• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It isn’t just a culture problem, it’s a tragedy of the commons.

    When you’re surrounded by giant vehicles, the only way to be feel safe and see the road is to have a giant vehicle.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      That’s not the tragedy of the commons, and that’s not why everyone drives turboencabulators.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

      It is, I shit you not, a cold war tariff on fucking chickens. There’s some other shit that’s glommed on over the centuries, but the mad-science breeding program to create a pickup truck big enough to swallow the sun started with a stupid trade dispute over chickens between the krauts, the frogs, and the yanks.