this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026

334 points (98.5% liked)

Mildly Infuriating

46476 readers

225 users here now

Home to all things "Mildly Infuriating" Not infuriating, not enraging. Mildly Infuriating. All posts should reflect that. Please post actually infuriating posts to !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world

I want my day mildly ruined, not completely ruined. Please remember to refrain from reposting old content. If you post a post from reddit it is good practice to include a link and credit the OP. I'm not about stealing content!

It's just good to get something in this website for casual viewing whilst refreshing original content is added overtime.

Rules:

1. Be Respectful

Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...

2. No Illegal Content

Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means: -No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...

3. No Spam

Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...

4. No Porn/Explicit

Content

-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...

5. No Enciting Harassment,

Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts

-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...

6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

7. Content should match the theme of this community.

-Content should be Mildly infuriating. If your post better fits !Actually_Infuriating put it there.

-The Community !actuallyinfuriating has been born so that's where you should post the big stuff.

...

8. Reposting of Reddit content is permitted, but attribution is not required in any way. No links to Reddit in post body

-If you would like to provide a source link, do so in the comments but not in the post body.

...

Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Lemmy Review

2.Lemmy Be Wholesome

3.Lemmy Shitpost

4.No Stupid Questions

5.You Should Know

6.Credible Defense

Reach out to LillianVS for inclusion on the sidebar.

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

LillianVS@lemmy.world

Tenthrow@lemmy.world

Lasherz12@lemmy.world

334

Welcome to New York City (cdn.imgchest.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Veserr@sh.itjust.works to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

76 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That's entirelly the mindset of the average car driver everywhere.

Were I am now, Portugal, when the police starts properly enforcing some rule of the road that's regularly not obbeyed (like, say the no parking on sidewalks one or the no running red lights in the next 30s after it has turned from yellow one) those types start bitching and moaning about how the police are "hunting for fines" - in other words, admitting that they're breaking the rules and claiming that the real problem is actually enforcing of the rules.

(By the way, unsurprisingly, Portugal is has one of the highest rates of road deaths in the whole of Europe).

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

They drive like maniacs there.
How many times I got hit by a mirror because you had to walk on the streets since all the cars parked on the footpath.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be able to hear him over my "get out of the way!get out of the way!get out of the way!"

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

It's New York. Need to adjust to the local dialect. "Get out of my fucking way, you fucking asshole!" Anything less doesn't get through.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 235 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Unprotected bike lanes’ fatal flaw is that they rely on the honour system in a country where nobody has any.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've cycled to work regularly in a couple of countries in Europe (including The Netherlands, which are pretty much Europe's Gold Standard on cycling infrastructure) and do and did paid attention to that kind of thing were I didn't.

In my experience there are ALWAYS assholes who for their own convenience will block the bike lane if they can get away with it. There might be more in some places and fewer in others, but they always exist - assholes fucking things up for the rest are a fact of life.

As I see it, the only solution for it is protected bike lanes were possible so that it's simply impossible for a car to go there and where that's not possible, speedy and stern enforcement (the "there's a tow truck there in 5 minutes top and the fines are painful" kind).

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I was happy to see a city near me had marked some sidewalk space as bike lanes on an expanded sidewalk.

[–] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 82 points 1 week ago

Thankfulky enough, I think Mamdani has stated in some recent interviews that he's working to make bike lanes actually protected, and just make the city more bike/pedestrian friendly. So things are looking up for them!

load more comments (9 replies)

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 125 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Apparently for NYC you can just search and see the amount of traffic violations, and this dickhead has a LOT

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 100 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Damn.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel like at some point those should start getting points against your license or something.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely! 19 in 4 years is crazy. I've gotten 2 in 23 years, running a yellow light and not realizing the speed limit changes at night in Texas. Both of those fines were way more than $50. New York is dumb.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Seriously, Ive gotten one ticket in 20 years. One.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Alright there might be a little bit of capitalism at play. Fines so low they encourage people to just pay them.

Too steep and people will either avoid the infraction or dodge paying altogether.

So this is literally a rich people get to be assholes fee.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Where is it, Finland, that has fines as a percentage of income?

I think it's a great policy

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Yep! They gave one guy a €100,000 ticket for speeding, lol.

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

We have exactly this in germany. If you collect enough points, ur drivers license gets revoked.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

$1200 for 19 violations. No wonder people don't care about the violations. Red light violation in my country is EUR 320 ($367)

[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

In theory he should be paying a lot more to car insurance because of the points and sheer amount of violations. But maybe he's too wealthy to care about that either.

Edit: In many states in the US, they will suspend the license if they get too many points from violations like running red lights or speeding. Not sure how it works in New York state however.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those are usually for moving violations, not things like parking fines.

[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Speeding and running red lights are moving violations. It's possible to get a suspended license from getting 2-3 speeding or red light tickets in a row in some states.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, but does that site differentiate between speeding and parking tickets? In my area you can rack up any amount of parking fines and the most it'll do is you might need to pay them off before you can renew.

But yeah, you get points for speeding past a certain amount over the limit, running lights, and other violations that concern the way you move (on public roads, parking lots are free for alls, though a DUI is a DUI even on private property).

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

11 speeding and red light incidents... less than $1200???? Thats absurd.

11 separate incidents being caught doing behaviour that has an increased chance of killing/maiming someone.... and less than $1200 in fines to deter that???

this person has proven that they REGULARLY break the law in a dangerous way... and they still allow him to get behind the wheel every morning... and one day when he kills someone, they'll call it an "accident"

There's nothing accidental about allowing this person to operate a 3 ton weapon every day

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Holy shit I’ve only gotten 1 ticket in my entire life and it was BS. It’s…really not hard to not break traffic laws.

[–] ecvanalog@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

NOT AT ALL trying to support this asshole but I know from experience it’s much harder in NYC. I know conventional wisdom is that nobody owns a car there — but there are more privately owned cars than there are parking spaces, and the city strictly enforces alternate-street parking.

His moving violations are because he’s a bad/selfish driver but it’s harder in NYC than almost anywhere else to avoid parking tickets, unless you’re rich enough to pay for a lot/garage, which is about the price of rent in another city.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Always plan accordingly for the conditions. It’s never ok for your lack of planning to become everyone else’s problem.

[–] ecvanalog@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I mean, I handled it. It just involved a lot of getting up early and driving around for long periods of time. I’m only really reacting to the assertion that is isn’t hard. In the city it is, in fact, not easy.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

or break them just enough that you don't get a ticket.

load more comments (7 replies)

load more comments