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  • Great slippery slope, going to fallacies and trying to excuse a very dangerous thing on the road.

    It is extremely dangerous to drive with an unlatched hood / frunk. End of story. No amount of negotiation from your side changes that. The sensor absolutely has its place and you have to look for edgecases where it still doesn’t make sense to not have the sensor.


  • Imagine you think you are handy and it flies off and hits someone or kills them, or blind you.

    If you are handy, you can replace the sensor too. It’s not a good argument to “the latch is broken and someone wants to drive it anyway”. You can fix both. Also you can drive it at 15 mph. This absolutely is a huge safety issue that requires a fix, there is no room for negotiations and “maybe I do this instead, hmm???” - either fix it or deal with it going slow.




  • Maalus@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.worldCats are good
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    Mine picked up on my name quickly. Then I trained him to use buttons and he correctly can understand that the button for my name means he wants my attention / denotes ownership of something. I.e “<catname> food” and “<myname> food” which means he leaves it alone. Often says shit like “<catname> <myname> lets play” or “<myname> pets <catname>”.



  • Iran doesn’t have nukes. Israel has been fearmongering about them having nukes since 92’ and it was always “a year away from a bomb”. None of that happened. This is an attack on a sovereign nation with the completely idiotic “preventative attack” defense (i.e. they’d have attacked us first, we had to defend ourselves!). Fun fact, this is exactly what Russia claims Ukraine would’ve done if they hadn’t invaded them first. They also claim NATO as the aggressor and would love to pull the same “move” on NATO too.


  • Maalus@lemmy.worldtoCyberstuck@lemmy.caWhat the frunk
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    Airbag deploying means the car is totalled usually. It is a catastrophic safety feature that damages everything around. First, you have the airbags out, which interferes with driving. So you’d need to cut them out before continuing. Second, airbags don’t usually pop out of nowhere. 95% of the time, the damage is severe enough that the vehicle shouldn’t drive anymore before major fixes are done. Seatbelts are gone too, since they locked up during the crash and they are stretched / strained enough to not be usable anymore. Third, airbags explode when they are activated, which disorients you as the passenger, makes it hard to see what’s going on. Fourth, many cars automatically disconnect the fuel pump, battery cables to prevent adding more fuel / sparks to a crash already.

    Honestly, airbags popping aren’t a “non issue” like you try to make it seem. Call a tow truck.


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    I mean, imagine you ignore the warning, drive on a highway and the hood pops up on you out of nowhere. Just because you couldn’t get it to open doesn’t mean it won’t unjam itself at highway speeds once air gets under it and turns it into a sail. Either blinding you entirely, or ripping off the hinges, flying off and hitting someone else’s windshield - blinding them, or even killing (imagine a motorcycle getting hit by it). I think the hate isn’t justified, maybe other than the fact that they weren’t able to fix it themselves. This sensor should be standard issue on all cars, since this absolutely is an issue with safety.







  • I know you kid, but rolling without the DM asking you to is a dick move and a faux pas at a table. You really shouldn’t do that. Same thing happened with Critical Role and the “roll for scry” moment. It puts the DM in a position where they might have to confront you, deny you the roll and sour a moment. It puts pressure on them to allow you to do something, which players often abuse - someone spins a tale of doing a quadruple backflip, landing on someone’s head, attacking and bumping the dude into lava, rolls before the DM can say “there is no lava nearby but…” and puts them in a really awkward situation, especially with high rolls.