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SparroHawc

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  • How the California DMV allows dangerous drivers to stay on the road

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  • Part of this is likely to be because with how stupidly car-focused the infrastructure is, revoking someone's license to drive is essentially revoking someone's right to autonomy.

  • I hate these new lights on cars so so much, instant flash bangs.

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  • Cars shouldn’t jump up and down due to road quality.

    I live in a hilly area. Any time someone with projector headlights is on even a slight downward curve that I'm facing, it's the equivalent of brights in my eyes. Even with adaptive headlights, cresting a ridge would still blast anyone on the other side for the short amount of time it takes for your car to realize there's someone there.

    For point 3... You're right, and you're wrong. Light from point sources instead of diffuse sources is worse for your retina. The light gets focused by your eye's lenses onto a much smaller area, which can potentially damage the sensitive photoreceptor cells. Ideally, there would be regulations that limit a headlight's candles per mm^2 rather than just overall candles. Astigmatism makes it so the light glares across half your vision, which makes it worse for seeing other things on the road besides the headlight glare, but conversely makes it better for not murdering your retina because the light is spread across a wider area.

  • OBEY. CONFORM. DO NOT RETALIATE.

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  • You misunderstand the point of an aircraft carrier. It's not any more defensible than other large, floating objects - but first you have to reach it, and the aircraft it carries are capable of blowing up nearly anything to kingdom come before it gets anywhere close. Carriers aren't for defense. They're for projecting power.

  • Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event

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  • A lot of people actively avoid learning new things in general, which includes learning about current events and politics.

    it is not the voters fault.

    Sooooooo intentional ignorance isn't their fault? Whose is it then? edit: Sorry, that was snarky. I know people are encouraged to maintain their ignorance in this day and age. In my opinion, it amounts to shirking responsibility, but I'm aware that other opinions are also valid.

  • [Partially incorrect, see comments.] Pens in Space

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  • Well, then the problem would be solved anyways!

  • It's Women's Fault

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  • If opening up is what caused the marriage to fall apart, it was built on a broken foundation and was doomed from the start. You're only finding out now because emotional unavailability hides that sort of thing.

  • OBEY. CONFORM. DO NOT RETALIATE.

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  • The owners of the largest military in the world will make it everyone's problem before it gets better.

  • js is in the "pure embodiment of hell" category along with vb.net and php

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  • Chaotic neutral: Python

    This. I will never support a language that uses tokenized whitespace as 'Good' aligned.

  • Funny cos it's true

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  • A big part of the experience is talking to your buddy about the movie after it's over. Hard to do that when you go alone.

  • I hate these new lights on cars so so much, instant flash bangs.

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  • The problem is that incandescent lights are 1) warmer in tone, which is less harsh for the same candle ratings, 2) have a more gradual boundary than LED projector-style headlights, which means you aren't suddenly blinded when the car coming towards you goes over a minor bump, and 3) aren't a point light-source with the reflector design they have unlike LEDs, and thus are less painful. NONE of these issues are dealt with in a vast majority of new cars (adaptive-angle headlamps would do a lot to help, but would only fix one of the three issues - and only when the camera can actually figure out when they should be lowering the angle, which is far from foolproof).

    If I could easily replace the LED headlamp in my new car with an incandescent lamp, I would - because I could still see decently with my old car's headlights, and I wasn't at risk of blinding everyone in the oncoming lane next to me.

  • Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event

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  • Oh, it's completely the fault of the voters. It's also the fault of the DNC's messaging. The crappy economy (job markets and inflation/unchecked price gouging) meant that the uninformed were just voting for "Not the Party that's Currently In Power" because the cost of groceries and rent was outstripping their paychecks, and the messaging coming from the DNC was completely tangential to that.

    Regular everyday Joes don't follow politics. Just because we do doesn't make us representative of the general population. That sort of thinking is what made Trump's victory a surprise - both times.

  • Judge rules against dads who wore pink wristbands to protest trans high school athletes

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  • From the linked article - yes, hate speech is protected, however harassment isn't.

    The judge in OP's case ruled that it was harassment, so the school was well within its rights to eject the parents.

  • [Partially incorrect, see comments.] Pens in Space

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  • I'm pretty sure astronauts are trained on the usage of garbage receptacles.

  • [Partially incorrect, see comments.] Pens in Space

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  • The air filters would capture it eventually. It's not like the ISS has dead air.

  • Trump official declaring ‘anyone who preaches hate for America’ will be deported worries users: ‘They just skip the First Amendment’

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  • I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride...

  • “The European Union won’t take chicken from America. They won’t take lobsters from America. They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak. It’s unbelievable” Lutnick told FoxNews

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  • COVID and all the resulting economic impacts, whether they were linked in the public's mind or not.

  • Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’

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  • Oh, he's acting rationally from the perspective of someone who thinks he has all the answers and wants to throw his weight around. He's trying to be a tough business guy to China and is only backing off when someone finally manages to explain to him that it's a bad idea in terms simple enough that he can sit through them.

  • This is why we have a defense budget

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  • Honestly, I'll take it over those fucking ahegao hoodies that were briefly popular.

  • Harvard Announces It Will Defy Trump Order to Cut DEI Programs and Expel Pro-Palestinian Protestors

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  • The order was to shut down DEI policies, not to stop discrimination. And DEI policies explicitly exist to try to stop discrimination - meaning that what Trump really wants to do is appeal to white men who feel like they're being left behind when a Pakistani woman gets hired in a position they feel like they 'deserve'.