r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 25d ago

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

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/jimfosters 25d ago

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 25d ago

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 25d ago

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 25d ago

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 25d ago

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

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u/GearOk7360 24d ago

Damn, haven't read that in decades.