TheJesusaurus

It’s difficult to describe the world in the pre-social media age. There was a time when Google was just a cool software company building cool things, and the don’t be evil motto was probably genuine.

Software used to be an thing that you would buy and use if you needed it. It came on a disk. It wasn’t this ever pervasive network of always on tools living in our homes and devices working to cultivate the ultimate consumer unit

Agreed

No matter how few cars there are, a pickup system for people in cars is still going to exist in any responsible society. Almost every one of the schools in central London have school pickup lines, despite very few pupils, staff or anyone else arriving that way, because driving in central London is a nightmare and heavily discouraged

Yeah… Because I was steel Manning this argument lol, not strawmanning it.

I was saying EVEN IF it were the case that we lived in an enlightened near carless society, there’s going to be some people who arrive via car, and apparently having an organized and safe way to accomodate that is sacreliege here.

Ask yourself if you seriously think I was making the argument that, in America specifically, 95% of the time 95% of people are not using cars to arrive at school.

Then ask yourself, if you thought that was the argument I was making, are you mentally equipped to carry on this conversation.

At no point have I made up any numbers not strawmanned anything in this conversation. Piss off

All of England seems to manage it fine

Yeah that’s why places that routinely have some car pick up come up with ways to manage it, like having dedicated pickup lanes to move parents and children through quickly safely and efficiently.

What country are you assuming I’m assuming exactly? Wasn’t aware there was only one country with both schools and cars

Yes that would be lovely, until then though? We don’t bother having queues or rules because Reddit doesn’t think anyone should have a car?

I live in the UK and walk my children to school every day. There is still a line for school pickup/drop-off because not everyone is so lucky.

This isn’t even an American phenomenon.

Some amount of people will be driving cars to pickup and drop-off every day, even if it’s minimized and even if it’s not always the same people.

So it stands to reason they should do it in some kind of orderly fashion as dictated by the school for the safety of, get this, THE CHILDREN ARRIVING BY FOOT, BIKE OR BUS

Ok that’s lovely. And the ones who are being picked up individually by their parents? They don’t wait in a line?

Yes, that doesn’t look like a school bus to me though. I assume if he tried to use the school bus lane they’d manage to catch him.

How do you envision kids being picked up after school? Free for all?

Edit: yes I’m doubling down, the people in the replies are idiots.

Obviously walking, biking, or taking the bus is better. Let’s assume that covers 95% of children 95% of the time.

Now what?

I was asking what to do WITH CARS that are picking up kids REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT ANOTHER KID MIGHT TKAE THE BUS

A compromise in willing to countenance is Christmas after Nov 11

Alright so, I guess there are exceptions

I’ve never once not appreciated a nude. This comment makes no sense

They call me Executive function disorder trail mix

If you understand he’s just a venture capitalist then why are you arguing with me?

I could fund electric cars and space Wi-Fi too if I inherited an emerald mine from my dad

He isn’t though, he doesn’t do that stuff. Hundreds of talented engineers do.

He’s a gatekeeper to their talents, through his immense wealth he keeps their work to himself to enrich himself further instead of be lnefitting society.

Elon Musk doesn’t build cars or satelites

So, Elon Musk made in just this year more money than you, and your father, and his father and his father, on and on back to the invention of currency have made in their entire lives combined.

So please do tell me, is Elon Musk more valuable than you and all your ancestors combined?

Has he worked harder than all your grandfathers combined?

Me, personally, I would be unbelievably embarrassed to admit that I think a junkie South African nepo baby is 100,000 times the man my granddad was.