• @[email protected]
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    829 months ago

    I think it’s the serif font, more than the lack of capitalization, that weirds me out.

  • @marmotworks
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    459 months ago

    The only stop sign where rolling through real slow is probably fine

    • icedterminal
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      379 months ago

      Legally speaking, it’s not DOT compliant and unenforceable. So you don’t have to stop at all. And if you want to, you can actually file a complaint and have it taken down. Traffic control signs must be approved and provided by the city/county.

      Anecdotal: I filed a complaint when neighbors erected a speed limit sign in our neighborhood and put a camera on it. They were told to take it down or it will be forcefully removed and they’ll be fined for the time and labor involved. It was removed about two weeks later.

      • JackGreenEarth
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        169 months ago

        How do you presume to know what legal jurisdiction this sign is in?

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months ago

        Are you for real? Was it a homemade sign? Share a pic if you have one. Just super curious

        • icedterminal
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          109 months ago

          This happened about 4 years ago. I did sit and think about where I would have a copy of this photo. I couldn’t find it. That said, yes it was a homemade sign. Wooden post, speed limit said 15 and it was overall about half the size of a real DOT one.

            • icedterminal
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              59 months ago

              Lots of neighborhoods have a nosy neighbor that always get into everyone’s business or tries to police others. Grateful I no longer have to deal with someone like that. If you’ve never dealt with someone like that, I hope you never have to.

    • @[email protected]
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      249 months ago

      SovCits have field days with pretty much any rule they don’t like. They’re prime examples of why we need to be removing warning labels on everything; they’re an end result of far too little chlorine in the gene pool.

      • @[email protected]
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        9 months ago

        my theme song is bluegrass

        spoiler

        My Daddy was a man of letters
        My Mama was a head of state
        And when they got their chromosomes together
        They gave me all of their recessive traits
        I’m an embarrassment to evolution
        My disposition is unstable and cruel
        My blood’s a catastrophic blend
        'Cause I’m from the shallow end of the gene pool
        My IQ is a negative number
        I’ve got a sense of humor no one can stand
        And my development was seriously encumbered
        By playing music with the Lounge Lizards band
        I’m a social director’s nightmare
        At dinner parties I just babble and drool
        It’s not easy making friends
        When you’re from the shallow end of the gene pool
        Chorus:
        I’m from the shallow end of the gene pool
        My x-rays make the doctors laugh
        When they tried to chart my EEG waves Well I wasn’t even on the graph
        Biological research is booming
        They’re making breakthroughs like you wouldn’t believe
        They say genetic engineering in humans
        Will someday soon be a reality
        I’m gonna get me a DNA transplant
        They’re gonna rearrange my molecules
        Some natural laws will have to bend
        To get me from the shallow end of the gene pool

  • JoYo
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    249 months ago

    it somehow feels condescending.

  • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻
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    179 months ago

    “Excuse me sir/madame I would like to request that you please stop here by the solid line before progressing on. If it’s not too much bother that is. Thank you for your precious time”

  • @[email protected]
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    169 months ago

    I read something about this recently but I can’t remember where or find the article at the moment.

    These are sometimes installed at high-risk intersections. At these locations, it is thought that people become accustomed to seeing ordinary stop signs, fail to notice them, and fail to stop.

    The idea is that drivers unconsciously notice something is different and so these signs gain attention, hopefully restoring the original purpose of the sign.

  • @[email protected]
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    139 months ago

    “or whatevs” written in tiny font underneath, indistinguishable by passing drivers - as designed.

    Some say it wasn’t a good idea to make Becky (age 16) a city planner, but she sure is capable.