The motorcar lobby has really done a number on Americans when it comes to the idea of "jaywalking".
I'm watching A Gift For Christmas (2017). The female protagonist is #cycling furiously and not watching the road ahead and runs over the male protagonist who is using what appears to be a pedestrian crossing in #Philadelphia.
The "#jaywalking is bad" culture is so ingrained that it is presented as perfectly normal that not only do the police allow the careless speeding rider to get off scott free, they even let the rider claim the victim pedestrian's personal effects (including keys) and hand the perpetrator the victim's pet without blinking.
Is #MelissaHill's A Gift To Remember just as steeped in anti-pedestrian thinking?
Reading Title 75 Chapter 35 of the #Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, it appears that this isn't merely a fictional conceit. The law really is this bad.
The cyclist might be liable for a $10 fine (sic!) under ยง3502.
The subsequent plot development of the perpetrator burgling the victim's house (18 PACS ยง3502) was easily predictable. But I didn't predict the perpetrator getting a free bicycle repair.
In the meantime, the victim is suffering from brain trauma in the hospital, which clearly the perpetrator is not paying the hospital bill for (which begs the question of why the hospital's accounts department isn't trying to track this person's identity down).
I've just reached the part of the movie where the victim instead outright talks about paying the perpetrator for her trouble. I kid you not.
We all already know what the plot twist is going to be, by the way.
This is the idealized world of U.S.A. romantic fiction. Vehicular assault (18 PACS ยง2701 ?) gets you free stuff. Hey ho. No-one has been shot yet, at least. But there is half of the movie yet to go for that to happen.
I paused the movie too soon. 30 seconds after un-pausing, the victim had given the perpetrator free opera tickets.
Run a pedestrian over causing serious injury and a lengthy stay in hospital, get a high cash value reward โ from the pedestrian.
Although given that the plot twist is so blatantly obvious at this point that the character should reasonably have thought of it, this is possibly theft by deception (18 PACS ยง3922).
I wonder what #DevinStone would be making of this plot.
Obvious plot twist unlocked. Movie finished. No-one was shot, in the end.
It was theft by deception, but the perpetrator would probably argue that she was too stupid to figure out the bleeding obvious. It was shrugged off. Opera tickets are a dime a dozen, it seems.
I checked both the #Philadelphia Code and the #Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes. Opening a bookshop late into the evening on a Sunday, that is also Christmas Eve, is not prohibited. So no further crimes on that score.
I didn't check the Philadelphia Code on the subject of restaurant licensing. It might have been illegal to serve restaurant food in a bookshop without a licence. There are probably some health code problems there, too, with respect to toilet facilities for one thing.
Unusually for #ChristmasMovies, there was not even a mention of Santa, let alone any other religious figures. Someone did let them sneak in a gingerbread house making scene and an Obligatory 12-Year-Old, though.
In a sane country, the pedestrian *always* has precedence, surely? Maybe exceptions for motorways or something, where pedestrians are actually prohibited.
Enjoy 75 PACS ยง3543 and ยง3544 (part of the #Pennsylvania Vehicle Code). Anywhere other than at a pedestrian crossing, all traffic has right of way over pedestrians crossing the road. There's no right to use the carriageway if there's a footway. And if there's no footway, pedestrians using the carriageway have to give way to everyone else.
The motorcar lobby pushed hard, name-calling pedestrians using roads "#jaywalking", to get laws like this enacted across the U.S.A..
Other interesting items of the PA Vehicle Code that are unlike the U.K.:
Ambulances have to obey the speed limit and stop at red lights, but funeral vehicles can go through red lights. Pedestrians, depending from city law, can be fined for disobeying their red lights at pedestrian crossings. Right-on-red is allowed. Cyclists are not permitted to pass stopped cars at pedestrian crossings, and must obey speed limits.
Exactly opposite here (UK) though some drivers are not aware. Citizens have a right to walk (or ride bikes or horses, move livestock etc) on the highway*, motor vehicles and their drivers have to have a licence to use the highway and that can be revoked if they don't abide by the traffic laws. * Different rules apply on motorways that were built specifically for motor vehicles. @bytebro
No idea whether it is still a thing but the HMGov modified the Highway Code booklet[1], which is kind of of how you are judged should an incident occur.
The one that blew me away years ago was that they change the wording about mini-roundabouts from "you SHOULD go around the mini-roundabout" to "you MUST go around the mini-roundabout".
A couple of younger friends have failed driving tests here on this.
The Highway Code is essential reading for all road users, including pedestrians, mobility scooter users, cyclists, horse riders, drivers and motorcyclists.
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There's been zero new kinds of jobs created by llm tech.
It's been used to eliminate classes of jobs by loading the work that juniors used to do onto seniors as additional responsibilities.
The expectations of the people creating these tools is that people who already have skills will use these tools to do more work.
The expectation of management demanding the use of these tools is that they will not have to pay for juniors, and can do the same productive output with fewer staff.
There are no workflows available to train juniors to become seniors.
The only way to get new seniors is by giving juniors work experience so they can learn how to work with actual codebases over time.
The open-source world is not capable of providing this training.
It requires focused managerial investment in the workforce, which means money.
The usual argument I've had from dipshit managers in the past refusing to provide training or access to juniors is that "if we train them then someone else will hire them away and then that money is wasted."
Which tells me you're refusing to provide a safe and trustworthy environment for your employees in general.
Genuinely: One of the reasons California's economy has been as successful as it has is because of stuff like the Employment Training Tax that all employers pay into, that is set aside to fund training. Companies can apply for grants to cover the training provided (but training has to be tracked and documented, it's one reason for the training sign-in sheets). A lot of the money is set aside for priority industries like manufacturing and tech, and a lot is used to fund apprenticeship programs. Funding used to be at a higher level for entry level positions too, but I think they redid the funding levels since I last looked into it, so it might not be as helpful as it used to be, but these sort of things can help too.
again? Sure, let's blame a thing that greedy corporations made a scapegoat to shift anger to.
As @pluralistic says, they think headlines like "we're doing so well, we replaced them with AI" are better than "we're doing so bad, we are laying off senior staff". And let's be real: AI in such cases really means overtime work, underpaid juniors(and overworked seniors) and outsourcing to India.
A round, baked dish with a golden-brown, sesame seed crust sits in a black cast iron pan. A triangular slice has been removed from the dish, revealing its pale green, textured interior. A wooden spatula rests in the pan, positioned near the missing slice.
A hand holds a glass of white wine in the foreground, partially obscuring a light grey plate in the background. On the plate is a partially eaten portion of a baked dish, possibly a casserole or gratin, with a golden-brown, crumbly topping and lighter contents visible underneath. A silver fork rests on the right side of the plate, which is on a dark woven placemat.
The ads are really ramping up on #LinkedIn. Everyone either spending their budget before the end of the year or trying to hit their year end sales target.
Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micronโs decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup.
Peace negotiations between Ukraine and the U.S. delegation in Berlin will continue on Decemberโฏ15 after more than five hours of talks. The Ukrainian delegation, led by President Zelensky, met with U.S. representatives to discuss the Trump peace plan. Washington has signaled preliminary confidence in progress by sending its team.
It's amazing how we can just imagine the experience of an unfamiliar sensation. Asking someone "how would you know what that sounds like" when they describe an odd sound with an odd analogy. They haven't actually heard it, but they can imagine what it might be like, which I think is a cool concept.
2/ It's windy and bitter cold outside. Charlene approached when I was outside about the battery and came back inside with me. That's when I contacted the owner and pled our case.
#CharleneTheCat looked around a little and settled next to my desk chair. โค๏ธ
On Friday I found someone local to me selling a Bowens Illumitran 3 slide copier (I plan on modifying it a bit to try using it with a DSLR for "camera scanning" negatives). While I was there, I asked if he had any other photography/darkroom related equipment for sale. He said:
"Well, my neighbor was a photographer who sold his work at shows/conventions all over the country and, when he passed, his wife gave me a lot of his supplies. I've sold most of it, but I still have tons of frames, museum/conservation frame glass, and a few other things if you'd like to take a look."
He gave me a price I couldn't say no to and said I could take "as much as I could fit in my car". I walked away with:
- ~50 unused, hand-made, hand-stained wood frames of various sizes - An incredible amount of glass (I can't even guess how much) - A very nice mat board cutter, - ~20 boxes of new frame hardware - A new, unused roll of backing paper.
so tired of pro-israel ppl who are like "oh you're gay and trans, why are you supporting palestine"
it's such a cynical and dirty thing to support an extermination of a whole ethnic group and then claim that this atrocity is for benefit of people like me
never, not in my goddamn name
none of us asked for this genocide
i'll sooner die than let someone use the struggle of people like me to justify this fascist bloodbath
JdeBP
in reply to JdeBP • • •The subsequent plot development of the perpetrator burgling the victim's house (18 PACS ยง3502) was easily predictable. But I didn't predict the perpetrator getting a free bicycle repair.
In the meantime, the victim is suffering from brain trauma in the hospital, which clearly the perpetrator is not paying the hospital bill for (which begs the question of why the hospital's accounts department isn't trying to track this person's identity down).
I've just reached the part of the movie where the victim instead outright talks about paying the perpetrator for her trouble. I kid you not.
We all already know what the plot twist is going to be, by the way.
This is the idealized world of U.S.A. romantic fiction. Vehicular assault (18 PACS ยง2701 ?) gets you free stuff. Hey ho. No-one has been shot yet, at least. But there is half of the movie yet to go for that to happen.
#MelissaHill #ChristmasMovies #HighwayCode #USLaw #cycling #Pennsylvania
JdeBP
in reply to JdeBP • • •I paused the movie too soon. 30 seconds after un-pausing, the victim had given the perpetrator free opera tickets.
Run a pedestrian over causing serious injury and a lengthy stay in hospital, get a high cash value reward โ from the pedestrian.
Although given that the plot twist is so blatantly obvious at this point that the character should reasonably have thought of it, this is possibly theft by deception (18 PACS ยง3922).
I wonder what #DevinStone would be making of this plot.
#MelissaHill #ChristmasMovies #USLaw #LegalEagle
JdeBP
in reply to JdeBP • • •Obvious plot twist unlocked. Movie finished. No-one was shot, in the end.
It was theft by deception, but the perpetrator would probably argue that she was too stupid to figure out the bleeding obvious. It was shrugged off. Opera tickets are a dime a dozen, it seems.
I checked both the #Philadelphia Code and the #Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes. Opening a bookshop late into the evening on a Sunday, that is also Christmas Eve, is not prohibited. So no further crimes on that score.
I didn't check the Philadelphia Code on the subject of restaurant licensing. It might have been illegal to serve restaurant food in a bookshop without a licence. There are probably some health code problems there, too, with respect to toilet facilities for one thing.
Unusually for #ChristmasMovies, there was not even a mention of Santa, let alone any other religious figures. Someone did let them sneak in a gingerbread house making scene and an Obligatory 12-Year-Old, though.
#USLaw #MelissaHill
Bytebro ๐ฌ๐ง ๐บ๐ฆ
in reply to JdeBP • • •Good grief.
In a sane country, the pedestrian *always* has precedence, surely? Maybe exceptions for motorways or something, where pedestrians are actually prohibited.
JdeBP
in reply to Bytebro ๐ฌ๐ง ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Enjoy 75 PACS ยง3543 and ยง3544 (part of the #Pennsylvania Vehicle Code). Anywhere other than at a pedestrian crossing, all traffic has right of way over pedestrians crossing the road. There's no right to use the carriageway if there's a footway. And if there's no footway, pedestrians using the carriageway have to give way to everyone else.
palegis.us/statutes/consolidatโฆ
The motorcar lobby pushed hard, name-calling pedestrians using roads "#jaywalking", to get laws like this enacted across the U.S.A..
Other interesting items of the PA Vehicle Code that are unlike the U.K.:
Ambulances have to obey the speed limit and stop at red lights, but funeral vehicles can go through red lights. Pedestrians, depending from city law, can be fined for disobeying their red lights at pedestrian crossings. Right-on-red is allowed. Cyclists are not permitted to pass stopped cars at pedestrian crossings, and must obey speed limits.
#HighwayCode #USLaw
Phil Thane โ
in reply to JdeBP • • •* Different rules apply on motorways that were built specifically for motor vehicles.
@bytebro
Bytebro ๐ฌ๐ง ๐บ๐ฆ
in reply to Phil Thane โ • • •@pthane
No idea whether it is still a thing but the HMGov modified the Highway Code booklet[1], which is kind of of how you are judged should an incident occur.
The one that blew me away years ago was that they change the wording about mini-roundabouts from "you SHOULD go around the mini-roundabout" to "you MUST go around the mini-roundabout".
A couple of younger friends have failed driving tests here on this.
@JdeBP
1. gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-coโฆ
The Highway Code
Department for Transport (GOV.UK)