1) Just listening to different items on roads and social media on the wireless, it struck me that there's a connection. When we realized that roads, though very useful. were becoming very dangerous (because of cars) we decided that the right approach was, ....
Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.
2) ... not to try and make the roads safer for children and young people to use like they do in the Netherlands these days, but to try and prevent children and young people using them. In the USA, they actually criminalized being a pedestrian in the form of "jay walking" laws; ....
3) and in many other European countries you are fined for not using pedestrian crossings properly - even where *drivers* rarely respect the rules. Here we just went for city designs that fomented a general consensus that it was irresponsible to let your kids go anywhere near a road unsupervised.
Either masterful trolling or an astonishing coincidence for the French to arrange for a humiliating instrument of surrender to be signed at Versailles.
But I can immediately imagine several possible confounding factors in such a finding. 🤔
Bradford powered the Industrial Revolution- so it’s fitting that's where we're discussing how to shape the next one.
Join me, Kamran Mahroof, Hassan Ugail & Kulvinder Panesar @uniofbradford.bsky.social's AI for All lecture @mediamuseum.bsky.social, 17 June, 18:00! www.bradford.ac.uk/events/whats...
4) Perhaps we should reverse all this thinking and try to create rules and infrastructure that makes roads, and now social media, safe for our youngsters to engage with?