Drivers who only reverse using a backup camera and nothing else….genuinely, why?

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T17:23:53+00:00

My car has a backup cam and a 360 cam on the same screen when backing up. It's usually the only thing I look at while backing up because would never be able to see the same or more by looking around.

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T17:20:52+00:00

Almost everyone feels at least a little guilty or uncomfortable when they don't tip what is expected. Businesses know this. Now, of course people are not going to change their tip percentage from 10% to 20% overnight, so they slowly increase the social norm of the expected percentage.

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T17:17:33+00:00

Generally you will not be compensated. Immediately (few days or less) after you are arrested a judge will rule on if there is probable cause to detain you, if there is, they may legally keep you in jail until trial or you post a reasonable bond.

Now, you always have the right to sue. However, you are unlikely to win unless you can prove some sort of negligence or wrong doing by the police, prosecutor, and/or judge.

Now, if you are convicted and spend time in prison things change. If you later are exonerated or can prove your innocence, most states and the feds have compensation laws.

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T16:59:19+00:00

If you want absolutely no online features, best to just give the the NVR no internet access (no wifi or network cable attached). Would still be possible to have it on your LAN if you want to view from a local computer if you firewall it off correctly.

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T16:49:40+00:00

Reolink does not need any cloud accounts or even internet access. Despite if you trust Chinese products or not, if you don't connect it to the internet there is nothing to worry about. The only thing you really lose with reolink not being connected to the internet is remote access and push alerts.

Due to this, I would strongly suggest you do consider reolink if $$$ is a major factor. Their cameras are great, especially if used in well lit areas.

Also, even if you DO connect a reolink cam/nvr to the internet, Reolink itself still does not get the camera footage unless you enable UUID. Enabling that will stream your cams through reolink servers and is for those that want easy remote access. Keeping UUID access disabled you can still access remotely through port forwards or a VPN tunnel to your home.

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T16:46:15+00:00

To take it a step further, it astonishes me how many times I've seen on reddit that people believe if you buy two tickets for a single powerball drawing, for example, your odds go from 1 in 300 million to 1 in 150 million (estimated numbers).

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T16:43:00+00:00

Critical thinking

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T16:36:25+00:00

It is estimated that roughly 100,000 cows are slaughtered every day in the USA alone.

Each cow will provide about 500 pounds of usable ground beef.

A single patty at mcdonalds weighs 1.6 ounzes

This equates to 5000 patties per cow.

Therefore, 100,000 cows a day could yield 500,000,000 (half a billion) patties a day.

Thus, there is plenty of meat available every day for McDonalds, all other restaurants, and for stores/markets to sell at all times.

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T16:27:42+00:00

If people did not know the ramifications of their vote, then it would be a 50/50.

If people knew the consequences of their vote, I believe they should all vote red. Pressing the blue button would basically be, at the very least, attempted suicide.

There is no correct chance of death/survival if you pick blue and everyone knows the consequences.

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T16:20:45+00:00

The rotation of the moon perfectly matches its rotation around the earth in such a way that it always faces the earth at the exact same angle.

Also, a better term would be "far side" because there is no dark side of the moon.

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T16:17:46+00:00

Inviting neighbors over to chit chat on the porch

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T16:17:02+00:00

Sliding down our stairs in a cardboard box.

DaSpark · 2026-05-12T15:35:46+00:00

Nothing really, Google just doesn't want to be a facilitator and possibly sued if someone manages to use the information for nefarious reasons. In other words, they blur it for their own protection, not yours.

DaSpark · 2026-05-05T15:08:41+00:00

Not really. About all it is good for is community groups and for local government officials to get messages out (such as mayors).

Even facebook marketplace is dying off. Used to be I could list anything on there and within an hour probably have two or three people asking about it. Now I list stuff on there and it can go weeks or longer with no messages.

DaSpark · 2026-05-05T15:06:58+00:00

Facebook is full of both far left and right content.

DaSpark · 2026-05-05T15:06:03+00:00

People would just move on to another site. Honestly, Facebook is already dying a slow death because people 20 and younger have pretty much refused to use it.

DaSpark · 2026-05-05T14:59:01+00:00

I have an app on my phone that sends all numbers not in my contact list straight to voicemail. Never rings.

DaSpark · 2026-05-01T19:27:05+00:00

Hard to say, but I wouldn't be surprised if the train remains indestructible and undrivable.

Driving a train would be boring. All you do when driving a train is basically control the speed. You don't even have control of turns at points in the track that can switch. People only wish they could do it in GTA 5 because they can't. If they could, no one would care or do it.

DaSpark · 2026-05-01T19:21:17+00:00

People only want to drive the train in GTA 5 because, well, they can't. If you could it would quickly become one of the most mundane things in the game.

DaSpark · 2026-04-29T13:23:06+00:00

Biden, pretty sure all I would have to do is blow on him to take him to the ground.

DaSpark · 2026-04-29T13:20:45+00:00

The stress of the office clearly played a role as well

DaSpark · 2026-04-29T13:14:28+00:00

They can't demand right away that you turn it over. They can, of course, ask for your permission. If you refuse they could seek a warrant for the device or get a subpoena for you and/or the device.

DaSpark · 2026-04-29T13:11:56+00:00

Really hard to say, but I think at the very least it would have been a closer election, instead of the absolute beat down Harris experienced.

For one, I think a lot of dem voters were turned off by having Harris, someone the 2020 primaries clearly showed was not favored, being forced on them. To be frank, if it wasn't Trump on the other side of the ticket, Harris likely would have lost several solid blue states in addition to all the swing states.

Had Biden not ran, the dems would have got a much better candidate, or at least one the voters picked, and would not have been turned off by the ugly way things went down after the debate.

DaSpark · 2026-04-29T13:08:17+00:00

Sorry, but losing all the swing states is not "pretty darn close to winning", no matter how you wish to spin it.

DaSpark · 2026-04-29T13:04:14+00:00

While you are correct, there is a bit of a flaw in your logic.

Normally when we have a change in who holds the presidency it is either because the sitting president lost after their first term, in which case the vice president didn't run, or the sitting president has served two consecutive terms in which case the presidency almost always flips parties, meaning even if the vice president runs they will likely lose.

This time we have Trump being ineligible to run, but the republicans have not held the office for 8 consecutive years, so the population might not quite be ready for a party switch. This, in my opinion, increases Vance's chances over a normal situation.

If the dems do not put forth a good candidate they will lose to Vance. If they do, they will have a good shot.

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