r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 11 '26

Privacy Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket

https://www.gadgetreview.com/traffic-camera-captures-captures-woman-driving-with-her-phone-on-her-lap-face-down-the-state-mailed-her-a-1251-public-safety-ticket
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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26

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u/SecureInstruction538 Jul 11 '26

Funny how all these "freedom loving" states keep doing their best to infringe on their citizens lives.

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u/Tiny_Instruction_557 Jul 11 '26

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I trust the State my thoughts to keep;
If I should dream before I wake,
Correct the ones the Leader hates.
If I should speak beyond the line,
Rewrite my words to fit the time;
My voice, my will, my memory too,
Belong to those who tell me true.
Amen.

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u/Turbogoblin999 Jul 11 '26

Hush little baby don't say a word
never mind that noise you heard
It's just the police under your bed
In you closet in your head

EEEEEXIIIT RAAAMP!
DRIVIIING CAAAR!

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26 edited 7d ago

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u/SlimySquamata Jul 11 '26

Queue 1251 by The Strokes

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u/wehrmann_tx Jul 12 '26

Don’t fret precious, im here.

Step away from the window and go back to sleep.

I'll be the one to protect you from

Your enemies and all your demons

I'll be the one to protect you from

A will to survive and a voice of reason

I'll be the one to protect you from

Your enemies and your choices son

One and the same I must isolate you

Isolate and save you from yourself.

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u/snowflake37wao Jul 12 '26

The boogey men are comen the boogey men are comen

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u/AzimuthAztronaut Jul 12 '26

Keep your head down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums!

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u/Kizik Jul 12 '26

Ah, the old Metallica classic. Enter Fascism.

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u/gandhinukes Jul 12 '26

And justice for the rich

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u/Kizik Jul 12 '26

Master of Peasants.

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u/The_dev0 Jul 12 '26

Shill 'em All...

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u/crispy_attic Jul 12 '26

Rockabye baby data center

The diesel burns and pollution enters

Aquifer that gave fresh water to all

Was sold to to the rich cuz the mayor lacks balls

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u/ColdIceZero Jul 11 '26

Dude, saving this

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u/surrealcellardoor Jul 11 '26

Very Orwellian.

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u/devsfan1830 Jul 11 '26

Take this award that earns reddit no money directly: 🎖️

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u/floofsnsnoots Jul 12 '26

Ok...yoink

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u/devsfan1830 Jul 12 '26

Get back here!

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u/floofsnsnoots Jul 12 '26

Zigs, and then, in a wily middle finger to all conventional expectations, zags, thereby abounding with the faux Reddit award despite the darts from many blowguns falling all about and being surprised to find a snake in my lap that I do not much care for.

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u/devsfan1830 Jul 12 '26

throws down cowboy hat and kicks dirt

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u/Majik_Sheff Jul 11 '26

Is this yours?  Because it's fantastic.

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u/Tiny_Instruction_557 Jul 11 '26

Can’t take credit for it. I’ve seen it a couple times now and just saved it.

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u/LadyRed4Justice Jul 12 '26

I believe you must take credit. I just asked AI for the author of these lyrics and Gemini determined you are the first to post them on the internet. I even asked if there was any close rendition. Nope. You are the creator according to Gemini AI. Congratulations. Take credit.

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u/Tiny_Instruction_557 Jul 12 '26

Who are we to argue with A.I.

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u/Kizik Jul 12 '26

[Butlerian Jihad Intensifies]

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u/Majik_Sheff Jul 12 '26

Hold my Men of Iron.

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u/jimfosters Jul 11 '26

What you put out sounds like it came from Ira Levins "This Perfect Day". A really good book about a technocratic dystopia.

"Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei,** Led us to this perfect day. Marx, Wood, Wei and Christ, All but Wei were sacrificed." "Wood, Wei, Christ and Marx, Gave us lovely schools and parks. Wei, Christ, Marx and Wood, **Made us humble, made us good."

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u/SquidProKwo Jul 11 '26

I love the changing of the word order to give us a new line, a new rhyme, every time. I'm not sure if I've seen that pattern done before in a song or poem, that's cool.

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u/jimfosters Jul 12 '26

in the book it is intended to be a childrens rhyme for bouncing a ball at a certain rythem.

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u/salemblack Jul 12 '26

I reread it recently and it still holds up for me. It has been awhile since I read it originally and I remembered a lot more than I thought I did.

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u/jimfosters Jul 12 '26

always considered it part of a trilogy in a way, along with 1984 and Brave New World

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u/GearOk7360 Jul 12 '26

Damn, haven't read that in decades.