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One factor in traffic fatalities has also gotta be that the car industry is going Open Carbon and making ever-bigger trucks and SUVs. I’m seeing more and more vehicles that I’d describe as “disturbingly large.” Being hit by one of those is worse than being hit by a smaller car, though I’m not sure what the overall contribution is there to traffic deaths.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I've worn pajama pants and a white t-shirt to work every day for the past two years Isn't that just the uniform for Pittsburgh?
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I've worn pajama pants and a white t-shirt to work every day for the past two years the best is going into the bathroom a few minutes before a meeting, throwing some gel in your hair and putting on a nice sweater or something.
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Louisgod posted:the best is going into the bathroom a few minutes before a meeting, throwing some gel in your hair and putting on a nice sweater or something. I remote into my desktop computer at my still-assigned cube in the office because my company was too cheap to buy me a laptop. I don't even have a camera to appear on meetings. I'm just a disembodied voice
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I've always felt that driving really puts a spotlight on who a person is. From people who behave with empathy and kindness, to people with protagonist syndrome, to people who are cruel for sport, it kind of allows those traits to show through in a very clear way because there usually isnt any real benefit or consequences for behavior. Do you act like we are all in this together so lets just get make the best out of our terrible commute or are people obstacles and competitors to be eliminated. The pandemic has done serious damage to what were already frayed societal bonds. So my contrarian theory is that poor/aggressive driving is at least partially a result of people becoming more individualistic in general.
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actionjackson posted:wtf lol how long does it take to ship? I might order a few
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ex post facho posted:https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/stat...ingawful.com%2F Or uninsured care funding https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1508809938948210696
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Zugzwang posted:One factor in traffic fatalities has also gotta be that the car industry is going Open Carbon and making ever-bigger trucks and SUVs. I’m seeing more and more vehicles that I’d describe as “disturbingly large.” Being hit by one of those is worse than being hit by a smaller car, though I’m not sure what the overall contribution is there to traffic deaths. They also have absurdly bad visibility, which (on top of being just objectively bad in and of itself) will exacerbate issues with drivers who aren't paying attention for whatever reason. It's really bad to be distracted for even a second when it's possible for a small car to actually vanish out of your line of sight. Honestly, the issue is that driving is an intense, high-concentration activity with huge stakes that we treat like a ho-hum daily chore. Reduced visibility, poor concentration, or distractions are enough to turn your daily commute into a homicide.
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Mar 29, 2022 15:42
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Paradoxish posted:I'm sure it's a contributing factor, but the total number of accidents and claims is going way up, too. So there's a more or less equivalent increase in accidents that aren't killing people, too. Genuinely grateful that I live in NYC and barely ever drive
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Paradoxish posted:They also have absurdly bad visibility, which (on top of being just objectively bad in and of itself) will exacerbate issues with drivers who aren't paying attention for whatever reason. It's really bad to be distracted for even a second when it's possible for a small car to actually vanish out of your line of sight. Driving and car ownership loving suck and it is my dream to live in a place that requires neither I've been doing both out of necessity for the better part of two decades and anyone who still thinks it's great after that long has badbrains
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olives black posted:Driving and car ownership loving suck and it is my dream to live in a place that requires neither 
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I'm someone who loves to bike commute around my congested metropolis but am starting to doubt the sanity of that in these trying times.
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Acelerion posted:When all this poo poo popped off literally everyone in the world understood "Its a coronavirus and you get reinfected by them all the time. The only question is how long you have and if the reinfections are less severe" Then we all waited with bated breath until the first stories of reinfections started to come out ~4 months later. And then it turned out reinfections are about as severe as your first (roll of the dice wise) once more data came in. yeah the biggest lie was that the pandemic would end. the message, assuming we were interested in long term planning and saving lives lmao, would be to say we must adapt. ah well, nevertheless
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Gio posted:yeah the biggest lie was that the pandemic would end. the message, assuming we were interested in long term planning and saving lives lmao, would be to say we must adapt. We are adapting. We're adapting to having 400-500k fewer people around every year. It turns out that this is much easier than adapting to a mask on your face.
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Zugzwang posted:dying with Applebee’s, not from Applebee’s
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Leon Sumbitches posted:I'm someone who loves to bike commute around my congested metropolis but am starting to doubt the sanity of that in these trying times. i fully went with running over biking because biking in this city seems like the second most dangerous thing you can do after disrespecting the cops
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Acelerion posted:I've always felt that driving really puts a spotlight on who a person is. From people who behave with empathy and kindness, to people with protagonist syndrome, to people who are cruel for sport, it kind of allows those traits to show through in a very clear way because there usually isnt any real benefit or consequences for behavior. Do you act like we are all in this together so lets just get make the best out of our terrible commute or are people obstacles and competitors to be eliminated. Read Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt. Fantastic book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2776527-traffic
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The Vinja Ninja posted:My niece died last night probably from covid, RIP I'm so sorry for your loss.
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mdemone posted:I've been breathing complete dogshit my entire life https://twitter.com/JimRosenthal4/status/1508787126837653517
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Speaking of remote jobs, I have an open rec at my company for a part-time data entry position where the person would report directly to me to help enter customer information that I'd use to build out contracts. It can be fairly boring work but is not customer facing and pays something like $17/hour and is 20 hours a week for 6 weeks. Happy to send over the application page if anybody here's interested, just PM me. We'd set up an interview. 
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The Vinja Ninja posted:My niece died last night probably from covid, RIP gently caress Joe Biden forever Sorry for your loss
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Tulip posted:i fully went with running over biking because biking in this city seems like the second most dangerous thing you can do after disrespecting the cops
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the not just bikes guy had mentioned that fatalities per mile had increased despite traffic volume going down from covid as a symptom of how dangerous north american roads are. No doubt that's a part of it but it definitely feels like more than one factor here. Wonder how much of it is deadbrain, lovely huge cars, blinding LEDs, absurd speeds on roads that usually have more traffic
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Should I be pressuring my parents in their late 60s to get another booster? They're in a rural but not super chuddy area, no major co-morbitities besides being overweight (not obese). Is the data as clear as it was with delta and boosters? I haven't been keeping up on covid stuff the way I was then for the sake my my mental health (still using n95 everywhere though). Many thanks
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blue squares posted:how long does it take to ship? I might order a few I don't see your mod badge, sir
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There must be a way to design a small flatpack corsi cube which fits easily into luggage which you can quickly click into shape for your hotel room when you're traveling. Not just for covid, air quality is going to become a bigger and bigger issue in the coming years
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Pillowpants posted:Lots of people in my life getting sick with not COVID and going to work because it’s totally not COVID. COVID brain mass loss plus the Big Lie bullshit will be filling streets with blood. We're creating a political underclass of common citizen rightwing mindslaves with early onset dementia and addiction to the latest horseshit outrage trend on Nazi Wine Mom Facebook Ginni Thomas, but younger and driven desperate by medical bills and poo poo wages
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Dying (safely) in traffic is endemic, so wearing a seatbelt is insane.
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My wife volunteers for an organization that organizes sports and competitions for mentally challenged adults. They're getting their programs back up and running, with vaccination required for participants. She got an email last night from one of her higher functioning athletes threatening legal action from the athlete and her antivax mom for being bullied and having her freedoms taken away. Surprised at how quickly the organization responded, they're obviously primed for this. Pretty sure the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms doesn't support the athlete's position but ianal. There's a number of immunocompromised individuals in this group. gently caress everything.
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Gio posted:yeah the biggest lie was that the pandemic would end. the message, assuming we were interested in long term planning and saving lives lmao, would be to say we must adapt. The talking point I still hear is that it'll become the flu and you just have to get a shot every year. 
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Pingui posted:Dying (safely) in traffic is endemic, so wearing a seatbelt is insane. Reminder that in the first 58 days of 2022, covid-19 killed nearly as many people as four years' worth of car crashes.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Reminder that in the first 58 days of 2022, covid-19 killed nearly as many people as four years' worth of car crashes. The first 8 weeks of 2022 killed 36,000 more people than drug overdoses in 2019
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Paradoxish posted:Traffic fatalities are way, way up over the last two years, which is something that hasn't really happened ever in decades. Hmmm. It's almost like there's some disease going around with potentially long term mental side effects on top of physical disability or death. Good thing the USA doesn't believe in regularly testing people on their driving skills, or there might be consequences for the car only transportation ideology.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Reminder that in the first 58 days of 2022, covid-19 killed nearly as many people as four years' worth of car crashes. I wish COVID deaths was at the level of fatal traffic accidents. 
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skooma512 posted:new Covid thread woo that new covid smell
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Fleetwood posted:that new covid smell Doesn't it smell so much sweeter without a mask?
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Paradoxish posted:They also have absurdly bad visibility, which (on top of being just objectively bad in and of itself) will exacerbate issues with drivers who aren't paying attention for whatever reason. It's really bad to be distracted for even a second when it's possible for a small car to actually vanish out of your line of sight. Also the horrifying trend to fill the cabin with the most outrageously distracting technology and just shrug at the possibility that this might be in any way dangerous. as a driver of an old (2008-ish) car I'm always horrified when I get into something more up to date and discover that all the console controls which are big, chunky, tactile knobs and buttons on my dashboard have been replaced by stupid little clickwheels at best and touchscreens at worst
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Iron Crowned posted:The talking point I still hear is that it'll become the flu and you just have to get a shot every year. "have to" is the flu shot mandatory anywhere?
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Animal-Mother posted:"have to" some health systems make it mandatory for healthcare workers. outside of those few places? no
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