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Portugal is logical on some stuff. Another example is prostitution is legal but you can only advertise yourself. I wonder what other countries have prostitutio
by codingclaws 5y ago
Portugal is logical on some stuff.
Another example is prostitution is legal but you can only advertise yourself. I wonder what other countries have prostitution set up like this.
Or the speed traps that just trigger a red light.
Decriminalization of all drugs obviously too.
- eurasiantiger 5y ago>Another example is prostitution is legal but you can only advertise yourself. And then serious criminals are out of the advertising business, but can still offer consultation, business and personal protection, and, of course, forced sex labour through human trafficking.
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago>Or the speed traps that just trigger a red light. Sounds like a great way to train the entire population is to run reds between 10pm and 5am.
- Spivak 5y agoThe population who would run a red light <<< population who would speed.
- chii 5y ago> Another example is prostitution is legal but you can only advertise yourself. that's an excellent rule - because pimping should be illegal.
- djrogers 5y agoPimping has little to do with advertising, it’s a form of slavery. Nothing would stop a pimp from forcing his workers to be responsible for advertising themselves.
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago>it’s a form of slavery. Or a protection racket. Or just fee for protection. Depends on the specific situation in question. There's a wide variety of schemes that fall under the definition of pimping.
- marcosdumay 5y agoThose are variations of slavery. "You work or I will make you suffer" is slavery.
- fuzzer37 5y ago> "You work or I will make you suffer" is slavery. All work is slavery.
- VRay 5y agoAmen I got up late today, so I barely have time to make pancakes and coffee before I have to leave for my day’s slavery.. if I’m late, I’ll have to do the slavery in my underpants at home until the morning meetings are over. Then I’ll drive to my slavery and be stuck there for 5-6 hours, with only lunch and snack breaks. Unless I need to take off early to run errands anyway
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- mjburgess 5y agoThat's essentially the UK's law too -- but many arent aware.
- portportport 5y agoThe drug policy is well known, but the speed traps is new and amusing. It reminds me of the horn activated red lights in India. Genius idea.
- onionisafruit 5y agoDon’t combine the ideas or everybody will be speeding and honking constantly.
- bloak 5y ago> Or the speed traps that just trigger a red light. This sounds interesting. Since when have they been doing this, and do you have a link to photos, video or a more detailed description?
- timfi 5y agoI don't know when Portugal started this, but in Germany there is at least the concept of a "grüne Well" (literally a green wave). Simply put: if you drive at the speed limit you won't get any red lights. Sadly the german administration barely makes use of this as it doesn't make them any money...
- patmorgan23 5y agoMany cities in the US do this along major roads. They'll time the lights to maximize traffic flow which ussally means if your driving the speed limit you'll at least get through 3-4 lights before you have to stop.
- pnt12 5y agoIt's a red-light with a speed warning and a detector - if you go over the allowed speed, it turns red, otherwise stays green forever. But we also have hidden radars which are not announced.
- mrfusion 5y agoSounds super dangerous though.
- dspillett 5y agoThe red light is some distance ahead, not right in front of the speed detector so that you have to immediately hammer down the break pedal and be rear-ended by the vehicle behind. Of course some will still get as close to the light as they can and hammer the breaks last moment, but they'll do that at other lights too, and other unsafe things, so the danger is not caused by the light in that instance.
- devilbunny 5y ago> speed traps that just trigger a red light Much better than what I've seen in my (US) city: speed limit 30 mph, but lights timed for 40-45 mph to get a continuous green light down the one-way street. Either you speed, opening you to tickets, or you stop needlessly on lights that are set for a faster speed than you are traveling.
- djrogers 5y agoNot sure where you are, but if that’s in fact the case, your city would be violating the law in at least California, and likely several other states.
- dhimes 5y agoNot GP, but I've seen it in the Boston area.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoNot that the .gov won't happily take in money as a result of the dark pattern they've created but the primary cause of the patterns creation is likely the same old poor coordination, inertia and ineptitude that tends to plague government in wealthy areas with lots of stakeholders. The road is signed probably for 30 because that's what is was historically or that's what they got after evaluating what the confusing web of rules and regulations says it should be. The lights are set up for 40-50 because the person responsible for tuning the light a) looked at existing traffic data and set the light to that or b) assessed the properties of the road using totally different measures and determined that's the speed traffic would go. And the city doesn't change the sign to reflect the reality of the traffic because a) they'd have to re-navigate the web of rules to do that and b) shirking potential revenue is a fast track to a dead end job for bureaucrats in that state c) doing nothing is easy.
- altrow1 5y agothat is good people finally realize it. these conspiracies are abundant! intentionally creating street traffic in this "clever conspiracy way" and no-option to cancel online, both are real, and detected few years ago. you see, it is green to discourage people from driving, in this way. yet, technically, they merely destabilize optimum good, not actually being evil.
- speeder 5y agoI am from Brazil, and here speed limits are literally dangeorus. 1. In my city people mostly ignore speed limits, because often they are unreasonable. 2. At same time people are so used to the above, that they ignore speed limits in very unsafe places. 3. I don't ignore the limits myself since I am a new-ish driver, but I almost crashed multiple times, either because I was with my eyes too gluted at the speedometer, or because everyone else was ignoring the speed limit and almost crashed into my rear. 4. I got fined for crossing speed limit anyway, when I was trying to understand the fine, I found out they been placing radars on steep hills on fast roads, so you have basically two choices there: climb the hill using higher gears, and cross speed limit, or slow down until you can use lower gears, and risk people crashing into you. 5. In a specific very steep hill they put the speed limit so low that the only way to climb that hill is actually go fast as you can until right before the radar, brake hard, immediately put first gear, and shove your foot in the accelerator pedal again and resume the climb tires screaming, if you attempt to climb the whole hill slower your car is likely to stall, thanks to Brazillian popularity of really low power cars, our cars are literally illegal in some european cities because of how underpowered they are and thus dangerous in hilly places.
- istjohn 5y agoYour 2012 account name is oddly apropos.
- mig39 5y ago> Or the speed traps that just trigger a red light. This is the best. You trigger a red light because you're speeding, and everybody around you just glares at you. Including the old woman walking on the side of the street. It's like public shaming. Thanks bud, because of you, now we all have to sit at this red light and wait. Good job. That works so much better than the hidden speed camera ticket I get in the mail 6 months later, when I'm not even in Portugal anymore. One is about slowing you down, the other is about revenue.
- machiaweliczny 5y agoIn Poland it's similar (you can only work for yourself). It's not even taxed (don't know why). I guess NL and CZ has most liberal laws in this case.