No, no, you’re fine. I just stopped where I stopped. You’re spot on that bunching up in lanes causes jams.

I try to drive with the mentality that lanes should be “permeable”, cars should have sufficient space to make easy moves between lanes. When you get a solid line of cars, people start driving the same way deer try to cross a highway.

I should, but I had to stop somewhere, rather than just post a cranky version of the DMV driver education manual, So I arbitrarily stopped where I did. Feel free to chime in and gripe about idiots almost killing us daily though.

If you are in the US… Learn how to drive already. The vast majority of adults are going to drive every day, and most of those are going to drive at least twice a day. The degree of competency in driving seems to fall to a new low every year.

Signals - Use them. If you don’t have time to check, signal, check, maneuver, then you don’t have time to make that turn/lane change. If you don’t signal, you’re not driving, you’re just fucking around in a 2 ton death machine.

Distracted driving - it’s a myth. You’re either driving, or you are fucking around in a 2 ton death machine.

Turning from wrong lane/driving across onramp shoulder - know where where the fuck you are, and if you make a wrong turn, don’t endanger your life, your passengers lives, and every else’s on the road. A good driver rarely misses their turn, a bad driver never misses their turn. If you are cutting people off to make your ramp or turn, you’re not driving, you’re fucking around in a 2 ton death machine.

Frankly, I’m of the opinion that speeding should not be a primary offense. If the road is clear and some dude checking his lanes, using signals and paying attention to the road wants to drive 110 on the freeway, let him. They’ve never almost killed me, but idiots in cars fucking around on the road like they are the only people on the road nearly cause me an accident almost every day I drive now. I rarely get through the day without using my horn to wake up some jackass about to kill someone, and those people should get pulled over, fined, and have their behavior corrected.

Edit: Also automatic lights were a mistake and they should be banned.

I’m gonna save you all from the pic of my pet snake taking a shit in my hand.

My partner thought it was too funny, and used my phone to take the picture.

Trump has backed off from all of his “good” campaign promises, and lately has been floating the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America”.

We’re in for a long 4 years at the circus.

Pihole plus Pi VPN. Best thing I’ve ever done for my sanity. At least until google domains sold to squarespace, which suspiciously doesn’t support dynamic DNS.

Except you didn’t make a connection. Go ahead and quote where you made the connection, and explain it. There is no practical character limit on these posts, you can link outside sources and supplemental material here. How about you put your money where your mouth is and actually back up what you are saying?

Here, I’ll throw the gauntlet hard, right now. You make that post, quoting the context, explaining what I missed, and I’ll go back and edit every one of my posts in this thread admitting that I lost and this whole conversation was unproductive and I was being an idiot asshole. You don’t even have to wager anything in return, because you won’t do it, because you can’t do it, and when you don’t even try to do it in your next comment, it will be a bold-faced admission that you are wrong, you know you are wrong, and you’re just being difficult for the sake of being difficult.

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I don’t think so, I think you fucked up your understanding of my comment, and rather that admit it, you’ve gone on a 12 post goose chase to try and avoid admitting that you didn’t understand anything I wrote. Just own it dude, it’s okay to be wrong sometimes.

That you’re nitpicking a little bit of creative writing?

Yes, I know how special relativity relates space and time together, and that gravity is a warping of space, but I don’t see how this matters in the context of my comment.

Basically, time is your body’s sensation of the inevitable terror that is the heatdeath of the universe.

This doesn’t appear to pertain to gravity wells.

Free speech doesn’t not mean freedom from consequences.

Example. If you tell someone to kill someone else, and they do it, you will be charged with a crime. Free speech means that you can voice your views, and the government (not private corporations btw) is not allowed to restrict it. That’s why you can still read Luigi’s manifesto, or the Unabomber’s. It’s why you can still publish and read the Articles of the Confederacy, or the Anarchist’s Cookbook.

Grinding all traffic in all directions over multiple lanes to a stop when a school bus stops

This varies by state, but I think I most of them are setup so that you don’t have to stop if the road is divided, or if there are more than 4 lanes (so 2 lanes for each direction, plus a turn lane in the middle, you don’t have to stop). As always, check your local laws, and when in doubt, signal and stop.

Edit: to clarify, the oncoming lanes don’t stop, the lane behind and adjacent to the bus still have to stop.

Well, that was not the intended message to convey.

Can you quote the part that gives you that impression? I’d like the chance to fix or clarify it.

Where?

Okay. What did I say about gravity wells?

I think you meant this comment for a different thread.

Are we traveling through time? Or is time simply a universal constant of entropy? Everything you experience is energy flowing from a higher potential to a lower potential, with some “loss” to heat. Without that downward shuffle, a rock balanced on it’s tip is indistinguishable from a time-stopped version of itself.

Basically, time is your body’s sensation of the inevitable terror that is the heatdeath of the universe.