• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I said we shouldn’t let them drive a car, not lock them in prison. Calm down.

    Ideally we would provide people like this with mental healthcare, and get them medicated so that they actually can operate a vehicle without being an inherent risk to everyone around them.

    My point is that, in America, you can basically be screaming “I am extremely unwell to the point of being an elevated risk to myself and everyone around me”, and our usual response is to act like everything is normal and nothing should be done.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t think this guy would take any pills you tried to give him unless you literally forced them down his throat. (They’re created with computer too.)

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        4 months ago

        (They’re created with computer too.)

        I’ve got bad news for him regarding how modern pickup trucks work.

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            4 months ago

            I’m no expert on automobiles, but that truck would need to be 40+ years old to have no computers onboard. It doesn’t look that old to me, though maybe he just kept it in good shape.

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              4 months ago

              It’s honestly hard to tell, because even a brand new equivalent vehicle would look very similar from the side. Pickup trucks haven’t changed visually much over the years.