Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - It's the end of the world as we know it

[DeadParrot]

Could be, but he is such a star in terms of telling a story. Loved his recent Fairy Tale.

Yeah I really dug Fairy Tale.
The gwendy series of books were odd but engaging

[ComradeCollie]

What’s the context of this?

https://twitter.com/JohnBoyneBooks/s...30513077694477

Really difficult to answer without knowing what you do or don't know about their history. Think it would take an 8000 word article to even get a gist of it.

As I see it Boyne was critical of Glinners stance on trans rights activism in an article 4 years ago. Glinner kept bringing it up over those years in the impolite way he tends to do on twitter. In the meantime Boyne has had a change of mind, and apologised to Glinner publically. Apology has been accepted, and no cows in the care of terfs were milked this morning.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

So John hates women_2.0 now too?

[Solksjaer!]

Really difficult to answer without knowing what you do or don't know about their history. Think it would take an 8000 word article to even get a gist of it.

As I see it Boyne was critical of Glinners stance on trans rights activism in an article 4 years ago. Glinner kept bringing it up over those years in the impolite way he tends to do on twitter. In the meantime Boyne has had a change of mind, and apologised to Glinner publically. Apology has been accepted, and no cows in the care of terfs were milked this morning.

Something stinks about that apology . He more or less bigged up his own bag and underlined the Glinners. Colour me cynical here

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Wowsers that's a massive change in speed limits coming up.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/revealed-the-big-reductions-in-speed-limits-for-many-irish-roads-in-bid-to-prevent-death-and-injury/a156705731.html

[dinekes]

Wowsers that's a massive change in speed limits coming up.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/...156705731.html

Was driving up to Slade Valley yesterday and after Saggart it's a twisty, narrow at points, dangerous bends few miles with at least 1 or 2 people walking every time and horses the odd time.

The amount of utter morons barrelling along is beyond belief.

Had a BMW up my hole from Saggart and I didn't increase speed at all. The dumb cxxxt must have had an "oh shit" moment when I indicated right into the golf club which is where he was going too. I could see him stopped at the gate for ages as I drove on up the driveway maybe thinking I hadn't noticed him or something.

He definitely knew he had fucked up, sheepish as fuck when I walked by him coming out of the proshop , sort of side slunk out of my way when I walked towards him down the corridor (and I was most definitely walking towards him)

Doubt speed limits will stop this type of fuckery (most likely make it far worse) but overall in time could be a good thing.


NB Drove a par 4, putting for eagle.

Par.

[Keane]

Wowsers that's a massive change in speed limits coming up.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/...156705731.html

Seems like a complete no-brainer. The limits on the roads outside of the main roads is absolutely insane as it stands. It won't change the behaviour of aggressively dangerous drivers but your average driver (mostly all absolutely lethal unknown to themselves) who fancies themselves as competent behind the wheel I guess will tend to reduce speed. The level of derangement we see as normal from people driving cars is pretty scary in general.

[Solksjaer!]

Was driving up to Slade Valley yesterday and after Saggart it's a twisty, narrow at points, dangerous bends few miles with at least 1 or 2 people walking every time and horses the odd time.

The amount of utter morons barrelling along is beyond belief.

Had a BMW up my hole from Saggart and I didn't increase speed at all. The dumb cxxxt must have had an "oh shit" moment when I indicated right into the golf club which is where he was going too. I could see him stopped at the gate for ages as I drove on up the driveway maybe thinking I hadn't noticed him or something.

He definitely knew he had fucked up, sheepish as fuck when I walked by him coming out of the proshop , sort of side slunk out of my way when I walked towards him down the corridor (and I was most definitely walking towards him)

Doubt speed limits will stop this type of fuckery (most likely make it far worse) but overall in time could be a good thing.


NB Drove a par 4, putting for eagle.

Par.

Lovely scenery on the course. What par 4 you drive ? The dogleg right or the dogleg left ? Saggart Woods beside a nice trek with the kids.

[Wombatman]

We have the tech to limit car speed depending road type. Easy fix if the political will was there.

https://www.newstalk.com/news/speed-...nwards-1361125.

[ArmaniJeans]

We have the tech to limit car speed depending road type. Easy fix if the political will was there.

https://www.newstalk.com/news/speed-...nwards-1361125.

I do like this explainer at the end of the article, clears it up for me.

Main image: A driver at the steering wheel of a car

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

yikes, AJ taking a swipe at blind people needing alt-text for images is not the way I thought 2023 would end. what a year.

[ArmaniJeans]

yikes, AJ taking a swipe at blind people needing alt-text for images is not the way I thought 2023 would end. what a year.

Ah, is that what it is? Apologies to any blind people reading this.
It had me in mind of Viz magazine and 'a wall yesterday' captions they'd put under photos in their fake news articles.
Wonder why the middle photo didn't get an explainer as well.

[Raoul Duke III]

yikes, AJ taking a swipe at blind people needing alt-text for images is not the way I thought 2023 would end. what a year.

AJ has a dark side, be careful.

[dinekes]

Lovely scenery on the course. What par 4 you drive ? The dogleg right or the dogleg left ? Saggart Woods beside a nice trek with the kids.

Nice up there all right.

It was one of the straight dogslegs
short par 4

putting was abysmal
edit
I was telling my mate that I was hoping the guy tailgating would ask to join us as he was on his own. "Wouldn't want to hold you up" would have been my chosen witticism

[Tar.Aldarion]

My AI generated presentation went down well now, gonna pivot into full on bot.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Listening to an Oasis album recently and that song (Morning Glory?) comes on with its 'chained to the mirror and the razor blade' line. Remember that seeming so edgy back in the day and that these were folks clearly living in the extreme. But that was just coke, yeah? Seems almost nothingness now.

[Solksjaer!]

For me Oasis never struck a chord (no pun intended) vastly overrated . Team Blur . :-) (well maybe)

[Lao Lao]

Arlo Parks in the Olympia last night was absolute top drawer - Absolutely cracking gig

[Lao Lao]

doing the Liffey Swim was something that I had in my head to do some day (like all the other things that are "some day").

I was in my local gym a few months ago and there as a sign up for training for open water swimming. I'd only used the pool maybe once a month, and I'd never done more than paddle in the sea on holidays.

But we did some practice swims and I did enough races to qualify for the Liffey swim.

500+ entries, 296 men. First in my age group and placed 9th overall.

Very unique experience to swim through the city and new prospective. Certainly beats sea races that can be a bit monotonous.

No sign of Weil's disease yet. Successful day all round.

That's a savage result. Open water swimming is a step up from swimming in the pool.

What are the qualifying races? I've always loved the idea of doing the Liffey swim but the thought of actually getting into the Liffey is off putting

I've just started my third attempt of the year at getting back into swimming in the pool properly. I've always been a decent swimmer but my fitness levels are completely and utterly horrendous plus I'm carrying an additional unnecessary two stone - it's going to be a long slog over the winter!

[Tar.Aldarion]

You might enjoy learning to be a lifeguard, I did it when I was young. Open water swimming, pool swimming with saving people, turning clothes into floatation devices, games finding things in the water, first aid and CPR on sexy girl classmates. Was very fun, apart from in one exam I had to drag a 300lb guy and the buoyancy can only do so much.

[Lao Lao]

You might enjoy learning to be a lifeguard, I did it when I was young. Open water swimming, pool swimming with saving people, turning clothes into floatation devices, games finding things in the water, first aid and CPR on sexy girl classmates. Was very fun, apart from in one exam I had to drag a 300lb guy and the buoyancy can only do so much.

Lifeguarding is good fun alright - I was a qualified lifeguard at 17 but you lose your qualification (or at least you used to) if you don't practice and/or teach for a two year period.

There was two very hot girls in my cohort, one of which was...ahem...very well developed...and made the simulated life saving in the pool quite interesting especially when you had to put her on your hip and wrap your arm over her shoulder and around her torso.

For my final exam, they switched things up and made us do the drills with some of the instructors and of course I got the one who was a seriously heavy, tall mother fucker who went out of his way to be the worst, most awkward person to be rescued as he had to teach us that hardest way possible

[Solksjaer!]

So if you lose your lifeguard qualification are you still allowed save drowning big breasted wimmin ? Even if it is by no means certain they are drowning or even in trouble ?

[Lao Lao]

So if you lose your lifeguard qualification are you still allowed save drowning big breasted wimmin ? Even if it is by no means certain they are drowning or even in trouble ?

It's worked as a defence in the last three court cases

[Strewelpeter]

We have the tech to limit car speed depending road type. Easy fix if the political will was there.

https://www.newstalk.com/news/speed-...nwards-1361125.

It is interesting, this or something like it is such a no brainer, it's hard to understand why it's not even on the agenda.

We have dramatically reduced road deaths over the last 30 years and I suppose we just reached a point where we find it acceptable as long as it's hovering under 200 a year. I have no doubt with the right tech we could bring it way under 50.

Also I suspect the hew speed limits will have unintended consequences and may increase the number of serious accidents as 70% of traffic conforms to them and the gobshites make wilder and stupider manoeuvres to continue travelling at their own speed.

[dinekes]

It is interesting, this or something like it is such a no brainer, it's hard to understand why it's not even on the agenda.

We have dramatically reduced road deaths over the last 30 years and I suppose we just reached a point where we find it acceptable as long as it's hovering under 200 a year. I have no doubt with the right tech we could bring it way under 50.

Also I suspect the hew speed limits will have unintended consequences and may increase the number of serious accidents as 70% of traffic conforms to them and the gobshites make wilder and stupider manoeuvres to continue travelling at their own speed.

That's exactly it "the gobshites will make wilder etc" (couldn't bold it for some reason)

Unless it's forced on us through tech or absolutely rigourously policed (impossible almost) it will be like Mad Max Fury Road out there.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

43% of people killed on the road so far this year are vulnerable road users - pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists. The majority of these killed by vehicle drivers. Something has to give on speeds. Especially in town and city areas. The 30kmh will be fairly awful, as it feels like no speed, but there will definitely be lives saved, and more importantly less serious injuries. There's about 1,300 major injuries a year - including 500 major injuries to cyclists and pedestrians caused by vehicle drivers. Making a dent in the major injuries category would be huge.

[dinekes]

And get those electric scooters and bikes off the footpaths is another thing so I can tell at my cloud in peace!

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Have a business pitch next week to a software company for a SQL AI agent.

I was messing around with some online sample SQL databases in the space so I could demonstrate its abilities, they were all brutal - things like only having one or two rows of sample data. And the databases weren't really right on target either. So, I started looking at a whole sub-field specialist in mock data generation. Where you give some sample data and it estimates loads more following the same ideas. All brutal again.

And then it occurred to me - just ask the Code Interpreter on GPT4 (now called Advanced Data Analysis) to generate it.

I now have a database with 50,000 samples directly in line with what they are interested in. Have a schema document to show how everything works. I even pasted the questions the company said they were interested in into GPT and it made some changes to the SQL to allow specifically answering those questions.

The whole thing is fucking magic. Like its done something that is simply impossible in any other way.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

And get those electric scooters and bikes off the footpaths is another thing so I can tell at my cloud in peace!

Absolutely. Except kids - kids should be allowed to cycle on footpaths. Actually in France I think kids were required to cycle on footpaths on the grounds that only a madman would have kids cycling on roads.

[Solksjaer!]

Nice Doc on Bagatelle on TG4

[cardshark202]

Have a business pitch next week to a software company for a SQL AI agent.

I was messing around with some online sample SQL databases in the space so I could demonstrate its abilities, they were all brutal - things like only having one or two rows of sample data. And the databases weren't really right on target either. So, I started looking at a whole sub-field specialist in mock data generation. Where you give some sample data and it estimates loads more following the same ideas. All brutal again.

And then it occurred to me - just ask the Code Interpreter on GPT4 (now called Advanced Data Analysis) to generate it.

I now have a database with 50,000 samples directly in line with what they are interested in. Have a schema document to show how everything works. I even pasted the questions the company said they were interested in into GPT and it made some changes to the SQL to allow specifically answering those questions.

The whole thing is fucking magic. Like its done something that is simply impossible in any other way.

Have you heard of ThoughtSpot? They keep trying to sell me their product - and I think it's similar to what you're building?

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Have you heard of ThoughtSpot? They keep trying to sell me their product - and I think it's similar to what you're building?

Looks decent, but seems to be just smart querying? I'm more concentrating on the decision making part and keeping the information querying bit in the background as if 'and obviously this is here also'. As in, all business information will naturally be retrieved that way in the near future and presumably the likes of Microsoft will be the ones who do that.

Who knows if thats the right approach.

But e.g. with this SQL thing - this is just the most obvious problem the company currently has and they had tried and failed to fix it with expert systems, so they wanted a demo of that as a general prover of the capabilities in terms of decision makers. Their end goal is some form of cyborg bankers, which would need loads of different agents interacting together. I feel that interaction is where the smart decision impact will be - so, I'm more trying to get my foot in the door with the basic sql idea and quickly move to that higher value place.

Although for the initial presentation their director of AI sat through the whole thing looking like i had just shat in his cornflakes, so I'll have to barge through him to get anywhere.

[Hectorjelly]

Ireland at 5/1 looks like not a bad bet for the Rwc?

[Micknail]

Looks good. For every euro you put on you lose a euro.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

This is kinda interesting. US imposes restrictions on China to stop them catching up on semiconductor chip tech. There was a pretty widespread view that the Chinese could never plug the tech gap, but now they appear to have commercial quantities of 7mm chips:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/06/huawei-mate-60-pro-mobile-phone-china-dodges-5g-chip-embargo

7mm is about five years behind current state-of-the-art, but until this chip was released they were believed to be at least a decade behind and fundamentally a lost cause with no hope of catching up.

So it looks like China will, in due course, be able to domestically produce their own chip needs. Although this is just one data point, so I may be making a bit of a leap there.

That's massive if it pans out like that as (a), I think chips are their main import - a few hundred billion a year, and (b) this was the biggest brightest plan of the West to stifle their growth. Instead it seems like the West has just potentially sanctioned itself out of trillions in exports over the coming decades.

[Dice75]

I see Katie McCabe has been nominated for this year Ballon D'Or.

Quiz for today - without googling obvs is to name as many Irish lads that have been nominated over the years for the Mens Ballon D'Or.

I have 7 i can think of......

SPOILER

Tony Dunne
Brady
McGrath
Giles
O'Leary
Bonner
Keane

[Raoul Duke III]

Ireland at 5/1 looks like not a bad bet for the Rwc?

On the plus side, we are deservedly the #1 team in the world, having beaten everyone else in the last 18 months. We have a settled squad and a great manager.

On the negative side, we (and all the other top 5 teams in the world) got utterly screwed by the draw, making any path to the final ridiculously tough. We also have no WC pedigree to speak of.

Heading off tomorrow am for the next 10 days, and am not going to sully this odyssey with a bet but I wouldn't put anyone off taking 5/1 and hope you get a good sweat out of it. Speaking of sweating, I see it's forecast to be 36 degrees come kickoff in Bordeaux on Saturday. Much liquid refreshment required.

[Raoul Duke III]

Trying to get tickets to Wales-Fiji on the Sunday in Bordeaux because why not. My god, the RWC ticketing site is a joke.

[Raoul Duke III]

@Shrrrraaaaaap; are you heading to any games?

[6starpool]

It is interesting, this or something like it is such a no brainer, it's hard to understand why it's not even on the agenda.

We have dramatically reduced road deaths over the last 30 years and I suppose we just reached a point where we find it acceptable as long as it's hovering under 200 a year. I have no doubt with the right tech we could bring it way under 50.

Also I suspect the hew speed limits will have unintended consequences and may increase the number of serious accidents as 70% of traffic conforms to them and the gobshites make wilder and stupider manoeuvres to continue travelling at their own speed.

I remember getting a lift home at least once with you years ago from the Fitz and being terrified as you turned into an utter demon at the wheel. Have you moderated in your old(er) age?

[ArmaniJeans]

Trying to get tickets to Wales-Fiji on the Sunday in Bordeaux because why not. My god, the RWC ticketing site is a joke.

I'd expect they'll be readily available on the streets/bars on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Though unlikely you'll get seats together, probably just random Welsh people who've had a drop-out from their travelling crew.

[6starpool]

43% of people killed on the road so far this year are vulnerable road users - pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists. The majority of these killed by vehicle drivers. Something has to give on speeds. Especially in town and city areas. The 30kmh will be fairly awful, as it feels like no speed, but there will definitely be lives saved, and more importantly less serious injuries. There's about 1,300 major injuries a year - including 500 major injuries to cyclists and pedestrians caused by vehicle drivers. Making a dent in the major injuries category would be huge.

Is there any breakdown in figures (for any year) of the type of roads and speed limits of those roads where accidents occur? You rarely hear of fatal accidents on motorways, but they do occur sometimes of course. You don't hear too often of accidents in towns/cities themselves. It might not bear up in the actual evidence, but most fatal accidents seem to occur on non-main roads away from urban areas. Likely to do with the fact that speeds tend to be lower in urban areas, but while there is probably value in terms of reducing severe injuries by reducing speed limits in all urban areas, it won't reduce deaths that much I suspect. It also seems to me that the vast majority of times I see speed vans/cameras in this country are on straight stretches of roads or motorways.

Having people drive slower will probably result in more overtaking I suspect, which in turn could lead to more accidents. I think instead of blanket reductions, they should tailor the limit to the road. Small little boreens, 60 is more than enough, no issue there, even 60 will be faster than most drive on these a lot of the time anyway. Reduce the national secondary roads on stretches that are appropriate. Some sections 100 is fine, others 60 would even be better.

Either way, without proper checking behaviours won't change. If there are no cameras at night, then there is no additional incentive to slow down. If there are no cameras ever in towns, there is no additional incentive to slow down.

[DeadParrot]

Listening to an Oasis album recently and that song (Morning Glory?) comes on with its 'chained to the mirror and the razor blade' line. Remember that seeming so edgy back in the day and that these were folks clearly living in the extreme. But that was just coke, yeah? Seems almost nothingness now.

I honestly never took that meaning.
"All your dreams are made, when you are chained to the mirror and razor blade
today's the day, that all the world will see."

I was guilty of ascribing a deeper meaning to those lyrics.
A look at the angst and you feel as you wake up, have a shave and have go to work each morning
And the lies and dreams you create in order to do it once again.

I like my version better.

[Solksjaer!]

Before the kids , I had a few speeding tickets.
Post Kids, Zero Speeding tickets , in fact I say I drive at the limit almost everywhere , which seems to annoy the average driver out there who wishes to go 20% faster at all times. I have little desire to drive fast. The slow lane is redic at times so I hang around the middle lane until I meet a slowcoach. I mostly have music or an audio book on so sometimes when I arrive at a destination I find it hard to turn off the engine. It’s basically habit and impatience that has people driving at particular speeds. My biggest bugbear is most likely the same as everyone else. Ignorant feckers who don’t indicate. I stopped at the roundabout until they decide which direction they go, happens every single day. And don’t indicate as you are already turning, too late ya basta.

[DeadParrot]

Have a business pitch next week to a software company for a SQL AI agent.

I was messing around with some online sample SQL databases in the space so I could demonstrate its abilities, they were all brutal - things like only having one or two rows of sample data. And the databases weren't really right on target either. So, I started looking at a whole sub-field specialist in mock data generation. Where you give some sample data and it estimates loads more following the same ideas. All brutal again.

And then it occurred to me - just ask the Code Interpreter on GPT4 (now called Advanced Data Analysis) to generate it.

I now have a database with 50,000 samples directly in line with what they are interested in. Have a schema document to show how everything works. I even pasted the questions the company said they were interested in into GPT and it made some changes to the SQL to allow specifically answering those questions.

The whole thing is fucking magic. Like its done something that is simply impossible in any other way.

Be careful with this.
It's not always as clever as you would hope.
I did something similar recently when I had to submit a tender and needed some sample data.
Things like regional differences, postcodes, phone number formats and the like are not always gonna be accurate.

[Raoul Duke III]

That's a savage result. Open water swimming is a step up from swimming in the pool.

What are the qualifying races? I've always loved the idea of doing the Liffey swim but the thought of actually getting into the Liffey is off putting

I've just started my third attempt of the year at getting back into swimming in the pool properly. I've always been a decent swimmer but my fitness levels are completely and utterly horrendous plus I'm carrying an additional unnecessary two stone - it's going to be a long slog over the winter!

A friend of mine swam from Baltimore to Fastnet Rock (20km) a few weeks back, she did it in 6 hours. That seems excessive.

[Raoul Duke III]

I'd expect they'll be readily available on the streets/bars on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Though unlikely you'll get seats together, probably just random Welsh people who've had a drop-out from their travelling crew.

yeah, probably. Would obv be roaring for Fiji.

[Raoul Duke III]

Is there any breakdown in figures (for any year) of the type of roads and speed limits of those roads where accidents occur? You rarely hear of fatal accidents on motorways, but they do occur sometimes of course. You don't hear too often of accidents in towns/cities themselves. It might not bear up in the actual evidence, but most fatal accidents seem to occur on non-main roads away from urban areas. Likely to do with the fact that speeds tend to be lower in urban areas, but while there is probably value in terms of reducing severe injuries by reducing speed limits in all urban areas, it won't reduce deaths that much I suspect. It also seems to me that the vast majority of times I see speed vans/cameras in this country are on straight stretches of roads or motorways.

Having people drive slower will probably result in more overtaking I suspect, which in turn could lead to more accidents. I think instead of blanket reductions, they should tailor the limit to the road. Small little boreens, 60 is more than enough, no issue there, even 60 will be faster than most drive on these a lot of the time anyway. Reduce the national secondary roads on stretches that are appropriate. Some sections 100 is fine, others 60 would even be better.

Either way, without proper checking behaviours won't change. If there are no cameras at night, then there is no additional incentive to slow down. If there are no cameras ever in towns, there is no additional incentive to slow down.

I'm always terrified by the insane driving whenever we go down to Mrs D's hometown (rural East Galway). Zero enforcement too and drink driving away like it's 1985.

[shrapnel]

@Shrrrraaaaaap; are you heading to any games?

none whatsoever but will be watching hopefully every game!!!

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Be careful with this.
It's not always as clever as you would hope.
I did something similar recently when I had to submit a tender and needed some sample data.
Things like regional differences, postcodes, phone number formats and the like are not always gonna be accurate.

Yeah! Had a look at the generation code and some samples. It seems spot on tbh. But maybe I asked it quite a simple task. Am concurrently reading a book on SQL to better understand what I don't know

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Is there any breakdown in figures (for any year) of the type of roads and speed limits of those roads where accidents occur? You rarely hear of fatal accidents on motorways, but they do occur sometimes of course. You don't hear too often of accidents in towns/cities themselves. It might not bear up in the actual evidence, but most fatal accidents seem to occur on non-main roads away from urban areas. Likely to do with the fact that speeds tend to be lower in urban areas, but while there is probably value in terms of reducing severe injuries by reducing speed limits in all urban areas, it won't reduce deaths that much I suspect. It also seems to me that the vast majority of times I see speed vans/cameras in this country are on straight stretches of roads or motorways.

Having people drive slower will probably result in more overtaking I suspect, which in turn could lead to more accidents. I think instead of blanket reductions, they should tailor the limit to the road. Small little boreens, 60 is more than enough, no issue there, even 60 will be faster than most drive on these a lot of the time anyway. Reduce the national secondary roads on stretches that are appropriate. Some sections 100 is fine, others 60 would even be better.

Either way, without proper checking behaviours won't change. If there are no cameras at night, then there is no additional incentive to slow down. If there are no cameras ever in towns, there is no additional incentive to slow down.

It's been a two year investigation by a panel of road engineers and road safety experts that came up with the recommendations. So presumably their remit involved that data. I guess any of these things are balance of probabilities. Maybe with a goal of some element of consistency - e.g. that 'this type of road has this type of speed'. As a road-by-road analysis would probably take decades.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

The 30kmh city and town limit would also be fairly consistent with continental European practice. While our 50kmh would be way out of whack especially with the huge increase in active travelling recently.

[zuutroy]

Love how all this speed limit stuff was triggered by 9 months worth of data that is less than one standard deviation off the last 15 years.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Love how all this speed limit stuff was triggered by 9 months worth of data that is less than one standard deviation off the last 15 years.

Was the previous 15 years an acceptable level of killing and maiming?

[Raoul Duke III]

Was the previous 15 years an acceptable level of killing and maiming?

It probably was tbh. There's no such thing as 100% prevention.

[zuutroy]

Death is a reasonably common side effect of life.

[zuutroy]

Anyway, my point wasn't really about road safety, but making national policy decisions based on the ghouls at RTE broadcasting funerals and CAO results of the deceased.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

I think the issue is the defenseless. That it's 500 major injuries of pedestrians and cyclists a year. 43% of road deaths are of vulnerable road users. As we increase the proportion of active travel that figure is going to skyrocket unless we make proactive decisions. Part of that is about reducing speed limits in areas where active travel and vehicle travel coexist. 50kmh is not a safe city limit, which is why it's much less elsewhere.

[Raoul Duke III]

Anyway, my point wasn't really about road safety, but making national policy decisions based on the ghouls at RTE broadcasting funerals and CAO results of the deceased.

TBH, saying 'we're going to crack down super-hard on rural drivers under the age of 25 because they're all nuts and driving bangers' might be too targeted of a message at this time.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Wandering around work today, as if a tourist. Man this place is nerd central