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  • AxExRx@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldA modest proposal
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    2 days ago

    Years ago, our town meeting was discussing adding bike lanes after a couple recent fatalites that summer.

    A lawyer got up, and pointed out that a. Cars counted as deadly weapons for ‘assault with a deadly weapon’ in our state’

    B. Assault was defined as threatening someone, you didnt need to actually harm them.

    C. Our state did consider assault with a deadly weapon as an acceptable reason for using lethal self defense.

    And that maybe we should just add in the proposed bike lanes before cyclists all started carrying hand guns for self defense against reckless drivers.

    I still use that attorney when I need one.



  • You know how Texas just threatened tariffs on people moving in? He should do the opposite; a large% tax on anyone attempting to change their residency to a non NY one.

    Youre a bilionaire who wants to leave NY? cool- that $10M in property you own should just about cover it, along with a check for a couple million. Otherwise you can keep paying taxes here.



  • Im with you on this. I have 3 laundry bins and a closet for hanging.

    Dress shirts and pants that really dont want wrinkles get hung up. Otherwise, the dirty laundry bin gets washed, comes upstairs, and gets put back into the clean bins. I use 2 bins so I can shuffle things from one to the other to find particular things.

    Tbf, almost all my clothes are identical. Ive got 30 pairs of the same sock, all my underwear are the same brand, as are my pants. Its only really T shirts, over shirts, and in the winter, underlayers that I am ever looking for.





  • Does the aviator use their penis for flying the plane?

    It would be a lot cooler if he did.

    All jokes aside, it does have a purpose; it sets up the other person for using the correct pronouns to refer to the newly Introduced person in conversation.

    “The aviator has been flying for decades”
    “Oh yeah? I bet he’s really good at it then!”
    “Actually, shes a woman, but yes, shes one of the best in the show!”

    By properly using aviatrix, and having gendered terms like it, that faux pas is avoided.

    I agree with you on widower though, sort of. To me widower always sounded like its should refer to the deceased husband. He made her a widow by dieing, so he’s her widower.

    “Oh Janie’s a sweetheart, always helping out in the community since she became a widow.”

    "Oh yeah? "

    “Yeah! Bob, her widower, had a heart attack working as the auctioneer for the school charity, and ever since, shes vowed to volunteer for the both of them!”




  • For years, growing up, there were signs saying “adopt a view point” in the highway we’d drive out to see family over the holidays.

    For years, I thought they were saying something about road saftey, warning drivers to look at whats coming up instead of directly in front of them. Something akin to the picking a spot on the horizon to sail towards to keep the boat straight my dad had taught me for sailing…

    At some point i realized the blue signs were all guidance or info, not rules or warning. At one point I thought they might be politically motivated, like the “please dont litter” signs along that same highway- where they pleading with us to form and opinion, any opinion.

    I think I was in my late teens before I finally saw one that said “this viewpoint adopted by <company>” and realized they were literally asking people to sponsor the scenic pull-off spots along the highway.

    I still prefer to read them as some poor civil servant waging a private campaign against nihilism, picking the nicest bits of scenery for his message, hoping to shock the american public out of their unfeeling malaise.