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.

You can’t see it, but more people disagree with you than agree with you.

Just FYI.

You’re entitled to your opinion, and you like what you like. So don’t worry, be happy.

All I want to say is:

I rarely like any video so much that I want to give it a solid 👍

Its also pretty rare for 👎

But I’ll rate stuff on a scale of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ every day of the week.

Also, hiding 👎 is completely brain-dead stupid.

I keep applying!

I have yet to get a call…

I get hate mail if my total time entered is less than 9 whole assed hours.

They want to know when I take a shit for fucks sake. What are they going to do, reprimand me if I take 20 minutes to take a dump?

“What were you doing that entire time?”

“Taking a shit”

“It doesn’t take 20 minutes to take a shit”

“Maybe for you”

…

I end up doing both and then management sees a gap in my time entries where I was helping someone, and they come down on me for not doing enough.

It’s as if, if I’m not doing billable tasks, then I’m lazy and I’m not working… Because y’know, I show up to work and just fuck around all day unless I’m being watched constantly by management.

Yeah. 45k starting.

I’ve been doing the job for over a decade.

Considering I’ve been doing this stuff for over a decade and have met less than a handful of people with the same technical expertise as I have, and I haven’t met anyone that’s more skilled… I’m pretty sure I should be making at least 6 figures… Nobody will pay that much for what I do.

I’m not trying to brag or anything. It’s just that I keep ending up in the position of having to educate everyone around me on how things actually work, and how to fix them. I spend more time in the bowels of Windows operating systems that the registry makes sense to me.

My understanding of the message in the OP is that phone companies are making phones suck after 2 years using updates that make the phone slower, etc.

… Y’know, like Apple did a few years back.

I’m much the same.

I can’t leave my geographic area for very good reasons, and I will in IT support. I’m experienced enough to be a “senior” support tech. But the average going rate in my area for my job is about 60k/yr. That sounds great until I tell you that I’m in Canada and that’s Canadian dollars, which is about 43k/yr USD.

The state of the market here is embarrassing and I can’t find jobs hiring for remote workers, or anything local enough that I could feasibly commute, that pays enough for it to be worth it to even apply.

If I do find a posting that’s close it’s a 1.5hr commute away and pays about the same as my current work from home gig… Despite the toxicity, why would I take a job I need to spend an additional 3+ hours in a car to do the same work, with potentially the same toxicity, for the same pay?

I fucking hate everything.

All of these have been true at every point.

It depends on where you are in your life’s journey, which one you hear.

It’s always good for the shareholders, as long as they can monetize it

Mine is off too. I’m usually too busy to bother with worrying too much about Google stealing my data. I’ve been using Google for so long that it’s too late for me.

Save yourselves.

I would agree that’s what people mean, but they’re completely overlooking that the problem has already been recognised, and addressed, with a solution that’s been around for decades.

It’s just that people take these modern amenities for granted, so they see them as part of the burden of doing the dishes or doing laundry, rather than relieving the burden of doing those things.

We can load up the dish washer and sit on our duff watching YouTube while a machine does the hard work. Then we just have to suffer through putting the dishes where we want them to go.

This is textbook “first world problems”. AI is only expected to solve these first world problems. By definition, these problems are less actually problems that need solving, and more inconveniences that we perceive as problems.

I’m sorry you’re going through that.