repungnant_canary
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- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
PSA: if you’re on a remote island or dysfunctional yet floating ship do not abandon it unless truly necessary - raft will be always more dangerous
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Sooo actually why land mammals can’t filter out salt from seawater?
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 4 weeks ago:
Wait, do you have a source for the 50% number?
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 5 weeks ago:
365.25 days I believe is the better approximation because it’s the rough time it takes Earth to be in the same spot - hence the leap days
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 5 weeks ago:
This is, reportedly, a comment under, reportedly, a post
- Comment on Anon's body is a machine 1 month ago:
It’s actually beneficial for controlling your health to monitor piss and poo. Not to obsessively investigate it. But just to know what’s normal for you so you know when to worry.
- Comment on Mafs innit 1 month ago:
120 Celsius is still fairly low for baking
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 2 months ago:
SearXNG is also amazing. The only reason I don’t use it more is because it doesn’t have an integration into the URL bar in Firefox.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
This is only true in the US. In Europe if you don’t return the cart you can be sure people will give you looks and think about you as an asshole
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
When you use Celsius from birth 41C does make you say FORTY ONE DEGREES?!!!
- Comment on Inaccuracies 2 months ago:
You are indeed correct, some artistic freedom is definitely expected from that kind of series. But relying on Russian propaganda sources and making Legasov a hero doesn’t qualify as artistic freedom but misinformation. Also the representation of the soviet reality was at least inaccurate - my dad who was raised in the former soviet block summarised it as “representing how Americans think it was not how it truly was”.
Chernobyl is a good and very interesting series and it’s good that it raises at least some awareness about the catastrophe. But imo it could be more technically and historically accurate without losing its attractiveness.
- Comment on Inaccuracies 2 months ago:
Check out this YouTube channel: youtube.com/@thatchernobylguy2915
- Comment on Anon isn't a fan of Judas 2 months ago:
You don’t get it. It was written in prophecies - it just must have happened because (supposedly) some guy years before wrote a story about it.
- Comment on Anon wants to go to Nuuk 2 months ago:
no war
Greenland is a super strategic place in the Northern Atlantic “theatre”
- Comment on NOAA sending a message. 2 months ago:
I sadly need to point out that you might have missed a few anatomy lessons
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
You as a human use pure iron. But non-animate objects, yeah mostly alloys
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
the fuckup in redefining the mole in 2019 What? It was necessary due to our observations of the universe (on every scale), not some subjective “fuckup”
- Comment on Pi Day 3 months ago:
No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
- Comment on Academia to Industry 4 months ago:
“Never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with!”
- Comment on Felonies, gotta catch 'em all 5 months 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 5 months ago:
Is that a metaphor? Please that be a metaphor…
- Comment on Name & same. :) 5 months 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 5 months ago:
“Hołd my limes!” - said Sisyphus
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 6 months 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 6 months 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. 7 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? 7 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? 7 months ago:
They try to spend less so aggressively that they end up actually spending more
- Comment on car insurance 7 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 7 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.