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• baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Correct, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Zero is the ideal number, so anything that gets us closer to that is good.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re shifting goal posts.

    What’s the acceptable vehicular homicide rate? GM seems to think it’s more than zero.

    Correct, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Zero is the ideal number, so anything that gets us closer to that is good.

    Acceptable is different than ideal.

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    • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only if you want it to be.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s true. But then you run into the issue of “The perfect being the enemy of the good.”

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    • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ok ya pedantic fuck. I edited my comment just for you. I know English is hard to understand.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But now you’re misusing “acceptable”.

        We would need to get to the other side of acceptable for widespread use of autos (self driving vehicles). It’s not an unachievable goal you always try to get closer to. That word is your originally used “ideal”.

        It’s not just pedantic. I’m not the only one who thought you said something you apparently now didn’t mean, because you used words you apparently don’t understand. The words you use are vital to your being understood.

        You could just humbly admit your origonal mistake in language, and nobody would give you a hard time.

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