The engineers behind these things need to be heavily blacklisted. “Oh yeah, Justin. He was one of the software engineers behind the garbage truck cameras. Toss his resume in the trash. Erica worked for Flock, toss hers too.”
Employers are already doing this, but I’d love to see it become more prevalent.
You’d have to make engineer a protected title for that and enforce membership and chartership with your locally recognised engineering institutions to allow working under the title. They do that in Queensland Australia. It’s not enforced in our other states, which is odd given Queensland is Australia’s Florida …
Getting a job as an engineer in the UK was hard work because every ridiculous job and it’s dog was claiming to be an engineering role. The guy terminating a wall socket for your internet connection: telecoms engineer apparently. Rough gig for having burnt 5 years at university …
We have this in the states but the title is Professional Engineer. Which is the best way of going about it because making “Engineer” a protected title on its own makes no sense.
PE is a funny sore spot for me. It’s almost impossible to obtain if you’re not working with other PEs, which is unfortunately the vast majority of engineering roles. I think we have one in my company and he’s in a different state. I have a master’s degree in EE and 15 years working as an RF engineer, but I’ll still see a handful of people saying we’re not real engineers because we’re not holding a PE license we’ll never need.
A professional engineer would be someone who’s chartered with a recognised engineering institution (Engineers Europe and it’s related Orgs in Europe, Engineering Council and related orgs in the UK, Engineers Australia in Australia etc) and the title would depend on the what the institution want to call them. The professional instution outlines ethical and behavioural requirements to maintain membership.
An Engineer usually refers to someone who does a job related to design and planning for a technical discipline (civil, mechanical, structural, electrical, software etc). The job role usually requires a degree in he engineering disciple, but if you were a particularly fantastic and experienced technical person you might be able to fill the role without one. There will likely be areas of knowledge where you’d be lacking in that case though.
I’m saying the job role could be made to require the chartership to help enforce adherence to the ethical requirements of those governing institutions.
They do it for those not complacent
Not gonna lie… If I got a good candidate, who is well qualified and not asking a ridiculous salary… I would hire them even if they worked for these evil companies.
They won’t be working for them anymore if I hire them anyways.
My city has them now. A friend of mine got flagged for overfilled bins. Before it only flagged you if the driver did, and the driver only would if it was egregious. The AI doesn’t GAF and reports fucking everything apparently.
eh, code violations are a local government thing. If your town is a giant HOA then look in the mirror. Done properly code violations are serious things you do actually need to fix.
Garbage truck is gonna be new target practice for the pellet gun.
I’m so tired, boss.
Can we stop with the dystopia for like…. A whole week?
The Schizophrenic who believes the garbage men are spying on him is going to fucking lose it!
Will they take a picture before or after the fuckers in the truck somehow manage to fling my cans into the drainage ditch again
Yet another reason to move to the boonies where the only garbage truck is your own beater every couple weeks.
And you accidentally turn a whipped cream container into a steam rocket.
Good news, the flock camera on every corner will be tracking you and looking for any violations with your truck.
And by good, I mean bad.
Jokes on them I only use it on my property except for garbage runs and the plates are stolen
Lol. Lmao even.
A flock camera in a rural area will end up like a stop sign in a rural area. Full of bulletholes.
I thought so too. I live in the rural southeast. Those things are at every major intersection and about half of the rest of them.
Maybe the people that don’t mind shooting stuff will learn what they are and take them out. So far the only people I’ve heard about doing that are some kids from one of the local colleges getting arrested for it. Don’t know what happened after that tbh. But most country people are total bootlickers for the cops, as long as they keep the browns out
Nobody has been arrested for it here.
There are plenty of so called brown people, though.
I will only buy property in an area where every sign has bullet holes.
Lets me know my neighbors share my disdain for authority.
Some small towns councils/shires can be even more intrusive and nosy than those in the city, because they have fuck all else to do.
My dad lives in a small town of 30 people and the shire is nosy as fuck.
If they can stick their noses in my business I’m not far enough away
How do you beat something like this with technology? It must be possible.
Need a clock-blocker.
Good lasers, suppressed 22s, Sawzall’s, you name it.
Good fucking luck seeing where i live from the street. I’d build a compound wall if i could.
Didn’t work for laden wont work for you. Locally here they just fly drones over neighborhoods and issue citations.
This has been a thing for like 15 years. Just not using “AI”
Panopticon on wheels.
I mean, code violation rules are there to protect people?
my grass length is none of your fucking business
I’m coming over with a magnifier
It is when it houses rodents and other animals that can spread diseases, infest houses, and cause other trouble. It is called living in a society. If you don’t like it, move to Antarctica.
you can spread disease… CEOs are also activly spreading diseases in your food…
my lawn, is none of your fucking business.
Nah, a neighboring city has ordinance written with aesthetics in mind too. Like, it’s in the city code that your front yard landscaping has to be congruent with the aesthetic of the street landscaping.
It’s absolute insanity.
Edit: For the actual text
Entry areas, access easements, and driveways shall be landscaped to create a feeling of identification and continuity of plant materials related to the plantings around the buildings and parking areas. The primary entrances to the multi-family development, defined for this section as the entrances from public roadways, shall have landscaped areas on either side of the entrance. This landscape area shall be a triangle beginning at a point where the back of the sidewalk and the driveway intersect and running a distance of twenty feet parallel with the street, and fifteen feet from the back of the sidewalk along the driveway, and diagonally connecting the two lines. These areas may be utilized as rain gardens.
That sounds kinda dystopic indeed
This is the kind of bullshit I have to deal with. The city jerkoffs say I have to have a more “herbaceous” front yard. There is a drought and watering restrictions to days and hours. Yet I need more grass. Clowns.
thats reasonable no?
As per the summary part of the post, it’s talking about a “blight” score and HOA (Home Owners Associations).
It is important to keep an eye on the blight, Morrowind taught us that
