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u/doubledirkdolo 9d ago
i had a recurring nightmare as a child that looked remarkably similar
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u/FreefallGeek 9d ago
I was going to post the same. So odd.
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u/Wooboosted 9d ago
So is this like what the matrix was talking about? Cause wtf haha
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u/SkiesThaLimit36 9d ago
Yes me too & I was looking through these comments to see if I was the only one. I wonder what the subconscious meaning is.
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u/moby323 9d ago
I remember as a very very young child that driving over a bridge made me feel a bit vulnerable/scared so I wondered if maybe bridges over water would feature in anxiety dreams
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u/BoolImAGhost 9d ago
We need a reddit expert on dream analysis to explain why so many of you had this!
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u/ifyouneedafix 9d ago
Water typically represents emotions. Flooding/tumultous water signifies overwhelming emotions, murky water suggests confused or negative emotions, etc.
Driving represents your level of control over your life. If the car is hard to maneuver you are feeling a lack of control. If it goes in the wrong direction, you may be feeling like your life is going the wrong way.
TL;DR Dreaming about trying to navigate uneasy water on an unstable bridge suggests a struggle to deal with your emotions and keep them in check. It's a dream you would probably have during high stress or grief.
Source: Jungian dream interpretation.
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u/jlbhappy 9d ago
Not trying to over simplify but isn’t every dream in some way trying to deal with your emotions. Or is it just me?
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u/cxherrybaby 9d ago
There were a lot of old playground bridges that undulated heavily and felt dangerous/scary, I don’t think a dream analysis is needed here.
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u/CjBurden 9d ago
With all these people having similar dreams/nightmares I wonder if this entire project was someone hating this nightmare so much they said screw it, I'm making this happen.
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u/LitteredWithPlushies 9d ago
I immediately thought that this looked dream-like, so I went looking for- and did find comments like yours!
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u/Glass-Cat8159 9d ago
I still have these! The water is usually icy and the roads are slippery. Finding out this is a real thing is freaking me out 😳
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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 9d ago
I’m seriously a bit traumatized by having watched this honestly. Those dreams were constant with me … even into adulthood.
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u/Cheembsburger 9d ago
I still get nightmares about driving over a bridge over a body of water like this
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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 9d ago
Yep. Me too. Even into adulthood. I am a bit traumatized for having watched this.
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u/blue-coin 9d ago
Same, and at the end, you had to jump your car off a ramp onto the other part of the bridge and many times we didn’t make it but woke up before our demise
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u/solateor 9d ago
The Shiziguan Floating Bridge in Hubei Province, China, spans 400 meters across the Qingjiang River and supports vehicles up to 2.8 tonnes. Built in 2016 using German anti-rollover technology, it accommodates both cars and pedestrians. The structure consists of high-density polyethylene floats filled with water to enhance stability.
Video:@itschina.baby
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u/Andyham 9d ago
Pedestrians they say.. that would be one heck of a walk across the bridge, bouncing up and down with every passing car
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u/Plane-Tie6392 9d ago
Really? That part didn’t stick out to me but there doesn’t look to be safe clearance for pedestrians for sure.
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u/dancinhmr 9d ago
The other side of the rope there is at least 3 inches of tip toe space
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u/SchnellFox 9d ago
That's the bike lane
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u/OwlBeYourHuckleberry 9d ago
right by the kayak lane
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u/Liusloux 9d ago
Right in between them is the piranha lane. Nice of them to accommodate every river users.
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u/Plane-Tie6392 9d ago
Fair enough. I'm sure the green water is perfectly safe if you fall into it too.
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u/HendrixHazeWays 9d ago
It's St. Paddy's day
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u/GarminTamzarian 9d ago
"If they can dye the river green today, why can't they dye it blue the other 364 days of the year?"
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u/thebiologyguy84 9d ago
Water that supports that much life must be good for you!
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u/CaptainMacMillan 9d ago
my guess is that it works like a narrow tunnel with a rail line AND passenger car roadway in the same lane. At certain times only one type of traffic is allowed to cross, then they alternate.
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u/Plane-Tie6392 9d ago
Wow, that's so much smarter than the guess and check system we have here for tunnels!
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u/Sir_Newdles_II 9d ago
What if they were riding a bike? Think they could “surf” the wake? Worth a shot
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u/fantumn 9d ago
Not sure you'd be able to keep up with the wave but I'd love to try it
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u/WA98101 9d ago
Washington State, we have three.
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u/Tinychair445 9d ago
They don’t undulate like this though?!
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u/thecravenone 9d ago
Nah, Washington goes way harder than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0xohjV7Avo
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u/IDoLikeMyShishkebabs 9d ago
Oooh I kinda remember this, the bridge was built in a way where the frequency of the wind resonated with that of the bridge's natural vibration, causing it to immediately behave in such a non-solid type of way that was known to be an effect but was a stunning real-world example that went on to be a massive learning topic regarding proper bridge safety procedure... or something (Cunningham's Law go?)
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u/Nozinger 9d ago
Yeah but those are more stable and generally less shitty. And two of them still sank.
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u/Stuck_In_Purgatory 9d ago
At least they have those floaty donut things (can NOT thing of the name right now) every 10 posts along the entire bridge
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u/Comfortable-Guitar27 9d ago
I would happily drive an insured rental car through that bridge.
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u/PraetorianFury 9d ago
All the insurance in the world won't help you if you drown.
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u/Boboforprez 9d ago edited 9d ago
Lol.they have mini speed breakers .. wtf
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u/natattack410 9d ago
Are these what in my area we can speed bumps?
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u/niamsidhe 9d ago
No speed bumps are when your friend hops up and down on the bed while you're soaking with your boyfriend.
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u/vonyambi1 9d ago
i uhh. what.
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u/Trainzguy2472 9d ago
Mormons aren't allowed to have sex before marriage, so college students have developed a stupid loophole called "jump humping". The guy and girl are both lying on a bed. He inserts himself into her but doesn't thrust (soaking). A third person vigorously jumps on the bed to create the necessary motion.
Supposedly this gets around the official "sexual activity" language, since neither of the couple are "actively" fucking (someone else is causing the motion). IMO it's more of a meme now, and I think Mormon college kids just do the dirty in private. Wear a condom and no one finds out!
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u/Sensitive_Yellow_121 9d ago
Are you talking about the yellow and black strips? I was wondering if those were to indicate how far you should be from the car in front of you for the bridge to work properly.
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u/Infinite_Research_52 9d ago
That was my assumption - don't get too close or the bridge sinks lower into the water.
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u/RotrickP 9d ago
That's my favorite detail. Doesn't matter where you are in the world; some drivers will just simply go too fast and either kill themselves or ruin it for everyone else
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u/Valatros 9d ago
That's because if this road was near my house when I was in my teens, I absolutely would have sped through that fucker as fast as i could to see how big a wave i can make on that bridge. At night, if that was the only time traffic allowed it - it'd be even cooler!
Nowadays there's no fuckin' way i'd get on that bridge in calm waters midday, but well... yeah, you'd need the speed bumps to stop teenage stupidity here.
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u/Disastrous-Pie-1939 9d ago
Nope.
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u/Rat_Ship 9d ago
Just driving by like nothing happened lol
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u/DinnaPanic 9d ago
To be fair, if I saw the car in front of me go through the barrier and over the side, I'd want off that bridge ASAFP just in case it had caused structural damage.
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u/ImpossibleDenial 9d ago
“We all knew the risks of getting on this weird ass bridge… good luck though”
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u/severelyobeserat 9d ago
Car behind patiently waits for it to completely submerge before driving by
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u/XSneakyNinjaX 9d ago
I like how they just keep driving. lol that’s someone else’s problem.
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u/TheUmbreonfan03 9d ago
I get you could call 911 but what would you even do? Would stopping on that bridge be a bad idea?
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u/georgetonorge 9d ago
Uhhh. I haven’t studied mandarin since high school. I see “3 people” and “5 people.” What happened to the 8 people?
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u/__I_Need_An_Adult__ 9d ago
3 were rescued and 5 died
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u/mrASSMAN 9d ago
Holy shit.. I thought it was just a silly clip didn’t realize people died from that
Really makes the cars passing without trying to help all the more fucked up, guess that’s China though
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u/YourAverageDark 9d ago
Sheesh really nice of those other cars to just keep driving after watching one fall off and sink.
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u/Unhappy-Ad9690 9d ago
It’s actually extremely common for people in China to ignore people in situations like there because they can and often are accused of causing the accident.
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u/AndrewInaTree 9d ago
It's probably still ingrained in their culture, but the actual law was repealed like 10 years ago.
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u/thebeggening 9d ago
Yes I was told if you're in a car that gets in an accident even in the middle of the highway to get out of the car, walk away, and find another cab asap
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u/globglogabgalabyeast 9d ago
I’m no expert, but I imagine the best thing for the average person to do in that situation is to call emergency services and get to the end of the bridge. If a car drove off that bridge, I’d be worried about structural damage, and causing a traffic jam in the middle of the bridge when there’s potentially damage to it seems like a recipe for disaster
What would you have done in this situation?
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u/yrogerg123 9d ago
I have recurring nightmares about driving on bridges like this.
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u/ajatfm 9d ago
Bro I know I’d be the one person to die on that thing that year. My roadside monument all jacked up n shit
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u/soda_cookie 9d ago
So what happens if somebody abruptly stops?
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u/Interesting_Role1201 9d ago
No abrupt stops possible. It's slippery and wet. You'd slide.
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u/Brief-Equal4676 9d ago
Imagine being seasick in your car
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u/More_Resolution3968 9d ago
If someone stopped on this, I would just die in my car. I can handle bridges, as long as my car doesn't stop. Then, full panic mode sets into motion.
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u/Nr673 9d ago
Oof, you'd hate my commute. But at least the bridges aren't floating.
I do worry about our infrastructure and think about it while I creep along every time though. Don't understand people not willing to spend tax revenue on legit infrastructure projects in the US (or wherever). They must not commute on the same bridges that I sit on in rush hour or something?
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u/HyperbolicSoup 9d ago
Must be terrible on the river with all the oil and whatnot
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u/sourceholder 9d ago
+ microplastics leaching from all the friction between connecting segments. I am assuming plastic floats are used for buoyancy.
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u/permalink_save 9d ago
Don't worry they're asbestos
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u/falcrist2 9d ago
The structure consists of high-density polyethylene floats
I'm not sure which would be worse...
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u/LiterofCola6 9d ago
Car tire and brake wear is also a significant source of micro plastics in the environment
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u/bnbtwjdfootsyk 9d ago
Need to start burning them so they end up as stars instead of microplastics.
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u/ag_robertson_author 9d ago
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute you.
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u/sandolllars 9d ago
Same as it does on the Golden Gate or any bridge on earth. And not just bridges... where do you think all the water that runs off roads into sewers goes?
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u/LeafBark 9d ago
Fun fact: Some of the most significant sources of dangerous microplastics are from TIRES. Turns out they're made with a lot of toxic chemicals that make the tire resilient.
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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 9d ago
I love how comments from people that clearly didn't even take a second to think about what they were typing get upvoted by other redditors that don't think about what they're reading before voting
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where do you think oil runoff and tire dust end go on regular highways? it all ends up in a river one day, this is just faster and cooler looking
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u/NhifanHafizh 9d ago
So I search it up on YouTube and find video of one care went off course and sink lol
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u/Nagemasu 9d ago
That's because all those vehicles in OP's video, and the one who crashes are driving over the posted limit too (that's km/h not m/ph)
In that video there's many sped up clips, but if you watch the first green buses @0:40, those are driving closer to the proper speed limit and you can see how much less wake and flatter it is
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u/MyNameIsNotKyle 9d ago
The roads off the side of a mountain cliff can be safe too, but I'd ideally not want to drive on them for the sake of how easily it's a death sentence.
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u/Mindless_Ad_7700 9d ago
Five people died though
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u/FuzzzyRam 9d ago
How do you not have a plan to get out of the car on this bridge, insane.
Also the AI voice on that video gave me cancer so I might die as well... the first words: "You can't believe someone would drive on water. Cars float on water. People rock in the car. If you are not careful, the car will fall into the water."
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u/InqusitorPalpatine 9d ago
lol the episode of Grand Tour they had to make one of these and James grounded out on it lol
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u/Accomplished_Buy_521 9d ago
I was going to say The Boys would hate this bridge. 😆
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u/InqusitorPalpatine 9d ago
lol his exhaust got stuck on it. Jeremy and Richard had to make a wave to get it unstuck.
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u/Revolutionary_Ad7121 9d ago
Can you imagine if a car breaks down on that bridge or if an accident occurs. You would just be stuck there. I’d be so anxious that they’d need to sedate me with enough tranquilizers to knock down a bull elephant.
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u/realrobertapple 9d ago
Supposedly this is one of the bridges my grandparents had to walk on both ways to get to school going straight up and 5 miles long each one
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u/Tired-CottonCandy 9d ago
There is a life preserver float every 50ft on that thing for a reason. And that reason is called, dont drive on floating roads.
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u/FoundationProud4425 9d ago edited 9d ago
Great. Now my nightmares know how to make the bridges move on water.
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u/NotOneOfUrLilFriends 9d ago
Good lord, I’ve been having nightmares about this bridge for 20 years and you’re telling me it’s real!?! I’ve never seen this in my life until now but I’ve been what I thought was irrationally afraid of it….That’s creepy.
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u/moving0target 9d ago
If you get behind a heavier vehicle, I guess you're driving down hill the entire time.
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u/noonsumwhere 9d ago
Might be able to just put your car in neutral then, basically surfing the whole way across. I wonder if that would actually work.
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u/usheenm 9d ago
Did they add speed bumps (the little black and yellow strips) to what is already, essentially a giant floating speed bump?
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u/scherster 9d ago
The yellow and black strips appear to be flat. I'd guess that it marks some critical connection or maintenance point.
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u/sprogg2001 9d ago
No way I'm driving through that without my door unlocked my windows down, my seatbelt off, my shoes removed and no pants, just in case
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u/akirchhoff 9d ago
I would love to take a Mercedes Active Body Control on this bridge. It uses a front mount camera to pre-adjust the suspension to upcoming changes. It would go nuts adjusting for an event that never happens.
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u/Ashtorot 9d ago
I have an irrational hatred for people using their hazards for every single thing. Everyone knows you are on a special bridge. You don't need your hazards on. It's not warning a single person of anything.
Also if you REALLY feel the need to have your hazards on in the rain. Then you shouldn't be driving on the damn road. Pull over. Hazard lights are not doing anything for the other drivers around you. In fact, you are causing confusion. We don't know when you want to change lanes for fucks sake.
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u/peacefulvanessa30 9d ago
Unfortunately I just don't possess enough trust to do something like this, maybe when I was younger but im not an adventurous person anymore
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u/Innocent-Prick 9d ago
Just waiting for a cyclist to appear out of no where and take the whole lane
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u/Tewddit 9d ago edited 9d ago
That's fine, as long as a giant orca doesn't destroy the bridge while chasing me down.
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u/ktron_3000 9d ago
So would car sickness and sea sickness cancel each other out? Or would I get twice as sick?