the pedestrian crossing or wearing headphones, wayward cyclists must appear before a judge, even if they are not contesting the fine. If they do not, they risk arrest.
I think this is counterproductive, because the operative phrase here is "if caught". Cyclists are terrible because their antisocial behavior doesn't quite rise up to the level of justifying sticking a rod between their spokes or arrest them, and they don't have license plates (that I know of), so it's hard to retroactively punish minor infractions. That's why they keep on annoying everyone around them.
One good thing about the potential future absolute surveillance state is that punishment for such behavior would (hopefully) be much more frequent and fine tuned.
A way more populist version of the Republican Party, though.
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