I'm approximately your age. I assumed the same thing. Hell, I thought crazy conspiracy theories were just people pretending "What if..." together.
In my younger days I would have been on a lot of bandwagons just to joke about the people who "didn't get the joke". It turns out I was the one that didn't get it.
Yeah, Infinity hates it. I've still got a Firefox browser app pinned that works fine though.
Fitz the Cat happened in '72.
I'll do to you what I do to other unwanted pests! I'll yell "Go-on, getonouttahurr!" ineffectually while shooing you away with whatever I've got at hand.
I have junk scissors that I buy for a couple of bucks and replace as necessary for all the things that I need to cut. I also have kitchen junk scissors for cutting open plastic that food gets packaged in. If I found someone using my poultry shears or kitchen knives for anything besides their intended use I would ask them to leave and never come back.
Don't touch my tools. That includes the things in my garage, my kitchen tools (cookware, knives, shears, barbecue stuff, whatever), and my electronics tools. I can't imagine someone using one of my instruments incorrectly, but don't touch those either. If you want to touch anything, ask. Don't be surprised if I try to make sure you know the right way to use it before I hand it over.
If they'd fix transit here I'd be all over it. I think a lot of others would be as well.
Doesn't really matter to me because I do work from home. No right on red? Not my problem. Buti do care about others. So the fact that the average commute loses working folks almost a week every year hurts my heart. Losing almost another week without a transit plan (or any kind of fucking plan.....I may be a little angry) in place hurts my heart. So does injuring or killing cyclists.
I think there's probably a nuanced and thoughtful answer that would reduce the time folks are on the road (costing both time and money, plus a lot of them have to find off hours child care) for work while not killing cyclists. I don't have that answer. I just don't think making things more terrible is it. I think there's got to be a way to offer an incentive not to be on the road, protecting everyone and not stealing money and time from workers.
I like to add bourbon to that mix to thin it out a little. That's Christmas to me.
In some cases you'd be right. In others, since the city didn't plan for it, there would be massive extra traffic in a lot of places because people can't turn right on red. We're not talking about an extra 3 minutes at a light. We're talking about a lane that is usually semi-steadily moving coming to a standstill multiplied by however many lights allow that in the city. So either millions of people in cities like Houston, New York, LA, and Chicago need to leave half an hour earlier (adding 130 hours a year to their commute) or be late.
A lot of that could be solved by not forcing people who don't need to be in an office back into the office, put in proper bicycle lanes, and redesigning city centers as places to eat, walk, experience a city, and live rather than just office buildings. But the last one is a little ambitious on the short term scale.
Edit: and transit. I fucking forgot transit because it's so garbage here that I never remember it's a thing.
That must be depression era food because it sounds depressing as hell.
Oh me, oh my-oh
That's why way back in the day they had GIMPshop and why there's PhotoGIMP now.
In Texas? Eddie Cruz sounds like a guy who drives an El Camino and has a cousin named Cooter. He'd have been the presidential nominee in '16.
"Did you hear about Eddie and Cooter? They running for the big house! Get in the pickup, we're gonna go vote!"