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  • Yeah, thats quite true. Thats a pretty irresbonsible way to ride.

    The main cause of collisions between cars and motorcycles is right-of-way violations, when a car turns right across traffic without looking to see if a motorcycle is oncoming.

    The second cause is right-of-way violations, when a car pulls left onto the roadway without looking to see if a motorcycle is oncoming.

    Both of these result in a head-on collision that is very diffcult to avoid. It's the reason why the campaigns focus on "look twice".

    These two car violations are also the leading cause of cyclist and pedestrian death and injury.

  • thats a reduction of the topic beyond whats reasonable. I did not say that motrcyclists were not responsible for their own safety. What I have said is that car drivers are also responsible for rider safety.

    Motorcycles are most dangerous to the operator, the operator must take responsibility for their safety.

    Cars are most dangerous to everyone who is not the operator, therefore the operator is responsible for their safety too.

  • Crash between two motorcycles is such an edge case it doesn't even matter. Car hitting a motorcycle is the leading cause of death and ijury for motorcycle. The person operating the machine most capable of killing others is responsible for not killing others

  • Motorcycle: 600 pounds, very good sight lines, ability to hear surroundings, maneuverable around obstacles

    Car: over 2000 pounds, poor sight lines, poor stopping and maneuverabilty, lots of distractions.

    motorcycles are more dangerous to the operator

    cars are more dangarous to other road users

  • Emergenty rooms in hospitals are legaly required to help all patieints, so you would recieve care. Usually until you are able to leave the hospital. You would not receive followup care without going to the emergecy room, or paying cash. You would be billed for all services, usually at a higher rate than insured patients

  • Solidarity across conditions is vital, and this includes understanding the needs of both city people and rural people. Its also important to keep perspective that at this point the majority of of people live in urban settings, and prioritizetion of resources should be mutually equitable

  • Rains on eastern equatorial coasts are caused by circulation af the hadley cells. The pressure differetials are caused by heating, and the circular course is from corialis forces. Adding heat won't shutdown either of these. what other mechanisms would result in desert in the amazon or phillipines?

  • I don't think we have anything like a minimal spectrum governance model. The entity which governs spectrum probably doesn't need to be the one that governs borders.

    Fundametaly, the question, "in a society with a fundamentaly different organizing priciple, how would you solve problem x?" always comes down to "imperfectly, but hopefully better than the current solution<

  • If we look at the rhetoric, the soviet state was certainly left wing, but the main policy was state capitalism. To my mind, state capitalism is not a right wing (favors private control of industry) nor a left wing (favors worker control of industry) policy.

    This is definitely a case where pure left/right dichotomy doesn't serve to accurately describe the situation on the ground.

  • Not really. My answer is cooperation on the spectrum. As you point out, its quite easy to make a section of spectrum unusable so non-compliance with a cooperative agreement is self defeating. You jam me and I'll just jam you back.

    There could be, for instance, an industry board which distributes spectrum, with members acting as their own enforcement.

    Again, the goal is not no government, its reducing down to the minimum required governance and heirarchy to accomplish that goal. A reallistic and workable system along those lines would in fact be highly ordered.

    Its also important to note that one of the heirarchies to be minimizee would be class heirarchy. The naive view of anarchism is "no government", but thats actually quite narrow and most anarchists will agree that some government will pe needed, but with different form. The more full view of anarchy as a political stance is much more ecompassing and includes an ellimination of class and social heirarchy as well. So in a society where we have reduced coorcive control of spectrum, how do we prevent large corporations from ruining things? We get rid of them too.