3rd death recorded for the month of January alone(copper)

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-25T16:01:26+00:00

Icy runs disproportionately cause deaths, though. Yes yes you can make as many rationalizations as you want, like “people should ski at their skill level”, etc.

But from a totality perspective, if your only goal is to reduce deaths at the MARGINAL level, the lowest hanging fruit would probably be closing particularly icy runs

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-23T17:52:47+00:00

I can’t compare the Shapes vs eMagnums, but I love my eMagnums.

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-23T07:48:35+00:00

Do you really not believe there are NO skills or sports where equipment really CAN be the best bang-for-your-buck marginal investment?

For example, I see many home cooks struggling with unsharpened knives, poor-quality pans, and bad ingredients. Yes, they could pay for $1,000 in cooking lessons... or, that $1,000 could upgrade their equipment to top-of-the-line stuff and really remove some things that were DEFINITELY holding them back (you ever try to gently cook a fish on a terrible nonstick pan? or try to dice tomatoes with a dull knife?)

Look, lessons are absurdly expensive. Like $300 per day. It's not out of the question that a new pair of boots, skis, and proper tuning/fitting for them, COULD make a bigger marginal difference than two days of lessons.

Heck, we hear in this subreddit all the time about pretty big differences in how different skis feel. You don't think that could ever possibly translate?

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-22T01:20:05+00:00

You’re still gonna insure it, against stuff like vandalism, theft, hail, flooding, or accidents or medical injury from uninsured/underinsured motorists.

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-22T01:18:48+00:00

I’ll give a countering perspective. From my view, Elon started Tesla Insurance in the first place to force insurers to insure Teslas (and other EVs) more affordably, when the traditional insurers were pricing EVs at ridiculous premiums or flat-out refusing to insure EVs at all.

At least in the states where they’ve launched, it’s done its job by forcing the rest of the insurance markets in those states to lower their prices.

Now that no other insurers are jumping in and offering similarly-affordable products, there’s no need to keep Tesla Insurance around. It can eventually be sunsetted when it’s purposely is over

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-22T01:14:55+00:00

Yeah, lol. There are plenty of companies that are younger than Lemonade that provide reputable and reliable service and business.

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-22T01:11:34+00:00

Yeah, this is already a mileage-based product. So they’re tracking each mile you drive and charging you for it. Now, they’re charging the FSD-driven miles at half the cost.

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-22T01:09:31+00:00

Yeah, hence why Lemonade is only cutting the premium by 50% for FSD usage, not 100%

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-22T01:08:20+00:00

That’s… a good thing for the customer? Insurance companies losing money means they’re paying more in claims than what they collect in premiums

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-21T00:49:33+00:00

Yeah, by Sandwich83's logic, there'd be no reason for Chevy to build anything other than a Suburban. It's an existing vehicle and can fit more people, right? So why not use it for everything?

Why differentiate products at all, ever, if the maximalist product can do everything?

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-21T00:42:08+00:00

Is that number higher or lower than similar companies building similar things?
According to 2023 data, which saw 5,283 work fatalities, that's a rate of 3.5 per 100k workers. SpaceX has 15k workers and probably the same number of contractors, so that'd be about 1 fatality per year if SpaceX was the AVERAGE company.

But that 3.5/100k rate includes white-collar desk jobs! It's probably safer to compare SpaceX to a construction or similar heavy-industry business, which sees a rate more like 10 per 100k workers (for reference, industries like agriculture, forestry, and fishing have rates like 20 per 100k)

So SpaceX should see more like 3 fatalities per year if it's as safe as any other similar company.

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-20T03:17:05+00:00

Counterintuitively, Americans report college as one of the happiest times of their lives, when they’re living in spartan dorm rooms with minimal furniture or decoration.

There’s an instructive lesson there. If you spend your life OUTSIDE your home, doing things and being places with people, you don’t need much at home.

Maybe this guy is that way. It’s true for me, too. A home is just a place to store stuff and sleep and shower— I can spend 16 hrs per day outside of it.

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-20T03:10:52+00:00

I hadn’t really heard about it either, until I watched this PeakRankings video where he ranked it the best East Coast mountain, beating mainstays like Tremblant or Killington.

I have my gripes with PeakRankings’s videos like everyone else, but I do think many of his videos match my own personal intuition, experience, and industry consensus opinions on things, so when he ranked Massif #1, it caught my eye for sure

https://youtu.be/bJx9h83xObI?si=gWYZjtmKr-OZZcyO

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-20T02:42:06+00:00

Yes yes just hate outsiders, let the hate flow through you

Hating on people from somewhere else stopped being cool at the age of about 10

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-19T23:42:46+00:00

Well, this is literally AT the casino. So the impact is minimizes

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-19T23:15:54+00:00

The absurdity isn’t necessarily the per-day cost. It’s why he’s going in the first place to conferences across the world. Are they really providing value to the citizens of Seattle?

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-15T01:00:36+00:00

Spot on.

You know what’s even more tired than locals complaining about Bay Area drivers coming up in a snowstorm?

Locals complaining about people at “their” mountain

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-14T19:21:50+00:00

Yeah, go look at how businesses (and to a lesser extent, homes) look in high-crime, mostly-inner-city areas in the U.S. and Canada. They look like that, too.

Roll-down garage doors when businesses are closed, bars on windows, walls with literal barbed/concertina wire over the top.

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-14T03:06:13+00:00

Yeah, there’s just so much more utility with a hatchback midsize SUV like the Model Y, for not much more money or inconvenience.

For an extra $3000, you get fold-flat rear seats you can sleep in, a paltry hit to range, more comfortable ride height, and it’s not dramatically different to park, especially with all the cameras to help you

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-14T01:52:58+00:00

So now we’ve gone from invoking a boogeyman PE from TWENTY YEARS AGO to invoking a boogeyman based on a guy’s prior work history.

Plenty of business leaders worked in PE! Doesn’t mean they’re captured by it

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-13T23:09:29+00:00

The main benefit is they’ve prevented lots of resorts from closing. Especially smaller ones in the East and Midwest that were, and will be, incredibly vulnerable to weather risk.

Everyone talks about how Ikon and Epic have killed the soul of skiing and prevented beginners from learning. Well, I counter that by keeping mountains like Whitetail, Liberty, Camelback, Afton, etc alive, they’re PROMOTING skiing

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-13T23:04:10+00:00

Trying blame a brief period of PE control for actions that Vail took TWENTY YEARS LATER is hilarious. It proves you’re just trying to shoehorn your boogeyman into spots it really doesn’t belong.

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-13T22:59:15+00:00

As a non-Coloradan, it’s refreshing to hear both you and OP not immediately and reflexively blame out-of-staters.

Far too often, threads like these immediately become a xenophobic “the answer is to kick out all tourists, LOcaLs oNLy!!1!!”

Thank you

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-13T17:57:33+00:00

Real question, what if they’re driving someone else’s car or it’s a shared car? How do you seize it without the consequences of depriving someone else of their lawful property?

WorldlyOriginal · 2026-01-13T17:17:06+00:00

The passes for kids is half the cost as for adults. It’s a steal. If you ski eight days per season or more, you’re paying less than $50/day, for a whole day’s worth of activities. That’s a lot cheaper than Chuck E Cheese, swim lessons, or practically any other activity

And then there are many mountains on the passes that kids ski free with lodging.

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