• curiousaur@reddthat.com
    3·
    14 hours ago

    I said the same thing about that firefighting plane that hit that drone. The drone was just hovering there when that idiot pilot flew a fucking plane into it.

  • Dagnet@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    That’s the scary part though, I don’t get any more bugs hitting the windshield while travelling. Used to need to wash it after arriving but now they are just gone… We completely fucked up the environment

    • 50_centavos@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 hours ago

      I think it might be two things. Less bugs, and more aerodynamic cars. My last car almost had zero bugs on the windshield the 10 years I had it. My car now gets a decent amount every time I go on the highway.

      • Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I mean, its very likely we live in different places. As an aerospace engineer though, I dont remember any revolution happening to aerodynamics in the past 10 years, I even used the same model car back then and newer version more recently with minimal changes to the exterior

    • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Sad thing is, anybody still not worried by, or unconvinced of, this being our fault also likely sees this as very good news.

    • starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.mlEnglish
      06·
      2 days ago

      Typed from laptop overlooking fertilized and chemically pesticided monoculture lawn, freshly cut underground automatic sprinkler system set for twice a day…

    • Emerald@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Man, if only back when I killed those 5 pedestrians I would’ve said “the pedestrians hit me”. Now I’m going to jail. Oh well

      • Zron@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        I have legitimately had a pedestrian hit me.

        I was stopped and my car was in park waiting for a gas pump to open up. This idiot watching TikTok’s while walking proceeds to walk straight into the side of my car, and then started yelling at me.

        I was in a parking spot too.

        • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          When I was a kid, I ran my bike into a parked car. Of course, this was back before cars were mostly fiberglass, so it hurt me more than the car, lmao

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 days ago

    A deer hit my car once. And that is the right phrasing. It slammed into my moving vehicle which was moving at a 90 angle to its path. I had no choice in the matter.

    • starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.mlEnglish
      01·
      2 days ago

      You did have a choice, altering your route or just varying your speed higher or lower could have avoided this collision. In this instance you both ran into each other. Unless you are only considering the exact millisecond of the collision which would be cherry picking of the data.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 days ago

        This is exactly what’s wrong with people. You’re fucking stupid. You literally have no clue what you’re talking about about. At night a deer blind sighting you is not avoidable. All you had to do to not sound like a dickheaded moron was to be curious and not assume. Too much to ask. Typical .ml user.

  • jaybone@lemmy.world
    01·
    2 days ago

    It’s good to have an alternate perspective. But this one is pretty bad. Cars and freeways are terrible. But many “bugs” aren’t so great either. Carrying diseases like malaria, destroying trees and crops. Infecting other animals. Then to anthropomorphize them and talk about their “families”, just seems like an odd analogy. Maybe one could make a similar analogy about viruses.

    • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Humans also carry diseases and destroy the landscape and each other. By your logic, we shouldn’t care about anyone dying, or try to empathize with anything outside of ourselves. Seems like a sad perspective, IMO.