Solid public transport would fix a lot of that but Ford and GM gonna Ford and GM.
People go “ooh, a trolley car!”, when’s the last time you heard anyone go “Ooh, a Lyft”?
Somebody watches CityNerd!
I don’t, I actually got that from my friend who’s son is obsessed with trolleys right now. I’ll have to check them out of that’s a philosophy they jive with
Definitely do check him out, he’s dry humor about cities’ unique challenges and wins for mass transit. On Nebula or any of the YouTube variants
I was at my first gun show with an older friend who knew guns better than I did who I was following around to keep me from making any stupid decisions.
There’s a table with a sign for “Constitutional Carry,” where they don’t think you should need a special license to concealed carry a handgun.
My friend walks up to these two guys at the table, and says “Hey, just so you know, I hope you guys fail.”
The younger of the two kind of bristles, but the older one, a dude with a long white beard, says “Oh, why?”
My friend says “Because I worked in a gun shop for fifteen years, and I helped fill out more concealed carry applications than I can count and…” at this point she gestures around at the huge room behind us, “I wouldn’t trust 95% of the people in this room with any gun at all.”
And the old dude behind the table smiles and nods his head and says “Yeah, that’s a fair point.”
So anyway, that’s the day I bought a Ruger GP-100 in 357 Magnum.
So anyway, that’s the day I bought a Ruger GP-100 in 357 Magnum.
explain joke plz me chronically stupid
“Wonderwall” is a song that’s very easy to learn on guitar so the meme is that bad guitar players will bust out a guitar and subject you to their bad rendition of the song at inappropriate times when nobody asked for a performance.
15 years ago me and a buddy were shooting pool in a local bar, maybe a dozen total people in there. Some I finished taking guitar lessons last month douche was playing acoustic in there and it’s the same list of basic songs you’d expect. Partway through his set he was giving the usual platitudes, suggesting tips and saying we’re a great crowd, then says “So anybody wanna hear Your Body is a Wonderland?”
At the same time we both casually said No.
He was some college age kid in jeans, a white v-neck tshirt and a Glock on his belt…in a bar.
man with gun go “bang bang bang”. man with guitar goes “bang bang bang”. one with gun the other with instrument.
ah so the meme was in american, got it
Yeah, you unfortunately have to manage your expectations here
It’s better than reddit, but still mostly 'Murican, and hence pretty stupid and with a warped sense of what constitutes freedom
wow…what an incredible sense of humor…how can you possibly be so funny…
So you’re the one who puts pointless red circles everywhere?!?
Such a heartwarming and inclusive remark
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Everyone should have equal rights
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To ride the bus
Boom. Solved.
As a bus driver, hard disagree! There’s people who will wait at a bus stop, wait in line to board the bus, and only then will they spend 5 minutes digging through their pockets or bags for fare.
Or ask where the bus is going, expecting me to tediously list out all the places this bus goes, and when asked the very reasonable question"where are you trying to get to?" Become cagey and refuse to answer. Then ask the same vague and open ended questions.
These people should report to the nearest artillery practice range asap
The first part could be fixed by making buses have no fare
Never understood why bus stops didn’t have little kiosks to buy a ticket there, like train stations do.
Too expensive. Most bus stations are basically just a sign, sometimes you also get an ad poster and a shelter. Bringing kiosks would imply setting up electricity and internet. When you could instead just make a phone app.
I like the ones we have around here waiting at the bus stops on our main boulevard which is a perfectly straight road you can see up and down for about a mile and a half in either direction, but who will stand out in the travel lanes and craaaane their necks in this ridiculous pose apparently hoping this will allow them to see the bus coming sooner.
I’ve seen people lose that right. Hell, I almost did.
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I don’t want to drive, give me walkable cities and public transportation
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Easy fix.
Or vote or have kids sigh
Congratulations, you’ve just reinvented the Electoral College!
I mean, really, representative democracy.
Voting is pretty harmless. That one isn’t hooked up to anything important without s lot of failsafes.
Shouldn’t be forced to drive, the US is deliberately designed to be hostile towards pedestrians in ways that the vast majority of people are unable to do anything about. A good percentage of those people also know damn well they’re bad drivers and would choose anything else if they could
Equal rights means you are given equal access to the tools that will allow you to learn to drive. If you’re too stupid to drive that’s an entirely different matter.
Meanwhile, “Here, have a gun!”
I always told driving is a privilege, not a right.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Or so im told.
Freedom is a right, but you can still get put in jail.
Everyone has the right to drive, provided they can show the required level of skill and competence to do so.
Unfortunately, unskilled and incompetent describes far too many drivers.
Nobody should have a right to drive on public roads, they should have a right to prove that they deserve the privilege, and the privilege should be revoked a lot more than it is today.
Driving isn’t a right.
Yesterday on the way home I thought I was going to be affluenza’d by some crazy kid in a green glittery wrapped Beamer. They were so close to my bumper and making so many jerking, erratic movements that I was too worried to merge lest they did at the same time and sent us all rolling. Traffic was dense enough that I couldn’t speed up and really couldn’t safely merge initially. They ended up driving down the middle of the two lane highway and nearly ran a few people into the ditch. At least my demise would have been on the dash cam I guess.
Driving isn’t a right, it’s a privilege.
Driving is g a right
In a city without public transit, denying someone the right to drive is denying them personal autonomy.
A vehicle is a 3000lb bullet. If you’re not competent, or irresponsible with chemicals, then everyone on the road is at risk.
No one likes picking up body parts on a road or extracting what is basically meat from a vehicle. Or meeting people who should’ve had a normal.life and are now paralyzed from the neck down. Or, alternatively, a TBI. Broken neuro wiring like someone took an egg beater to sections of their brain, leaving them just sane enough to know they’re fucked up.
That isn’t a privilege. Competency should be required with 3000lb bullets.
I don’t disagree that better mass transit is needed in some cities, but that doesn’t mean we hand drivers licenses to incompetent or irresponsible people.
that doesn’t mean we hand drivers licenses to incompetent or irresponsible people.
Judging by the way people drive in my city, that’s exactly what it means :(
A vehicle is 3000lb bullet
How fast do you think bullets move?
No one likes picking up body parts on a road or extracting what is basically meat from a vehicle.
You could make the same argument about train derailments or plane crashes.
That’s not what is at issue. Virtually nobody is seriously suggesting we de-industrialize transit.
The problem at hand is profit motive. Personal vehicles force people into debt, both directly through purchase and through secondary demands - parking, gasoline, maintenance. That’s what generates the economic pressure that keeps them in place.
If we were fixated on safety, we could make cars smaller and slower and we could shield pedestrians from them with infrastructure. You’d save far more lives by lowering the speed limit than raising the DMV licensing standards.
that doesn’t mean we hand drivers licenses to incompetent or irresponsible people
People aren’t consistently competent or responsible. So you either install some kind of panopticon for drivers (the private insurance model) and try to price people you suspect are high risk out of your personal risk pool. Or you get people out of cars entirely, knowing anyone can have a day that makes them highly prone to driving mistakes.
So you either install some kind of panopticon for drivers
This is what they’re doing. New cars will use cameras and sensors to determine impairment and then refuse to start.
You’re being pedantic. We call them 3000lb bullets to describe what they are when not controlled well, not because of their speed. As a driver, it’s good to think of your vehicle in those terms too.
As for monitoring, check out Loyal Moses. His vid on what tech Ford just patented.
If you succumb to road rage, then YOU are in the half that shouldn’t be allowed to drive.
You can recognize people around you are driving like an idiot and probably shouldn’t have a license without succumbing to road rage.
If you don’t pay attention to other drivers, then you won’t get road rage, but since you’re not paying attention, you shouldn’t be driving.
But once you start paying attention to other drivers, you’re bound to notice what bad drivers they are, at which point, you will likely feel road rage, and you shouldn’t be driving.
To get past that, you need to change the way you drive to compensate for the terrible driving around you. This way, at least the bad drivers won’t interact with you too much. The easiest ways to identify the worst drivers are that they follow close, brake hard, and change lanes frequently.
You can minimize their interaction with you by driving better. And the number one thing you can do is to significantly increase your follow distance. Note that you’re not driving slower. You’re just following further behind. Don’t get upset when people get in front of you. That’s actually part of the point. People drive badly when they can’t get into the lane they need to get into.
If you can change this one thing and follow further behind, you’re well on the way to becoming a person who should be allowed to drive.
Following distance is the most common way I see people drive badly. On major roads I’d say 90% or more are driving too close. My car has automatic cruise control which makes keeping a safe distance require zero effort, though I have no idea how close it follows if you decrease the distance setting - I always have it 1 off max.
I feel like I should have paid attention to this comment. Or maybe not…
road rage is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be… unnatural
