I think homelessness and despair cause mental illness and substance abuse. If we can prevent “normal” people from losing their homes, I think they would be more stable and able to take care of themselves long term.

Allowing homelessness is far more costly to everyone else than preventing it.

I enjoyed the humor, but the OP did set a boundary of [serious].

So I guess what we are learning here is that setting boundaries is always going to provoke some people to break those boundaries out of spite.

The conviction was about a year after the crimes, which is a lot faster than I would expect than in my country. 5.5 years does seem light to me, too.

The rhetoric is still somewhat apologetic to the perpetrators. Like “it’s difficult for students to resist due to a sense of closeness to their teachers” doesn’t say anything about rank, authority, and power that teachers have over students. And “checking whether a teacher is under excessive pressure” seems to redirect fault away from the perpetrator.

So use that vehicle in austere places, and don’t park it in Paris (or any other city).

Found the Omicron Male! /s

I think ebike, scooter, etc. usage will increase even more if we mod infrastructure to be safer for everyone.

A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.

But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.

Someone here is seeing this xkcd for the first time just now…

I think most computer vision cameras are fairly low resolution, so I’m not expecting the hit-and-run vehicle will be identified.

Maybe make the fines scale with the mass instead of linear size.

“Hi!” the automation greeted the man on the sidewalk. “You are being recorded!”

It’s a whole lifestyle makeover! 😆

If there was only some governing entity that would prioritize the good of the whole community instead of selfish interests.

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