yamsham

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[–] yamsham@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From a physics perspective, yes it does. Not much, but yes it does do something.

In order for a crumple zone to work, the material must be at least slightly softer than the rest of the structure. When you have a collision, both the strong structure and the relatively weak crumple zones will flex, but the crumple zones will flex more. In a big collision, like with another car, they might flex so much they have permanent damage (the crumple), but even with a pedestrian they will flex a little. The more they flex, the more it cushions the impact for both the pedestrian and the occupants of the car.

As I said, the amount of cushion for the two parties is massively skewed in favor of the car, and crumple zones alone are not anywhere near enough to make cars safe for pedestrians. But objectively, yes they do slightly cushion the impact for a pedestrian, and in the perfect edge case collision it might mean the difference between life and death.

[–] yamsham@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

To an extent it’s both. I mean intent-wise it’s all about the occupants of the car, but as a side effect it also slightly reduces the impact on the pedestrian. The way I would think about it is that crumple zones on their own aren’t nearly enough to protect pedestrians, but removing them would be going completely in the wrong direction

[–] yamsham@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nah I’m sorry I think this is bullshit. Obviously warming up with a ball can be important for performance reasons, but in terms of injury prevention they just need to move around a bit and stay warm. No one’s stopping them from doing some quick drills while they wait.

You can dislike the waiting around for other reasons if you want, but you can’t have players standing around doing nothing, and then blaming var when they get cold

[–] yamsham@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

How many managers can say their last match before getting sacked was winning a World Cup?

I have no ill will towards any of the Spain players, even less now seeing how impressive their World Cup was, but this is exactly the reason I was rooting against them. Vilda and the federation behind him have been an absolute disgrace, and I didn’t want to see it all pay off for them

[–] yamsham@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The call on the field was no pen, and VAR just upheld the decision. But even if it had been called initially, there was barely any contact at all, and Partey was moving out of the way. It was never a pen, and I really don’t know why you’re arguing the point like this

[–] yamsham@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Facebook did the same thing years ago, it’s part of the enshittification cycle. When you post a link to another site, you’re directing traffic away from twitter and it’s advertisers, so Elon would much prefer that you be forced to post the entire article so that no one ever has to leave twitter and give their ad revenue to anyone else.

Obviously no one would agree to this if it was happening from the start, but once your platform has a stranglehold on everyone, you can start tightening the noose like this. Everyone hates it, but people feel like they have nowhere else to go, so they put up with it. Or at least that’s what twitter’s betting on

[–] yamsham@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this article phrased as if it’s the sex worker’s fault? If you’re worried about sex workers being abducted off the street, perhaps we should be protecting them and offering safer alternatives for them to conduct their business, rather than just having their abducters become state sponsored

[–] yamsham@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

DO NOT RUN IN PROD

Found this in production

Classic

[–] yamsham@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

“This public service is too effective and is apparently something a huge number of people are interested in using. Gotta put an end to that.”

[–] yamsham@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Akthually, Betamax and betacam were completely unrelated standards. Betamax was the failed vhs competitor, with good quality but an unusably short recording length, and betacam was the unrelated standard that enjoyed a long and successful run in the professional world.

Technology connections has a few videos on the subject, but this one is probably the most relevant: https://youtu.be/hGVVAQVdEOs

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