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[โ€“] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Theory: Everyone down voting you has never driven outside the US.

We don't teach the proper way to zipper merge, so people block those doing it for cutting in line. It's a different culture that should be changed for efficiency, just like middle lane squatting, but it's just not important enough to address.

[โ€“] Nougat@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

The United States has a strong general culture of "I got mine, fuck you." That is certainly playing a part in this thread.