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Raine posted:the best way to drive, which coincidentally is also the best way to make it through life, is to assume everyone is a dumbass and will do the worst thing possible My dad taught me this, but also the exception: if you're riding a motorbike, assume everyone else on the road is actively trying to kill you.
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(Press play then scroll down) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUMq6imrMmI https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1389667772544651265 T-Paine posted:Being a Floridian, every time I get in the car I tell myself it's a distinct possibility I may not make it home Those are just escape fantasies (from Florida) and that's perfectly common and normal (for Florida).
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ubachung posted:My dad taught me this, but also the exception: if you're riding a motorbike, assume everyone is actively trying to kill you. everything is trying to kill you if you ride a motorbike i drove a guy to the hospital in an ambulance after his bike ran over a small hand towel on the freeway, it got swept up and locked in the wheels, and he flipped going like 70mph (he got hosed up but lived)
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T-Paine posted:Being a Floridian, every time I get in the car I tell myself it's a distinct possibility I may not make it home this is actually the safest way to drive, you are surrounded by death machines operated by psychotic apes with dementia
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quote:He said he couldn’t legally tell me anything else about her condition, and I wasn’t sure I could handle knowing. I couldn’t stop thinking about her. I imagined that she was paralyzed or had serious brain damage. Flashes of a ruined life flickered in my mind, and I became consumed by a sense of guilt that my friends and family struggled to understand, and that I couldn’t explain. you should have your license just suspended after you get into an accident that injures a person, period
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Shipon posted:ahahaha he got into another accident less than two years after nearly killing a woman calling them accidents is superb social engineering
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Real hurthling! posted:calling them accidents is superb social engineering unless he intentionally ran her over it is an accident, a near-fatal one caused by carelessness but still an accident
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Shipon posted:ahahaha he got into another accident less than two years after nearly killing a woman in all fairness, in the first case there was literally a person standing on a freeway. at night.
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actionjackson posted:in all fairness, in the first case there was literally a person standing on a freeway. at night. The person belongs in the street, not the car Freeways were a mistake
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In all fairness we'll all be dead because cars in some way or another.
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it's tragic that we built a society that revolves around cars because we evolved to walk everywhere and we're literally apex endurance predators now people just sit all day and eat and drive and sometimes eat while driving
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robert moses is the greatest war criminal the world has ever known
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Homocow posted:it's tragic that we built a society that revolves around cars because we evolved to walk everywhere and we're literally apex endurance predators we don't have to even go back to some pre-historic ideal. we had the electric street car. that's it, that's all we needed. street car suburbs work great and you usually got a bonus vacation park at the end of the line!
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you people need to stop getting all worked up over a couple vehicular oopsies
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Trabisnikof posted:we don't have to even go back to some pre-historic ideal. we had the electric street car. that's it, that's all we needed. street car suburbs work great and you usually got a bonus vacation park at the end of the line! "You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like."  edit, appropriate music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cq46LxsNY8&t=66s Portland, 1943  Atlanta, 1940 [timg]https://i.imgur.com/xI1HF2P.png][/timg] San Diego, 1918  Twin Cities, 1913  Accretionist has issued a correction as of 02:19 on May 5, 2021 |
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Oopsie deathie doodles
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i went back to check on a tree that i'd planted and it now has a resident skink look at this little trooper 
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mawarannahr posted:if you already had the sinovac, would you want to get an mRNA vaccine, if you had the opportunity? what would the effects be? Other than waiting 2-6 weeks between vaccines, I don't think you'll suffer effects any different than those you'd suffer if it was your first shot. EDIT: Leaving the reply up but not expanding on it.
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Accretionist posted:"You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like." Every single one of those maps rules
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i love to help a skink, and other small short-lived creatures, because i know that unlike me they won't have to live to see the full climate apocalypse. they can enjoy a full life in the shade of my manna gum and then sacrifice themselves to feed a noble bird, none the wiser as to what the gently caress is going on with the atmosphere
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perepelki posted:i went back to check on a tree that i'd planted and it now has a resident skink 
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Shipon posted:unless he intentionally ran her over it is an accident, a near-fatal one caused by carelessness but still an accident then its also an accident that some smokers get cancer and that some oil will contribute to climate change
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the industry and the planners created yearly mass death by no accident is my point. branding fatalities as accidents is part of their ducking a century of responsibility for deathdealing
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Tony Tone posted:How would you even know this Hmm.. no? When you used to eat three meals a day and you're suddenly wondering when you can eat again you'll notice that. But even less extreme you'll notice. I definitely know the difference between what life felt like at 18 and today, more than a decade later, both in terms of climate/weather and socioeconomically. But even for those who don't, we're talking about a degree sufficiently extreme (for this prediction) that anyone would notice.
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perepelki posted:i went back to check on a tree that i'd planted and it now has a resident skink Are your various birb avatars your own work, btw?
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Tree Bucket posted:Are your various birb avatars your own work, btw?  they'll outlast humanity
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perepelki posted:they are! i try to celebrate them while they're still around Rad! The fat quail (?) were excellent. I like to think they enjoy their brief lives.
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I hate the subway. it’s never on time, constant delays while riding, poorly maintained. I don’t mind the crowdedness, generally (it’s public transit, fine), but I also know the crowdedness is more an effect of the poor train dispatching and delays I bought a car last year to avoid the subway for obvious reasons. I didn’t interface with the MTA for ~14 months. drove in Manhattan about once a week. let me tell you, I loving hate driving. already been sideswiped by a giant truck (thankfully slowly, since it was 4pm on a Friday). can’t do anything but stare ahead and avoid other giant metal boxes I rode the subway last week, and while the whole covid thing makes me very uncomfortable, gently caress it was great and MILES better than driving
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Tree Bucket posted:Rad! The fat quail (?) were excellent. I like to think they enjoy their brief lives. thank you! i love my quail deeply, and they reward me by breaking my heart approximately once per month. they've helped form my philosophy on ecological conservation; nothing i can do can make them live longer or remove all the constant threats to their existence, but i can give them happy days for the short time that we're together. when they're taken by predators, i just think of it as an integrated ecosystem (of which they and i are both part) working as intended. and until that sad day - which doesn't always come; a few have succeeded in dying of old age - i think they do enjoy life.  i'm going back to university next year to become a conservation biologist, and will hopefully get to experience native australian quail. they're a very important keystone species and one of the few that can survive in post-apocalyptic agricultural landscapes. plus, being australian, they are tolerant of extended dry conditions. will they save humanity? no, but maybe a healthy wild quail population will be the difference between survival and extinction for some other species once desertification of the inland really sets in perepelki has issued a correction as of 13:58 on May 5, 2021 |
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Tony Tone posted:How would you even know this Not sure I agree here. If you start thinking about things you used to do, or ways you used to do things, but now either don't or can't, or things you now do, and have to or must, when you didn't before, it's actually pretty easy. For example, as a child, the computer was something odd my dad would bring home from work sometimes. When I went to college, not everyone had one. Now, I own about seven laptops of various ages, two desktops, multiple tablets and phones... and I am the opposite of a rich person, by US standards. You're correct that media consumption can help forestall reminiscing, but even watching older shows like Friends or Seinfeld, the lack of computers and portable phones everywhere is glaringly obvious. And when they do show computers or the internet... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGb7sC4mpk0 quote:Just for the kids, this translates to: 0.012GB of memory, 0.5GB hard drive space, and 0.0288 MB/second modem speed (over a landline telephone cord). Or, just looking at the office culture displayed in episodes like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sCJMjuEkpw George is just... hired... because the boss likes him. Sure, they're playing it up a bit for effect, but he's just working there now. Work that consists of being left alone in his private office all day. No computer. Just a folder of papers. This is, of course, just one example
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Toph Bei Fong posted:If you start thinking about things you used to do, or ways you used to do things, but now either don't or can't, or things you now do, and have to or must, when you didn't before, it's actually pretty easy. I think I had a stroke while reading this sentence.
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:I rode the subway last week, and while the whole covid thing makes me very uncomfortable, gently caress it was great and MILES better than driving Not really. Generally the more invested you are in your car, the more anxious and afraid you are of driving. I drive a shitbox 1999 Mazda Lantis and I couldnt give less of a gently caress while driving. Truck scratching the side of my car? Dont care. Some dumbfuck bumping me while parking? Dont care.
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Tony Tone posted:Not really. Tony, Tony, Tony... What thread do you think you're in?
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I hope I never have to operate a hurdling ton of metal for any reason ever again I'll just walk
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Do you have more quail pics, or do you post them in other threads? They’re great!
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