I would be there, except I'm stuck in traffic. Too many people on the roads (except me).
Whenever I go on one of my anti-car rants and somebody defensively announces they're a car guy, ready to fight, I just explain that I'm the traffic. The roads should be left to the car guys. It literally always goes over smoothly. Suddenly, they like train infrastructure because it frees up the scenic mountain roads.
That's why, if I'm stuck on busy roads and need to inform someone of my status, I will say that I'm traffic.
You're the traffic in the same way that a molecule of water in the ocean is the wave.
When I'm stuck in traffic, I generally am anti-traffic, meaning I drive in such a way to make the traffic behind me better than the traffic in front of me. The most basic way to do this is by increasing your follow distance. Instead of following 2 or 3 seconds behind, follow 5 or more seconds behind.
Most traffic is caused by people braking too hard. The most common reason is that they're following close enough that they have to brake hard when the person in front of them brakes hard.
By leaving space in front of you, you reduce the number of times you have to brake hard, thereby reducing the number of times the people behind you brake hard.
You also give people the chance to switch lanes if they want to. People cutting others off because they switch lanes without room is another common reason for hard braking.
People drive like it’s pvp but it actually should be co-op.
THANK YOU. I do the same! Then I get envious of the people behind me lol
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Well, that narrows it down
Xitter or Facebook?
His name is already on the image where he signed it.
"His name is already on the image where he signed it."
Re: 1), you're not kidding - check out that gray banding on the caption in the top-level post!
You trying to give his website the hug of death? ;)
We're Lemmy. The best we can give is the hug of coma.
Peck of drowsiness
I can understand the complaint though.
You might not have come if you knew beforehand that it would be this busy. But now that you’re finally here, you don’t want to waste the trip and decide to make the best of it. You just grumble a little that it’s so busy.
I think I understand the joke, but I've seen things from this point of view as well. Something happened during and after pandemic lockdowns that has led to absolutely unprecedented numbers of people going out and hiking what were previously really quiet trails. It was already tough maintaining them before, now you've got tons of people who don't bother to know the norms or understood rules of the parks.
Several parks near me have had to institute an admittance/ticketing program with reservations made a month in advance just to enter the trailhead lot because they're so overrun with people now. It's great that people are outside and enjoying a public resource, but maybe it's just a few too many people all at once?
The trick is to go to places that aren’t popular, and never post pictures to social media.
There are places near me where I can stand on top of a mountain, in direct line of sight of millions of people, without having met a single person on the trail that day.
How is this a science meme
mfw I look at human impacts on the environment
eco tourism, does wreak havoc on the places they go.
Me when I am in traffic 😔
My nephew always tells me: man i HATE traffic. And i tell him: but we are the traffic, we are part of the problem. I don't think he understands it yet.
The big US national parks had a reservation system for a bit. It was great.
If I get a ticket, I'll go and it'll be a pleasant experience. If I don't, well, I can take a tour bus in or I can just not go.
I appreciated that systemic fix, even if it sucks when you don't get a ticket and get to drive in exactly how you want. (You can still enter on foot or public transit.)
Costco every fucking day..
Well you’re in luck because a bill was introduced to sell National Parks to billionaires
Accidental self critique rule: Anyone who says "there are too many people" is the extra person.
I read this as a horror prompt where the spealer isnt't human, lol
I think there are three ways to handle this properly:
I bet they have a licence plate and bumper stickers that tell other people how environmentally friendly they are.
Me whenever I’m driving.
How I feel whenever I drive on the highway.
This is why I never go outside.
Haha. This is me. I don't even want to be there most of the tube
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