This isn't a streamer thing specifically, that just makes it visible, including the thought process. This is just carbrain. Why do you think so many people run red lights?
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Cars are inherently dangerous.
You're right in that this is framed in a way that puts the responsibility on the individual (not defending her and saying what she did was fine) rather than the poorly designed method of transportation.
You're right in that this is framed in a way that puts the responsibility on the individual
I know you're not defending her but whose else would it be? This isn't somebody making a mistake because none of us are infallible and being forced to drive cars, this is a clearly stated, willfull action.
I agree but there is also a responsibility to make systems more idiot-proof and bad actor proof, because as you said people are infallible. I just believe cars are inherently dangerous and you can only go so far in trying to idiot proof it. I would like the conversation to be more about why is it so easy for someone to do something so dangerous, rather than this person is a bad person and needs to be punished.
We are kind of forced to drive cars because of the way urban planning is done. Very few places in the US are designed where you can conveniently access most areas you want without a car
I would like the conversation to be more about why is it so easy for someone to do something so dangerous
Because the underlying assumption is every car driver is entirely rational, at full capacity at all times with the decision making capabilities of a fighter jet pilot and every time you try to change this they all band together to defend this status quo, even if it means they'll get T-Boned by idiots like posted in the OP.
rather than this person is a bad person and needs to be punished.
She needs to lose her drivers license is the thing. There's societal problems abound, on aggregate, with behaviour like this and it's still very much an individual being a fucking moron. I don't think think this is worthy of jail time or even a fine necessarily, but a person who shows this open disregard for very clear, basic rules of road safety should not be allowed to operate a car.
People routinely run stop lights and cruise right through stop signs in California, almost to the point where they're just mere suggestions for maybe slowing down a bit unless you have to stop for cross traffic.
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Who watches this shit? Why is our culture like this?
Alienation and atomization leads to people seeking out parasocial relationships.
alienation and atomization sound like dope ass scifi things until you figure out what they are
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I still can't understand why people watch "reality" TV. I can go out in public and hear dumb people say dumb shit without having to watch advertisements
They trashiness is the appeal. People can watch it and assure themselves of how much of a better person they are than the people on the show
I realized this when I found out the main viewer demographics for these shows aren’t the type of people depicted, lower class and uneducated. It’s actually middle class, college educated people who make up the disproportionate bulk of the viewership.
The entertainment is predicated on a classist schadenfreude. The guilty pleasure isn't "I enjoy trashy stuff" it's "I am better than this trash".
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It's tolerable (depending on the streamer) when it's just 10-30 second Tik Tok highlights, maybe even a 20 min Youtube vlog......but hours long streams? Goddamn what a waste of time
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Imagine filming yourself breaking the law.
Imagine filming yourself breaking the law that's not even cool like Palestine Action breaking into drone factories to smash drones used by the Zionist entity to kill Palestinians but something like running a red which just makes you look like a complete dipshit.
all that goes through their head is about making content
Carbrain shit. Every driver is entitled to totally unobstructed roads to and from their destination at zero cost to themselves.
Streaming while driving is bad enough.
fucking mythbusters showed quite clearly in an idiot-digestible way that trying to drive and talk at the same time is a bad fucking idea, unless you either dont care how you drive or dont really care what you're saying. how. how. you're in a 2ton piece of steel hurtling down the scenery, jesus christ.
unless you either dont care how you drive
Hey bud, you seated? I have some bad news.
how. how. you're in a 2ton piece of steel hurtling down the scenery, jesus christ.
It's never the drivers fault to people with carbrain. It is this line of thinking, for everything, at all times. . It's not my fault for driving straight at the child sized, massive concrete divider, it's the concrete dividers fault for being there. Also the bicycles, despite there being no bicycle infrastructure present
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Tariff podcast equipment 900%
I have driven in cities with such poorly timed lights that it almost encourages you to run a red, but to do it so cavalierly and streaming yourself doing it is just so dangerous and stupid.
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Every time I see someone drive through a red light I honestly hope they meet an ugly fate by a similarly shitty driver before a random pedestrian gets turned into paste. And I don't mean like a short yellow light, of course. Some folks just hate following the most basic of rules when using a vehicle that should be treated more as a privilege than a requirement.
Unexpected mini struggle session about running red lights being praxis
Very expected struggle session if you've ever been in contact with carbrained people
they have no limits. they won't be happy until the entire world is a paved over freeway with no rules
Muh flow of traffic! If everyone is driving dangerously then I'm in danger if I don't!
Fucking Fury Road logic
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Only if you're doing it in a bike
Stream of unconsciousness? 
Semi-serious question, do they actually test people anymore to get a license?
Yeah but that doesn't mean much. In high school I knew a kid who failed his written portion of the driving test the first time. When I asked him how he said he got really hung up on one question. The question was "what do you do when you drive by the exit you needed to take on the freeway." This is multiple choice and he chose "pull into the shoulder to back up down the freeway to get back to the exit".
He didn't understand why that was the wrong answer and was sure the test was wrong. So he figured he'd just answer the way the test wanted to next time even though he knows he'd just back up down the shoulder. And that's exactly what he did a few weeks later, apparently, because he proudly showed off his license after finally getting it.
So he's still out there driving around as far as I know. I definitely didn't keep in contact with him for hopefully obvious reasons so maybe he drove off a bridge or something already idk
I'd like to mention here Germany, where I live, has rather more stringend theoretical and practical driving exams and it also doesn't matter because the common consensus for most of the rules here is that you only have to know them for the theoretical test, follow them for the practical driving exam and then who cares there's basically 0 traffic enforcement, it's all a great big ploy against the average man and even if you do get caught the punishment is a pittance anyways. You can tell the judge you hallucinated the light being green and kill a child and not even lose your drivers license over that.
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why didn't this moron get hit by a bus going 60mph instead of Virginia Giuffre
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Getting turned into paste and then immortalized into a twitch emoji
gets second twitch ban
I dont go on twitch so i dont k ow any better but are twitch bans temporary? Or did this person get something permanent overturned or smth?
they have temporary and permanent bans, yeah. also it's only their word/tos that governs it, not some law so they can cave at any time.
i think asmongold got like a week ban for him going full-fascist?
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I remember seeing this person on /publicfreakout/ or some other reddit video board. Her and her buddy streamed some performative charity to an IHOP waitress. Like, they just decided to randomly give this person 10k while live on stream and then this act somehow ended up being spread across the internet.
Seemed really transparent even if the deed was a good one. Like, they knew lame dudes would probably donate tons more money to them (for doing nothing) because of all the extra publicity. Left a bad impression.
Her entire thing is acting like an airhead with forced cheerfulness in public. People somehow fall for it. I think this sort of thing happens with her every year and it’s always when she’s driving the Tesla.
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