2025 was exhausting... 2026 moreso. This is why, right here.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Here's looking at you, Odo
Harumph.
Following rules generally for me. There is a parking lot near me where people insist on parking the wrong way (people park opposite the way if traffic on both side of the lane way think parking the wrong way on a one way street) and it makes me so angry every time I shop in the area. I even tried to mention it in a community Facebook group and was told to shut up and mind my own buisness
I feel this. My job is surrounded by one-way streets, with angled back-in parking everywhere. So you don’t even need to parallel park, you just back into the spots to park, and then pull straight out (matching the direction of traffic on the one-way street) when you leave. It’s literally all the best parts of parallel parking, with none of the downsides.
We regularly have people pull u-turns on the one-way streets to park nose-in. No amount of signs have helped, because you can’t make people read. It’s a ticketable offense, (same as if you had parallel parked facing the wrong direction on a one-way street) and the local PD regularly makes sweeps every few hours to check… And they’ll easily ticket 10-20 people on busy days. There have even been instances where the cop was standing there writing a ticket for it, when someone pulled in right next to them. And then they’d argue with the cop that they should be allowed to park however they want.
At first, seeing people swing super wide to pull into the spots would piss me off. Then for a while it was amusing, because I knew I’d get to see them rage about the ticket on their windshield while I sit in my office. But now it’s just disappointing. Like every time I see it, I lose a little more faith in humanity. The old joke about “make something idiot-proof and they’ll invent a better idiot” always rings true.
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All my life here. The litteral reason why i am going into politics! That plus my love to law texts, if only it werent for standardised texts, i would have become a laywer
Piercing through the veil.
Understanding the rules/laws/customs are created to protect the few and control the many. Part of this includes ethics that do indeed protect everyone. However, there are deliberate faults to make sure some can live outside the same framework.
Most people do not have/take the time/focus/perspective/intelligence/capability to think all of it through, outside their box/bubble.
And then there are those blessed with the curse. Next part is more difficult: turning it into actionable change. Working on that one myself; will take time.
Relatable, I have a strong sense of justice combined with experiencing the worst aspects of capitalism, religious fundementalism, and reactionary people. This has led me to the only natural conclusion, that society as it exists today under liberal capitalism is fundamentally broken beyond repair and therefore the system must be replaced. Not with another liberal who seems to slowly move the system forward (that's all they move, the system yet no real progress occurs) but with real change. This change can only occur through the establishment of an absolute socialist economy and the total abolition of private property.
I had/have this bad. I was only diagnosed recently, and looking back i can see clearly when i was being nutty. I have used this to help others i see with a similar reaction 😅. It's all i can do to help
Welcome to the club!
Not been diagnosed but absolutely lost my shit recently when friends mugged me off playing tennis, I don't even care about the result.
I need to go get help
Yes, please, thank you.
Maybe for some things, but not entirely true for me.
I tried to look it up but I don't see any real research into this. Anyone has a source?
Once again, you have only posted an image of a tweet, and not a link to your source. I would like an explanation please of how this is remotely helpful for anyone on planet Earth. Thank you.
It's not really a reliable source, just some dude.