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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 24 days

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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 25 days

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i hate heterochromia as a character design choice so much

it's overdone to SHIT and adds no depth to a character

it is maybe the single most common feature among amateur OCs and it is tragic

im definitely being crotchety and annoying

mr meany complainypants over here

but i just actually hate it im sorry

#it immediately turns me off from a character I don't know why #it just gives 'low effort' vibes

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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 28 days

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This is ragebait. Sources:

NHTSA Finds Teslas Deactivated Autopilot Seconds Before Crashes (motortrend.com)

and then the actual NHTSA report:

DOT NHTSA ODI Document (its only 3 pages, you should read the whole thing.)

This all comes from a report where the NHTSA analyzed 16 crashes involving teslas.

Now you might notice that this supposed issue is not even the point of that report. So you want to know where all this is coming from? Literally this one single sentence in the middle of the report:

"On average in these crashes, Autopilot aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact."

Note the "on average"

so we have a sample size of LESS THAN 16 TO SUPPORT THIS CLAIM.

and the NHTSA themselves clearly didn't think it was a huge issue, that is the ONLY TIME the report mentions it. The point of the report is "Hey, Tesla autopilot isn't that great at identifying the lights on emergency service vehicles, lets open an Engeneering Analysis to see what's up with that". It has NOTHING to do with Tesla trying to dodge responsibility for crashes.

DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

IF SOMETHING MAKES YOU MAD, ITS BECAUSE THE POSTER WANTED YOU TO BE. FIGURE OUT WHY THEY WANTED THAT, AND COME TO YOUR OWN CONCLUSION.

The fact that Tesla autopilots abort self driving 1 second before a crash so the company can state “self driving wasn’t active during the collision” should be grounds to dismantle the entire company.

Like, seriously, if you’re making 4000 pound death machines, and you program this shit to work on a technicality? Your company should be dismantled. Gone. No recourse. Just terrible shit dude

#I'm no huge fan of Tesla #I just thought this was a good opportunity to remind everyone of good internet literacy strategies #DO NOT TRUST CLAIMS MADE WITH NO SOURCES

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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 1 month

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i mean you can justify anything if you look to the extremes. like if you're hiding jews in your house in 1940s germany and a nazi comes to your door and asks if you're hiding jews in your house, lying is obviously the more ethical decision.

so its kinda a moot point, like any action can easily be justified in extreme scenarios. so asking "is lying ever ethically correct" isn't even an opinionated question, it actually has an objective answer.

No nuance allowed. Put your nuance in the tags, I just want a yes or no answer

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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 1 month

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If a Steel Inquisitor sees someone hot do you think their eye spikes stick out like AWOOGA

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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 1 month

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have you considered that the sound of a well-tuned engine roaring is actually the most beautiful thing ever

i mean this from the bottom of my heart: no one is impressed by your loud ass car. actually we talked about it and we all want you dead.

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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 1 month

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“if fortnite is so good, why haven’t they made fivenite?”

they already did it’s at freddys

#poetry #art

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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 2 months

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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 2 months

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how have i never seen this thread before this is incredible

I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

#tumblr at its finest

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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 2 months

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this is so weirdly specific but its so real lmao

like i have definitely seen Vin fanart where her feet had a weirdly strong presence

#cosmere #mistborn #vin #i refuse to tag this “feet”

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dannnnnnnnnnnnex · 2 months

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I should add that this post was inspired by this youtube essay by the channel Real Horror on a couple of big missing persons cases. It's one of the best videos I've ever seen, and I will not be sleeping tonight because of it. Absolutely terrifying. I am not immune to monkey-brain innate fears.

The Horrors of Becoming Lost - YouTube

Video is very sad and very dark, don't watch if you aren't mentally prepared.

It's so interesting to me how obsessed we are, as a species, with Missing Person cases. Someone gets lost in the woods or stuck in a cave and a few days later it's national news, with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on rescue attempts. I don't need to list any examples, I'm sure you can think of your own, that's how prevalent they are. The failed rescues are talked about for decades in podcasts and video essays, and the successful ones turn into blockbuster movies.

I think it makes sense. There's a very tangible and relatable horror to being lost and alone. It's ingrained in us, it's perhaps the most primitive fear: "Dying Alone in the Wilderness". We spend so many resources saving these people because we want to believe others would do the same for us were we to meet the same fate. That fear is universally relatable, one of the only things that can unite us as humans.

I'm not implying we shouldn't spend those resources, we obviously shouldn't just abandon people to the elements because it'd take too much effort to find them.

But I think it really highlights some of our most deeply set biases. It highlights how even as an "advanced" species, our base fear of Nature overwhelms us, causing us to appear as hypocrites.

What I mean is, why do we send hundreds of people to search for someone if they're lost in the woods, but if someone is lost in a city, with nowhere to go, they're often just cast aside, labeled homeless, and left to die alone under a bridge. Where are their rescue crews? Their national news coverage? Why is a life lost in the wild more valuable than a life lost in suburbia?

It's easily, tragically, explained. That kind of death isn't as relatable. We have no primitive monkey-brain fear of being abandoned in a city, we made those wilds ourselves. It's easier to rationalize, easier to dismiss. You have to consciously consider how terrible it would be to die alone in a city, it takes a moment of effort; it's not a pre-programmed fear.

I don't think it's actually as binary of a difference as I'm making it out to be, there are obviously more factors at play. For example, many homeless people are not really in contact with anyone, they can go missing and there's just nobody there to raise an alarm. It's tragic, but you can't blame innate human biases. I think the real indicator here isn't the lack of help we offer these urban cases, but how seriously we dedicate ourselves to the wild ones.

Idk, it's just interesting to me how we like to pretend we're an advanced species, how we're above our base instincts, beings of intellect and cognizance, but every so often you can look at us as a collective and point out where the monkey brain takes control.

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