Anything left of the far right, is a liberal idea to someone who lives their life on the far right.
MystikIncarnate
IKR, I just read the community info, and all it contained was guidelines about what not to post.
What's supposed to be here? I'm lost.
I am a lost Leeming.
To be fair, I knew a lot of people who struggled with word problems in math class.
Aww, C'mon, don't sell yourself short like that, I'm sure you're great at..... Something....
For example, you would probably be way more useful than an AI, if there was a power outage.
In my mind, the main difference is that they thought Iraq was working on the technology, not that they had it. If it's being developed but it's not complete, the superpower can basically wrestle their way in and go "no you fucking don't" like an older brother ripping your favorite snack from your hands.
Meanwhile, we know damned well Russia already has assembled WMDs, that are presently sitting on ICBM rockets, with navigation targets pointed at American cities, that can be armed and fired within minutes of the order being given.
The same way the USA does (just for.... Non American targets).
The whole WMDs in Iraq thing was basically international bullying.
I'll join. DM invite.
Anyone suggesting you should skip a light because you're on a bike, is not someone you want to listen to.
Stay safe out there.
I agree with the cascade effect, it's literally the reason why bad driving compounds into a traffic jam.
The thing is, if you leave sufficient following distance, someone is going to take it as an invitation to merge, so people in general, wanting to be in front, tend to follow more closely, so nobody else can get in front of them and push them further back in traffic.
So they follow too closely, someone brakes, and cascade of failure. Why they brake? Lots of stupid shit, often because someone entering the lane of traffic in front decided they're getting in front of someone else even if it kills everyone, then brakes, and cascade.... The cycle continues.
Yep. The inability to understand how to merge correctly, IMO, goes hand in hand with being a bad driver.
While merging is by far one of the most notable issues, it's certainly not the only one.
Like a penis?
I've been watching traffic patterns for a while... Pretty much since I started driving.
I've wanted to answer the question of why does traffic get so bad sometimes?
The best analysis I can give from all of my observations is.... People SUCK at merging. They don't give space, they try to race to the "front" in lanes that are closing.... Nobody actually knows how to zipper merge properly.
Listen, there's basically two things you need to successfully zipper merge:
- Find an opening where you can fit into
- Match pace with the traffic you will be merging into.
For anyone in a lane that's being merged into: make space for merging traffic.
I know legally, that the driver entering the lane will have to find space to merge into, and the drivers in the lane where others are merging into, don't have a legal requirement to provide space, but by being a dickhead about it, you're actively choosing to make things worse for everyone. Just give some space. It's really not hard.
Everyone is more interested in getting somewhere fast, rather than doing things efficiently, in collaboration with fellow road users.... So, when someone inevitably gets cut off by someone who simply must be in front, and they have to slow down, it takes a lot of time for the impact from that showdown, to be recovered by traffic behind the offender.
But trying to re-educate millions, if not billions of drivers to not be horrible at merging, isn't something that's realistically going to happen.
Whenever you hear about "congestion" slowdowns, this seems to be the cause just about every time.
I can actively see this on some highways near me, they have an exit on one stretch of highway through a fairly large city, every mile. I can almost time it for when we get to an exit, vs when we get to an on-ramp, simply by when we slow down or speed up, exclusively due to this phenomenon.
Crashes and wrecks are a whole other issue. Between everyone being shit at merging, all the goddamned rubberneckers, and people making generally idiotic choices to change lanes when they have no idea what is going on..... We're fucked.
I don't hate traffic because it's slow. I hate traffic because it's entirely a product of people being stupid.
.... I'll ask. Does it matter if they're one or the other? Will you somehow like them more if they're a specific one of the two?