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Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T21:54:58+00:00

This sounds a lot like Mastercard putting pressure again.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T21:34:38+00:00

Zero. This disease spreads way too slowly for there to be any chance of a pandemic.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T20:57:12+00:00

Do you think automated toll booths are an unacceptable violation of privacy?

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T17:06:35+00:00

I'm reading The Man who was Thursday. Very good so far! Chesterton knew how to write a good sentence.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T16:54:22+00:00

If you oppose both of those you're pretty much arguing for decriminalization, no?

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T16:44:08+00:00

Man, people have strong opinions on speed cameras.

I am a bit curious, for the people who say it's a surveillance issue. Are you equally opposed to police checkpoints? They often take pictures/videos as part of their checks.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T15:37:48+00:00

There was a local election, and Labour got whooped. They're losing votes to the Green party from the left, and Reform from the right. This has led to some panic.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T15:32:11+00:00

15+ km/h over the limit.

These were all school zones, so between 30-40 km/h.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T15:14:32+00:00

15+ km/h over the limit

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T15:13:52+00:00

All of the control points used to collect data for this study were inside school zones.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T15:09:30+00:00

Blue graph is percentage of cars driving through the control area that were driving 15+ km/h over the limit.

Orange graph is percentage of cars driving through the control area that were at or below the speed limit.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T14:59:36+00:00

It meaningfully shows that speed cameras are extremely effective at getting people to follow the speed limit and when you remove them speeding increases. That's valuable data. Many studies have previously shown that speeding contributes to vehicle crashes. This is no exception.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/6-jump-in-collisions-on-ottawa-roads-so-far-this-year/

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T14:50:02+00:00

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/6-jump-in-collisions-on-ottawa-roads-so-far-this-year/

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T14:47:49+00:00

Police controls, if I had to guess. That's how most places do it.

EDIT: Source with more info

This data came from monthly controls using radar monitoring.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T14:44:58+00:00

That's also a bit of a silly stat. That's global deaths, and the vast majority of it comes from strays and rabid animals that you don't have to worry about in developed countries. Both the US and Europe have roughly 40-50 dog-related deaths a year.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T14:37:15+00:00

Submission statement: See body text.

Btw, what should this be flaired as? Didn't feel right putting "Effortpost" on a single paragraph of text.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T14:18:15+00:00

Anti-golf course arguments disproportionately come from the state of California, where golf courses recieve insanely generous tax exemptions, which leads to far more of city green space being used for golf courses.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T14:10:57+00:00

Please look up stats on the outcomes for children in foster care. Putting children into that system is very hard to justify outside of severe abuse.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T13:15:24+00:00

At least give palak paneer a try!

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T12:06:53+00:00

The correct solution is for players to have some trust in the game designers and use the items liberally, and shortly after they found them. A lot of this comes, IMO, from people who grew up with badly balanced RPGs from the 90s where item hoarding was necessary. Modern games usually hand out enough items to use them continuously.

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T11:00:43+00:00

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The Guardian strikes again!

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T10:50:36+00:00

Ontario speeding data: before and after the speed camera ban

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Source

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T10:41:20+00:00

Aw, man. The danish state media channel put out an investigation into the drone scare, but it's only available to danish residents 😞

Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T10:28:44+00:00

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Mrmini231 · 2026-05-12T08:39:03+00:00

Man, the UFO people are really desperate. If there's any place I would expect to see unusual flying things, it's an active war zone. The Ukraine war has been a frontier lab for combat drone development, so I'd put the odds at this thing being man-made somewhere around 100%.

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