“Oh you don’t like the idea of always on cameras monitoring every street at all times? Guess you want burglaries to happen all the time.”
This study found that they actually increase the risk of being targeted by burglars
All the while you are sticking a camera with a history of shoddy cybersecurity to your home.
Look at this case of harassment that involved the use of a doorbell camera and try to pretend my concerns aren’t valid.
Innovation is when you make every street a panopticon.
One time I was walking down a street and this woman rushed out of her house and starts yelling that she knows what I’ve done and she’s got it all recorded on her doorbell camera. To this day, I still don’t know what I was supposed to have done.
Doorbell cameras.
Let’s turn the whole fucking planet into a surveillance state because some people like to jerk themselves off about (typically racialised) fears of petty urban crime.
Just one more winter offensive bro. Believe me, we can invade Russia. It’ll turn out totally different this time. C’mon bro.
Fake news, that user isn’t Diogenes of Sinope.
A large portion of South Wales is small towns and villages built on hills and mountains, so it’s difficult to cycle from place to place for most people.
The Taff trail forms a convenient path from Pontypridd to Cardiff that doesn’t require travelling over steep hills. Further into the South Wales valleys past Ponty, each valley has their own cycle trail that links to the Taff Trail. Commuting around the valleys and to Cardiff is only tough going if you follow the motorways instead of pre-existing cycling infrastructure.
The main problem is travelling between valleys since you’re either going over hills or circling 'round to Ponty but this is also a problem with public transit infrastructure which uses Ponty as hub so if you’re going say Merthyr to Maerdy you have to catch a bus or train to Ponty and then a bus to Maerdy.
The senedd is literally just lowering the speed limit in residential areas, it’s not like they’re lowering speed on motorways.
It’s not going to slow anyone’s commute, but it is going to lower the likelihood some child gets flattened going to school.
Saes have stank up the whole of England, it’s gonna take centuries to remove the cringe from it. I don’t think it’s worth it.
It was funny watching this get passed, because the main opposition to it in the Senedd has been Andrew RT Davis, a Tory MS who campaigned for it in a few years back in Penarth and is transparently against it because it’s a Welsh Labour policy.
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If TV shows count: Earthsea.
It was such a poor adaptation that Ursula Le Guin wrote an article denouncing it.
Thank you.
She, comrade.
I’m sorry, but I don’t understand what you mean by absolving my behaviour, I wasn’t making any excuses for anyone just explaining why I thought there were so many Hexbear users in this thread.
If your problem wasn’t with my comment, why are you complaining to me about irrelevant comment? I can’t control where the rest of the site posts.
I hardly see how pointing out why so many people saw the post and consequently commented on it is irrelevant.
Or at the very least less relevant than you complaining about me commenting.
Your post is on active right now. Just another casualty of active being the default sort.
OK homophobe.
That the USSR managed to last long as long as it did despite being invaded by more developed nations multiple times during the aftermath of its revolution and eventually collapsed largely due to its own internal corruption does put paid to the idea that some authoritarian measures will help protect a socialist state from external attempts to destabilise it.
The problem seems to be one inherent within the structure of states. Any heirarchical structure like that is fit to be abused by someone sufficiently self interested that they’d put their own interests above the interests of the people gestures at Mikhail Gorbachev selling the USSR out to the Western core for his own enrichment.
Anarchism, being decentralised, might be able to withstand some of the issues that were present in the late USSR. But previous anarchist attempts have been crushed by outside actors much easier than socialist attempts.
I don’t really know what there is to be done.
I don’t see how to protect this hypothetical socialist state either. Cuba has managed to escape any attempts that the US has made to overthrow it’s democratic mandate but it had the support of the USSR in it’s early stages and there’s no hegemonic power right now that could be of similar help.
I’m not a particularly bright person, and I don’t think I’ll ever have a proper answer.
I once hid in a box for, like, an hour so I could leap out of it at my brother.