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What has you experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is when you never noticed something or saw something before, and then you see it everywhere.

For example say you see a chipmunk in an area you never noticed them before, and now you just see chipmunks everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Student driver or new driver stickers on cars. I swear 20% of the cars on the road in my area have them lately. That said, I do actually think in this case that there has been an increase in adoption of these stickers (possibly to try and hand waive bad behavior of the driver?) but when I first mentioned it to my husband, he blamed it on Baader-Meinhof.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I totally feel that. They're all over the place here too. I don't get what the point is

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Here it is the law that a Learner has an L sticker/magnet and New drivers have an N. Let's others know to stay back a bit because they may need more time to complete a maneuvering or parking, or may forget certain road rules.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The ones I’m talking about are just bumper stickers. What’s the difference between a learner and a new driver in your jurisdiction?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Learner has to be with a fully licensed driver, New Driver is licensed to drive but has restrictions, that are removed after a year or so

We do gave Student Driver stickers, but it is on trainer vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

What's unclear about that statement?