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[-] Zink@programming.dev 33 points 2 days ago

Engagement bait.

I went and checked Facebook for notifications the other day and saw this exact post.

This is all over the place: Posts by people who are confidently wrong in some obvious way, just begging for some smart internet person to come set them straight and get their wimpy dopamine hit.

It is really enlightening, in a depressing way, to scroll mainstream social media like that and see the level of enshittification that people are conditioned to accept and keep scrolling through. It is so much worse than even ad-driven legacy media like live TV.

[-] sahin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Problem is, we cant stop this.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago

Yep. It works.

It caught my attention before I decided to ignore it, and even some of the early replies in these comments correctly pointing out the stupidity of the driver's ways have hundreds of upvotes, which is a lot for Lemmy!

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[-] socsa@piefed.social 14 points 2 days ago

This is actually very funny tho

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 584 points 3 days ago

If you plow through a snowman with your car, you're an asshole. If you do it with your brand new sports car, you're a stupid asshole.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 316 points 3 days ago

Let me add one more: he's done this several times already which is the reason the kids added bricks in the first place.

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of my grandfather, these kids kept knocking his mailbox down with baseball bats. After the second time it was hit, he put up a new one filled with concrete. The very next morning there was half a wooden baseball bat on the ground and a dent in the mailbox. They never did it again.

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 147 points 3 days ago

Same type of person would drive through a pile of leaves not thinking if there were kids in it.

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[-] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 85 points 3 days ago

Even if it was just a snowman, that would damage your pretty car.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

This was my thought, you don't need cinder blocks in the way. Ice is hard and heavy, that shits gonna fuck up pretty much anything but a bulldozer or tank.

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[-] TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 108 points 3 days ago

The guy's page is full of trolling and rage bait. It's not serious

It still appeared serious enough to be upvoted by 700 people. I guess this speaks more on how the sanity of linkedin users is perceived than it speaks on the validity of the situation. And yeh, linkedin users are a bit fucked in the head.

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[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 22 points 2 days ago

Reminds me of that dude that fashioned a concrete reinforced steel mailbox pole and got sued after paralysing a dude that hit it.

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/homeowner-who-fortified-his-mailbox-after-repeated-vandalism-is-sued-by-driver-who-was-left-paralyzed-after-crashing-into-it.4580112/

Homeowner won though.

[-] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Reminder that the word "homeowner" is the only English word with the word "meow" in it (except for all the different derivations of "meow" like "meowing" etc of course).

Good luck not reading homeowner as ho-meow-ner from now on

[-] funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Thanks I didnt know but will spread this message IRL

[-] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

The world needs to know

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[-] jessicablaze@lemmynsfw.com 225 points 3 days ago

Unless the snowman was built in the road, the driver is at fault not the people that created the snowman.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 166 points 3 days ago

I think the fact he doesn't explicitly mention it is an admission that it wasn't built on the road.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The "if I find out who did this" does bring that into question, though. If it was in front of a house it'd be very obvious who did it.

But given the vibes the car owner is giving off, it's more likely it was in a park or field or the sidewalk next to a road, and he thought it'd be okay to hit it because there was almost no chance of the creator catching him.

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[-] towerful@programming.dev 107 points 3 days ago

If the snowman was build on the road, the driver is at fault for driving carelessly, not paying attention.
Nobody else was hurt. Nobody else's property was damaged. There is no one to be held liable.

This guy drove into a snowman, regardless of where it was.
A static object that only moves in Christmas music.

If it was a snowbank, same deal.
If it was a parked car, same deal.
If it was a fallen telephone/power pole, same deal.
If it was a pile of cinderblocks that fell off the back of a truck, same deal.

The guy either wasn't paying attention, or was being an asshole.
Either way, driving carelessly. Asshole is at fault

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[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 190 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Even in case of a "usual" snowman, you can easily crack plastic bodyparts or dent metal ones. This is not GTA, where you just have to remember which items are breakable and which are not

A large pile of uncumpressed snow can fuck up a car. Compressed snow used to make a snow man? Yeah you're smashing into basically a wall of ice.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm honestly wondering if he made up the cinder block to try and make this someone else's fault.

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[-] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 120 points 3 days ago

What would make you think driving through a snowman is a good idea to begin with? You'd have to be driving through a yard or at least jumping a curb. Take the guy's license away for reckless driving.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 days ago

it's a Mustang, it has to be satire

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[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

A) I don’t believe this is real.

B) Back in the ‘70s, there was an article in National Lampoon where a guy liked to put a cinder block in a paper bag and watch people swerve to hit it.

[-] curiousaur@reddthat.com 97 points 3 days ago

My cousins used to live on a street with massive trees that dropped tons of leaves every autumn. The city would have special service days where everyone rakes the leaves into big piles in the street and street sweepers would come vacuum them up.

Hooligans liked the drive through the big piles in the middle of the night. I honestly kinda see the appeal, who could resist. Anyway, they started to doing the same thing. Piles of cinder blocks under some of them. I was staying with them one night and we heard some horrible carnage, came out to find some sedan high centered on a pile of cinder blocks with the bumper hanging off.

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago

I'd be surprised if there were any legal consequences for something like this. It's not a "booby trap" in the traditional sense where it poses a danger to legitimate visitors or emergency responders entering a property. It is a solid structure inside another (seemingly less solid) structure. You should already not be trying to ram into it. It poses zero risk to anyone that doesn't already intent to maliciously destroy the apparently less solid structure.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And it plausibly helps support the snow. There is a legitimate purpose.

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[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago
[-] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 days ago

Behold the rewards of not linking to source: commenters fall for engagement bait, lack of web accessibility.

Post needs link to source for web accessibility and web connectivity.Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

  • usability
    • we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
    • text search is unavailable
    • the system can't
      • reflow text to varied screen sizes
      • vary presentation (size, contrast)
      • vary modality (audio, braille)
  • accessibility
    • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
    • some users can't read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
    • users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
    • systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
  • web connectivity
    • we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
    • we can't explore wider context of the original message
  • authenticity: we don't know the image hasn't been tampered
  • searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
  • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
    • image breaks
    • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

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[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 days ago

I'm mad because a child's creation caused damage to my newly bought, overpriced 2026 Redneck Sports Car™ and I'm going to resort to litigation! /s

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[-] Jhogenbaum@leminal.space 37 points 3 days ago

Did they build this snowman in a roadway? If so, he has a case but "could've" (should've) avoided the obstacle... If the snowman was not built in a roadway: gtfo

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago

This is why you don't ever drive on anything but clear road.

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[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i thought something was up. a snow man made of the fluffiest powder would absolutely totall my car. ain’t no way i would just hit snow men

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 46 points 3 days ago

There is a house near me that builds a snowman around their mailbox that is on a cemented in post. I would love to see someone freak out after smashing their car when they tried to destroy the snowman.

If you see a snowman just sitting somewhere and it's not in the road then it's on you for being a dick and going off-road to smash it.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 days ago

I wanna see the zoom video of that court hearing. I don't think a judge is gonna be on your side, buddy.

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