Sotuanduso

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Human reaction time is ~0.25 seconds.
At 20 mph, you're going ~29 ft per second, so you go ~7.3 ft before you can react.
At 25 mph, that's ~37 ft per second, so ~9.2 ft before you can react.

The internet says a good car can break at about 15 f/s^2.
At 29 f/s, that comes out to a stopping distance of ~28 ft.
At 37 f/s, that's ~46 ft.

So Anne, who's annoying for some reason, needs a total of ~35 ft to stop just before hitting the child.
Norman needs ~9 ft to start decelerating, so by the time he reaches the 35 ft mark (after ~26 ft of hitting the brakes,) it's been a total of ~0.98 seconds, and he is going ~26 f/s, which is ~18 miles per hour.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I would legitimately do this if calories weren't a concern.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

A day is all I can make a single handful of candy corn last.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I guess most of the size of a USB drive is just handle, isn't it? Especially those models where you can retract the plug like that.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes. I believe this is what the SCP committee would call a memetic hazard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

As an elf, I wouldn't feel qualified to answer that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Actually I was just being passive aggressive at you for the bit. But it's totally understandable that you didn't notice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I like how you needed to demonstrate that you know what passive aggression is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fast food social media. Nice term there.

Anyways, I don't see why this has to be a matter of high privilege vs. low privilege. There's definitely a correlation, but depressed rich people and happy poor people aren't uncommon. Also, not all questions of positivity vs. negativity are in contexts that relate to privilege. It could be about the direction of a media series, for example, which is where I've heard it misused.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Actually I would call that aggressive passive, because it's very upfront and aggressive, but in a not actually very aggressive way.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I can grow a decent amount of facial hair. Unforturnately, it's just curly enough to look scraggly, but not curly enough to pack in nicely on itself. But it's red hair in contrast to my normal dark brown hair, and I don't want to waste it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Not tone deaf, just... doesn't really make sense in context.

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