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- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 4 hours ago:
And those are “only” halogen. It’s gotten much worse since then. Like you said, a sort of arms race.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 4 hours ago:
It is.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 4 hours ago:
Totally agree. I’ve never even been to the American continent and I feel OP’s question. I wrote a top-level comment further down.
Anyhow:
automatic high beams
This is a thing now?!
I shouldn’t be surprised. The stretch of motorways I use every day has tunnels, and I noticed that many if not most newer cars’ tail lights get brighter inside it. And I’m not imagining this. And it makes no sense when you think about it; if anything, it should be the other way ’round. It’s just more computer-made gimmickry designed to rope in customers.
(Yes, lights need to be on also during daytime in this EU country.) - Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day ago:
Here’s my take:
There used to be a time when headlights really did not penetrate the night as much as they could, esp. with increasing speeds.
Making them brighter was reasonable. So they invented Halogen lights. But at some point the whole thing ran away I suppose, making them even brighter became a selling point.
Add to that the SUV effect: “most importantly, me and my loved ones are safe in this rolling fortress”, you can see how we got here.
I used to drive a very, very old car. Now there’s a law in Germany that allows older cars to keep on running the way they used to even if the same aspects would be illegal in a newer car. This car did not even have Halogen lights. I had trouble seeing, every time another car passed me on the road. The difference in brightness was - well, blinding. It was legit dangerous.
I believe the brightness of Halogen lights is totally sufficient.
- Comment on GOAT 3 days ago:
AOTUS
Hmm. A and P are at opposite ends of most keyboards. Not a typo then?
Ass of the United States?
Trumplethinskin
I think I love your writing.
- Comment on GOAT 3 days ago:
Not sure he’s qualified to talk about decnt cells. But it goes to show - even the evil fuckers liked this evil fucker even less.
- Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV? 1 week ago:
I’m currently reading a book (Robbin Hobb, Farseer trilogy pt. 2) that deals with this.
I really like how it describes animal thought & communication:
The author translates very reasonable impulses and non-language thoughts for a dog/wolf to have into prose that the hero of the book can relate and respond to. Yes, they have a telepathic connection; that’s the fantasy part.
It’s not precise of course, but I find it pretty reasonable from a scientific pov while still fit for a fantasy novel.
Basically, the above exapmple and I agree with the currently top comment by @e0qdk@reddthat.com.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Hardware-wise it should suffice. But do you also have a fixed IP address? You should read the full comment tree on this post. A mail server is not a good first project.
- Comment on If the next president said screw the norms, and rented or put Camp David up for sale to create a program to increase SNAP benefits could he? 1 week ago:
The real problem here is that policy by decree (aka executive order) must end. POTUS concentrates way too much power, it’s hardly a state of law anymore. And that all started long before even Trump1.0.
- Comment on How is NoSteam pernounced is it No Steam or Nos Team? 1 week ago:
Nose Team
- Comment on Why do my parents judge my friends based on appearance? 1 week ago:
Chhesus, you reposted the same thing on the same sub after it was deleted?
Bye Bye!
- Comment on Why do my parents judge my friends based on appearance? 1 week ago:
canal
Honest curiosity: why do you think this is the same person? This OP has not posted these other threads, yet it is one month old.
I’m not saying this OP is not a spammer though.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I had given a detailed description of the specs and made a post regarding the use to which it can be put
Not exactly, but fair enough. You got plenty of answers on that post; this will not happen again. Go read a wikipedia article.
- Comment on Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in? 1 week ago:
No, I regularly lose and still enjoy it.
But if it’s against someone who’s miles better than me and I was checkmate before I even got my bearings, yes, that can be frustrating.
- Comment on What is wrong with Pop OS? 2 weeks ago:
I see a lot of hate for this distro.
That’s true for every distro.
To answer: IDK if PopOS fucked up recently, but generally speaking, no, nothing as bad as Manjaro.
- Comment on Would it be in bad taste to use D4VID's Romantic Homicide song for a trailer? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! I will leave it at that.
- Comment on baby blues 2 weeks ago:
This here.
Yesterday I read a book with lots of drawn (!) illustrations of the largest insects to a 5yo. It doesn’t work.
- Comment on baby blues 2 weeks ago:
Thank You!
This being the NY Post, I wasn’t sure about factuality. There’s nothing in the pictures that would indicate its size.
- Comment on Block your ads 3 weeks ago:
My first thought! Targeted advertising works as designed.
- Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder? 3 weeks ago:
The concept of the hypospray was developed when producers of the original Star Trek series discovered that NBC’s broadcast standards and practices prohibited the use of hypodermic syringes to inject medications; the needleless hypospray sidestepped this issue.
OK I never saw it that way, I always assumed it works like an Epipen, which is not needleless. But in TV I guess it’s about not seeing the needle.
- Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder? 3 weeks ago:
What about a dermal regenerator…
Not plausible at all is the answer.
Also fixing everything with a tiny prick that doesn’t even sting. They fixed that up a bit on Strange New Worlds though, patients wince.
It’s science fiction, it’s the future, here’s a knife that toasts bread while you slice it!
- Comment on Would it be in bad taste to use D4VID's Romantic Homicide song for a trailer? 3 weeks ago:
You mean D4VID? Who or what is that?
- Comment on What would you put in a time capsule? 3 weeks ago:
Something personal. There’s probably enough “this is what humanity was like in the year nnnn” timecapsules already. Something that won’t decay even under time capsule conditions.
- Comment on Wife changing money 5 weeks ago:
decades
Not true:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
The worst brunt was 20 years ago, but it returned a few times between 2019 and 2024.
- Comment on Wife changing money 5 weeks ago:
The thing is, large countries that don’t have these problems currently, are the ones with power to change that.. and would never vote to change it, because it could help poorer countries create stability and grow over time, which makes them not so much less than the big countries who want to be able to take advantage of those countries when they wish for their advantage.
Well said. Ultimately imperialism. If we don’t change this way of “countries thinking” humanity is truly fucked.
- Comment on What's the best way to tell a kid that their dog died? 1 month ago:
Death is part of life.
Grief and sadness too. There’s no reason to keep these from small children.Just yesterday a 4yo told me about the death & burial of their grandfather. Yes, she cried. But she’s a very happy child.
- Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible? 1 month ago:
That’s the copypasta. This one’s 2 years older:
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1999
Might or might not be patient zero.
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 1 month ago:
My phone uses an alternate OS that does not implement RCS at all. I get & send SMS or MMS (multimedia message, i.e. pics, docs etc) to one or several recipients.
So, from my POV, the alternative is just fuck Google and use SMS.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 1 month ago:
You mean it means both bald AND rock in French?
It’s not really surprising. The differences between Finnish/Estonian are usually small shifts in development. E.g. kallio means rock in Finnish - not too far from kalju. And it’s easy to see why such a word could mean both.
- Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible? 1 month ago:
While this reply might have happened in earnest at some point, it has since gained copypasta meme status. The fact that you found it on new reddit would indicate satirical usage more than being the original answer.