20yrs ago I had to help my comp sci housemate build a website for his module. I was not a CS student.

Some things never change.

Ad hominem attacks always reveal the character.

Alt: a single pane comic in which a person says to another person: "silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.

The other person says: “and quartz, of course”

The first person replies: “of course.”

The caption to the comic reads “even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field”

As a total stranger who who doesn’t know you a dot, I can totally unemotional and impartially say that you received justice.

Speed kills, literally. And as an inexperienced driver, you shouldn’t be speeding a dot. Let alone anyone else.

If a kid had run out from behind a parked car, tree or whatever then you have a much better chance of not killing them if you’re going the speed limit.

The fact that you were even caught, while armed with all the knowledge you have about increased deaths and thus increased demerits, tells me you should have made better choices.

I have been caught speeding 3 times in my 20 years of driving and I deserved every single one of them, and more.

That you were able to further reduce your punishment is further evidence of the system working.

Frankly I think your posts reveal an attitude of a victim rather than a perpetrator, which is a shame because you should probably have taken away something about the need to not speed in order to not kill people.

Everyone thinks they’re a great driver, and no one thinks it’s going to be them who has the accident that kills someone. But that’s the thing about accidents, they’re unpredictable and undesired.

All that said and done- if you were speeding by less than 10% I think it’s harsh and I’m glad you got to reduce the punishment! Over here we have 20mph zones to protect kids and 7kmh over is inexcusable in my book.

And didn’t he maim someone? Took the life that person could have had.

“Things could be worse” is always such a depressing reflection.

You’re not wrong…but it sure is bleak isn’t it!

I see. Sorry for the offence.

My use of the word despicable instead of disgusting probably threw you off

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-disgusting-where

This is despicable. What specific service was this? So I know how to avoid it if it should resurface.

Couldn’t get on with Jellyfin…emby however has been fantastic!

Ol’ CRT eyes here

Any idea why he went with you instead of his actual girlfriend?

I think you need to be intentionally naive, or just an absolute shitbag, to want to vote for lower gas prices at the cost of increased human suffering. Let alone whether it’s something Trump could even deliver.

In 1885 the legal age of consent in the UK was raised to 16. The average life expectancy of adults had barely changed.

So while this disproves your correlation theory, it’s also important to remind the reader that correlation is not the same as causation. Society, the role of government, the rule of law and its encroachment on personal choice changed hugely from the 13th Century and 17th Century - I would therefore claim that society would not have been accepting of paedophilia in the 13th Century despite the lack of law.

Sexual desire of prepubescent children has, as far as I know, never been considered the norm.

Yes. And that’s why life expectancy of a 20yr old was 60yrs not 80+.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/its-not-just-about-child-mortality-life-expectancy-improved-at-all-ages

Isn’t the average life expectancy caused by infant death? Anyone living through pubity probably had a good chance of living to 70.

Are your teachers reading your screens a lot? Because it’s a PITA to read if you’re not using it yourself.

Also if you demo code you should switch to the more traditional so that others don’t have a hard time reading.

Basically it’s just down to the human brains amazing ability to do pattern recognition subconsciously so you don’t have to actively think about what that symbol means - unless someone used a different symbol.

I’ve been going to the gym 4 times a week for 2yrs and I’ve been asked exactly one time to spot someone. Not to contradict you because it definitely happens, but some gyms don’t have that culture, like mine.

Good point.

Holy shit that was scary. I clicked the link without really looking and all of a sudden I was presented with a “promoted post” and I thought Lemmy had enshitified overnight.

Thank fuck it was just reddit being reddit and me being unobservant.