• Hyperlon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Turn off location sharing on Google maps. You have your location shared with everyone and Google marks your location as good parking.

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    I may be one of these people. At least for the more obscure places, the highway pullouts and national forests and things, if I see another person parked there, I’ll typically park next to them. Safety in numbers, the more people parked in a turnout, the more legitimate it looks to park there

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    Some people just like to watch the world burn. Had a friend that would park next to people out in BFE. I asked them “why” and he said “no real reason, I just like pissing them off”… not really friends with him anymore.

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      I have a friend like this too. Except he intentionally slows down when a car comes up tona side street on the passenger side and says “hit us! Gimme that cheque!”

      I told him the last time he did that shit “if we EVER het into an accident i am using any money ibreceive to fucking sue your dumbass for putting us in danger.”

      Doesn’t do that anymore, but does enough other toxic shit for me to cut him out after this lease is up.

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    Similar to movie theater seats. No one else in the theater, the next person walks in and sits right behind me except no GPS.

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    I have a different theory to “safety in numbers”, “GPS locator” etc

    Namely that we live in a simulation and this is how the simulation is trying to preserve computing power. If two people park separately in the wilderness somewhere then twice as much area has to be computed. However if the simulation guides the second and other subsequent vehicles to the same place then there’s only one area that is actively observed and have random encounters with wildlife generated.

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      we live in a simulation

      I agree 100%. I have suspected the same thing.

      Today I am in a large parking lot that is only 5% occupied. This family pulls in and parks away from me but doesn’t shut off their car. Then a minute later they back out of that space and attempt to back in to the spot right next to me. The wife got out of the car to guide the husband into the spot. The entire parking lot is wide open!!! WTF? They didn’t even have the courtesy of parking one over from me. Definitely, it’s the Simulation fucking with me.

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    I park way out, and sometimes park next to a nice looking car thinking “neither of us would door ding the other.”

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      It’s as hilarious as the first time I read it. I think it’s aged quite well. Its almost timeless.

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      I’m going to the first open one 99% of the time. If you don’t want people next to you, make sure you go all the way to the end.

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      Did you get half way through and assume what the rest of the post must say and skip reading it? It seems like you answered a completely different question than the actual joke that was posted.

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          I guess I should have posted a shorter reply, they probably saw two full sentences and gave up before even starting.

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      2 months ago

      What maps app are you using that shows you exactly where people parked their car?

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        Drop a pin, share pin location.

        Open street maps.

        Google maps.

        Apple maps.

        Literally any mapping app.

        “Yo bro, I left the drugs in the trunk of a blue Toyota Camry. It’s unlocked. I parked right here

        Not hard.