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Nitrousoxide: May 30, 2011; do not buy a oneplus phone

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/conspacecase/status/1780145890772025399

when big car has taken over the country before you were even born

Its there to guide a car to get as high a score as possible on that sidewalk

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# ? May 3, 2024 01:52

God Hole: Mar 2, 2016

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/conspacecase/status/1780145890772025399

when big car has taken over the country before you were even born

smh you'll never get good at bowling if you always play with the bumpers up

# ? Apr 17, 2024 12:35

PittTheElder: Feb 13, 2012; Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

corona familiar posted:

the funniest thing about this picture is that even if the guardrail were on the other side of the sidewalk there's a decent chance a modern SUV or EV would just plow right through it

Yeah but at least then if you didn't punch through, you wouldn't then scrape along it hitting any pedestrians on the sidewalk in sequence.

Also a fun one from our very own OSHA thread, where a guy hit a kid one time but also he did nothing wrong, clearly that stupid kids fault:

weg posted:

I hit (bumped?) a kid with my car once. Driving though a residential area in St Pete, right lane was had come to a stop and I'm moving in the left lane at about 25-30. All of a sudden a kid about 13yo comes running out directly in front of me from in-between two stopped cars in the right lane. I jammed the brakes and slid to a stop and he kind of fell onto the hood. Maybe going 5mph when he touched the car. He got his balance back and just took off sprinting into the neighborhood, with the couple dozen kids on the nearby basketball courtvyelling various equivalents of "yo wtf" and laughing at him. I got out and called after him to see if he was ok but he was down the block and gone and didn't look back.

I knew it wasn't my fault but it hosed me up for the rest of the day. He's lucky I wasn't on my phone and driving a Miata instead of a pickup or something else large.

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The Maroon Hawk: May 10, 2008

�he�s lucky I wasn�t on my phone� loving :lol:

# ? Apr 17, 2024 19:06

silicone thrills: Jan 9, 2008; I paint things

I've found that people who use their cellphone while driving legitimately think everyone does it so it is just normal and must be ok and anyone who says they aren't is just lying. So you get idiots like that who just freely admit they drive distracted because wow everyone does definitely!

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silicone thrills posted:

I've found that people who use their cellphone while driving legitimately think everyone does it so it is just normal and must be ok and anyone who says they aren't is just lying. So you get idiots like that who just freely admit they drive distracted because wow everyone does definitely!

A huge fraction of the population does this. It's terrifying looking at drivers in public now.

# ? Apr 17, 2024 20:31

Hubbert: Mar 25, 2007; At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/conspacecase/status/1780145890772025399

when big car has taken over the country before you were even born

It is about safe design.

It is almost if not entirely about the safety of the automobile driver to the detriment of every other street user.

# ? Apr 17, 2024 20:37

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003; Can't post for 6 hours!

Twerk from Home posted:

A huge fraction of the population does this. It's terrifying looking at drivers in public now.

When I see someone staring at their phone at a light I lean on the horn sometimes to see if they react. Nine times out of ten, nothing. They could have a tractor trailer bearing down on their bumper and nothing.

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Professor Beetus: Apr 12, 2007; They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

Inshallah

# ? Apr 17, 2024 21:22

CopperHound: Feb 14, 2012

Twerk from Home posted:

A huge fraction of the population does this. It's terrifying looking at drivers in public now.

I give them a big hang up gesture with my thumb and pinky. They don't notice.

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Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Have you tried calling them?

# ? Apr 17, 2024 22:17

041724_4: Apr 18, 2024

Somebody has issued a correction as of 00:59 on Apr 18, 2024

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Dixon Chisholm: Jan 2, 2020

Professor Beetus posted:

Inshallah

i hope tractor trailer drivers kill distracted drivers too

# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:42

Professor Beetus: Apr 12, 2007; They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

whatever it takes to get them off the road

# ? Apr 18, 2024 02:16

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003; Can't post for 6 hours!

Dixon Chisholm posted:

i hope tractor trailer drivers kill distracted drivers too

that's right

# ? Apr 18, 2024 02:25

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

CopperHound posted:

I give them a big hang up gesture with my thumb and pinky. They don't notice.

Lol, you're an old who does phone gesture with thumb and pinky. It's flat hand to ear now.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 06:12

Al-Saqr: Nov 11, 2007; One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

The new land cruiser is getting great reviews, very excited to make this my next car when i can afford it

https://youtu.be/RDcOOoDqcto?si=LuS3vHo-AxlCMU22

# ? Apr 18, 2024 07:28

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

Scientific American: We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent

quote:

Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safety

April 16, 2024

In the 1970s a nation confronted a crisis of traffic deaths, many of them deaths of children. Protesters took to the streets to fight an entrenched culture of drivers who considered roads their domain alone. But this wasn�t the U.S.�it was the Netherlands. In 1975 the rate of traffic deaths there was 20 percent higher than in the U.S., but by the mid-2000s it had fallen to 60 percent lower than in the U.S. How did this happen?

Thanks to Stop de Kindermoord (�Stop Child Murder�), a Dutch grassroots movement, traffic deaths fell and streets were restored for people, not cars. Today the country is a haven for cyclists and pedestrians, with people of all ages commuting via protected bike lanes and walking with little fear of being run over. It�s time the U.S. and other countries followed that example.

The U.S. has the highest number of traffic deaths among wealthy countries, with more than 38,000 deaths per year between 2015 and 2019. The death rate is more than double the average rate in other wealthy countries. Vehicle crashes are among the leading causes of death in the U.S. But it doesn�t have to be this way. We can design or redesign streets to make people drive more slowly or to discourage driving altogether. We can invest in better public transit, including subways and buses with dependable, on-time service. And we can change zoning laws to allow denser housing and mixed-use developments, so people can live closer to where they work, attend school or socialize. These are changes that even the largest, most sprawling cities can and should implement.

Making these changes curbs air pollution, which causes millions of excess deaths worldwide every year, and reduces the amount of greenhouse gas we pump into the atmosphere with every drive to the grocery store. Traffic deaths and air pollution are social justice issues, disproportionately harming people of color. In addition, cities that are more car-dependent are often less accessible for the considerable part of the population that can�t drive, including children, people with disabilities, people who can�t afford a car or insurance, and many older people.

Many U.S. cities have abundant space for parking and wide, multilane �stroads,� a mix between a street (where cars move slowly and people can walk safely) and a road (where cars move fast, such as a highway). Stroads are optimized for moving many vehicles through an area at high speed. Yet widening or expanding the number of streets only incentivizes more people to drive, which creates more traffic.

At the same time, cars have gotten bigger and deadlier�SUVs and trucks now represent more than 80 percent of car sales in the U.S. If we want to give more space to pedestrians, cyclists and people using wheelchairs, we need to separate them from high-speed vehicles by building more well-maintained sidewalks, curbs with inclined cuts and protected bike lanes and by implementing traffic-calming measures such as narrower streets, speed bumps and traffic medians.

We should invest in improving public transit to make it an inviting alternative to cars. Buses need reliable schedules and dedicated lanes so they don�t get stuck in the traffic we�re trying to reduce. And expanding subways and other rail-based transit will help to bring in jobs and development.

Cities such as New York, Chicago and Philadelphia already have fairly good public transit and have increased the number of bike lanes and pedestrian-only areas. Early in the COVID pandemic, these and other cities implemented �open streets,� which block off most car traffic at certain times to make space for pedestrians, cyclists, playing children and outdoor diners. We need to ensure they can persist.

Minneapolis, a smaller city, added bike lanes and banned single-family zoning, a major contributor to urban sprawl. Ann Arbor, Mich., banned right turns on red�a dangerous practice that spread during the 1970s fuel crisis as a way to save gas�at 50 downtown intersections. Even in car-centric Tempe, Ariz., developers created a car-free neighborhood. More spread-out cities could focus on denser nodes or neighborhoods that have some public transit and build those out.

Too often efforts to reduce car dependence are met with fierce opposition by people who dismiss them as �socialism� or a �war on cars.� But drivers also benefit from many of these changes, which would reduce traffic and make driving safer. Others argue that these changes will harm people with disabilities, yet the opposite may be true�reduced car dependence, if paired with improved, disability-centered infrastructure, could make cities more accessible. And emergency vehicles aren�t much help to anyone if they�re stuck in traffic.

Creating better road designs and public transit will require significant up-front investment, and the effects may not be seen for years. But we could subsidize the cost the way we already subsidize driving. We could eliminate free parking. We could set up congestion pricing in dense city centers, as New York City plans to do, and use the proceeds to fund public transit alternatives. And we can add more bike lanes and open streets, which are cheaper to put in place and provide immediate benefits.

In much of the U.S., it is still illegal to build anything denser than single-family homes, and housing often has minimum parking requirements that take up valuable real estate. If we encourage cities to build duplexes, triplexes and apartment buildings, especially near transit hubs, fewer people will need cars.

The same solutions won�t work everywhere, and change won�t happen all at once. Each city has its own unique considerations and challenges. And such an ambitious project will require rethinking many of our assumptions about American car culture. But the benefits could make everyone healthier and safer.

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Zodium: Jun 19, 2004

Twerk from Home posted:

A huge fraction of the population does this. It's terrifying looking at drivers in public now.

i crossed on a red light a red light recently because there weren't any cars in either direction, and when I got across there was a cop car, but he was checking his phone so I didn't get a fine. many sides.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 08:09

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

BonHair posted:

Lol, you're an old who does phone gesture with thumb and pinky. It's flat hand to ear now.

nah, the gesture prevails. just as roll down windows and the save to disk icon. begone nooby

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Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

Gesturing "call me" by miming hold a phone in front of my face in speaker mode

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Pink Mist: Sep 28, 2021

drivers are willing to pay childrens� lives to keep poors, the disabled, and the elderly out of sight

# ? Apr 18, 2024 13:29

Mister Speaker: May 8, 2007; WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Gesturing "call me" by miming hold a phone in front of my face in speaker mode

miming pulling the smartphone from my head with a disgusted expression and angrily pressing my index finger against the 'end call' button

# ? Apr 18, 2024 13:32

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

I think the "holding the phone flat in front of your face while on speaker mode" is a casualty of:

- the whole phone being a touch-screen and therefore unpleasant to pin to your face and potentially your face pressing stuff on it
- people being unsure of where the microphone actually is and not realizing that the pick-up is powerful enough that you don't need to be talking directly into it
- people being in environments so loud that the normal call volume isn't enough, so they have to both set it to speaker AND hold up the speaker right to their ear

my solution to this has been to carry around a pair of wired earphones in a small coin-purse with me at all times, and if it's any call lasting longer than 10 seconds, I plug in the headphones so I can actually have an intelligible conversation with the other person

# ? Apr 18, 2024 13:39

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

gradenko_2000 posted:

I think the "holding the phone flat in front of your face while on speaker mode" is a casualty of:

- the whole phone being a touch-screen and therefore unpleasant to pin to your face and potentially your face pressing stuff on it
- people being unsure of where the microphone actually is and not realizing that the pick-up is powerful enough that you don't need to be talking directly into it
- people being in environments so loud that the normal call volume isn't enough, so they have to both set it to speaker AND hold up the speaker right to their ear

my solution to this has been to carry around a pair of wired earphones in a small coin-purse with me at all times, and if it's any call lasting longer than 10 seconds, I plug in the headphones so I can actually have an intelligible conversation with the other person

it's because it's how they see people on reality TV shows using the phone, and they do it because that way you can get the other side of the conversation on tape

# ? Apr 18, 2024 13:40

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003; Can't post for 6 hours!

Smythe posted:

nah, the gesture prevails. just as roll down windows and the save to disk icon. begone nooby

a college professor on these forums posted that a freshman saw a disk on his desk and called it a "save icon"

# ? Apr 18, 2024 14:25

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

so he correctly identified the symbol of the floppy disk as meaning something that saves data

# ? Apr 18, 2024 14:29

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

https://x.com/fernbirg/status/1780608207779475766

# ? Apr 18, 2024 14:35

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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

so he correctly identified the symbol of the floppy disk as meaning something that saves data

your mom saves data

# ? Apr 18, 2024 14:40

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

you can't park here, sir. somebody died there or something.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 14:55

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003; Can't post for 6 hours!

Today's quiz: What do you think this person is describing?

quote:

Agree that it was very fortunate that pedestrians weren�t there. On a lovely day at that time of the afternoon it could have been very different.

And I guess what I�m trying to say about it being an accident is that stuff happens. Humans make mistakes. Neither of us can say what the driver of the car that went through the red light was thinking. Perhaps it was negligence or recklessness. Perhaps it was a person being fallible.

This person is describing a crash where someone ran a red light and hit another car, causing injuries that required CPR at the scene.

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Mauser: Dec 16, 2003; How did I even get here, son?!

Fitzy Fitz posted:

https://x.com/fernbirg/status/1780608207779475766

Can't believe they took away a parking space

# ? Apr 18, 2024 15:54

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Mauser posted:

Can't believe they took away a parking space

When you think about it, what really died there was a car's home

# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:09

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

Reminds me of this

https://www.google.com/search?clien...ih=698&dpr=2.75

# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:10

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

it's pretty funny to take away the Vet-dedicated spot for Memorial day. this ain't veteran's day, fucker, get walking

# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:11

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003; Can't post for 6 hours!

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

it's pretty funny to take away the Vet-dedicated spot for Memorial day. this ain't veteran's day, fucker, get walking

If I have to go to the local shopping center I usually park in the "Special Senior Citizen Parking" spots. Old people should be getting exercise anyway.

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# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:14

Mauser: Dec 16, 2003; How did I even get here, son?!

A single parking space isn't really enough for a troop memorial. They should really dedicate at least two spaces so they could fit a ghost f-150 in there

# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:17

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Mauser posted:

A single parking space isn't really enough for a troop memorial. They should really dedicate at least two spaces so they could fit a ghost f-150 in there

a dodge challenger you mean, these are troops

# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:20

Mauser: Dec 16, 2003; How did I even get here, son?!

In college we had a habit of going around and grabbing all the support are troops yellow ribbon magnets and putting them on our fridge. At the end of the year we threw them all on one of the roommates' cars and kept transferring them all around until finally someone just tossed them on a random car to get rid of them

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Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

it's because it's how they see people on reality TV shows using the phone, and they do it because that way you can get the other side of the conversation on tape

on TAPE?? excuse me??!!!!

# ? Apr 18, 2024 19:19

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