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Americans wouldn't even understand the meaning of "discipline". "Lane discipline" for example - paying attention to what lane you are in and for what reason. Minimizing your use of left-more lanes for whoever might
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That would be a poor excuse for just a few cars driving scattered across 6 lanes to make sure to block the whole thing. It's not always about driving much faster.
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> Broken down by state, I’m sure there are states that are safer than Germany Based on fatalities per 100k persons (not a great statistic but the one quoted in this thread), and 2022 data, then nope. Every single state is worse than Germ
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Classic American answer to everything. What does size have to do with anything? Besides well understood economies of scale which clearly would favor the US?
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More ENERGY needed. Which doesn't have to be oil. Oil is extracted by businesses which pay attention to their bottom line - and so would not, could not, will not use significant amounts of oil to extract comparable oil. Even as you con
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They drive with a discipline / care that Americans refuse to even consider. Perhaps Americans should.
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If anything, what surprises me is that if there is a product where reuse reigns supreme, that's Legos. A brick has to take a lot of abuse before it gets discarded.
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> we have reached peak oil, so we're slowly edging towards the threshold at which extracting oil will consume more oil than it produces. How does that follow?
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> a restaurant may reuse utensils by washing them. Can't just the employee cost of gathering and placing them in a dishwasher, the fraction of the cost of the dishwasher machine itself, sorting them out, replacing the quantity that
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Fair on inspection report stats, yes. Or quite a bit of research for stats vs reality. And if I'm not mistaken, agriculture still generates E Coli, salmonella and such recalls. And restaurants still generate constant small scale food p
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Considering this report, why only this facility?
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> prevent it from happening again But the response from management makes it clear they still have their head stuck... in the sand. By refering to the liverwurst when the report makes it clear the problems at the plant were affecting othe
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This article and report is the first side of it. Yes, now we might hope for an investigative journalist to try and dig wider / further around.
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> BH vs local producer Unfortunately it's not only the producers... Pay attention to the deli crew at your store and notice how often they mess up on safe handling. Third world is not far off.
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It was not caught because of inspections, or because someone at the plant said that maybe it was time to fix this. It was only caught because people got sick, aka died. That's not "working".
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> Perl version of Expect ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Expect ) Still a great answer and latest update in March this year.
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Caltech is a "different", "technical" school anyway. I don't expect as many students apply to Caltech just because everyone does it like to - I don't know - UC Berkeley or Stanford. Some do no doubt but don
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Caltech was / is not a school in the middle of nowhere. It's in a big city next to a metropolis. Caltech students who want to find people to date can find people to date.
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1985 MOVE Bombing
(en.wikipedia.org)
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> - Police budgets getting slashed and police forces being reduced. I sure hope that lack of budget is not the problem in San Francisco! It's a HUGE and very well funded thank you very much police force. One thing you didn't me
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Or perhaps the difference is something else yet. The world is not just tuned by one slider on prison population.
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> policing isn't about stopping or even responding to crime; [...] But routinely I will see 5 cops standing around talking, with 3 cop cars blocking traffic/bike lanes/lightrail tracks, while one cop is looming over/t
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Some San Francisco Bay Area police departments were whining also recently that minor crimes spread out in different cities and counties made the work harder. And celebrated a case where they HAD done the work and arrested a group for spread
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And in some places, even traffic is too much (possibly prompted by "but covid" at some point and working out just fine for some.) https://old.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/11nbnxw/san_f...
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That "minority" has noticed that if it's there, it will be abused. No if or when. No prize for guessing by whom.
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> Why bother Although to be fair, wasn't / isn't a lot of this "why bother" actually a political protest and retaliation against that DA and the citizenry that elected them? Not even doing something else with the
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> because policing in general is not at the standard it once was. Currently police are only rewarded for "big busts" Sure. The point is this is a matter of policy. Someone's policy. Some people in there (1) choose to prior
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Traffic tickets also nicely fit quotas. Even while they don't exist. While it might take a while until a package actually gets stolen under while they look. And they can't look while they are filling out paperwork (about traffic t
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Ah yes, same one. Posted straight from AP too.
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The Perl and Raku Conference – Las Vegas, NV 2024
(youtube.com)
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