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[+] 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    What I love about Lemmy after all these years.. zero downvotes. Upvoted disagreement below. But no downvotes.

    I, in fact disagree, and acknowledge OP is being cautious, but I see what you mean obviously, bc you're a coherent intelligent human being, and so I don't downvote.

    Lemmy really is an "and" not "but" community. That's really telling. Yay Lemmy.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Afraid or cautious? Isn't that how we learn to stay safe? We mostly learned with our own mistakes, but with the advent of the TV and internet, we got to learn from thousand of other people's misfortune.

    (e.g.) I learned not to use slippery shoes in the rain on the stairs from fail videos on YouTube. Am I afraid of the rain or the stairs?

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  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Totally depends on the behavior. Choosing not to drive behind a logging truck won't negatively impact you in any way. Not using a tanning bed is actually a positive. Not swimming near a pool drain also is unlikely to have a negative impact.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There was a pool drain in a final destination? Palahniuk messed up pool drains for me.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean, I can’t imagine it’s too much of a threat, so long as you don’t directly interface your asshole with said pool drain.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I mean, some of that is just good ideas to avoid anyway.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I avoid driving near any kind of truck. The semis can't see you, and a tire blowout can send you flying. The pickup trucks can have unsecured stuff in the bed just waiting to fly out on the next bump.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    A few weeks ago we were driving behind some guy with a fridge in the back of his pickup who didn't tie the door shut. Apparently the wind resistance from going at highway speeds can rip a fridge door right off. We had some early warning because a few of the shelves came flying out first before we had to dodge the door...

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    An acquaintance of mine was driving behind a pickup truck on the highway. It hit a bump, and a truck hitch ball flew out. It went straight through his windshield and lodged itself in the passenger seat, which thankfully was unoccupied. I don't think he drove behind a pickup truck ever again either.

    Bonus story from his talk with insurance! He tells them what happened, and they had followup questions:

    • Did it bounce?
    • Why does that matter?
    • It's only covered if it didn't bounce.
    • It didn't bounce.

    Apparently, if it hits the road before it hits you, it's just road debris at that point.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    I've worked in workplace security for some years, and oh my god, did it make me afraid of bullshit happening on construction sites...

    Wooden beam under bending stress? That's a broken neck for you.

    Conveyer belt, transporting coal? Nope, that's a 6 meter per second arm ripping off death machine.

    ...

    And don't get me started on forklifts. We all know what Staplerfahrer Klaus has done.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I'm constantly behind log trucks when I pass through Alabama. Those logs are NOT coming off. Between their roughness and weight, friction has them locked solid. You couldn't pull one straight off the back if your life depended on it.

    I only keep my eye on them as they represent an insane amount of mass that can't stop quickly.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Also, don't forget that the one in the movie isn't a log truck at all. The bed is flat, designed for rolling machinery on and off, not one designed for logging, which has walls because it's nigh impossible to stack logs without them because they'd roll off to the side before you could secure them.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    If I go to a hotel or something and they have one of those corded laundry lines in the shower, I'll just be stinky the rest of the trip.

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  • NGL, I purposely waited for one more car to pass me before I got in the left lane yesterday on my way home from work. There was a pickup loaded full of wood and Final Destination was actually in my head.

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