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[–] 231 points 11 months ago* (45 children)

Clean your windshield, inside and out, and polarized sunglasses, or sunglass clips for glasses. And make sure any level of astigmatism you may have is known and corrected for.

If after washing your windshield, it still scatters the incoming light too much, it is probably pitted. You may have to consider replacing it. It is part of maintaining a vehicle. It may suck to be surprised with an expense like that, but the surprise expense of an avoidable accident is much worse. And might not only be expensive.

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  • [–] 112 points 11 months ago (21 children)

    Every so often I have moments like this where I encounter actual adults out in the wild and am reminded that I am just masquerading, and poorly.

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  • [–] 48 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    I recently found a new shower cleaner that actually works for the first time, and it cleaned the heavy deposits from my weird local water on my tub in less than five minutes, which normally takes me half and hour or more of scrubbing.

    I felt like a superior adult, started sharing the news with all of my fellow grown up children. Maybe some day I’ll identify a funny noise in my car as well and earn my real adult degree.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    For those of us adulting along at home, could you tell us the name of the product you used for the shower?

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    Made by a company called EcoLab, legitimately made me happy for days every time I saw my tub and remembered it was actually clean.

    https://www.homedepot.com/pep/321779430

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Please share, if my water was any harder rocks would come out of the tap.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I have the same issue. For your toilet, get some bar keepers friend liquid toilet cleaner. Shits magic.

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

    I am an autistic 41 year old man that lives in my parents basement. I just collect information and re-distribute it where it is needed.

    I am basically the pre-cursor to an LLM, an LLM made of meat.

    If you've ever watched or read anything with that "wise old hermit" that people line up to ask their philosophical questions to. That was an oldendays autistic person of the same type as me. Can't function in society, but has no emotional thinking to cloud their logic. The thing is, no matter how logical the advice was, and how much it made sense in the moment, it may not have been applicable to normal people. Though I am of course aware of the nature and source of my clarity and try to keep it in mind when giving advice. Unlike the wise hermits of old.

    Not to say I am always right, and not to say logic is always the correct solution. But it often is, and I often am.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Important to note:

    LLMs absolutely do not use logic.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Hehe, I just meant the collecting and redistributing knowledge part. Though yes, it also doesn't qualify as knowledge, just a string of words that seems like it fits the occasion. Though.... not to sell myself short, but not super far off.

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (13 children)

    Clean your windshield, inside and out,

    Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.

    Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don't stare directly into the sun.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (11 children)

    If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can't fix everyone, you can only fix you.

    But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    You know you are arguing a lot about your right to drive blind. You might be a narcissist. You are arguing very clearly that if you hurt someone while driving blind it’s their fault.

    Maybe you are just incapable of empathy. If you kill people bit you get to your destination quicker… that’s a Win.

    Maybe you just suck?

    Let me ask you this

    You’ll get 1 million dollars but a new born infant will be skinned alive… do you take the money?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Very correct. I took a breather.

    Crumple zones work better in head on or rear end collision. They are safer than t-bones.

    However I was freaking out because I walk a lot as my only hobby. My grandfather taught me to walk as a way of organizing thoughts.

    Walking is dangerous. People joking about driving blind is scary to me. You hitting another car is small potatoes but if you hit me I’ll die, and the courts will say “why was he walking during the blind hours!”

    Thats why I freaked out. Well what triggered me. There’s no reason taking a walk should be as dangerous as moantain climbing.

    And that’s also unfair I’m going by numbers not percentages. More people walk than go skydiving or whatever. It’s still kinda fucked up that killing a pedestrian isn’t a big deal because “I didn’t see them”

    Hell there was a court case recently that ruled a walkers safety reflective vest was a distraction to the driver.

    It’s upsetting but I’m not doing anyone any good by freaking out. It’s important I articulate my feelings not resort to “would you skin a live baby for fun” type shit. That’s not helping anyone.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I used to avoid driving at certain times of day because I thought my astigmatism was making it too difficult to see. Turns out it was my windshield! Cost about $400 to to replace

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Though I'd add on to that that cleaning glass can be difficult to do right. You need to clean/rinse it properly, otherwise whatever is left over will dry into streaks, which catch light like this.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Hehe, yeah. In the oldendays there was newspaper as an option for drying glass streak-free. It was never the best choice luckily, but it used to be prevalent. A squeegee was the old better solution, and a microfiber cloth is the new better solution.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Eh if it was pitted you'd probably see the light shining the pock marks even when dirty. This just looks like OP hasn't cleaned the inside of their windshield in a while.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    It was general advice for the situation, not specific to the image. There are many things that can cause it to be much more difficult to see when driving towards a low sun than it actually needs to be. It's not a great situation at it's best, but it shouldn't be fully debilitating.

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