• railsdev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get this: riding in the higher gears would keep your RPMs low and make it more difficult to accelerate quickly (and thus break traffic laws).

    Am I missing something?

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        1 year ago

        Right… so now we’re associating maintaining your speed using the normal higher gears with going to jail? That makes sense

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          1 year ago

          The implied joke is obvious and has been around for a while. Why are you intentionally complicating it to act like it doesn’t make sense? It doesn’t make you seem smarter than the joke teller or anything.

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      1 year ago

      The joke is many American rural area counties have a metric shit ton of speed traps to booster local funds