oleorun

OMG really? How COULD you...

Neglect to offer your valuable opinion. Hey, you're a human and have valuable things to say. Haters gon hate. Fuck 'em.

The hero we need

Right? Like, aim a little higher dude. Starbucks has like twice the traffic and everyone is wearing headphones. win-win.

Small instance owner here. All are welcome. We have one really busy community here, and a few others that are just getting going that you might find interesting. You like World of Warships? The Last of Us? St. Louis Battlehawks? Abandoned Buildings?

You'll notice some of these communities are a ghost town. Images are broken and there's a rat eating pizza. So step up. Avoid the large, overwhelmed, weirdly-political instances and give us little guys a chance.

I'll begin by introducing myself. Hi! I am oleorun, named after the recently deceased Bob Uecker's Baseball Hall of Fame speech. My instance, https://real.lemmy.fan/, is known for the [email protected] community, but we have more to offer. [email protected] , a college radio station, [email protected] , and more communities waiting to be joined, and built, and best of all there's no ads, no donation requests, just pure love of a federated instance that thrives on niceness.

I'd be real happy for you to join us.

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Marty McFly better start playing guitar before Phyllis disappears completely!

I laughed way too hard at this, well done

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and

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are the two that I used almost non-stop.

(I have them memorized - Never forget the 6 month cycle of reinstalling XP.)

Anyone brave enough yet to go to the website?

TSA doesn't provide protection. It provides security theater.

Protection implies some sort of attention designed to safeguard something of value.

Security theater is the purchasing of ineffective and expensive machines from corporations in key senate districts to win voting influence and campaign donations.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/9V_innards_3_different_cells.jpg

Cool picture showing the various cells making up the typical 9v battery.

I am a lemmy(.)fan

But if you think back then how cars were designed, they didn’t have well designed crumple zones to absorb the impact. So if your options are to get pancaked between metal or go flying out the window, flying at least gives you a chance of survival.

Crumple zones don't extend into the car's cabin. They absorb the impact, much like a bunch of accordians. The kinetic energy is dispersed.

The cabin area is surrounded by a cage of steel designed to protect the occupant. Jaws of Life, essentially hydraulic bolt cutters/scissors/something you want your fingers to avoid at all costs, are used to cut through those steel reinforcements in accidents where the cabin is compromised.

Any accident involves more variables than can be predicted. Speed, road shape and conditions, tire quality, driving experience, vehicle weight, all of this can throw a vehicle, and its occupant, into the unknown data category. Thus, auto manufacturers do their best to try to keep the occupants safe and in the car. That's unironically the safest place in an accident.

When a person is flying out of the window, nothing but the air resistance or earth of some sort is slowing down the kinetic energy. Glass, metal, and physics are not the compromising sort.

Edit: I reread your comment and you are exactly right. Old cars were protected by pure metal, no crumple zones needed. Great idea, until it wasn't. Didn't mean to lemmysplain to you. Hopefully this comment is useful to someone lol.