Ok ya pedantic fuck. I edited my comment just for you. I know English is hard to understand.
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.
baggins@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Steve@communick.news 10 months 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.
baggins@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’m misusing “acceptable” because you think I mean something that I didn’t mean? Move along then.
Steve@communick.news 10 months ago
Yes! Exactly! And based on the vote counts I’m seeing 2/3 people misunderstood you. And when one is trying to explain something to another, it con logically only be the fault of the person explaining, if the other doesn’t understand.
baggins@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Only if you want it to be.
Steve@communick.news 10 months ago
That’s true. But then you run into the issue of “The perfect being the enemy of the good.”