Factorio flashback intensifies.
I have no words.
Sao Paulo: AMATEURS
Wow, it’s like a giant sliding block puzzle.
At some point, it’s literally that. You have to kick everyone out of their cars and start loading the cars up on wheel dollies, then slide them out sideways. Or bring in a forklift to do the same.
You know at some point the cars that can turn right will and the cars to their left will be able to turn right and so on. Seems like this will eventually unfuck itself.
But then the cars that turn will be giving in!?! They will be late for the thing they’re doing!
Plus, turning right isn’t what THEY want to do! Everyone else should turn right, clearly.
So like Cities Skylines but for real.
It’s crazy to me that none of the people in the right lane of traffic are just escaping off to the right. Everyone’s just sitting.
Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.
I do think of that mentality “But I don’t want to go right, I want to go straight, I’m not turning, everyone needs to get out of my way so I can go straight, I’m waiting here until that happens” as an American thing, but I guess we don’t have a monopoly on it.
Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.
For some reason this inspired me to evil.
I propose that we tax inattentive drivers. How? By adding easily avoidable large tolls along major roadways.
Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. You’re driving along a stretch of long empty country road. Over the course of several miles, all sorts of signs, lights, and warnings announce that the right lane, and only the right lane, will be subject to a $100 toll. And a toll reader is set up to do just that. If you drive through the left lane, no toll. If you drive through the right lane, $100. Again, you provide plenty of warning. You would have to be half asleep, drunk, completely distracted, or drugged out of your mind to miss the signs. Hell, we’ll post it in all sorts of languages even.
Now, if you’re worried about a potential traffic bottleneck forming…no worries! We can hook the tolls up to a traffic counter, and the tolls are only active when traffic counts are very low. So only active during low levels of sparse traffic. And we could make all the signs electronic, so they all turn off when the tolls are inactive.
I propose we toll inattentive drivers.
“But it’s not my favorite way! I can’t go that way!”
I’ll take exits to who knows where to avoid traffic even if sitting in it is technically faster. Every time the highway gets shut down for a snow-related accident, my adventure gene lights up and we go exploring the back country. It’s never fun, but it beats sitting in traffic, and it’s never as bad as the time I got stuck on the highway in a blizzard and was stuck at 15mph for a normally 2-hour-70-mph drive that took me some 5-7 hrs to complete… the next morning I took a perfect imprint of my license plate off the ice covering my car. Kept that in my freezer in a box for a couple years until sublimation made it unreadable.
They had to pose for the picture of course
That too was bothering me a lot.
Do they not have a “don’t block the box” type of law there? Being within the intersection like that seems crazy to me
Oh buddy, traffic laws in Brazil are light suggestions not really enforced. Red lights? Just drive through, don’t stop. Roundabout? Just drive straight through they’re just painted circles on the road, silly. One way street? Who’s gonna stop me? Roads usually flow like you see in SE Asia where its like a flowing stream of motorcycles, except there’s a lot more VW Gol’s and Fiat Uno’s. Even the Civil and Military police don’t give a shit and drive like everyone else. Just don’t get caught speeding on a speed camera or you will get a ticket for going .1 KPH over the limit.
Sometimes you just need to be the reason for the safety meeting
There are modern roundabouts and then there are rotary intersections. Modern roundabouts have traffic entering the circle yield to traffic already within it, while rotary intersections have traffic within the circle yield to traffic entering. That makes rotaries, but not modern roundabouts, susceptible to locking up like this.
Check out the whole line of cars that could be getting through right-to-left, but there are two jerkwads who insist on not moving their car a foot or two apart to open up the little space and let them proceed.
Turns out the real America was in the hearts of the world this entire time
the people who designed that town don’t seem to understand that rectangles don’t fit into a circle
Oslo
That town
That’s right, it goes in the square hole.
the thing you linked to is 404’d
The image I posted? I still see it. Maybe feddit is blocking it. Hit the fediverse colorful icon, which should open the post on the home instance.
I copypasted the link and it was 404’d I got that error specifically
But I didn’t post a link
Edit. But here is the link to the image I posted-- https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/4dc280bc-a31a-439a-822f-69c4426383f0.jpeg
(fwiw link works fine for me)
Osloboros.
*Oslobobus.
Hes the Swedish chef tho, not the Norwegian chef.
Pøpcørn Shrǐmp!
None of those “odd” letters are Swedish. I don’t care about it being a meme, could put at least some effort into it and make it actually funny.
Almost this exact picture was used to explain “Deadlocks” in one of my early computer science classes in college.
Solution is simple. Plant the busses in place as a permanent memorial to the passengers.
I propose the busses fight and eat each other until only the strongest bus remains.
Survival of the fitness.
The growth of a bus tree would also help boost the local economy.
This happens in nature as well. Ants, antelope, and many other unintelligent animals get stuck in a “death spiral” and die of exhaustion.
I enjoy how casually you insulted these animals as “unintelligent” after we’ve established that humans do the same. I guess, you never said that humans weren’t unintelligent, though…
Omg… Is that a … Snakeybus reference???
Lisa needs braces.
Dental plan!
The civil-service centipede.
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