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2025-05-26 12:46:01 UTC

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@nprofile…60lz
It's the other way around, I think.
It's every bit as obvious as it is irrelevant that a slower speed reduces the overall chance of collision and mitigates its effects.
Never heard of a crash involving snails, after all.
And yet, there are a few places in the world, usually called a FIA grade 1 track, where a few elite athletes can push state-of-the-art machinery to 250+mph on a daily basis with no consequences.
This seems to suggest that
- the performance of vehicle and tires
- the training and fitness of the driver
- the type and condition of the road
- road rules
- the time of the day
- etc
might have something to do what a "safe speed" is.
In fact, unless the road is perfectly straight this speed will at the very least vary along it ("slow in, fast out" is how you navigate a bend, never the other way around).
The speed differential between object is also part of the equation (an object traveling at 300mph and hitting a still object is different than hitting an object traveling 299mph in the same direction and verse).
I'm an extremely conservative driver and rider (I've been called "boring" before), and I do think we are not doing nearly enough about safety.
Yet I'm extremely irked by the "speed limit crusaders": reducing speed or banning powered vehicles altogether is a certain way of reducing harm, but... in the same way in which starving is a great remedy for obesity.
- How many people drive around with shitty, dangerous and entirely random lines?
- How many people have no driving technique at all, and routinely unsettle the chassis when going into a bend?
- How many people can't brake at all and will slam the brakes without even trying to preload the front?
- How many people drive at a steady 1000rpm, with no control of their speed (whatever the idle + 5th gear is, really) and no engine brake available to them?
- How many people drive around casually chatting with and looking at their passenger instead of the road?
- How many people skip maintenance on their vehicles?
- How many people are driving around with ancient tires?
- How many people are trained to deal to navigate ice or gravel, the way every boring Scandinavian mum can?
- How many people DRIVE DRUNK?
Of course it's not an unpopular policy.
People like shortcuts.
But what if we could actually teach motorists to drive instead?
What if we could reduce antisocial behaviour at the wheel (texting, chatting, etc)?
What if we could have regular, mandatory training on lines, grip, maintenance, emergency maneuvers, etc?
Maybe we could (gasp) use powered vehicles to quickly, pleasurably and safely go from A to B, without everybody having to halt to a standstill because your drunk Uncle Grady or Aunt Karen just has to text while driving a 2500kg truck with 10 year old tires and no idea of what a proper line is or how to progressively brake.

2025-05-26 07:36:19 UTC

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@nprofile…74c4 @nprofile…gg0f I’ll be speaking at #JDLL in LyonIt’s hard to believe I had only installed it 158 days agoIt's not hard to believe.
Not hard at all.
#Endless, #tireless #self-promotion is going to get you #visibility at the #end of the #day, eh?

2025-05-19 09:52:49 UTC

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@nprofile…sr9k We reached a point where browsing without an ad-blocker became frustrating. To be fair, I've always thought of adblockers as part of the problem, much in the same way as the biggest enemy to the Linux/*nix desktop has been pirated copies of Windows.
Yes, for obvious reasons the ad-supported, SEO-optimized web was and is a terrible idea... funny how nobody seemed to notice.
Generally speaking, either I'm paying for it, or it's run by some public-funded organisation, or it's run by hobbyists for shits and giggles.
And that's in no small part because clickbait sites are still clickbait even after removing the ads.
Do note how e.g. certain newspapers have a preferential treatment for their subscribers that goes beyond "no ads": the whole UI changes to something more informative and you get the more "serious" stuff on the front page, whereas the clickbait is not as prominent as on the "public facing" front page.

2025-05-17 06:01:51 UTC

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@nprofile…sr9k All I know is that you’ll pry my ThinkVision LT2452p out of my cold, dead hands.
Or rather, “warm, dead hands” if it happens in the warm season, because it radiates a ton of heat.
P.s.: I think we need to face that the world wide web is for scrolling and content farms now.