I won’t argue with you there.

My entire point for my comment from earlier is that I don’t know what a “healthy weight” is for that person. I also won’t assume that “under 200lbs” is either above, or below, that amount.

I didn’t make any assumptions about it. My comment being “if it makes you happy?” Is more of a question of, if being under that weight is bringing you happiness. Because I will neither speculate, nor assume, what a healthy body weight is for that person, and I’m not going to ask for their private medical information on what a healthy weight is, so my only hope is that they’re happy about the change.

I probably could have said it better, but it would not have been as terse.

I find that the more terse I can be, the better my comments tend to do. It would seem that most people don’t want to read an entire encyclopedia for an answer to a relatively basic question. The issue I have is that, when I include context, I want to make as few assumptions about the reader as I can. About what they know or don’t know, or if they are familiar with medical terms or caught up in colloquialisms. Clarifying each point to the extent I need to in order to accommodate for those assumptions I am not making, is a verbose task.

Possibly.

I wasn’t about to jump to that conclusion.

People just focus so much on a number on a scale, when the focus should be on being healthy. Sometimes weight is a part of that, sometimes not.

I’ve met people that couldn’t weigh more than 100lbs soaking wet, yet they’re unhealthy to high hell, and frequently paying the (medical) price for that. Meanwhile, I’ve known people who can’t, by any means, get below 200lbs and they’re in near perfect health.

Weight does not equal health.

Being healthy doesn’t require that you are a particular weight.

Weight thing: meh, if it makes you happy?

Glucose thing: fuck yeah dude.

I’m assuming that the original intent was that it’s “non-negotiable” in the sense that it will never be allowed, but the term “non-negotiable” usually means the opposite, that it must happen…

So they’re stupid?

Probably not. That’s basically a full week of take home pay for me.

I definitely want it. If it’s cheap, I definitely want two.

Actually everything they recently announced looks great. I really want to try to frame.

I gave up on VR after the oculus CV1 got canned. I bought one, got a few decent years out of it in spite of “meta” buying the company and making it shit, but when they stopped selling the connection cables for the CV1, which was the part that broke most frequently, I just backed the hell off and thought to myself, “this shit is cool, but it’s clearly not established enough to be predictable, maybe some day”.

Whelp, I think we’re finally there.

Until now, you had the “option” of either something mainstream like the quest 7 (or whatever number they’re on), or you can pick from either the index, which was on the pricy side for what you were getting, or the bigscreen beyond, which required an iPhone to scan your face so they can make a custom face shield just for you (and to get more you had to scan those people in and get face shields for them at a premium). Anything else was so niche that you probably were not getting support, if the company even existed in a few years to support you.

Now? A first party VR that actually looks good and works natively with steam…

So yeah… Where do I sign up?

I’ve wanted a steam deck for years but I don’t game on the go so I can’t really justify it, but the rig I’m using for couch gaming is getting pretty dated… So this seems like a great time to get back into everything… Though, finding the money I need to get the systems is going to be a challenge…

I hope this name sticks.

This. Entirely this.

The frustrating part is when there are laws in place for something, and they’re not being enforced and law makers think that making more laws about something will somehow fix the enforcement issues…

Making it more illegal only harms law abiding people, enforcement actually harms the law breakers.

It’s not rocket surgery.

I haven’t either.

Speaking of things I haven’t done… I’ve have, not once, turned the wrong way down a one way street.

… It was twice.

I’m not doing this again.

I appreciate that. I can’t say anything is better right now, but I can say that I think I’m handling it better. So that’s something, I guess?

Either way, I wanted to thank you very much for your words. Be well.

I liked continuum too.

Just saying.

I’ve been having a shit week and I don’t mean to be a dick about it.

I’m not sure why I give this much of a shit about a post that should be ha-ha funny.

I’m sorry.

There would still be less dead people.

It happens, yes.

Just like people dying in T-bone or head-on collisions. Not to mention rollovers and other crashes.

Each of them carries the chance of fatality.

It’s unpredictable, which is why we can’t eliminate fatalities entirely.

My most recent point is that even the fatalities from being rear-ended are significantly reduced from even 10-15 years ago. Making the small (but still too high) probability of a fatality from that type of crash, smaller (but still too high).

Therefore, the most likely outcome from such an incident would be the destruction of property, not loss of life.

Which is the original point I was being pedantic about. The original comment was that stopping and not driving wouldn’t kill anyone, and the reply that kicked off this insane tangent, was that the people behind might.

And I’m staying, no, they won’t die (it is statistically very unlikely).

Edit to include original context:

Is this the only argument?

Because while that’s dangerous, modern safety standards in vehicles mean the probability of mortality in these situations is substantially reduced.

My point is that people won’t die, not that it’s a good thing to do.

Why? If people think this is an acceptable situation to go ahead and drive in, then people are going to get hurt or killed.

How calm should I be about driver’s being so irresponsible that they endanger themselves and everyone around them because “lol, what was I supposed to do?!?” … Exactly?

Can’t see? Don’t drive. It’s not fucking rocket surgery.

They’ll survive. Their cars might not…

Nobody will die , so I’m not sure what you’re saying.

I’ve been in the situation plenty as a driver and if you don’t know how to handle it, destroy your driver’s license.

Jesus fucking Christ.

You people have the privilege of being able to legally drive on public roads… FFS.

Woof.