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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

I guess it couldn't handle the abusive relationship

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Red - Stop

Yellow - Proceed with caution

Green - Go

???

Fire - Profit

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How did you add that caption below the image? It only shows when I click on it, not in the comment itself. What is this sorcery?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

![alt text](link to the picture)

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

wtf??? I've gone my whole life thinking the first ever traffic light was invented and installed in Cleveland Ohio. Turns out, it was just the first ever in the USA. This is what they taught us in schools.......in Cleveland Ohio.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn sounds like they gaslit you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe the first one that was electric and roughly similar to today's was installed there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I bet that one didn't explode. Take that Englanders!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They replaced it with a girlbossed one right after.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Doubles as a dad joke.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Was there really that much traffic in the mid 19th century to warrant traffic lights?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

In London? Absolutely. Peoples still had to move all their good around before cars were invented.