In a report released Friday, the committee said that Ocasio-Cortez “proactively took steps to comply” with House rules, including using personal funds to rent apparel that would typically be gifted or loaned to Met Gala attendees.

If you don’t take the bribe, the dirty ones can’t trust you…

Oh ok, that’s what you were doing.

Sorry, I got confused when you were accusing me of agreeing with the author.

And now you’ve clarified that a single study has shown a correlation:

A 2009 study showed a 14.5% decrease in bicyclist injuries after the passage of the original Idaho Stop law (though did not otherwise tie the decrease to the law).

I actually downloaded the PDF to read what was going:

Repeated stopping increases risk of injury from repetitive stress. The act of a hard stop, and the 28 subsequent resuming of speed from a hard stop, involves considerable strain on joints, >particularly the 29 wrists and knees but also the shoulders, elbows, neck and low back. (cite) The wrist suffers >strain under 30 vibration, flexion and torsion during hard stops.

To get that 14.5% decrease, they’re counting the “physical strain” of having to start from a stop. But if they’re supposed to be coming to a full stop anyways, they have the same amount of starts…

Still doesn’t make any logical sense to me how it’s safer, but it lead me time more info in the end, so thanks!

If there’s just no system settings, you may try looking into mods, or learning how to manually edit the config file yourself?

It looks like for windows you can use opengl or a special launcher. I’m not sure how different it’ll be for you, but seems to be a common problem so someone has likely found a solution somewhere.

Not sure if Lemmy is big enough for someone to come tell you, but whenever you figure it out maybe edit you post with the fix so this stuff can start building up here.

Idaho Stop

That may be a law in a few states, but New York is not one of those.

But the author isn’t advocating for this law, she’s arguing that cyclists should be treated the same as cars…

Which is what you’re apparently mad at me about?

Did you mean to reply to the main post and you’re arguing with the article’s author? I don’t think she’ll read these comments.

Yeah, do it at a hardware level.

Regardless of what kind of monitor you have, it should have gama/brightness adjustments.

Which is why some of those 6k citations are for riding on the sidewalk

Some of those citations are cyclists on sidewalks endangering pedestrians…

Others is cyclists running red lights.

So, cyclists hitting a pedestrian, I feel like we’d agree who’s at fault.

But say a cyclists runs a red light and tbones a SUV, you’re saying the SUV is at fault?

“If a 4,000-pound SUV runs a red light, they get a ticket and you pay it online. You’re done with it in a matter of minutes. But if a 60-pound bicycle runs a red light, then they can get a criminal summons, which means you have to take a day off of work, go to court, probably you should hire a lawyer. And if you are an immigrant, then that can put you at risk of deportation,” Berlanga said.

This comes as the city started issuing criminal summonses to cyclists back in April for basic traffic violations, like running a red light or riding on the sidewalk. Berlanga said it’s not the bikers that are the problem, but the infrastructure. She pointed to the lack of protected bike lanes on East 149th Street.

Maybe they shouldn’t be running red lights?

Like, it seems the major complaint is now that they’re being held accountable for running red lights, it’s inconvient to go to traffic court.

They point out cars are different, but do it too many times in a car and you don’t have a license. When regulating something that anyone can do without a license, fines are just a tax that poor people can’t afford

Like, if anything they should be arguing for everyone who runs red lights to need to be inconvienced and spend a day in court

Instead they’re arguing no one should have to do that

Which kind of runs against their narrative, but even reading it twice I still don’t understand how running a red lights on a bicycle makes anything safer… Especially for the cyclist.

The ADL is so old it predates the Nazi party…

While they haven’t always been perfect, and have often been shitty, there was a notable change under Greenplatt for the worse.

For instance in the 60s the ADL was a huge boon to the Civil Rights movement at large.

If we’re looking for when they became outright “baddies” it would probably be the late 70s early 80s. But it’s been a slow change, mostly influenced by Republican and Evangilicals, while neoliberals still gave them unconditional support.

But Greenblatt is taking it far enough that everyone is realizing the modern ADL is nothing but propaganda for a genocidal far right religious ethnostate.

I mean, the first lawsuit against her was by a 16 year old she poached from Marlago where she was already working as a massage therapist…

And those sealed court records still exist, but are from 2017 during Trump’s first term.

Like, why the fuck does everyone gloss over that Marlago was hiring 16 year old “massage therapists”?

The CEO of the ADL:

Greenblatt has expressed support for activist deportations in the second Trump presidency.[42][43][44] In a June 2025 speech before Republican state attorneys general, Greenblatt said that the “real deal threat” to American Jews came from “this convergence of what I call the radical left and, like, Islamist groups here in the U.S.” Greenblatt compared pro-Palestinian student protesters to ISIS and Al-Qaeda, and said regarding Mahmoud Khalil, “I am sure we’re going to find out about his ties to groups overseas.”[45] In an appearance on Fox News, Greenblatt said that college graduates and social media influencers who criticized the Gaza genocide were responsible for the Boulder fire attack, and falsely accused graduating MIT class president Megha Vemuri, who had criticized MIT’s ties to Israel, of spreading “blood libels”.[46]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Greenblatt#Anti-Defamation_League

The ADL completely went to shit in 2014 when he assumed his position, and it’s basically worthless now.

And then she’s gonna “jump” out of a window…

You don’t pull shit like this and leave loose ends, which is the only reason she might not go along with this. She’s evil, but she’s not an idiot.

“South Park” is once again making clear that the show’s humor was never about agreeing with its creators (or anyone) ideologically; it was about exposing phoniness, satirizing moral rigidity, poking fun at bullies and mocking unquestioned power. Trump demanded unquestioned power; he got it. MAGA fell in line. Institutions are falling in line. Now it’s their turn to be mocked.

They kind of get the point.

It’s not as simple as mocking whoever is in power, it’s that regardless of which party was in power for all of the shows existence, they have fucking sucked.

Obama was the closest we got in that timespan for a decent president, but South Park rightfully shit on him for not really fixing anything.

The right hates them when they shit on the right.

Neoliberals hate them when they point out neoliberlism sucks.

But they’ve never went after the actual left. Even the Macho Man episode wasn’t anti-trans, it was satirizing people who ironically make it a binary issue where it’s either always ok or never ok.

Despite being a crass animated TV show about kids, they don’t play to the lowest common denominator, so lots of people completely miss the point and just see what’s on the surface.

just discovered agriculture?

Hey, you want to make a big of money? Do what I did, get into farming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE

I believe there was also an issue in Roman Catholicism of the seal of confession

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/washington-state-child-abuse-catholic-priests-b2791985.html

The new law adds religious leaders and priests to a list of professions that can be criminally charged if they do not report suspected abuse or neglect, alongside teachers, doctors, nurses, childcare providers, and many others.

Previously, priests were only required to report if the suspected perpetrator was someone they had authority over, and were exempted from doing so if they learned about it through a “privileged communication” such as confession.

trump friendly federal judges are blocking that new law (in the state of Washington)

However a significant difference there is that was only for someone confessing with the expectation they weren’t confessing to a person, but to God. Hence wouldn’t confess to the crime if they knew they’d be turned in.

Mesrih applies when anyone (including the victim) is the one disclosing it, especially if it’s ongoing.

No idea about Jehovah’s Witnesses, but in general the more insular a religious sect is, the worse the problem is.

And no religion is more insular then one that requires it’s followers to call their own version of police where a religious leader gets to decide if actual secular authorities are involved. So not the only problematic demographic, but this is “stop snitching” to a whole nother level.

Not really, it’s going to be under-reporting certain demographics.

In orthodox Jewish communities they have their own “cops” (Shomrim) and it’s against their religious law to turn a Jewish criminal (especially of their own sect) in to any authorities who aren’t explicitly Jewish.

In Brooklyn, Shomrim has been accused of withholding information about suspected local child molesters.[14] One Brooklyn South Shomrim member acknowledged to the press that they maintain a file of suspected local child molesters, and some believe that this file includes the suspects’ photos and the make, model and license-plate number of their cars. But Shomrim does not share this information with police due to the Torah prohibition against mesirah (informing on a fellow Jew to the non-Jewish authorities).[12] However, another high-ranking member claims that the other member was misquoted, and that the list that Brooklyn South Shomrim maintains is culled from the New York Sex Offender Registry.[46] Members of the Williamsburg Shomrim always consult a rabbi before involving police in a crime committed by one Jew against another.[13]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shomrim_(neighborhood_watch_group)

Like, even if a normal cop happens to be Jewish, that’s not enough because the local police aren’t a Jewish organization.

Obviously other religions like Catholicism protects clergy, but it’s not a tenant of their religion that they can’t turn in any follower to secular authorities who are legally allowed to enforce laws.

In a lot of Orthodox communities, they don’t call 911, they call the Shomrim. If the victim is Jewish but not the perpetrator, then the Shomrim calls the police.

If the perpetrator is Jewish…

The crime isn’t punished or reported any higher unless a Rabbi decides to. So all types of horrible shit is swept under the rug.

There’s a whole ass instance that bans anyone for not saying AI is stunning and brave, and a metric shit ton of communities exclusively for AI.

You have more than enough safe spaces

But that’s not enough for you…

I still don’t know if you’re incapable of understanding any of this, or intentionally not understanding. But at this point it literally doesn’t matter.

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If you think that’s the same thing, you don’t understand at least on of those things, but safe money is both…

Fucking do it anyways.

Stop letting them dictate when certain steps are taken, all that does is ensure no one uses it till its most beneficial for them.