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Comment Re:Self driving cars are bad drivers (Score 1) 215

Very often people start accelerating the moment they see you begin to indicate and then barely miss you as they fly by.

I see this said a lot, but in about 20 years of driving, I have rarely seen that actually happen. What usually seems to happen is people will speed up to fill gaps as I pass them before I've switched on the turn signal.

Comment Re:Only in rare cases (Score 1) 215

Humans are incredibly predictable on the road if you pay attention. A lot of drivers signal, even before using their actual signals, that they'll be changing lanes. You can see it by the way the car shifts positions, how it's slowing/accelerating. I live in area with a lot of Teslas and other cars that have similar features. I get the same read on those cars as I do the crazy people that just suddenly shift 4 lanes. Granted, they're not actually driving crazy, but the car isn't giving any good tells as to what it's going to do. Which is where I'd agree about the hesitancy to merge part matches my experience. They don't seem to merge when I'd expect any other human to merge, and merge like anxious drivers.

Comment Re:Visual Cortex, hallucinations (Score 1) 87

Schizophrenia also has symptoms like hearing voices. At first glance one would think a blind person would have more issues with separating whether a sound is really occurring or not. Of course they did discover that, at least for some, the voices they were hearing came from really quiet talking they were doing to themselves. They put a sensitive microphone up to their necks to verify.

Of course, my bet is that the genetic mutations that cause blindness also affect the genetic mutations that predispose a person to schizophrenia.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 157

See everyone goes to this homes with lockers thing, but how about a simpler and preexisting solution. An antechamber for the front door?

To imagine it, start with the two doors some people might have already, a screen/glass door and the real door. Basically extend the distance between these two doors, and give it extra side space for travel. Bonus you also get a room to take on and off muddy/wet clothes, clean up dirty dogs, etc; before going into the house. The front most door would obviously use a different key and/or keypad to open, while the main door is kept securely locked at all times as far as the delivery person is concerned.

Comment Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outra (Score 1) 729

He said he never "blacked out." Numerous fellow classmates have confirmed devil's triangle was a drinking game. As for boofing, are you arguing they meant ingesting alcohol via their asshole? I find it suspect you don't give a definition to the slang term when you do for the other.

"He also went on a tirade about Democrats and Clinton"
We've been over this. BTW, you may want to look into Kavanaugh's relation to the Clintons.

The rest of you comment is just literally Democrat talking points.

Comment Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr (Score 1) 729

Are telepathic? Do you have some powers beyond that of a normal person? You can't believe the hooey you just wrote do you?

"He wasn't an accused person as much as he was someone who had to answer a difficult question with real consequences."
Is that a serious statement? Wow.

Comment Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr (Score 1) 729

That's some mighty fine gaslighting. What's happening here is, Democrats (self-proclaimed defenders of women), sat on a supposedly credible allegation for over a month, and then when their histrionics failed to stop the nomination, they dropped the allegation and someone leaked the information about Ford to press (supposedly against her wishes).

An objective observer might notice from the testimony that Ford claims to have wanted to inform the senators during the choosing of the nomination stage. Which would've avoided this whole fiasco. But that wouldn't have served well for Democrats who have kept trying to push the nomination into Nov. and past the midterm in the hopes they could stop any Trump nominations the Supreme Court.

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