Yup. Also traditional: the blind hypocrisy of using a tech product that routes through a data center to call for a total ban on data centers.

You can be sure Monterey Park didn’t have any data centers to begin with. They aren’t exactly in every town. And there’s no shortage of towns ready to line up for data center money. I’m sure this town will be fine.

Don’t feel bad - you just dared to bruise their favorite “AI BAD” narrative with practical facts. Sometimes this place really is just an echo chamber to shout idiotic wishes into the dark instead of a forum for actual discussion.

I could see a reasonable statewide zoning law but a statewide ban? You’ve got to be kidding. Tech is one of California’s biggest industries. We’re just going to NIMBY the problem onto someone else?

Oh boo hoo HOOOOOO!!

There is no way to lane block someone on a remote rural road. If you’re racing to save a life you just fucking pass in the other lane.

There’s no moral superiority about this. Your anecdote is just bullshit and doesn’t change the fact that driving fast and tailgating causes more accidents than it saves lives.

I like the way you’ve gussied up “objectively wrong as proven by science” into “my unpopular opinion.”

When your opinion contradicts known fact, it’s no longer an opinion. It’s a fantasy.

You can’t even change your “opinion” when provided with excellent reasons to, yet you judge people for not overcoming their biological imperatives.

A few more facts before I go: I’m not overweight, and you are a douche.

Rage bait is the generous interpretation. The “no one could be this stupid and awful” interpretation.

So what then? I guess you’re stupid and awful then.

How about anytime because some people have ears and want to keep their hearing.

Yes. I’m not sure how it’s the infrastructure’s fault that we don’t have better transit though. Better transit would mean busses here as we have decent bike support and regional rail. We do have busses, too, but for them to be better they need to go more places that the cars are going.

And actually the biggest reason we have so many cars is they keep building more and more housing further and further out from our town, which then needs to pass through our town to get anywhere.

There’s multiple layers to this, but if all you wanted to say was “your infrastructure is shit” then, well, you’ve said it.

You don’t. My first fake id was someone’s old military id.

They’re not being obstinate. You are working very hard not to understand that your job has to be walkable too.

Walkable: jobs, homes, and basic essentials shopping coexist near enough to each other.

It’s not walkable if you only have 2 out of 3.

I’m in an odd situation where there’s heavy traffic but we have very good bike lanes and bike trails. Yet I am afraid to use the bike lanes most of the time because the drivers are so insane. And half the people who do ride bikes end up doing it wrong because they feel unsafe: they ride in the bike lane against traffic or just ride on the sidewalks where they become the threat: to pedestrians.

This is every day where I live. It’s madness. Otherwise, the place is paradise. Beautiful area. People are great here. Until you get them into a car. Then they are inattentive, pushy, and unsafe. People die every single year. Kids on bikes get plowed over. It’s insane.

At a 4-way intersection, if I stop around the same time as a car to my right I always yield to them according to the “right hand rule” of right-of-way. But everyone else wants to go only by “who reached the line first” and they want to time it down to the millisecond. And guess what: they always, always determine that they arrived first.

Funny how that works. They’ve changed the rule from “right of way goes to whoever arrived first, defer to car on your right when in doubt” to “it’s always my turn.”

I guess it just really goes to show that no one “chooses” to be gay. I think we all knew that already, and one natural consequence is that every now and then a complete asshole MAGAt is going to be gay. It’s inevitable.

For every 1 speeder who’s trying to reach the ER in time to save their friends life, there are 10,000 deaths caused by speeding.

Give me a break with this bullshit second hand tale. I’m not going to treat tailgaters like they are on their way to save a life. They take lives.

It’s his god given right to get a speeding ticket and you are trampling his freedom!!! /s

Zero “people” are defending this. Anyone defending this is subhuman.

Think of it this way: do you want them driving toward you or away from you?

There are only 2 traffic laws in my town, apparently:

1. “it’s my turn”
2. “I wanna go fast”

The problem is everyone obeys them.