• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    9 months ago

    Theory: Everyone down voting you has never driven outside the US.

    We don’t teach the proper way to zipper merge, so people block those doing it for cutting in line. It’s a different culture that should be changed for efficiency, just like middle lane squatting, but it’s just not important enough to address.

    • Nougat@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      The United States has a strong general culture of “I got mine, fuck you.” That is certainly playing a part in this thread.