BorgDrone
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- Comment on Okay Hans. We're safe 5 days ago:
Zeg makker!
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 6 days ago:
Even if you argue that after a while the less convenient becomes familiar, that doesn’t really mean it was more convenient, it was just not inconvenient for you. But I have to say even if you’re a seasoned manual driver, not having to shift every 25mph is arguably more convenient than having to, even if you’ve gotten used to it.
You keep assuming it’s an inconvenience that you have to ‘get used to’, that’s not the case at all.
Let’s us another example: typing. You have to learn to type, that’s inconvenient, right? When you first learn to type you have to look at the keys and hunt-and-peck to find the right keys to press. Why would you learn this when every modern computer and smartphone has speech-to-text? You can simply speak instead of typing, nothing to learn, much more convenient, right?
Except it’s not. Using speech as an input mechanism is annoying and inconvenient, it’s slow, it’s annoying to people around you, privacy is an issue in any shared space, etc. Typing by contrast is fast once you’ve learned it. You no longer consciously have to search for the keys on your keyboard or even think about it. You just think what you want to type and the words appear on your screen, your fingers move to the right keys with you barely aware of what they are doing.
The same happens in a car, even an automatic. If you want to go faster, the car goes faster, you aren’t really aware of your foot pressing the gas pedal. If you want to slow down, the car slows down, you don’t have to think about operating the break pedal, that’s just something that happens of which you are barely aware. The car basically becomes an extension of your body. The same goes for shifting, it’s not an inconvenience as you are barely aware that you are doing it. It’s like breathing. Sure, if you pay attention to it you notice, and you can consciously control it, but 99,999% of the time it’s just something that happens automatically.
As I said, the car becomes an extension of your body, and this is not something that happens ‘after a while’. it happens in the first 10 or so driving lessons. When you first get in the car on your first lesson, you are a person sitting inside a car operating it. By the 10th lesson or so you are no longer a person in car, you are the car. This happens whether or not it’s an automatic or manual. The only difference is that with a manual you have a little more control over this extended body than with an automatic. I’ve owned an automatic and that lack of control is a mild inconvenience. The automatic gearbox doesn’t know what is happening ahead of you, it can’t anticipate, so you get small annoyances like it shifting up when you know you need to slow down in a second to take a corner, and then it’s in the wrong gear and it has to shift down again when you need to accelerate out of the corner. The gearbox is not clairvoyant so it doesn’t know what I’m about to do and it’s always a little too late. It’s a small inconvenience that you don’t have with a manual.
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 1 week ago:
It’s weird to me that y’all don’t appreciate the convenience of advancing technology.
You’re operating from the incorrect assumption that an automatic is more convenient while it isn’t.
Try this: stand up, walk to the other side of the room and back. Was that inconvenient? Did you have to consciously place your legs and think about how to use your feet? No. You just want to go in a certain direction and your legs just move without you needing to think about it.
Driving a manual is the same. You don’t consciously operate the gearbox, you just drive. Shifting gears doesn’t require conscious thought. An automatic isn’t convenient, quite the opposite, as it gives you less control.
Why don’t you use a wheelchair? Surely rolling around is more convenient than balancing on two legs? It’s because balancing on two legs isn’t actually that inconvenient once you learned how. It was when you were a baby, but we help babies learn to walk instead of putting them in a wheelchair. Same goes for driving a manual. Once you learn to a point where you no longer need to think about it, it’s more convenient than an automatic.
It’s like going “only mentally disabled folks use microwaves, the rest of us light the wood stove and let it simmer for a half hour”
Good analogy. Now go microwave a steak while I cook one over a wood fire, which steak do you think will turn out the most delicious?
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 1 week ago:
I’ve tried to drive manual vehicles and it just required way too much of my attention for what should be a simple means of conveyance.
Driving a manual doesn’t require any more attention than an automatic. Here almost everyone learns in a manual and by the time you get your license it’s something you don’t need to think about.
If you’re used to manual, driving an automatic for the first time is a pretty scary experience. Half the controls you need to operate the car are missing.
It’s not an elitism thing as almost everyone drives a manual. My late mom drove a manual at 72, including dragging a big caravan all across Europe.
Used to be that the only people who drove an automatic were people with (mental) health issues. If you got a manual-only license it used to have a big stamp across it that said ‘AUTOMATIC ONLY’. If you got one of those as a physically healthy 18yo it might as well have said ‘RETARDED’, as that would have been the only reason to get one.
Nowadays with electric cars becoming more common having an automatic-only license has become socially acceptable.
- Comment on Are there any plot arcs, or missed opportunities from any TV series that were abandoned that you think should've been picked up or continued? 3 weeks ago:
That series was so, so bad. It had absolutely nothing of what made Stargate fun. It was just a bunch of people whining and talking about their feelings against a shallow sci-fi backdrop.
- Comment on Lies of P is getting difficulty options to make the Soulslike more accessible [VGC] 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lies of P is getting difficulty options to make the Soulslike more accessible [VGC] 4 weeks ago:
Don’t treat it like an action game, treat it like a rhythm game.
- Comment on What are you watching and, what do you recommend this week? 4 weeks ago:
I’ll be watching the first two episodes of Murderbot tonight.
- Comment on Helpful tip for this weekend 4 weeks ago:
It’s commonly used by mom’s all across the Netherlands when their kids don’t want to bike to school in the rain. (Sugar dissolves in water, so it’s basically saying: you can handle a little water, you won’t melt).
- Comment on Helpful tip for this weekend 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but gas is expensive and margins are small on food. The weather here in the Netherlands is very similar and absolutely no one delivers by car. Way to slow and expensive.
- Comment on Helpful tip for this weekend 4 weeks ago:
Getting cozy with the delivery driver.
- Comment on Helpful tip for this weekend 4 weeks ago:
Are you made of sugar?
I’m Dutch, the weather here is at least as bad as it is in the UK. Almost every food delivery is done on (e-)bikes, with the occasional moped.
- Comment on Helpful tip for this weekend 4 weeks ago:
Where do you live that kebab shops deliver by car instead of by bike or moped?
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 1 month ago:
So I’ve actually looked into the EU wallet stuff quite a bit. The article talks about age verification. The way the EU wallet works is that you can share individual attributes, you don’t need to share your identity at all. When you load your government ID into the wallet, one of the fields is
over_18which has a boolean value (true or false). Any service that requires you to be 18+ would only need to request this single attribute, nothing more. No names, no other personal information, just the fact that you’re over 18. - Comment on Anon watches Jurassic Park 1 month ago:
You getting old is what happened.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So having the aerodynamics you can literally fly at that speed.
You can at much, much slower speeds. For example this STOL plane only stalls at 32km/h).
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 2 months ago:
There are also a shitload more humans now. Even if number of horses per capita is lower, the fact that there are more people may compensate for that.
- Comment on Blobfish 2 months ago:
Yep.
You’re welcome.
- Comment on Blobfish 2 months ago:
In the same vein, stop drawing dead butterflies
- Comment on It's not up for debate! 2 months ago:
Taste like crab, talk like people.
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 2 months ago:
Same on iOS
- Comment on Bumble heightens safety measures with new ID verification feature 2 months ago:
Bumble’s new verification feature lets users submit a picture of a government-issued ID to authenticate their identity
ID verification using a picture taken of the ID is practically worthless. It is trivial to fake.
- Comment on He's totally not a Nazi tho 2 months ago:
Well, if he wants to follow that logic: Tesla’s CEO didn’t make billions of dollars, his workers did.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 3 months ago:
No, crashes in the US happen because Americans are shit drivers. They are shit drivers because you get a free driving license with box of cereal. Germany on the other hand has one of the strictest driving tests there is. A German with a driving license has had many hours of instruction from a professional instructor.
In addition, American cars are shit. Lots of poorly maintained and unsafe vehicles on the road with very lax regulation. By contrast, German cars have to pass a very comprehensive yearly safety inspection.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 3 months ago:
83 million Germans, 63% above 16
Not sure why you think this is relevant. Children aren’t allowed to drive in Germany.
- Comment on Murica 3 months ago:
Three-wheeled e-bikes (trikes) also exist. I know someone who also has balance issue (mid 40’s with reduced motor control on one side of the body) who uses one all the time.
They are also used a lot by elderly people who are afraid to fall over. A friend of mine’s mother uses one for that reason. Depending on your needs they come with either a normal bicycle saddle or even a full seat if you need the extra support.
- Comment on Murica 3 months ago:
Where do you live that you are 5 miles from a grocery store? If I ride my bike 5 miles in any direction I will pass half a dozen grocery stores.
I had a quick look at Google Maps and there are at least 50 supermarkets within a 5 mile radius of my home. That radius covers the whole of the city I live in, which has 38 supermarkets, plus a sizable portion of the neighboring city, which has 24, plus a few smaller villages which all have at least one.
I went grocery shopping twice today. Once this morning to pick up some breakfast stuff and another visit in the evening to get some things for dinner. It’s a 3 minute bike ride. A grocery trip takes less than 15 minutes including the time spent in the store. I don’t think it’s possible to live farther than that from a supermarket in this city, I lived 1 minute farther away I would be closer to another supermarket.
- Comment on I love the future. 3 months ago:
Gotta love people who don’t want to take a vaccine that was designed by the absolute top experts in the field and extensively tested, but have no problem popping pills some grifter on the interweb sold them.
- Comment on Murica 3 months ago:
If your skills are so specialized that the only company that hires someone like you, you can probably afford to relocate.
- Comment on Murica 3 months ago:
I don’t know your limitations, but you’d be surprised at the number of ways cycling can be made accessible.
For example, there are handbikes that attach to a wheelchair. As with all assistive tech it depends on your specific situation what is possible.