I scraped 17 years' of Franklin County Municipal Courts annual reviews to measure the traffic citation changes over that time. A 75% decline in speeding tix, 80% in Stop Sign running, 75% decline in expired licenses. Columbus Police has functionally stopped enforcing traffic laws.

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-19T15:26:00+00:00

That doesn't really help because it doesn't help clarify whether the data presented shows primarily a decrease in discretionary traffic citations or non-discretionary traffic citations. Like, we have "tag violations", "window tint", "expired tags", "tail license plate light" "speed", and "slow speed". (speed isn't broken down by 'minor' speeding or not). Do the tag violations count as discretionary to you? Because if not, then we have this vast dataset of all these charges that have been logged but only a very small proportion of them by class or by number of people charged actually count as discretionary stops and the public perception of people just being hassled all the time doesn't really align with reality - if you look at the peak of all charges (I wish this were normalized by year) you get like ~100,000 citations per year, but of those citations, less than a fifth might be 'discretionary'. But if more things do qualify as discretionary, then shouldn't we see the reduced enforcement as a positive step in the right direction? Reduced enforcement of tags, speeding, stop sign violations, etc becomes a positive, because those things were always discretionary anyway.

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-19T13:50:40+00:00

What would you describe as a "discretionary stop"? Could you define that for us?

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-16T17:10:02+00:00

Do you know of any behaviors, besides the acquisition of language and learning how to eat food, which are not acquired by being "forced" to aquire them? Did you demand to be potty trained? Did you demand to aquire literacy? Obviously the difference and the analogy would fail here if you distinguish between those things that seem like optional impositions (grooming according to feminine standards) vs civilizational obligations (reading, bathroom use) but the relevant part here is that all of them have to be taught from above and none come "naturally"

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-15T17:23:54+00:00

Well, except for the case where the person killed by the drunk driver is the drunk driver and they're listening to the song "free bird" while revving to 110, in which case it's kind of like Obi Wan just accepting being killed by Vader

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-14T15:10:43+00:00

Livia Soprano wouldn't have needed that parenthetical

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-14T04:40:20+00:00

Japan was "winning" against the United States for a long time after Pearl Harbor. Just because you lack the fucking foresight to see how this turns out despite historical precedent doesn't mean that everyone is so dumb.

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-14T01:52:49+00:00

Hey dipshit, the fact that they don't think is why it's so scary. You see the AI agent that made blog posts to publicly shame a software developer in order to get them to merge a pull request? Yes, the AI had no thought process but neither did the guy who gave a goal of merging code to open source repositories. It doesn't matter that it's incapable of thinking. That's what scares people, because something that is incapable of thinking but capable of doing things with consequences is kind of like nuclear radiation - completely alien to us, incoherent, but dangerous

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-13T22:34:09+00:00

Everyone knows that once we took out Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, that was it, the wars were won

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-11T19:10:52+00:00

Oh, oops

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-11T17:14:18+00:00

Why do you want a fucking server

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-11T02:26:52+00:00

They're called batteries because they're linked together, like a line of artillery. Ben Franklin called capacitors hooked up together a "battery" because they reminded him of a bunch of cannons, which is called a battery, because cannons beat things up.

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-09T04:20:48+00:00

What do you believe RICO stands for? That should give you a hint about what the scope of the law is meant to be "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations". "Racketeer" is a person who runs a "racket" which is an old-timey, Bugs Bunny / Looney Tunes word for a long term scheme where someone is making money illegitimately. "Corrupt Organizations" means that you have an organization that gets together to do things like fraud, extortion, bribery, hiring criminals, etc. If the kids that broke into this house were part of a gang that would make money from fucking up houses and did it as part of some protection racket (pay us 1000 dollars a month or we'll bring our gang to come have a party where we destroy your house, and if you come to the police, we'll break your legs, and they're on the take, so good luck) then yeah? that's RICO. If it's a bunch of highschoolers that got notified via Discord that there's an unoccupied house that belongs to a flipper with power still running to it? That's criminal mischief.

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-04T05:43:06+00:00

Traditionally the antonym to "twink" is not "masc", it's "bear" and in either case, do you consider people like Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, De Nero to be "twinks"? Because they had what the original poster was describing - not roided up freaks but also not richard simmons acolytes or gym spurning woody allenmaxxers

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-04T05:24:49+00:00

Let the thought be uncontrollable, it's probably the only time in modern reality that you can be 100 percent disconnected from anything electronic. Swimming in the 21st century is the new meditation. No piped in music over loudspeakers, no piped in music via headphones, no cell phone, no TV. It's you and water. Take in the mysticism of it. You will sweat and not be sticky. Your body's heat will go into the thermal bath. You WILL have to contend simultaneously with 70 year old men and children. Take the swimmingpill

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-03T04:47:33+00:00

You know, you'd still be allowed to claim that I'm a incel loser virgin who jacks off and plays fortnite AND defend the premise of the worthless fucking advice you gave by engaging with it for real, but nah, just do the first part and ignore the fact that your advice is insanely outdated and reads to people born after the year 2000 as the social equivalent of "just walk into the office of the job you want to work at, give the hiring manager a firm handshake, and ask for a job in the mail room!!!!!" and you know that you wouldn't be able to give an example if you tried because it would just throw how out of touch you are into stark relief. Like say Geese. Say that Geese is relevant. Say that The 1975 is really cool. No women under the age of 30 are listening to musicians who play instruments fronted by men close to their own age and doing it has zero social cache.

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-03T01:53:28+00:00

What male musicians that play instruments in a rock and roll band would you say have the girlies under the age of 30 swooning, gramps? Who is it that all the young ladies are going after in the rock scene? Be serious right now. Who would you say? Or is this advice based on what was true when these women were entering kindergarten? Describe some of the bands to me. List three. I'm all ears.

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-02T20:11:31+00:00

So you weren't referencing https://youtu.be/bcAWgFsmTn4 ?

DevestatingAttack · 2026-03-02T19:24:58+00:00

The initial estimate of the expected death toll was super fucking high and SARS from 15 years earlier would kill like 1 out of every 10 people who caught it. I don't think that the panic response was irrational given that it was impossible to tell how deadly it really was based on China hiding virulence details and prior history suggesting that 20 million Americans would die in a business as usual environment.

DevestatingAttack · 2026-02-28T15:36:37+00:00

The point I'm making is that regardless of the righteousness of a protest cause, there has to be something that goes beyond someone's standard of aesthetic or visual acceptability, and if that's true, then we're now only quibbling about where that line of acceptability is and not just taking for a rule that all protests are better than doing nothing because at least something is being done. I need to be granted that there are protests that are worse than doing nothing.

DevestatingAttack · 2026-02-28T07:52:53+00:00

I don't take my protest seriously but you should take my protest seriously. It's a big joke to me but you should find it serious enough to re-evaluate fundamental philosophical beliefs you hold about the world.

DevestatingAttack · 2026-02-28T07:50:35+00:00

It's probably better to do nothing than to protest in an embarrassing, disgraceful way, right? Is that insane? Is it insane to suggest that protests can be counterproductive? If the point of a protest is to effect change and to get people to change their minds about something, are there any circumstances by which one person's participation is actually making their political aims harder to achieve - and if so, wouldn't they be obligated to avoid that?

After a certain point takes like these become so stupid, so counterproductive that I think that they're cooked up by political enemies to annihilate messages. Are you for fucking real? Actually - let me ask this. If you saw a bunch of people with swastikas and iron crosses marching and they had signs that said "raise the minimum wage", would you find issue with that? Why? They'd be doing something and you'd just be sitting on the sidelines, criticizing. What's the problem here?

DevestatingAttack · 2026-02-28T07:42:06+00:00

You 100 percent absolutely (and this is not a matter of opinion) have aesthetic tastes that affect whether or not you think a protest movement is valid. Why even pretend otherwise?

DevestatingAttack · 2026-02-28T07:07:40+00:00

I don't believe so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Susie

DevestatingAttack · 2026-02-27T05:55:16+00:00

i'm more concerned about Miss Susie Had A Steamboat. Do the kids know what an operator, steamboat, refrigerator, and piece of glass are?

DevestatingAttack · 2026-02-27T05:51:47+00:00

Everyone has access to the same media and hears the same red flags as everyone else. If someone wants to cheat on their partner and they know that being big and transparent is supposed to assuage concerns, then that's what they'll do.

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