gizmonicus

That assumes every seat is filled.

So you're saying you're unemployed?

It's called an occlupanid, thank you.

Yep, that's what I was thinking. You pull it off because you like them and it's authentic to your personality.

I usually change the parameters to things like utm_source=yourmom, just for kicks.

Lol, now that's thinking. Concrete block walls just wide enough to let a Prius through. I bet the truckbrians would love that so much.

A local parking lot to me recently needed to add more spaces, but of course, they were already occupying all the space they possibly could. So, what did they do? They made the spaces narrower and labeled them "compact" LOL. So now, the guy that double parks his giant ass truck in one of those spots will take up one and a half spaces, and people naturally just don't use the half space that's left. So instead of having more spots, you end up with a whole bunch of double parked compact spots used by XXL Fords.

Big brain ideas over here y'all.

Ah yes the Ford F9000 Pedestrian Pulverizer

I understand the problem fully. The problem of solving it is a whole different kettle of fish.

How do you break the cycle? In the USA it feels insurmountable. Nothing is close enough to be walkable, so you must have cars to do just about anything. But that makes everything more spread out, which leads to even less walkable environments and so on.

I live in a hilly area, for example. Being built around car infrastructure means that steep grades don't matter all that much because you won't be sweating your ass off pedalling up a 10% incline; you're in a 3 ton hermetically sealed air conditioned box with a 6.0L V8 chugging diesel to get your fat ass up the hill.

I'm sure that if we were building our environment around bike infrastructure and public transit and actually had to think about things like this, the entire road network and neighborhood layout would be drastically different. Without just starting over from the beginning, how do you fix that?

America is so fatally car brained, I've lost all hope it will ever change. I literally was yelled at yesterday for making a left turn on a two lane road on my bike because I was holding up traffic... completely ignoring the fact that the exact same situation would happen if I was in a fucking car.

Language evolves, the meaning of words change. It's a natural part of the evolution of language over time. You say hang up the phone or dial a phone number, don't you? But you don't literally hang up a phone when you're done with it or turn a literal dial anymore. But they used to work that way, so we still use that language even though the original meaning is lost.

I would argue that although this phrase originated from dismissing the opinions of actual boomers, it's become a convenient shorthand way of calling someone out of touch with current social trends without having to adapt new phrases every time a new generation takes the place of the boomers as being out of touch.

I really hope he is successful.