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Okay but like the light has been green for 0.3 seconds

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨chicken@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    USians misusing word “socialism” on every occasion.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just add the word “relative” and it makes sense.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “relative”

        Step-healthcare?

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      • Slovene85@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or “adjacent”

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I heard it once that drivers in Boston don’t use turn signals because it gives away your plan to the enemy.

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    • Red0ctober@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve had the opposite experience. Everyone used turn signals and drove aggressively. I got cut off a lot, but I always knew it was about to happen.

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      • axexrx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As a kid I was once driving back with my dad from a specialty lumber yard trip, where hed gone to pick up a ~1.5 ton, 40’ teak beam, with about 10’ hanging off the back, down low. Wed just gotten south of the city, and trafic was finally easing up, when he finally saw chance to get out of the middle lane, and went to take it.

        So he threw on his right turn signal, and the guy in that lane immediately started accelerating to close the gap.
        My dad just went for the switch anyway, Forcing the guy to drive off the road into the grass median ditch of lose his windshield to a massive piece of wood.

        All he said was “a turn signal is a signal of intent, not a request for permission.” And we kept driving.

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve driven in a lot of places in North America. Massachusetts isn’t bad. New York is worse, so is New Jersey. Around that area, the worst is Philly.

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Massachusetts is dense with the added bonus of comparatively old-world city designs. I’ve found NJ and NY drivers to be more vocal and annoyed, whereas Mass drivers will just risk wrecking you because you’re only going +20 above in the middle lane or stopped at the light that says no right on red

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      • skibidi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Massachusetts is fucking empty. Boston is dense.

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    • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know anyone who’s driven in Houston and not called it the worst. Some pleaces it feels like the drivers don’t care if they live or die. Houston they’re trying to kill you and themselves

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      • half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Idk how it compares to Houston, but I was teeeerrified to drive on the freeway for like 2 months when I first moved to Dallas. Also the sheer audacity of some of the traffic maneuvers was something to behold. For example, I would routinely see people turn left from the right-most lane, cutting across 3 or more lanes of traffic. I just cannot comprehend why you would choose to do that instead of just circling the block or turning into a business to turn around.

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      • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Houston is the absolute worst of anywhere I’ve been.

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    • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Rhode Island is pretty bad sometimes

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  • LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I watched a bro dozer coal roll a prius doing 60 in the left lane a few days ago. I get it. I still think rolling coal should be illegal, but I get it.

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    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I went to a no kings protest today and some jackass stopped in front of the bulk of the protestor and rolled coal intentionally. I’ve never seen a cop go after someone so fast in my entire life. I’ve also never seen a cop actually support the no kings cause. I had a good conversation with the dude earlier in the protest and he is a brand new cop and seems to me like he won’t be a cop for long. Acab, because the ones who aren’t bastards or don’t turn into bastards don’t make it as cops for long.

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      • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Either that or he won’t be a good dude for very long

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      anybody who isn’t using the left lane to pass while we drive past three “KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS” signs deserves to be shamed and fucked with

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve always felt like the courtesy is to move over to right if someone coming behind you on left lane was going faster than you, then pop back into the left lane. Some disagree and feel like even if you’re going 1 km/h faster than the person on the right lane (or just 1 km/h over the limit) then it’s alright to be on the left/passing lane. I feel like that unnecessarily clogs up the left lane.

    But that probably depends on how heavy the traffic is and whatnot.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not courtesy, that’s law. Keep right except to pass.

      Done passing? Get right.

      Not passing fast enough? Gtfo.

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      • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        See: https://piefed.zip/comment/4489351

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    • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        nah, it’s stupid to move over for literally two seconds only to move back to the left lane

        it happens frequently enough to me that I’m passing two cars at a differential of maybe 10km/h and somebody comes up behind me going faster. I’ll drop my speed and sidle into the right lane to let them pass and move right back over

        I get what you’re saying. I agree. but there are situations where you can be actively passing but also have some space to let someone by. it’s not required because you’re passing, but it might be nice if it’s a long line of cars

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      • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a bit ridiculous to start constantly bopping in and out to every available crack. And likely more dangerous too since you’re moving between the lanes.

        If there’s plenty of room and you wouldn’t be passing the next car anytime soon, yes of course. If you’d be passing the next car soon anyway and there’s nobody going faster behind you (wanting to pass you), doesn’t seem necessary.

        Reminds me of a friend who moves over to the right most lane on a three lane road since that’s where you technically need to be, even though we both know it will soon become a turning lane, then a joining lane for people coming to the highway and then the lane is going to end. Boggles the mind

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the light was green for 0.3 seconds and prior to that, you rocketed up behind me and cut me off to take pole position at the red light, then spent a minute slowly creeping into the crosswalk

    if you’re not ready to go on the fucking green, smarten the fuck up

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are shitty drivers everywhere. You’re probably average. We’re all guilty at least occasionally.

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    • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No we are not, we are collectively horrible drivers.

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    • vinnymac@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your take of “give people a break, we all want to get home safely” and in contrast of a few comments up, “crossing three lanes to make a left turn”, are taking me for a ride.

      I don’t think everyone wants to get home safely honestly. Some of us are having bad days, overtired, on drugs, raging, and who knows what, all while driving next to the mom with four kids in the backseat who hasn’t slept in a week.

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    • toynbee@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is a better-put way of expressing an opinion I’ve long held.

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  • 13igTyme@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I shortest metric in the known universe is the time between the light going green and the car behind you honking their horn.

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    • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      New Planck time just dropped

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  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Something about cow paths

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  • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s this about Massachusetts providing healthcare for all their citizens? Is this true?

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    • chicken@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeh it’s called MassHealth www.mass.gov/orgs/masshealth

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    • McTavern@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yea, it’s basically Obamacare before Obamacare was a thing.

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      • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I tend to call it Romneycare.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      News to me…I pay 20k/yr in premiums and my employer pays an additional 30k.

      But Mass drivers do need to get out of the left lane.

      We aren’t as bad as Rhode Island in this regard, but at least Rhode Island has a level 1 trauma center within 20 minutes of like 80% of its highways.

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      • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s fantastic but damn …are Rhode Islanders extra clumsy & prone to catastrophic bodily damage & constantly in need of hospitals?

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  • mnastroguy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Come to MN. Medicare peeps be hammering their horn at the light then driving home 10 below the speed limit.

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  • Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Haha socialist 😂

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