Tailgaters (people who drive too close behind another vehicle) are idiots.
Cops are liars.
Anti-vaxxers, and other conspiracy nutters, are anti-science cretins.
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My moral values, such as valuing reducing suffering as far as possible, qualify I suppose.
Speed limits are set below actual safe speeds for roads to drive local government revenue through speeding tickets.
As a bicyclist and pedestrian, many roads are above safe levels. Others it's well below. Tbh it's all arbitrary
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I’ve been playing around with this idea I have called “n-link civic literacy” it’s an unscientific measure of civic literacy (how good are you at extracting and understanding information from the news) that works by measuring the number of links it takes to successfully obscure bullshit from the reader.
Did you read a headline, form an opinion and react to it without reading the article? Then you are -1 link literate. Do you open the article but believe it’s claims without checking the source material? Then you are 0 link literate. Click through to the study cited by the article? 1 link literate.
Probably would not work for edge cases, but I think could work to get a rough measure of the civic literacy of a community.
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I firmly believe some days you wake up and the world just fucking hates you, yet the next day everything is chill. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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All men are equal
There are less troll answers here than I would have expected from lemmy
If you have a thing, and you cut it at a diagonal, you get more thing.
Grated carrots are not food.