Why is star wars science fiction when its closer to a mix of fantasy and spaghetti western? We have often chosen to classify works based in large part by their tropes and trappings. I think its a good work because it explores interesting themes, settings, and characters with the trappings and tropes of science fiction.

That isn’t it

The characters position in 1984 is how real people experience horrifying dystopia.

You’ve missed most of the point of the books. Do you actually read science fiction? If so what is a better example of good science fiction?

Most workplaces a pyramid with increasingly small steps up. EG a business has 10,000 peon slots and 200 peon manager slots which don’t pay much more than peon per hour but involve lots more hours. The 20 on the next step up are largely for people closer to the social and educational class of the CEO and most specialized jobs are either outsourced or for people on an entirely different career path from the peons.

EG The company IT is run by someone else OR it involves getting an entirely different degree and being a peon at the company wouldn’t meaningfully privilege one in getting such a job and indeed takes most of the time one would need to devote to get said degree.

The number say that virtually all of the peons are doomed to stay peons and that even for the minority that do move up its a very short climb that doesn’t go very far. EG there is absolutely no “working your way up” and no reason for anyone who now works for you to believe in such a path.

They will still job hop if take care of them means pay them 10-25% less than if they agree to change jobs. Note executives do this. Nobody would expect bob the ceo to work for 10M when someone else is offering 12M

If you have to rely on other employers blacklisting people who don’t show “loyalty” or people losing health care coverage to keep people working for you then you are doing something very very wrong.

I find it hard to believe you didn’t understand the statement.

Because the busy period in the morning and evening are more than 1 hour long about everywhere with people having differing work schedules that all begin and end within similar but not exact time frame.

Solar is better than its ever been and will get more efficient as tech improves. Fossil fuels are also massively subsidized by entrenched interests

I feel like people should at least remember math at a 4th grade level and be able to get 10. What is the point of making it obvious the universe will never ever arrange itself in such a fashion. The point is if you remember simple rules you applied for a 10-15 years.

Well. Sort of.

Some terminology is better defined by how the relevant experts use it. It’s singular and precise definition is required for any useful dialogue. If 99% of people call a kidney a liver but doctors call it a kidney its a kidney.

Some terminology evolves and is used differently by different groups. Sometimes the more illiterate group flattens the language by removing nuance or even entirely removing a concept from a language with no replacement. Arguably both definitions may be common usage but one is worse and using it means you are.

You appear to be drawing a conclusion based on your experience with Portugal and elsewhere in Europe but America has no red light cameras at the majority of intersections and areas with and without and areas that have them and haven’t before. In general this correlation doesn’t appear to be so universal as you suppose or indeed hold. The citizens of one city or state can “fix” banning red light cameras in theory in many places wherein the citizens can pass initiatives. Those without means regulating those with them just doesn’t work in America. America is a country firmly for the rich.

In some cases you don’t actually have an automatic court date as one would have with a normal officer issued ticket… This is the same with parking enforcement you can receive a ticket that if you don’t pay you lose your license but they can simply ignore you and if you want to fight it you have to front a few grand to a lawyer to fight it and initiate a lawsuit or represent yourself and commit to losing multiple days pay and risk your job which will not understand.

Red light cameras encourage perverse incentives whilst not actually meaningfully improving safety. There isn’t any “good” worth protecting.

In real conditions there is often a maximum distance that one can maintain between cars as giving a big enough gap will cause it to be filled by another car. Also people have both a minimum reaction time and stopping distance that is greater than the practical distance that exists in real traffic. Slamming on your brakes too abruptly is likely to cause accidents in real situations with real drivers with real reaction times.

Shortening yellow lights to cause people to unintentionally run them, people slamming on the brakes and causing accidents, and a monetary transfer between citizens and a private company are not problem?

I don’t need a system of law not to shoot people or walk out without paying. Some of us have ethics. I have found authority in America broadly garbage from bottom to top. It’s not just the top that is fucked.

https://ww2.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-shortening-yellow-light-times-for-profit/

Personally I have found authority in America to be stupid, abusive, incompetent or all 3. Do you live somewhere else?

There are plenty of areas where the speed that is safe and reasonable to travel is substantially different from the one set. This is only not wildly broken because everyone disobeys the law and the cops refrain from stringent enforcement because forcing the traffic to all slow down would completely break traffic flow.

Maybe this works well in Canada but America governments are about as stupid as Americans.