• Beardsley@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The majority of human history has shown us that no, in fact, walking does not inherently make you kinder.

  • lath@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Nah. Assholes will be assholes regardless of their mode of transportation. The car/bike is an instrument and a conduit that helps express one’s assholeishness, but that state of mind exists even on foot where it gets even more up close and personal.

    • drkt@scribe.disroot.org
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      2 months ago

      The difference is when a gaggle of young teens take up the sidewalk, I can walk around. When a truck comes barrelling down the road, it damages my hearing and actively threatens to kill me.

      • lath@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Unequal comparison. A gaggle of teens is comparable to a wedding convoy. Slow, loud and annoying.

        A truck barreling down the road is like a group of gangbangers threatening to shoot anyone who looks at them funny.

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          2 months ago

          Considering I almost get run over every other day and I’ve never seen a gun outside of a shooting range I’d say your comparison is unfair.

          If we ignore that I live in Europe and not America, we can still look at some statistics:
          In 2020 45,222 people died to guns in America.
          In the same year 38,824 people died in motor vehicle accidents.

          They seem pretty comparable?

          • lath@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            “Shooting” was an just example. Think in terms of size and threat of damage. Teens - small car, gang members - truck.

            The numbers do seem comparable though.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
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    2 months ago

    Absolutely the opposite for me. I am a chill driver but get very frustrated when trying to walk through busy places. I still like when I can take a non-car option, though

    That said, my “very frustrated” at no point ever rises to the level of the road-rage that is all too common amongst drivers

    • Oxysis/Oxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      I walk and bike (driving makes my anxiety go crazy), cars never properly look out for us and it makes walking and biking way more dangerous than than it should be

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Where I live (Philly suburb) the vast majority of drivers are actually very respectful and considerate. Unfortunately, even if 99.9% of drivers are great about it, that still means 1 out of every 1000 cars that passes you is going to be taking your life into their hands. For as much biking as I do, that means about one scary incident a week.

        I would never ride my bicycle in Philadelphia proper, just way too insane. Ironically enough, it’s also the cyclists who are batshit crazy there - it’s quite common to see people riding against traffic on streets with no shoulders, or sailing through red lights and stop signs without even looking first. Somehow it’s never those riders who are killed. The regular bicycle deaths are almost always the result of large trucks turning right across the bike lanes and mowing somebody down.

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    2 months ago

    There is some scientific backing to this. Basically by isolating ourselves in these little bubbles of death, we stop seeing the other people as people and this removes any moral/societal blockers to descending into a pit of rage and calling for the termination of their bloodline, death by inept firing squad, etc.

    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I wouldn’t even say we stopping seeing them as people, but instead that we view them as generally terrible people based on how they drive. They’re either an idiot or an asshole, as the saying goes. (‘Anyone that drives faster than me is an asshole and anyone that drives slower than me is a moron’ is the saying)

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    2 months ago

    I had the extremely good fortune to move to a place where I don’t need a car and I am always surprised by how quickly the hate returns when I get behind the wheel.

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    Nah. The hate of other people never leaves my body. When driving it’s the dumbasses that don’t use their blinkers. While walking, it’s the people that stay far enough from the wall in order to occupy the most space while staying close enough that you don’t fit between the douchebag and the wall.

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    Commuter rail is hilarious for this. All the same people that were in orderly lines, holding doors open, giving seats to older or disabled people, and saying “oh you go first” for the last hour spend thirty seconds back in the “safety” of their white SUV and they’re acting like absolute animals to all the same strangers.

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      2 months ago

      The first time I can recall someone not my brother giving me the middle finger was my first time driving on a real road, and I wasn’t even in the wrong ahah.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Unless you can see others driving. In which case you’ll probably see or hear them doing rude or psychotic behavior. Or at least that’s how it is here

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    Its sorta annoying because the car culture is so engrained. I had a job prospect in a burb that was not easy by transit but I could swing it with by doing bike and commuting on the reverse (away from downtown) train line. My brother had a folder and since its possible you can be denied bike access and I need it on the other side of the trip to I asked if I can borrow. No he was hoping to use it to teach his kid to bike but he said hey I can borrow his car. Im pretty sure he is just trying to fix my bad decision on how to do things.

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    it’s not the driving, it’s the assholes on the road who drive like it’s baby’s 1st power wheels. when i moved from city to rural, the improvement in my mental health just from the zero traffic was unbelievable. there’s like 2 good things about living in a city, and neither are remotely worth dealing with the many reasons NOT to live there

    • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, there’s little I dislike more than HAVING to drive in the city or through one. Luckily, we’re working on a project that is close enough to public transportation for the time being.

      I’ll be sad once this one finishes because, I’ll most likely need to return to car life.

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      So, not just the “having a 1500kg weapon”, but also having to make sure that your 1500+kg weapon does not attack some other 1500+kg weapon while both are armed and are in the process of being discharged, continuously.
      Yeah, that would be a stressor.

      Well, at least I only have to worry about my ~15kg runaway device, not getting hit by any of those weapons.
      Oh wait, I also have to worry about the fragile thing not breaking down under my own force and running me straight into one of those weapons.