• lobut@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    One of friends back in the day would lecture me on having a phone case. “why don’t you just not drop it?” I was like, dude, accidents happen. “I’ve never dropped my phone he’d say.” I swear, like a month after that happened, his friend stepped on his phone and a month after that he dropped his phone when taking it out of his pocket outside a burger joint.

    I didn’t have a go about it. He’s not one of those that takes those types of jabs well.

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        1 year ago

        The scary thing, then, is lessons like “Look both ways before crossing the street”. You fail that sort of lesson the hard way, and you don’t get a chance to learn anything.

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          1 year ago

          Humans are unique in their ability to learn from the mistakes of others and their blanket refusal to do so.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I know people who say stuff like that. I know someone who wanted a convertible car (they were 18). Someone mentioned the greater danger of they flip, and this person said “well I’m not going to flip a car”. We all gave them a hard time about whether they thought everyone who flipped a car did it on purpose. The next year, this same person flipped their car several times (and walked away OK somehow).

      Some people can’t comprehend that bad stuff would happen to them.

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        1 year ago

        It is unlikely that an average person flips their car. You have to weigh the pros and cons of it. We take risks all the time, but if we think it’s more beneficial we take them. Just driving a car is pretty dangerous alone. Personally, I don’t think a convertible is worth the risk or the cost, but I won’t say no one should get one.

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          Yeah, only the people who don’t flip their car should get one.

          I have zero problems with owning one, and have owned them in the past. We knew this person was a crazy driver and that it was a bad idea.