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  • Mir ist heute beim Einkaufen eine Rentnerin in der Schlange andauernd mit ihrem Einkaufswagen in die Hacken gefahren. Außerdem hat geschimpft, dass es so lange dauert. Da habe ich mich umgedreht und sie gefragt: “Soll ich Sie vielleicht vor lassen? Man sieht’s ihnen ja schon an, dass Sie nicht mehr viel Zeit haben.”








  • optional@feddit.orgtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldNo words
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    12 days ago

    It’s not just the hood. A Ford Transit has a smaller wheelbase, a smaller track and a lower ground clearance than an F250. The smallest F250 engine I could find has 405hp, more than a full sized German fire truck, the biggest Transit engine has 310hp. They’re clearly not built on the same platform. Noone would use a Ford Transit flatbed for their daily commute, and noone would do this to a Ford Transit flatbed either. Because they’re not the same type of car.


  • I don’t doubt that deaths by cars aren’t taken seriously. I doubt that deaths by guns are.

    Btw. if you’re willing to prevent deaths in either of these cases, you should actually work on preventive measures instead of penalizing after the killing. As the diagram above clearly shows, even harsh punishments don’t prevent gun crimes, so what makes you think it would work for car crimes?

    What you could do instead is:

    • Separate gun owners/drivers from other people (don’t allow carrying guns through the town/protected bike lanes)
    • Reduce the number of people who feel the need to own a gun/car (build strong and safe communities/build fast and safe public transit)
    • Disallow owning extremely dangerous weapons (automatic rifles/pickup trucks)
    • Require intensive training and background checks before allowing people to own a gun/car
    • Take away the gun license/drivers license from offenders
    • If you really have to put people in prison make sure they’ll get re-socialized in prison instead of breeding even worse criminals

  • optional@feddit.orgtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldNo words
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    12 days ago

    So what? Your local farmer drives 200 miles (and back) to deliver 10 bales of hay to the next town instead of commissioning a truckage company that has the right equipment to transport three times the load at half the cost as they can use the truck to transport something else on the way back? Don’t your farmers have something more useful to do with their time?