I read the first few words as soft candles and was so confused.

I cried a lot watching this. Jon just laid it all out there. Tough to do. Really important for people to see. Never a bad reminder that vulnerability makes you strong, not weak.

What time zone is that minute in?!

Time for the ol XKCD Little Bobby Tables attack

I think you’re applying your own viewpoint here to the general public.

I don’t enjoy wrestling. I also don’t enjoy reality TV, teen dramas, horror shows, or European Football. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have value.

If TV needs to provide some infallible, logical benefit to be worth something, then every show is in trouble. It’s practically all made up stories about nothing that matters.

This is one of the narrow times that “the customer is always right” applies correctly. It doesn’t matter if it’s “good” by any one person’s definition. If people watch, it has value.

I’d pay good money to see high quality Starcraft 2 tournaments on TV. I doubt many other people would. That’s how value is determined.

From what I’ve seen, people are saying the blind spot is anything that’s not in your mirrors. As in your “blind spot” is directly to your left or right. Anything that requires turning your head at all.

Which is fine… But I thought the blind spot referred specifically to the area back left or back right of the driver, where most people do a full turnaround to check those spots. That specific action can be eliminated through proper mirror adjustment. That’s the only point I was trying to make but damn people got spicy about it.

I feel like you’re being the thing you’re accusing me of. Don’t think we’re going to get anywhere, I have nothing new to say. I think a reasonable person can decipher my point of view pretty easily.

I’m just gonna respectfully back out at this point.

I don’t know what to tell you. In my car I can see a motorcycle that approaches and passes from the rear view, then the rear and side mirrors, then the side mirror, then the side mirror and out my window, then out my window as they pass. I literally never lose them for a moment between these 3 visibility areas.

I drive a pretty sensible car, so I can imagine this is more of an issue with large trucks, but I simply do not have an area that I am completely blind to.

It seems you and I are alone in this thread. I like how you said a continuous field of view, that’s exactly what it is. The over the shoulder check is unesscessarily dangerous, and leaves you bet susceptible to rear ending people.

For most people, you shouldn’t see your own car in your side mirrors.

I am American, but I’m trying to get to where the disconnect is.

What I’ve usually heard referred to as the blind spot is diagonally back, sort of looking out of the back seat windows on either side.

I’ve driven in a lot of cars where they have their mirrors set up incorrectly, and yes you have to turn all the way around to see that spot.

I’m saying in my cars, with a proper setup, you don’t need to turn back that far. You only need to check out your own window, which hardly requires much of a head move.

Turning around and checking backwards takes your eyes completely off the road, and is quite dangerous.

This YouTube video explains it quickly in just 60 seconds: https://youtu.be/tpFXTvmToiU?si=n35tVyuDELaZ3lau

I tell people this IRL and get the same reaction. But if you use this setup, you have to be basically negligent to not see someone in your mirrors.

I absolutely do not understand that diagram at all… How can you have a blind zone where you can literally turn your head 90 degrees and see?

Motorcycles are a bit different, in that I’m always extra careful if I see them around since they are small. I can’t speak for all cars, but in both of the ones we have, I can see a car smoothly exit my rear view mirror into my Sideview mirror with a bit of overlap and then as it is exiting the side mirror I can see it with my eyes and my head turned, with a bit of overlap. There’s literally no place to hide.

Also your comment is pretty rude, painting me like I’m some invincible road warrior who just merges with no precautions because I’m so confident that my mirrors are right that I merge hard enough to kill someone. I still signal, wait several seconds, merge slowly, and remain aware. Those things aren’t mutually exclusive.

Shoulder checking isn’t even necessary. People just don’t set their side mirrors correctly. If you can see your own car in your side mirrors, they’re incorrect. Or I guess I should say inefficient for what they are trying to accomplish.

Setting those properly would do a lot of people a lot of good.

Edit: I should clarify, I’m assuming shoulder checking meaning looking back, beyond 90 degrees to look backwards. Most people do this to check the “blindspot”, but this basically doesn’t exist if mirrors are correctly set. You still need to check the immediate sides of the car.

Yeah this has since been deleted because he didn’t agree to that caption at all. Dude was just trying to be nice and take a picture.

You can dislike his last stand up special, but I don’t think any part of it could be misconstrued to the point where he was saying there are only two genders or trans people don’t exist.

I mean… Just to be clear, he’s very obviously advertising something that will benefit him and being upfront about it.

The people in the video are allegedly telling people they are donating money and then just keeping it.

Equating the two of them only serves to minimize what he’s talking about. There’s really no need to compare and contrast the two here. You can hate them both, but one certainly deserves a lot, lot, lot more hate.

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