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Xaris posted:america is a sick country and freud was right americans are insane death drive maniacs poopendorfer's entire thing in this thread is implying that people who have bad interactions with drivers while they're out driving or cycling are at fault for those interactions, he may be in the wrong thread.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:I often cross a bridge 16 feet above I-10 (widest freeway in the world, gently caress Texas), and the roar of traffic is deafening. It's clearly the sound of tires on the road. The smell is god awful too. Tons of air pollution dumped into the middle of the city. Imagine how much quieter and cleaner the city would be without all these loving cars. I know how it could be, I got a taste of it during lockdowns in my country in 2020. It was so quiet I could hear birds chirping, the pedestrian crossing's audio aid for the blind (no more than 50 meters away from my window), even sounds taking place across the main street! It's insane what we put up with just because we are socialized to accept it from early on and just dont know better! also condolences, i have heard of that freeway and crossing above it must be the definition of a traipse through hell on earth
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Gripweed posted:The rhythmic sounds of a well-maintained train are a balm to the human soul. Even then, highway noise is non-stop all day, while even a busy train track will be silent most of the time. Electric trains are silent too. The loudest noise from a well maintained train is the horn, and even that can be quieter. Train crossing signals with wayside horns will blast a warning noise directly at cars and away from the surrounding area.
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I had a car honk at me to let me know my bag had fallen off my bike the other day, that was nice but I wish the car was dead still!
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Xaris posted:america is a sick country and freud was right americans are insane death drive maniacs
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mortons stork posted:I know how it could be, I got a taste of it during lockdowns in my country in 2020. It was so quiet I could hear birds chirping, the pedestrian crossing's audio aid for the blind (no more than 50 meters away from my window), even sounds taking place across the main street! It's insane what we put up with just because we are socialized to accept it from early on and just dont know better! It was beautiful. It's not that it was quiet, exactly. It was that you could hear all the sounds other than cars.
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Cars are destroying the San of Francisco: https://twitter.com/mateosfo/status/1555944803216437248
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Gripweed posted:https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1555530241430396929?s=20&t=yqpmbOD6N-13gFzQpl6Vqw I wish a video could be a thread title.
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https://twitter.com/braitsch/status/1555945331455676416?s=20&t=pMokdSrQVauhBq7S-6w4Lg loving 45 traffic cops writing ten tickets a day, mostly for expired tags and other bullshit instead of speeding/running stopsigns/red lights, and doing it mostly in BIPOC neighborhoods instead of the most dangerous streets in the city.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Cars are destroying the San of Francisco: Visited SF recently and found it quite eerie wrt cars -- some main streets were the usual traffic hell, but I would say... most that I walked along were quiet. Even some that seem like central streets, like a couple of the main streets up chinatown, almost totally car-free and yet still with a decent amount of foot traffic. Many also notably had more buses than cars. Felt a lot different than what I'm used to. I don't think I ever went to the area officially designated "downtown" though.
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cool av posted:Visited SF recently and found it quite eerie wrt cars -- some main streets were the usual traffic hell, but I would say... most that I walked along were quiet. Even some that seem like central streets, like a couple of the main streets up chinatown, almost totally car-free and yet still with a decent amount of foot traffic. Many also notably had more buses than cars. Felt a lot different than what I'm used to. and yet all that, people would still get off the freeway at 280 and take the city streets because it was 5-20 minutes faster than sitting on the designated freeway. "post"-pandemic i think the downtown traffic has died off a lot since the freeway traffic isn't as bad these days but it's still real lovely; well, im just guessing since i no longer have to go that shithole of a city anymore. abolish cars
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Ham Equity posted:https://twitter.com/braitsch/status/1555945331455676416?s=20&t=pMokdSrQVauhBq7S-6w4Lg lol everyone just runs reds, stops, driving in bus lanes to get around traffic, and blatant going straight in turn lanes instead of staying in straight lanes all the time even infront of sfpd cars just watching. for how many millions of cars pass and how many reds and ped row violations, 10 tickets a day is so loving low. i've never seen sfpd ever pull anyone over for running reds or carpool or driving in bus lanes or anything else, traffic laws don't really exist at all and obeying them is largely considered for rubes
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:poopendorfer's entire thing in this thread is implying that people who have bad interactions with drivers while they're out driving or cycling are at fault for those interactions, he may be in the wrong thread. you get dunked on by the general public for doing normal everyday things, its funny to read about thats all
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mortons stork posted:I know how it could be, I got a taste of it during lockdowns in my country in 2020. It was so quiet I could hear birds chirping, the pedestrian crossing's audio aid for the blind (no more than 50 meters away from my window), even sounds taking place across the main street! It's insane what we put up with just because we are socialized to accept it from early on and just dont know better! my city froze unexpectedly last year, and with all the roads totally iced over the whole area shut down. no cars on the road at all. i live next to a major thoroughfare and it was so nice not to hear the background noise of traffic all the time. i could actually go outside and have a conversation without raising my voice! all cars must be destroyed
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Xaris posted:it's really a clusterfuck and was very much just gently caress it got mine even if it meant gridlocking an intersection. I've never heard of an intersection being a metaphor
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Ham Equity posted:https://twitter.com/braitsch/status/1555945331455676416?s=20&t=pMokdSrQVauhBq7S-6w4Lg You know how in the US everyone seems to have their own number on how far over the speed limit you can drive without getting a ticket for it? I wonder what the average cop's number is, and how that impacts when they decide to ticket
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lobster shirt posted:all cars must be destroyed inshallah
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TeenageArchipelago posted:You know how in the US everyone seems to have their own number on how far over the speed limit you can drive without getting a ticket for it? Typical non city cop will say 10mph over before stopping a car, 15 over for a ticket
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leftist heap posted:cops are the most car brained people around yeah i mean this is their idea of hanging out lol 
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Ham Equity posted:https://twitter.com/braitsch/status/1555945331455676416?s=20&t=pMokdSrQVauhBq7S-6w4Lg That's pathetic. They should follow Houston's example and write tickets to cops. ParkHouston holds responsibility for writing tickets and towing cars, but I don't believe they are a part of Houston PD. Houston cops are issued more parking tickets than any other city department, records show
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God Hole posted:yeah i mean this is their idea of hanging out lol i cant find the story because it was years ago but there was some extremely horrible tragedy at a school were an insanely car brained cop, trying to get a better look at something, DROVE UP ONTO A CURB (instead of getting out of the car) and killed a little kid. i dont think anyone was punished of course, just a tragedy, the cop couldn't see the little girl due to being in a giant pedestrian vaporizing suv. feels great as a parent to live in a country like this, where we just shrug our shoulders. nothing can be done!
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Our cops are pushing to replace their fleet with bigger vehicles, but the city is thankfully aware of how they'll inevitably be used as weapons (because it already happened here recently)
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TeenageArchipelago posted:You know how in the US everyone seems to have their own number on how far over the speed limit you can drive without getting a ticket for it? I was friends with a dude in college who drove like a loving maniac (way too fast for ivy roads in upstate NY) and I asked him if he ever got tickets. He showed me the holder for his registration, which has his father's business card in the lower pocket. His father was a cop. He said he'd never gotten a ticket.
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Was in an antiques/junk store (the type that picks through dead people's estates) and along with a weird amount of WWII German memorabilia, they also had this
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distortion park posted:Was in an antiques/junk store (the type that picks through dead people's estates) and along with a weird amount of WWII German memorabilia, they also had this $392 for that? drat
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i dunno be careful with these don't lifted pickups of the day have super high pressurized tires that explode?
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i slashed plenty tires in my day and its much easier than you'd think. this was with a regular pocketknife usually too big trucks, commercial vehicles, etc - not recommended 
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Smythe posted:can’t hear the street over the enormous air conditioner my neighbors installed 3 feet from my window this but it's my own A/C O_O
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I need to lift more weights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqX5Kj2E4n8
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Mayor Dave posted:https://twitter.com/crulge/status/1556340740703256576?t=4ZwaJOkOAs3g14yeYbuK7A&s=19 I don't do twitty poo poo enough to know if this person is being earnest in their support of the article
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 Imagine waiting 3 cars deep to wash your car yourself instead of just doing what the pros do and wash one panel at a time with the gas station squeegee.
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Mayor Dave posted:https://twitter.com/crulge/status/1556340740703256576?t=4ZwaJOkOAs3g14yeYbuK7A&s=19 That's not a real article lol
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BeeSeeBee posted:
Lmao that's what I do too!! I didn't know I was a pro
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:I need to lift more weights. lol at the soundtrack
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Soup du Jour posted:https://twitter.com/ejmagnuson/status/1556343878940229632?s=21&t=EaSYKltq0tbizHJ_9M8rrQ They all have garages BTW.
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