I identify as a motherfucking thundertwat
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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If I see you compromising public safety because you think you're above the rules we set in place to keep our communities safe, then I'm calling you worse things than thundertwat.
Yellow means stop if you can. It's not permission to drive recklessly in order to save yourself a minute of time.
Also, that red light camera over there has a hair trigger.
I'll never understand what part of driving a 2-ton metal machine makes people think you're an asshole for not doing it recklessly enough
Do you pay my insurance? No? Then get fucked.
The universal opposition to running yellow lights in these comments is hilariously awesome.
Makes me happy.
Absolutely no need to rush and drive recklessly to save 1-2 minutes on your commute.
Safety first. Seethe.
Bah! You'll be fine, just speed to the next light.
How long does a stop light take? Three minutes? Look at your damn phone, that's all you're going to do when you get wherever you're going, anyway.
If you think you made it, it's just because you couldn't see the stoplight turning red just as you entered the crossroads
I'm in no rush to be anywhere, anytime. If my caution and safety are a detriment to your schedule, that's your problem. Maybe you should leave with more time to get wherever you're going safely instead of trying to rush the yellow lights and put everyone else's lives at risk.
This. Yellow means stop if you can (edit: if you can safely)
Yellow means stop if you can... do so safely.
If you're going to fast to make a normal turn at the light, you're too close to that intersection to stop safely, and you should proceed without braking.
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Yellow lights are for 3-6 seconds. That's also around the time it takes to come to a stop, depending on the speed of the vehicle. And you should give the vehicle ahead of you about 3 seconds of lead time. So if they have enough time to stop before reaching the intersection, you almost certainly wouldn't have had enough time to follow them through while it's still yellow unless they slammed their brakes or you are riding their ass.
Yellow means stop; but you don't get a fine in case you can't stop safely.
Red means stop; if you're in the intersection for even 1/100th of a second you can get fined.
Funnily enough you do get a fine over here, if the police catch you and it would've been safe to stop.
It's a whopping 10€.
At least in my country and I suspect many others, yellow / amber mean "stop if it's safe to do so", effectively the same as a red light.
The belief in American Exceptionalism isn't exclusive to how we perceive ourselves on the global stage. It's just as potent domestically within our society. We inherently see ourselves as better than any and all plebeian NPCs around us and above any rules established to keep our communities safe. It's the definition of toxic individualism and the single most deadly sin of American society.
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If you plant your front bumper up their tailpipe and floor it, you can both make it.
You're welcome.
This isn’t the real crime. The real crime is going slow enough we both could have made it, then accelerating when you see it turn yellow so only you get through the light.
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Slowing early for a potential yellow-light and stopping as needed is the :3 of driving tho.
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