I just checked it for the first time in ages and we've got:

  • /r/WinStupidPrizes
  • /r/Cringetopia
  • /r/JusticeServed
  • /r/IdiotsInCars
  • /r/facepalm
  • /r/PublicFreakout
  • /r/TIHI (Thanks I Hate It)
  • Some guy celebrating his divorce with a selfie featuring his miserable looking ex wife
  • And of course some gaming stuff

At what point did Reddit become so obsessed with finding people to recreationally get mad at? It's like a majority of the front page content. Terrible vibes.

  • 6bicycles [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's like the logical conclusion of the ad fueled dream of the automobile in that it's an entire subreddit of various people fucking up in cars in an enviroment with literally anyone else there (sometimes not even that) and thinking this'd all be solved if all those other schmucks either start driving more gooder or alternatively just never go anywhere unlike me, the main character of the road

    EDIT: I just checked and I swear to god about half of the videos where it's the driver with the cam hitting someone you can absolutely tell this might go bad and none of them reduce their speed at all. Just pure trust in the right of way and their big metal cages. We have made cars way too safe for the people in them.

    • Sandinband
      ·
      3 years ago

      The way some people talk about car accidents you'd think the only risk is needing to drive a rental and your premium going up. Like they can kill/disable you so fuckin easily

      • 6bicycles [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        So many people absolutely think this. I know way too many people who when I was a passenger and told them to slow down because there's often kids playing in this particular street / cyclists coming or whatever their response is "It's not my fault if I hit them, they shouldn't be in the road."

        Which isn't even legally correct, but besides that, is absolutely fucking psychotic. I used to wonder about cultures that do human sacrifices when I was younger, now I don't anymore.

        • Sandinband
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          3 years ago

          A lot of the "human sacrifices" the indigenous Americans were said to do were Spanish propaganda

          • 6bicycles [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I was thinking more weird northern german folklore about burying children alife in the dykes so they hold which I also don't know if it's historically accurate

            • Wertheimer [any]
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              3 years ago

              They've got some weird Albanian folklore about that, too. Might even be the origin of the German folklore - the Serbian version of the story was the one that made it to Jacob Grimm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozafa_Castle#Legend

        • p_sharikov [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          As much as I hate having to drive, I hate being a passenger more. So many people drive like they think nothing bad could ever happen to them and/or become complete psychopaths who hate everyone else on the road.