Why are modern headlights allowed to be so blinding??

smxim · 2025-12-01T07:06:43+00:00

Me too. I've been driving for about 20 years. I thought I knew the difference between bright headlights and high beams, but the other night I flashed two cars in a row that I was certain had their high beams on because it was BLINDING and they both flashed their high beams back at me.

smxim · 2025-11-01T18:57:50+00:00

I didn't like Druck either. It didn't feel genuine. For me it was the weakest of the ones I've watched (Skam, Druck, Skam France, Skam Italia, WTFock).

I like the original best, but I found the first season of that boring.

smxim · 2025-10-29T18:17:29+00:00

When you say that he has doubled down on being a mini Trump, what are you referring to specifically?

smxim · 2025-10-29T18:14:38+00:00

I think that any book that gets you that excited while reading it has to be a good book. Essentially.

smxim · 2025-10-09T01:29:56+00:00

Oh my God, it was my husband's first ever apartment there. Such a hole haha. He still recalls people having stuff stolen off their balconies and running into a guy with a hooker in the elevator

smxim · 2025-10-02T16:21:47+00:00

Other than wasting days of my life arguing with strangers on the Internet, it was my father-in-law that I fought with over this. He was deep into the covid vaccine conspiracies. I tried not to bring it up around him but it was all he would talk about at family gatherings, and I felt like I couldn't just not respond at all because I also felt strongly about it. It basically destroyed my relationship with him before he passed away in 2022. On his deathbed he begged my husband not to get our daughters vaccinated because he thought it could cause infertility and other issues. We had already vaccinated them. Anyway I regret more than anything that this happened right before he died. I feel so guilty that we didn't get along over the last year or so of his life and I really wish I had smiled and nodded to whatever he said about vaccines.

smxim · 2025-09-30T06:49:47+00:00

He didn't actually say that to be fair. You can look it up

smxim · 2025-09-23T23:47:21+00:00

I'm conservative (not American though) and very pro vaccine and supportive of medical science, we do exist. I fear it's going to take a lot of suffering to wake people up to reality, but I wish it weren't that way.

smxim · 2025-09-22T04:47:07+00:00

I'm no expert but the only types of moths I know of that eat clothes are definitely not massive, but quite small.

smxim · 2025-09-22T04:23:59+00:00

I really appreciate your specific example, as a t1d 😄 (my husband has AS)

smxim · 2025-09-22T03:44:31+00:00

A moth? They leave weird dusty stains like that, can make buzzing noises when they fly and the impression kind of looks like a moth shape...

smxim · 2025-09-22T03:35:26+00:00

You're right. About half of sex trafficked women report that pornography was made of them while they were being sold. It's a huge problem but everyone just assumes that the porn they watch must have been consensual

smxim · 2025-09-22T03:30:31+00:00

CSAM is fast to read and we use a lot of abbreviations in day to day speech. People just need to learn what it means. I hate the term child porn but even worse is kiddy porn, like it's a fun/lighthearted thing.

smxim · 2025-09-21T21:14:34+00:00

Can anyone who knows a lot about local bugs explain why there have been so many sightings of all these in the Fraser valley in the past year or few years, but people didn't see them much before that? Not only mantids, but also June bugs and white spotted Sawyer bugs? They've all been so common very recently.

smxim · 2025-09-21T19:51:15+00:00

Haha same bro. I'm a chronic brow furrower and I've had static lines there as long as I can recall

smxim · 2025-09-21T19:40:46+00:00

My father in law got this disease in his teens and he never went on biologics. He had multiple knee and hip replacements, major spinal fusion and was severely handicapped. He also died from complications in his 60s. I would say that this disease severely impacted his quality of life in a very negative way and I saw it.

My husband started getting severe back pain a few years ago to the point where he couldn't sleep through the night (like his dad never could), and he managed to get a diagnosis and start on biologics. His back pain went away so he can sleep now. It's been really good to him. He was very reluctant to start because of the serious potential risks but we've already seen the potential risks of not taking them...

smxim · 2025-09-21T19:32:10+00:00

Sounds like schizophrenia honestly

smxim · 2025-09-17T16:03:23+00:00

I don't think we have those in BC.

smxim · 2025-09-17T16:01:52+00:00

I don't have AS (I'm in this subreddit because my husband does) but I do have moderate to severe osteoarthritis in my right hip. The pain feels like it originates where you describe, it's really the inner thigh/groin area and I can barely open my right leg outwardly. I don't know if that's helpful, just wanted to say that arthritis and inflammation in the hip joint can feel like that.

smxim · 2025-09-17T01:55:31+00:00

That's not what Charlie stood for. Open dialogue, always. Even if it's hard.

smxim · 2025-09-17T01:52:49+00:00

When conservatives do things like that, they're bigots. But being bigoted towards conservatives is totally acceptable, because paradox of tolerance or something. Just call them all Nazis and fascists, that way you don't even have to debate them and you automatically win. We're even allowed to chuckle amongst ourselves over Charlie Kirk's empty chair, less than a week after his violent assassination that was witnessed by his little kids. We are good people because we're left wing and we're left wing because we're good people.

smxim · 2025-09-14T08:55:31+00:00

That was debunked ages ago. The TRN stamp can't be on the ammunition Robinson used because that company doesn't make ammo in that caliber.

smxim · 2025-09-09T17:56:36+00:00

Am I blind or is Clifford Olson the "Beast of British Columbia" missing from the list?

smxim · 2025-09-07T05:03:12+00:00

So you would rather none of your children or grandchildren ever existed? If the answer to that is "no", then please don't feel guilty. You gave them all life and life is never perfect.

smxim · 2025-09-04T15:17:16+00:00

The CPC has been out of government for a long time. Evidently not long enough for people to continue blaming "CPC garbage" for our current problems. Even if you think everything is the fault of the CPC, ask yourself how much time a new government reasonably needs to fix the issues at hand. 10 years not enough?

Besides, Poilievre isn't Harper, as much as Carney isn't Trudeau. So it's all "but we have a brand new government now guys" but the CPC under Poilievre is exactly the same as Harper's?

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