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TIL the number of pedestrians killed by drivers in the U.S. rose by 70 percent between 2010 and 2023
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2025
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I met a woman who told me that during the pandemic lock downs she made money driving to legal weed states to spend tens of thousands of dollars on weed and flip it back in her state. She also told me that it was really boring so she'd frequently get above 100 while watching a movie on her phone on her dashboard. So that's who's out on the road with you
Fucking.
Wild.
That kind of behaviour should just be an immediate and permanent revocation of the license, car towed on the spot. Fiddling with phone to get directions or dismiss a notification is one thing but actively watching entertainment?
I have ADHD. It’s not super severe but it’s not great. I can drive 16 hrs (with appropriate breaks) without the radio. I will admit, I tend not to be super respectful of speed limits. But driving is enough stimulation for my scatterbrained self. Brain rot is a hell of a drug.
I also have ADHD, and have also done a 16 hour drive straight through. Audiobooks or podcasts help. Music gets boring after a few hours. Audiobooks or podcasts are constantly changing, so it’s enough mental stimulation to stay engaged, while also not being too distracting.
Punishment for bad driving iof any kind is nearly completely unenforced.
Just the occasional holier-than-thou speed crackdowns. Nothing for the people totally ignoring the road.
People like this are why safe drivers’ insurance premiums are still so high. The safe drivers are subsidizing the dangerous ones. We’re being forced to pay more because the risk of being hit by a braindead watches-movies-while-doing-100 driver has increased.
That's the end result of car centric infrastructure. The bad drivers couldn't afford to pay the full rates they would be charged. If you kick 10-20% of the population off the road, that is a whole lot of people siddenly unable to work
That many people suddenly stopping working would destroy the only thing Americans truly value - shareholder profits
We have no alternatives to driving. As such the worst drivers you've ever seen will continue to drive by necessity
That’s absolutely wild. Before my state started selling legal weed, I would sometimes take trips to Massachusetts to buy enough to last me for months.
The one thing I never did on those drives? Speed.
I figured I was already technically breaking the law by carrying so much weed across non-legal states. To get pulled over for speeding could’ve led to massive trouble. Why put a target on my car (beyond already having an out-of-state license plate)?
I went the other way - I meticulously watched for speed limit changes and set my cruise control accordingly, so it would be one fewer thing to worry about. When possible, I drove so there’d be a car some distance in front of me, but still within my view. That way, if there was a cop up ahead, I’d see the other car slow down first and it would give me a heads up.
Adding more distractions and driving more erratically when you’re already breaking one law is a really stupid way to get caught.
@makeshiftreaper @CompactFlax I wish I had tens of thousands of dollars
Well she certainly didn't seem like the type to have a couple thousand in liquid cash to start her scheme. I imagine she borrowed money and then used her drug sales to pay back the loans. Or she owed a bunch of money. Obviously she was not a queen of good decisions
making $ from other peoples $ sounds like the smartest move there tbh. debt is only a trap if you don't know/understand it's trap, then it becomes a tool
Alternatively, you could just not commit a pile of felonies in the first place
eh, weed shouldnt be criminalized at all. the fact our shitty ass federalized system allows for a bunch of dumb shit to be felonies is the problem, not...flipping weed.
obviously still kinda dumb, smarter to just buy some seeds and get growing at that point.
https://youtu.be/ttArr90NvWo