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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think you might be defending a guy purposefully obfuscating the issue. Yes, my point is obvious and mocking, that's generally how sarcasm works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The American Civil war began with a Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. At the same time it was never established that you can opt out of the US, that's generally not how countries work.

The Confederacy would not have happened if it wasn't for fears of abolishing slavery.

Lincoln's election provoked South Carolina's legislature to call a state convention to consider secession. South Carolina had done more than any other state to advance the notion that a state had the right to nullify federal laws and even secede. On December 20, 1860, the convention unanimously voted to secede and adopted a secession declaration. It argued for states' rights for slave owners but complained about states' rights in the North in the form of resistance to the federal Fugitive Slave Act, claiming that Northern states were not fulfilling their obligations to assist in the return of fugitive slaves.

-Wikipedia

It was "states rights for me but not for thee".

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why were the slave-owning states the only ones "rising concerns" around "federalism"? A curious coincidence indeed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy skin 😂. I'm using Alexandrite

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In my skin it even says tap for article. You can read it without leaving lemmy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

The American Civil War was fought over slavery, not independence in terms of foreign policy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's "I Love Amy", isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I don't care. I watched an interview with him and his foreign policy takes were so horrid he would be laughed out of the room if he said something like this in my country. Guess some people in the UK don't really give a crap about Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Well, now that I look at her pf picture that seems to be the case, although it doesn't answer any of my questions

[–] [email protected] 77 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Source? This is cropped exactly so that you don't see what the first guy/gal is responding to. Mighty sus

Who is attacking libraries and where? Did the first person just make that up? IDK

 
 
 

Two days ago I was cycling along a rural road; slightly before an intersection (a road to the left, like this: -|) a guy behind me started to pass me on the left lane and a woman on the intersecting road tried turning right.

After he passed me, in what seemed like a few seconds I realized that they would surely crash - the woman wasn't looking in front of her (looking to the left to see if she can enter), and the guy wouldn't be able to go to the right lane in time. And so they did. A frontal crash, but no major injuries as far as I could see (they both walked out of their cars).

What's interesting about this is that both are at fault: the woman should not just check her left, but also look where she's driving. The guy shouldn't have tried to pass me before an intersection - that's illegal. But both made those simple mistakes and it resulted in major damage to their vehicles and endangered their lives. But as tempting as it would be to call them bad drivers and move on, this made me think a bit about safety and cars.

Is it really a good idea for so many people to be driving, from a basic safety standpoint? We require people to have a certain skillset to operate heavy machinery and exhaustive training in every other instance except for cars - where standards are so low even your average Joe Blow can pass the test. And this is in Europe, btw. Cars are just fundamentally unsafe for a general user. The deaths from car crashes are treated as an inevitable reality, when in other modes of transportation things were done to make them safer and it worked, similar things happened in many industries with industrial machinery. Only with cars do we accept this lack of safety and shitty outcomes.

The problem is we give a heavy, fast piece of machinery to people who are a wide cross-section of society and may be unqualified, or at times tired or distracted, and make mistakes. This can happen even to professionals, but if there were far less cars on the roads, the potential consequences of those mistakes would be far less severe. It takes small moments of distraction for a tragedy to happen, and it would be difficult to expect from people as a group to never make mistakes - but this isn't accounted for when crafting traffic laws. Those don't seem to effectively stop people from making mistakes, they just infrequently penalize them.

 
 
 
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