• Nine people in the United States are killed every day in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver.

• In the United States, over 3,100 people were killed and about 424,000 were injured in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2019.

• About 1 in 5 of the people who died in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2019 were not in vehicles―they were walking, riding their bikes, or otherwise outside a vehicle.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/distracted-driving/about/index.html

Yes, it does happen all the time. And the consequences are not always just a ticket.

Even right now. Look at how people have to wait in huge lines to get some gas every time there is a natural disaster, or extreme weather. After a few days, or even hours, it’s mostly gone.

Oh I thought this was The Onion for a second, but apparently it’s real. I mean, obviously.

I thought the formula was to be the child of a well-to-do family, start a tech company in a garage, then scam your way up to become a billionaire.

YSK that while Proton Mail is based in Switzerland and claims to be politically neutral, its CEO has praised Republicans on a few occasions.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/the-intercept-proton-mail-says-it-s-politically-neutral-while-praising-republican-party/24456

I quit my job as a level 1 tech last week. I had enough of supporting Teams, OneDrive, Office 365, Windows 11, and all of the Microsoft stuff for multiple clients where I had limited access. I certainly won’t miss the over notifications of my employer’s Teams. I don’t know what I’m gonna do next but I hope my next job or employer will not use this POS.

But isn’t your conclusion way more dangerous than actually driving the deadly metal-box yourself? Being a pedestrian or, even worse, cyclist, you’re a highly vulnerable squishy flesh-thingy surrounded by deadly murder-boxes.

Perhaps but it’s counter productive to just get bigger and bigger vehicles in order to be “safer” and crush everything else around. It’s a race to the bottom to which I do not wish to participate. At least where I live we are “lucky” enough to have multiple abandoned railways in the countryside that have been turned into bike trails, so I generally use these. I can cycle to my parents’ using two bike trails, without cars, for 140 km. Otherwise I specifically moved in a city with good bike and transit infrastructure (Montreal) so that I don’t need to drive a giant lethal metal box that pollutes and takes space.

Anyway because I think cars are insane and avoid them at all costs, my chances of dying while I’m inside one are lower than someone using one daily. It’s also one less deadly machine on the road. I’m not getting in a car to go to the grocery store or to go run errands. I’m not getting in a car every day to go to work. When I cycle it’s usually on dedicated infrastructure, on in bike lanes.

From my point of view, even if I have to mix with cars sometimes while cycling, even if I fear for my life and wish people driving cars would be more careful while passing, it’s usually an exception, and I feel much safer at 20 km/h on “my” dedicated bike path than sitting in a car surrounded by other cars and trucks.

I don’t drive. I’m sure I could even if I’m afraid to do it, but I don’t like cars and society forcing us to drive partly for this reason. People drive lethal metal boxes everywhere without really thinking about it.

Cars are one of the most deadly things in a lot of countries and yet, they are totally normalised.

In Canada alone, in one year, nearly 2000 people died from car collisions. And distracted driving accounts for about 20% of those.

It’s why I prefer to cycle, and on segregated paths if possible. Because when I cycle on the road, I always have this kind of thoughts in the back of my mind. What if the person driving a multi ton projectile coming behind me at speed, is day dreaming and “didn’t see me”, even if I’m dressed in bright orange?

Sorry to be so serious about a meme but, yeaaah.

Bikes may not have a flatbed but I think some can tow more than the Swasticar.

In my city there’s a moving company that moves sofas and refrigerators using bike trailers.

This looks like exclusive phasing and it’s despicable when it’s at every damn intersection.

I like exclusive phasing when there’s a high volume of pedestrians crossing in all directions. However it’s horrible on stroads because it’s done under the pretense of pedestrian security while being mainly to maintain a heavy flow of cars in as much directions as possible. And it makes waiting longer.

It’s one of my pet peeve when I visit Quebec city. All of their fucking pedestrian crossings are exclusive phasing, and I loathe it. It’s nice and useful in the the old town, but it becomes so annoying as soon as you walk outside of the walls.

And I thought cfdisk was the easy “graphical” option compared to fdisk‽

Ironically, saying thank you to machines is wasting energy and costing millions.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/04/22/please-thank-you-chatgpt-openai-energy-costs/83207447007/

Note: Musk died on the way back to his home planet.

We can only wish. Was Lindell ever a billionaire? Let alone the richest person in the world?

It would certainly be very nice to see Musk in the same situation, but he still has a long way to go until that point.

But is your scratch card still smelling something?

A few years ago I had a depression and two dreams were coming back repeatedly.

My apartment was a floating in the middle of the ocean and I had to defend it against “invaders”, like my landlords, my parents, some of my “friends”. They were all trying to “attack” me and invade my now lonely isolated floating apartment.

The other one is my fit coworker hunting and running after me to capture me and bring me back forcefully to my parents, from which I was running away, in my mid thirties.

Possible. However as a non native English speaker myself, I kind of take pride in making sure I’m understood, and grammatically cromulent.

And i’ve seen multiple people apologizing for their English, then having a better vocabulary and grammar than most native speakers.

Of course some people can barely make a sentence in a second or third language. It’s quite possible. I’m really bad at making coherent sentences in German, even after many years of studying it. But in my experience, non native speakers tend to be careful about this.

I thought the reverse at some point until I realized that a couple of woodpeckers were making sounds similar to squirrels. I was laying in my tent one morning and heard those calls and thought some squirrels were “fighting”, but then they started pecking at a tree so I realized what they were.

Also, the first time I went in the Caribbean I thought birds were making such a ruckus in the evening but it was actually a small frog called Eleutherodactylus martinicensis.

It forced me to learn. It took me weeks to get X configured and working correctly. I had an internet subscription and a modem but it also took weeks to get it to work on Linux. My distribution came on a CD from a magazine but some dependencies were not included, so I had to reboot under Windows to download a missing package, reboot on Linux and try again, then need to get the next dependency. We came a long long way from having to specify the vertical refresh rate of the monitor in xf86config.

Starting with a French version of Slackware was brutal but I had nothing else.

Depends on the stuff and on what you will be watching it.

TV shows that were originally aired in SD will be fine in low resolution. Cartoons can usually be pretty low quality too. Old cartoons in SD on a CRT usually look great.

However stuff made for HD will probably need better quality to be enjoyable.

I’ve been collecting since the days of RealPlayer and still have lots of stuff in SD. Some shows are getting difficult to watch on a giant screen but the advantage of the small files is that they can be read by a toaster.

TLDR: More in lower resolution unless it’s some modern shows or movies where HD is a necessity.