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Bad Purchase posted:i think it also fixed some brains You are now my enemy. I work weird hours, and have a circadian rhythm disorder that makes me kind of nocturnal, and the foreshortening of hours is actually a big deal for me. Even just having my nearest grocery stores close at 11pm instead of midnight is burdensome. And having pharmacy hours absolutely slashed makes it hard for me to find time to pick up my medications, particularly since shorter hours means longer lines. My town has always had restaurants close stupidly early, and it had slowly been getting a little better before the pandemic, but now it's rolled back to where it was before, to the point a lot of restaurants have taped earlier closing hours over what was painted on their doors. The attitude has always seemed like, "Why would anyone have dinner after the sun has gone down? That makes no sense!" Not everyone is on the 9-5 schedule that this morning-biased culture assumes is desirable, and the pandemic hosed up any progress we'd made toward accommodating different schedules. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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redshirt posted:My opinion of many of my fellow Americans has not recovered. I'm a little less consistent than I was, but I'm doing the same. Partly for protection, partly to show solidarity with other people wearing masks who might have more serious health concerns than me, and partly because, no poo poo, it gives me a chance to accessorize. I have 4 different colors of the same mask that use the same filter inserts and I change them up to match what I'm wearing. 
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UKJeff posted:Maybe all the vampires itt could band up and open a night shift store for each other so that normal humans don’t have to sacrifice their health and well-being for a bunch a goons that stay up late playing video games  Or maybe society could recognize there are more chronotypes than just goddamn morning people.
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Jul 16, 2023 00:52
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ishikabibble posted:Iirc graphics cards specifically was mostly a scalper issue. There was an article around that time that compared the drop of new graphics cards and new crypto farms popping up and it concluded they weren't really related. GPUs were just a very hot ticket item like new consoles that people were really desperate to buy but supply was limited because of all the supply chain issues, and scalper bots were basically unstoppable. Crypto definitely had an impact, but it really was a confluence of events that made it a crazy market. Supply went down, demand went up, and scalpers had a field day. I have been a regular in the GPU megathread in SH/SC for years, and that thread is kind of a living document of how the market for videocards went nuts and still hasn't really normalized.
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Around here if there is anything that has gotten worse is people driving too slow, like significantly under the speed limit for no apparent reason. I see aggressive and fast driving sometimes, but slow, inattentive, and bizarre seem more common in town. I'm not sure if it has really gotten worse over the pandemic, but on the freeway the most common bad driving I see is what appears to be a complete disregard for proper following distance. People are leaving roughly the same space at 75 mph that they do at 30 mph, and it is just mind-boggling. Like I said, I'm not sure that particular thing has actually gotten worse over the pandemic because I was already pissed off about it before 2020.
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Jul 22, 2023 02:54
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Toxic Mental posted:I see people saying this on our local subreddit too but I feel like I almost never experience it. I think usually I tend to give slower drivers a pass for at least being careful or safer though? I dunno, that doesn't bug me much, I usually just go "uh hello?" and go around. There's no law against going under the speed limit, but I feel like 5-10mph is "standard" for some people. The slow thing I am talking about is mostly in town. Like, people going 25 on a road with a 35 mph posted speed where 40 is totally reasonable and normal. It's called a Parkway, goddamn it.
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Jul 22, 2023 09:46
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Cugel the Clever posted:The number of Americans murdered by drivers spiked with covid. Driving just brings it a lot of wildly sociopathic behavior and the car is a very capable weapon. I've done some very light research into this, and it looks like one reason US pedestrian deaths is higher than than in other countries is because fuckoff huge vehicles have become way more common. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/03/17/suvs-pickups-pedestrian-fatalities-rise/7075333001/ https://www.axios.com/2023/06/23/pedestrian-deaths-cars-suvs-roads-unsafe
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Jul 23, 2023 23:57
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This article is from Bloomberg, and is a bit eclectic, but it touches on a lot of the issues. Gaming EPA fuel economy standards by designating vehicles as "light trucks" is something kind of touched on in the article but I have seen more fully described elsewhere. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-11/the-dangerous-rise-of-the-supersized-pickup-truck
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Jul 24, 2023 00:15
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Edmund Sparkler posted:The more I think about it, the more I think that ignition interlocks should be required safety equipment on all vehicles. They can be defeated but I think overall, they would save a lot of lives just like seatbelts and airbags do. That and planning city development to include robust public transportation and cutting back on sprawl. One problem is that some things can trigger a false alarm, like refilling the windshield wiper fluid. Or even using wiper fluid under the wrong conditions. Since wiper fluid contains a lot of methanol it's possible for that to make the interlock register a false positive, and what mechanism could you set up so it could be disabled short of calling the cops to do a sobriety check or something? Bad Purchase posted:the crosswalks at the 4 way intersection just south of my neighborhood tell pedestrians to walk at the exact same time cars turning left or right into the crosswalk get a green light. it's wild and i've seen so many cars start a right turn the moment the light turns green just as a pedestrian takes their first step into the crosswalk. Around here there are some intersections where the walk signals have been decoupled from the green lights, so if you don't push the pedestrian walk button the walk signal will not turn on. This sets up confusing situations where pedestrians see the light turn green and start walking, while drivers in the intersection see a green and can see the DON'T WALK sign lit in the crosswalk. There is no signage to indicate this is the fact, and as far as I'm aware there wasn't a PSA campaign about it or anything. It's weird, and while it makes a certain amount of sense it's dangerous as hell if people don't know that is the expected behavior. Strategic Tea posted:Can you not uh... fit a plate reader to the light and fine any vehicle that runs a red? I've seen red light cameras trigger inappropriately way more often than appropriately, and they are usually run by outside companies (often from outside the country) who make all the revenue, with little or none going to the local municpality.
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I lost my sense of smell entirely for several years due to a severe head injury, and I can confirm that it wasn't that bad to deal with. It eventually came back, although it will probably never be as sharp as it was before the skull fractures.
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JnnyThndrs posted:I had oropharyngeal (back of the tongue) cancer last year and the heavy-duty chemo combined with 36 rounds of targeted radiation destroyed most of my sense of taste - I can’t taste anything sweet at all, can’t taste ground meat of any kind(but steak is still tasty), and a bunch of other stuff is tasteless. I'm sorry you have to deal with that. I briefly lost my sense of taste following the same head injury that wiped out my sense of smell, and of the two it was the worse to lose. I don't mean to be excessively optimistic, but I will say that according to the research I delved into that due to how long my sense of smell was gone it was statistically improbable it would come back, but it did. I had complete anosmia for like 3 or 4 years, then severe hyposmia for a few more years, and now I would guess I would hover between mild hyposmia and relatively normal sense of smell.
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