Did you just invent a school zone to make an argument? What would the hypothetical civil engineers have to say after running countless hours of simulations on imagined children?
You’re right, illegally changing a public sign on a public road in order to make your own commute marginally shorter is absolutely just totally cool, and you would know because you “work for the government”.
Never said it was cool. It’s not cool to make shit up to support an argument.
I worked for the government. I had a six month contract with Department of Justice on the massive influx of files shortly after red light cameras went up in our area. I filed traffic tickets, too.
One file that stuck with me was a commuter who accrued multiple speeding tickets over a few days in an area I knew well, because it transitioned from the highway to a residential area in like, no time, and the RCMP had set up a speed trap before the new speed sign. It’s not clear it’s residential because it’s a forest on one side and a huge hill between the road and the houses. He went to court to ask for a sign to be put up closer to the highway or the speed trap to be moved up the road. They didn’t do either.
It’s nice to see a few folks pushing back. This whole thing has the narrative of the ol’ incompetent state with its endless red tape and arbitrary nonsense!
Sometimes those things are true and it can be a pain, but it’s the same reason we don’t go out for vigilante justice. It wasn’t arbitrarily installed and no one noticed it because there’s no reason to check things like that.
There’s totally a reason to check things like that. If there were any accidents or reports of issues it would be investigated. If it was a common hazard, cops might even set up a trap to catch cars making illegal turns.
We have no idea why the sign was the way it was. They gave us no background. So I’m biased against the sign changer until given a good argument as to why it was acceptable.
Which government? Makes a big difference since some other better than others.
I’m not saying OOP definitely had no legitimate reason to change the sign, but without knowing, we can’t assume they did either.
The fact they made no mention of it, leads me to suspect it was mostly for their personal convenience.
Also, government = inefficient is some neo-lib propaganda I can’t tolerate. Any organisation can be inefficient (so, so, so many examples of this in the private sector), and governments can and must be set up to be well-run. The alternative is the privatised neo-lib hellscape we (countries in general) continue to not fix.
Uh… all I said was that I worked for the government. You’re just making up your own little world over there, aren’t you?
This argument is moot since I can’t anticipate everything you’re gonna think up in imagination land. Kinda hard to argue against things no one said.
Did you just invent a school zone to make an argument? What would the hypothetical civil engineers have to say after running countless hours of simulations on imagined children?
You’re right, illegally changing a public sign on a public road in order to make your own commute marginally shorter is absolutely just totally cool, and you would know because you “work for the government”.
Never said it was cool. It’s not cool to make shit up to support an argument.
I worked for the government. I had a six month contract with Department of Justice on the massive influx of files shortly after red light cameras went up in our area. I filed traffic tickets, too.
One file that stuck with me was a commuter who accrued multiple speeding tickets over a few days in an area I knew well, because it transitioned from the highway to a residential area in like, no time, and the RCMP had set up a speed trap before the new speed sign. It’s not clear it’s residential because it’s a forest on one side and a huge hill between the road and the houses. He went to court to ask for a sign to be put up closer to the highway or the speed trap to be moved up the road. They didn’t do either.
It’s nice to see a few folks pushing back. This whole thing has the narrative of the ol’ incompetent state with its endless red tape and arbitrary nonsense!
Sometimes those things are true and it can be a pain, but it’s the same reason we don’t go out for vigilante justice. It wasn’t arbitrarily installed and no one noticed it because there’s no reason to check things like that.
There’s totally a reason to check things like that. If there were any accidents or reports of issues it would be investigated. If it was a common hazard, cops might even set up a trap to catch cars making illegal turns.
We have no idea why the sign was the way it was. They gave us no background. So I’m biased against the sign changer until given a good argument as to why it was acceptable.
I’m biased because I’ve worked for the government.
Which government? Makes a big difference since some other better than others.
I’m not saying OOP definitely had no legitimate reason to change the sign, but without knowing, we can’t assume they did either.
The fact they made no mention of it, leads me to suspect it was mostly for their personal convenience.
Also, government = inefficient is some neo-lib propaganda I can’t tolerate. Any organisation can be inefficient (so, so, so many examples of this in the private sector), and governments can and must be set up to be well-run. The alternative is the privatised neo-lib hellscape we (countries in general) continue to not fix.
Fucking lol
Uh… all I said was that I worked for the government. You’re just making up your own little world over there, aren’t you? This argument is moot since I can’t anticipate everything you’re gonna think up in imagination land. Kinda hard to argue against things no one said.
They used lib pejoratively, they already live in their head.
From your username I can tell you’re a person of facts.
The lib thing is such a weird lemmy meme. Like tankies, they’re responsible for everything wrong in the feed.