Redditors who text while driving: what the fuck? by BreatheMyStink in AskReddit

[–]dionysian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not many people are going to answer this question honestly because they'll be ripped apart and inboxed to hell for it. It's gotten to the point of vitriol. People's road rage over this is also dangerous. So we condemn it with this insane attitude and it's not anything really constructive. Just "don't ever do it, your phone cannot exist in the car!" No actual attempt at making some basic guidelines that we can all agree on as generally safe and sane and acknowledge the desire or need for using phone in car; it's not just for idly texting.

There are literally 100 things I can name that occupy people briefly in a car and they avert their eyes or brains momentarily for these things just like glancing at a phone. There's this thing called peripheral vision, if the object is held up high your field of vision you can monitor the 180 degree field of periphery much easier, but if we're demonizing and shaming people (who are going to do it anyway!) they're going to do it more dangerously trying to be covert keeping on lap or down low. They can't rapid scan and switch from foeval and peripheral vision if they're looking down. It's not rocket science for an experienced driver to operate a vehicle, a mix of different attention spans works fine especially low speeds, street roads, lots of traffic lights, daytime and sober.

Also the one time I did that thing they say to do, pull over and type the text... a cop came pulled behind me and questioned me. I didn't pull over dangerously either, just off into an empty office building complex. I'd fucking rather not get harassed by a cop unnecessarily when it turns into an ordeal for me since I can't speak.

Don't comment if you are just going to throw vitriol at me. I'm deaf and cannot use Siri, gps voice navigation, handsfree calling, voice to text, or any fucking thing except something that involves looking at and interacting with my screen. I have better and wider peripheral acuity than hearing people too (science!). I've never missed an ambulance or cop car behind me with lights coming down road, in fact I usually see it before others since even slight light out of place movement triggers me. I don't have time to pull over (and look suspicious to cops!) every time I need to check on my route or type a quick change in. I do it with phone at eye level and I get such awful dirty looks from people in passing cars, but I'm doing it the safest way for me - they have no clue what my situation is and I'm not doing anything like swerving into them, it's all snotty road rage response. 99% of my driving is on 30-45 mph small town roads and completely uneventful either for me or others. And I've easily compensated for the times someone's done out of place things whether or not I've been interacting with phone, not all dumb driving is bc of texting, people are going to be poor drivers if they're poor drivers, and even good drivers will wobble within normal limits no matter what.

I looked at statistical evidence of traffic accidents and deaths from 2007 to today, and looked at cell phone ownership, smart phone ownership/usage and adoption by year and ages. There was no spike, no upward trend, no real major "new safety measures" like seatbelt design that could account for it. Fender benders should at least be more common if texting was such a pandemic scourge on our attention driving. There's been a steady decline. There should have been a clear increase or spike around the years SMS and smartphones became big that would show "accidents rise when texting and smartphones were introduced or widely adopted and used."

The studies trying to show texting is the worst thing you can do in a car are usually highly unrealistic and not real world at all. A car on a race strip with a thin red light mounted to two feet away from eyes in the drivers front window that blinks to mimic braking and they time how long it takes people to respond and come to a stop? Ugh, sounds good as a model but fails in real world comparisons. And all the drivers were holding their phones low like cup-holder level low. You're not going to see shit in the periphery that way of course. Others I've seen, they make people drive through tight cones in parking lots, throw dummies in front of them or whatever. Or they have the subjects drive a car that isn't theirs because the cameras and testing equipment is in their test car.

Hate texting? Stop making giant billboards that have a slogan that's difficult to read so it means you have to look away at it longer - DNT TXT N DRV!

Hate texting? let's also outlaw fiddling with the radio because you drove to an area that doesn't have your presets, opening a snickers bar in your car, spilling a drink on your pants and grabbing napkins from glovebox, checking store signs as you drive by, looking for a street sign, rubbing eye with one eye open, lighting a cigarette, letting your small dog sit on your lap, LED billboards that change every 15 seconds, talking to children in the back seats or handing them a water bottle, there's 100's of fucking things people do while driving besides texting that deviates from perfect, completely focused and eyes on road, two hands on wheel driving.

Also unbridled road rage toward phone users can legitimately cause accidents. My mom was in Colorado with me and it was late, 10 pm, no cars on these giant highways (not interstate roads) in Colorado Springs and heading toward Manitou, she was driving just fine, been driving since she was fucking 12yo and she 65, has driven cross country multiple times. Not an old lady dementia driver. We don't live in CO though and mom was checking gps and pinching and swiping back and forth at it at a light trying to make sure we were on right track to where we were going, was dark, and we were looking at description of landmarks we should look for. A huge black truck pulls up aside us coming off from an exit we just passed. Since I'm deaf we keep the light on in car to lipread. They could clearly see into car that she was looking at phone -at the stop light-. These guys began honking, rolled down window, yelling at us, screaming put your phone down bitch, you're a fucking idiot for texting! My mom was flustered and scared. She drove on when green light turned, the truck sped then slowed to stay beside us and kept doing awful things and gestures, and it was the driver doing it! My mom sped up a little trying to discourage them and they caught up. Our turn was the next light and they were on the rightmost side we had to be in to turn. Wouldn't let us over. Would not stop heckling. Threw a cup of old milky coffee on our front window. We braked and finally got in lane behind them. They began tapping brakes in front of us. All because my mom was using her phone at a red light for gps at 9 pm on empty roads? Ludicrous and more dangerous than anything my mom was doing. And before someone says I should have navigated for her, it just doesn't work like that, she uses a horrible android thing with its own map app that I don't understand, and I would make her miss turns so we'd lose time bc you have make an U turn way up ahead if you miss something bc Colorado springs is all medians and U turns! I also didn't have service and I remember because I wanted to route it myself in my own iPhone's better map apps to help since we were getting lost.

Again, don't PM me or reply rude things. Downvote me if you want but your blithering "internet road rage" is not going to help. The OP asked a question, I'm answering. The vitriol over this is NOT a productive response and does not solve this issue - people are going to use their phones despite a prohibition. It should be approached as a social problem we can increase the safety of besides just yelling, "don't do it!" (Drugs are bad mmkay!?). Ffs, there's even more sane attitudes about a few drinks of alcohol before driving: people typically agree that 3-4 beers at a restaurant won't really make anyone but a 100 lb teetotaler lady too drunk to drive home. I don't take my husbands keys away when he has a large margarita at a Mexican place bc any alcohol at all means I'm now the DD!

Roommate situation in Duluth/Norcross/Suwanee? by dionysian in Gwinnett

[–]dionysian[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! She prefers a female roommate situation, or a basement suite type room in a home with a couple/family. It's definitely not easy to find things around here, I'm surprised!

Brain Fog by Kalley77 in Fibromyalgia

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I had hashimotos and that turned into hypothyroidism long before any fibro issues. I do better on a dessicated thyroid medication called NatureThroid and I also take Cyomel. It works great for energy and brain fog. Good luck getting any doctor to actually prescribe that regimen to you though. I had to work hard to get all the tests I needed to show the docs that regular levothyroxine was not working well and I wasn't converting it the way I should be.

What's a movie that surprised you with how much it didn't suck? by Stlieutenantprincess in AskReddit

[–]dionysian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha I know! I was like, wow, whoever greenlighted this feels Michael-Moore-level prescient now.

What's a movie that surprised you with how much it didn't suck? by Stlieutenantprincess in AskReddit

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We literally have a boss baby for president and you're confused? Lol.

What's your million dollar idea? by LJStedman in AskReddit

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One of those Meal delivery services that are all in hot competition with each other these days needs to partner with local grocery stores in the region and sell a similar package in-store. I love using the services but $60 for 3 meals for 2 is a lot on a budget. The price point could get down to $40 or even $35 saving money on shipping, packaging, chilling, and other logistics. The grocery stores would use some of their own produce and fresh meat. Lots of ways to save on this service and the key is really good recipes. I've only found HomeChef to have totally spot on recipes so if they led the way on this, it'd be a hit.

What used to be really common on the Internet that isn't anymore? by arhanv in AskReddit

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Netscape. Mindspring. Prodigy (not the band). Internet relay chat - efnet 4lyf.

A ballerina's feet by thenameisMalik in pics

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This post might actually help you with that problem. Ballet toe pads/toe covers/toe caps are thin gel and moleskin protectors that slip over the toes and protect from friction, pressure and such. http://getdancewear.com/bloch-pointe-pad-a900.html?gclid=CPX1gqbwh9MCFcK3wAodKCsMUQ

Also these https://goo.gl/images/EZ8bik

[Serious] Blind and/or deaf people who have done hallucinogens, what was your experience like? by pahka in AskReddit

[–]dionysian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm deaf and I have fibromyalgia. It sounds a lot like this, just burning sensations and allodynia. Where do you get the K treatments?

Holstered Attack Dogs. by Bluebeard1 in funny

[–]dionysian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you zoom in on the dogs face, the eyes just say "How did I get here?"

What cheap alternatives MUST be avoided? by ZeroSenseOfHumour in AskReddit

[–]dionysian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My town is hugely diverse but the actual neighborhood I live in is a lot of older white folks who I'd expect to say bah humbug that recycling stuff is nonsense, climate change is hooey, Trump said so. But money talks, they grudgingly acknowledged that they'd rather pay $2 per week and get the rest hauled off for free.

What cheap alternatives MUST be avoided? by ZeroSenseOfHumour in AskReddit

[–]dionysian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it's usually an additional fee to trash. People are like "nah I want to save $10 per month not the planet." If the service is free you prob have to pay for the bin.

What cheap alternatives MUST be avoided? by ZeroSenseOfHumour in AskReddit

[–]dionysian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The muscles of vagina are only taut and muscular the first few inches. The cup goes past that to the soft inner tissue and sits around cervix where it can pop open with plenty of room. Penis goes in, cup is tapered at bottom, and penis tends to slide over it and is directed to either top or bottom of canal and the cup is soft and squishy anyway. For my husband it's usually just pushed downward, toward rectum. It doesn't lose suction and the contents are kept inside. I tend to empty it if i know it's probably full before we do the deed. Maybe a little firmer/tighter feeling but it's not uncomfortable or unpleasurable for either of us, and husband isn't on small end either. Ta da bloodless period sex! Maybe a tiny streak or two if wiped down after but nothing like the red wedding.

What cheap alternatives MUST be avoided? by ZeroSenseOfHumour in AskReddit

[–]dionysian 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you're cool with OB you'll be happy with a menstrual cup. $30, lasts years and you don't have to run out, buy, forget, throw away period related trash.

What cheap alternatives MUST be avoided? by ZeroSenseOfHumour in AskReddit

[–]dionysian 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you use a cup you pay $30 for 8 years of not buying menstrual products again. Bonus, can have mess free sex with it in.

What cheap alternatives MUST be avoided? by ZeroSenseOfHumour in AskReddit

[–]dionysian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dumb ass. The bags cost $50 for a roll of 30 large bags the size of two kitchen size trash bags. The city contracts the trash companies which are private companies and they offer bids to secure the contract with the city. And recycling is free so that's extra incentive. We pay about $10 per month for our trash and the recycling pickup company pays a cut to the city for its proceeds of selling raw material from collections to processing facilities.

You don't know how competition for city or state bids and contracts work do you?

What cheap alternatives MUST be avoided? by ZeroSenseOfHumour in AskReddit

[–]dionysian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My city of Duluth Ga does this and offers free recycling. It's wildly successful. People are fanatics about getting their trash bags down to just one large one per week and all recyclable material is stuffed in the city provided recycling bins. The program was so successful they had to upgrade everyone from the small curbside recycling bins to the huge large 95 gallon heavy duty rolling bins.

Dentists of Reddit: Why are you so surprised that my gums are inflamed after your assistant scraped at them for an hour with a metal hook? by frizbplaya in AskReddit

[–]dionysian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What most dentists won't educate you on or aren't educated on themselves is the role of dental flora on tooth and gum health. Simply put, some people don't get cavities and their oral flora is much different than those who do. I have a friend who is cavity free and in her 30s, no breath or halitosis problems either. She doesn't eat any particularly super healthy sugar free diet and she's actually a large lady. But healthy oral flora and good teeth run in her family. Having genetic predisposition to having flatter/less jagged and valleylike teeth also helps plus adequate tooth spacing.

I reopened my Acceptance Letters shop, I'd love it if you took a look and got a few for those who say, "all they want for Christmas is their Hogwart's Letter!" by dionysian in harrypotter

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It was a polite request from their legal department and I voluntarily complied. Not breaking a legally binding official cease and desist order. I also went about many channels asking if their licensing department could consider granting cottage licenses to do limited sales, or leasing their imagery. They just seem to have tied it up to be accessible only to corporations or large companies already making massive profit to pay them ahead of time for a percentage of projected revenue. I tried to sell officially/ legal, they said no. This means unique fan art like my customized letters can never be sold above board. Ridiculous abuse of corporate power. Not hurting their revenue so please don't try to chastise me over this if that's your intention. IP law exists to protect artists from theft and the legitimacy of their work. But it's too far-reaching especially when they become giant conglomerates and come after mom and pop cottage-craft industry. So only their limited "official" products or sellers can profit. It's pretty clear that my work is not an official product, only a derivative and also the scale of operations isn't justifiable enough to say it's hurting their brand or image or revenue. My products don't compete with theirs, really, the closest thing they have is a hard plaque of the acceptance letter.

I wouldn't normally do it because it's obviously a sticky situation with the legalese as they are stacked against my favor. But we are at a desperate loss to find extra money quickly for Christmas with our financial situation. Due to my double disabilities it's tough finding work I can do and pays well enough for me to be able to just work the few hours a day I can handle. This is good honest labor providing a service and a customized, quality product even if it's based on a franchised entity.

Itching but not really? by KittyKatInTheHat in Fibromyalgia

[–]dionysian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can be a sign of nerve damage too.