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- Comment on [deleted] 9 hours ago:
Unpredictable things happens at that speed.
Forget about braking distance. The reaction time is the difference between life and dying before you even know it.
I know of one example where a motorcyclist killed himself that way. Nobody knows how fast he was going but it’s assumed above 250 km/h, on a regular highway. Down the road is a cross section. A lorry was fully stopped at the crossing and preparing to turn right onto the highway in the same direction as the motorcycle. The lorry driver checked both directions and saw that the road was completely clear as far as the eye could see, hundreds of meters.
A split second later he heard a bump and pulled over to check if he had hit an animal or something. He found a massive hole in the back and the debris from a motorcycle. There was no brake marks or anything indicating that the motorcycle had even attempted to brake or steer around. The theory is that the motorcyclist might have glimpsed at the speedometer or something for long enough that he drove the entire visible distance before being able to even react.
Obviously he was a fault himself, but the point is that at speeds like this, you no longer have any capability to predict what happens next.
If your friend thinks that cool, he might as well play Russian roulette. At least that doesn’t put innocent people in danger.
- Comment on Motorcycle knowledge 1 day ago:
!lemmysilver
- Comment on There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes 1 day ago:
It’s Nicole, isn’t it?
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 days ago:
Hard C and noticeable U: Ken-tower.
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 3 days ago:
USA does not intend to do a good damn thing for people in Greenland.
- Comment on Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’ 1 week ago:
That’s why you ask for the sources, so you can check them.
I think this kind of prompting is an important part of how to use it in any meaningful manner.
You can also input your own sources and ask it to only use that. For instance by uploading a pdf of a law and ask it to figure out how to do something totally legal and then let it show where in the law it says so. You’ll obviously still need to check that the law actually says so and that it isn’t hallucinating.
- Comment on Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’ 1 week ago:
It’s usually possible to ask the AI for the sources. A proper journalist should always question the validity of their sources.
Unfortunately, journalism is dead. This is just someone writing funny clickbait, but it’s quite ironic how they use AI to discredit AI.
It makes sense for a journalist to discredit AI because AI took their jobs. This is just not the way to do it, because AI is also better at writing clickbait.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 1 week ago:
You could put a blinking neon light ad all over the entire night sky, but if someone farted, you would still look around and ask “who farted?”.
The Tesla is so stupid ugly that it attracts attention the same way.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 1 week ago:
I get your point, but it’s bad wording in this case, because the cost of the bombs that kills people is not the full cost.
- Comment on Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. 2 weeks ago:
it’s necessary so the Saudis can livestream all the blowjobs and asslickling happening in the oval office.
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 2 weeks ago:
Easy. We often use idioms for comparisons.
One old way would be: “Trump and Hitler are both 2/3 yards from one piece” which means “They’re cut from the same (bad) fabric”.
Fabric was cut in an old measurement"alen" which was 2 foot or 2/3 yards, so simply stating the length would be understood as fabric, similar to how everyone knows that a 2x4s is a piece of wood and such.
- Comment on TIL there's appliances to help with waffle stomping, Thanks Google 3 weeks ago:
The real issue is that the drain trap is much smaller for a shower than that in a toilet even if the pipes are the same diameter.
The waffle grid is for the exact purpose of stopping things that are too large for the drain trap, so theoretically it should be fine. If it passes the grid, it can pass the trap. However, the drain trap doesn’t clean out entirely every time. If you stomp shit into the drain, then the trap will contain shit until it is cleaned out. It will also smell like shit, which defeats the purpose of having the trap in the first place.
Drain traps are disgusting enough without the addition of shit. Even in best case, it will accumulate hair mixed with shampoo and conditioner. I doubt that mixing it with shit will generate any kind of water savings, because it will require a thorough cleaning more often. Also, the main pipes actually needs a lot of water to drain. If by saving on water you eventually have to call a plumber to blast out the fat-bergs it will require a whole lot of more water.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 3 weeks ago:
Grand staff drifting
- Comment on How much did it cost to create a 10 foot long bike lane 4 weeks ago:
I got an offer for a similar sized area, which was about €500.
It appears to be a safety measure, so it’s well spent.
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 4 weeks ago:
I think a lot of their culture revolves around adolescence. Sports, music, movies, fashion etc. are based on juvenile traits, where talking, actions and getting attention are more important than more mature things like listening and compromising.
They’re not all like that, but there certainly are many who get through life in an American cultural bubble. When you reach your early twenties you probably think you’ve got everything figured out. That will last until you encounter other cultures that can challenge your views. A lot of Americans don’t encounter other cultures.
I know plenty of Europeans who are similar, but they don’t appear as one group. A German ignorant appears and speaks different than a Swedish ignorant, and both countries are known for having a similar superiority complex based on their own domestic successes. The Americans are in a disadvantage here, since everyone can hear and understand them, and there’s quite a lot of them, so their presence is just a lot more obvious.
- Comment on nets 4 weeks ago:
Excellent point.
- Comment on nets 4 weeks ago:
Hmm. Perhaps the beaches shouldn’t be the prioritized focus for developing alternatives to plastic.
If it’s on the beach, it can be picked up. Today, tomorrow or eventually.
I think the plastic that can’t be as easily be collected ought to be replaced by alternatives first.
- Comment on Sun God 5 weeks ago:
What if all particles are waves. They just temporarily form loops that we consider to have particle behaviour when observed on a larger scale.
- Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 5 weeks ago:
They’re looking for yes-men, who will be loyal to them in even the worst possible situations. Heiling is just a test to weed out anyone else.
Also, the heiling gesture came a little too natural to them.
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 5 weeks ago:
Please remain seated until the seat belt sign is turned off.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 month ago:
Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.
- Comment on Been thinking about stacking eggs...is this a good price? 1 month ago:
What’s the purpose of the plastic covers?
- Comment on Seems like solid advice 1 month ago:
You’re right about the Nintendo stuff, but could you please not mention grandma’s playbox ever again in posts where the topic is about insinuating filthy vaginas.
- Comment on What's the tallest pyramid we'd be able to build? Can we reach space? 1 month ago:
Oh there are many wild ideas… I don’t know of any other pyramid shaped ones though.
For other shapes, I think The Line in Saudi Arabia is worth a mention, because it’s actually being built. Slave labour and other issues aside, it’s interesting that they attempt to follow through on such an insane plan.
- Comment on What's the tallest pyramid we'd be able to build? Can we reach space? 1 month ago:
This design project might interest you, but do notice that it is not currently possible.
https://en…wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu_Mega-City_Pyramid
- Comment on Does Aphantasia exist for senses other than vision? 1 month ago:
There’s amusia, which is “tone-deafness”.
It’s one thing to not sing in tune or not remember a melody correctly, but there are people who can not even hear a difference between two melodies, even if they can tell other sounds apart. I would guess that’s somewhat similar, because I doubt these people have any chance in imagining what a melody sounds like.
- Comment on What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain? 1 month ago:
we could control it if we took it seriously
I doubt that. It’s already too late. It’s literally everywhere.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 1 month ago:
GrayJay seems to work for that.
- Comment on How much of my sleep debt do I need to pay off? 1 month ago:
Sleep doesn’t work like a health bar in a video game.
Different stages of sleep have different efficiencies. For instance, passing out drunk doesn’t count as sleep. You body is still active in digestion which can prevent a good sleep, or intoxication can prevent the brain from going into deep sleep.
Sleeping is an activity. Humans are just weird for closing both eyes and both sides of the brain at the same time, but it doesn’t mean that we shut down completely. Most animals do not sleep this way If we could experience partial sleeping like animals, we’d probably understand better what a good sleep is…
