Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds

Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by hagbard_c on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:06PM (#42151735)

You are not alone in this sentiment. It is beyond the pale that the denizens of a 'hacker forum' are often so narrow-minded when it comes to engaging those who think outside of the personal zone of ideological preference. The same people who have been yammering about the importance of 'diversity' are dead set against diversity of opinion. Grow up, folks, get outside your comfort zone and engage some of those deplorables, irredeemables, garbage, rednecks, hillbillies and bible thumpers instead of howling along with the masses. Go ahead and try, you may find they are more like you than you've been told by the chattering classes. Sure you'll have disagreements over certain things but that does not make them the evil monsters your moral mentors have been claiming they are. Just... grow up.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by BriggyDwiggs42 on Friday November 15, 2024 @06:06PM (#42152310)

I’ve engaged with these people a good bit actually. They’re very normal people, in that they largely don’t know much about politics but have strong opinions.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by Wytwwww on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:32PM (#42151985)

> Grow up, folks, get outside your comfort zone and engage some of those deplorables

Like eat a random whale carcass you find and then dump a bear in the central park? Then get infected by brain worms...

Surely nobody who hasn't tried doing stuff like that has the right to criticise these people?

> does not make them the evil

The person who they think will make a great secretary of health has publicly declared that he is an unhinged lunatic (I'm not even talking about the vaccines and other stuff but only his personal behaviour).

Entirely eliminating any ideological preferences from it does not even fundamentally change much...

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by techlaw on Friday November 15, 2024 @07:07PM (#42152831)

In this context, diversity refers to characteristics, not to differences of opinion. That said, diverse thinking can be valuable when used for prosocial purposes.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by peutetre on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:26PM (#42151931)

> engage some of those deplorables, irredeemables, garbage, rednecks, hillbillies and bible thumpers instead of howling along with the masses

You are aware that no one in this thread has called anyone deplorable, irredeemable, garbage, a redneck, a hillbilly, or a bible thumper, right?

Your aggrievement and imagined slights is precisely how people like Trump and Musk manipulate you. And apparently the manipulation works really well.

Trump is not your retribution. Trump doesn't care about America. Trump doesn't care about Americans. Trump only cares about himself.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by bitzun on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:10PM (#42151782)

I don't think GP was talking about ordinary people, they were making a comment about a politician's declared plans.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by Mountain_Skies on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:28PM (#42151949)

Hacker News' eventual death started the moment it joined the hysteria over the Lab Leak Theory. Since then it has trended more and more to be like Reddit, with ideological tribal concerns occupying an increasingly large mindshare. This drives away people who want to have earnest conversations in good faith, giving even more power to the ideologues. It will be a long death spiral but you can see it happening day by day.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by tim333 on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:42PM (#42152102)

I'm not sure what hysteria about lab leaks? I mean maybe it did, maybe it didn't.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by Wytwwww on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:40PM (#42152072)

The comment you are replying to has the highest concentration of ideological hysteria in this and all the sibling threads, though.

Basically it dismisses any rational arguments related to the topic out of hand because they are inherently biased and because supposedly "both sides" are equal/must be treated equally due to some undefined reasons.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by yarg on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:46PM (#42152141)

The idea that the novel coronavirus didn't escape from the local coronavirus R&D laboratory never had anywhere near enough evidence to be credible.

It was pretty much the WHO simply repeating the claims of the Chinese government, who had already tried to cover up the outbreak (with any warnings sent to the WHO coming from Taiwan instead).

It was about as believable as the completely baseless claims that the emergency use authorised vaccine was safe and effective.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by robertlagrant on Thursday November 21, 2024 @05:50PM (#42209509)

I've genuinely never seen "hysteria" from the people talking about the lab leak theory. The closest I've seen is from people who were extremely keen for no one to mention the theory. Not because of some cover-up, but I think just because that was what everyone was telling everyone else to do, hysteria-style.

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