Fun idea, bad execution. Do it again with text that isn't for ants, axis with a single arrow, and labels on the positive side, and a legible font.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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Hey, this guy isn't an ant! Swarm him!!
I feel like the axes need better labeling. Putting the labels on the negative is confusing.
It's the dual-directions arrow
This is what I was going to say. Arrows typically points only right and up, so the opposite direction is negative.
no-one desires to die.
Maybe do it with "fear of dying" instead?
- fear high, likelihood high: biking
- fear high, likelihood low: flying
- fear low, likelihood low: train
- fear low, likelihood high: driving
no one desires to die
speak for yourself man
Desire-to-die is potentially a reasonable way to describe 15 hours in an economy airline seat, or stuck in/as traffic.
I.e. so fed up with this that you'd rather be dead.
Yes this was the point of the meme. I feel like dying in an airplane, but it is very unlikely that anything fatal will happen. I also feel like dying while driving through suburban traffic, and there the odds are much higher something could take me out.
It's just not true that no one desires to die. If you want to kill yourself, you're way more likely to use a car than a bike. But more likely to use a train than a aeroplane...
Flying is not low likelihood of death. Commercial passenger aviation is.
Private planes crash and kill their occupants fairly often.
Commercial flight is safe just because there are so many regulations that are (were?) strictly followed. If you really wanted to reduce auto deaths, you could absolutely regulate it down to the same risk as commercial aviation, but that would nerf the purpose of a car to the point that no one would actually use them.
Broadly speaking, the way regulations are written is according to our appetite for risk of death in that medium. Modes where you have some appearance of like cars and bikes see high acceptance of risk while modes where you are strictly "along for the ride" see low acceptance.
So where do we put motorcycle riders? Is there a suicidal category on this graph?
Idk about the bikes, downhill mountain biking is very safe as long as you don't crash
falling off a mountain is also very safe until the moment you hit some rock
You could land on a pile of one million pillows, it's impossible to say. Not the mountain's fault if you land on rocks.
still going to sue the mountain for negligence
This one doesn't understand probability lol
Is joke, is funny.
Psst, I'm in on the joke
This stemmed from me joking with a friend that it is unfortunate that flying is so safe because I always want to die when I'm on plane.
~~Which is weirdly not reflected by your graph, which shows Flying as having a very low desire to die...~~
Misread the graph, kindly ignore me.
No their graph shows that they have a low likelihood of dying but a high desire.
Oh... You're correct. Reading comprehension is apparently not my strong suit tonight.
This is a confusing graph, not just your fault
GTFO with your antibike propaganda.
I don't think it's anti-bike at all. Biking is dangerous in a large number of countries but largely due to cars and inadequate infrastructure protecting bicyclists
That's simply not true in the big picture. Biking is a net benefit virtually everywhere; the risks are more than offset by the benefits to your lifespan. Biking is the opposite of dangerous.
I mean I agree but you can't say riding on something like this "bike route" in Ottawa, Canada isn't a death wish
(Link)
Like, it's because of cars that its dangerous. I recognise that a lot of countries have much better infrastructure that makes it much safer but our infrastructure is shit. I say that as someone who does bike as a means of transport often
I love biking! Hence the low desire to die. I feel so much better all day after biking.
I am also biking in Kansas City Missouri though where drivers will directly threaten to kill me.
The fact that this could pretty much be a pcm meme too makes it top notch!