https://xkcd.com/2932

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This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

  • ramirezmike@programming.devEnglish
    23·
    6 months ago

    yesterday a guy tried to wave me to cross then started angrily raising his hands like “FUCKING GO!” completely oblivious to the car that flew past his left side in the opposite direction

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      6 months ago

      Had guy asking me to turn like that and when I refused he gave me the finger as he finally drove on. How come they hold up traffic and then get mad at you for not driving into on coming traffic?

      • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldEnglish
        271·
        6 months ago

        It reveals how they weren’t actually being polite. They were doing it for themselves, not you, and you denied them their “good deed” dopamine.

        • Subverb@lemmy.worldEnglish
          56·
          6 months ago

          You’re right of course, but in a broader sense there is literally no action that anyone takes that is altruistic. We only do things that benefit us or, rarely, our group as a whole.