I said it before and I'll say it again: The personal automobile will be looked upon, in the future, as a net negative. We will grind our intellects to slurry trying to figure out why we thought giving everyone an exploding poison-excreting hunk of metal and plastic was good. They'll look at garages and to a table of all the carcinogens released and they'll throw up their hands and shout "by god, they let these things inside their homes!"
Cars are already a mindfuck to me. It just seems wrong that we all get places by screwing around with souped-up high-speed tractors. The only thing preventing you from dying at any given moment on the road is that some other chucklefuck is paying attention and doesn't want to die. They could just drive right into you. Nothing is really stopping them - what, like the paint on the ground? Make sure to steer your explosion-propelled carriage just right!
whats bad about garages its nice to have a big door to move things through and store stuff in sans cars
Garages are cool as fuck. Great workplaces. Great storage. In the winter they're good for storing root vegetables and beer at a nice temperature. Garage sans car is a garage living its best life.
ive heard that its a bad place to store chemicals in and stuff cause it can get into your house and affect your lungs. apparently its the most likely reason why your house's air quality is bad. but i assume if you dont keep your car on in the garage and keep the door open to air out stuff regularly while having an airtight access door / walls its probably fine
Yeah ideally you want to keep the really toxic stuff in an outhouse with a cement floor kinda situation. Airing things out is always good. Shit just accumulates. You get enough dust in there you can get the chemicals to actually like spill or leak into the dust, dry out, and now you can inhale that dust. Not good.
Edit: I once came across this metal tin of the most toxic fucking paint remover I have ever seen at a place I used to work at. Corporate sent it to us for graffiti remover. I pulled the little report off the thing and read it. That stuff was so toxic we didn't even have the right gloves to handle it. It didn't have a name. It was called like ZS-256 or some shit. You could have poured this one small half gallon tin in a lake and you'd kill every fucking thing in it. They left it near the mop sink! First thing I did after folding up the sheet of details was glove up and put that fucker in the electrical panel on the outside of the building. I was the resident OSHA nerd but we were union so I got to power trip a bit when management did bullshit like that. Haven't thought about that in years but it does kinda apply here. We never used that tin. I made management send it back.
Edit 2: At that same job I came across another safety data sheet that made me call up my friend in med school to ask "yo, so what exactly is 'pulmonary edema.'" Fun times with chems. Never ever take a job in the petrol industry if you can help it. The level of chemical exposure is awful.
Even here, the belief that making the bad thing electric is a meaningfully significant change persists.
Lithium comes from Gaia's freely-given sweet whispers. :eco-porky:
Turns out, moving billions of tons of metal and plastic back and forth everyday is fairly wasteful.
Bazinga brains don't like to share so they prefer one or more tons of metal and plastic per bazinga brain.
The entire pitch of :my-hero: 's "The Boring Company" (get it? GET IT?!) was that the savior of humanity hated traffic too and so proposed digging tunnels under it.
Turns out those tunnels improve nothing and are just more constricted and dangerous traffic with a bazinga lightshow. :so-true:
Honestly surprised there isnt more effort to "invent and disrupt" with just the plan old bus.
Dress it up, make an app, paint them cool colors, call them self driving ( but still have an actual driver), have coffee or something on board. Etc.
American buses right now suck and legit need "disruption."
Someone stands to make millions selling overpriced buses to cities. Just do it.
Techbros have already "disrupted" busses by having busses to move their workers to and from their worksites.
It's just a thing that's done because it actually fucking works but it doesn't get much publicity because it's not exciting like the magic cars.
https://www.shortlist.com/news/ride-sharing-company-lyft-has-invented-the-bus
Yeah, true. Still, feels like theres so much money on the table. The floor is "everyone owns and operates their own vehicle, for forever, at $5/gal"
But I suppose selling everyone a Ford F150 every year is the real money maker.
I suppose the "disruption" would be so counter to the normal "owning a car is good" propaganda, that it would feel like a trick/communist.
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Someone did make a fancy bus on a DC to New York route that seems cool. Has coffee and supposedly very comfortable seats
but its renewable! they say as they use up limited lithium reserves by plummeting their plastic and steel death carriage off a bridge
While I am very concerned for the injured...
that cameraman was cracking me up
I need to get off the road! runs off away from the road
DAAAAAAAMNNNN runs back towards the road filming
God bless
Last night I actually had a dream where skeleton type monsters were emerging from the ground at an increasing rate everywhere I went. Not that you make the comparison the second half of the video does remind me of that haha
HOLY SHIT STAY THE FUCK INSIDE YOUR CAR HOLY SHIT AAAAH
I thought that person was about to fucking die, that was pure luck they didn't GOD DAMNIT PEOPLE
Edit: I mean yeah obviously, when you see a moment to book it the fuck out of there, but until then don't just stand around outside!
Ideally in a situation like this you want to get out of your car and basically sprint off the road as quickly as possible. If you get in an accident under normal conditions you'd want to stay in your car, but here you have tractor trailers flying at you at 60 mph with no means of stopping if you stay in the car. People routinely get killed in these pileups by getting sandwiched between big rigs.
Car safety cages can handle more impact force than human bones and organs can so they've got the right of it.
Of course, but it seems better to get out and move off the road & not be in a position where you’re gambling over how well you’ll make out of getting smashed by a semi. Ofc every option is shit and absurdly life threatening.
Narrator is way too excited about an event that's gonna lead to life long spinal problems for a bunch of people
I have two theories on this.
1: Adrenaline is one hell of a drug
2: This is probably the most interesting thing which has happened in Schuylkill County in over a decade.
i've seen a lot of traumatic footage in my life, people cannot stay composed during bizarre, violent, and catastrophic events. They get giddy. It's never depicted that way in popular media but people straight up start laughing during the most fucked up shit and they can't help it. It's not because they find it funny necessarily. It's often just a nervous tick.
Given how often this happens, you'd think cars would be required to send out a wireless signal alerting nearby drivers to the pileup or something. Surely there is some easy solution to this problem?
:libertarian-approaching:
what if, we built an underground network of signal tunnels that cost $1.9 infinity dogecoin 🤔🤔
