“Professionals” in traffic engineering still religiously cling to “standards” that are largely based on BS served up by auto companies pre 1940.

Many such cases of this, it seems.

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komali2 6 hours ago | parent [-]

At least your traffic engineers set standards. In Taiwan often the standards come straight from the legislative yuan, aka just vibes laws from people who are driven around in private cars their whole lives.

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melagonster 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is just for reference: last time someone tried to address this issue, they found that no one was willing to vote for them again...

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nativeit 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don’t worry, we’re getting there. They just started dismantling what they refer to as the “administrative state”, but which largely deferred substantial questions requiring skill and non-partisan judgement to their respective experts. It was never perfect, nor free from partisan and/or economic concerns, but the replacement appears to be self-interested narcissists and sycophants and their personal fiefdoms, with precious little space for competence, logic, or integrity.

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shrubby 4 hours ago | parent [-]

At least now the masks (and Musks) are off.

It was never between the left and the right or any other false dichotomies, but always between the Epstein-class and the actual human beings.

The question now is that do the normal people realize and act on the fact that the elevator to Epstein class was never working. Or even better, they don't want to become the zillionaire class husk of a human.

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tovej 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You say it's not left v. right, but it sure sounds like you think the right is what's causing inequality. Which I agree with.

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WalterBright 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> the right is what's causing inequality

If people have rights, then they are unequal. If they have no rights, they are equal.

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shrubby 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I consider "this" right to be moral in a different way.

Now the right all around the world is hijacked by narcissistic greed that punishes any voicing of conservative moral.

In the US some republicans are daring to challenge the extreme narcissistic greed and a lot more are thinking about this privately.

I also mentioned the other dichotomies and perhaps the "right" could be hopelessness and the the "left" false hope.

As in "no point trying to curb the emissions or addressing any social causes, because the zillionaires choke hold of the planet" vs. the "eternal green growth and economy will save us and make us rich".

The Trump humangod class is not the right IMO.

I believe that power (via money or absolute power) corrupts and thus me must find a way to prevent individuals from becoming human-gods.

The left (without the "") pretends to know this but ends up being corrupted anyway and the right (the one that has some moral and spine left) seems to believe that they will not be corrupted by power.

Hope that explains it a bit better.

	▲	tovej 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You're still making a leftist argument here, even if you end up dismissing the left as "corrupt" without pointing to anything specific. Maybe you have some personal difficulty identifying with the left? You're not wrong in your characterizations, you just seem to be using different labels to me. Maybe this is a US thing? Because there barely is a left wing in US politics. Democrats are right wing, for one.
	▲	komali2 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Are you an American? It would help me frame my response better to know. I assume yes for now, apologies if not. > The Trump humangod class is not the right IMO. Basically the problem with American education is that they started using the wrong words to describe things. American libertarians are right wing and not anarchists, American liberals are right wing, American right wingers are religious ethno-fascists, and American "communists" are neoliberals. Or democratic socialists. Or just protestors. Trump is absolutely on the Right Wing of politics, specifically he's a populist fascist: obsession with masculinity, hearkening to the culture of a mythical "before times," referencing national strength coming from ethnic purity, huge emphasis on marketing over policy, support for centralization of power around a dictator, militarism, and suppression of opposition through force. Verbatim fascist ideals, he's just not as powerful (yet) as previous fascist leaders. Fascist ideology is pretty much as far-right you can get, if we use useful definitions of "left wing" and "right wing." Anarchism would be as far-left as you can get, for comparison. Regarding the current discussion, those who are making critiques of a narcissistic greed class overriding morality and buying politics, are making, even if unintentionally, a leftist, anti-capitalist critique. A right-wing critique of the current USA government wouldn't be a class-analysis (Marxist analysis) like you did in your previous comment comparing "Epstein-class" (ultra wealthy) and "actual human beings" (the working class). A right wing critique would be more along the lines of: the government is incompetent, it's putting the needs of a few individuals above those of the state, it's not cracking down hard enough on leftist opposition, it should jail all opposition leaders, it should pass apartheid laws against members of the non-chosen ethnic group. So basically, if your issue with the USA is that power can be purchased with money, welcome to the Left, I promise we're not all as cringe as the ones you've seen on Twitter. Just kidding, it's perfectly possible to make leftist critiques without being a leftist, of course. You see American liberals do it all the time when they make right-wing critiques of the Left, in e.g. their opposition to anti-fascist and anti-capitalist elements of the left. > The left (without the "") pretends to know this but ends up being corrupted anyway Yes, absolutely, this is often a critique anarchists make of revolutionary communists. I think one American politician that will be very interesting to pay attention to for the next decade is Zohran Mamdani. He's already significantly softened his stance on Israel, I'm curious how far away from his original values he'll move.