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Gripweed posted:You know that bit in Alice's Restaurant where he goes to the draft office and says "Sir, I wanna kill. I wanna see blood and guts and feel veins in my teeth. I mean, I wanna kill" And starts jumping up and down yelling Kill! Kill! Kill! and then an officer comes over and pins a medal to his chest and says "you're our boy"? "I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sitting here on the bench, I mean I'm sitting here on the drunk tank bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough t' join the police, beat women, kids, dogs and innocents after being a litterbug."
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Xaris posted:it's gotten insanely bad compared to 2019. various city statistics and even nhtsa has backed up with actual data that drivers have become insane blood-frenzed psychos notice how it only passed 1.1 fatality rate when Trump got elected coincidence? I think not Gripweed posted:You know that bit in Alice's Restaurant where he goes to the draft office and says "Sir, I wanna kill. I wanna see blood and guts and feel veins in my teeth. I mean, I wanna kill" And starts jumping up and down yelling Kill! Kill! Kill! and then an officer comes over and pins a medal to his chest and says "you're our boy"? I reference that part of the song so often and no one knows what I'm talking about Cup Runneth Over has issued a correction as of 21:34 on Mar 1, 2022 |
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this is my car-loving boomer dad's response to those fatality statisticsquote:I charge you to figure out why the accident rates & deaths are up since COVID. What are/where the causes? Did COVID cause everyone to lose their minds while driving? Or was COVID just something that was happening and people were just going to start driving badly? lol
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actionjackson posted:this is my car-loving boomer dad's response to those fatality statistics loving dad-sequiturs
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https://twitter.com/punished_cait/status/1498128390888595463?s=21
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on the one hand, that vehicle is keeping the road clear of cars on the other hand, that vehicle is the approximate size and shape of what every SUV driver would be driving if they could not sure how to feel about this
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actionjackson posted:stop driving & sit at home? aaaaaaaarrghhhhhhh
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Eric Adams ..... Good?? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/nyregion/nyc-raised-crosswalks-traffic-deaths.html quote:Raising Crosswalks to Make Deadly Intersections Safer in New York
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you have to pay bitcoin to use the crosswalk edit: "Craig Clark, 38, who lives in Washington Heights and drives to an English-language teaching job in Queens, said that “it’s worth slowing down a little — that’s reasonable” but added that he would be concerned if raised crosswalks across the city significantly slowed traffic and made his commute, which already takes up to an hour, even longer." why is he driving - it is a bit of a haul by transit too, so my next question is why doesn't he just find something closer actionjackson has issued a correction as of 18:39 on Mar 2, 2022 |
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I hated Adams w a passion but now I'm kicking my feet up and making the Vince McMahon not bad face e
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2 hour daily commute. Why even live in NYC at that point? What a miserable existence.
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actionjackson posted:you have to pay bitcoin to use the crosswalk i'm willing to go a little bit slower, but i'm concerned about increasing the length of my commute. is there any way you could change the laws of physics to solve both of these problems at once? otherwise please do the thing that makes my car faster or whatever it was thank you
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SKULL.GIF posted:2 hour daily commute. new york new york, only in new york baby, only city in da world
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no way New York's decrepit government can install a raised crosswalk in an acceptable time frame or cost. It's gonna be 1 a year at like 600k$ a pop
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injuring and maiming dozens of pedestrians as I fly off raised crosswalks Dukes-of-Hazzard style
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officer, there was an implication that this was a take off ramp - why else would it be here
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there's an arms race between raised crosswalks / speedbumps and lifted trucks
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Eric Adams ..... Good?? I'm not sure what's more surprising: Eric Adams advocating for something good, or the New York Times using the phrase "traffic violence."
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SKULL.GIF posted:2 hour daily commute. He probably can't afford to live in Long Island. That said, Washington Heights to Queens is doable via public transit, but will require a few transfers. But both are in the city, so he should be moving to queens, which is absolutely something that can easily be done. I lived in NYC for 10 years and moved 4 times, it's nbd.
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SKULL.GIF posted:2 hour daily commute. Every time I had to fly to corporate HQ in NJ/NY, I would have to go to happy hours with boomers who were all really proud of being from the north east, then they would complain about taking the train/the tunnel and how they would spend 3-4 hours a day commuting lmao. Just sitting in your office and then your car for most of your day. Hell yeah, this is da dream baby, nowhere else on planet earth. idk anywhere else in the US where executive boomers and management consultant types making 200k+ a year commute for 3 hours a day
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actionjackson posted:why is he driving - it is a bit of a haul by transit too, so my next question is why doesn't he just find something closer car brain is a real thing. driving from washington heights to queens is like 10x more stressful and expensive than taking the subway, and probably wouldn't even save time during work hours. there's nothing about driving that makes it more enjoyable. in the subway you just chill out, stand around, listen to music, play a game on your phone, etc. you can literally use the subway as a chance to unwind. once you have terminal car brain, you forget that completely
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bi crimes posted:idk anywhere else in the US where executive boomers and management consultant types making 200k+ a year commute for 3 hours a day Los Angeles because at least NYC has a transit system that is used by a lot of people no one in LA rides the Metro, it is car culture to the extreme
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Ham Equity posted:I'm not sure what's more surprising: Eric Adams advocating for something good, or the New York Times using the phrase "traffic violence."
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Polo-Rican posted:car brain is a real thing. if c-spam has opened my mind to anything, it is that the automobile is a satanic, parasitic invention
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Fitzy Fitz posted:there's an arms race between raised crosswalks / speedbumps and lifted trucks I've actually seen a lot of idiots in lifted trucks slow way down to delicately nurse their precious baby over even the tiniest speed bumps and dips.
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cars create the illusion of control, which people get addicted to. if you commute via the subway, delays can drive you crazy; partially because you have no control over them whatsoever. you personally do not cause the delays, you don't know how long the delays will last, etc. if you have a handful of bad subway experiences in a short time span, it's easy to get disillusioned with public transit in general. you don't have any more control in a car... there's nothing you can do to prevent running into a surprise traffic jam, or not finding a parking space at your destination, etc... but that illusion of control is enough to hook you unless you're willing to have a zen mindset about transportation in general
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WampaLord posted:Los Angeles because at least NYC has a transit system that is used by a lot of people oops, I always forget about LA
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Polo-Rican posted:car brain is a real thing. driving from washington heights to queens is like 10x more stressful and expensive than taking the subway, and probably wouldn't even save time during work hours. there's nothing about driving that makes it more enjoyable. in the subway you just chill out, stand around, listen to music, play a game on your phone, etc. you can literally use the subway as a chance to unwind. once you have terminal car brain, you forget that completely on the other hand you're at a very low risk for having some dude walk by and literally slam a fistful of human excrement into your face and hair while in your own car. so it's a balancing act.
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Polo-Rican posted:cars create the illusion of control, which people get addicted to. if you commute via the subway, delays can drive you crazy; partially because you have no control over them whatsoever. you personally do not cause the delays, you don't know how long the delays will last, etc. if you have a handful of bad subway experiences in a short time span, it's easy to get disillusioned with public transit in general. I have the opposite reaction. If a bus or train is slow/delayed its all vv welp, nothing to be done about it. If I'm in a car and jammed up I go nuts trying to figure out which is the fastest lane or if there are any alternate routes.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I have the opposite reaction. If a bus or train is slow/delayed its all vv welp, nothing to be done about it. If I'm in a car and jammed up I go nuts trying to figure out which is the fastest lane or if there are any alternate routes. Precisely - the car is just a busy box for people who aren't okay being alone with their own thoughts, but upscaled into the only transportation infrastructure we have
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Do we have the technology to have a distance sensor pointing downwards from the front bumper that can allow on-the-fly suspension adjustments to float you over speed pumps without slowing down?
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My neighbors (four college frat guys) each have their own giant trucks that they don't have room for. One of them is idling in his truck when I leave in the morning and idling in his truck when I get home. What are you doing??
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Fitzy Fitz posted:My neighbors (four college frat guys) each have their own giant trucks that they don't have room for. One of them is idling in his truck when I leave in the morning and idling in his truck when I get home. What are you doing?? getting us 4.0C that much faster
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withak posted:Do we have the technology to have a distance sensor pointing downwards from the front bumper that can allow on-the-fly suspension adjustments to float you over speed pumps without slowing down? flashing red sirens going off in the headquarters of every car company in america, interns frantically running into the boss's office with printouts of your post. 'sir, you're going to want to see this. this man has seen the future'
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Polo-Rican posted:cars create the illusion of control, which people get addicted to. if you commute via the subway, delays can drive you crazy; partially because you have no control over them whatsoever. you personally do not cause the delays, you don't know how long the delays will last, etc. if you have a handful of bad subway experiences in a short time span, it's easy to get disillusioned with public transit in general. I think this is kinda the opposite of true. I know when I was commuting via transit then if the train was down it was like "oh well, nothing I can do but wait or get on a bus bridge" if I'm late for work it's NBD because everyone understands. It impacts you and thousands of others and somehow it's less stressful. But in traffic it makes you a lot more anxious because your gonna get poo poo like " you shoulda left earlier". And because you have control of your vehicle you feel like you have to do whatever it takes to get out in front. Now I just bike and nothing can stop me except getting run over and then I'm dead so who cares.
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Polo-Rican posted:cars create the illusion of control, which people get addicted to. if you commute via the subway, delays can drive you crazy; partially because you have no control over them whatsoever. you personally do not cause the delays, you don't know how long the delays will last, etc. if you have a handful of bad subway experiences in a short time span, it's easy to get disillusioned with public transit in general. I think so have the same thing but for my bike riding even though I know it's 5-10 minutes longer to ride my bike. Something about I the feeling of relative constant movement , being able to zip across on pedestrian paths , and dedicated cycleway is preferable even if I am going slower, I'm just less held up by lights. If I'm gunna be x-brained I'm happy to be bikebrained
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Jestery posted:I think so have the same thing but for my bike riding even though I know it's 5-10 minutes longer to ride my bike. It's very freeing. withak posted:Do we have the technology to have a distance sensor pointing downwards from the front bumper that can allow on-the-fly suspension adjustments to float you over speed pumps without slowing down?
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an actual frog posted:The great thing about bike commuting, or walking if you're lucky enough, is the fixed-time aspect. Unless the area's choked with snow or ice nothing's stopping you, your commute will always take about the same time. I have a longer walking commute now than my standard bus commute previously, and the advantage of never needing to worry about traffic or scheduling or anything really does free you from a ton of stress. It was a big selling point of the job for me.
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I started walking instead of biking to work because I find that I arrive a lot calmer and less annoyed.
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