Gregory's Server@twobiscuits Would you prefer those people to be driving home from Oktoberfest? You can’t plan a society around expecting critical masses of people to always behave perfectly - especially if you expect less perfect behavior from those with more power (such as those operating heavy machinery). Never mind that a pedestrian wearing headphones, reading a text, or slightly tipsy is hardly in a “fucking oblivious daze”.
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@twobiscuits Well it wouldn’t (although I’d prefer Oktoberfest everywhere to the cars everywhere we currently have), but that’s far from the reality that’s killing rapidly growing numbers of pedestrians on US streets with many of them being seniors or children and only a few being drunk out of their minds. @PedestrianError The toot is fine if we take it as a howl of anger. Less so if we take it strictly. In my urban utopia, being outside is so much fun that one wants to take it all in, not slouch around with one's nose in the internet. |
@PedestrianError Tbbh I'd prefer there to be no Oktoberfest, and I've lived in Munich. It's a horrible amalgam of excessive drinking, bad beer (bc only one decent brewery is eligible, ie within the city) and overtourism. But I wasn't commenting on that. I was just saying it wouldn't be very practical if all the pedestrians everywhere were always like that.