Can you prove your inherited grandmother's engagement ring actually belongs to you? Receipt please! Oh you don't have one. It's ours to auction off now!

And the father of civil asset forfeiture was DNC centrist darling and father of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians himself, Joe racist-dipshit biden, who belongs in prison along with trump and many other american politicians.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/joe-biden-father-drug-wars-asset-forfeiture-program

I first read about it years ago and you captured my reaction perfectly.

Tbf, it tastes so nice

We as an American people have been conditioned for decades that we need larger and bigger vehicles when we absolutely don't. This is because smaller cars have stricter regulations thanks to the "light truck" loophole in the CAFE standards. It's literally less regulated, and thus highly profitable to get people to buy trucks instead of cars. The masculine thing, the "It's safer because it's bigger", the "I need space for my family" - it's all generated by marketing teams for car companies to convince each of us that we need a bigger (and less regulated) car.

When really... we don't. We don't at all, and it choosing a truck whether it's intentional or not, is a selfish move. It's large, it's unnecessary, wasteful, it's proven extremely deadly to pedestrians, bicyclists, and children. Choosing a vehicle like that is inherently accepting that you are risking other people's lives, and that's why I'm so against them.

Ignorance is excusable, but once informed then it's no longer ignorance.

Hello fellow PNW person. I am likely one of those people. I try to represent the good side of this example whenever possible.

Also have a tiny ev that is my daily driver, especially in the city where parking a full size pickup is just not worth it. That said, on the days when my partner needs the car for longer trips and I have to take my truck around for chores, I’m constantly on alert to not be a dick.

I think this is honestly how a lot of folks are around here. It’s a little different when you head out east but near civilization, I am generally given hope.

Why didn't you buy one with a lower height but the same load capacity? Safer and makes loading stuff easier.

Us Australians look at weird American raised utes and scratch our heads in puzzlement. You've got a higher driver position, granted, but it's also a higher centre of gravity, it's harder to park in garages and underground car parks, it's harder to see pedestrians, it's harder to load stuff into the tray, etc.

You clearly aren't just driving it to look pretty, like many people that we both probably get annoyed by. What's the story?

They even put the ram logo on it.

All of europe gets on fine without comfort pickups. They're just a stupid, impractical design.

Even if you did need a bed, look at this sucker, dual cab and a decent bed that tips!

And both of these are friend-shaped so they don't absolutely annihilate the people they hit.

If you do it about once a week or more, then you do need it. If you need it any less than once a week, congrats it's a status symbol. How do I know? Because the numbers don't lie, and if you only actually haul monthly - or even every 2 weeks, it's actually phenomenally cheaper to rent a truck from either a rental shop or something Home Depot. Trucks are crazy expensive, their fuel already was astronomical before, and now it's even worse. It's much much cheaper to have a modest sedan/van than it is to own a truck.

Speaking of vans, it's actually more spacious and more carrying capacity to own a decent van than it is to own a truck. Go ahead, test out my knowledge. Vans have more carrying capacity, better fuel mileage, they're closer to the ground so they're easier to load, and they're even covered so you don't need a topper or tool box that takes up even more space.

So in short, if you haul less than once a week, you should have rented and saved a few dozen thousand dollars. If you haul more frequently than weekly, you probably should have bought a van.

I thought of different ways to word a response and then I saw another user put it perfectly already:

If the goal is to reduce speeding, road design plays more of a factor more than cameras.

A fine means that it's a revenue grab.

I would just also add that anecdotally they don't seem to slow many people down in my city. I have gotten at least 5 speed camera tickets since I moved here, and every time I was going the speed of traffic and was unaware a camera even exists there. This city also has a huge problem with horrific driver behavior that goes unaddressed. I've seen some of the craziest shit ever here but I've yet to see anyone pulled over for a reason that didn't appear to be related to a "worse" crime, as in they're searching the person's car and it looks like they're about to go to jail. So I have to believe that the primary concern is making money, and if they work overall (providing the data people always tout) it's a coincidence/accident. Most of that money goes to corporations too so even if you wanted to argue it doesn't matter if money is the main driving force, you have that additional layer of the whole thing being corrupted from the start by capitalism.

A camera says nothing about punishment and everything about social accountability. Some people simply need a reminder or are new to an area as well.

That's correct, but cameras still work and are cheaper/easier to install than rebuilding the streets.

Batshit crazy and ruled 7-2 too not even a slim majority

That doesn't answer their question

This would seem to be the better route. Unless the owner has reported the vehicle stolen, they certainly know who is driving it and should still be responsible for letting the other person drive. Sorry, snitch them out if you don’t like thousands in fines. Deliberately using “you can’t prove it was me” while racking up fines with the expectation of getting away with it has to have some limits.

That doesn’t sound like a very friendly system, that’s against basic rights. You shouldn’t be faulted for someone else’s actions.

It’s up to you to get the money from your friend, that’s risky enough to let them drive. If you’re gonna be responsible anyways, there’s literally no point in letting someone else drive your vehicle.

That’s not a system we should be promoting.

I bet the coal rollers are loving the modifications to use a crapload more fuel at the moment lmao

I think the lens or camera angle is wonky because in addition to the entire image looking flattened, it does looks slightly lower than I'd expect, but I don't know how much of that is that I see so many trucks with lift kits installed on a daily basis, if thats because the camera is mounted higher than I'd be seated in my car or on my bike, of if it's just it looks off in a photo but it's actually bog standard

Yeah well I remember being convinced that racism would go the way of the Dodo when I grew up too. Sadly some 40 years later it seems to be thriving.

well since there's no other possible way to get reform other than violence, it'll be necessary to break the law. who's gonna stop you, the police?