• Godric@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Lol, a few weeks ago I was drinking with my buddy and his brother. My buddy said he does not like suicide jokes after I made one.

    A little while passes, buddy mentions he wakes up at 5 a.m. some days. His brother responds with “5? If I had to wake up at 5 a.m. I would… not do that.”

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    I once had a woman bicycle into me on a somewhat narrow path, I thought she saw me and was turning but she didn’t and ran right into me at a running pace.

    I instinctively put out my arms to stop her, grabbed her shoulders and then realized she might fall over if I just did a brief push to stop her so I kind of lightly held her in place for a second until she stabilized herself.

    It was the most harmless yet awkward accident I have ever been in.

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      But if you’re anti-car infrastructure, then you don’t want to get hit by those alternatives, because the anti-mass-transit crowd might use it to villify mass transit.

      If you get hit by a car then you can become an anti-car martyr for the cause

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      For real. If I get hit. It better be infrastructure. Gonna go after those rich public coffers not a broke ass Nissan driver.

      !My uncle got hit by city bus was he was 17. 40 years ago. He is still living off that today. Mfer owns two houses!<

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          also my lingual glands are satiated spoiler does not look like a word anymore.

          this is what i do from the lemmy web interface and jerboa. seems to work

          • OpenStars@piefed.social
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            15 hours ago

            Wow, that’s an app that I haven’t heard mentioned for like… years. Is it still being actively developed?

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              Not really, last commit was last year. Still works, though, and I haven’t found anything yet that I like better.

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        Yeah, but I don’t think the person wishing “I hope I get hit by a bus” – unqualified – is wishing that they somehow survive and get lawsuit money. I mean maybe if you take the “survive” part out and still assume it’s the operator’s fault, the lawsuit money could go to the estate…

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      I definitely do… maybe it’s because we don’t have busses, trams, or trains here where I live. Just cars and oversized trucks.

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      24 hours ago

      Buses, trams, and trains in their great efficiency would also be more efficient at traumatizing more people. And cars are by far the most likely thing to randomly hit you out of nowhere while still having the capacity to easily kill.

      I think “car” is reasonably common; I’ve definitely at least heard it a few times before.

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    20 hours ago

    How about getting hit by a car which starts a chain reaction to actually build a car-less society?