pjwestin
@pjwestin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 18 hours ago:
I mean, I feel like that one has some cascading effects that really fucked things up for pretty much everyone on the planet, so if you ever find yourself hurled back in time, you might consider it.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 23 hours ago:
None of you said, “prevent 9/11.” For shame.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 1 week ago:
OK, so it sounds like they died out in the 70s?
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 1 week ago:
I’m pushing 40 and I’ve only ever seen these in movies. I feel like they haven’t been in use since the 60s.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m not happy about the Switch 2, but the amount of cope is unbelievable. I’ve seen multiple people claiming, “the Wii U sold out a launch too,” even though the Wii U sold worse than the Wii on opening weekend. The sales might still fall off a cliff in a month, but breaking the PS4’s record for launch sales is not a great sign.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
Mine were always hooked up to our PC. A lot of Age of Empires 2 played through those things.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
Ah, shit, I had those speakers.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
What you are describing is how people use the left lane during light traffic; a temporary labe to overtake one or several vehicles. During heavier traffic, most drivers don’t do that. They use the left lane as a, “fast lane,” rather than entering and exiting the middle lane repeatedly (which, strictly speaking, isn’t how you’re supposed to use that lane, but it’s how the vast majority of drivers use it). That’s usually when some asshole decides the, “fast lane,” isn’t fast enough and starts tailgating, forcing people to merge into the already crowded middle lane and slowing traffic even further.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, you should always wait until there’s a safe amount of space to change lanes, but realistically, you’re very rarely going to find a gap that has enough space to merge in with safe follow distance behind and in front of you (assuming 55-60 mph speed limit, that would be 100 feet plus the length of your car). You’ll probably find a gap with a little extra room, maybe 60 or so feet, match speed and merge with about 30 feet in front of you, then drop speed for a little bit until you hit 50 feet. The car behind you will do the same, and so on.
That happens all the time on the highway and it’s not a big deal, but if some asshole is forcing cars to do that every 2 minutes because they’re tailgating the left lane, that’s gonna start slowing down the middle lane. It’s also gonna cause people to start doing stupid shit like following to closely or jumping into the left lane at the earliest opportunity, even if there isn’t enough room to do that safely.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
In areas of height limited lanes, you should follow the directions regarding height restrictions no matter what. That’s common sense. In most states, 2 lane highways treat the left lane as the passing lane and the right lane as the travel lane (though people seem to mostly just travel in the left lane anyway). On a three lane highway, the left lane is for passing, the middle lane is for cruising, and the right lane is for vehicles that are exiting, entering, or otherwise need to go below the speed limit. The right lane should not be used for cruising when there are three or more lanes. Check with triple A if you don’t believe me
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
No, that is not correct. The rightmost lane is for slower vehicles and exiting. The middle lane is often called the travel lane because it’s the one you’re meant to be in when cruising.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
Oh, lol, yes, I meant left lane. That was a typo. I made twice.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
No, I’m saying I would be in the passing lane, going faster than the speed of traffic, then I’d get tailgated by someone whi decided the flow of traffic was too slow and change lanes, just to watch him do the same thing to the car that was just ahead of me. I think if I edit this sentence it would be more clear:
He’d tailgate until I found an opportunity to drop into the middle lane, let him pass, then [I would] get back into right lane and watch him do the same thing to the guy in front of me.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
No, I said, “they will attempt to pass you on the right, creating dangerous traffic situations.” I’ve had to slam on my breaks because some idiot decided they were going to pass me on the right even though there were barely two car lengths worth of free space.
Also, I’m describing a hypothetical situation that happens frequently on U.S. highways; I’m not describing a specific situation that happened, and I’m saying what you should always do in every situation. Often times, pulling into the middle lane and letting the asshole pass you is best. If traffic in the middle lane is too dense, changing speeds/lanes to get dangerous close to two other cars or into the blind spot of a tractor trailer is worse than being tailgated for a while. In any case, how you handle the asshole doesn’t change the fact that they are using the left lane inappropriately.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, and if you want to be even more technical, most states only allow you to go 10 to 15 mph over the speed limit when passing, and then expect you to return to the middle lane and resume driving the speed limit when done. Some don’t even allow that exception, which means you can (presumably) only use the left lane if the car in front of you is driving slower than the speed limit. No one uses the lanes this way, least of all the people who justify tailgating because, “the left lane is for passing.” If the left lane is going significantly faster than middle lane, as you said, “fucking relax.”
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I literally said, “10 mph faster than whatever the speed of traffic is in the left lane,” and still got a, “tHe PaSsInG LaNe iS FoR PAsSInG,” reply. Unless you validate the idea that the left lane allows you to drive as fast as you want under any circumstances, someone will accuse you of being a left-lane camper.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. I just drove from New York to Boston, and no matter what the speed was, I’d run into a tailgater every 30 minutes. I’d be cruising at 80 to 85 mph, keeping a minimum safe distance from the guy in front of me, there’d be 5 cars in front of me doing the exact same thing, but some dick (usually driving an oversized pickup) would decide that wasn’t good enough. He’d tailgate until I found an opportunity to drop into the middle lane, let him pass, then get back into right lane and watch him do the same thing to the guy in front of me. It’s as if he thinks he’s gonna reach the, “front,” and then their won’t be any traffic.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
Yes, in theory, everyone should be in the middle lane at all times except when actively passing the car in front of them, and they shouldn’t use the right lane as a, “fast lane.” In practice, virtually everyone uses the passing lane as a fast lane, and dropping in and out of the right lane over and over again is going to create more traffic than just staying in your lane.
Sure, if someone is barely going faster than the middle lane, and there’s no one in front of them, then they’re being a lane hog and need to move over. But if there are multiple cars in the passing lane, all going significantly faster than the middle lane, then that’s just the speed of traffic and you need to accept that. Just because the passing lane isn’t passing as fast as you’d like, that doesn’t mean you’re justified in forcing a car to change lanes every 50 feet.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
there is always someone who thinks the ideal speed limit is 10 mph faster than whatever the speed of traffic is in the left lane.
No, I very specifically called out people who want to drive faster than what the speed traffic in the passing lane. How you think that implies going slower than the middle lane is beyond me.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
If you are on any U.S. highway, there is always someone who thinks the ideal speed limit is 10 mph faster than whatever the speed of traffic is in the left lane. They will tailgate you until you change lanes to let them pass, causing everyone in the lane to the right to adjust to the change in traffic, and then repeat the process for every car in front of them, or they will attempt to pass you on the right, creating dangerous traffic situations. Best of all, this person genuinely believes that, “If everyone drove like I do, there would be no traffic.”
- Comment on >:)> 4 weeks ago:
I mean, it it has pupils like that, it has a wide field of vision. That’s the whole point of rectangular pupils. I would assume that having front-facing eyes would also give it depth perception, but maybe it needed that for making difficult jumps or something?
- Comment on Love this 5 weeks ago:
If you’re able to live on your own over the age of 90, you’re killing it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Well, at least they’re honest.
- Comment on It really is just reddit <3 1 month ago:
I think mods should remove misinformation, but to my mind, for something to rise to the level of, “misinformation,” it needs to be egregiously false and harmful, like vaccine skepticism or election denial. Removing a comment, which is effectively true but debatably incorrect from a wonkish perspective, and labeling it misinformation? That’s bullshit.
If they wanted to remove comment where he says, “blue Maga,” whatever. Not the way I would run a community, but whatever. If they want to ban him for posting screenshots from the automod, OK, I guess he was poking the bear at that point. But the only reason to pull that other comment is because it contradicted their worldview. That’s bad in most communities, but in a news community, it’s unacceptable.
- Comment on It really is just reddit <3 1 month ago:
Yeah, I checked the modlogs, and it was exactly the mod I thought it was. There are two mods on News and Political Memes that don’t like criticism of Democrats. Someone picked a fight with me on Political Memes, calling me a, “fucking moron,” and telling me I didn’t understand something. I showed him polling that disproved him, and he tried to prove that the Pew Research Center didn’t know how to conduct a survey. We were rude back and forth to each other for a while, but the kid who instigated the fight caught a 1 day ban for, “rudeness,” while I got a perma-ban for, “trolling.” They even left up separate comments on the same thread where told another user they were, “too stupid,” and to, “shut the fuck up.” It’s best to just block the communities they mod.
For the record, it’s a disgrace that they pulled that one comment for, “misinformation.” The only thing I would dispute is the claim that, “Biden [sold] more protected land than any other president,” and, “[approved] more drilling for fraking than any other.” Oil production did boom under him, and he expanded drilling on federal lands after promising not to, but I think the rate of sale and approval was about the same a Trump. Either way, that’s not misinformation, it’s just nuance.
- Comment on Choose one 1 month ago:
No matter who you are, no matter where you work, the facilities team is really in charge.
- Comment on Choose one 1 month ago:
Wait, is that really it? Because that’s fucking awesome.
- Comment on Choose one 1 month ago:
I’ve always assumed it was some sort of ornate, ceremonial hammer made of pure gold that they keep in a special chamber, but now that you mentioned it, I really hope it’s just a claw hammer they borrow from the maintenance guy.
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 2 months ago:
He’s lucky his wife didn’t have a gun.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
Maybe, but I imagine the Secret Service has a drone-attack plan. I would guess that most of D.C. is probably a no-fly zone for drones, and they probably lock down the White House it anyone violates it. I think as long as he continues to split his time between Mar-a-Lago and the White House, Trump is relatively safe.
If he starts doing more speaking tours, though, that might make him more vulnerable. There’s also a staggering amount of disorder and incompetence because of his attacks on federal workers and his terrible cabinet appointments, so I guess it’s possible he’s already opened himself up to security risks. Who knows.