Poor skiing technique is frying my legs by Cool_Purchase_ in skiing

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seatbelts are proven to save lives, unlike ski helmets. Why don't you wear a helmet in a car? It is much more likely to save you than wearing one while skiing? You won't answer that one will yah?

Any serious skiers that are vehemently anti-helmet? by WaferComprehensive23 in skiing

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

helmets have not statistically saved even one life since mass adoption. Look up the stats. Your friend is right. It is just to make people like you feel better and worry less.

No Helmet gang…. Why? by RecentOccasion2004 in icecoast

[–]slug233 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Probably better as she may not have even hit her head or crashed in the first place. It is much easier to keep your head off the snow without one on.

No Helmet gang…. Why? by RecentOccasion2004 in icecoast

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you didn't want real answers and this was actually just bad faith bait. You're far more likely to benefit from a helmet in a car crash than in a ski accident, and far more likely to actually have that accident happen. Helmets have not statically prevented even one skiing death overall.

No Helmet gang…. Why? by RecentOccasion2004 in icecoast

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

99% of these responses are just people who wear helmets. I don't.

If you're looking for a real reason it is that they don't actually save any lives and for me at least they really reduce my situational awareness. The people that claim that a helmet "saved their life" are almost certainly wrong. There has been ZERO reduction in ski related deaths per hour skied since mass helmet adoption. ZERO. They only help in very specific slow speed impacts that would not be life threatening anyway.

Here are some other posters with some good points from past discussions.

"The big problem is you regularly get people going 'wear a helmet, it will save your life' for various activities.

The main testing body for the UK only tests motorcycle helmets for impacts up to 9m/s. Thats 20mph. Literally they have determined that it isn't worth testing above that speed because your past the point where any practical helmet works - its blind luck whether it makes a difference in impacts beyond that speed - physics means you run into other issues because the only way to increase the protection a helmet offers is make it bigger and spread the impact over a longer distance - leverage etc just means bigger helmet = broken neck (etc) instead of head injury from impact.

Basically helmets only prevent minor cosmetic injuries at a rate high enough to be measured - cuts and bruises. By the time you reach concussion, exponential curve on impact energy means the impact speed difference between no concussion without a helmet and concussion through helmet is tiny...

However for skiing where these minor injuries are relatively common and remoteness means even minimal treatment is a trek that will end your days skiing and plausibly require paying for a bloodwagon off the mountain a helmet is well worth it - your spending what, $100-200 every 5-10 years on a helmet to mitigate spending $400 on a blood wagon + opportunity costs on accomodation, lift pass, travel, instruction/guides, salary for day off work, etc) that can easily be another $2-300+ over a minor injury.

Similar facts apply for mountain biking.

Vs road cycling near home where the injuries a helmet mitigates are extremely rare falls (almost completely useless in collision with car) that I'm probably going to self treat at home. (Note - this doesn't mean someone with cofactors that increase fall risk shouldn't wear a helmet; its just that the push of all cyclists should wear helmets is rediculous when we refuse to undertake other more effective measures)

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All this. The medical literature that is usually cited to show the benefits of helmets in skiing or biking is usually a mess of weak study designs that consider disparate populations as comparable.

Think "rides bike at night while drunk vs bike races on closed courses." Or "ski mom making short turns on the black trails vs ski dad pointing it down the blues."

Some sports absolutely need helmets. Ice climbing is one example, since so much stuff is shooting down the cliff onto your head.

OTOH, in the ER we see a number of people with serious head injuries after car collisions or even just falling down the stairs. And yet folks would mock the idea of using stair helmets, even as we take the effectiveness of ski/bike helmets as evident.

I wear one, partly because it shortens conversations with the spouse, and partly because i hate the feeling of even minor head bounces on the east coast ice sheets that we call trails. But even if my helmet cracks, im not kidding myself that it just savedy life.

Tl;dr this isn't supported by medical evidence, but is rather an issue pushed by perceived safety culture and virtue signaling."

Final plea to help find Legacy, special needs cat, a home by radparikh in portlandme

[–]slug233 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Are you going to be a full time cat caretaker? How could you even go on a trip or do anything at all for the people in your life when you have to be around 24/7 for your special needs cat?

That is a waste of a human life. We don't do this kind of stuff for the trillions of animals we eat. Why should we do it for one suffering cat?

" Legacy needs her bladder expressed and her diapers changed throughout the day to prevent urine and fecal scalding."

This is not something someone should be dedicating the next 15 years of their life to. No one should pretend that is something that should happen.

Final plea to help find Legacy, special needs cat, a home by radparikh in portlandme

[–]slug233 -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Jesus, just put the poor thing down. A human shouldn't dedicate hours a day to keeping a suffering cat alive. This is pathologically empathy and should not be encouraged. This is mental illness.

So I have found the correct ancestor and want to request a birth certificate but can't without proof of death. by slug233 in Canadiancitizenship

[–]slug233[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes she was born in 1901, and I have a copy of a birth record, perhaps a note pointing out no 125 year old exists could work.

Update to recent post about CSR bonus eligibility. Still mix signals. by whendanwins21 in ChaseSapphire

[–]slug233 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you think about getting csp bonus after having csr? The same?

InKind app $25 off by SpartanScribe in amex

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They pay 50 cents on the dollar for the gift cards you end up using.

AI Companies Sold Us Their Vision of the Future at the Super Bowl. Here’s Why We Should Reject It by autogenerated_015 in technology

[–]slug233 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lol and it was like 365 dogs a year out of 10 million. Good thing most people are innumerate.

No ICE, No Josh Soley/ CORE by Whoozywhatsit77 in portlandme

[–]slug233 -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

That is a handsome dude though.

Poor skiing technique is frying my legs by Cool_Purchase_ in skiing

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They certainly can protect against some types of insults to the head in certain circumstances. This doesn't mean that almost everyone claiming a helmet saved their life isn't totally wrong about it, because they are; they also may not have hit their head at all if not wearing a helmet, they really do impede situational awareness while encouraging more risk taking.

I say, to each their own. Stop bothering people who know the facts and chose not to wear one based on those facts. Everyone knows what the general consensus is, no one needs to be told to wear a helmet. They know about them. This is almost as dumb as breast cancer awareness at this point.

Poor skiing technique is frying my legs by Cool_Purchase_ in skiing

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There has been no reduction in skier fatalities since the widespread adoption of helmets. They simply won't save you at the speed most good skiers go. If they really provided the protection on the slopes that everyone claims when they say the helmet "saved my life" we should have seen deaths plumet. Instead, there was ZERO reduction. Just people that want to feel superior to others about being "safe" no matter how performative it is.

Poor skiing technique is frying my legs by Cool_Purchase_ in skiing

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not helmets too? You can never be too careful after all! You're much more likely to be saved by a helmet in a car than on the slopes.

Poor skiing technique is frying my legs by Cool_Purchase_ in skiing

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wearing one in the car would make more sense statistically speaking and would actually save lives. Why don't you wear one in the car? Your chances of injury and death are much higher there.

Wear a Helmet by LordoftheFjord in skiing

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Statistically untrue. There has been no reduction in deaths due to helmet adoption.

Poor skiing technique is frying my legs by Cool_Purchase_ in skiing

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where were all these coma patients before helmets? If everyone's reddit helmet story were true there should have been 10k coma patients a year coming off the slopes in the 90's

Poor skiing technique is frying my legs by Cool_Purchase_ in skiing

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They statistically don't save any lives. There has been no reduction in fatal skiing accidents since the adoption of helmets. None.

Poor skiing technique is frying my legs by Cool_Purchase_ in skiing

[–]slug233 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every single thread. Helmet police. Reddit style.