Mine is not having a chance to fly on the Concord.

  • guismo@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    That loud cars not only exist, but there are actually more of them than in 3rd world countries. That it’s a “culture” here, and people actually use their excess money to make cars louder, bigger and more dangerous to everyone else (not the driver, he pays extra for his safety).

    Coming from a 3rd world country to Australia it was one of my biggest disappointments. I thought we had loud cars because we we’re “uncivilised” or didn’t have the money to fix them. I was so wrong…

    There are many others, but I guess this was the biggest illusion I had about first world countries.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s all about attention. People need attention. They’re willing to do anything to get it. The question becomes whether they have positive and orderly means of getting attention or negative and chaotic means.

      When were young we get shown what it takes. Our strategies are formed by our experiences. Unfortunately, there’s some very large cultural groups that only teach their children how to get attention via negative means. They’ll get angrier and order until you notice them. You don’t have to like them, only see them.

      One route to getting attention is to just be a loud, angry, asshole in public. Generally do things to make people deal with you because you’ve got no other routes to validation or attention. The US loud car cultures are one of those strategies. Cara are anonymous, we live in isolating communities, and if you can make your presence loud enough people will be forced to give you the attentive n you crave. It’s pretty, childish, and spiteful, but at least you’re not nobody anymore.

      Choosing loud cars is literally killing people. The research is finding that living in places with elevated noise levels is shortening lifespans through stresses from fight or flight reactions over time.

      All of this are showing symptoms of much deeper societal trauma that will plague us for generations.

      In the mean time, I vote we find cars that exceed a sound db rating and crush them immediately. No questions. Drag them to the machine and cube them.

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        15 hours ago

        That’s what I thought, but when I talk to these sick people they say they “like” the loud, horrible, scary, obnoxious sound. They do it because they feel pleasure with the sound itself.

        If it was true, they would do it even if they were alone. They would drive to the middle of nowhere to enjoy their horrible sound without other noise. But they only do it in heavily populated areas. Almost if they are really just fucking assholes wanting attention.

        What is the truth? I guess we’ll never know. I can only hope for the law to be changed.

        But unlike you, I wish no harm to the machines. Only to the drivers. Machines are useful tools, even if loud. The drivers should lose the right to drive. If you remove their tool they will find another one to misuse.

        The drivers are the problems, the criminals. Not the tool they use to commit crime.