I for one am really glad none of the stupid shit I said as a kid is still around. I was a complete dumbass, to the bone. If I saw a post from past me, I would be so triggered.

That assumes every seat is filled.

So you’re saying you’re unemployed?

Yep, that’s what I was thinking. You pull it off because you like them and it’s authentic to your personality.

Lol, now that’s thinking. Concrete block walls just wide enough to let a Prius through. I bet the truckbrians would love that so much.

A local parking lot to me recently needed to add more spaces, but of course, they were already occupying all the space they possibly could. So, what did they do? They made the spaces narrower and labeled them “compact” LOL. So now, the guy that double parks his giant ass truck in one of those spots will take up one and a half spaces, and people naturally just don’t use the half space that’s left. So instead of having more spots, you end up with a whole bunch of double parked compact spots used by XXL Fords.

Big brain ideas over here y’all.

Ah yes the Ford F9000 Pedestrian Pulverizer

All great stuff. Now convince this asshole to support it:

I’m totally here for all the things you said. But maybe 1 in 10 people where I am would even consider the idea. Carbrain has metastasized here, and it’s terminal.

I understand the problem fully. The problem of solving it is a whole different kettle of fish.

How do you break the cycle? In the USA it feels insurmountable. Nothing is close enough to be walkable, so you must have cars to do just about anything. But that makes everything more spread out, which leads to even less walkable environments and so on.

I live in a hilly area, for example. Being built around car infrastructure means that steep grades don’t matter all that much because you won’t be sweating your ass off pedalling up a 10% incline; you’re in a 3 ton hermetically sealed air conditioned box with a 6.0L V8 chugging diesel to get your fat ass up the hill.

I’m sure that if we were building our environment around bike infrastructure and public transit and actually had to think about things like this, the entire road network and neighborhood layout would be drastically different. Without just starting over from the beginning, how do you fix that?

100% this. I’ve been on Linux for 27 years now (ffs I’m getting old), and until proton, I just wrote off gaming as a hit or miss experience, usually not worth the trouble. Now I’ll buy Windows only games without even checking compatibility in most cases. Unless it’s a full price AAA game, I’ll risk the off chance that it doesn’t work.

The costume has a hood though.

America is so fatally car brained, I’ve lost all hope it will ever change. I literally was yelled at yesterday for making a left turn on a two lane road on my bike because I was holding up traffic… completely ignoring the fact that the exact same situation would happen if I was in a fucking car.

I really hope he is successful.

Good. Fuckem. They make shitty, oversized trucks that are a danger to pedestrians and people who drive reasonably sized cars anyway.

I would be on board with this if we would just finish the job and throw the rest of the cars off a cliff too.

I am so completely fucking done with these brain dead ass conspiracy theories about cloud seeding. Science illiteracy is a real fucking problem.

You. Cannot. Create. Torrential. Rain. With. Cloud. Seeding. Alone.

Cloud seeding precipitates rain from existing weather systems. If those clouds do not contain the water required to create a torrential downpour then it is impossible to create a torrential downpour. And if those clouds have enough water in them to create a torrential downpour, it does not require cloud seeding to precipitate it.

It is soul crushing to have to explain to people that human beings do not yet have the capacity to steer and control large weather systems. And it’s very likely that we never will, given the scale and the amount of energy that it would require.

We cannot control hurricanes. Why? Because hurricanes possess and release more energy than the entire combined energy production capacity of human civilization. They are mind bogglingly powerful, and to think that we can steer them to target political enemies IS BATSHIT INSANE.

Climate change is real. Republican conspiracies cause me physical pain. And I need a stiff drink.

To be honest, following instructions from scammers couldn’t be much worse than doing what the real Marco Rubio says.

Always look both ways, no matter how long the light has been green. I need to see you’re paying attention though, that’s the thing. So many people in the front of the line are sitting on their phone so sleeping or whatever the fuck. It’s pretty obvious when someone is just checking the intersection before moving vs. not even looking at the damn road.

This goes for more than just driving too. If you’re next in line at the café and you can’t be fucked to think about anyone behind you while you finish sending a text or whatever while the server is waiting to take your order, you’re an asshole. Make your order, pay, then do what you want to do.

I bought a car in 2003. Hopefully, that will also be the last car I buy. “BuT rEpAiRs ArE eXpEnSiVe!!1” See above. Also, when your infotainment system takes a shit and makes it so you can’t use your AC anymore, let me know how that goes.

Because many people cannot distinguish between word salads and insight.