PeriodicallyPedantic @ PeriodicallyPedantic @lemmy.ca

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But trying to extrapolate from nonsense movies is the fun part!

Let me rephrase, I'm not trying to make the world of cars more realistic, I'm trying to imagine "what if we were as relatively fragile as cars are". What if our normal every day activities like walking were as risky to us as driving is to a car.

Hmmm... You're right that cars don't crash as much as people trip. But they still crash a lot

And while if a cheetah trips while running it's fine, if a car crashes at its top speed, it will completely come apart. Heck, if a car crashes at highway speed, it's typically still absolutely destroyed, and highway speed is only gonna be like 1/2 or 1/3 its top speed, so that's the equivalent of jogging.
\ A big part of this is the fragility of cars vs their speed.

That deleted scene is... It's... Well that raises so many questions about their universe. I'm just gonna ignore that part lol.

Specifically just speed, I suppose.
\ Not any of the other perception/durability powers that typically come with it.

And not crazy flash-like super speed, just the speed of a car.

All these eggs and beans, I won't be able to fit into my jeans

Same, it was sad but I'm not gonna use the all anymore due to that decision.

It's been a while, I admit.
\ But the premise is simple enough that you don't really need to remember much of it

That's what I'm saying!
\ What would society even look like if even a light jog was such speeds that tripping would result in a gruesome death? Bumping into someone would tear off limbs? In the movie they're so casual about it.

I feel like they're different orders of magnitude. Like it's one thing to enjoy watching people do risky things, and it's another to enjoy watching something where at least one person is going gruesomely die in front of you during the event.

Like... During the Bad Times of NASCAR, a few people would get seriously injured or die in a season, and it caused a huge commotion where they introduced new safety measures (eventually).
\ But cars were smashed and torn apart nearly every race.
\ It's be like if in a typical game of football, there was greater than 50/50 odds that someone would get drawn, quartered, and disemboweled on the field during the match.

But that's not really the part I was focused on, that was an afterthought.
\ The real focus was imagine if people jogged at such speeds that tripping would result in gruesome death. What would society even look like?

I was a big windows supporter until win11 when they started adding crazy shit like whatever it is that takes screenshots of every you do. And a bunch of other moves that were even more brain-dead than usual.

My next computer will be something like bazzite, or SteamOS (when they release v3 for real), since they have Linux desktop modes for my desktop needs.

I was camping as a child, and sitting on my dad's knee around the camp fire. I tucked my knees and arms into my shirt.
\ My dad let go of me to scratch his head, and I, trapped within my shirt, rolled off his knee and onto a tree root.

Broke my collar bone.
\ Had to canoe out of the campsite the next day.

My knees

Beep boop he is onto us.
\ Increase surveillance, and enact contingency 241.22

I'm about to turn 40, it's all true

But sonic has SO MUCH foot to be attracted to.

Ah well, at least you still have sonic inflation.

Those are known evils I know how to deal with, that are popular enough that there are foss tools to handle them.

But I'm being a bit hyperbolic here. I'm not as paranoid as I'm portraying myself... I just don't have any motivation to click this particular risky link.

Why risk it?

As a fellow comp sci graduate (different uni, long time ago) that doesn't fill me with a ton of confidence lol.

This could actually be a study on phishing lol
\ Or a less ethical study on virus propagation
\ Or maybe he has just gone rogue and his university hasn't noticed because they probably don't actually monitor what students are hosting very closely, as long as it's not causing problematic network traffic.\

I doubt it, but I'm still not gonna click a link that someone is asking me to click lol

Probably it'll be fine, with a few exceptions.
\ But probably it won't be worth the money unless you're getting a low end card

So confidently wrong

Apparently none of Europe does actually "adult things" since almost none of them own trucks 🙄

The application of a couple minutes of thought, or researching what people outside your bubble live like, could have saved you so much embarrassment