lexusgx

Catalina warning nags

I appreciate those nags. Those nags clued me into app behavior; I learned what apps are requesting keyboard access even when they're not in focus, for instance. Blindly trusting our apps to access our keyboards and not gradually become keyloggers is a recurring problem in our industry, it seems, so that was a very welcome change.

That's not truly what's broken. If it were a truly fair system, no one would fear showing up to say they were innocent.

The problem is that the courts regularly ignore due process because there isn't any incentive for them to uphold the letter of the law. The side with the more expensive team of lawyers regularly wins.

If you could bet on court decisions, you would see the odds heavily in favor of the more moneyed party.

There should be a monetary incentive that encourages people who can read the law to evaluate past court decisions, and that punishes legal bodies (maybe even in a criminal court) that ignore due process.

These are good points, but we have to remember that the car industry is backed by a powerful lobby that makes car ownership particularly convenient. I argue that it's _too_ convenient at the current point in time.

The problem that makes vehicles incompatible with other modes of transportation (mostly cycling, but increasingly walking) is that cars are increasingly made "safer" at a social cost -- namely, visibility of pedestrians/cyclists and vehicle mass (and therefore momentum). Cars are much heavier today than before, and they have worse visibility of the road than before. This is to make the driver safer, and it comes at the cost of the safety of non-car drivers around.

Cyclists and pedestrians have (almost) no voice when it comes to regulation of automotive safety. There isn't even a notion of "whole community safety" when automotive safety is discussed. The only thing that seems to matter is whether the driver is protected, and this has created a safety imbalance. In the rare moments that something is done, we focus mostly on driving speed.

I think we can do more.

We should be asking ourselves: Is there an engineering solution to ensure that foot traffic, bike traffic, and car traffic can peacefully coexist to move people around as effectively and harmlessly (environment, other people, etc) as possible?

The way you write is reminiscent of an Adam Curtis documentary and I think it's quite beautiful.

My gut reaction: it is a win to put the brakes on a virtual currency shop disguised as a video game. Perhaps this is something that needs legislative action. Addictive behaviors that turn people into paypigs for a minimally productive business are harmful.