Why not make the idiots who came up with the idea stand out there with an orange vest and direct traffic?
Wait until some genius in your city discovers the “diverging diamond”…
We actually have 2 of these already so you can understand my frustration
The city here spent good money tearing up a functional 4 way stop. Spent gobs more installing a two lane round-a-about. Crashes, confusion and mayhem quickly evolved. All that money and now one lane has been shutdown for over a year because…safety.
Waiting for gun manufacturers and owners to sue Hollywood for the promotion of gun violence for profit.
I like roundabouts. They eliminate waiting at lights, ease merging into an artery from a feeder, and keep people from coming to a complete stop blocking traffic to make a left.
I feel that those of us that are uncooperative are closer to being “taken care of” than most will admit.
It said anything goes. Well that’s just where I feel this is all headed.
I’m not ok with death.
Honestly at this point none of this shit makes sense. I don’t believe the vast of majority of who we call evil will face eternal damnation. I think of lot of evil is because of misguided upbringings (ie: children/students of terrorist) or chemical imbalances or things like brain tumors (ie Texas tower shooter.) assuming there is an afterlife, I don’t believe you will remember your earthly life as it would perpetuate inequality found on earth (assuming there is equality in heaven). If there is no afterlife, nothing matters because the heat death of the universe will kill all of humanity. Therefore I’ve taken a nihilist position. It’s really sucking the motivation from me. I’m not really depressed, just overwhelmed by the fact nothing matters.
Yep. I even love them despite the fact I drive a commercial truck.
They’d be better if cities didn’t feel the need to fill them with landscaping to the point you can’t see the traffic flow. In Australia I found them easy to navigate and fairly effortless. Here I find that they are often too tightly radiused, often have poor visibility, and virtually no one signals properly in them.
My City did that. Despite some inital hilarious incidents, including someone sitting there in confusion until a Cop tapped on the window and helping her figure it out. Then there was the old guy who just drove right over the landscaping narrowly missing a flag pole.
I actually like it, but I lived in Europe for a decade and had a bit of an advantage when it was installed.
Keeps traffic flowing well.
Try existentialism. Sure it may all be a big nothing, but might as well enjoy your time that you have for whatever reason we exist.
Life may have no meaning, so we give it a meaning. Decide what is important and live your life accordingly. Decide what values you respect and then BE that person to the best of your ability. Sometimes I am a f’ing island and one that many people don’t understand…it doesn’t matter…it only matters that I understand and do my best.
I do it for ME, to make MY existence tolerable because life is already hard enough. Anything you love you will eventually lose or they will lose you. You can’t win, so just enjoy the ones you love and do your best. That’s it. That’s the entire secret of the universe.
Nihilism is for sucks who aren’t trying hard enough. Go sit in a park, breath the air…look at life. There are literally thousands of people everywhere who would give everything to just do that one more time for just one more day.
Right now somebody is in a pediatric cancer ward working on getting their kid to acceptance of fate at an age where they can’t even really understand it…and your life is too much to get a handle on? Go volunteer at some of those places then get back to me.
And it really might be that there is no afterlife, no divine justice. It really might be that millions of children were marched into gas chambers for nothing they did wrong and guys like Mengele lived full lives without being held accountable. It’s f’ed up. But so is the fact that children are born with fatal diseases, die in childbirth or soon after and sometimes kill their mother in the process. Life isn’t fair and depending where and when you were born, it can feel like the entire universe has conspired to make your life horrible.
But if you live in the country, if you have food, clothing and shelter and expect to have the same next year and everything is doom and gloom then you really need to reevaluate. Somebody will always have more, live a better life, eat better food, have a better job, send their kids to better schools and all of that. Why anyone who is doing their best with the means at their disposal would actually care is beyond me.
Sometimes a Coke and a smile is all you get that day. Learn to enjoy a Coke and a smile.
I’ve always enjoyed how blaming video games for promotion of violence was the go to. Meanwhile the movie rating system (and prime time TV shows) go further and further.
You feel that way because history proves you will one day be correct. Power and control ultimately corrupts.
Well said. It truly is the simple things.
The only reason good times are pleasant is because of the bad times. Without one, or the other, we would know no different.
Dolphins got confirmed (but not credited) kills in Vietnam. There’s your fun fact for the evening.
Ones the dolphins didn’t get got wrecked by sonar.
Interesting in any case. The things we’ve done never cease to amaze me.
How many confirmed kills did John Denver have in Vietnam?
From playing his music? I know it’s not as many as Barry Manilow, but it’s still got to be up there.
True.
And if I want to have fun driving through one I have to let a HUGE gap grow in front of me because poor drivers can barely navigate through them at 10 mph. (the elderly are forgiven)
Very good.
I wonder if souls are recycled in some way. Nature recycles pretty much everything else. (or actually EVERYTHING else?)