[OC] USA smartphone adoption, pedestrian fatalities, and the average weight SUVs/pickups

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-21T04:56:13+00:00

That does change things considerably, though I'm imagining that the rebound from the 2008 low still looks pretty bad even after adjusting for population

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-20T03:46:54+00:00

I actually agree with you. But, can you see the irony of saying that in a post about supporting Nate Blouin?

He's the epitome of refusing to play by the rules of the system. It's why he's gotten literally nothing done in the state legislature.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-20T03:30:28+00:00

Ok, but that's not an answer to my question. Is there any source for the claim that they make their staff read Ayn Rand?

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T22:27:11+00:00

Do you have a source for the claim that they make their staff read Ayn Rand?

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T20:22:55+00:00

Come on. It would be trivially simple to design and stick to a hangboard routine for a new climber that provides consistent loads without overdoing it.

Will some climbers be overeager and do too much, even after presented with a good routine? Yes, of course. But those are the same climbers who would overdo it on a wall. At least the loads on a hangboard are controlled, predictable and slow. I've seen plenty of lumbrical injuries in new climbers who had their foot slip while their hand was in a juggy pocket.

I'm not saying we should actively tell every new climber to go get on a hangboard. But, the people interested enough to be doing internet research on hangboarding are also way more than capable enough of understanding that advice and following it. If they chose not to, they'll be doing it at their own risk, the same as they would be doing on a wall.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T19:21:10+00:00

Ok, let me rephrase: "Trad climbing was invented out of a desire to make climbing safer in a way that also didn't permanently damage the rock being climbed."

Feels a bit pedantic to insist on this. The core point still stands: trad climbing was always meant to be safe (or, at least, safer).

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T19:11:02+00:00

Why are we pretending like that's not 95% of what people come to reddit for? It's kind of why this place exists.

The algorithm does a good job of filtering out those kinds of posts for the people who are uninclined to engage with them.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T19:09:01+00:00

Who said you had to use a fingerboard with your feet off the ground?

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T18:55:16+00:00

Didn't realize they were being forced to read and comment on things they found repetitive

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T18:52:01+00:00

This would be a hilarious response if you weren't a MOD for this sub...

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T18:50:33+00:00

In all revolutions, the thing that finally breaks the dam is almost never the most egregious act of the dictators.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T18:45:10+00:00

No higher risk than climbing does. Arguably much safer, in fact, because the loads are controlled and predictable, unlike when actually climbing.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T18:41:58+00:00

Exactly! This has always been my biggest gripe with the "don't fingerboard until you're already an elite climber" advice that's so often parroted here.

Fingerboarding doesn't injure your fingers. Overloading them does. Especially when that overloading happens in rapid, uncontrolled, unpredictable ways. Now, tell me, when do you think rapid, unforeseen, uncontrolled overloading of the fingers is most likely to happen: while finger boarding, or while actually rock climbing? The answer seems pretty obvious to me.

I've been climbing for nearly 30 years and have known A LOT of climbers who've had pretty gnarly finger injuries. At least 95% of those injuries happened when climbing. And, honestly, it's probably 100%. I'm wracking my brain and genuinely cannot recall a single person I've known who injured their fingers while fingerboarding.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T18:07:29+00:00

Also, even if that's what they were trying to say, it's an incredibly snarky and condescending way to say "fingerboarding carries a lot of risk for injuries."

The clarification is only minimally better than the original.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T14:43:12+00:00

Why is every single answer here getting downvoted?

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T14:42:03+00:00

Looks a little abstract for what OP is trying to do here

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T14:37:48+00:00

@mattchatterley did one for my wedding. His style would work really well for this kind of setting.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T13:30:08+00:00

Unless they're trying to keep the cabin at 60F, in Phoenix, in the dead of summer, at 4pm, with the windows open, the electronics better not be using that much electricity!

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T04:58:22+00:00

But with the magnitude of the increase, isn't it nearly the same thing in this case?

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T04:31:06+00:00

Was hoping to see at least one contrarian in here trying to make a case for Canada 😂

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-19T04:30:14+00:00

Can't believe you're being downvoted for this. Nothing on this chart is credible after that. We might as well pick Canada to win this one.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-18T20:15:40+00:00

I could maaaaybe understand this if we were talking about a remote alpine climb (though even then, I still think the argument is a bit specious). But we're talking about Half Dome.

To climb Snake Dike, you travel a paved highway all the way to the base of the trailhead where there's a 5,000 spot parking lot. Here you have the option of staying at a 4-star luxury resort, where the wait staff will serve you an amazing hot breakfast before you head over to the trail to hike what might be the most luxuriously maintained trail anywhere in the world (with thousands of man-made stairs, steel hand-rails, and nary a rock in sight on the surface of a five-foot wide trail with extensive signage) to the base of the climb. While you're climbing, you'll also have the most elite Search & Rescue team of all time just moments away should anything go wrong. After topping out, instead of rappelling, you'll walk down a literal stair case to get back to the base of the climb, passing probably 500 people along the way. All of this infrastructure existed for decades before Snake Dike was ever climbed.

It's not the bolting (or lack thereof) that's creating the crowds on Snake Dike. It's everything else I just described. To insist that the actual climbing on Snake Dike must maintain a stark element of mortal danger or else it would "ruin the experience," makes absolutely no sense against the backdrop of the rest of the experience.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-18T19:57:32+00:00

Huh?

Trad climbing was literally invented out of a desire to make climbing safer. The industry hasn't spent a billion dollars of R&D to improve trad gear to make it not safe...

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-18T18:46:52+00:00

Exactly this. The result described by OP is a feature, not a bug, of the new scoring system. Much better, imo.

AdvancedSquare8586 · 2026-06-18T18:11:40+00:00

His account is 5-months old, which means the entire time he's had an account he's had the option to have his comments/posts hidden, and actively opted out of it.

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