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It’s exactly the same - someone is changing the signage without knowing what they’re doing. I don’t think he should be harshly punished in this case, especially if he’s right, but this also isn’t at all different from someone fucking with the speed limit signs because they feel they know best. That person may also be right - that doesn’t mean they should be able to make those changes.

Ah, I understand. Thank you.

That’s a decent example of what I’ve been saying - basing a conclusion like that on the wording of an uncited press statement is pretty spurious. There simply may have been more reasons and this was judged the easiest to explain (which happens frequently), and without more information we simply aren’t equipped to make an informed judgement. Much as he wasn’t when he made the initial decision, but admittedly we’re facing far less severe consequences for being wrong.

even the traffic engineers agreed that a stop sign was an appropriate treatment for this intersection when they rejected it on the basis that the traffic volume wasn’t high enough to warrant installing one

I’m not sure I follow your reasoning here.

Sure! And if improvement is warranted hopefully this will bring enough attention that it gets reevaluated. But that all said, even if he was right, being arrested for it is warranted. Hopefully he was right and as a result he’s not punished, but if the only requirement for infrastructure changes was community complaint there would be no speed limits and the bones of traffic engineers would hang from every street light.

With respect, you have no idea if that’s true.

Traffic engineering is an actual science - what he did was extremely well-meaning, but it’s also the pavement equivalent of alternative medicine. Sometimes you’re right, but even if you nail the diagnosis most of the time you’re so ignorant you don’t even understand the potential harm you’re doing in brewing up your own treatment. It is very possible that his traffic revisions have made the area less safe for pedestrians by shifting traffic congestion onto surrounding roads with worse sightlines and higher non-motor vehicle traffic, or simply increasing baseline congestion at this already busy intersection.

As much as this case might have been justified (which we just don’t know without the traffic study), condoning random people fucking with street signage is a terrible idea. There are very good reasons not to randomly change traffic patterns, especially outside of a popular park; fuckcars, but also vigilante traffic engineering is an insanely dangerous game to play. If this brings attention to it and they reevaluate, well done this traffic martyr. But he absolutely should have been arrested for this, if only to prevent a precedent for people who decide to “fix” other traffic issues.

I assume they’re busy - what you assume is your business, but “they’re busy” seems the nicest option.

you should not expect any response to that other than a hi back

Yes, exactly. Everyone knows it’s a pointless platitude, the goal is to get an acknowledgement in response that you can further the interaction. When you don’t get that response it’s a problem - you don’t know if they’re busy, and the vast majority of people don’t want to be rude by just launching into your order (or whatever) just expecting them to be ready for it.

“too incompetent for the trump admin” is something…

Yeah, and that tendency is directly addressed in the policy.

Like, say, a candle?

Spelling/grammar checking and machine translation have been in use for decades on wikipedia, the only difference is that AI has improved the usefulness of the tools for first-pass editing. I don’t believe the policy has even changed - you still had to be fluent in the language if you were using the old style MTL tools, too.

Aside from generating videos of young girls with gigantic titties, this is the only thing generative AI is actually useful for.

Just to put the scale of this into context, the strike on the girl’s school wasn’t the first thing they did, those three strikes were among the first 700 strikes carried out on day one (1200 in the first 36 hours).

As I understand it (have friends that deal with this data), the ballots are anonymized so they can’t back-associate the voting records to real ids. So at least there’s that.

Is it? It’s just one of the CCMDs, there’s a bunch; USAFRICOM, USEUCOM, USINDOPACOM, USCENTCOM, etc. I guess it’s existence indicates that the US military operates globally, but I’d have thought all the dead brown children would have tipped people off to that one…

Maybe, but we have many of the papers that were found in his cell (and there’s all kinds of conspiracy theories about them). Why there would have been 4-5 bags worth of hardcopies of his communications laying around is the question I have - that would be an incredible amount of written communication for him to have laying around.

22,000 ICE agents 55,000 TSA agents yeah let’s see how this goes. Fucking idiot…

I think I’m still in complete agreement!

Maybe, yep! Or someone did go in and kill him, since it shouldn’t have been possible, and then they released footage with missing time, and so on. He might have been enabled to do it or he might have been outright killed or whatever other option, but I don’t know that the precise distinction even matters anymore given how obviously guilty someone is.

Yes, the issue you brought up having a problem with was my objection to having that brought into this discussion. Your issue was I disliked having that brought up, which you characterized as being the problem with politics. I’m confused how that’s relevant?

I’m not advocating for this to be hidden or obscured, I just didn’t appreciate having details about graphic child rape brought up in a largely unrelated discussion. You trying to spin that into me somehow being at fault and trying to hide a victim’s message because I’m uncomfortable with it is both insulting and wildly mischarcterizing what I said.

Discussion about rape is something that should be expected in a discussion board about a rapist though.

This is a discussion about a crime unrelated to donald trump raping a child - this is about epstien being killed. It’s a different person and entirely different category of crime.