Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

I would knock doors for anyone who would regulate the brightness of car headlights

Small goal: Legislate the brightness on these stupid headlights Big goal: ban cars

Hey Gavin Newsom can you do the most anti Brad and Chad thing and ban LED headlights esp on lifted trucks bc Jesus Christ I feel like I’m being beamed up to the mothership every time and this is a hazard for both pedestrians and other drivers.

The super bright LED headlights need to be banned. It's batshit insane how blinding they are.

LED headlights should disarm all of your senses, not just hurt your eyes

This reminds me of the time that I wrote a post about how LED headlights suck and then went to bed and woke up and it had gone viral so I added a post telling people to buy my book and someone accused me of writing a viral tweet about LEDs to sell my book about particle cosmology 😹

One thing that sucks about winter is the sun setting earlier and getting blinded by LED headlights. www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...

Driving in heavy rain in the dark when everyone has stupid LED headlights is quite the awful experience. Also two screens in the car, that's awful too, even after dimming them as much as it lets me.

the LED headlights are getting out of control, I CANNOT SEE.

You might appreciate this long read www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...

Abolish LED headlights FOREVER good fucking god

DEPORT LED HEADLIGHTS

Whoever invented LED headlights needs to be rolled down a cliff in a barrel i hate these fucking things

never miss an opportunity to be heard.

Having those overly bright LED headlights is a sign you are a sociopath

spent a couple hours downtown today and there's a lot of white women in their 40s and 50s fedposting harder than i would ever feel comfortable with this meme is actually just real life

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

If you use blue LED headlights on your car, other drivers should get to pull you out and poke you in the eye

Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders. Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.

I try to avoid night driving because of the blinding headlights.

Can judges please come down this hard on LED headlights? Blind is blind regardless of whether it's a laser or LEDs.

probably unpopular opinion - headlights on new cars are way too bright these days

It's like not one of these jerks has been in the oncoming path of LED headlights.

Many such cases

whose idea was it to put those bright ass lights as car headlights? i just wanna have a chat…

The bright LED headlights are gradually pushing me into a killdozer scenario

Anything but funding public transit

Join us. reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights

@barneyretina.bsky.social did she just refer to reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

NHTSA is getting close to celebrating a decade of hapless, impotent flailing over Tesla's patently unsafe driving automation technology, and they're still at it! www.reuters.com/business/aut...

is there any nation or jurisdiction in which vehicle headlight brightness is regulated?

Here's how we avert civil war: • blue states secede • blue states immediately ban LED headlights • everyone moves to blue states • red states empty • no war

It is time we reunited humanity over a common enemy and I think that enemy should be people who use blinding LED headlights when night driving.

@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social is a dear friend of mine and a civil litigator who has dedicated her life to doing good for the world. She is being sued by a hateful troll for a thread she wrote on Twitter, which she had every legal right to post. PLEASE if you can spare it help her out.

If you are a podcast person you might like this ep about headlights, it was enlightening (!). And because this is bsky, if you don’t like podcasts or someone already suggested it, please accept my sincerest apologies. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Frankly, I don't see how FSD is legal in the first place. It's not certified or approved by anyone. It's no different than if I was selling people a fake autonomous driving upgrade that I falsely described as "full self-driving" and which was programmed to manipulate/destroy data in crashes.

Here's my pet issues I wanna see a politician run on: - banning LED headlights - getting stores to stop locking up shit like shampoo - throwing up on Jesse Watters - socializing Google

Side point: adaptive headlight technology. Would save lives if engineered to only be active when the high beams are manually triggered, thus mitigating misuse of high beams. Instead, it's being pushed as a panacea for all headlight related issues

Referring to crashes as “accidents” or claiming that “speed wasn’t a factor” in a crash, are not random language choices. They’re the result of PR campaigns. Listen to this really important interview with @grantennis.bsky.social by @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social on “Dark PR.”

LED headlights that blind oncoming pedestrians should be illegal. Usually I'm complaining about them on trucks, but I still have a blind spot an hour later from the damn e-bike with the offending blinding light this time.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's efforts on blinding LED headlights was covered in Time. time.com/7305954/brig...

specialised experts in specific fields love technocracy as an idea for obvious reasons but one thing they miss is that quite frankly they are not infallible and they huff the fumes of their echo chambers and the public asking them "but are you sure it works like this" is actually normal

your brain is a muscle and if you offload the stuff your meat computer is supposed to do to a sand computer it’s gonna make you extra dumb and not in a sexy way

Not me deliberately driving slow so the jerk behind me who’s blinding my rear view mirror with their LED headlights will get annoyed and pull out to pass me.

1,200 lumens increasing to 12,000 lumens is CRAZY. LED headlights are out of control. And yes I know about lighting. I've been in the lighting industry since 2004. I've been designing LED fixtures since 2008.

LED lighting is great in the home and terrible in headlights. At night it obscures the vision of other drivers. I want headlights to be less bright.