in cars we are traffic to one another—dangerous, frustrating—when if we were on foot, we would be liveliness, buzz.
@interfluidity People running others over with cars really are a buzzkill
@interfluidity This joke did not age well. Just a day after i wrote it, someone was a buzzkill.
Brings me back to how we have such dangerous things (cars) and how we arbitrarily set what level of danger (for example speed limit) for convenience. Acutally safe would get nobody anywhere.
The directed killing (likely here, but not definitely clear yet) makes a big news splash, but we die by the thousands (2800 traffic deaths in germany 2023) in accidents.
@admitsWrongIfProven @interfluidity Life is risk
@light @interfluidity Generally, yes. But with what our choices about transportation are, we clearly did not minimize risk. We didn't even really maximize convenience.
