BigBenis
@BigBenis@lemmy.world
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 5 days ago:
That car lane is such an offensive waste of hundreds of millions of dollars of infrastructure.
Replace it AND the bike lane with a train that can carry 10x as many passengers at a time as both the car and bike lanes combined! Bonus, it can even fit bikes on it! No such luck for the cars though… too bad.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 5 days ago:
Careless/reckless driving entirely normalized in America. Think of the number of people you see speeding, rolling stop signs, blowing through pedestrian crosswalks, speeding up to make the yellow light and “accidentally” running the red. Think of all the people who chat on the phone, attend work meetings, watch videos, do their makeup, and eat entire meals while behind the wheel of a moving car. Think of all the people you’ve heard essentially bragging about how much they speed, who bemoan all the “slow” people on the road who are just going the posted speed limit, or who feel they’re being unfairly targeted when they get a speeding ticket for going ten-over.
Chances are if you’ve driven a car in America then you yourself are guilty of having done some of those things. I know I certainly am, though I’ve been intentional about taming my own hubris behind the wheel over recent years. But it’s hard to accept that what is normal to you is also wrong or dangerous. Especially in a survivor biased environment like reckless driving culture, where nothing bad generally happens to you until it does and then as people get more reckless the higher the chances are you won’t walk away from an accident. And so when you see a post online, shaming people for something you do on your way to work every day, you get defensive because to you that’s just normal behavior.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 weeks ago:
Seth Rogan
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“Stop genociding yourself”
- Comment on Missed it by that much! 5 weeks ago:
BOOBG
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 1 month ago:
This is the way
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 month ago:
Authorities: Quit complaining and get back to work, peasant!
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 month ago:
As a software engineer, definitely. Things that might have taken days writing a boilerplate framework and reading through docs to find out how to figure certain things could take hours now. Now I don’t have to spend hours learning how to use the data visualisation library in order to fix the one donut chart on my company’s site, I can ask AI to do it in minutes and make edits where needed.
It’s certainly not perfect or infallible, it spits out garbage a lot still. But since I have a deep understanding of the stuff I’m working on, I can recognize when it’s spitting out garbage and recalibrate.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 2 months ago:
I never knew just tuck was something somebody could actually do and now I’m scared…
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 2 months ago:
I’m going to be migrating to Linux and using Mint. I’m just paranoid about doing something wrong and accidentally walking into a security vulnerability. So I want to set aside time to properly learn things and understand what I’m doing but I’m just busy AF these days…
- Comment on Polar bears 3 months ago:
180 seconds (3 minutes) is a hilarious overestimation. Unless you’re counting the time it takes to bleed out.
- Comment on Anon is a fighter 3 months ago:
This made me think of that time my partner’s brother told me in complete earnest that he’d be able to jump off a skateboard going 20+ mph and run it out based solely off the fact that the fastest recorded human running speed is 28 mph and therefore he, an average fit 20 y.o. should be able to achieve 75% of that.
- Comment on What is this for? (Wrong answers only) 3 months ago:
So the snakes that come up from the sewer can escape when the lid is closed.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 3 months ago:
Cries in Star Wars: Battlefront 3
- Comment on What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion? 3 months ago:
Dave The Diver!
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 4 months ago:
As much as I resent religion, I do believe it’s fundamentally a human problem. People everywhere have a tendency to corrupt beliefs in order to justify being assholes to one another.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 months ago:
Jumping to Linux for sure. The hardest part is going to be finding time to learn it first…
- Comment on Win win 4 months ago:
To be fair, we’ve been very happy with our Kona EV. No problems after 25k miles.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 5 months ago:
They need the talking heads on Fox News to tell them how to answer that question first.
- Comment on tetrapods 5 months ago:
Okay but isn’t it the whole purpose of the rice, to be flooded with curry?
- Comment on Sun God 5 months ago:
on Mercury and the entire sky is blazing sun
I’ve never thought about this and holy shit
- Comment on 1987 5 months ago:
My mom used to make me add a can of mixed vegetables to my instant ramen until we agreed that I could eat them separately. So I would quickly force down the bland, mushy veggies then enjoy my ramen in its pure form.
- Comment on Common Ground 5 months ago:
Yeah, no thanks. These people were fine with all the hateful and cruel shit the Republicans pedal until it affected them. Whether it’s because they themselves are cruel or just morons, that’s up for debate. But either way, I will not consider them an ally in this. They’ve got to change their shitty ways first.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 months ago:
Shedders? Do these people think vaccines are contagious?
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 5 months ago:
Because the stock market isn’t a measure of how well a country is operating. On the contrary, deregulation allows companies to boost profit via harmful means. Rich people got it good under Trump/Republicans and therefore the stock market thrives.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 5 months ago:
Not to downplay the rest of her accomplishments but can’t you essentially buy your way onto the F30U30 list?
- Comment on uninvited 6 months ago:
#worthit
- Comment on spidey senses 6 months ago:
That is until you learn that space spiders are invisible
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 6 months ago:
I’ll take “things actual vegans never say” for $500!
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 6 months ago:
Generally, I believe the convenience of cheap shit delivered to your door comes at the invisible cost of exploitative labor practices and/or excessive consumerism by the means of low quality crap that will need to be replaced regularly or through “buy more and save” deals. If you want to avoid supporting that, you’re probably going to have to spend a few extra bucks buying from a smaller business or buying secondhand.
Convenience isn’t free and if we want to reduce our dependence on harmful institutions we’re going to have to make some sacrifices.