...but I'm going to enjoy going through and learning how this is some kind of an imposition on personal freedom, or how it's part of the president's secret strategy to ruin the world.

If you treat it as entertainment right from the start, it's much less annoying.

It's probably due mostly to our higher speed limits and faster vehicles.

motorways and trunk roads are 70mph here. Tiny shitty little country roads with blind corners, wide enough for two cars if you are lucky, away from villages are 60. London is now mostly 20.

It's a combination of things. Poor road design (the ubiquitous stroad), poor driver testing requirements (the test is much much harder in the UK---the pass rate is about 40%), more large trucks and SUVs which are less safe for everyone: worse visibility and prone to flipping, and high mass.

Or, it's 12 9/11s per year. One a month like clockwork.

Each driver should probably get some kind of medal for high performance when contributing to this amazingly good safety record.

America does not have a good safety record for driving. The number of deaths per mile are twice the UK for example. You can't even claim this is because America is big (as if you are daily driving from Fluffy Landing, FL to Humptulips, WA daily), because it's per mile.

Somehow whenever new safety tech comes around people wheel out the "but what if everyone started murdering everyone" argument.

It's not that hard to fuck with people in a car. You could shoot them, drop bricks or other obstacles out the back, oil or just nails. You could install Ben-Hur spikes on your wheels. You could just leave a stolen car parked lenghtways across the interstate. You could call the police to report a DWB. The possibilities are already endless.

I'm guessing you don't since you're not a murderer intent on murdering random drivers until you get rather quickly caught. So why would you use a far more elaborate method?

And cooling system.

There's a porsche one with a transmission. Make of that what you will.

I think the main complain is that it does, or tries to do, too much -- certainly more than it *needs* to do (eg: DNS) -- and some not in the way it ideally should (eg: PID 1). Basically it suffers from mission creep and bloat.

It's also somewhat harder to debug than the shell script based versions. If it's working fine, and in practice it does most of the time now, then that's OK. But it's a big old chunk of C code split over a number of communicating processes. If you trigger a bug, good luck.

I mean... isn't this massively astoundingly obvious? To anyone who's seen wind turbines ever?

They're basically a small pole with the interesting bit a very long way up in the air. You can put them on land and use the land. You can put them in the sea and let it be sea. Also the US has an abundance of land.

How on earth did anyone ever thing wind turbines might use up all the land in America?

do people regularly stick they head under the stalls to watch you?

I don't get it. People still manage to piss on the seats in America, it's just the gaps under the walls are big enough to crawl under pretty much. Plus also really great for bag theft.

In Idaho, it could easily devolve into a shooting. Of course, then the politicians and religious nutters will just blame the trans person, because well...

That's a feature not a bug I suspect.

Do you have a link to that story about Planet Fitness?

It has a weird "letters to penthouse" energy about it, frankly. If he had a link it would not be to anywhere legitimate and you sure as heck wouldn't want to follow it.

I don't like having to deal with a seat that some shit head has pissed all over. So, I'm really not bothered by urinals and always use them even when the stalls are free.

Also WTF is with the massive gaps under the walls in American toilets?

Did you just say gay people are pedophiles?

No.

Next question?

It's supposed to put trans people at risk in public spaces so they're forced to detransition for safety.

The risk to sufficiently nonconformist cis women is also a happy accident as far as the proponents are concerned.