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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

Are people really praising this? I guess fuck the engineers who did a traffic study, and fuck the school children walking in that area from 7-7:30 I guess.

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 74 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Just because a traffic engineer has qualifications doesn't necessarily guarantee they're not an asshole who is wrong and also sucks.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 hours ago

Title text is great

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago

to be fair on traffic engineers timing lights we have verifiable proof that sometimes adding roads can actually increase taffic (and that removing them can decrease it) And this information is not always taken into account on a high level so they get stuck trying to fix an innately flawed system.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 hours ago

Or, hear me out, maybe the sign was just wrong. If they haven't catch up in almost a year that was probably the case.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm biased because I've worked for the government.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] updn@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

Won’t someone please think of the children 😭

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago

How is life like being a lawful good little paladin? I break rules that don't apply to me. This guy seems to have broken rules that apply to no one.

You're the guy saying the victim should have complied with the cop that murdered him.