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901.
by foxyv 3y ago
I remember being in a 4th floor office and feeling the building sway. I can't imagine how terrifying 20+ floors up would be.
902.
by foxyv 3y ago
> but they also bring enormous benefits in freedom and mobility. Do they though? I've found that cars often restrict my mobility greatly. They make streets so dangerous we can't let our kids roam free. They make getting anywher
903.
by foxyv 3y ago
You are more than likely, completely correct. These types of jumps are probably so safe that you are in more danger riding in a car to the jump than taking the jump itself. If better data collection was mandated, similar to GA pilot logbook
904.
by foxyv 3y ago
You may be right, I do know that there are very few total skydiving deaths per year so high risk activities could inflate the figures fairly easily. However, I don't think wing suiting is counted in the statistics.
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by foxyv 3y ago
I do not know. But they do according the source I linked.
906.
by foxyv 3y ago
It's more of a rhetorical LD50. Otherwise Don Kellner would be dead as a doornail long before reaching his record. https://www.uspa.org/about-uspa/uspa-news/uspa-posthumously-... Edit: If the statistics held
907.
by foxyv 3y ago
Surgery has gotten a lot safer in the last couple decades however, there are still risks. General anesthesia used to be ten times more dangerous than it is now but it's still not zero.
908.
by foxyv 3y ago
The source from the statistic is international including statistics from the USA, Germany and France. If you want further details you can read the NIH article here. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859
909.
by foxyv 3y ago
Exclusionary zoning for density is just a bad idea in general. I can understand zoning for stuff like noise and pollution. But separating commercial, office, and residential zoning as well as separating dense and less dense is the biggest c
910.
by foxyv 3y ago
Sky diving is dangerous, but not that dangerous. A single jump is less dangerous than bunion removal surgery. (0.004% chance of death for skydiving and 0.01% for bunion removal) This puts the LD50 of parachute jumps around 1,700 jumps. (Not
911.
by foxyv 3y ago
One thing that eased a lot of my anxiety while transitioning to an independent adult was the knowledge that I could survive even without a home or job. My parents did a real good job teaching me how to live on my own and how to focus on the
912.
by foxyv 3y ago
There are also people who regret socializing and partying when they feel like they should have been studying instead. That's just kind of how life goes. I find it's much nicer to be stuck in stability than stuck in chaos.
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by foxyv 3y ago
This tracks with my own experience. When your parents do well and you can barely scrape by it's horrible. If your parents are struggling too then you have something in common at least. There is nothing worse than seeing the door close
914.
by foxyv 3y ago
When I was a kid, there was a shining rainbow at the end of the long slog through High School and College. I just had to not mess things up so bad I became unemployable. My parents were a shining example of this. Then 2008 hit and suddenly,
915.
by foxyv 3y ago
I understand why Amsterdam can focus on E-Bike speeds, but I sincerely wish other countries would do something similar to this for cars and trucks. It seems almost trivial to add adaptive governors and GPS Geofencing for cars.
916.
by foxyv 3y ago
The people who enjoy his antics lean towards the anti-electric car side of things.
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by foxyv 3y ago
Time dilation is a bit of a PITA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation#:~... .
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by foxyv 3y ago
The amount of material to create a self-sustaining colony on Mars would be remarkable. Just thinking about how much infrastructure is required to create a pencil makes my brain hurt. Also you need to consider that Mars has no oil resources.
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by foxyv 3y ago
I've had to replace about 4 in the lifetime of the cars I've owned. If you replace a car every 5 years then you may not have to deal with it, but if you are a broke college student driving an older car or someone who buys a car an
920.
by foxyv 3y ago
I think changing oil is the least annoying thing about owning a gas vehicle. I think the 100% top problem is Smog checks and catalytic converter replacements.
921.
by foxyv 3y ago
I don't think I have enough fingers. I think my first finger would start with Pinal County Arizona. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAeGupTUuIw&t=321s
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by foxyv 3y ago
I always find that the reality of space exploration is so much more disappointing than my 1970s science fiction. When I was a kid I dreamed of farming on Ganymede and mining on Mars. The technology of today is AMAZING, but space is looking
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by foxyv 3y ago
Police and prosecutor misuse of junk science has been a problem since the victorian era. They STILL use polygraphs. I can't believe how low the bar for Probable Cause has been set by judges. https://innocenceproject.org&#x2F
924.
by foxyv 3y ago
Can you ban someone from walking to the store if it is less than a mile away? Or riding their bicycle to work if it is less than 4 miles away? If your government can do that, cars are not going to save you from the totalitarian dictatorship
925.
by foxyv 3y ago
I would recommend contacting your local police department in a less roundabout fashion. Often smaller municipalities base all their policing on citizen complaints. Especially if they are civil.
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by foxyv 3y ago
Just because you get away with it, doesn't make it legal. As many speeders find out. "I was just going with the flow of traffic!" As a person who has to constantly walk around parked cars on the sidewalk I hope they ticket th
927.
by foxyv 3y ago
Remember when AI and robots were going to replace fast food workers? Still hasn't happened. It's because they cost WAY more than the workers themselves. Although I think Logo designers are going to be in a world of hurt. At least
928.
by foxyv 3y ago
It's funny, but in my neighborhood, if there is any power fluctuation (literally 1 second power outages) you can expect a 30-40 minutes outage of Cable internet.
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by foxyv 3y ago
I have yet to have a single issue with public transportation. In addition, all the people fighting on public transit aren't crashing into each other in multi-ton vehicles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JgukjFWlcc h
930.
by foxyv 3y ago
Weird, I didn't see them arrest anyone.

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