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Resist the Bullies Occupying Your Communities

US Authoritarianism @lemmy.world alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 8mo ago

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What does PlayStation 4 have to do with this? Am I getting old?

Is this BoneAppleTea?
- The only reading that is making sense to me is shorthand for "pays for", but I've never seen that slang in the wild so I have no idea
  
  Speech to text system is my guess. I don't know if more people are using it or what but it never used to be this common.
- I assume it's shorthand for "pays for"
  
  My understanding is most shorthand/euphemisms nowadays seem to originate from tiktok's strict and sometimes inscrutable censorship rules. Maybe this is one of them?
  
  Edit: apparently this was a case of text-to-speech gone away. I prefer my head cannon of tiktok trying to censor conversations about anyone who "pays for" an elicit service.
  
  I figured it was just bad text to speech, and OP just didn't go back to proofread.
  
  frfr its kind of staying in because it quadruples engagement. i like that tiktok headcannon
Ticketing people who don't pay for parking is "bullying?"

This is pretty insulting to people who have actually suffered from real bullying. There's plenty of real problems in the world to be righteously angry about. Maybe let's not post shitty Facebook memes on Lemmy.
- It's meter cops who camp on your car in case your meter runs out before you make it back, so they can give you a full ticket for one second of "stolen parking", you physicality thief, you.
Eh, I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Parking is a huge thorn in the side of transportation reform, and ensuring parking turnover is actually pretty crucial to a functional transportation system. On-street parking is public right-of-way that could be a bike lane, enhanced bus stop, street seating for restaurants/cafes, parklets, drainage swales, large medians for trees, wider sidewalks, the list goes on. However we don't get these nice things because "wE NeEd ThE pArKiNg SuPpLy." Except often you'll find that there would be sufficient supply to remove the parking on even just one side of the street if turnover were higher, and turnover is not higher because people are abusing the parking. Things like store employees parking all day in spots meant for customers, people using on-street parking to avoid more expensive lots at the destinations they're actually visiting (like entertainment venues), etc. Have you ever encountered a parking meter that would only let you put in 2 hours of money even though you need the spot for much longer, and you had to run out mid-way through whatever you were doing to feed the meter? That means you were probably not the intended user for that space and you should have found longer-term parking elsewhere. Maybe that store manager that runs outside every other hour to feed the meter rather than use an all-day parking lot (but that's a three-block walk away and this parking is right here!!1) or taking public transportation (because that's beneath them) would rethink this behavior after an expensive ticket. Point is, I'm not sure helping people skirt parking regulations is fighting the system or standing up for the little guy.
- Also doesn't make the ticket redundant. Even before the ticket's completed, once it starts being made it's done. So whatever the fine was +0.25¢ is payback earnings for that person being a part of the automobile problem. A win for environment and infrastructure.
- Jumping to some pretty big assumptions in a meme group of all places
  
  This was cross-posted to "usauthoritarianism"
  
  Otherwise I wouldn't really care, but like wtf. Of all examples of authoritarianism/fighting the system, feeding a parking meter? What is this, anarchy for infants?
  
  Huh. I thought meme groups posted memes.
- Oh no fuck that. I live in a country where fucking roadside peddlers and adjacent businesses have basically turned the street into their business and I can easily say I prefer the cars. It's fucking terrible.
So fucked up that the town wouldn’t pay for a human position and instead has a PlayStation 4 handing out the meter fines.
This borders on word salad
- PS4 whingeing
- Word produce section
It's actually illegal to add money to other people's parking meters (where I live, at least).

Disgusting that there's laws against it.
- Stupidest law I've heard of this week.
- Could you claim it was a “gift”?
  
  Then there'd be gift tax and the government wants their cut.
  
  /s
Ok the one hand, FTP.
On the other hand, fuck cars.

But, paid parking is the better route here, since free parking is a plague on actually getting walkable cities.
- File Transfer Protocol? What does that have to do with it?
  
  /s
This is a small part of the reason why they switched to those little electronic vending machines. That and so they don't have to pay to have people go out and empty them
You guys still use coins with parking meters? Haven't seen those is 15 years.
Anything to fuck with a cop
I'm team meter cop...
- booo

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