One of my favoirte “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me” contradictions in modern life is a 50 foot by 10 foot billboard next to the high way screaming “don’t look at your phone pay attention to the road!” On a road lined with brightly colored bullboards. Hell, some are giant animated screens now.
Exactly, these aren’t just annoying, they’re dangerous for people with hearing impairments who already have trouble processing the sounds of the world around them.
I just press every button, starting on the right. Mute is usually the 2nd or 3rd from the top.
Everything about cars is treated with this insane level of ease and casualness that nothing else with their level of danger gets, I guess simply because they’re for common civilian use?
Forklift drivers are held to a much higher standard than car drivers, despite forklifts being much less dangerous
only because they haven’t found a way to offload all the externalities of drunk speeding forklift drivers onto the public and the government yet.
its an insane libertarian thought experiment and not in any way realistic, but if capital owners that built cars, or roads, or whatever, any capitalist really, was liable for all the damage caused by drivers and maintenance incurred by rampant car dependency, and couldn’t offload it, suddenly they’d care a lot more about this shit
You know what goes great with volatile flammable vapors? Distractions!
I hope whoever invented that shit stomps on a rake and the rake somehow goes up their ass.
One of my favoirte “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me” contradictions in modern life is a 50 foot by 10 foot billboard next to the high way screaming “don’t look at your phone pay attention to the road!” On a road lined with brightly colored bullboards. Hell, some are giant animated screens now.
Don’t look at your phone, peasant, it distracts you from consuming our treats
Exactly, these aren’t just annoying, they’re dangerous for people with hearing impairments who already have trouble processing the sounds of the world around them.
I just press every button, starting on the right. Mute is usually the 2nd or 3rd from the top.
Everything about cars is treated with this insane level of ease and casualness that nothing else with their level of danger gets, I guess simply because they’re for common civilian use?
Forklift drivers are held to a much higher standard than car drivers, despite forklifts being much less dangerous
only because they haven’t found a way to offload all the externalities of drunk speeding forklift drivers onto the public and the government yet.
its an insane libertarian thought experiment and not in any way realistic, but if capital owners that built cars, or roads, or whatever, any capitalist really, was liable for all the damage caused by drivers and maintenance incurred by rampant car dependency, and couldn’t offload it, suddenly they’d care a lot more about this shit