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Silver Falcon posted:Yes crash severity increases as you go faster. No one is disputing that. In that same section it also says that there are far fewer crashes on freeways than other roads, despite the speeds being higher. They explain why they haven't drawn any conclusions from that fact though. quote:A clear understanding of how speed affects safety has also been obscured by the use of different speed-related indicators and a wide range of study methods. Different studies have evaluated the safety effects of speed limits, operating speeds and design speed, with some studies making the unsubstantiated assumption that these characteristics are related to each other. Many of the speed related studies are based on data from high-speed highways. Too often, the results and conclusions of these studies are inappropriately applied to all roads and streets.
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How are they rating crash severity and is that controlling for safety features in cars? The worst car accident I’ve ever personally seen was at something like 40mph but the completely hammered occupants of the car did like everything possible to subvert the safety features of the car. The overwhelming majority of the highway accidents I went to involved minor injuries even when the car was hosed- the one exception being one with a combo of an unbelted passenger and someone else having their feet up on the dash (do not do this.  )
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Tiggum posted:They explain why they haven't drawn any conclusions from that fact though. Okay look here. Take a look at the stuff that talks about 85th Percentile Speed. That's where it talks about the speed people actually drive (as established by traffic studies). There's section on how that relates to speed limits: quote:Posted speed limits must be reasonable... The (MUTCD) (16) indicates that posted speeds “should be within 5 mph of the 85th-percentile speed of free-flowing traffic." ... State or local officials often receive citizen requests for speed limit reductions because of perceived excessive speeds. However, research has repeatedly shown that changes in posted speeds have little effect on operating speeds. Emphasis mine. For further explanation, I'ma just quote from the Traffic Engineer thread in Ask/Tell. OP hasn't been active there for a long time, but he did do some write-ups on how speed limits are established: Cichlidae posted:Answering this alone because it's important.
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The main time I hate fast drivers are when it’s pretty busy and no lane will let you go too far without coming up behind someone, so they’re frantically trying to change lanes and speed up, only to catch up and move to another lane, never really going much faster than traffic
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Tiggum posted:"Nothing that currently exists is actually AI." You of all people taking the descriptivist side of a descriptivist vs prescriptivist language argument feels like it should be accompanied by angels blowing trumpets and pouring bowls out onto the world.
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Silver Falcon posted:Okay look here. Take a look at the stuff that talks about 85th Percentile Speed. That's where it talks about the speed people actually drive (as established by traffic studies). There's section on how that relates to speed limits: Silver Falcon posted:For further explanation, I'ma just quote from the Traffic Engineer thread in Ask/Tell. OP hasn't been active there for a long time, but he did do some write-ups on how speed limits are established: docbeard posted:You of all people taking the descriptivist side of a descriptivist vs prescriptivist language argument feels like it should be accompanied by angels blowing trumpets and pouring bowls out onto the world.
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Wait, what people are saying that pumpkins aren't fruit?
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Tiggum posted:Did you actually read the document you linked? The first point in their summary is "As speed increases, crash severity increases. The relationship between the probability of a crash and speed is less clear." I didn't read the entire document so I may have missed something, but skimming through it I didn't find any support for your "paraphrase" No it's not. Cops regularly give you about 5 over the limit.
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Dip Viscous posted:Wait, what people are saying that pumpkins aren't fruit? No one thinks of them that way in a culinary sense, is what he’s getting at.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:No it's not. Cops regularly give you about 5 over the limit. That's their discretion. Technically there's nothing stopping them from pulling you over at 1 mph over the speed limit; that might get tossed due to reasonable uncertainty but if you get ticketed doing 3 over then there's probably not much you can do. The fact that speed limits are set in such a way that cops have discretion to pull over almost anyone any time they want to boost ticket revenue or just don't like the look of someone is considered a feature rather than a bug, and historically is a bigger factor in the way they're set than safety concerns.
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Henchman of Santa posted:No one thinks of them that way in a culinary sense, is what he’s getting at. Oh yeah? Then why do I bake them in a pie with spices?
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:No it's not. Cops regularly give you about 5 over the limit.
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Arrath posted:"Big Iron on his hip" is "that song that played far far too often in F:NV" You're incorrect, because the song that played too much in F: NV was Johnny Guitar.
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Brawnfire posted:Oh yeah? Then why do I bake them in a pie with spices? I bake chicken into pies with spices sometimes and that doesn't make chicken a fruit OR DOES IT
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Henchman of Santa posted:No one thinks of them that way in a culinary sense, is what he’s getting at. I know of culinary vs botanical, but I've never heard that applied to pumpkins before. docbeard posted:I bake chicken into pies with spices sometimes and that doesn't make chicken a fruit OR DOES IT Chickens are not fruit but fish are basically apples.
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InediblePenguin posted:If you think "what cops regularly let some people get away with" is the same as "what is legal" OR "what is safe" idk how you live tbh Cops can theoretically pull you over for anything; that's true and ACAB. But depending on road conditions, if you don't want to be trampled on your average American highway or interstate, you drive 5-6 above the limit. If you think you're about to hit a speed trap or conditions don't warrant that, drive the limit or a little below it. Common sense FTW. F_Shit_Fitzgerald has a new favorite as of 19:26 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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When driving in my home state of Minnesota, I drive about 5 to 10 over the limit on freeways, and I'm usually far from the fastest car. It's the flow of traffic. When visiting my GFs parents in Green Bay, you better believe I'm going exactly the speed limit on the Wisconsin roads in the way there. They love to ticket out of state plates.
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Dip Viscous posted:Chickens are not fruit but fish are basically apples. Pommes de mer.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Cops can theoretically pull you over for anything; that's true and ACAB. But depending on road conditions, if you don't want to be trampled on your average American highway or interstate, you drive 5-6 above the limit. If you think you're about to hit a speed trap or conditions don't warrant that, drive the limit or a little below it. Common sense FTW. So you acknowledge that it is, in fact, illegal to exceed the speed limit.
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My last customer of the night misgendered me, which happens a couple of times a week and is no big deal, I know I look like It's Pat or whatever, so as always i used the cheerful customer service voice to say "I'm a man, actually, but thank you!" and the fucker argued with me about it. After she denied me three times and refused to just move on with the transaction i told her if she was going to be weird about this then i could get her a different cashier, and that is indeed what she wanted. I cannot imagine being sufficiently invested in a complete stranger's gender that i would tell them "no you're not" but then i do have some level of manners and human decency
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:If you think you're about to hit a speed trap or conditions don't warrant that, drive the limit or a little below it. Common sense FTW. No! This causes people to brake very suddenly when they're in "speed trap zone" for reasons that are mysterious to the rest of us. It causes very sudden and strange congestions. Unfortunately, I realize ACAB and they can pull you over for anything, but that's just the gamble you take when you drive. Keep it at least 5 mph above or take a bus. The maybe one or two tickets you arbitrarily will get from this in your entire life is worth it.
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InediblePenguin posted:My last customer of the night misgendered me, which happens a couple of times a week and is no big deal, I know I look like It's Pat or whatever, so as always i used the cheerful customer service voice to say "I'm a man, actually, but thank you!" and the fucker argued with me about it. After she denied me three times and refused to just move on with the transaction i told her if she was going to be weird about this then i could get her a different cashier, and that is indeed what she wanted. I cannot imagine being sufficiently invested in a complete stranger's gender that i would tell them "no you're not" but then i do have some level of manners and human decency When I was Christmas shopping last year, I sat down on a bench to wait for the person I was with, and an old man politely asked if he could join me. Of course I said yes, and we exchanged a few pleasantries. After a couple minutes of silence, he leaned over to me and whispered "It's so hard when you can't tell if they're a boy or a girl." I was taken aback for a moment, then asked "Why do you need to?" He said "I don't know, it's fun to guess." I got up and left, because I literally did not know what else to say, especially considering anything I could say would have no effect on a bigoted mind like that.
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InediblePenguin posted:My last customer of the night misgendered me, which happens a couple of times a week and is no big deal, I know I look like It's Pat or whatever, so as always i used the cheerful customer service voice to say "I'm a man, actually, but thank you!" and the fucker argued with me about it. After she denied me three times and refused to just move on with the transaction i told her if she was going to be weird about this then i could get her a different cashier, and that is indeed what she wanted. I cannot imagine being sufficiently invested in a complete stranger's gender that i would tell them "no you're not" but then i do have some level of manners and human decency Oh Jesus that is horrible. I'm not sure I could resist the urge to punch them. I can't imagine going through life being THAT big of a piece of poo poo. I'm still a piece of poo poo in other ways, don't get me wrong, but at least I don't do that!
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The Mighty Moltres posted:When I was Christmas shopping last year, I sat down on a bench to wait for the person I was with, and an old man politely asked if he could join me. Of course I said yes, and we exchanged a few pleasantries. I had similar and also very weird conversation with a real old guy on the bus once. We made small talk about the stuff he bought at the grocery store and then he pulled out a newspaper and showed me an article about a sex convention happening in town to ask me what I thought about it. I said it wasn't my thing but I think it's healthier to be open minded about that kind of thing rather than to repress it. He nodded quietly, pulled out a foreign coin (in one of those coin collecting sleeves) for my troubles, and forgot all his groceries when he got off the bus.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:When I was Christmas shopping last year, I sat down on a bench to wait for the person I was with, and an old man politely asked if he could join me. Of course I said yes, and we exchanged a few pleasantries. I have to use specific formats in a lot of work emails which includes using gendered pronouns and I've definitely said something like it's hard when you can't tell if their male or female. But it's not fun to guess, it pisses me off to no end. It's not that hard to put your pronouns in your sig but it's a pretty conservative industry full of old fucks, so our new intern is the only person I've talked to in like a week who does it.
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Every website trying to be everything. YouTube: i want videos. Not podcasts. Not streams. Not "shorts". Instagram: just pictures please. No videos or "threads". Twitter: text. And not too much of it. Not a loving essay. Stay in your loving lane. Let us have specific places to find particular types of content.
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Tiggum posted:Every website trying to be everything. YouTube "shorts" are the videos that are frequently just as long as normal videos but are bound to an awful aspect ratio and take away the scrub bar. Fantastic.
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Tiggum posted:Every website trying to be everything. Agreed. And you can't permanently get rid of Shorts (unless there's an add-on for Firefox or Chrome I haven't seen) because Youtube only hides it for 30 days. Obnoxious trend chasing.
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youtube shorts at least do still function the same as any other video if you throw the slug into the normal video url format. /e: a "slug" in this context is the bit of the url that looks like this: dQw4w9WgXcQ stringless has a new favorite as of 21:01 on Feb 1, 2024 |
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FFT posted:youtube shorts at least do still function the same as any other video if you throw the slug into the normal video url format. Right, it's just a worse version of the same thing in every way!
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I got a steel stockpot and there's a tag on it imploring me to use the QR code and register my product online. It's a goddamn pot. You don't get my email.
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Nameless Pete posted:I got a steel stockpot and there's a tag on it imploring me to use the QR code and register my product online. It's a goddamn pot. You don't get my email. but what if you need tech support
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Only realizing there's a rough spot on your toenail after you get into bed. Get up and file it? Deal with it snagging the sheets until you fall asleep? It's gotta be one of the two, there's no third path.
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Brawnfire posted:Only realizing there's a rough spot on your toenail after you get into bed. Get up and file it? Deal with it snagging the sheets until you fall asleep? It's gotta be one of the two, there's no third path. What, you don't have teeth?
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Those 'Prove you're not a robot by selecting all the stairs' things. Pointless busywork that's probably being used to train some stupid """A.I""" toy, and it doesn't conclusively prove that I'm not a robot ( 
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Nameless Pete posted:I got a steel stockpot and there's a tag on it imploring me to use the QR code and register my product online. It's a goddamn pot. You don't get my email. I still haven't figured out how to scan QR codes. Everyone says "just point the camera at it" but across three phones that does nothing. I could look up how to do it but that's cheating.
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