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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not to get too deep but it really is the most digestible version of how we have a legal system that ensures everybody is always breaking a law so that selective enforcement and thereby negative consequences are completely arbitrary.

Make sure everybodys always breaking the law then you can arrest anybody at anytime for a totally valid reason.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, I'm always telling people about this. The most adament speeders are always the "fuck the government", you can't tell me what to do, come-and-take-it types, and it just baffles me because like, yeah, they will come and take it; in fact they love to!

You are giving the pigs a free pass to fully legally and justifiably pull you over any time they feel like it.

Obviously they'll still pull over anyone at any time and retroactively make up a reason, but at least then they are starting on shaky ground, and you've got a way better chance of beating any charges later.

If you hate the pigs so much, why would you make their job so easy? Especially if you're riding dirty in any way, then that just multiplies everything above a thousand times. And naturally, those that are the most cavalier about doing that always seems to be the ones that love speeding the most.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Yra pretty sure it's where the saying "don't break multiple laws at once" comes from.

People who ride with me give me shit for driving like a grandpa, then I ask them how many times they've gotten a ticket and if it's more than zero I'm winning in that department.

They should have pot dealers teach defensive driving courses.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What it feels like to drive 5mph under the speed limit when the person behind me is in a sports car: gigachad

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nice day, got the windows down, blasting tunes, soaking up the sun and watching the boomer behind me go from ruby to prune colored.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

when they either aggressively pass me on a double yellow or get a passing lane i always subconsciously brace myself for a barrage of gunfire right as they pass

i fucking hate this country

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago

Right? Like bro I got the cruise control set to "don't attract cop attention" but if you want to drastically increase the odds of killing everyone involved in your next accident there are like twenty lanes to my left for you to enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's really empowering to make a full stop at a stop sign. Seen some old people in SUVs get visibly irate in my rearview mirror.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Stopping at a stop sign will get you deported from California.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

being the one person wearing a mask

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Every day without fail there is an accident on the road I take to work. Usually at night. I sometimes have to take the back roads because one time, when passing by an accident, the authorities had not yet swept up the glass and I had to get a new tire. Another time, I got to the intersection in a school zone and I thought I was safely away from the main road. Nope. Some asshole who got there after me ran through the stop sign at around 40 mph, and I caught it just in time to back up when I was trying to exercise my right of way.

Sometimes they put little wooden crosses on the side of the road to mark the area where someone died. My guess is, if they did that for every accident on that stretch of road, the roadside would just be full of little crosses like an American WWI cemetery.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If they planted a tree instead of little crosses there would be green belts all across america.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

well, there'd be little stumps from the brush cutter anyhow

DOT can't let us have nice things

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

need that clear recovery zone brah otherwise good things might happen

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

if you suggested a car insurance ad instead you'd be hired as a marketing expert

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

mfw I'm surrounded by imbecile pilots wielding licenses to kill

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The best advice I've ever heard for driving is "assume every other person on the road is actively trying to kill you and react accordingly."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

"trying to wave me through when you have the right away? no fuck you you are trying to kill me (or scam me)"

also why i have a dashcam

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

Scientists have yet to find a fetish too hyper-specific to be visually represented on the Internet

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Add in each of those people nearly hitting you with a 2-5 ton machine

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IIRC a big problem is the psychological effect of having giant roads with wide lanes and lots of shoulder. Drivers "feel" like the "safe" limit is higher than it is. Roads could be re-engineered so that drivers didn't feel comfortable past a certain speed. They aren't, because that would be too expensive (and woke).

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

They set the limit by watching people drive on a road without limits in place and setting it to 80% of the average. It's by design that people go over.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the origin of this image? lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

IIRC a chud anti-vaxx or anti-mask cartoon.

edit: I may not have recalled correctly, it might just be a boomer Facebook thing (same-picture)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

American speed limits are bad and deadly slow

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You ever see videos of people driving in south east Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, etc.)? My friend told me a story about riding on the back of a motorbike without a helmet. I am simply unable to drive in a place like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZupwFOhjl4

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Cartagena traffic gets like that. It's nerve-wracking but generally less dangerous than American driving. Speeds are very low, and because you can't count on the "rules" to protect you everybody is paying a lot more attention.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

you can call me mister malicious compliance

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i didn't vote on no speed limit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Funny enough lots of speed limits aren’t official and the signs are made up. I know someone who contested a speeding ticket in court by asserting that the stretch of road they were on had no actual speed limit (despite posted signs) and it actually worked because they couldn’t find any official statute or map or anything confirming the speed limit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Most stop signs in parking lots are fake too. Unenforceable. glee

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