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[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 124 points 1 year ago

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

[-] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year 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.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year 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.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year 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

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

Big "This Scene From The Simpsons" vibes

[-] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year 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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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year 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.

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

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

[-] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

literally the worst invention ever

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

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

data-laughing

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 50 points 1 year 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.

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year 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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[-] M68040@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year 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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[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

Car brain is the worst

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

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[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year 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.

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[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago
[-] CarsAndComrades@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

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

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year 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

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year 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!

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] Venus@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

The point is that, in that case, you should not be overtaking at all. There are three options, overtake without speeding, overtake with speeding, and don't overtake. In the specific example you've provided, the options ordered in level of danger are overtaking without speeding, overtaking with speeding, and just staying in your lane.

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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

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year 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.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year 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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[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year 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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[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year 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.

[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

i can drive motorbikes and forklifts

don't actually have a car license funnily enough

Deep Hexbear lore: WoofWoof91 is forklift certified

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[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year 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.

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

pit "BUT MUH GENETIC SUPERIORITY

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[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

most advanced case of car brain in history

Death to America

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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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