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Thomas Fuglseth

@prefec2 @DrTCombs

A four panel comic titled "Height of Folly", about the growing size of trucks and suvs.

Panel 1 shows ten kids sitting under a drawn sight line in front of an SUV. The text reads: "A recent consumer reports study found that ten children fit into the front end blind zone of an F-150 pickup - deadly frontover accidents have more than doubled since 2008"

Panel 2 shows a small child on stilts and a baby crawling on four stilts on either side of an SUV seen from the front. The text is: "Obviously we need taller children. It's time for stilts"

Panel 3: "Adult pedestrians should also meet height requirements". The drawing shows a woman crossing a pedestrian crossing in front of an SUV. Her head is barely below the radiator. A policeman is standing on stilts in front of her, saying: "Ma'am, I'm going to have to cite you for shortwalking"

Panel 4: "As the trucks grow ever higher, we must rise to meet them!" The drawing shows two men facing each other. They are shown standing on stilts. Only the top of the stilts is shown, and only the sky is seen in the background.

The man on the left says: "Uh, maybe we should try regulating vehicle sizes?"

The man on the right replies: "Are you kidding? That would be ridiculous!"

Like 19 March at 7:01 | Wall-to-wall | Open on snabelen.no

22 comments

Reiner Jung

@Uglesett @DrTCombs love it.

Also it is weird/strange/shocking when cartoons are so close to reality.

19 March at 7:10 | Open on norden.social

Maikel 🇪🇺

@prefec2 American reality @Uglesett @DrTCombs

20 March at 15:50 | Open on vmst.io

Susanne Lilith

@Uglesett @prefec2 @DrTCombs

#autokorrektur

19 March at 11:35 | Open on rheinneckar.social

emailgeek

@DrTCombs @Uglesett @prefec2 @SheDrivesMobility nailed it

19 March at 12:13 | Open on hackers.town

Reiner Jung

@emailgeek @DrTCombs @Uglesett @SheDrivesMobility I am especially fond of the "crime" of short walking.

19 March at 13:19 | Open on norden.social

kinyutaka

@prefec2 @emailgeek @DrTCombs @Uglesett @SheDrivesMobility

That is how we came up with "jaywalking"

But really, to hammer the point home, it should be called "midgetwalking"

19 March at 15:54 | Open on mstdn.social

Thomas Fuglseth

Since the author credits are a bit anonymous in the image, here's the link to the artist's page for the comic:
https://jensorensen.com/2022/12/07/truck-suv-frontover-blind-zone-cartoon/

19 March at 12:46 | Open on snabelen.no

fremandolasse

@Uglesett
and she's on Mastodon: @jensorensen

19 March at 22:42 | Open on mastodon.social

FoolishOwl

@Uglesett @prefec2 @DrTCombs The cartoonist is @jensorensen and is worth following.

19 March at 15:43 | Open on social.coop

lapt0r

@Uglesett @prefec2 @DrTCombs the punisher skull is a nice touch

19 March at 16:17 | Open on infosec.exchange

TessiaEks (Is fine)

@Uglesett @prefec2 @DrTCombs we should also force everyone to wear a bulletproof vest. That way we don't need to regulate guns too much.

19 March at 16:59 | Open on mastodon.social

Mix

@Tesseks @Uglesett @prefec2 @DrTCombs More dodgeball in schools. Teach these kids to take evasive action! We can’t blame guns just because these kids can’t stay out of the line of fire.

20 March at 20:30 | Open on frontrange.co

Cybarbie

@Uglesett @prefec2 @DrTCombs

Has anyone any idea what is driving this trend? It seems quite impractical. Even if you don't care about children, you probably care about barriers, shopping karts, ferraris, low walls,...

19 March at 19:47 | Open on mastodon.social

Goblin

@nf3xn @Uglesett @prefec2 @DrTCombs
The driving trend is of course the shrinking penis size in the target demographic...

20 March at 10:27 | Open on social.tchncs.de

Jigme Datse

@Uglesett @prefec2 @DrTCombs Yeah, I don't think we should be rediculous and regulate the height of vehicles... I'm a pretty regular adult height. Walked in front of the neighbour's truck, and realised I barely am a head's height taller than the hood. I may even be taller than median height for adults, almost certainly taller than median height of total population.

20 March at 3:06 | Open on social.jigmedatse.com

Frances Larina

@Uglesett @prefec2 @DrTCombs

One would think that by now, with all that's happening to the Earth's climate, we'd have dumped the EPA rules that make big, heavy vehicles more profitable to carmakers than small, light ones thanks to disparate mpg penalties. We need to admit it was a failure and fix the problem.

20 March at 6:40 | Open on sfba.social

Ayush Agarwal

@Uglesett @prefec2 @DrTCombs Tried having this conversation before with some people and I was laughed off with “but what about my freedom” and “but what about buses and construction trucks inside cities?” 🤷🏻‍♂️

20 March at 6:51 | Open on social.treehouse.systems

Saupreiss #Präparat500

@Uglesett

Please delete that. There’s real danger it would spread word to German ministry of transport. (That’s the folks who want to press eFuels to the EU in a desperate attempt to preserve profits from cumbustion engines).

I don’t want my children to be cited all the time for violating safe traffic rules.

@prefec2 @DrTCombs