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[–] 78 points 4 months ago (33 children)

I find it wild that people are still this militant against wearing a seatbelt. Seatbelts are mildly uncomfortable due to how my body is built, but I'd rather not die in the unfortunate event of a serious collision. Then again I'm sure it's the anti-intellectual crowd that refused to mask during the height of COVID. Maybe we should start telling them that airbags are woke.

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  • [–] 51 points 4 months ago

    It is the nature of the extremism of using personal automobiles for personal transportation. No inconveniences. Period.

    "What about the most minor compromise to convenience for your own safety due to the inherent danger that comes with using a personal automobile for personal transportation?"

    "I said period."


    Just the extreme end of the spectrum.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (28 children)

    Old adage of the bicycle cranks is that if you were to put a spike on the steering wheel, people'd drive a lot more carefully

    tbf I also don't get the argument for personal safety. Pretty much any state lets me do a lot more statistically dangerous bullshit than that freely, why not this one? If there's other people in the car, sure, so you don't become the 100kg meat rocket wrecking everybodies shit but hey if you wanna die alone in a 20kph accident you just have fun doing that

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  • [–] 32 points 4 months ago (25 children)

    You can go through the windshield and hit other people outside your car.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (24 children)

    I mean yeah you could but is that enough of a problem to require legislature? I can do 60 kp/h on a ski slope and just obliterate a small child and until I do the latter that seems perfectly legal. I could fuck up sykdiving really hard and just goomba stomp a disabled person but like does that really happen and neither doing 60 on a ski slope nor goomba stomping the disabled via parachute is expressively illegal in any law system I know

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    How many miles do you skydive per year? What percentage of ski slopes are public utilities exclusively filled with 2-ton+ iron skiers?

    Skiing at excessive speed is "reckless skiing" or "reckless endangerment", which is minimally a fine and escalates to criminal charges based on severity in the same way that reckless driving does. In Utah, the class B misdemeanor could put you in jail for 6 months.

    Can't you just boil and filter creek water at home? Do we really need to get the legislature involved over a little giardia risk?

    This would be a good opportunity to interrogate what brought you to your current position and if self-crit would be a valuable exercise.

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  • [+] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)
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    therefor the creation and enforcement of a social norm is how to make people feel natural to wear a seatbelt. which is a minimal safety mechanism understood about for years with minimal drawbacks.

    So why isn't the dutch reach encoded into law? I'd say that's about the same inconvenience as wearing a seatbelt which is to say basically none

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I find it funny as well as frustrating to see the amount of people that think you're arguing against wearing a seatbelt. Seems pretty clear that you're just publicly wondering why this is where the state decided to draw the line, when driving a car itself is already so wack.
    Honestly a pretty good example of why we have rule 8. People just love to feel smarter or something i guess.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I mean I am the man with a hammer to whom everything looks like a nail here but it feels sort of autonormativity to figure safety or "safety" laws around cars surely must start from a place of the protection of other people

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    nor goomba stomping the disabled via parachute is expressively illegal in any law system I know

    This is called assault and battery, so it doesn't need its own law. If you're specifically targeting someone for being disabled, there's a good chance it's a hate crime, too. I don't understand what makes this a good example.

    Also, as others patiently tried to explain, the number of person-hours spent driving versus skiing and skydiving are wildly different, and that's probably the more important part. At best, you're making an argument that skiing should have speed limits (probably by rating or something since putting the same speed limit on a bunny slope as an expert slope that is practically dumping you straight down would be silly).

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty much any state lets me do a lot more statistically dangerous bullshit than that freely

    Statistically there aren't many things more dangerous than driving, either to you, or to others. Per unit time spent doing it, sure. Each individual sky dive is more dangerous than each individual car trip. But if you just look at your risk of accident over a lifetime for each activity it becomes clear which is more dangerous to the average person! Taking a small risk once, or a few times, is fairly reasonable. Taking a small risk multiple times daily, the threshold gets a LOT lower for what's reasonable. There's a reason traffic accidents are a leading cause of death and seatbelts are super effective at reducing it.

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Go through the windshield like a real patriot.

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago

    You know, considering The Punisher's whole shtick is killing people who deserve it, and wouldn't face consequences otherwise: this branding is actually pretty on point thinking-about-it

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    There is something pathetically sad about the way this is comic book super hero branded.

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago

    People out there are not wearing their seatbelts? huey-wut

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    I like how it very clearly works as a bottle opener as well

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Okay but like every object made out of metal you can roughly fit in your palm is de facto a bottle opener.

    It doesn't even have to be made put of metal, or even have a good shape for it.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but it is designed for it. Last I looked, the punisher logo didn't have fangs at the bottom that are perfect for acting as a fulcrum on a beer bottle.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Last I looked, the punisher logo didn't have fangs at the bottom that are perfect for acting as a fulcrum on a beer bottle.

    I fear you've been Mandela effected because it fully does. The mastoid process is depicted as a "fang" in most punisher skulls i can find on Google

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    [–] 18 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    Someone needs to buy 500 of these and hand it out for free in a MAGA convention just for the bit

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Bro just sell it for profit. You'll make bank. They upcharge like crazy at those conventions, and people still buy the shit merch.

    They'll love the freedumb of what you are selling them.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 4 months ago

    Get yer free Punisher Car Freedom Tool! Get yer free Punisher Car Freedom Tool! Oh, one for you, Mr. Chud. And one for you, Mr. Chud. And here's one for you, Mrs. Chud... Get yer free Punisher Car Freedom Tool! Get yer free Punisher Car Freedom Tool! Get...

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I like that one of the product pics is a mercedes key fob and hipster glasses because you'd think these things were only aimed at your redneck neighbor who drives a lifted f-150? Nope, bougie folks yearn for the fatal car crash too.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    the punisher seat belt silencer being used as a bottle opener.

    It doubles as a bottle opener. Don't you hate it when you can't find your bottle opener while you are driving.

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    [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    I love it when problems solve themselves

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    i'm okay with this, except in some cases it might cause harm to someone else too

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Darwin tabs.

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