repungnant_canary
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- Comment on Academia to Industry 6 days ago:
“Never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with!”
- Comment on Felonies, gotta catch 'em all 4 weeks ago:
So is Trump …and Obama …and pretty much all of them? It’s a war crime only when it’s done by US enemies
- Comment on Felonies, gotta catch 'em all 4 weeks ago:
Is that a metaphor? Please that be a metaphor…
- Comment on Name & same. :) 5 weeks ago:
Maybe, if reviewers were paid for their job they could actually focus on reading the paper and those things wouldn’t slide. But then Elsevier shareholders could only buy one yacht a year instead of two and that would be a nightmare…
- Comment on Existential trolley problem 1 month ago:
“Hołd my limes!” - said Sisyphus
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 month ago:
I know it has nothing to do with protecting the users, but how exactly is the app supposed to make viewing unreviewed content safer?
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 month ago:
Yeah, and it’s expensive because it’s …well, expensive. It’s not any less abundant than some other metals or more difficult to extract. We just decided it’s gonna be expensive
- Comment on I'm glad my meat didn't go to waste. 2 months ago:
I actually wouldn’t suggest this episode to someone whose father’s body is currently donated. But good episode nonetheless
- Comment on Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them? 2 months ago:
I hope you don’t have any long term consequences of that
- Comment on Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them? 2 months ago:
They try to spend less so aggressively that they end up actually spending more
- Comment on car insurance 2 months ago:
In terms of regulations, there’s a ton of laws that private pilots must observe.
In terms of situational awareness, I would say in some cases driving and flying are comparable. When flying VFR you are responsible for the separation from other aircraft and for navigating. So pilots need to look outside to stay away from others and look on map/ground to stay away from restricted airspaces, which gets intensive in busy airspaces.
- Comment on car insurance 2 months ago:
Driving a car is absurdly difficult, incredibly dangerous, takes only a second of distraction to kill yourself and others
Yes and no.
It seems that most people are falsely convinced (or even peer-pressured to some extent) that you must drive at the speed limit or even above it. But you actually don’t have to. You must adjust your speed for weather conditions, road conditions, traffic intensity, surrounding safety infrastructure (or lack of it) and your skills and current condition.
It seems that learning how to choose your speed is missing from most driving courses worldwide. Sometimes, road maintenance provides some advice on that, for example in France you have different speed limits for wet/dry road. But in other cases drivers ignore that guidance - sometimes highway speed limit is lowered due to lack of hard shoulder or animal fences but very few people understand that and most just ignore the limit.
And then there’s your own condition - if you’re tired, slow down, your kids are crying in the back, slow down, you’re on new road, slow down, have a gut feeling, slow down!
What you’re describing is actually mostly a case for driving too fast for given conditions. Even if you’re not speeding but you can’t read and comprehend signs, road, other cars, pedestrians and navigation - you’re driving too fast, slow down.
So I think both your and OP’s comments boil down to attention. As long as you remember essential driving rules and pay attention to road, surroundings and those rules it’s difficult to cause an accident. But if your attention is slipping then it’s a slippery slope.
And if you observe that you often struggle to pay attention to one of those things, you should review your actions and skills and apply necessary corrections.
Driving is easy in a way that it’s schematic and there are not many rules compared to say aviation. But it’s not mindless! You must think about your skills, capabilities and your state of mind and act according to those. In aviation pilots do thorough risk assessment before and during flight, and drivers should do that as well. What makes driving easier than flying is that when you identify the risk as too high you can just slow down or stop.
So to summarise. For God’s sake SLOW DOWN! It saves lives.
- Comment on Anon is struck by the state of the education system 4 months ago:
If only you could read my comment… I only talked about the origins of lying, I said nothing about observed behaviour of young people
- Comment on Anon is struck by the state of the education system 4 months ago:
kids and teens are naturally born liars
Absolutely not true. It’s the adults listening and reacting only to what they want that incentivizes young people to lie
- Comment on Tax time 7 months ago:
Okay, so I get the reason why NOWADAYS IRS can’t tell you how much taxes you owe is lobbying. But how did it work BEFORE computers? Did you file your forms and IRS agents checked them one by one, and it was just most efficient to check taxes instead of calculating them? How did we get to the situation where the IRS checks the taxes instead of calculating them? I’m genuinely curious, because that’s a recurring theme worldwide.
- Comment on Workers at Amazon UK warehouse to walk out on Black Friday 8 months ago:
I know it’s a long shot from me, but Amazon is known for exploitative practices. But if you’re paid so badly that protest is your only option then yeah you’re being subject to exploitation.
- Comment on Workers at Amazon UK warehouse to walk out on Black Friday 8 months ago:
It doesn’t really matter how much non-Amazon warehouse workers get. If you’re exploited, you’re exploited and this doesn’t depend on the working conditions of other people in the industry.
It applies to all aspects of life. It should always be “am I treated fairly” not “am I treated better than others”.