Probably be cheaper to fly here and pay out of pocket.
Stupid Pet Peeves
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Probably be cheaper to fly here and pay out of pocket.
Actually managed to sleep for 6 hours last night, first time since Saturday
I'm jealous.
OK for real though... There is a blinking text prompt cursor in random places on every webpage. Is anyone else seeing this on chrome?
I haven't seen this.
I am sick of the newest buzz-word floating around the workplace recently: engagement. It is all about engagement. Are you engaged with your employees? I think that guy is disengaged. Time to engage with folks in the town hall meeting. I think if we just get that guy to engage. Good hell, find a thesaurus!
In heavy traffic during rush hour if you leave more than a 1/2 car space between you and the car in front of you when stopped you are an *******. This makes a very real difference, especially when multiple people do this. If you don't understand why then feel free to ask and I'll go full TL;DR on it.
CPG Grey is great with this kind of analysis. I really like that channel. I have started working on leaving a gap in traffic and I find the drive to be more smooth and less herky jerky and the times I see a lot of people doing that even on crowded cali freeways it makes a huge difference in speed and smooth flow of traffic.
A gap while moving is pretty good. A gap while at a dead standstill pushes the congestion back farther, potentially causing it to interfere with traffic going in a completely different direction. Leaving a gap while at a stop makes it less likely for others to get into the left-turn or right-turn feeder lanes. Meaning they'll still be there, possibly interfering with the trough lane as they miss the dedicated turn light and have to sit and wait and possibly back into the through lane.
On my way home yesterday I saw a person well beyond a car length in a middle lane on an off ramp that had three lanes. One lane went left, one went right and the middle one, the one they were in, split and fed both a right turn lane and left turn lane. This driver was in the higher demand left turn lane. Stuck in that lane two cars back was a person trying to utilize the left lane of the right turn feed (which is massively underutilized at this exit, yet the lane probably 80% of the people should be in since most of them are trying to get to the large shopping center that requires a left turn at a very close intersection not even a full city block after the exit). Had that one car gone nut to butt in their left turn feeder the other car would have been able to move up and actually use the left side of the right turn exit.
Final note. The guy in your first video I want to punch in the face. Zen? How is laying on the horn because someone is merging AT THE MERGE Zen? That guy is exactly who I hate. Neat that you like to create quarter-mile gaps in traffic and then get triggered and turn up the temperature on the roadway by honking for an excessive amount of time when someone moves into that gap when you don't approve.
Yeah the first guy actually cracked my up. The second guy was really the representation of the gap.
The crazy thing is that I'm a much calmer driver now and I'm still way too wound up. I've started doing daily affirmations while I drive, telling myself that it's all fine and that it isn't my problem and not something I need to worry about let alone react to.
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I have strong doubts that car AIs will ever be able to function that well. There will be too many gaps in the network, too many communication errors, too many different standards, etc.
Yeah that is why he puts it out there as a pie in the sky concept. I could see it in some specific areas, like chunks of LA where they could have transmitters all over the place. I also saw a concept somewhere that showed car to car communication being a possible way to implement something similar. But hey go back to some cowboy on the western frontier and show him a functioning cell phone and he will call it witch craft. Never know where we will be in 100 years.
Hah, I always knew it, and I've said it on here multiple times. Worst drivers in the nation.
California drivers considered to be the ‘second-worst’ in the nation, study says
While California drivers may be experts at navigating traffic in major metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, they aren’t particularly good drivers, according to a Decemb…
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Californians often complain about bad drivers in Utah. I have always just told them it's a you problem. I find most of the bad driving in Utah is often near colleges because young people suck at driving and super fast and aggressive drivers often from California. Having driven in pretty much every state in the USA I've always thought California is by far the worst. The number of accidents per person and deaths per accident has always confirmed that I think.Hah, I always knew it, and I've said it on here multiple times. Worst drivers in the nation.
California drivers considered to be the ‘second-worst’ in the nation, study says
While California drivers may be experts at navigating traffic in major metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, they aren’t particularly good drivers, according to a Decemb…ktla.com
But there are plenty of stereotypes of bad drivers. Chinese are often thought of as bad drivers. While some are many just drive different from western standards so it seems bad. But I found people are way more attentive drivers. They just have a first come first serve style driving.
But now I live in Addis Ababa it's a all new level of driving. I'll have to find the video butt they have a fabulous intersection that is supposedly the busiest intersection in the world without a traffic light. It's chaos when it's busy.
I agree about California too. But in my experience they are not as bad as Utah drivers. For my money some of the very worst drivers in Utah are soccer moms. They are either clueless heavily distracted drivers or aggressive to nearly homicidal levels. Another thing about Utah drivers I don't see too many other places, at least not on the same level, is the attitude of "you can merge in front of me if you take that spot from my cold dead fingers". The absolute least cooperative drivers I've ever seen. In California there are a not of problem drivers but for the most part you can get where you need to be, because they mostly recognize they are all dealing with the same ****** congestion. But in Utah you have to avoid signaling your intentions because no matter what someone is going to try to stop you. I pulled alongside a soccer mom in her van with her LDS primary bumper sticker once, cleared her by a good couple of car lengths, and signaled to move over to get to my exit. There wasn't even that much traffic, I just signaled to make a basic lane change. As soon as many signal went on, she gunned it. Cut the distance so I had to slow way down suddenly to get behind her. As she passed she glared at me like I was done guy on trial for molesting her children. I just don't see that level of aggression like that in most other places. It's unreal sometimes. No wonder not a single person in Utah uses their turn signal, as soon as you do it's like blood in the water with a rabid school of sharks. California definitely isn't much better, but I much prefer driving here than in Utah. The worst thing in California is they are drive so erratically. You just never know what anyone is going to do.
Really to me this is largely an American thing too. Yeah no drivers anywhere are perfect, but in America it's like they are just actively clueless about the rules of the road. I guess I got spoiled a bit driving in Germany and a couple of Scandinavian countries where they are typically better trained and tend to follow the basic rules far better. France was more chaotic, and England was pretty bad. I haven't been in Asia yet, but I would still say most every European nation has way better drivers, generally, than the US.
I want someone to make an all-in-one tracker for things like TV series you watch, book series and/or authors you read, podcasts, movies, magazines, YouTube channels, Tweets by X, whatever else. You confirm if you're up to date or go episode by episode, book by book if you want and it will tell you when the next iteration of that comes out. Just one thing in one place that I can check that knows that specific info.
I'm not going to do it, just to get that out of the way.
I'm not going to do it, just to get that out of the way.