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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe get off your damn phones.

Interesting assumption there, but I'm Gen X. Analog childhood, digital adulthood. I love my computers but I tend to forget I even have a smartphone for most of my day.

If you think pedestrians with phones are so terrible for wanting to listen to music or talk on them while moving slowly though, I don't know what to tell you about people who are all armored up in a fast-moving vehicle. That said, I guarantee you more folks will give you the eye contact you crave if you get out of your car (unless they're neurodivergent or they were raised in a culture where eye contact is threatening or intimidating).