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New comment by standardUser in "SF is obsessed with the safest drivers – and ignoring the ones killing people"

standardUser — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:53:15 +0000

https://archive.is/2026.04.18-123609/https://www.sfchronicle...

SF is obsessed with the safest drivers – and ignoring the ones killing people

standardUser — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:49:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/pedestrian-death-driver-accident-22210904.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825623

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New comment by standardUser in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

standardUser — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:38:27 +0000

I find it hard to blame the young ambitious teenager and much easier to blame the grown-ass adults in supervisory roles who apparently can't cite a single violation by name and later violently steal a kid's phone.

The kid might have some things to learn, sure, but the adult behavior is what I would call "super immature".

New comment by standardUser in "Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying"

standardUser — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:19:40 +0000

In the US, student loan interest rates tend to be close to market (which I find despicable) and there is no automatic forgiveness. In fact, student loan debt has extra rules in the US making it difficult to get discharged in bankruptcy, so even that route doesn't work for a lot of people.

New comment by standardUser in "[dead]"

standardUser — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:55:48 +0000

There was the strike that massacred a school, which was the result of DOGE cuts. There was the double-strike on the bridge the other day, for no apparent reason other than to kill first responders. I'm sure there have been other instances of the US causing unjustifiable harm, but those are the two big ones that come to mind. Meanwhile, Israel has been doing pretty much whatever the fuck it wants, razing neighborhoods, bombing medical facilities and schools by the dozen, assassinating moderate leadership, and on and on.

New comment by standardUser in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

standardUser — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:41:24 +0000

Via the NYT: Mohammad Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament and a key government figure overseeing the war, took to social media to mock the Trump administration as U.S. forces searched for a missing American airman from a downed fighter plane. “This brilliant no-strategy war they started has now been downgraded from ‘regime change’ to ‘Hey! Can anyone find our pilots? Please?’”he said in a post on X. “Wow. What incredible progress. Absolute geniuses.”

New comment by standardUser in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

standardUser — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:37:05 +0000

Even the Philippines, a US ally, has struck a deal with Iran for safe passage. Meanwhile, Oman is working with Iran on a toll scheme. There's an emerging chance that no US-flagged vessel crosses the Straight of Hormuz again in our lifetimes (except maybe for a retreating 5th fleet).

New comment by standardUser in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

standardUser — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:20:42 +0000

We don't know what downed it yet, so it's hard to say. Iran is hiding and rationing their offensive munitions, we know that, so it's not surprising when the number of drone and missile attacks spikes after weeks of bombing. That's part of the plan. But the ability to take down a US fighter jet is not something they are rationing- it's likely at the edge of their capabilities and they got lucky. If they could be knocking down more, they would be.

New comment by standardUser in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

standardUser — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:56:57 +0000

That's not a concern it's a reality. Iran is not shut-off or blockaded to any meaningful degree. It has tons of unmolested border crossings and Caspian sea access, and maintains full control within it's own borders (minus the parts that have been blown up).

New comment by standardUser in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

standardUser — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:42:16 +0000

Iran's deep investment in asymmetric warfare is paying serious dividends. You wouldn't expect a nation that's being bombed day and night, essentially at will, to still hold so many cards. Not only is the US completely incapable of strong-arming the straight open, but the rate of missile and drone attacks out of Iran and its proxies has been accelerating the last few days, as has the rate of successful hits.

New comment by standardUser in "Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle"

standardUser — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:28:43 +0000

Spoken like one of the small percentage of Americans who can afford to tag on extra days to their PTO to enjoy a nice view.

New comment by standardUser in "Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle"

standardUser — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:46:06 +0000

Years ago I tried to book a train from San Francisco to Chicago as part of a trip I had planned but found it to be more expensive and, more significantly, a multi-day journey instead of a few hours. If you happen to be an American living near one of the useful passenger rail lines, and desire to go to one of the few destinations it can take you to quickly and affordably, more power to you. But most Americans live nowhere near a useful rail system.

New comment by standardUser in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

standardUser — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:33:07 +0000

The second the first bomb hit, the Republican Guard went from a standing military force to a guerrilla army, similar in a lot of ways to what the US faced in Iraq, just vastly better-trained and better-equipped. The US couldn't subdue Iraq with hordes of troops on the ground for years, so why would anyone imagine an air-only campaign would have better results against a stronger and larger opponent?

New comment by standardUser in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

standardUser — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:46:54 +0000

China is building force projection rapidly. But it's a huge gap.

New comment by standardUser in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

standardUser — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:35:05 +0000

Take China for an example. No one knows China's true military capabilities, because they're rapidly evolving and because they virtually never use them. If there's an element of surprise to be had, they have it. But that cut's both ways, because China itself doesn't have experience exercising those capabilities. The learning curve could be noticeable. Meanwhile, no one doubts the ability of the US military to execute.

New comment by standardUser in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

standardUser — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:54:57 +0000

Iran will not stop harassing the region, and perhaps not even allow the strait to open, if Israel is still bombing them or fighting a proxy war in Lebanon. So Trump can pack up and head back to this side of the planet, having made our country a few trillion dollars poorer in the process, but the war doesn't ends until Iran and Israel decide it ends.

New comment by standardUser in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

standardUser — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:10:40 +0000

There's something funny about watching global markets react to Trump's every lazy lie as if Moses himself just passed down orders. Maybe funny is the wrong word. The kicker is that this isn't even Trump's war and he likely lacks the capacity to end it if he wanted to.

New comment by standardUser in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

standardUser — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:05:23 +0000

There's an entire academic field called statistics you seem to be forgetting all about.

New comment by standardUser in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

standardUser — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:31:18 +0000

They are taking money committed to a wind project and redirecting it towards burning fossil fuels - because what other lesson can we take from a global energy shock other than to increase our exposure to the next one? The company itself (France's Total) had already committed to the wind deal, so now the Trump admin is letting them off the hook, and using Trump's irrational refusal to issue licenses for wind power as the excuse for why the deal wasn't working out as originally planned.

New comment by standardUser in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

standardUser — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:22:10 +0000

Trump wrecks the global energy economy and his next move is to increase our dependence on it? They don't make enough dimensions for the type of chess this brainiac is playing.