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Z Apr 3, 2023

Apr 3, 2023

It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.

Nowhere is this more stark than #ShibuyaCrossing; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence. #Urbanism #CitiesForPeople

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Z Mar 31, 2023

@Popehat In my mind he'll never top writing that we must balance torture's wrongness with its effectiveness as proved by, seriously, the Nazis. To think that was 15+ years ago now. https://foreignpolicy.com/2007/11/07/dershowitz-on-torture/

Dershowitz on torture

In which I read Alan Dershowitz so you don't have to: Although I am personally opposed to the use of torture… many decent members of the French Resistance … under Nazi torture, disclosed the locations of their closest friends and relatives…. In several cases involving actions at least as severe as waterboarding, courts have found ...

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