• Dagnet@lemmy.world
    46·
    19 hours 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

    • Emerald@lemmy.world
      16·
      19 hours 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
        5·
        17 hours 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.

      • obstbert@feddit.org
        4·
        20 hours ago

        What would your take on general relativity be in this case? The bug, the windshield and the relative velocity are 100% described by classical mechanics.

        • Radioactive Butthole@reddthat.comEnglish
          4·
          14 hours ago

          From the drivers perspective the bug smashed into the window at 70 mph while the driver was more or less stationary, but from the bugs perspective the driver came out of nowhere and smashed into it at 70 mph while the bug was more or less stationary. You can say “well obviously the driver was the one who smashed into the bug, they were going 70 mph!”, but that’s only because you’re using the earth as a reference frame, when in fact Einstein showed with general relativity that no such universal reference frame exists. We all agree to use the earth as a reference frame in our every day lives because how else would anything ever get done; there’s nothing wrong with that and its very convenient, but it doesn’t fully reflect the reality of their interaction.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    113·
    19 hours 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
      321·
      18 hours 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
        131·
        16 hours 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
    110·
    20 hours 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
      121·
      20 hours 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.