obsoleteacct

@obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t read the DOT code in a while, so I genuinely don’t recall if they’re mandated, but I recall that all my trucks had them.

  This is of absolutely no use in preventing people from a close merge on the passenger side where the driver definitely cannot see. Often the driver’s first indication that this has occurred is the crunch. I’ve never seen one of these accidents that wasn’t completely avoidable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to do fleet management. It’s so bad. I never would have believed how many people take clearance signs as suggestions.

  And the drivers test should include a “show me where the truck driver can and can’t see you” portion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Particularly when so many trans men who have lived as women previously have come forward to validate how much more isolated men feel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Due to the inherently competitive nature of living in a society that competes for resources, many people assume that a kind, upbeat person will be easy prey for someone tough and pushy. They lack the emotional intelligence to understand that you can be both kind and assertive.

  In reality, you catch more flies with honey. Pretty much every study of game theory concludes that nice but assertive is the optimal strategy in any ongoing interaction. A nice person with a backbone is likely to be healthier boundaries, lower stress, and better relationships with people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon breaks up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not most Americans. It’s about a third (which is still huge) and less than half of the population living in a gun owning household.

  Then there’s a spectrum of how “important” guns are culturally. There are in my experience 3 categories of gun owners.

  1. People who own a gun or two. They may take it to the range or hunt, but mostly it’s tucked securely away and they don’t think about it or use it.

  2)Then there are collectors and enthusiasts. They enjoy firearms as a hobby. They have multiple. They watch firearms videos on social media. They go to gun shows and might join a club related to the hobby.

  3)Then there are the paranoid psychopaths for whom gun ownership and the insistence that they could have to defend themselves at any time is constantly at the forefront of their mind. They wish they had a reason to shoot someone and may end up shooting someone anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The long hard road⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just say you make bat soup. Don’t try to make it sound fancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please tell me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is so much of that kind of marketing at this point, that it had not occurred to me until reading this discussion that “Liquid Death” was intended to ironically over the top.