carbrain is “this is the fault of 3 million parallel, separated, individual actors” a lot

  • quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    The comment thread is about “very long stretches of highway in the US that see little to no traffic” and 1,000 is a round number. It’s not that outlandish to drive that far in the US especially if you count round-trip distance.

    Saving 2.5 hours of boredom evidently is compelling, that’s why people do it.

    • DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      The comment thread started with me saying I’ve driven tens of thousands of miles back and forth across the country. Which is why I’m laughing at the claim that quadrupling the risk for a marginal time savings is compelling.

      Carbrained Statesians don’t make rational decisions.