Awful copper
Worst trade experiemce of my life. I will not be returning
Best copper
Best trade I ever had. I will for sure return.
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Ea Nasir is a really interesting case study of how one piece of information can be interpreted in two completely different ways.
One interpretation, and the one most people know, is that the authors of the clay tablets complaints are legitimate.
The other is that Ea Nasir kept them as a record of people attempting to harm his reputation. So he could remember who to avoid doing business with in the future.
Also ancient Sumer had a pretty decent legal system for it’s time, it’s entirely possible Ea-Nasir was keeping the tablets for a possible court case. So the ancient equivalent of saving texts from a shit customer.
Your honor, I have 500 lbs of receipts.
“What’s a pound? Some savages measurements from the east? We use mina.”
Mina? I barely mined’a!
I will go home now, don’t mind me, coming through, heyyyup.
- he was gathering evidence of an employee or delivery partner comitting fraud
So it’s like the Lemmy modlog. Maybe it’s a log of mods calling out bad users, maybe it’s a log of mods lying and power tripping.
^ this person has been horribly wronged.
Awww, thanks! ^^
It was meant as an observation, but I’m glad you take such passion in your work, Mummy’s Little Blood Slut! <3
Why don’t y’all just get to machine learn all those fucking tablets you dug up, like hundreds of thousands of them, and train a fucking AI on that shit and tell us what it says instead of sitting here being a besserwisser online, HMM? If there was one good cause for AI, cuneiform would be it. Just god damned saying.
Edit: just btw I happen to know that the problem is mainly the first training set, you need cuneiformers to correctly give the answers so the model knows what to train on, and there’s like seven people in the world who do that, but I’m thinking, what if we trained an AI model on all the cuneiform we do know? Hit me up for proposals, I’m serious about this shit
I would give this merchant zero stars if I could
Suppliuppliuma II accepts your proposition, in spite of wearing nothing but an over-sized bath towel.
Copper you say?
There seems to be 2 main camps in this thread.
Fuck the police, and fuck shitty drivers.
Both camps are correct.
Gonna be downvoted, because apparently this is car brain central, but the amount of mental gymnastics people will do to make red light camera enforcement “bad” is crazy.
The US’ private company control over these cameras notwithstanding.
Fuck me, so many people die on on roads, and especially at intersections.
I just don’t think having this kind of surveillance state apparatus is ever worth it I don’t want the government or private companies tracking my every move.
I don’t even own a car and I want these cameras gone.
The US’ private companies
this is entirely the problem, because they’re turning over info to ICE and other agencies and it’s being used oppressively.
That is a voter problem rather than a camera problem.
The city I work for put up Flock cameras with specific instructions from Council that they were only to be used for identification of cars flagged in active warrants.
Within a week of their installation, police used the cameras to track the movements of someone who filed a complaint.
Fuck the police
Shout out to Road Guy Rob
The USA needs more speed traps (all sorts), red light cameras, traffic circles and draconian fines to prevent the undisciplined idiots from killing people.
draconian fines
nah fam
Why is that a problem ? Do you intend to risking the lives of others on the road ?
Class warfare. Rich people get a free pass commit crimes.
I mean, it’s not a free pass, it’s just a pass they’re willing and able to pay for.
That was the point of Gamelfisch. Make the rich feel the fines.
I’d add the swîss system could be used with fines that scale with wealth.
Too bad it’s not true.
surveillance like this violates the non-aggression principle (which, being someone who’s left-libertarian, should be rewritten and reinterpreted to say ‘DON’T use force or coercion on anyone, except for self-defense, or the defense of your community’)
Speed traps and traffic light cameras are defense of the community though.
like speed bumps?
Speed bumps can’t tell if someone is ignoring red lights.
Friendly reminder that no technology is ever intrinsically good or bad, that is determined by who wields it and to what end.
On the one hand, omnipresent surveillance is bad and ripe for abuse.
On the other, I feel like the haphazard and selective enforcement of traffic laws by police officers is also really bad. Cops can selectively enforce laws so poor people or black people or whatever out-group suffers more. A machine should be impartial.
On the last hand, no traffic enforcement is probably going to get people killed. So that’s not desirable.
Also, fines are problematic. Fines should probably scale with wealth, but also it shouldn’t be a revenue source because that’s a perverse incentive.
Some countries do scalable fines, so you’ll see headlines about a rich person being given a $75k speeding ticket or something.
I do agree with the concept of traffic laws, but I went back to my home state of Iowa recently and it was seriously comical, cameras everywhere, stoplights but just randomly along the road, everyone was driving exactly the speed limit and I was going insane. Having humans involved in policing does introduce biases but it also introduces common sense and good judgement.
I like the idea of mobile camera units, so bad spots can be focused on, people understand that it’s a bad spot, but it doesn’t turn into a permanent fixture.
I can condone taking down pedestrian surveillance, but people who drive cars should follow the rules or get fucked.
That would be fine if they did anything to increase safety but studies have shown it actually increases accidents by 3-8% https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095756415302786
Lol nice try, but that only happens when you install them badly. Some places have, of course, but everything fails if you’re incompetent.
From that study:
“red light running photo enforcement installed experienced 4 percent reduction in fatal crashes for intersections with multilane approaches, and 48 percent reduction for intersections with single-lane approaches.”
Reduction means LESS.
It is not necessary to install photo enforcement cameras to get people to follow the rules.
What better ideas do you have in mind?
Sure, remove the red light but please also remove cars.
No bamboozle?
We should also state how much that is in dollar bucks.
Bright shiny copper is just under $4/lb where I am. It varies by location and what your recyclers will pay.
Just about $23 per camera where I’m at
how much cameras until i can buy 1 portiom of black tar heroine?
4
One would get you ~2-3 bags of heroin but black tar heroines haven’t been sold since the 1860s in the US thankfully, so I couldn’t quote you a price on that.
Government surveillance tracking device you mean? Enrich the local cops devices? Over half of violations monies collected goes to the corporations that market them to local and state officials with lavish dinners and vacations devices? Financial incentive to calibrate them to flag innocent drivers knowing there is little to no recourse against the company devices? 5.5 lbs you say?
That’s like $27 per camera or so.
That’s $27 of meth they wouldn’t have had otherwise
Pick yourselves up by your bootstraps, they tell us.
