We have that opportunity too. You can opt to not accept the proposed (automated) settlement, and challenge the citation itself. People have done that and won. However, administrative fees for that are often higher that the proposed settlement so it's only worth it in special cases.

USA hasn't run into the consequences of nationalism hard enough yet when it backfires.

The forces that produced Trump remain and will birth a new "strong man" for the masses to get behind, and the GOP does another attempt for Christian fascism.

I thought the laws in the USA prevented this. It's why you have manned speed traps because citations must be handed over personally to the driver while other countries have automated speed check systems and send the ticket to the owner of the car, and that can be a leasing company for example.

To demonstrate how mind boggling huge space actually is.

I like the demo where the guy puts a pea for the sun on the ground, a tiny dot for Earth and then drives out of state to put down a radish seed to display Proxima Centauri to scale. It shows those trillions of kilometers nicely.

Modern propane tanks are too well designed to be unsafe.

People like in the picture are the reason for that

trump doesn’t

That's King Donald the first.

Reminds me of those FM transmitters to get phone audio in those old cars. You now also have Bluetooth to FM if the Bluetooth of the car itself is too crappy.

Usually politicians themselves and business associates are behind this. The tech to spy on people "to keep children safe" is basically the same as the one that can be used to find critics and climate, labor or political activists. Then they can put pressure on them or just arrest them on something else. It's the dream tool for the more autocratic leaders and you just need a flunky to champion the cause for the children to make it happen.

Best comment ever was "It used to work like this but person at client demanded it work like that on this date" when the client complained it shouldn't work like that.

First USA privatizes the army. Then China offers to pay triple if the private army turns against the USA and Xi calmly claims the White House.