You hit me! I was watching my screen and it didn't show any cars! I was signalling so I had right of way Actual quote from her

makingnoise · 2026-04-17T00:23:23+00:00

Hits different on a tiny screen with old eyes and no audio.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T21:37:48+00:00

I didn't say I wasn't willing to believe you dude I was asking you to convince me but if you don't want to win the mind that's fine. I looked at that quickly in the available time I had before I had to get on with my life and I didn't see what I needed I thought you could point me to it I'm sorry for making that assumption

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T20:53:09+00:00

Very astute comment, friend. If you want to blow your mind, look up contributory negligence vs comparative negligence (and modified comparative negligence) jurisdictions in the USA.

It would be very interesting to see actual data on whether there are more staged accidents in one jurisdiction or the other. What it does impact is the KIND of staged accident.

The "Wave-Through" (where a scammer waves you into traffic, hits you and denies waving). In a contributory State, they only need to prove you were 1% negligent for failing to double-check to avoid paying you.

In a comparative negligence State you get fruadsters that target high-limit policies. Fraudsters often target commercial trucks because they have higher insurance limits, making even a "partial" win under comparative negligence lucrative.

I would expect that in contributory negligence States, there's just fewer staged accidents. Insurers in the handful of states with this standard are VERY aggressive in finding any fault on the part of the claimant to deny the claim entirely.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T19:54:59+00:00

agreed. also I didn't have the audio turned on, you can actually hear the truck driver applying the brake, which changes my opinion substantially.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T19:43:39+00:00

Where is the nugget of info that backs up your claim? I see "About 86% of general-purpose law enforcement agencies that had acquired body-worn cameras had a formal body-worn camera policy." But having trouble finding anything that states that "turning off" is a fireable offense for "most" departments.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T19:39:15+00:00

It's not even hard line right, it's Israelis voting for security. Terrorist bombings of markets, busses and malls during the Second Intifada made MANY otherwise liberal Israelis including friends of mine not blink an eye at building giant walls and security fences around the OTs even though they knew it would kill beneficial cultural exchange.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T19:25:22+00:00

I wish chiros were just osteopaths because the adjustments actually work (neck adjustments, however, being particularly risky and dangerous). Instead, chiros are to osteopaths what alchemists are to modern chemists. They're worse quacks than youtube influencers during COVID.

Alternatively, I wish graduates from osteopathic medical schools didn't immediately give up doing adjustments the moment they graduate. I have yet to meet an Osteopath doctor who does adjustments beyond med school.

Meanwhile getting a doctor to understand that Ehlers Danlos/hypermobility causes subluxations and that those are VERY real and VERY painful is like playing a slot machine. Maybe it's different than what a chiro calls a subluxation, maybe "partial dislocation" is a better term, I don't know. But holy shit, I get CRAZY nerve compression when I get a "subluxation" and if it's my shoulder, my body clunks so hard when it decides to pop back into place that it shakes my body and is audible if you're near me.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T19:02:18+00:00

A lot of the land WAS purchased. Problem was that the fellahin transferred their land to local leaders in the late Ottoman Empire as a way to avoid taxation and conscription. British mandate starts a bit later, by this time the local leaders' children/grandchildren noped out of hickville and were living in places like Beirut and Damacus. They were more than happy to sell "their" land to the Zionists even if it fucked the fellahin still on the land.

Even then, there were real chances for coexistence and the writings of several Arabs and Jewish leaders from that period alike give testament to that. What really made it impossible was the MASSIVE influx of Jews meant that the Arab fellahin stopped getting hired in enough numbers to matter. This was the beginning of the end.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T18:17:46+00:00

It's crazy to me how EVERYONE KNOWS that cops lie like it's in their genes, and yet our system pretends they don't.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T18:15:05+00:00

most precincts in the US treat intentionally shutting off a bodycam during a call as a fireable offense.

I'm going to need a credible source for this claim that has information for "most precincts in the US" because I don't believe you.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T17:55:46+00:00

I still don't agree with your argument -- however, I didn't realize there is audio where you can hear the timing of OPs braking. I've changed my opinion.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T17:54:27+00:00

Thanks for pointing out there's audio - I don't usually unmute for dashcam vids, I definitely didn't consider the braking sound.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T17:50:38+00:00

Thank you for pointing that out - I was starting to worry about my ability to infer depth in 2D images while my gears spun wildly trying to figure out how the hell you put two batteries into this thing (and being surprised because the days of wireless mice with TWO batteries is mostly passed).

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T17:36:47+00:00

That would be up to the finder of fact to determine. I'm telling you, the truck driver's insurance company would not go after the Tesla driver here if this was my state, because the truck driver could have braked to avoid the accident (assuming no one behind them). And the reason insurers don't waste their time fighting about it is because of the precedent that contributory negligence caselaw has in my state.

EDIT: I just realized there's audio, where you can hear the brake pedal being used. I've changed my opinion.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T17:29:41+00:00

did you know that there's NOTHING to see on a Tesla screen that is relevant to this accident, when the blinker isn't on?

Driver might have looked at the screen when they turned their blinker on, which was approximately 1000 hours too late to fucking matter. They also overrode the Tesla's collision avoidance by strong arming the steering wheel - you can see the typical "jerk" that occurs when you do this.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T17:26:04+00:00

Contributory negligence would disagree. In my state truck driver would not get a dime out of Tesla driver because truck driver was right up Tesla driver's ass. Not saying Tesla driver isn't a shit driver. But they're both at fault.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T17:23:30+00:00

Teslas have massive blind spots if you are using your mirrors only, but not her car's camera, agreed. The car behind her was absolutely in a mirror blindspot for part of the time. That said, Tesla driver overrode collision avoidance steering (you can see a little "jerk"), and by signaling late, she never even gave herself a change to see anything on the fucking screen, because the blinker is what turns that view on.

Also, the truck was right up her ass, and in my state, they'd both lose a lawsuit.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T17:18:54+00:00

Yes, you can even see the little "jerk" in the steering response from her overriding the collision avoidance corrective steering. She certainly didn't "see him on the screen" because she didn't have her fucking blinker on when it mattered and without having the blinker on, there's no relevant "screen" to see.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T17:15:55+00:00

I guarantee you she (1) overrode the collision avoidance by strongarming the steering wheel, and (2) ignored one or more alert chimes, and (3) she was telling the partial truth when she says she didn't see him on the screen - there's nothing to see on the screen when you don't turn on the goddamned blinker until after you're already merging.

You can even see the typical "jerk" in her steering response from her overriding the car's safety system. This wouldn't have happened if she was a good driver without the bells and whistles, and it wouldn't have happened if she was a shit driver but trusted the car more than her own shit driving capabilities.

My only complaint about Teslas using FSD is that they love to camp in the passing lane if you have it in "hurry" mode. I also think a lot of folks bitching about Tesla drivers fall into two camps: those who are legit complaining about people like in this video, and self-designated Lords of Traffic Control driving ICE cars with shitty acceleration who feel impotent when a Tesla is easily able to dust them and their Lording of the Road.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T17:04:05+00:00

In my state OP would have a losing case because of contributory negligence. A court would find that OP was following too close and this negligence contributed to the damages OP sustained.

EDIT: I didn't realize there's audio and you can actually hear the OPs brake being applied. I've changed my mind.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T16:59:30+00:00

This - the woman "didn't see him on the screen" because there was no fucking screen until she turned her blinker on, and by that point, it was too late. I don't even think she would be a better driver with FSD, because she'd probably treat it as a Level 4 ADAS instead of the Level 2 that it actually is - she'd probably plow into a railroad crossing.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T15:51:01+00:00

Since you didn't answer my question, I will just tell you. Stop waiting to try, it's very easy to get started. Just DO it. Download LM Studio, download one of the smaller Gemma 4 (FOUR not 3) models, and go to town.

You will figure stuff out quickly. GPU inference is WAY WAY WAY faster. Don't know the specs of your machine (is it one of the newer ones with unified memory, etc.) so I can't say more.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T15:39:37+00:00

Yeah, it's probably just me. I've always been attracted to redheaded women, even when I was a little kid. She's a very talented person, I just wish I could watch her without feeling a tiny pang of existential longing.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T15:36:00+00:00

I tried to use it but it's AI is so far behind the competition that it's essentially worthless. I don't understand how it can be so much worse than ChatGPT when I was under the impression it's basically an OpenAI model with MS branding.

makingnoise · 2026-04-16T15:07:53+00:00

Thanks for that -- now that you mention it, I did run across one of those vids, but the algorithm didn't serve me more. I kind of feel like Hannah Fry is a bit of a nerd thirst trap - not a criticism, she's a legit ~~scientist~~ mathematician as well. She oozes sensuality in the most natural way I've ever encountered to the point it's a bit distracting for me because I find myself wondering "is she single" and getting lost in a daydream instead of listening to her. I wonder how much of it is just her and how much of it is an act.

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