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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨genfood@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

https://files.catbox.moe/oigd72.mp4

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It took a sinister turn right at the end…

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re fucked ja

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    • KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oopsie whoopsie.

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is a funny clip and an accurate depiction of NY congestion.

    But, I live in a major city and weake way for ambulances. If it’s this bad we’ll end up with civilians running red lights or cops on motorbikes to unfuck gridlock.

    I myself ran a red light last week in rush hour to GTFO when I hear sirens. Just turn on my hazards, slow roll into the red light. Cars were already stopping for me so I was safe, then pulled over.

    This is really just making fun of NYC traffic and how fucked it is.

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ja?

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the kind of culture you get and deserve when you allow corporations to control your country and culture

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    • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t see what this comment has to do with the shitpost/video but OK.

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    • fakir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not just corporations. It’s the individual over the collective. And that is just the nature of certain societies, specifically more competitive societies. In India for example, the mindset of everyone in traffic is ‘me over others’ - fuck everyone else, i grab what space I can get. If I don’t, the next fucker will. Like if it starts raining, your 1 hour trip is now 3 hours, not 1.5 hours because there will be a jam at every intersection in the city. There are just so many people on the road and infrastructure (and society / government at large) that hasn’t lent itself to cooperation but rather competition. It becomes their mindset, it becomes everyone’s mindset. That is why many from that region turn right politically. I bet it’s the same for many Latin countries.

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m in Portugal, and it’s definitely not.

        I mean, people are clearly more selfish behind a wheel than they are in person (a lot of Portuguese “good manners” is really just social shame, which isn’t there when people feel anonymous, so many become a lot less polite when inside a car), but everybody just moves over when an ambulance comes and for example you’re more likely to be given way to turn off the road across the other lane, than not.

        You do see some asshole shit (for example, cars trying to scare pedestrians into waiting for the car to pass before entering a zebra crossing), but generally it’s a minority (which the notable exception of people not using direction indicators to help others, only themselves, which is a majority) rather than the majority.

        In my experience Spain is pretty similar.

        From own experience in Latin America it wasn’t much worse, though it was only in Peru and I wasn’t long in Lima to get a good feeling for their big-city driving.

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  • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He’s just demonstrating New York City is fucked, not America

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    • Monstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes this is a NY City thing. Everywhere else we all move out of the way.

      But fuck it, US deserves some negative propaganda, so have at it!

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In case you wanna see a “RETTUNSGASSE!!!” (= rescuing lane) in action this clip is what it looks like ideally.

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    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What I find strange in Germany is that there is literally an emergency lane on the right side of the highway but they block it to make a corridor in the center

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      • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s the “Standstreifen” and it’s used for towing, parking after an accident or other emergency and as an extra lane during traffic jams and road work. That’s too many use cases to make them also suitable for emergency vehicles.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At about 10 seconds on the video you can actually see a guy getting out of the way of the ambulance to let it through, though he was not doing it preemptively.

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    • Aviandelight@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So I actually experienced one of these on 64W between VA Beach and Richmond. It was amazing how everyone including myself just instinctively moved to the sides of the road. It’s not a hard concept it just takes cooperation.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also space to pull over is important. Here in the midwest we have room to move over and everyone does, honestly way more than is necessary. Like people start to pull over a few blocks in front of the ambulance if they just hear the siren.

        New York’s problem in the video is the congestion makes it hard to move out of the way when there is nowhere to go.

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    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s how it’s supposed to work in the US too. Maybe it depends on the state but in MN at least it’s illegal to fail to pull over for emergency vehicles. If you see any emergency vehicle on the road running with lights on then you are supposed to stop and pull off to the side so that they can have the whole road.

      The video in the OP looks nuts to me too. I’ve never seen people fail to pull over for an emergency vehicle in my area.

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      • Hi_May@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is a very NYC phenomenon, everywhere else I’ve ever been and lived in the US moves out of the way for emergency vehicles with their lights and sirens on, I’ve seen both issues where there is nowhere to go and times where people just don’t care, every time I’m in NYC I hope to not need medical attention

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      • gt5@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is how it is in Manhattan when it’s busy. It’s not so much failing to pull over so much as there is nowhere to go.

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  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wenn die Polizei vorbeifährt, ja?

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    • scrion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dann halt ich erst mal an, ja

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    • Senseless@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ja?

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  • guy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I get imense stress from having an ambulance behind me even if there's plenty of room to pass on the side. Immediately plotting where to go if it needs to go exactly where I am.
    I can't imagine having an ambulance behind you and going 'Meh, I'm driving here.'

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    • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If the ambulance is immediately behind you, you’ve already failed.

      In “we’ll-behaving” countries ambulance does not lose speed. If you hear a siren, you pull over, doesn’t matter if you see it or not.

      I’m not directing this at you, just explaning the course of action for people like in the video.

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    • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This happened to me once. It was a main road with heavy traffic. I pulled over to the right to let the ambulance pass, but because of traffic, I was effectively sitting on the right lane. Apparently the ambulance wanted to move to the right lane because they were gonna turn right at the corner up ahead. I felt like an asshole because to everyone else on the road, it looked like I intentionally blocked the ambulance. And the siren blaring right behind you while the driver is blasting the horn is very stressful.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ayyyy I’m driving here

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    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      nyc is a crazy city

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  • Skellysgirl@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Love this. Who says the Germans have no humour.

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    • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mostly the French

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    • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How many Germans does it take to change lightbulb?

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      • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        One.

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  • Enzy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When your MPD switches to Richthofen

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  • Flemmy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    America is a bit bigger than your NY road…

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    • LoreSoong@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean hes got a point though. Its clear these people care more about their destination. Im from NY ive seen this plenty elsewhere, in many states. heck even seen it in canada. People just suck sometimes.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is all the same tho. All of the US is full of carbrainrot.

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This isn’t cars this is people and their culture.

        I am from the UK, a large city too, and we have lots of cars and incredibly busy roads where it’s standstill a lot, but cars will move out of the way for emergency vehicles, you’ll drive on the kerb if you have to.

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      • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is beyond car brain. This is the increasing amount of people simply not giving a shit about the social contract over the years coupled with cops not doing their actual jobs in favor whatever it is they do (sitting in their cars fucking around in their phones and harassing minorities?)

        But you see the lack of concern for the social contract in many other aspects of american life. Asking people to wear a paper mask during a pandemic was probably the most notable recent non car example. We all know how that went. In other cultures it’s a regular practice; you simply do it as a courtesy when you have recently had a cold. In A america during a pandemic 30-40% of the population revealed themselves to be utterly pathetic toddlers that can’t handle being asked to do something by a perceived authority figure or slightly inconvenienced.

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      • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Where I live, if a person on the crosswalk doesn’t move out the way of ab ambulance, it goes on the national news lol.

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  • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I come and save you, ja?

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    • datendefekt@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQLk-LF1JY

      haben sie was getrunken, ja! (ja) fragt mich die Polizei, ja! ja

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      • YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Der polizist mit seinen elfenohren …

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    • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are being rescued. Please do not resist.

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      • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You are being billed. Please do not resist.

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  • riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I speak perfect english but still use „ja”, ja?

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    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ja sonst ist es nicht authentisch genug. Aber war schon witzig.

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I assumed it was some weird YouTube thing he was doing. None of my German friends use that haha.

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    • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      how else would we know he’s German

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    • tromars@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wenn die Polizei vorbei fährt, ja! (ja)
      dann halt ich erst mal an, ja! (ja)

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    • riot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Das ist der Weg

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    • lennee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ja.

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      • genfood@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ja.

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