Oh good. This is gonna be just like reddit. Things that are literally decades old.
You arent stuck in traffic, you are the traffic.
Submitted 9 months ago by Scarronline@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Scarronline@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Isn’t reddit content just a reflection of people, and people also exist on this platform
President_Pyrus@feddit.dk 9 months ago
Did you expect people would really change compared to how they acted on Reddit?
kratoz29@lemm.ee 9 months ago
What’s wrong with this post?
irmoz@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Lemmy isn’t reddit, but whatever it is, they’re both the internet.
number6@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Be the traffic you want to become.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Ahh, the Lemmy meme.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You aren’t shitposting in Lemmy, you ARE the Lemmy!
beneeney@lemm.ee 9 months ago
We do not live in a society. We are a society. 😔
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And you can actively choose to better or worsen society, just like you can choose to better or worsen traffic. Vote for legislation to improve public transit. #fuckcars
scarabic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So then what’s happening when I drive and there’s no traffic? Am I nothing???!
Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Youre never “nothing”… youre always something special! I promise :)
Example: when there is no traffic, youre still a noise & particulate generator that lowers property values, warms our planet, and makes the built environment more hostile/dangerous and depressing for everyone nearby.
scarabic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Whew thank god. Who cares if I’m ruining everything as long as I exist!
FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Okay, how do I get to my job then without encountering all of the passive aggression? Lol. Maybe car haters should be attacking the systems that made it impossible to live within walking distance of our places of employment: capitalism, city zoning, and substandard wages for a start. Otherwise, you’re just complaining about the rain when you should have been pulling out an umbrella.
fubo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You aren’t in an orgy. You are the orgy.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Where orgy?
fubo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Can’t get there, too much traffic.
GravelPieceOfSword@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
The traffic is stuck in the traffic🚦
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
More traffic per traffic.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You were watching Not Just Bikes in the shower?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
You don’t?
notExactlyI20@lemmy.world 9 months ago
mmm yes, the traffic is made out of traffic
Lmaydev@programming.dev 9 months ago
“I’m stuck in traffic” implies they aren’t part of it but that it is something that is happening to them.
You’re not stuck in it, you are it.
thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There is not not enough parking, there are too many cars
troglodytis@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There’s plenty of parking on the highway
malloc@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Been working remote since onset of pandemic. Never going back to the office bro. Couldn’t pay me enough to share the roads with the rest of the grinders.
So many hours wasted in traffic.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Meanwhile i quite enjoyed my commute to school on a 20-30 minute bus, it’s quite unparalleled to begin your day gazing out the windows at a foggy morning countryside.
malloc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I hated it in high school. I just hated waking up early af. Was so glad to get a car and license. Then come college, I loved it again. Getting a parking permit, going into traffic with other people was a pain.
Moved to a place that was near a college bus route, never had to get a parking permit or get into traffic. Take the bus and relax.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 months ago
I had to go into the office throughout the pandemic and I agree. All the rest of you stay home and leave the roads clear for me.
LegionEris@feddit.nl 9 months ago
They’re not mutually exclusive states. You can be part of the traffic, but if you can’t get out, you’re still stuck in it. You’re part of traffic but not stuck in it if and only if you have the opportunity to exit the traffic experience.
maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is a Bill Burr bit.
PowerGloveSoBad@lemmy.world 9 months ago
State Anthem of the Soviet Union plays in background
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I was here before the traffic
Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Now I’m stuck in the damn traffic that I’ve helped damn create. Dammit!
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 months ago
dangblingus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I love this episode of Doctor Who so much.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
No wonder I hate myself.
jedi_hamster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Part of the ship
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
pontata@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just one more lane bro and we fix traffic, trust me.
Okalaydokalay@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Or take an existing lane and charge people to use it and call it the “express lane”.
lightnegative@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That actually works. It’s like your healthcare system, those who pay the most get the best service
dandroid@dandroid.app 9 months ago
California Bay Area in shambles
david@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I think people downvoting this didn’t spot the sarcasm.
ByteWizard@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Induced demand is a myth. www.cato.org/blog/debunking-induced-demand-myth
Adding more lanes does improve throughput even if congestion is still a problem.