all that goes through their head is about making content
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Imagine filming yourself breaking the law.
Imagine filming yourself breaking the law that's not even cool like Palestine Action breaking into drone factories to smash drones used by the Zionist entity to kill Palestinians but something like running a red which just makes you look like a complete dipshit.
Carbrain shit. Every driver is entitled to totally unobstructed roads to and from their destination at zero cost to themselves.
This isn't a streamer thing specifically, that just makes it visible, including the thought process. This is just carbrain. Why do you think so many people run red lights?
People routinely run stop lights and cruise right through stop signs in California, almost to the point where they're just mere suggestions for maybe slowing down a bit unless you have to stop for cross traffic.
I've been in neighborhoods in California that have zero signage at 4 way intersections where any where else I'd expect them to be 4 way stops. or at the very least 2 way stops.
It's wild to me that it's just kept a free for all.
probably because it wouldn't matter if they put a stop sign in or not.. nobody follows them anyway
They actually do this on purpose in many Dutch cities. The idea is that if you remove most of the signs and lights, drivers will have to think for themselves and be actively aware of the traffic around them. It seems to work, Dutch cities are generally friendly to pedestrians and cyclists and AFAIK the number of accidents are relatively low.
I don't think this works without all the other bits of dutch traffic planning like separating infrastructure very strictly for the most part, slowing down cars a lot wherever that isn't feasible or wanted and also that basically everyone still also rides a bicycle instead of using a car exclusively. Approaches in isolation such as this are tried every few years here in germany - which is less carbrained than the US as per infrastructure at least - and it usually fails horribly because the underlying mindset of the country is still "road = cars, get out of the fucking way". It very occasionally works out in very small, rural communities where the socetial pressure not to run your actual, known neighbour over takes hold but otherwise it's a mess.
I once went out of my way on a cycle trip to ride through Bohmte, which has tried a rathe more dutch shared space approach with no traffic signs, no lights, no sidewalks in their inner city and it does not work one fucking bit, it works out to be the worlds most stroad. Mind you, the clearly designated sidewalk is a later addition on account of how much it did not work.
Cars are inherently dangerous.
You're right in that this is framed in a way that puts the responsibility on the individual (not defending her and saying what she did was fine) rather than the poorly designed method of transportation.
You're right in that this is framed in a way that puts the responsibility on the individual
I know you're not defending her but whose else would it be? This isn't somebody making a mistake because none of us are infallible and being forced to drive cars, this is a clearly stated, willfull action.
I agree but there is also a responsibility to make systems more idiot-proof and bad actor proof, because as you said people are infallible. I just believe cars are inherently dangerous and you can only go so far in trying to idiot proof it. I would like the conversation to be more about why is it so easy for someone to do something so dangerous, rather than this person is a bad person and needs to be punished.
We are kind of forced to drive cars because of the way urban planning is done. Very few places in the US are designed where you can conveniently access most areas you want without a car
I would like the conversation to be more about why is it so easy for someone to do something so dangerous
Because the underlying assumption is every car driver is entirely rational, at full capacity at all times with the decision making capabilities of a fighter jet pilot and every time you try to change this they all band together to defend this status quo, even if it means they'll get T-Boned by idiots like posted in the OP.
rather than this person is a bad person and needs to be punished.
She needs to lose her drivers license is the thing. There's societal problems abound, on aggregate, with behaviour like this and it's still very much an individual being a fucking moron. I don't think think this is worthy of jail time or even a fine necessarily, but a person who shows this open disregard for very clear, basic rules of road safety should not be allowed to operate a car.
Who watches this shit? Why is our culture like this?
Alienation and atomization leads to people seeking out parasocial relationships.
alienation and atomization sound like dope ass scifi things until you figure out what they are
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Tariff podcast equipment 900%
Streaming while driving is bad enough.
fucking mythbusters showed quite clearly in an idiot-digestible way that trying to drive and talk at the same time is a bad fucking idea, unless you either dont care how you drive or dont really care what you're saying. how. how. you're in a 2ton piece of steel hurtling down the scenery, jesus christ.
unless you either dont care how you drive
Hey bud, you seated? I have some bad news.
how. how. you're in a 2ton piece of steel hurtling down the scenery, jesus christ.
It's never the drivers fault to people with carbrain. It is this line of thinking, for everything, at all times. . It's not my fault for driving straight at the child sized, massive concrete divider, it's the concrete dividers fault for being there. Also the bicycles, despite there being no bicycle infrastructure present
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Unexpected mini struggle session about running red lights being praxis
Only if you're doing it in a bike
Muh flow of traffic! If everyone is driving dangerously then I'm in danger if I don't!
Fucking Fury Road logic
And yet I'm the one everyone looks at funny for huffing spray paint while I drive
that's because spray paint is declasse. people with a touch of class sniff glue or air fresheners.
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Very expected struggle session if you've ever been in contact with carbrained people
they have no limits. they won't be happy until the entire world is a paved over freeway with no rules
ACAB means red lights too
You jest but the issue of traffic policing does feel like something one would have to exempt from the general ACAB approach
If done right I’d agree. obviously now it’s used as a tool to terrorize minorities, but I do wish we’d take traffic safety more seriously. Seeing people consistently speed down pedestrian heavy areas 20 over is insane.
Yeah, traffic enforcement requiring specialist equipment and specific knowledge is why I feel that community policing has its limits and even a socialist state would require some form of a professional police force (albeit one that serves the proletariat and not the bourgeoisie like it is now).
Where do cops actually do traffic enforcement in a working sense? Everywhere I'm aware of, excluding very locally contained oddities, they're either also all hugely carbrained and don't give a shit except for sitting at badly designed traffic spots to fish for tickets or traffic enforcement barring high speed chases and openly taunting them is primarily in the jurisdiction of some sort of boring unarmed municipal department and as such they see this as beneath them.
I have driven in cities with such poorly timed lights that it almost encourages you to run a red, but to do it so cavalierly and streaming yourself doing it is just so dangerous and stupid.
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Influencers in general, yes.
She went to Yale, why do I know this
Columbia, but yeah. Also I blame the pandemic for me injecting Twitch directly into my brain for a few years
Every time I see someone drive through a red light I honestly hope they meet an ugly fate by a similarly shitty driver before a random pedestrian gets turned into paste. And I don't mean like a short yellow light, of course. Some folks just hate following the most basic of rules when using a vehicle that should be treated more as a privilege than a requirement.
Semi-serious question, do they actually test people anymore to get a license?
Yeah but that doesn't mean much. In high school I knew a kid who failed his written portion of the driving test the first time. When I asked him how he said he got really hung up on one question. The question was "what do you do when you drive by the exit you needed to take on the freeway." This is multiple choice and he chose "pull into the shoulder to back up down the freeway to get back to the exit".
He didn't understand why that was the wrong answer and was sure the test was wrong. So he figured he'd just answer the way the test wanted to next time even though he knows he'd just back up down the shoulder. And that's exactly what he did a few weeks later, apparently, because he proudly showed off his license after finally getting it.
So he's still out there driving around as far as I know. I definitely didn't keep in contact with him for hopefully obvious reasons so maybe he drove off a bridge or something already idk
I'd like to mention here Germany, where I live, has rather more stringend theoretical and practical driving exams and it also doesn't matter because the common consensus for most of the rules here is that you only have to know them for the theoretical test, follow them for the practical driving exam and then who cares there's basically 0 traffic enforcement, it's all a great big ploy against the average man and even if you do get caught the punishment is a pittance anyways. You can tell the judge you hallucinated the light being green and kill a child and not even lose your drivers license over that.
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Stream of unconsciousness? 
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