MattsAlt [comrade/them]

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  • Eh I disagree. In my city, speeding cameras were recently introduced in school zones, and there has been a noticable increase in people complying with the limits, assuming after receiving a ticket in the mail. I'd appreciate seeing red light cameras too: it is normal to see people fly through intersections after the light for traffic has turned green for the other road. It's incredibly dangerous, and multiple people have been hit and killed while crossing the street. This method would also mean less interactions with police since the tickets are mailed instead of pulling people over. I'm willing to have my mind changed, but aside from demanding more police (very bad) I don't see a way these traffic violations with real world impacts on people's ability to continue living are resolved


  • MattsAlt [comrade/them]tochapotraphouseThey're spooked
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    17 days ago

    There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.