Yeah, I love how everyone loves “big dick energy” and “small dick energy”, but if someone said “loose pussy energy” and “tight pussy energy” it’s practically a hate crime lol.

If anyone is wondering what happened here (since half the comment section got nuked): it was mostly a political discussion not related to technology that was rightfully removed by mod imo.

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Exactly. They’re a scourge. Even you can’t abolish the one you’re in when you want to. They have to go and this is a great way to do it. All it takes is a few people in a neighborhood to opt out and suddenly the impossible becomes possible and people will be able to disband bad HOAs.

Good ones (if they exist) will stay because everyone will voluntarily join in keeping the community great.

Unless they agree to HOA rules they’re not allowed to live in those neighborhoods, access those schools etc… this is a coercive pressure.

I get that you’re part of an HOA board so you think they’re great, but for the most part you’re part of a system that’s a net negative in people’s lives and society. See the Jon Oliver video linked above if you ever actually want to evaluate HOA more objectively.

The American tradition of telling everyone else what to do and how to behave while not wanting others to tell you what to do and how to behave!

Yes, but the problem is that HOAs are forever. Just because I’ve group of people a long time ago agreed to make one EVERYONE who lives there FOREVER are bound to it. That is problematic.

If the reason the new people bought into the neighborhood is that it was managed by a good HOA then they’ll sign the contract voluntarily!

Exactly. We’re using the same concept that destroyed unions power, but instead of doing it for evil we’re using it to destroy HOAs

It’s like “right to work” legislation that destroyed unions, but used to destroy HOAs. “Right to home” legislation.

Why should the fact some people a long time ago have away their power to a dubious political entity, permanently destroy the right to make your own house into a home. There has to be a way for people in a neighborhood to phase out of an HOA and a “Right to home” legislation could do it easily. If the HOA really is adding value to the neighborhood then they would easily be able to entice new homeowners to sign up!

47% of Americans today APPROVE of what Trump is doing. You really think he’s going to have a hard time finding a couple thousand people to do his most heinous stuff? You’re going to convince people to say no?

Be real.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

More people were killed in the firebombing.

The theory that more people would have died of the nukes weren’t dropped is FAR from settled fact. The Japanese were already looking to surrender and it’s not likely the bomb played a big part in that decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki?wprov=sfla1

Regardless it’s nothing to get banned over, that’s for sure.

And to top it off we’ve been electing conservatives in many provinces who seem hell-bent on gutting healthcare so they can privatise it

First Incidents per hour is not arbitrary. These numbers compare very well to daily activities such as walking, driving, bathing, eating, swimming so that non specialists have a good idea of how much risk an activity carries by comparing it to an activity they’re familiar with.

Secondly ISO 26262 produces ASILs as its output which are qualitative, but still based on probably assessments in terms of chance of incidence per hour. The reason for qualitative instead of quantitative assessments of the more general SILs (based on IEC61508, the parent of ISO 26262) is that qualitative is cheaper than quantitative and the automotive industry is full of corner cutting.

Third, aircraft use QUANTITATIVE risk assessments based on ARP476, so risk can be directly measured and mathematicaly compared to any other activity. When people say “flying is safer than driving” it’s not arbitrary, it’s based on real math. The same math the FAA is using to find safety issues in the Boeing production line.

Fourth

I’m certainly not saying that safety isn’t important or that we can’t assess it.

Is this you?

safety isn’t a thing we can measure.

One accident per million hours is a direct measurement of safety, not “completely arbitrary”. The idea that the threshold in aviation regulations are “arbitrary” because it’s not based on a physical law or constant is like saying the temperature we use as “too hot for prolonged contact” is arbitrary. If you exceed it you’re likely to get burned, and if you exceed the safety thresholds in aviation regulations you’ll be less safe in an airplane than other types of transportation that we as a society find acceptable.

In engineering safety is not “just a feeling”.

Your arguments are so absurd I’m certain you’re just trolling for a reaction with brain dead comments like this.

I love this story. From people banding together and building a sand barrier on the beach to stop the ocean. To the idea that they MUST know sandbags exist but they never considered why people don’t just skip the bags and dump sand, to not one person mentioning climate change or sea level increase even though that’s clearly the problem, to the one guy saying “it’s mother nature you just have to accept it”. 5 stars, would deny climate change and fix the problem with sand piles again.

“safety isn’t a thing we can measure” says a guy who knows nothing about measuring risk and assumes it means no one in the world does either.

Oh yeah health insurance companies famously siphon off less money than government single payer system. That’s why all countries with subtle payer systems spend less money and are healthier overall than countries that use private insurance. Oh wait, what’s that? The EXACT opposite is true everywhere in the entire world? Could it be possible that you’re wrong about government corruption in Canada? How could that be, you seem like such a rational well adjusted person. So weird, it must be a coincidence, or some kind of socialist conspiracy where socialism makes everyone live longer and spend less money but somehow evil.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure

You know what you’re right, who needs social goods. Tell you what you pay for your own dental and drug plan, why not pay for your own medical insurance instead of burdening the public system, refund the money we spent to educate you, and make sure to pay for your own road and infrastructure usage while you’re at it. Send a check to the police, fire dept, paramedics, and army while you’re at it since I’m tired of subsidizing your safety and security.

Why should I have to pay what amounts to charity to educate people like you who clearly cannot be educated? Pay to keep people safe when they’re a danger to themselves and everyone around them with their absolutely idiotic takes? Let alone your health care and infrastructure usage.