essell @ essellburns @beehaw.org

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I got gifted a copy for Christmas, been playing it like an addict since. I think it's really good, a spiritual successor to the original Deus Ex which I loved too.

Knowing what I know now, I'd happily have spent £30 on it.

Except when the camera is in the policeman's hand and when they run the training courses you mean?

Yes it does

Given that they need to police by consent, they very much need that MoRaL aUtHoRITy to do tHeIr JoBs

The basis for the rationale for putting up speed cameras depends on the police to act with an unquestionable moral authority.

By acting with inconsistent moral principles they demonstrate their stated and genuine motives differ which undermines the moral authority they need to police by consent.

Once?

Good. Speed cameras are an abominable hypocrisy. The claim that they're there because safety is important is undermined by the total lack of action Devon and Cornwall police take against actual unsafe drivers.

I drove past a police officer standing with a speed camera recently at 20mph with another car driving less than two feet from my bumper.

Had I been speeding I'd have gotten a ticket, meanwhile the police watch this actually dangerous driver sail past them without taking any action.

Half a mile later I have to drive onto the wrong side of the road around a lorry parked on a corner, with almost no visibility of oncoming traffic.

Their moral authority is destroyed and their pretence shattered by their own inaction and ineffectiveness.

So tear down the speed cameras if it highlights their fiction. Devon and Cornwall police are great at many things. Traffic is not one of them.

This is why I use waterfox

It's a university

My students will be so disappointed to learn of my ignorance when I cover that topic this year. I'll have to get your input on my lesson plans. 😏

In any form it's fundamentally misleading as a model.

Even if we were to accept that the dilemma proves the value of universal cooperation, achieving that outcome would create the most fertile environment for exploitation. When everyone is trusting, that's the best time to lie.

The mathematical solution to the prisoners dilemma depends on how the variables are framed. The standard values are chosen to represent your point and so don't provide evidence of anything.

Would that mean faster buses through the village?

Maybe spend a few billion on a high-speed rail though the countryside to my little place?

What harm could that do?

Boyfriends?

Election US

It already takes me an hour to get to work from my rural home. You wanna make it two?

Because politics is about the narrative, when a politician of any kind deliberately presents themselves in a particular way then naturally anything that contradicts their narrative becomes news.

It's a stupid system in many ways but it is fair in the way it's akss pointless questions of all politicians.

For example, the seeming contradiction between the values good people claim to pursue in life and the contradictions to those they're willing to tollerate.

That's not a product of the modern deceptions of a globalised economy as some have claimed, it's a product of the way humans are not capable of including the whole world in sense of what's real

The opposing force is the idea that whatever exists is the result of luck, bad judgement, random choices or ill intent, rather than inherent or inevitable consequence.

It's not linear. History is one of those machines with the balls that fall down randomly and form a bell curve.

Oh no people are marrying their pets! Those nutters were right!