This safeway is directly across the street from the main "downtown" caltrain station and also two muni rail lines (n judah and ... 4th st? 3rd st?) it's extremely high traffic and they regularly taze resisting shoplifters ,like, a couple times a day. It's both high revenue (mission bay is 14,000 pop/sq mile) and high "loss"/shoplifting. It doesn't surprise me at all that they've had to resort to this. Also "unhoused" encampments pop up along the southern side of the caltrain station on the regular as well as nearby overpasses which.... there's a lot of correlation between that and shoplifting. This is not a bright sunny suburban grocery store, it is part of the ground floor of a huge urban complex building with 600 condos on the 4th-16th floors a couple blocks from Uber and OpenAI headquarters, major genetech offices etc. Context matters.

I see- your arbitrary line is better than my arbitrary line.

Yeah? I mean if you're trying to see if your country is doing well or badly then you are best of comparing it to countries that are in some way comparable. Compared to much of western Europe, yeah the UK is doing decently well in this regard. Not the best, but pretty highly ranked.

That seems reasonable. Our infrastructure ought to be much better than an ex Soviet state with a fraction of the gdp per capita. The only point of making such a comparison is to know if you've fucked up really hard.

Let's just look at it this way- you're more likely to be a victim of a violent crime walking in London than you are be killed by a car in the US as a pedestrian.

A good part of that is because the US has made itself so astonishingly hostile to pedestrians that everyone drives if they can. And speaking of which:

London has 116 murders from a population of 15 million. The US has 41000 road deaths from a population of 340e6. So you're 15 times as likely to die on the roads in America as you are likely to be murdered in London. But if you insist on just pedestrians that was just 7500, meaning you're only 3x as likely to die as a pedestrian in America as you are to be murdered in London.

Yeah yeah I know you said violent crime not murder. But you're comparing pedestrian fatalities to non fatal injuries in order to make America look less like a poor ex Soviet state in this regard. It would be much more reasonably to compare pedestrian wounding and death to all violent crime including murder. But that way America would still look bad so...

Yeah so despite you trying to pain London as murder streets it's still 3-15x safer than simply being on the roads in America. I reckon I'll take my chances in London.

I am in every way anti-DRM, but it's ubiquitous. A lot of publishers won't publish on GOG for this reason. I agree that Epic is arguing in bad faith. The enemy of my enemy is convenient, nothing more, so I am not delusional about Epic but I still enjoy their actions.

TBH I usually forget to go look at the free games they are typically so underwhelming, though there have been some legitimate greats too.

There are only two features of Steam beyond buying installing games which I care about, and one of them sucks. I like that it handles updates for me, but that is also the bad one, because practically none of the updates are differential. I want them to make that easier so that publishers actually do it. I know that it requires significant support from publishers when they use packed data files, but even that is something that could be addressed. (If the files are compressed individually instead of using compressed archives, then binary patches are feasible.) The other feature is Proton. Anything else including friends, achievements, and even reviews is all optional to me. I enjoy some of those features, but I would still use Steam without them.

I see I'm still living rent-free in some heads.

U MAD [I'm alive] BRO?

And ammo. Yeah some people have thousands of rounds of ammo. The military has millions of rounds, and enough men to go with them to effectively utilize suppressive fire. If you do get in an old-fashioned firefight with soldiers they can simply outbullet you if for some reason they don't have an armed backpack drone. Which by the way they totally do.

What demographic? Poor and disadvantaged? You know events like these are held by white people where there's only white people, right?

You completely lost me right here, bro. OH THE BOOTYANITY TWERKING ON COP CARS

You get that the unemployment rate is literally designed to be a falsehood because it stops counting people when they have been unemployed for a while, right? The methodology used for it has no concept of who is looking for work at all, it's based on a fundamentally bogus assumption that people who haven't found any for long enough aren't looking.

Who has ever tried UBI? Make sure your answer is about UBI and not just BI for a test group.

Most of those guns are irrelevant, as guns don't kill people by themselves, and a person can only realistically use two at a time, and can only use one at a time well.

Plus, you know, the government has thermal vision, guided munitions, satellite overwatch...

Infinitely more would be removing yourself from the equation in a carbon negative way. I suggest swallowing seeds and falling into an early grave.

If people don't buy stuff eventually the corporation collapses. The principals can make a profit before then, but repeat this enough times and the whole boat sinks as it happens to too many major employers at once. Hence too big to fail, which is of course the result of failure to enforce antitrust law.

Same for crony capitalism.

What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.

I'm guessing they've been using MacMiniColo. Super convenient to set up and run, but kinda pricey. According to the article they'll still be using Mac minis, but buying them and then running them in a Malaysian data center.

No, I'm saying that all things being relative, the UK has murder roads compared to several countries in the EU as well.

I get what you're saying and I'm saying it's a specious argument. The UK is one of the best in western Europe and indeed the world. Better places exist, but it's ranked very high. The US is substantially worse than the entire EU, and much much worse than western Europe.

Rationalize that all you want, but the US is not very good in this regard.

Anyway I dispute your "2x" numbers.

That the US was 2x worse than "Europe". As I said you had to cherry pick very heavily.

I have already pointed out that you selectively chose Western Europe,

Americaaaaaaa fuckkk yeaaaah!

America has always been grouped with "the west". Which typically included western Europe. It's a pretty normal grouping. And even if you pick the whole EU 27, the US is still twice as bad. But you're better than Belarus!

We were comparing death rates without regard for miles driven.

I quoted deaths per km not deaths per capita. A mile of your roads is more dangerous than a mile of roads in Europe. Deal with it.

No, it's an opinion held by a group of people.

Your feelings don't trump facts. I get that facts>feelings is ethnocentric bullshit in your world.

And no, while most stroads exist in the US, most of the US is not stroads in the slightest.

Just about every town I drove through was stroads. Even Santa Fe which has an actually old centre was full of stroads outside.

I think that just about confirms the ethnocentrism.

European quotes a fact: "waaah that's ethnocentric". European points out that the facts come from Americans and Canadians: "waaah that's ethnocentric". You have found a very effective way of blocking your ears to inconvenient facts, I'll grant you that.

Rest well knowing that the US has the traffic system that the US populace wants, and votes for

You voted a sex offende and fraudster into high office. Just because you wanted that doesn't make it a good idea. Likewise you vote for murder roads. Wanting murder roads doesn't make them not mudrer roads.