> It's amazing to me that you can be alive here in 2023 with the tens of thousands of documented cases of police overreacting with lethal force and give them any benefit of the doubt.

This is just bad statistics. The majority of lethal force incidents happen in cases where the suspect was armed with a gun. The second most common situation is where the suspect is armed with a knife. The third is where the suspect was using a vehicle as a weapon.

That doesn’t excuse incidents where lethal force is incorrectly used, but if you actually care about that problem, then you shouldn’t be painting with such a broad brush. When you use phrases like “it’s amazing to me” and use bad stats, it leads me to believe you’re just engaging in performative outrage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

Why so serious?

Well, since they ended the pre-cog program, we no longer have advance warning of crimes.

Yeah, that’s my thinking too. The reason other countries have fewer road deaths is precisely because it’s so uncomfortable to drive, making for cautious drivers.

Just curious, but which other countries? Non-US road systems almost always feel so chaotic to me.

Time dilation?

Interesting! It just seems like needless complexity to me, but if it reduces costs, then that’s obviously a positive.

I don’t understand the purpose of either, especially the heated floors. Are people walking barefoot on Metro??