>What can be done to make biking more safer in the states?
Require more stringent testing to grant drivers licenses. It seems as though issuing DLs is treated too much as a revenue stream and not enough as an education/screening process.
I wouldn't mind using a rule where a certain number of DLs are permitted each year and that only the safest drivers get them. They are a responsibility not a right, yet we treat it like a right. Most likely self-driving cars will save us first, but if not some sort of leveling up system that awards points for things such as adherence to the speed limit or aggressiveness in acceleration/deceleration could be useful. All this information could be managed via a black box in your car. If you aren't in the top 80% or so, you shouldn't be allowed to drive.
My patriotism took a giant hit with USAPATRIOT. Its been in an abject freefall since Citizens United.
I used to venomously ridicule people who suggested 9/11 was a false flag event. As time has gone on, I find it more and more likely that they let it happen to justify perpetual war and the fullscale rollout of the Panopticon.
OK, we can widely adopt encryption and use alternets whenever possible, and attempt to affect technological activism. That is feasible and should be done as swiftly and as widely as possible. Evangelize these measures to the less technically inclined people in your life.
But as far as "removing" US military and intelligence presence from Europe - that will literally never happen, as all of Europe is entirely complicit in our presence and information gathering activities.
