I think it’s a barometer for the overall mental health climate. We’re any combination of overworked, broke, tired, we got news organizations trying to keep us mad at each other all the time…and then we get on the road where it’s easy to pretend those other metal boxes aren’t filled with human beings.

I’m not above it. I’ve participated in my fair share of road rage parties. And I don’t have any solutions, just observations and memes. That’s all I got.

Has it started getting hot out where you are recently? There is always a spike in bad driving when the weather gets nice.

I’m in an odd situation where there’s heavy traffic but we have very good bike lanes and bike trails. Yet I am afraid to use the bike lanes most of the time because the drivers are so insane. And half the people who do ride bikes end up doing it wrong because they feel unsafe: they ride in the bike lane against traffic or just ride on the sidewalks where they become the threat: to pedestrians.

How could having my own personal space that operates on my schedule ever not be preferable to being crammed into a smelly tube with a bunch of other people?

What do I do if the public transit is pretty good and the city is walkable, but all the jobs are in office parks 40 minutes out of town?

Its funny that 102 comments will lead to meta reaction posts here in the fediverse

These 'zipper merge' vs 'early merge' arguments are really the worst. At the same time, the lack of consensus fully explains why merge zones like that are such a mess.