It’s a bit early, but they might win a Darwin award yet. Still a thing are they?
Everyone in Idaho should drink raw milk
Poor Idaho. Such a beautiful state with such ugly people.
Damn.
Hard agree.
It really does have some breathtaking landscapes… but it also really is largely populated by … pretty much direct descendants of either the Klan, or the Mormons that were too insane for the mainline Mormons.
I’m there right now. These people cannot fucking drive.
How to fix America in roughly one, simple, extremely unpopular step:
Literally everyone with a drivers liscense has to fully retest, written and driving, every single year.
Make the tests cost nothing, and make it so (if it isn’t the case already), every state has a non drivers liscense ID, and no, no you cannot farm out the actual tests to some kind of contracted private entity.
Drivers liscenses always expire one year after issue date. Non drivers liscense IDs? 10 years.
Within 5 years I’m guessing the number of people regulalry driving cars drops by about 50%.
Infrastructure degrades less quickly.
Personal finances improve as less people are routinely cleaned out by hilariously overpriced predatory car loans.
Car insurance rates and traffic accidents drop dramatically.
People begin to demand functional public transit, walk/bike compatible urban layouts and renovations.
Public transit and walkable places force people to have a higher baseline for general social decency, result in people realizing that physically experiencing other people is fundamentally not optional in this thing we call ‘society’.
Hell, even oil becomes relatively less expensive, thus somewhat moderating general inflation.
… All of this, something like this would happen, if we were just actually serious about getting and keeping incompetent drivers off the road.
I lived in small town Idaho. It was atrocious, I would not recommend.
You know, its funny.
In many ways, we in the US are just doing the 1910’s, 20’s, 30’s, all over again.
A big thing back then is what we now call scientific racism, eugenics.
Generally speaking, it was a bunch of unfounded psuedo science that purportrd to stem from Darwin’s theories, but… didn’t really actually have any sensible data or theory backing it up.
… the difference is that this time, eugenics part two electric boogaloo… its largely, not entirely, but to a great extent being used by ignorant bigots to hurt themselves, instead of other kinds of people.
So… would the meta of this be that eugenics and psuedo science and anti-intellectualism actually are a functional, definable evolutionary or maybe social mechanism, it just… basically works in the opposite way that morons think it does?
Their body their choice.
