• curiousaur@reddthat.com
    3·
    2 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
    64·
    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

    • Emerald@lemmy.world
      17·
      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
        9·
        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
          4·
          14 hours 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

      • obstbert@feddit.org
        4·
        2 days 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
          5·
          1 day 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
    134·
    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.

  • jaybone@lemmy.world
    111·
    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
      131·
      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.