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boogetyboo, in flipping off drivers for the bus driver.
@boogetyboo@aussie.zone avatar

I’m a tiny woman who isn’t starting road rage, so what I do is just make the other person concerned. I’ve done this as a pedestrian and a driver.

It’s really easy, as a pedestrian walking past, pause slightly and drop your eyes to their front grill, tilt your head slightly and grimace. If in the car, point and sit up in your seat like you’re trying to get a better view of their car and do the same face. Look alarmed even.

I’ve seen multiple drivers pull over to check out their cars. At the very least it makes them take time out of their day for no reason - and inconveniencing dickheads is always fun - but given we’re in Australia, their imagination can take them to all kinds of places. What did she see? Is it still there? Is it in my car now???

dingus, in How cities can stem the tide of pedestrian deaths from large cars and SUVs – Ars Technica
@dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

Or we could, you know, follow previously established methods of building vehicles that make pedestrian death and dismemberment less likely.

No, no, no. Americans need them this way apparently for some inexplicable fucking reason.

So instead of just designing them with pedestrian safety in mind to begin with, we are just gonna slap on more fucking band-aids (like cameras) that do fuck-all.

grimace1153,

“Ban stuff I don’t like”

DoucheBagMcSwag,

Found the emotional support vehicle user

blackn1ght, in How cities can stem the tide of pedestrian deaths from large cars and SUVs – Ars Technica

If the children were driving their own SUVs this wouldn’t be a problem.

paper_clip,
@paper_clip@kbin.social avatar

Additionally, give the kids guns.

user224, in 10000 passengers per hour

I really wish I could use those roads for transport using a bicycle. I just don’t feel like being passed by a truck moving at 80km/h just a few centimeters away in a curve with bad visibility, potentially even with fog in the morning.

You can make multiple extra lanes for cars, but not a single lane for bicycles?

queermunist, in The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, everyone 🤦

The most oppressed people on Earth: motorists 😂

CrabAndBroom,

I read that in Jeremy Clarkson’s voice lol

jonne,

It’s like they just let Jeremy Clarkson write this pamphlet.

PuddingFeeling907,
@PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca avatar

Same goes for carnists lol

Blackmist, in The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, everyone 🤦

Poor motorists having only like 99% of infrastructure reserved for them.

So victimised right now.

Let’s take away railway sleepers so they can drive on the tracks.

PonyOfWar, in Was cyberpunk 2077 ruined by carbrain?

The whole point of Cyberpunk’s setting is that it’s a capitalist hellscape. The corpos don’t care about the environment or setting up a nice public transport network. And of course there is also the gameplay perspective, riding a train in a videogame gets very boring very quickly.

Lianodel, in The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, everyone 🤦

New national parking platform

…if that means what I think it means, it’s probably the worst of the lot.

Take it from an American: mandatory minimum parking will absolutely ruin your towns and cities.

Facebones, in Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds

“Small price to pay for the freedom to travel”

-An actual thing that’s been said to me before when I brought up other environmental issues

FarceOfWill, in Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds

It wasn’t the plastic straws after all?
I’m shocked, shocked.

library_napper, in Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds
@library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

Trains.

space_comrade,

Furthermore, death to cars.

LoamImprovement,

Man, that would have been great 20 years ago.

library_napper,
@library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

If not now, when?

Showroom7561, in DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion [article]

Rolling coal is the practice of installing a tampering device to pump more diesel into a vehicle’s engine than it can handle, leading it to spew out sooty black clouds of exhaust that pollute the air.

The practice is sometimes used as a form of anti-environmental protest. Coal rollers, or the drivers who engage in the action, may intentionally target Teslas, Priuses or other electric or hybrid vehicles.

Do people decide to be this awful out of the blue? Or is some genetic defect from being inbred?

federico3,

I’m not a psychologist but it sounds a bit like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_formation - “You want me not to pollute so I pollute even more”

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

Basically their reasoning skills peaked at age 4

Metal_Zealot,
@Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml avatar

You’ve never been to Alberta

Ktastic,

Out of the blue. Was driving through Norfolk a few years ago and this ford pickup decided to roll coal several times in the I-64 tunnels between Newport News and Norfolk. Dude blacked out the entire tunnel multiple times and they were clearly trying to cause a major accident. I follwed the sonofaremoved to get his plates and tried to call the highway police number but the lady on the other end refused to listen (kept pretending i was talking about normal exhaust shit) and started threatening me for reporting it.

Omega_Haxors,

The kops and the klan go hand in hand

watson387, in DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion [article]
@watson387@sopuli.xyz avatar

So these people actually pay money to look like giant assholes…

VieuxQueb,
@VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca avatar

They don’t just look like giant asshole, the act like it ! I have seen a few here too (Gatineau/Quebec/Canada) and they love to piss off people by spewing that black stinky smoke directly in the face of bike riders and people walking around. Pisses me off that these assholes make enough money to buy these huge trucks just to piss off good people.

library_napper, in title
@library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

Please dont post pictures of text

Masimatutu,

May I ask why?

EthicalAI,

Tbh it’s just silly. Like, why would you? Share as link exists.

TimewornTraveler,

I wouldn’t click a link tbh, pics of text is fine. If its credit add a link, if it’s impairment add a desc, but this post is fine as is

SkepticalButOpenMinded, in Just Buy Everyone a Car

This is a great take down of an idea so stupid that I didn’t realize people were pushing for it. The stupid idea being replacing fixed route public transportation with government subsidized on demand rideshare.

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