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But then I won’t be able to race my black-smoke-belching rolling-coal truck with my manly man buddies :(

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Rolling coal is one of the most mindbogglingly stupid things I’ve ever heard of. Truly, it makes it seem like Idiocracy didn’t go nearly far enough in their hyperbole. Nobody could’ve predicted people being this aggressively dumb.

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18 points

Ignoring the tragedy of the actual situation, the way the title is parsed for the link implies that a diesel powered bicyclist crashed while rolling coal and that imagery makes me giggle.

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2 points

Damn that’s horrific, stupid and completely unnecessary.

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29 points

Americans truly are a different species

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23 points

Lead poisoning is one hell of a drug.

I’m convinced some of these people have some kind of brain damage.

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8 points

that what happen when companies rule the country, and propaganda runs without regulation, who thought that protecting multimillionaire bribes would be a good idea

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15 points

Where I live (Midwestern USA), there are guys who drive around just to roal coal on cyclists. It has happened to me a few times.

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It’s fucking insane how those manly man with a beer gut feel endangered by cyclists. You get assaulted by a weak little wimp in his tank for choosing a different mode of transportation.

When I see hiw insanely stupid people can get I don’t believe in any hope for humanity.

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2 points

I worked with a guy who got run off the road on his bicycle by a couple rednecks in a pickup truck and was severely injured. That was 30 years ago, in Texas.

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12 points

wtf is this ? a locomotive ?

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22 points

Yes, in that it’s a motive for locos

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11 points

Steam locomotives burn far cleaner than whatever the hell this is. An efficiently running steam engine effectively consumes its own smoke and only exhausts waste steam.

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9 points

Actually if everything else was fixed we could probably still allow things like monster truck rallies etc right?

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11 points

No reason (other than a weird attachment to breathing in exhaust fumes) you can’t have an electric powered Monster Truck.

In fact it makes a lot of sense. Can have Monster Truck rallies in indoor stadiums. Electric motors are really powerful. Monster Trucks aren’t driving hundreds of miles so wouldn’t need batteries that are all that big.

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15 points

Hate to break it to you, but they already have monster truck rallies in indoor arenas. That way everyone can hot-box the exhaust.

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From Lemminary’s link

An increasingly popular phenomenon at the time of the incident, coal rolling happens when a driver of a diesel truck floods the engine with more fuel than it can efficiently process, emitting a thick black plume of exhaust across the road. The emissions systems of diesel trucks are strictly regulated under federal law. But some truck owners modify their exhaust systems with illegal aftermarket parts, or fail to fix broken exhaust systems. In the 2010s, rolling coal became a kind of defiant act, an aggressive backlash against the increasing regulation of fossil fuels. People using forms of transportation that don’t burn oil—namely, those riding bikes, walking, or driving an electric vehicle—became targets. Social media apps such as TikTok helped drive the #rollingcoal trend. Videos with captions like “POV: You roll coal on every bicycle you see,” showing the engorged tailpipe of a diesel truck expelling a bubbling smoke, accrued thousands, even millions of views.

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4 points

They want that mad max life style

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