Salad_Fries

joined 1 year ago
[–] Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago (17 children)

I know its super pedantic, but the word “accident” really grinds my gears in this context.

The proper terminology is “crash”.. accident infers that there is no fault or misconduct.

[–] Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

My partner’s family lives on a dirt road between a corn field and cow pasture.. a full 1.5 hour drive from the nearest mid-sized city.. they have gigabit fiber..

Not saying that their situation is currently typical, but id argue it is indeed a sign that good internet is slowly but surely coming available to everyone.

[–] Salad_Fries@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Personally, i think every infraction on the road should require your Drivers license gets revoked until you go to the dmv & retake your drivers test.

Speed? Blow a stop sigh? Illegally park? All of it should require a retest in order to regain your driving privileges..

[–] Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And vitamin water surely is loaded with vitamins, right?

[–] Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think youre fundamentally misunderstanding how math works…

Sales tax is percentage based… purchasing 1 item at $10 pays the exact same amount of sales tax as purchasing 2 items at $5 or 10 items at $1 regardless of if the tax is applied “per item” or “total sale”.

[–] Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back when i was a teenager, i was a lifeguard. One day, a mother came to the pool with 3 young children. They were playing by the stairs in the shallow end of the pool when one of the children got out & proceeded to diarrhea on the floor. Mother swiftly picked up the kid in a panic & brought him clear to the other side of the pool to grab her towel. Once she had her towel, she proceeded to continue carrying the continuously shitting child back toward the shallow end on the other side of the pool & into the locker room.

This kid left a trail of shit that entirely circled the pool + a path to the locker room (total was easily over 150 linear feet of diarrhea.)

I would know as i was the dumb teenager who was tasked with cleaning it up… it was a very grueling day.

In short, i think it is very believable that it was “all the way”…

[–] Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The four lane road continues as the “main st” of the city. (About 1/4 mile behind this pic).

The main st is a busy pedestrian corridor filled with tourists & cheesy family attractions.

Location here: (43.6268823, -89.7840315)

 

Was visiting a wisconsin town this weekend and observed this nightmare-ish bike lane configuration.. the road’s speed limit is 25mph, but has a massive 500’ acceleration lane. Gonna guess how many people actually obey the speed limit here?

The dashed lines denoting merging across the bike lane are a whopping 482 feet long!