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Me only looking one way because my finances are a wreck
Is it because you can’t afford to pay attention?
Must not live in the is US because those medical bills won’t help.
Yep, one of the worst crashes I’ve ever had to work, was a wrong way car that hit 2 bicycles that didn’t look. Each bicycle had a parent and a child on board. All sustained very serious injuries. It was a true definition of “blood bath”.
I’m not sure it was necessary for you to bathe in their blood.
Well, kinda necessary, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to render care very well.
Lemmy.zip image proxy fails again.
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Thanks, I wonder why that one works. It appears to be going through the image proxy too. I figured you were direct linking or something. Weird.
Was mainly trying to call out the .zip admins. I see these image proxy issues regularly.
it’s because the original image is actually hosted on i.redd.it which may cause issues, especially with weird HTTP headers which some software might struggle with and also with VPNs
Defensive driving is for pedestrians too
Hey bike riders and scooter riders who use the wrong way to go down the street, I do not look both ways when backing out of the building driveway. Be aware.
And pedestrians on the sidewalk…? I hope theres no sidewalk on your side of the street. Either way extremely bad take
I check the sidewalk, lol
Some things are good habits whether they are strictly necessary or not. Like looking both ways or signaling your turn.
This is false equivalency. It is always strictly necessary to punch nazis.
You know what, you’re right.
You’ll get in trouble!
I literally do this.
We look both ways no matter what because that’s the protocol and the protocol keeps us safe. If you believe it’s safe to deviate from the protocol, you’re opening up a chance to be wrong. It’s that simple.
My chemistry teacher told us this when we were first handling dangerous chemicals and it’s stuck with me ever since.
gonna be honest, emergencies happen.
You joke, but I was talking to a friend about this just a few weeks ago. I always check both ways on one-way streets after almost getting struck by a taxi reversing at 50 km/h while I was crossing in front of a hotel, and coming within 1 ft. of crippling me. Never trust the signage, never trust the cars.
Have you been to Italy? I do this on every street because there is a serious chance of finding a bike, or electric scooter or even moped going the wrong way.
I visited Italy.
I had no idea that mario kart was a documentary. I never get carsick, but after travelling for 24 hours, let me tell you, I got carsick. I didn’t get carsick traveling that far before either.
I got a driver from the airport to my hotel in Rome. I decided that in Rome you’re allowed to break one law at a time while driving. So you could drive on the wrong side of the road but you still had to respect that red traffic light unless you got back onto the right side of traffic.
Faith in humanity or not, everyone makes mistakes. Look both ways, kids.
Gotta look both ways when you have a green light at an intersection too.
This saved my mom just the other day. She sat for an extra second at a green, and the car behind her whipped around to pass her. That car almost got t-boned by the fucking bus that ran the red light. If she had gone as soon as the light turned green, she would have been directly in front of the bus. But she noticed the bus wasn’t slowing down at all, so she waited.
This. I do this and it has saved me from folks who said “fuck it.” And ran the red.
My brother might be coming the other way!
(It is gratifying that if you do a DDG search for this phrase, the top result is a video of someone running a red light.)
Yeah where I live there is this funny obsession with waiting for the walk light and soo many people just step out without looking. Meanwhile you will often literally get people grumbling at you if you walk on a red no matter how clear the street is.
I particularly did this when I was in the UK or Japan, but that’s more because I have no faith that I will remember to pick the correct way.
I just can’t remember which country I’m in sometimes.
ALWAYS LOOK BOTH WAYS!
