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No joke: Feds are banning humorous electronic messages on highways (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’m okay with this. Those signs are at best mildly distracting and at worst very distracting. They should be off 99% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same thing with billboards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

No doubt. Banksy (supposedly) said it best: https://genius.com/Banksy-letter-on-advertising-annotated

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not ok with this.

The objective of life isn't for it to be the safest, cleanest, blandest, most sterile experience possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. But driving accidents kill millions of people and an environment where one small mistake can end in critical failure isn’t the place for some cheeky department of transportation employee to be testing their standup routine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

So take off the billboard (now often just videos) of corporations testing their marketing routine. At least these signs were on the road.