The issue, to be clear, is not who makes the surveillance cameras. It's the surveillance cameras being installed in the first place.
Alarmism about Chinese surveillance cameras is missing the forest for the trees.
regul
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Except if the side of the truck says "U-Haul" or "Home Depot" people understand you're not the kind of asshole who buys and drives a fuckoff huge truck every day of the week.
They had really extensive plans in 1984 that accomplished amazing things. And then immediately got rid of them after the Olympics.
https://la.curbed.com/2018/6/7/17419270/olympics-2028-los-angeles-1984-traffic
If you have an older coin-op washer in your building you can usually look up the model number and either buy a master key or learn the default programming code to set the price.
I live in the PNW so our rain is usually light enough not to merit them. I have heard people swear by the Clever Hood though.
For context: In the US, CBP can search your phone without a warrant if you live within 100 miles of a border or coast (2/3rds of the population).
The researchers conclude that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.
This is their advice? Make the technology for the green transition more expensive rather than enact your own subsidies?
Capitalists are going to burn this planet.
As someone who views prison as rehabilitative and not punitive, I could not disagree more.
Whether the road space is dedicated to cars or bikes, it's still dedicated to people.
That accepts the framing that we're designing for cars/bikes/peds. We're not. We're designing for people, whether they're in a car, on a bike, etc.
In that sense it's very much not zero-sum.
It's only a zero sum game if they view driving as an essential and immutable part of themselves, and even then, not really.
Charging adequate prices for street parking, for example, guarantees that you'll always be able to park easily if you need to, a luxury not provided by free parking.
And then, of course, they could always just get out of their cars and immediately start benefitting from the changes.
City or state would have had to pay to buy the properties anyway, though. Then the money spent on the widening could easily have been spent to modernize and update (or otherwise improve) the buildings.