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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
It’s a single screenshot
I seriously doubt it. Generally each city has their own sign-making department, if it’s interstates, it’s the state DOT doing it. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to sell signs that replicate them faithfully enough (including the reflective layer) to be swapped out - for exactly this reason. Otherwise this would happen all the time.
You can buy replicas of signs but they are usually a lot thinner aluminum and don’t have the same layered reflective coating, and probably noticeably smaller too. That said, it is possible to buy the sign-making equipment and produce your own, if you were really so motivated, but now we’re talking way more than a traffic ticket.
So just go take the sign down, so much simpler. Doubt they’d notice for a months or years, and when they replace it, just take it down again.
Any department of transportation isn’t going to have their own print department, as far as I know. They contract out print jobs like that since the equipment and expertise to produce at scale are prohibitively expensive for just one client. As I’ve seen, that kind of job uses laser-etched plates on rollers with different plates for each colour. Pantone inks, probably. So they need the laser machine, a printer the size of a small apartment, the licensing, and all the materials, just for signs.
The reflective coating is just a simple laminated layer.
Source: Worked at a printers and toured a couple screenprinting shops who had contracts with the city. We’d print anything as long as someone paid and sent the correct filetype.
It’s the same in Germany, I’ve been in a sign making factory and they will make signs for everyone who pays. The illegal part is not owning them, the only illegal part would be putting them up on public streets without authorization. You are definetly allowed to use these signs on your own private ground, on a private parking lot for example.
Because of this, I looked into whether the Canadian governments and municipalities had some kind of copyright, but couldn’t find anything except laws against interfering with traffic. Enforcing a ban on making your own signs would be way more tedius than just saying “Don’t fuck with traffic” anyway.
And yeah, you’re right, there are signs like those all over private lots and around businesses. There’s nothing special about the government ones.
One of my favorite modern day quotes recently has been:
“People really do be using their free will out here.”
98% of the population believes everything they’re told and obeys all the rules. It’s that 2% you need to watch.
Real heroes don’t wear capes
But they hold a screwdriver.
We have a road that goes under a bridge so that you can make a right to go east on a 4 lane road. People would sit at that corner waiting to go left and it caused massive backups. (Which made no sense, why go under the bridge then? Use a different corner and make a right to go west!). We asked the city to make it right turn only - they interpreted it slightly differently and thought we meant people were heading straight the wrong way up a one way, rather than turning to that corner, came and put a temporary sign. I went with one of my kids, wearing safety vests, and moved the temporary sign to the corner we wanted it at.
Later the city came and put the permanent sign where we had it, and ALSO changed the paint on the road to make it one way right at the corner and disallowed left turns INTO that corner, they just broadly said no left. Which is good. Nobody should be stopping at the bottom of a bridge to wait to make a left turn.
It’s not like NOBODY does the left anymore, but there are not backups now because nobody is going to sit there waiting to go left, they get honked at.
Diabolical
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Just needs another “you can just do stuff” on top of it. We’ll be Facebook yet!
I get mine from tumbler and imgur
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been happenin for a while too
That happened
Something like this has happened before.
This, specifically, did not happen.
How can you tell?
I can’t be certain, but the level of detail just feels off. He specifies the number of bolts, but glosses over setting up an alias?
Having read the version of this story that’s true, there’s also a lot more to it than just “buying a sign from the supplier”.
The way this is written is how I’d write it for a creative writing class. Possible I’m wrong, but I don’t think I am.
My grandparents have a similar story (https://lemmy.world/post/40811218/21244723)
cloak and dagger
posts details on the internet
🤔
In all fairness, he’s discussing stuff he’d done 13 years prior.
And without enough info to point to a specific intersection.
Definitely past the statute of limitations.
“Oh shit, InfiniteRespect4757 just confessed to a crim on the Internet from years ago. We finally got em boys!”
Flock is watching.
Flock is getting kicked out of towns left and right.
I’ve heard of like two places.
Yeah those are the left and right respectively
left and right
Sounds like two places to me.
Where meme?
Hint: look at usernames.
The meme was posting things to make you ask where the meme is the whole time.
Yeah, it’s just life advice. No memes here
But why post this in c/memes then? There are better fitting communities.
Because the mods in this community give zero fucks about what’s posted. You’re more likely to get comments removed for pointing out shitty posts than a shitty post will be pulled.
because it’s one of the biggest communities and splitting everything up into 1000 sub-communities makes all of them too small to be interesting, and i’d rather have one big “haha that’s funny” meme community than 1000 small specific communities
None of the “memes” I see these days in “meme” communities are memes and it’s honestly mildly annoying.
I’ve noticed this trend with “You Laugh You Lose” videos as well (yes, people are still doing those). Oftentimes they’re 50/50 neat facts and incredibly niche brainrot memes.
It’s all just twitter and Reddit posts. I hate the new internet.
Where funny?
No need to be funny. But it’s also not a meme. Not that most things here are.
I see this. There was another thread today where people were discussing if stuff like this counts as a “meme” or if it’s off topic for this page. I’ll be making a pinned post for community input tomorrow about a potential new rule. Stay tuned.
Looking to bulk order “pedestrian zone” and “cycles only” signs some time soon 👀
I have on numerous occasions considered ordering bike route signage to place up on bike safe routes. The city has official signs for it but puts basically none up. If I could just order a lot more to put up it could encourage more folks to join.
I’m French, so we have the standard European signs, which should be easy enough to order 👀
You don’t have bike routes in France?
We do have them, but not enough of them 😈
