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Edit: I forgot to say this, but this is only responding to the contents of your post. Your link takes me to the kbin login page.

crap, I’ll fix it, hold on. It was supposed to be someone speaking of their oppression. Edit, I think I got the link right. It opened in a different browser for me this time.

@LinkOpensChest_wav@midwest.social @Pandantic@midwest.social How is the general population?

In the midwest, we are called the Bible belt. We are also accused of being the biggest bigots, with terms like neo Christianity or religio-fascists. I like to think/pretend that law makers are a little more extreme or loud than the general population, but they still pander to a base that elects them, so that negates my idea to some extent. Maybe the process of legislating looses nuance and empathy because it’s difficult to do that in law? I’m not sure. Maybe I have an unrealistically rosy view of the region. I’m not in a group that would feel oppression or hatred for who I am unless I go to places with people who do, then I get labeled or target by those because I look like their oppressors (which is ironic, but understandable).

Indiana had the religious freedom act, which was a huge black eye. I could write a huge rant on cake lady. The short version is my refusal to accept her ideas as Christian/religion based, not mine anyway. IMO, Jesus never treated anyone like shit other than the Pharisees, whom he constantly schooled for ‘missing the point’. I think she was just a plain old fashion bigot, and I wish she would have just said “I don’t like gay people”. I wouldn’t have to agree, but at least she’d be honest and take the proper heat for it.

Unfortunately, I know there’s plenty of criticism for the Midwest, conservative region that probably has some roots in religion, but I’m not sure if it’s just because of religion or the negative manipulation of it. Example: Islam is inherently bad and violent, or it was corrupted to manipulate people to violence and hate?

I haven’t often heard Hogsett and the FOP be on the same side of an argument.

What are people’s views on judges having the (usually) sole power in certain circumstances like sentences?

Should they all be elected or appointed, or a mix?

I often have contempt for judges because they have so much power in their special room.

Was this a miscarriage of justice?

I haven’t looked at sentencing for similar crimes, but wonder if this was typical for the situation. I know I wouldn’t be happy if my wife was killed. No sentence would probably due.

That’s some spicy 🔥 chicken!

I dislike Facebook / meta so much, I can’t think objectively about the implications here.

I wonder how many people will just consent?

Why is this not an acceptable option?

It annoys me that we’ve given so much power to a single social media company by thinking the thing is so important that we have to have it.

Why can’t we just stop using it? That’s the only way to take back power.

Further than ad blockers, if the page doesn’t work with reader mode or simple view, I don’t read it, just swipe back.

Between insane ad intrusiveness, the ridiculous notifications about cookies, and the general terrible usability and lack of concern for a clean, user focused design of most sites now, I can’t use most of the Internet these days.

We need a new model. Free isn’t free anymore, it’s more taxing than fees

I part of why I posted this was awareness, and partly because it frustrates me.

I don’t know how you feel about traffic enforcement, but this is one of my least favorite ways law enforcement ‘serves us’. At the same time, I also recognize that there’s probably enough stories that justify it. If you or your family member were almost killed by some clown driving crazy on the interstate, you might be all for drivers getting stopped for 25 over speed limit.

So, most of me supports law and order, but I am also super irritated that the speed limit of 465 is so low. I feel like they want everyone to speed and get tickets. This isn’t a very mature attitude, but I cannot find any proper documentation to justify the super low speeds. Did you see the speed stats Copilot cited from one of those sources? Literally everyone goes faster on the beltway, and my opinion is that’s because 55 is too slow. I know the sayings ‘speed kills’ and stuff about faster moving cars don’t alleviate congestion, I still don’t think 55 is right.

There’s some pretty terrible design flaws of the beltway, like the transition from the Northside to the Northwest side (865 split) which constrains traffic and is backed up for a mile+ most days.

Am I the only one who’s frustrated about a lack of mobility, on top of the majority of the central population not being served by public transportation? It’s not like you can park at a metro stop in one of the suburbs and take a train into anything inside the beltway. Even if you took the bus, it would be an hour+ right?

I guess since this is based on a state law, the population would have to press their legislative reps to change the law. I can’t imagine there’s any realistic fix for all the suburban commuter traffic that still has to drive in/out of the beltway area and downtown. Good thing all the corps are continuing to push RTO to keep that boot on our necks…

I spent Wednesday tracking down what was transferring too much data. It was domain controllers. The team didn’t figure out why though. I’m waiting in anticipation. I also can’t call people names without knowing/JK

Ha, youi right about people going too fast in then. I see a soccer mom van going under the speed limit until they get into a roundabout, then it’s Tokyo drift time. I’m usually unlucky and following them out just to return to painfully under the speed limit again. I’m the opposite. Faster on straight where no pedestrian and slow in circles. Slower in circles means people can merge in better and with more confidence like you mentioned.

I think the land scraping serves two purposes, stop a run through, and it visually blocks traffic since you’ve only supposed to be concerned about traffic to the immediate left I think.

Interestingly, but not surprising, there’s a shopping mall called Clay Terrace in Carmel that is basically walkable strip mall.

It has a lot of cross walks and two circles. I find there’s people who yield readily because they know the area is intended for pedestrians, and some treat it like regular roads. They put up flashing crossing lights when people pass sensors. That helped a lot.