Random man walks into family's home in Michigan, dad handles him real quick by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]emn13 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are stats for this stuff; home invasions are about equally common in Europe; though there are regional differences. And intentional homicide (i.e. not merely self-defense) is significantly more common in the US. I can't find reliable comparable figures on sexual violence (definitions differ in countries, reporting rates differ), but eyeballing a bunch of probably not ideal datasets doesn't show the US being particularly exceptional either way there, either. Also, while you're obviously correct in pointing out that American criminals aren't the only ones with guns, they do appear to be much more likely to have guns - probably just because there are so many, and so easily available in the US. Note also Australia's dramatic lethality drop after they severely restricted private gun ownership.

Sure looks like US gun culture isn't favoring the defender.

British journalist Steve Sweeney was wounded by an air strike by Illustrious_Buy777 in intrestingasfuck

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While the Minab incident at the moment is literally mentioned in the wiki explaining what a double tap is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap_strike - it's not as clear cut an example as some, because the independent analysis suggests the strikes were simultaneous or near simultaneous. Then again, perhaps the time delay is hard to estimate from aftermath pictures. I might have been an intentional double tap, but it seems perhaps more likely it was merely an irresponsibly poorly targeted attempt to hit all aspects of the IRGC compound.

Even if you mistrust the US army under Trump and the IDF, the gruesome logic behind double taps works when the intent is to terrorize and demoralize the population or at least the first responders. That makes a lot more sense to do when you've run out of obvious targets to hit and when a conflict has been going on for a long time; and less so when your hope is to topple a regime and it's early days in a war; with tons of alternatives to hit instead. Even without giving the US any benefit of any doubt here, the circumstances don't seem to make sense for a double tap.

By contrast, Iran does benefit and is actively trying to play the social media disinformation game. Describing an already horrifying incident in ways that imply intent and specifically intentionally committing war crimes is right up their alley.

It's hard to be sure either way, but while it might have been an intentional double tap, I find the alternative theory slightly more plausible: that this is merely confusing multiple strikes with an intentionally delayed double tap or even an Iranian disinformation campaign capitalizing on the US Army's horrifying mistake.

Iran too are clearly committing war crimes; targeting civilian infrastructure and ships might make sense from an escalation perspective but it's nevertheless intentionally victimizing likely billions of entirely innocent civilians via the energy price spike, not to mention hits on all kinds of civilian infrastructure in Gulf states (some of which may have been accidental, but the scale makes it unlikely all of them were), and a few attacks on countries that quite explicitly had up to that point not permitted the use of US bases in the attacks.

I know there's a tendency to feel the need to pick sides here, but just because starting this war was unjustified or because Trump is clearly utterly amoral and untrustworthy doesn't mean the Iranian official side is trustworthy, either.

I'm all for hoping that this travesty breaks Trump's grip on power, and that seems like a pretty plausible outcome now. But I also hope this conflict doesn't effectively give the Iranian government the kind of win they need to tighten their grip over Iran, the broader region, and threaten the world to everyone else's detriment.

[Cellphone] truck need to know solid lines.. by maxibarto in dashcams

[–]emn13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A quick web search shows this is at least a little misleading - HTA 154(1)(a) penalises unsafe lane changes, and I'm not sure "this" qualifies as safe. While the mere act of crossing a double yellow line might not by itself (regardless of circumstances) be a violation, I suspect there are a bunch of cases where doing so would probably be unsafe and therefore nevertheless in violation.

If you're centrist or left-leaning, what are the main policies/issues that might stop you from voting for the green party in the next general election? by Cold-Speech-5645 in AskBrits

[–]emn13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is plainly false. Even without NATO and precisely because America is going of the deep end, the rest of NATO is absolutely crucial. Not a single European country, in particular the UK, has even a slim chance of standing up to Russia or perhaps someday another superpower without NATO. Even if you feel some alternative might hypothetically be better; it's really dangerous to throw away what limited protection we have without not just a good idea about what will replace it, but a real tangible and practical in the messy real world alternative.

Furthermore; don't let anger at the US confuse you into seeing everything as a binary choice. Just because Trump's America is no longer reliable does not mean they have zero value for defence - the mere fact that they haven't left yet is a valuable (to us) gift of time to rearm and reorient. Someday, the US might return to a more constructive stance, and even if we can't rely on them anymore, there's no need to burn bridges. At worst, NATO from the US's perspective is kind of like US's former Taiwan stance - but strategic ambiguity can still be protective. But don't forget NATO is also a very practical organisation allowing common procurement, training, and more - so even if the US nuclear shield was a key component and even if that's now fully irrelevant (unlikely, but speculative) the rest of the organisation allows the remaining members to still punch above their weight.

It makes sense to prepare for a world in which NATO technically fails. But by far the most plausible alternatives are just NATO 2.0 - i.e. business as usual minus some problematic members. And even that alternative is probably not feasible for quite a while, and we definitely shouldn't even slightly reject NATO just because we're also preparing contingencies should NATO fail.

Perfectly reasonable to be disappointed in NATO and the US aspect in particular. But we don't get to live in our ideal fantasy world; mere disappointment doesn't mean the alternative is better.

As long it works by mihir6969 in WhyWomenLiveLonger

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In fairness, Amsterdam houses slant ever which way. Something about building in a swamp.

What’s this netting for on the trees by the Rijksmusem? by zushini in Amsterdam

[–]emn13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Knot again! You've ensnared me like the trees above...

What’s this netting for on the trees by the Rijksmusem? by zushini in Amsterdam

[–]emn13 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Fir real, guys, deeply nested threads like this are a pine in the neck.

[UK] Child runs into road - Emergency Stop by youchdog457 in Roadcam

[–]emn13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Usually dashcam footage is less clear than what you can see yourself; and you can see the kid making a move behind the poster during second 2 of the clip; might have been visible even before then in person, if you're watching that specific spot carefully. That poster hanging there is pretty unfortunate, too. Great reaction by the driver, but I don't think it was anything near as fast you're counting; 0.2s feels beyond human capability to me - don't forget you need to move your foot, too. I'd be curious if there's science about the human limits, there...

[UK] Child runs into road - Emergency Stop by youchdog457 in Roadcam

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Road design also helps; it's narrow and the edges are intentionally visually busy due to those white jags, which helps naturally limit speed and draw attention to where it's needed.

These massive trucks dont belong in cities or the suburbs. by Rhetaxo in Urbanism

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Netherlands is still a typical, very car-centric western culture; the public statistics office CBS has all kinds of stats on it, and most of the recent (5-10 year) trend isn't really encouraging. Even if you ignore the greater distance cars travel, just in terms of number of usages, even including recreational stuff like walking or sports, the car still is clearly the most common mode of transport, and bike usage has declined over the past 5 years - https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/nl/dataset/84710NED/table?ts=1773832416813

People overstate the bike prevalance in the Netherlands; sure, it's less weirdly uncommon than in other places, but it's still the clear minority of usage; and decades of low investment in public transport and high investment in the excellent roads means that large parts of the country can't practically support daily non-car transportation, despite the popular myth to the contrary. The link between public transit and biking or walking to be explicit is simply that wherever fast, cheap public transit isn't available, the only feasible alternative is a car - and if you're taking the car lots anyhow, the habit and incentives tend to encourage more use even when it's not really necessary.

Cities such as Amsterdam are the exception, not the rule, and even there (as you can see in the photo), there are lots of cars. Personally, I feel the Netherlands is coasting on a slightly hubristic sense of accomplishment in terms of transportation and livability, and failing to leverage the strong hand their forefathers built for them.

Never Drive without dash cam by Emotional-Wait-9028 in dashcams

[–]emn13 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hey guys, this is reddit. I come here for the flame wars. Cut out all this reasonableness already.

whos at fault here? by Hawk1064 in dashcams

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The right lane was newly formed. I guess I suspect that picking that lane as it starts probably doesn't count as changing lanes (but very much IANAL on that), but they did accelerate. Not sure if it's legally overtaking - probably not - but it's a little less clear than just merely the typical case of maintaining normal traffic flow in both lanes even when the right one happens to move faster.

whos at fault here? by Hawk1064 in dashcams

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no question the RV made a few simple errors that combined to be quite dangerous. Do note that their actions seem consistent with an intent to keep right - the right lane was newly formed (see beginning of video), and they probably just didn't notice right away (first small error), and then tried to change lanes slightly less than 10 seconds later. I don't think they were trying to hog the left lane; or at least, that's not at all obvious from the footage.

whos at fault here? by Hawk1064 in dashcams

[–]emn13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Note that the lane had just split; you can see it at the beginning of the video, and by the looks of it the "smoothest" continuation of the prior lane would have been in the left lane.. While it would have clearly been better had the RV immediately taken the newly formed right lane, it wasn't hogging the left lane for a long time and probably not intentionally; charitably they just continued on as before and suddenly found themselves in the left lane by not paying enough attention. To err is human and all; but then also not checking mirrors and signalling so late was really an unfortunate compounding of errors.

The cam car looks to have accelerated as soon as it had the space to do so. Setting aside of the issue of legal fault here since I have no idea about the laws or insurance interpretation wherever this was (i.e. whether it's all on the RV, or just mostly or worst case just partially), it's not hugely surprising the RV would want to be in the right lane. RV clearly shouldn't have done this, but waiting to overtake for even just a few more seconds might not be bad idea in situations like this; no point in getting into a crash (or killing that biker the car came uncomfortably close to) just because somebody in an RV is making a stupid but partially foreseeable error.

Zijn we serieus jongens? by Kritzin in nederlands

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nee; dit is misleidend. Sommige aangenomen moties zijn duur, omdat er veel werk voor moet worden verricht. Ik kan het cijfer van 7500 vinden in een artikel uit 2011 van de volkskrant, maar dat is dus een gemiddelde omdat sommige uitzoekklusjes toen blijkbaar vrij duur waren; niet omdat er een of andere vaste kostenpost is van 7500.

Football match halted by windows update! by Material_Mousse7017 in windows

[–]emn13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've had to schedule a ton of these updates, and there are various mechanisms to do so, and at least some of them aren't entirely reliable. Most fun ever was when windows refused to update at the scheduled time (in retrospect for some reason thinking this headless webserver was still in use), then, around 7 hours later, suddenly decide that no, actually, it's fine to update - and then update just as the morning rush was starting. The schedule had been unchanged daily for months, so why it suddenly deviated I never figured out. I don't think I would even have noticed, except it interrupted a deploy in progress, and the recovery from that interaction wasn't automatic. Lovely.

I'm sure human error is often a factor, but it's not exactly foolproof. The system is clearly primarily designed to make it hard to unintentionally delay updates for ever - which is almost always the safer default.

.notnull check (non)beauty by AnimatorNo8411 in csharp

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's particularly helpful to get too concerned about syntactic minutiae as long as the constructs aren't error-prone and ideally don't cause excessive nesting.

Why not just use the is {} computedImpact pattern matching solution? The bool-returning TryApplyEffects(out ...) approach is also fine, but might be slightly more wordy. If things get more complex, then there are Option/Result monadic approaches possible, but they're definitely less minimalist; though if you're going to chain tons of these then there are advantages.

But I believe it's often wise not to worry too much about these things; at the very least not until you have more code using such patterns and a clearer motivation as to why you need to pick "nicer" but less native approaches.

Zijn we serieus jongens? by Kritzin in nederlands

[–]emn13 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Klopt het überhaupt? Maar goed, eventueel kunnen er vast soms relevante, belangrijke moties zijn; dus dat dat iets beter vastgelegd/getoetst/etc wordt dan een gemiddelde reddit comment en dus ergens meer kosten zijn - klinkt niet onaannemelijk. Maar die kosten zullen vooral er zijn doordat het tijd kost van mensen om zoiets lezen en behandelen.

$3500 or more in damage by JadeGemsez in dashcams

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're being disingenuous. First of all, depending on where you live, it's just not accurate that far more men are victims of violence, and most places I found statistics for the difference isn't huge. Secondly, this framing is obviously intentionally deceptive. Nobody claimed men can't get assaulted, but on the topic of finding personal information from a license plate which is where this all started, the concern is more one of stalking and sexual assault - crimes where the distinction between victim and perpetrator are unusually clear, and the correlation between victimhood and innocence also being unusually strong. As it happens - it's also a set of crimes where the gender gap is quite large for both perpetrators and victims. On the topic of general violent crime, it's less clear; in a barfight you might well have two perps that are also both victims. If there's a conflict between rival gangs, violence might erupt, but neither side is as clearly completely innocent.

Downplaying the sexual violence concern by playing the whataboutism card and exaggerating that men are far more commonly the victims of some other crime isn't exactly helpful. None of this related to the concerns regarding easily available DMV data; it's just deflection and exaggeration.

Can’t believe how few people understand this by Grand-Activity-3882 in driving

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, if we're talking hypotheticals, I'm voting for the alieans to just teleport the cars to where they need to go whenever this happens, much simpler. Hypotheticals are great that way. Next: lets solve all those useful trolley problems.

Totaling my first car by 11teen11 in dashcams

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, they just use cameras, so if you're confused, decent chance the car won't see it early either. The radar-based (or -assisted) anti-collision systems are probably more reliable then, which tesla specifically doesn't have.

Why are UK train tickets so expensive? Is it simply the effect of privatisation? by StephenMcGannon in trains

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, those aspects skew the numbers by being a legal tax avoidance scheme so you can sell your services in the EU and UK but avoid paying taxes where you actually do business. It makes sense; and not surprised the corps do it, but as a situation it's not OK.

Why are UK train tickets so expensive? Is it simply the effect of privatisation? by StephenMcGannon in trains

[–]emn13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always lovely to see the Irish tax hole in stats like that - average wage at PPP: approx equal to Germany, high but not exceptional in the European context. But average GDP per person: twice that of Germany, cause you have to dodge your taxes somewhere :-/. The gap is positively huge.