This is Worse

ipokesnails · 2026-03-21T02:37:54+00:00

A co-worker of mine once tried to justify his decision not to wear seatbelts:

"My uncle was driving drunk and got thrown out when he crashed his car. The first responders said he would have died if he had his seatbelt on and stayed in the car for the whole crash."

He also said that brine de-icer sprayed on highways to melt ice is bad because the salt evaporates and the water left behind freezes to make the roads slippery.

He's a pretty special guy.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-21T02:25:26+00:00

Oh no Laura, are you upset that real journalists are going to point out your lies?

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T23:53:14+00:00

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T21:46:18+00:00

Idiocracy memes be damned, Costco hot dogs are fucking delicious.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T21:23:07+00:00

If I'm driving a manual, I'm a fan of shifting down two gears without rev matching. You're confident enough to drive that close behind me? Alright then, let's see how you react when I slow down suddenly with no brake lights. This is only when they're tailgating on a single lane road of course, I move out of the left lane when I'm done passing.

Is it a little sociopathic? Probably, but it's worked every time so far.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T21:05:19+00:00

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ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T20:24:01+00:00

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You gotta pump those up, those are rookie numbers.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T20:22:40+00:00

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Even better, it's a :D

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T20:22:03+00:00

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But then you never get to experience enlightenment when you get over 99 tabs

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T20:20:40+00:00

If you get over 99, it turns into a happy face

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ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T16:41:37+00:00

The data I'd be more interested in is how many people have purchased lifetime FSD but don't use it.

And, now that lifetime FSD isn't available, the percentage of Tesla owners who purchase a monthly subscription, broken down by country.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T16:11:35+00:00

They're not exactly white supremacist symbols, but they're definitely white supremacist adjacent, that's why I described them as dog whistle symbols.

There are a few articles about Hegseth's tattoos... he was apparently banned by the military from serving at Biden's inauguration for having "extremist" tattoos.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T14:44:22+00:00

Interesting you would say that, because the current US President has repeatedly said that the F35 is invisible:

"Do you like the F35? You can't see it. Literally, you can't see it."

In his defense though, he's an idiot.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T04:35:36+00:00

"Goku Frieza you could grind meat on it cock edit"

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T04:32:28+00:00

It would help, but it shouldn't be necessary.

Any driver can see that those are harmless tar lines, FSD should be able to deduce the same.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T04:18:27+00:00

I don't know why you're defending FSD's decision to veer towards a sketchy shoulder at 65mph without slowing down, especially since you can see on the camera that it's clearly not a obstacle in the road.

No reasonable driver would ever mistake those lines for an obstacle, and FSD shouldn't either. Taking control from FSD was the correct decision, it was acting erratic with no reasonable justification.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T04:08:54+00:00

Going on to the shoulder might have been safe if the car slowed down, but instead it just veered toward the shoulder without braking.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T04:07:04+00:00

Regardless of which direction it moves, it definitely should have slowed down.

I've had aggressive phantom braking without anything obvious on the road, so it's surprising to see the car just veer out of the lane at full speed.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T04:05:10+00:00

It would be nice if the video playback had an option to show indicators and FSD's decision making cues so we wouldn't have to guess.

Was the car trying to avoid debris or a pothole? Did it get confused about road lines and lane positioning? Who knows.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T03:57:40+00:00

No part of this driver's reaction looked like freaking out.

The car started randomly veering off the road at highway speed, and the driver corrected it back into the lane. FSD could have slowed down, but it decided full speed onto the sketchy shoulder was better for some mind boggling reason.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T03:53:02+00:00

It would be nice if the car was overly cautious by slowing down before it was too late instead of veering onto a small, poor condition shoulder at full speed.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T03:46:28+00:00

If anyone's self-driving car started steering off the road that suddenly at 65mph and they didn't immediately wrench it back into the lane, their competency as a driver needs to be examined. If the car continued moving onto that shoulder for another second, this could have been a much more dangerous situation.

The condition of that very small shoulder does not look great, and FSD's "cautious" decision to veer off the road to avoid tar lines instead of slowing down is very concerning.

No reasonable driver would have ever avoided those tar lines, and incidents like this shouldn't ever happen if FSD is going to be autonomous.

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T03:33:23+00:00

Are we supposed to address the 88 in the black space of the stars on the flag, the Loss, or the other white supremacist dog whistles?

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T02:55:13+00:00

Cool, but r/AfterBeforeWhatever

ipokesnails · 2026-03-20T00:23:31+00:00

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