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willythemailboy posted...

For normal people the fine is the deterrent and for those who can afford the fines without noticing the points are the deterrent.

Or, you lawyer it down to a non-points "equipment" violation, and end up paying about ten times as much overall anyway, give or take fucked insurance premiums.

Corbenik posted...

I get Netflix through T-Mobile

Free with ads is always better than paying for ads, even when it's "free".

Cesar Romero > Mark Hamill >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> *

Free money, or get beat up by a football player.
hmm....

willythemailboy posted...

Not really if you look at edge cases. The fines structure would end up as complicated as the tax code.

So then, what's the methodology?
Why should someone with no kids pay more for rolling through a stop sign? We're already paying for schools we don't use.

oooooh, here it is:

health practitioners and policymakers should advocate for better access to reduction mammoplasty in the publicly funded health sector.

That's what's going on. Lobbying to get Australia to fund another elective procedure, by insisting it's not elective somehow.

GameGodOfAll posted...

Skyrim is in my backlog.

Like three times by now.

Never played it.

same

Are these people unaware that sports bras exist?

Hayame_Zero posted...

Is it big boobs because they're big, or big because they're overweight?

Big boobs aren't really that impressive, when the rest of you is also large.

emblem-man posted...

I won't feel safer about being a pedestrian just because I saw 10 close calls with a pedestrian instead of an actual accident. Both will make me think twice about walking in an area.

Blame the classic North American stroad for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad

Residential neighborhoods should be full of bumps and berms, making it functionally impossible to speed, rather than put up an arbitrary sign that's never enforced until some kid chases a ball into the street and gets splatted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming

emblem-man posted...

We should have more of them regardless

The penalize the car (or rather, the owner), and not the driver. Cars can't break laws, only people can.
Also it's a total grift on the part of the contractors supplying the cameras.

cloudrivera posted...

I dont even worry about my backlog anymore

Play a game until it gets annoying or boring, then play something else.

I don't see a lot of end credits anymore, and that's fine.

FortuneCookie posted...

reminder that equality that only goes one way, is not equality.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I don't think shoplifting and running a stop sign should fall into the same category.

So you do a saturday afternoon in jail, or go pick up trash by the highway.
Of course, community service itself may be a problem, as it becomes associated with punishment instead of volunteerism.

Smackems posted...

Ys has had other remakes too like Memories of Celceta

There's at least four distinct versions of Ys 4.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Throwing someone in jail over a speeding ticket is laughably ridiculous

Weekend sentencing is already a thing for petty shoplifting.

NoxObscuras posted...

You do realize that most traffic violations only result in a fine. You want to just get rid of most driving laws?

Yes. People drive like idiots all the time, and the usual consequence is horns and middle fingers.

Put the punishment when actual harm happens.
Run a red and t-bone someone, you're gonna have a bad time. Sneak in right after the light changes, nothing happens. If anything, the yellow should be longer.
Red light cameras are universally hated, and you can't have a cop waiting at every light all the time, so it's dumb to have a sometimes fine for something where 99.99999% of the violations are ignored or never noticed.

DarthAragorn posted...

god it just never fails that any time I click a topic that is even slightly political I see you posting the absolute dumbest fucking shit I've ever seen

How is that any more dumb than insisting Elon Musk pay like a million dollars for a parking ticket?

If you want your dick to look bigger, lose some weight. Big ol' beer-gut tends to overshadow it, literally.

so... dial it down a bit sometimes.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/351c011c.jpg

VeggetaX posted...

Once I have enough money I'm cashing my mortgage.

That's my lowest priority, as it's only got five years left and has the lowest interest anyway.

Could pay off the car, but I'm several months ahead on payments as-is.

Waiting until the election to think about zeroing out my student loans finally.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9001e376.jpg

SilvosForever posted...

Now save up 30 years worth.

That's what a 401k is for.

Lunar Silver Star has been remade like five times now, so probably not.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I've seen Keanu Reeves frequently get fancasted for Shadow and I'm all for it.

Matt Stone would be an acceptable backup plan.

Now, go watch Dolemite.

super_felicia posted...

shantae pirates curse

The "obstacle course" at the end just ruins it.

Black Tiger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjKBNm6_oEQ

willythemailboy posted...

They are by definition not equality.

It arguably could be, if the fines were a fixed percent of income.
What percent of income should we confiscate for driving 20 over the limit, or jaywalking, or dumping mercury into the river?

Cruciferous posted...

didn't have any in mind when I asked the q but it strikes me that many social interactions and popular social activities require varying degrees of "harmless" objectification

Let's try this again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrADTN-dvg

Cruciferous posted...

Cool article but maybe I'm dumb cause I'm not seeing how this applies lol

A society that isn't horny, ends up getting weird.
yeah... that's not really a great example.

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Throwing people in prison for even the most trivial offenses seems bad when we already habe prisons overcrowed to the point that its often a humanitarian crisis that spirals itself into an ever worse money pit and crime situation.

A weekend in jail for speeding would definitely be more of a deterrent than a minor fine and court fees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qb-6PyNFKs

or, just double up the punishment for causing a wreck, and stop worrying about speeding

Fines should be used to fund safety nets, rehabilitation efforts, and for reperations/repairs to damaged infastructure/nature and thosr victimized.

Do we really want a society that's dependent on people breaking the law? All you get out of that is more and more-asinine laws, all for the sake of generating revenue.

Cruciferous posted...

You'd prefer a society where nobody objectifies each other at all? Like with all the implications that brings?

https://www.iflscience.com/universe-25-the-mouse-utopia-experiment-that-turned-into-an-apocalypse-60407

Solar_Crimson posted...

Yes, and it's still plugged in.

if you leave it unplugged for too long, it'll brick itself somehow.

Prestoff posted...

I know I've been on CE too long when I read that as "circumcision".

Equality under the law in all circumcisions would certainly be interesting, tho.

Get rid of fines entirely.
If a crime is minor enough that a token amount of money makes it "settled" with society, then maybe it shouldn't even be a crime.

Still hooked up, for the occasional Lego Dimension session.
Still need to clean up the Sonic world.

creativerealms posted...

They do.

My grandma had quite a few cheap paperbacks with Fabio on the cover, when we cleaned out her apartment.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Valentine's Day makes single people feel bluer than they already do and is the big cultural focus for the first half of the month.

cheap candy on the 15th, tho...

Vyrulisse posted...

Developers, if you wanna make jiggly lady bits learn how to have some class. Give some weight to it, subtlety.

Clearly, we need an "anime tiddies in space" game, where the jiggle is theoretically infinite.

Stockpiling for the inevitable digital-only shift.

Pooped on my desk his last day = no.
Otherwise yes.

Revelation34 posted...

Why would you want guacamole from Taco Bell?

...I'd need to thaw the guac I bought at Aldi.

4-year degree is the new highschool diploma when you're looking for a job, but with asstons of debt instead of just some trombone or something you'll never play again.

Disgaea.
Plot that doesn't actually matter, and shittons of raw number porn.

DHA also published a photograph of some of the hostages celebrating a birthday. It reported that the staff had brought a cake into work for one of their colleagues and the hostage-takers allowed them to celebrate.

Even terrorists want some birthday cake.

Powergirl really needs to pee.

Kimbos_Egg posted...

yeah, but to be fair i just skimmed it, might have been something different.

I don't think there's a source that isn't twitter linking to reddit linking back to twitter.
Assuming it's all internet drama otherwise.

C_Pain posted...

Knowing Reddit and Twitter are both blocked on my phone and then seeing this makes me think I did the right thing

This is the way.

GeminiDeus posted...

Very true. It can be used to clean up puke, urine, drinks, and of course, children's blood.

But, the stinky sawdust is already red.

"steam powered" gonna go back to its original meaning.

Seaman_Prime posted...

Link to original thread?

You gotta go to twitter to go to reddit to go back to twitter
https://twitter.com/NotHaru47/status/1694510633964949871

I'll just buy the cheaper store brand, thanks.