does the bicyclist have zero sense of self-preservation? Did she not see / hear / feel that car bearing down on her?

She presumably wasn’t in the car’s path when the system first picked her up.

I don’t see many people claiming it was exclusively the victim’s fault. I do see lots of people pointing out 100% correctly that the pedestrian also did a number of things that contributed to her own death in addition to the negligence of the safety monitor and the apparent defects in the car’s systems. If I was…

This is something I’ve been wondering about — how much of a “lane deviation” do these systems permit for accident avoidance purposes? I’m guessing that they are substantially more conservative than a human drive would be similar circumstances.

I’m extremely skeptical that they’ve been altering the video — they have to know there’s going to be a far more extensive investigation of this than a typical car crash and that, if the deceased has any sort of family/guardians, a spectacularly high profile lawsuit. Manipulating the video of the crash would literally…

Right, this is especially true at the local level — there are plenty of municipalities with Democratic mayors, DAs, city council majorities, etc., but where the black share of the electorate is virtually a rounding error. Conversely, outside of a handful of cities and congressional districts, it’s literally impossible…

Jones JUST voted the same way Roy Moore would have voted.

“Marix Hinojosx,” please!

Yeah, as soon as I read that detail in the review, I thought that it made perfect sense given that it’s a Japanese game. You need more South American software development outfits for a proper flourishing of butt design mechanics.

There wasn’t quite that discrepancy in size, but there used to be a Russian pairs team probably 15 or 20 years ago where the woman would launch the man on one of the throws in their routine (he would throw her on the others). I can’t recall their names offhand though, unfortunately.

It’s funny because it’s true....

Except that every single day we trivialize brutality — “This job is killing me,” “My wife will murder me if I’m late,” etc.

Ah, but you see, it’s a one-way ratchet - words and phrases can never lose their racist meanings, they can only gain them! (See, e.g., “niggardly,” “thug,” “chink” (as in a gap in armor), etc.) It’s beautiful because it continuously expands the pool of aggrieved victims and allows people to publicly attack and tear…

Right, “seasoned” is usually used as a term of praise for people these days, and certainly not with any racist intent.

There’s no statute of limitations on beating the stupid out of someone.

Except I’d contend that “off the reservation” isn’t racist either — acknowledging the fact that Native Americans who left their reservations were at one time subject to legal repercussions isn’t saying anything bad or mocking Native Americans in any way.

Right, if one wants to avoid using the word “bugger” it makes way more sense to do so on grounds of avoiding homophobic language than avoiding racist language!

Starred for the Paris Review citation.

Can a president be primaried out like other elected officials?