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In my own efforts toward "Should We, Therefore, Destroy the Client", I am starting to get some good results. I finally blocked YouTube and Twitter using Freedom https://freedom.to/ . I paid for a lifetime membership to Freedom when they offered it for $60. I have at times paid for RescueTime https://www.rescuetime.com/ and Beeminder https://www.beeminder.com/home as well but I am using the free versions now.   A big motivation for blocking YouTube and Twitter came when I decided to pre-order the Light Phone III https://www.thelightphone.com/lightiii . This decision came after listening during the New Polity Conference, "Should We, Therefore, Destroy the Servers", to Andrew Willard Jones describe how his own children do not ask for a smartphone and Jacob Imam followed up explaining about how this comes from Andrew and Sara's good example. Since I pre-ordered it, I knew I needed to start cutting back on the time spent on my current smartphone if I am going to su...
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A Very Important Way in which the Government Can and Should Assist in Achieving Safer Streets

Charles (Chuck) Marohn is correct about speed cameras . However, I think he may be overlooking a very important way in which the government can and should assist in achieving safer streets. Street Design over Speed Cameras First, he is right about speed cameras. Using speed cameras in order to influence behavior is not nearly as effective as using street design. Unless the punishment includes having my car at the auto body shop for multiple days and the fine is similar to the cost of said body shop, it will not be as effective at changing my behavior as a bollard.  Also, the bollard's presence is more visceral. I can see it and feel it. If it scrapes the side of my car, it will make a horrible scraping sound. The bollard is also more likely to have a social impact. If I bump into one, this will elicit recriminations from my partner, my family, and my friends. If I cannot be bothered to see and avoid an inanimate object, my friends and family will start to wonder if I sh...
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