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Oh hey I recognize that street and that guy. He's a free-stater nutjob who has at least one criminal investigation against him

That's a 6 lane road. You must be perpetually on steroids to think that would be normal.

What's with the assumption that the pedestrian getting to their destination is less important than all the drivers? If a bunch of people get held up a long time for a smaller number of people, blame the city planners.

Making ~100 cars wait ~30 secs

bud ask me if i give a fuck.

I don't understand what he wants the pedestrian to do. Not cross at all? Wait until there's no traffic?

Maybe I shouldn't tell you guys this, but sometimes I press the button even if I don't have to cross the street. Also sometimes I cross the street really slowly, drivers get especially mad about that. Obviously I'm not from the US, since I'm still alive.

While the dude who pressed the button witnessed 100 able, adult people sitting in a polluting metal box instead of walking, cycling or taking public transport.

Raises a good point. So we should destroy those cars to make way for trams.

These idiots exist

The type who fetishise "the grind" and all that other toxic bullshit

Not exclusive to 'Murica, but over-represented in their "society"

The confusion I feel as a European about this post.

I mean he has a blue check so he's a professional idiot

They'll just arrive 30 seconds later at the next red light where they still have to wait for the same 5 phases

That's why I no longer stop at red lights. Thats just theft of life. My car also works just fine on either side of the road; limiting it to just one is imprisonment. /s

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

If it's not, I've been given a new mission from up on high.

"Press ye every walk signal, both ways, on every single street ye walk on. Though ye may be turning right at that corner and not even crossing that that intersection, still press ye the buttons."

Just for you, Jeff, I'm pushing every single walk button I see, especially when I'm not crossing the road.

Thousands of walk-button Hitlers out there committing one Holocaust of presses every 90 minutes and NO TRIBUNALS???! Make it make sense

i'd like to see it the other way around, drivers have to get out and run over to press the beg button. At least they will be getting some exercise.

If it's not satire, I'd love to see his reaction when someone presses the button then realises it's clear and they didn't need to and jaywalks 😅

I'm pretty confident pushing the button actually doesn't do anything. You press the button and wait forever and eventually the lights change but they were gonna do that anyway.

The kind of person that will whine if I don't press the button and cross the street.

I always assumed the button is just for mashing to soothe angry monkeys, it doesn't actually change the light, does it? That's madness.

I push those buttons all the time on my motorcycle. Floor sensors don't pick up my bike sitting at a light if no ones behind me. So I push the crosswalk buttons so I get a turn.

This the same guy who made calls for child labour to be legalised and for the civil rights act to be repealed... I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this isn't (deliberately) satire

Close to my home there is two lights on either side of a busy roundabout. Have seen highschoolers coordinating pressing the crosswalk buttons to maximize the mayhem. One part of me thinks they dont get enough beating up, and another part of me thinks "for the lulz! "

This is rage bait, right? What is this guy saying btw, when 10 car drivers are making 200 people in a light rail wait because traffic lights are completely car centric?

That just means 100 people are making this decision fully aware that others have to cross roads.

BTW, what's about able adult males who use cars instead of a 30 minutes' walk?

I suppose there are horrible places where you can't just walk to such distances, though.

It's not wrong in the sense that an idling combustion engine is more polluting that one maintaining a speed. An ideal intersection is where all cars can smoothly interact without stopping, something only possible in the theoretical computer guided traffic crossings. Such places would have to have a pedestrian bridge nearby, as they aren't compatible with the slow human form.

"Jeremy Kauffman is an American entrepreneur and political activist known for founding and leading the blockchain-based filesharing project LBRY. He is also a vocal supporter and activist within the Free State Project (FSP), a movement designed to get libertarians to move to New Hampshire. Kauffman was the Libertarian nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in New Hampshire, losing to Democrat Maggie Hassan. He was elected the chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire in 2026. Kauffman has been known for his provocative statements on Twitter that have been deemed violent, racist, and antisemitic. His legal troubles include misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and obstruction of government administration stemming from an incident where he allegedly tried to fight several people while hurling racist insults."

One hour commute to the office for a job that could be done from home is the real destruction of time in a human life.

This HAS to be satire

I'd say it's about 50/50. Which would make it very good satire if it was. But I don't want to influence Schroedinger's satire by peeking.