I mean, I get where this post is coming from, but they didn’t build guardrails along every single street and deliberately put them behind the sidewalks. They put it there because behind it is a steep dropoff.

It was never about “pedestrian bad”, the guardrail wouldn’t be there at all if it wasn’t for the hill. Same thing with the parking meters others are mentioning. It’s not because the meters are more valuable or whatever, it’s because replacing them is expensive. Could they have put it in front of the sidewalk? Sure. But I’d bet the sidewalk was there for a while before the rail (plus the fact that there’s a sidewalk at all is surprising, in the US)

I get the point this is going for, but don’t forget, narrative manipulation can, and is, done by anyone.

It’s also not something he needs to be worried about. It’s like an abusive stepfather taking you to get ice cream. Yeah sure ice cream is nice or whatever but there are clearly more important things to be doing and worrying about

It doesn’t matter without scope. Are we looking at a database of SSNs? tax records? A sign in log? The social security number database might require uniques in some way, but tax records could be the same person over multiple years. A sign in gives a unique identifier but you could be signing in every day.

It’s like saying a car VIN shows up multiple times in a database. Where? What database? Was it sold? Tickets? Registered every year?

This is nothing more than a “assume I mean immigrants or tax fraud and get mad!” inflammatory statement with no proof or reason.