I’m wondering if killing speed cameras might be related to contracting with Flock, and them not wanting other types of cameras to potentially cut into their business?

Things like bending over when the fascists take over their country.

And, of course, for the sake of meeting quotas.

Capture is better than nothing, but it is far from the best option.

Still, it is at least doing something.

Hopefully it isn’t the only measure that will be taken.

Sort of, but you have cause and effect out of order.

It is well understood that poverty is correlated to crime.

And that racailized people are more often living in poverty.

But underlying all of that is societal failures, not some inherent flaws of those people’s racial identity.

Being down voted by antivaxxxers

No, you’re being downvoted for the term “race traitor”.

His support for the Iran war could be that he genuinely believes it

I suspect there’s a bit more nuance involved.

Most people would agree that the Iranian regieme is/was bad for both their own citizens and for the region.

But at the same time, what the Israelis and Americans did by starting a war with Iran is also a bad thing for the citizens of Iran and the region (and the rest of the world). Even if it did disrupt that immoral Iranian regime.

How does it make China better

China hasn’t got better, the USA simply got worse.

Several people have died (at the hands of ICE) and nothing seems to have changed.

You can turn location tagging off globally

That’s one of the first things I did when configuring my kids phones.

Its also not only a Canada thing.

The wingnuttiest of the right wing is increasingly inserting themselves into the political sphere globally, dragging the Overton window to the right as they do it.

I hope there will be a rebound towards the left (as has historically tended to happen) before they are able to do too much damage.

+40 you can only be butt naked

And they won’t even allow you to do that…

But what if they are only deciding to increase profits beyond the already obscene profits they already make?

Because hidden donors could be used as (or interpreted as) buying political influence.

I cant say I hate one more than the other, but I have hated Apple for much longer than I have hated OpenAI.

YOU are the reason that the Democratic party keeps fucking us over

I’m not even an American.

I’m one of those foreigners that the USA keeps fucking over.

I’ve been watching gbthe USA shoot itself in the foot for decades without seeming to care to fix their problems.

I want the Americans to fix their shit, but I seriously doubt that they have the character to do the hard work is needed.

We all want to know that MAGA Criminals WILL be punished this time, and not just Donald Trump

As I said, I want to believe that it’s possible, but from what I’ve seen so far, Americans won’t rise to the challenge.

Prove me wrong. Fix your own fucking country.

This right here is the final straw.

LOL.

I’ll believe that when I see the majority of americans stand up and fight back in any meaningful way.

I would be so happy for my cynicism to be proven wrong - to see Trump, his lackeys and his puppeteers stopped.

But I don’t expect that to happen.

i think it’s so funny how americans think they live in a democracy

Not just any 'ol democracy, but the bestest one ever!!1!!

Also missing is the cost of maintenance over that time period. That’s a non-zero amount, and increases (or should increase) with the age of the infrastructure.

Appropriate and legally required action.

Which has nothing to do with gun control arguements