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Re:Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony by embedding-shape on Sunday June 07, 2026 @07:41PM (#48439792)
Most crashes, but not all, are accidents. I think I'm talking about accidents, not crashes.
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Re:Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony by qmr on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:53PM (#48440535)
Someone is always at fault.

Look into auto lobby and this "accident" term history.

Use the language of accountability.

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Re:Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony by coldtea on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:09AM (#48442165)
>Someone is always at fault.

Only by a very lose definition of "fault", chosen for moralistic purposes.

Of course people saying what you say, if it happens to them, they'll suddenly swear theirs was a real accident.

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Re:Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony by embedding-shape on Monday June 08, 2026 @07:43AM (#48444106)
"Crash" sounds like it just happened by chance or for whatever reason. "Accident" makes it sound like something went wrong, maybe someone did something wrong, and then something happened because of that, maybe a crash, maybe something else.

I still think "accident" is more accurate, so I'll continue to use that. Thanks for explaining though!

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Re:Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony by ProllyInfamous on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:55AM (#48504127)
My vehicle has collision insurance – is this an intermediary term (or something more specific)?
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Re:Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony by qmr on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:47PM (#48573065)
It's fine. Certainly far preferable to accident.
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