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  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world🩷🩷🩷
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    2 hours ago

    rofl good job failing to understand the basic concept of lesser of two evils. Don’t pay the people destroying the world, dumbass.

    Ya’ll are the same idiots that vote for Trump or skip voting because, “well they’re all corrupt anyways so it doesn’t matter.”

    Genuinely, your attitude is fucking pathetic.






  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzStay hydrated, folks
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    21 hours ago

    lol no. It says “a day”. It says nothing about when exercising or sweating your ass off outside when you might need to actually care about adding salt.

    I drink about a gallon a day of water and my normal diet replenishes things just fine. Your kidneys shouldn’t be dumping a bunch of stuff out that you’re already low on. They’re not mindless filters that run at a constant rate.







  • The same way most soldiers have better training and trigger discipline than cops. They know far better when their life is actually in danger, and are actually trained to stay cool under pressure. Cops are trained to be big babies that must get their way or else.

    Same for politicians and chickenhawks. They’re fake tough guys, not actually tough guys.




  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldThat's a no
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    2 days ago

    Completely wrong.

    Zipper merging is a merging technique. It doesn’t give a fuck where it happens. Period. Ever.

    What determines how many cars get through is ONLY determined by how many through-lanes there are and how fast traffic can flow. The morons flying up an empty closing lane just to cram into a lane that’s already slow or stopped, ARE NOT ZIPPER MERGING. Ever. They’re dipshits cutting in line. Period. Ever.

    They NEVER help solve congestion. For fuck’s sake, this is not a hard concept, but all you idiots apparently cannot even fathom why traffic slows down when a lane is GOING AWAY. Fuck, humanity is doomed if ya’ll are even remotely ‘average’ intelligence…


  • The road IS going away, at least temporarily. That’s the whole fucking point of this scenario. That’s why the throughput is determined ONLY by how many lanes will continue through.

    It’s not hard to comprehend. It’s basic traffic throughput…

    The people racing up an empty lane when the through-lanes are slow or stopped ARE “cramming themselves in like sardines”.


  • Yep. Not only is stuffing yourself into denser traffic bad for throughput, it’s not a part of zipper merging.

    It’s just something they’re taught because it can reduce the tail of congestion and can sometimes keep it from spreading to other roads. Bad teachers and idiots conflate it with zipper merging so that idiots like these commenters think it’s part of zipper merging and defend it.

    Whereas actual zipper merging doesn’t give a shit where it happens. All it requires is that through-traffic gives roughly 1-1 room for merging traffic, and that merging traffic look for and take an opening.

    If they were ACTUALLY practicing zipper merging, neither lane would let themselves condense past two vehicle lengths per vehicle, which obviously doesn’t happen when lane closures cause congestion.