Current Events > "Land of the free" USA: has universal speed limits on highways

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"Actually free country" Germany: has no universal speed limit on highways


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But the speed limit isn't universal?

It changes, usually fairly often.

Closest thing I've seen to a "universal" speed limit is, 80+ mph is almost universally considered reckless driving

Holy shit

The Germans have the power to break causality

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This... is your metric for freedom?

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MrPeppers posted...

This... is your metric for freedom?

Germans have a large, storied history of transporting large amounts of people as quickly as possible. They're very proud of it.

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MachineJaipur posted...

But the speed limit isn't universal?

It changes, usually fairly often.

Closest thing I've seen to a "universal" speed limit is, 80+ mph is almost universally considered reckless driving

Actually, there are parts of Texas with speed limits as high as 85 mph.

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The speed limit is different in every state lol

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America land of free

- need to pay bill
- home prices high to the sky
- no free healthcare
- many America young people have college debt
- no minimum wage all crazy for tip
- many Americans workers are employed in low wage jobs
- shit education
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aki_sora posted...

America land of free

- need to pay bill
- home prices high to the sky
- no free healthcare
- many America young people have college debt
- no minimum wage all crazy for tip
- many Americans workers are employed in low wage jobs
- shit education

I agree. Many Americans are slacking and need to step it up to make this place better.

You can't murder people in either country.

Freedom doesn't exist?

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They played us like a god damn fiddle!

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TIL: Alabama is the fourth most biodiverse state in the nation
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

You can't murder people in either country.

Freedom doesn't exist?

I mean you kinda can in the US. Look at Zimmerman, or any recent stories about police officers

DevsChum posted...

Actually, there are parts of Texas with speed limits as high as 85 mph.

that's why i put universal in quotes

Meanwhile videogames in Germany only let you kill robots

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unpopular opinion:

freedom, like democracy, is a hollow propagandistic phrase. the freest and most democratic countries have no need to advertise it as part of their branding; they let the truth shine

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It's about maximizing freedom. You cant murder somebody because it aggregately reduces freedom...you gain the freedom to murder somebody but the people who get murdered lose all their freedoms, so aggregately freedoms are reduced if murder becomes a freedom.

Most people misunderstand this and therefore make fun of the concept of freedom and those who want to maximize it.

There is no point in speed limits. Most people drive at speeds they are comfortable at. We have a HIGHWAY in my city with a speed limit of 30mph. Asinine.

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aki_sora posted...

America land of free

- need to pay bill
- home prices high to the sky
- no free healthcare
- many America young people have college debt
- no minimum wage all crazy for tip
- many Americans workers are employed in low wage jobs
- shit education

Let's not mention having the largest incarceration rate per capita, including people in prison for victimless crimes and drug use.

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YellowMustard69 posted...

I agree. Many Americans are slacking and need to step it up to make this place better.

Yeah I too am tired of politicians failing us year after year

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Behaviorism posted...

There is no point in speed limits. Most people drive at speeds they are comfortable at. We have a HIGHWAY in my city with a speed limit of 30mph. Asinine.

iirc my city has an ordinance where the speed limit adjusts to the speed of traffic

but traffic is really, really bad during rush hour, and so the speed limit has been reduced by like 5-10 mph on otherwise perfectly decent roads - and they've also become a magnet for speed traps

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I dont follow the speed limit usually

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hockeybub89 posted...

Yeah I too am tired of politicians failing us year after year

We shouldn't rely on politicians to make life better for us. The fact that most Americans do is part of why things are sliding. If the average person is educated to rely on themselves and the resources and tools they know they have access to rather than the government then things would get much better. However, too many people are not even aware of how capable they are as individuals, and part of the reason for that is the fact that more and more so children's brains are being developed in a manner that makes them think that only politicians and government can make their lives better, which is both wrong and a scary direction for society to develop.

Behaviorism posted...

There is no point in speed limits. Most people drive at speeds they are comfortable at. We have a HIGHWAY in my city with a speed limit of 30mph. Asinine.

Yeah, fuck all those studies that show what speeds are safe and not for the majority of people. >_>

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YellowMustard69 posted...

We shouldn't rely on politicians to make life better for us. The fact that most Americans do is part of why things are sliding. If the average person is educated to rely on themselves and the resources and tools they know they have access to rather than the government then things would get much better. However, too many people are not even aware of how capable they are as individuals, and part of the reason for that is the fact that more and more so children's brains are being developed in a manner that makes them think that only politicians and government can make their lives better, which is both wrong and a scary direction for society to develop.

Yeah but politicians are the only ones with the power to actually change laws though

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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Yeah, fuck all those studies that show what speeds are safe and not for the majority of people. >_>

Most of the accidents I respond to at work are not due to speed

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Yeah but politicians are the only ones with the power to actually change laws though

Don't let laws dictate what goals you can achieve.

YellowMustard69 posted...

Don't let laws dictate what goals you can achieve.

Uh they literally fucking do though. You're taking a lot of risk if your goals aren't supported by laws and policies. You can easily end up arrested, sued, homeless, dead, etc.

I'm sure a gay man in a Sharia nation would feel a lot more comfortable living his life if the law didn't say he should be executed.

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they are so arbitrary and frequently make not a lick of sense, a local auxiliary interstate is 55 for whatever reason, who goes 55 on a interstate for god's sake?

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Behaviorism posted...

Most of the accidents I respond to at work are not due to speed

higher speeds just make accidents more deadly, they don't necessarily cause more accidents

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hockeybub89 posted...

Uh they literally fucking do though. You're taking a lot of risk if your goals aren't supported by laws and policies. You can easily end up arrested, sued, homeless, dead, etc.

I'm sure a gay man in a Sharia nation would feel a lot more comfortable living his life if the law didn't say he should be executed.

There are always extreme examples that don't apply. So fair enough. But my advice is still good when applied to most situations.

coolboy11 posted...

they are so arbitrary and frequently make not a lick of sense, a local auxiliary interstate is 55 for whatever reason, who goes 55 on a interstate for god's sake?

this guy gets it
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