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@ PedestrianError @towns.gay

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Enemy of car culture and white supremacist cisheteropatriarchyAI = BS. Stop building data centers!

Profile & banner image: bad so-called pedestrian safety campaigns. Profile pic is a poster saying “WALK SAFE most pedestrian crashes are the pedestrian’s fault” & banner is a cartoon crab on a lifeguard stand holding flags that say “save yourself” and “use crosswalks”.

  • The President of the United States posted this message on his account. He wants the Vietnamese to buy SUVs

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  • @Tattorack @Davriellelouna Trump himself is completely out to lunch. He doesn't know what his own policies are, only that he's been told that whatever he just signed will make him look powerful and manly. The handlers running his accounts are just having fun knowing they can make abundantly clear that the dictator has no idea what's going on and civil society is (for now) powerless to do anything. That can only go on for so long...

  • And they think the LA Metro is dangerous 🤔🤔🤔

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  • @youCanCallMeDragon @SwingingTheLamp Emotion is what causes people to be more scared of violent crime than the everyday consequences of their transportation choices when cars are much more likely to injure, kill, or sicken them. Data showing how many people are killed by motorists instead of murderers is necessary to help people overcome that emotion and make decisions based on realistic risk assessment.

  • And they think the LA Metro is dangerous 🤔🤔🤔

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  • Before/After. Meaux Street, Paris.

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  • Limit new car dimensions by 2035: proposal from civil society to the EU

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  • @Jesus666 @RejZoR I agree, as long as non-car owners are considered. If a kei car owner gets a rebate, non-car owners should get an even bigger one.

  • North Carolina parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son, 7, is killed a car accident while walking home, driver that murdered a child gets no charges

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  • @nanook @aeischeid No one capable of basic logic thinks 15 minute cities have anything to do with restricting travel. Either you're being disingenuous, or you're sorely lacking in the logic you think you possess.

  • North Carolina parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son, 7, is killed a car accident while walking home, driver that murdered a child gets no charges

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  • @pixxelkick If children can't walk to their neighborhood grocery store safely, that's a societal problem, not an individual one. Instead of looking for a scapegoat to punish, fix the fucking neighborhood so it doesn't keep happening (to adults as well as children).

  • North Carolina parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son, 7, is killed a car accident while walking home, driver that murdered a child gets no charges

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  • @pixxelkick There was no negligent behavior. Why have we become a culture that criminalizes every aspect of motherhood (ignoring the father's role as an equal co-parent) from having an abortion or even a miscarriage to not keeping your children on a leash for the entire 18 years they are minors (or at least 16, at which time if you can afford to buy them a car you can let them loose to kill people) and then bitches that women don't make enough babies?

  • North Carolina parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son, 7, is killed a car accident while walking home, driver that murdered a child gets no charges

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  • @pixxelkick You haven't traveled much outside the United States of AmeriCar, have you? Building stroads through neighborhoods, making it unsafe for people of any age to walk to their nearest grocery store, is the problem. Almost all other high income countries have been steadily reducing their traffic fatalities for decades while the US does the opposite. Which system represents progress?

  • North Carolina parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son, 7, is killed a car accident while walking home, driver that murdered a child gets no charges

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  • @fodor @pixxelkick Contrast this with the treatment of rich white parents who buy their teenage children cars and allow them to continue using them unsupervised despite evidence that they routinely speed, drive distracted, and otherwise violate traffic laws when their teenager kills someone with their weapon.

  • Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead by a driver

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  • @Alaik @Aragaren It's quite possible the driver was following all the rules and using the road exactly as intended and wasn't able to stop in time because the road design and speed limit encouraged drivers of any age to travel at speeds incompatible with child pedestrian traffic despite being in a populated area surrounded by homes and stores. It's also possible they wanted to retire from driving but were thwarted by the same demonic traffic engineers and land use planners.

  • North Carolina parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son, 7, is killed a car accident while walking home, driver that murdered a child gets no charges

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  • @pixxelkick @JSocial For most of history and in most societies today, it was and is absolutely routine for parents to let 7 and 10 year old siblings walk a few blocks together. When my mom was 7, she was responsible for walking her 5 year old brother to school and that wasn't at all unusual in their neighborhood. The problem is the number and size of cars and stroads, not a lack of helicopter parenting.

  • North Carolina parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son, 7, is killed a car accident while walking home, driver that murdered a child gets no charges

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  • @SemiHemiDemigod @HiddenLayer555 And sadly many US residents including those employed as traffic engineers or school facilities planners and transportation officials don't see that as unusual or inappropriate.

  • Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars

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  • @MisterFrog @azimir And keep driving faster and more distracted and encouraging the government to widen the roads to speed up traffic.

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  • @Notmikey @Wxfisch Yes, the average consumer is quite susceptible to marketing and follows trends in everything from clothes to food & drink to toothbrushes. Many will look around at their peers and try to "keep up with the Joneses". Rather than evidence that car companies are simply responding to consumer demand, that shows they're creating the demand that most benefits their bottom line and looser regulation on vehicles classified as light trucks is a big part of why they market what they do.

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  • @Notmikey @Wxfisch I know unfortunately many people who own mid-sized SUVs. No one I choose to associate with has one a status symbol. They're motivated by lack of smaller options (particularly for parents who need to fit multiple car seats in a vehicle) and fear of them or their kids being injured by other drivers in comically oversized vehicles.

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  • @Notmikey @Wxfisch Go to a Toyota or Honda dealership and you'll find that longstanding models like the Civic and Corolla are much larger and less affordable than they were at the peak of their popularity. Ford no longer makes sedans and GM makes few. All the car companies aggressively market trucks and SUVs to the exclusion of sedans and hatchbacks. That's not because consumers decided they wanted "status symbols," it's because SUVs & trucks have higher profit margins.

  • TIL: violently mentally ill are allowed to own heavy murder SUVs and divers licenses, and aren't immediately charged after murdering 11 people and counting.

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  • @ChairmanMeow @Archangel1313 There are already lots of things that keep people from getting driver's licenses, from disabilities they have no control over like visual impairment or epilepsy to relatively minor and not directly safety-related civil matters like failure to pay child support or overdue court fees. A reasonable society would do a lot more to protect innocent lives from having people drive when they've demonstrated they can't do so safely regardless of the reason.

  • How Transport Data is Like Your Mom’s 1990 AOL Account

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  • @trufiassociation @phr Leading with sexism and ageism isn't a great way to promote your product or point of view.