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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • One of the reasons is probably the same why Tesla isn’t releasing their Cybertruck outside of the us - the Crash-Tests there just don’t factor in pedestrian survival rates if they are hit by the car that you want to release on the market. Most of those giant trucks don’t make it here because they’d just run over any pedestrian they hit without them having any chance of survival even at low speeds.

    Add to that the totally car-centered infrastructure that basically punishes everyone not in a car and you have the perfect storm for dead pedestrians and bikers…






  • Case in point “luxury” clothes that cost insane amounts of money just because they have labels printed on them for everyone to see and not because.the fabric is particularly great.

    Sure it’s good quality but not better than what you get for half the price and not even close to the custom tailored stuff the really rich people wear…

    Really don’t understand how people spend a fortune to walk around advertising for Gucci, LV, etc…


  • why else would this be one of the only countries where officers are lethally armed around the clock

    Because it’s also the only country where many citizens are lethally armed around the clock I’d guess

    If you stop a random person in traffic in Europe for routine control then it’s extremely unlikely that they have a gun in their car and even less likely that they will pull it on you.

    If you are permanently having to think about scenarios where random people pull a gun on you because it’s not a very unlikely situation to happen then it’s not unreasonable to expect certain paranoia to start to form…

    While the stats for “people killed by police” are always shown around I’d guess that the “police killed by citizens” also is much higher in the US.

    Gun control is the only solution that even has a chance to remove this spiralling violence of trigger happy cops imho