SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
8d ago
SkoomaDentist
9d ago
Small changes in daily lived experiences can have an outsized impact. The crime rate can hardly budge on paper, but things that might poll as "crime" can increase exponentially in your daily life.
A sort of opposite example has been the homicide and violent crime rate in Finland up to the late 2000s or so. It used to be quite high officially. The country was also very safe in practise, at least as long as you weren’t a middle aged jobless alcoholic and didn’t start arguments at the hot dog stand queue after bars closed. There used to be a common joke that a typical Finnish murder was an alcoholic drinking at the cottage with his best buddy, getting into an argument, stabbing them with a knife and then calling the cops himself the next morning with no recollection of what happened.
Alas, then immigration and gangs happened and things aren’t as rosy anymore.
SkoomaDentist
11d ago
People in Europe have no problem towing their boats and trailers with regular cars.
Summer days 18-22 degrees and occasional clouds. Nights 10-15 with maybe light rain. Best is when there are only patchy very high clouds so the sun lights them up through the (very short) midsummer night.
SkoomaDentist
14d ago
30 degrees is heat wave where the elderly and sick start dying. 35 is close to record temperature (and would be a new record if it happened in June or August). Most apartments don’t have real air conditioning.
Yeah, I live in Finland.
SkoomaDentist
16d ago
Now that I think about it, the 2 party system seems to have lot to do with it
I’m not so sure about that. Margaret Thatcher was known as the Iron Lady but I don’t recall her being particularly angry.
SkoomaDentist
17d ago
Just Midsummer 2025.
SkoomaDentist
17d ago
I'd rather cut my arm off than touch VSCode.
SkoomaDentist
17d ago
I've been trying to find a reliable way to hide it completely. It's both useless and visually extremely distracting.
SkoomaDentist
17d ago
0-3-5 has entered the chat
SkoomaDentist
17d ago
UI, on the other hand, has no backing in formal theory whatsoever. It’s like knot theory in mathematics, or the Collatz conjecture—nobody even knows where to start to make progress in a direction anyone would care about.
This isn't remotely true. If you care to look at the literature, particularly slightly older, you'll find there are plenty of commonalities backed by usability research. The fact that (particularly modern) UIs so often ignore them doesn't mean the data and "theory" doesn't exist.
SkoomaDentist
18d ago
Expensive guitars when they can barely string together a few chords?
Bro, why you gotta single me out like that?!
SkoomaDentist
18d ago
Well, I just didn't want to be the first to mention eternal torture here...
SkoomaDentist
18d ago
I’ll just note that anything Electron based is a crime against humanity and should be grounds for immediate execution without a trial.
I think that the attention span thing is real, and quite troubling.
Just yesterday I wrote a short 250 word reply about camera raw development process and someone else complained that it was too wordy. And I'm the guy with the ADHD diagnosis there...
SkoomaDentist
20d ago
The polarization in actual multiparty systems is significantly less because there is no obvious ”the other side” when the constituent parties of the sides change depending on the question and which parties are in the government at the time.
SkoomaDentist
20d ago
I prefer to back into a parking spot, or pull through a double spot to be facing out. Some people call it “getaway parking,” others deride it as “ghetto.”
Lol, whut? People actually complain about that when it's a very sensible thing to do?
I don't do it myself but that's just because I prefer backing out of a parking spot, not backing into it.
SkoomaDentist
21d ago
How on earth is always using a turn signal "totally useless and actively harmful"?
SkoomaDentist
21d ago
4-lane divided highways are signed at 100 km/h or less
The normal speed limit on highways is 120 km/h. 100 km/h is only during winter time.
SkoomaDentist
21d ago
discourage people from driving giant SUVs and pickup trucks they can't handle too fast.
There's a local saying that nobody is in as big hurry as the guy driving a company van. It's not uncommon to see such vans passing you at 20 km / h above the limit on a highway. They seem to have around 150 to 200 hp if I'm reading wikipedia right.
SkoomaDentist
21d ago
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Yes. This should be automatic.
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Yes, mostly. The exception would be rolling at fast walking speed instead of stopping completely at a stop sign if you can see the road is completely empty.
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Driving 5-10 km / h above the limit on roads leads to smoother and safer traffic. OTOH on residential streets the speed should often be slower than the limit because of pedestrians, people getting into / out of cars and so on.
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Yes, no. Cutting people off or riding a bumper are unsafe and should never be tolerated. Flashing lights or other such signal should be normalized for people who drive unnecessarily slowly on the left lane.
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Only if you can do it safely, ie. there is enough space for your car and they start giving you more space when you start entering that lane.
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No.
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People who drive slower than traffic or overtake slower than the speed limit on the left lane should be ostracized significantly unless there's an obvious mitigating factor. A slowish bus overtaking a tractor is fine. A normal car slowly overtaking a truck that drives 20 km / h below the speed limit is not. If the second driver can't overtake at speed limit, they should just stick to the right lane.
OTOH driving slowly on the right lane is always ok unless it's actually endangering other drivers' safety.
SkoomaDentist
21d ago
You have a point there. I will pray to the Emperor for forgiveness.
SkoomaDentist
22d ago
If only there was a way to get that effect on every ”provider” that insists on shoving AI slop to my face in their ”tools”…
SkoomaDentist
22d ago
Should have thrown in another three days FOR USING ALL CAPS. My eyes are burning.
Lol, whut?
You might want to read what /r/askHistorians thinks of Guns, Germs & Steel and if you think that subreddit is full of ”online far-right autists” I suggest you check in for psychiatric evaluation for massive delusions.
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