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[-] [email protected] 124 points 2 years ago

Me, passing dozens of cars trapped in traffic while coasting on my bike - I am the embodiment of excellence. Pure ambition. Completely free.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

There is perhaps no greater feeling of power so readily accessible to the common folk.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

I cried the first time I rode the subway in NYC. Not on the subway, but when I got back and was thinking about it. My car is such a money sink. I hate it. I loved the subway.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

I used to ride a mountain bike to a job. Flipping on the shocks and riding over gravel mounds while the obscene level of construction kept drivers glued in one place for minutes.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

You joke but you get one out of 100.000 libertarians who arrives at exactly this conclusion and they make up the weirdest macho bike subculture imageinable

[-] [email protected] 68 points 2 years ago

Big "This Scene From The Simpsons" vibes

[-] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am willing to kill us all in a fireball if that's what it takes for me to drive more dangerously and shave 15 seconds off of my trip. You want to kill excellence

The good news is that if they ride a motorcycle like their pfp suggests and they think like this, they probably also refuse to wear a real motorcycle helmet

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

Yeah I saw that pfp and attitude and immediately thought "Yep that's a future organ donor"

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

i doubt there's going to be anything left of him to donate

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

I think this guy simply wouldn't donate any organs because he thinks people with lazy slacker organs don't deserve handouts.

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[-] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I find his tweets kind of sad tbh, he goes on to talk about non-speeding drivers being grey people in grey cars with grey lives. The dude clearly sees how empty our lives are in the capitalist system and is terrified of being one of the 99%, so desperate to be special that he sees something as mundane as speeding as an escape from his fate. But in the end he's just another jackass who can't drive. There is no individualism for the people under capitalism.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Driving a car is actually much more dangerous than people realize. You know driving isn't even my job? And it's not working with cars either, which is a very common misconception. Actually my identity is just...car.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago

The Cult of the Automobile has been an unmitigated disaster for the entire planet

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

literally the worst invention ever

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Between that and industrialized meat farming, the planet's burning down for staggeringly stupid macho shit. grillman

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

Being told to slow down slightly when driving and writing Atlas Shrugged as a response.

data-laughing

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Atlas Shrugged was originally written as a seething decades-prepared tantrum because the commies took away a rich faildaughter's parents' mansion.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

We must cap all American vehicles at 100 mph, make them automatically print you a speeding ticket at 90, and make every lifted truck blow up fatally when the owner gets inside.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

"Communism is when anti-drunk driving laws and mandatory speed limits" --Karl Mark (2 A.D. - 2 A.D.)

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I hate driving so much. My first instinct is always to concede to other people (even when I technically have right-of-way) because there's always the possibility that they'll just ignore all rules and common sense due to impatience (like this guy). But then that leads to the truck-driving chuds behind me blasting their horns and trying to overtake me unsafely. Like, I know there are situations where being too slow can also be dangerous, but it's hard to make decisions quickly when every option feels potentially unsafe.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago

My first instinct is always to concede to other people (even when I technically have right-of-way)

Imo, you should almost always take the right-of-way if you have it. Politeness be damned, the safety of yourself, your passengers, and the other people on the road ought to be the highest priority. And the safest thing you can do on the road is be predictable, which means taking the right-of-way when you have it.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I know. It's just that every time I arrive at an intersection slightly before the other person I'm doubting whether I was really there first and/or if the other person recognizes that. That and a bunch of other situations where I'm trying to process things and it feels safer to just wait (even if it isn't actually).

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Car brain is the worst

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

WHAT'S NEXT, A LICENSE TO MAKE TOAST IN YOUR OWN DAMN TOASTER?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

I kinda love really tenuous connections between some mundane activity and grand societal aspirations. Like, there is a train of thought present, but it's definitely not how the speaker reached that conclusion, they're almost certainly thinking "I agree with these two things, therefore I must retroactively justify why one means the other".

One jumping off the top of my head is Ayn Rand saying she likes smoking because it signifies Man's mastery over fire and nature.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

One jumping off the top of my head is Ayn Rand saying she likes smoking because it signifies Man's mastery over fire and nature.

The sheer fucking hubris of pretending all of that was somehow a thing while poisoning herself to a somewhat early grave with such pompous "mastery" was poetic, at least.

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago

As George Carlin said, "Anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac"

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

ambition and excellence is when you press a button to make a machine go fast

also anyone who thinks this about overtaking people in their car shouldn't be allowed to drive they clearly have some macho posturing element going on that has no place in operating heavy machinery at great speed

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

if I can't vroom vroom in my big boy car and go faster than all the LOSERS in their little poor people mobiles, then why would I strive for excellence working at my dad's car dealership?

you can't spell American Excellence without Acceleration!

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean it's a deranged post, but sometimes to make an overtake safely you need to go slightly over the speed limit for a short period of time, especially on single lane roads. It's safer to temporarily speed slightly and be in the oncoming lane of traffic for a shorter period of time, than to stick perfectly to the speed limit and be in the oncoming lane for longer.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

This was a thing I always questioned as a kid actually.

Surely if you don't want people breaking the speed limit, you could just make it so vehicles literally can't do that.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Limiting exactly at the max speed limit would make a lot of overtakes of slower vehicles more unsafe. Limiting the speed at slightly above the maximum speed limit is a good idea though. I know in Japan cars are usually limited to 112mph/180kph on public roads, though I think that's a bit too high. It's a good place to start though.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Love to have my suspicions confirmed that some people literally see driving on the highway as a drag race and perceive me going too slow as weakness which must be vanquished

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

I feel like many people in this thread have 0 experience operating a vehicle that is not your standard issue car. I'm obviously coming at this from a cycling standpoint, with rather limited ability to instantly apply more speed once I've hit a certain one due to a factor known as "my legs", this just means you operate it differently though. Same would apply if you fundamentally changed how cars or traffic works.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

i can drive motorbikes and forklifts

don't actually have a car license funnily enough

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Deep Hexbear lore: WoofWoof91 is forklift certified

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Overtaking does require going pretty fast to be done quickly, so they have an overall point that speed limiters set at the speed limit would de facto prevent overtaking. The rest of it is gibberish, and personally I’m fine with banning cars entirely let alone this quibbling lib minutia about speed limits but let’s be honest and say no overtaking with limiters

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Want to know what ELSE kills excellence? Giving preferential treatment to white people. It sabotages hard-working minorities just so white people can feel good about themselves And if they need to be mollycoddled by the government to stay competitive with minorities, then I guess they're not the master race after all.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

pit "BUT MUH GENETIC SUPERIORITY

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

IF I CAN PASS YOU I AM BETTER THAN YOU the rate of accident goes higher exponentially with speed

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

most advanced case of car brain in history

Death to America

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

You know this is one of those assholes that speeds past all the other cars when a lane ends to try to cut off the first car in the next lane over instead of zipper merging like a sensible person. I hate those bastards

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