[–] -3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

111 mph is ~150fps

It's a freeway. Everyone is going the same direction. Speed differential is what matters, and it was only around 45mph. You drive 45mph past parked cars all the time and don't blink an eye. All it takes is one parked driver to pull out and it's all over for you, apparently.

It is exactly the problem.

You people making shit up is the problem. You're literally sitting there imagining scenarios where you can feel threatened by a man sitting on a 400 - 500 pound machine, who is traveling at 45mph relative to you. You're ignoring the actual situation being discussed and inventing scenarios in your head so that you can feel threatened and express your righteous indignation while clutching your pearls. It's really weird.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The comment by Freethought is interesting:

    ... Forty-two percent of Canadian manufacturers have already moved, or plan to move, some or all of their production to the United States, according to a May 2026 KPMG Canada survey. The survey found that 29% have already shifted production south and another 13% plan to within the next two years. Something tells me Trump already knows this, and when this becomes public knowledge, he will falsely claim it was all because of him.

    It's the same thing he did with egg prices. A Bird Flu outbreak drove prices up. Trump did nothing. The outbreak died down, thanks to responsible farmers, and prices dropped. Trump now brags that his administration brought egg prices down.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    He is so astonishingly stupid.

    “They’ve been ripping us off for decades, and it’s going to stop.”

    Just once, I want to hear him back up any of his insult-claims with evidence of any kind. If a reporter pushes back, they get, "you know, you really are a stupid person" in response. Never any explanation. Canada has been ripping us off. Venezuela ripped us off. Everyone ripped us off, apparently, but I have no idea how. Just once, Donny, for the history books.

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

    I witnessed this in the 90s and 2000s. AFAIK, it started in rave culture. People would lace their fingers around glow sticks and wave them in front of a friend's face. I was told that the effect is really cool if your rolling on MDMA. However, I also saw Mormon kids doing it stone sober, because they're always imitating things they see without understanding the drug component (e.g. a Mormon kid at a local high school who wore a pacifier on a necklace -- an MDMA raver accessory to give something to chew on -- despite zero awareness of drugs).

    Personally, I think these photos are a combination of raver culture seeping into the mainstream, along with a trend of "reversing subject and photographer".

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    "Dick-sucking lips? What are those?" combined with "I only notice the bad examples of {insert arbitrary, observable thing}"

    Full lips are hot on women. Going overboard in anything looks bad. Often, they look awful immediately after injections and then look great after the swelling goes down. There will always be people with body dysmorphia who will push things too far. It's all pretty straightforward and there's nothing unpopular here.

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  • [+] -11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Those are actually ridden by members of the public, you know.

    Are there a lot of tandem bicycles out on the freeway, where this event occurred?

    Even if you were correct (you're not), you're ignoring that the modern car or SUV is still going to be a total loss.

    I am entirely correct and, again, where was the collision in the event being discussed?

    You want to make absurd hypothetical claims (that car drivers are terribly endangered by a motorcycle speeding in a single lane) and when that's shown to be false you want to talk about a "total loss". This is also pretty baseless. A motorcycle rear-ending a hypothetical car at a 45mph speed differential is unlikely to be a total loss of the car.

    And you're completely disregarding the head-on collision when that biker comes across the median and hits the car with a ~180mph speed differential.

    Oh, neat, more absurd hypotheticals that are phenomenally unlikely. Meanwhile, motorcyclists are killed all the time by oncoming drivers turning left across their path or simply veering into the motorcyclist's lane because dicking around on their phone is more important than controlling a multi-ton box.

    Or the T-bone when the car doesn't see the >100mph biker and turns across his path.

    Do you make a lot of turns on freeways?

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  • [+] -8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The trauma of witnessing a lethal accident and traffic delays due to cleanup have different severities but each can have lasting impacts on people.

    You may not have noticed, but there was no collision in the article being discussed. He was speeding in traffic that was so light that he didn't even need to change lanes. There was no collision. He had something like a 45mph speed differential versus other traffic.

    How about you stop pontificating on hypotheticals and look at the actual situation being discussed?

    Also, if you're so concerned about the trauma of seeing motorcyclists injured, then you should be focusing on driver training and PSAs about scanning the road for more vulnerable road users. Motorcyclists are injured or killed by inattentive or reckless drivers at a rate vastly higher than the reverse.

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