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Scarronline @lemmy.world

2y ago

You arent stuck in traffic, you are the traffic.

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- insert lifted truck hogging 2 lanes
  insert soccer moms with massive SUVs
  Lol
  
  Insert the guy in a Prius going 30 mph under the speed limit and slamming on his brakes for no reason.
  Insert everyone in the passing lane that isn't passing.
  
  Honestly “soccer mom” is probably a better use of street capacity than most usage of cars. One adult and six kids in a Suburban is much more efficient than three adults each with two kids in the back of three sedans.
  
  Even though your downvotes pale in comparison to your upvotes, who tf can disagree with this statement?
  
  One photo of a truck hogging two lanes and I’ll believe it’s something you didn’t just make up.
- If you swerve in and out of lanes to try to get ahead, you can be traffic for an easy 3 or 4 lanes!
  
  Love the peeps that risk killing everyone around them to get ten feet ahead in bumper to bumper traffic.
  
  If everyone was to the right like they should be these idiots wouldn't be able to weave in and out to get ahead.
- lol facts

Just one more lane bro and we fix traffic, trust me.
- That actually works. It's like your healthcare system, those who pay the most get the best service
  
  California Bay Area in shambles
- I think people downvoting this didn't spot the sarcasm.
  
  Induced demand is a myth. https://www.cato.org/blog/debunking-induced-demand-myth
  Adding more lanes does improve throughput even if congestion is still a problem.

Oh good. This is gonna be just like reddit. Things that are literally decades old.
- Isn't reddit content just a reflection of people, and people also exist on this platform
  
  well...stop that.
- Did you expect people would really change compared to how they acted on Reddit?
  
  What's wrong with this post?
  
  I hoped :(
- Lemmy isn't reddit, but whatever it is, they're both the internet.
  
  YOU'RE THE INTERNET

Be the traffic you want to become.
- Ahh, the Lemmy meme.

Nah, I am the main character. The world happens to me, get these NPCs out of my way.
- Jesus Christ has come for his second resurrection, and his name is Intl

You aren't shitposting in Lemmy, you ARE the Lemmy!
- You are the shitpost in Lemmy!
  
  You are shit

We do not live in a society. We are a society. 😔
- And you can actively choose to better or worsen society, just like you can choose to better or worsen traffic. Vote for legislation to improve public transit. #fuckcars

You aren't in an orgy. You are the orgy.
- Where orgy?
  
  Can't get there, too much traffic.

So then what’s happening when I drive and there’s no traffic? Am I nothing???!
- Youre never “nothing”… youre always something special! I promise :)
  Example: when there is no traffic, youre still a noise & particulate generator that lowers property values, warms our planet, and makes the built environment more hostile/dangerous and depressing for everyone nearby.
  
  Whew thank god. Who cares if I’m ruining everything as long as I exist!
  
  Okay, how do I get to my job then without encountering all of the passive aggression? Lol. Maybe car haters should be attacking the systems that made it impossible to live within walking distance of our places of employment: capitalism, city zoning, and substandard wages for a start. Otherwise, you're just complaining about the rain when you should have been pulling out an umbrella.

The traffic is stuck in the traffic🚦
- Mix powdered traffic into your traffic.
  More traffic per traffic.

You were watching Not Just Bikes in the shower?
- You don't?

There is not not enough parking, there are too many cars
- There's plenty of parking on the highway

Been working remote since onset of pandemic. Never going back to the office bro. Couldn't pay me enough to share the roads with the rest of the grinders.
So many hours wasted in traffic.
- Meanwhile i quite enjoyed my commute to school on a 20-30 minute bus, it's quite unparalleled to begin your day gazing out the windows at a foggy morning countryside.
  
  I hated it in high school. I just hated waking up early af. Was so glad to get a car and license. Then come college, I loved it again. Getting a parking permit, going into traffic with other people was a pain.
  Moved to a place that was near a college bus route, never had to get a parking permit or get into traffic. Take the bus and relax.
- I had to go into the office throughout the pandemic and I agree. All the rest of you stay home and leave the roads clear for me.

State Anthem of the Soviet Union plays in background

mmm yes, the traffic is made out of traffic
- "I'm stuck in traffic" implies they aren't part of it but that it is something that is happening to them.
  You're not stuck in it, you are it.

This is a Bill Burr bit.

They're not mutually exclusive states. You can be part of the traffic, but if you can't get out, you're still stuck in it. You're part of traffic but not stuck in it if and only if you have the opportunity to exit the traffic experience.

Now I'm stuck in the damn traffic that I've helped damn create. Dammit!

- I love this episode of Doctor Who so much.

No wonder I hate myself.

Part of the ship
- Part of the crew, part of the ship, part of the crew, part of the ship, part of the crew, part of the ship.

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