• @TheAlbatross
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    718 days ago

    They’d have to be there well over 60 whole seconds to have a slightly meaningful and somewhat noticeable impact on one’s commute.

    • @drislands@lemmy.world
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      3018 days ago

      60 seconds is easily achieved for someone further down the line who has to wait another light cycle. Not paying attention to the green light has a rippling impact.

    • @4am@lemm.ee
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      Yeah I fucking love it when some asshole on his phone takes forever to go at the green and only three cars get through and to have to wait an entire light cycle which is at minimum 90 seconds.

      When the light turns green and you are unobstructed, you go. Simple as.

    • @OpenStars@discuss.online
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      17 days ago

      Won’t someone think of all the extra money they could have made their boss in that whole entire minute of time!? 😔

      Edit: damn, I felt so certain that the /s was already implied, but okay…

      • @4am@lemm.ee
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        917 days ago

        Won’t someone think of the demerits or whatever I’m gonna get on my name after another 30-seconds-late clock in because my shitty capitalist boss has to nickel and dime me but I still need to survive?

        Why are most lemmy leftists completely blind to the pragmatism of current real-world material conditions? You guys forget we still live in the late-stage capitalist hellscape?

        • @mashbooq@infosec.pub
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          217 days ago

          Driving is never going to be predictable enough to consistently get you to a destination where 30 seconds is a life-or-death class difference. The other people you’re getting angry at are also workers struggling to live in the same capitalist hellscape and you don’t know what’s going on in or around their car (this is the “fundamental attribution error”). Your anger at other drivers is misplaced, and further, makes you a more dangerous driver.

    • @mashbooq@infosec.pub
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      417 days ago

      Seriously. Drivers really seem to lose their sense of time. Going 5 mph slower (or even 15) for a couple minutes won’t impact your arrival time (or will do so only negligibly) because you’re just going to have to wait at the next light anyway. And getting angry while driving is just as dangerous as other causes of distracted driving.