On: Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide

[nemomarx]

Should they? There's lots of things that are currently crimes that I don't believe should be crimes, so I have no reason to support policing in at least those cases.

[pkul → nemomarx]

Yeah imagine a purely efficient state that actively enforced all written laws. We would need to rescind a lot of them.

[M3L0NM4N → pkul]

Yes, this sounds amazing. Enforce all the laws and rescind the bad ones! There are tons!

[lux-lux-lux → M3L0NM4N]

Unfortunately we’re not real good at rescinding bad laws, so you just get tyranny (and a lot of mysteriously voided tickets for cops and politicians)

[cwillu → lux-lux-lux]

Exactly:

The problem with rats' nests of infrastructure is that it is effectively impossible to determine what wires are structurally load-bearing in unexpected ways, and there's literally nobody in a position of authority that would be even remotely trusted by a super-majority to construct a suitable replacement system from whole cloth.