Mishmash2000

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Precisely! That's what I don't get about drivers complaining about cyclists!? More cyclists means less bumper to bumper traffic crawling painfully through clogged up city grids! You should be embracing separated cycleways even more so, then you don't even have to see us! You just get to enjoy less traffic, quicker travel, reduced stress/road rage incidents etc!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

LOL even in a lunatics running the asylum world, they would know not to put the town drunk in charge of the nukes! Sure, they would do all sorts of inexcusable, irrational, funny as hell to them but really not funny at all things, but they would immediately stop in their tracks if someone said lets give the keys to the nukes to drunk Pete!?! They would give him the keys to his car sure, but NOT to the flippin' nukes?! I don't know what reality we've entered into but I don't like it and I'm at a pretty safe distance form it all, at least for now!?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who will stop him? Who's going to die on that hill? He ignores Judges orders already right? I mean, I don't know the system that well but if he just does what he wants and ignores those that usually have the power to say no, then what?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it's infuriating! Elon said something along the lines of Humans drive all the time just using their eyes, so we can replicate that with just cameras. Leaving out the fact that one of the benefits of a self driving system should surely be that it's in many ways BETTER than humans which are often terrible at driving in fog, torrential rain, low light/night time etc!? It was almost a point of pride that his cars would be every bit as shitty as a human driver to a fault!

I guess his robots are going to be just as weak and frail as humans and need sick days and simulate getting tired and dropping things too?? I can just imagine one of his robots entering a room and saying What did I come in here for again?? I think I need a nap!?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Things I've seen people doing while driving: taking phone calls without using hands free, adjusting their stereo or AC or any number of other buttons that are off to the side and usually require looking down, reaching across to get something out of the glove box, texting, putting on makeup, reading a book!?

When I got hit by a car while riding my bike I was wearing high vis, it was daytime, I was in a cylcle lane, they were on a giveway/yield and yet some people I told about it after the fact STILL implied it was probably my fault because I didn't see them or wasn't looking for random maniacs running giveways?! I WAS looking and DID see them but you only have so much time to react and the choice between slowing down versus speeding up to avoid impact is not so clear when you only have seconds at best and your brain is going FUCKSHITFUCKWHATDOIDO?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Clarity over what can and can't use "bike lanes" is sorely needed in this day of electric bikes/scooters/wheel chairs/mobility scooters etc blurring lines and shifting goalposts. There's been a welcome explosion of micro mobility options and there needs to be clarity around what can go where as it's all over the show at the moment?! It's part a public awareness campaign issue, laws and regs, as well of course a major infrustructure issue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

While searching for a Cherry Grove Blossom Biome in Minecraft?! How do they know that?! (⊙_☉)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

How do you flag down a Tesla autonomous taxi? You heil it of course!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It appears to be a play on Lawrence Welk of "The Lawrence Welk Show"?!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm wasting my time commenting on a comic about many lives wasted by people reading comics produced by someone wasting their life making them! It's waste-ception! It's waste all the way down! Woo woooh, it's the waste train!! Jump on board!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's an important reframing. A reminder to not blame the victim. Roads bisect ecosystems. Some flora and fauna can't ever cross them. Some like deer can but risk being killed. All this has a dampening effect on genetic diversity by bisecting populations into ever smaller areas of smaller populations. For these deer maybe it doesn't matter so much, but for some species it matters a lot. Roads everywhere cut the landscape into islands (especially for insects for example) meaning populations are often divided into smaller ones of less genetic diversity. Less genetic diversity often means less robust populations. I am not an expert but this is how I understand it. The poster barely hints at this but there's only so much you can achieve in a poster but the reframing is a start. Jaywalking laws were a reframing that was designed to transfer the blame from the car and driver to the pedestrian in accidents. The new laws said that cars weren't the problem, the victims being run down were the issue as they shouldn't have been in the way of the car.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Schrödinger and Fermi bumped into each other once. It was quite the pair o' Docs!

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