What about cute animal killers?

Free guns, everybody! Anybody know how the weapons are actually handled? Is there a central point where they show up to each day and are given a gun, or do they keep them on them at all times?

Aw, that makes me sad that I never got that. We just had the example in our textbook be a cop at a tollway.

Lol, wikipedia in regards to math is always fucky. I love statistics and calculus, and I still struggle through their pages.

Simply follow the big money. He’s got more net worth now than when he said he would start donating.

Exactly right. Lane splitting, when legalized and regulated, is safer, more efficient, and frowned at by the general populace because they refuse to listen to the experts on it. Sounds a lot like our regulations on ‘illegal substances,’ doesn’t it?

I’m on lemmy…

what’s a joke?

follow the same rules as everyone else on the road

Yaaaaaawn. I suppose bicycles should have seat belts then, aye? California, montana, utah, and other places have made lane splitting legal. They are following the same rules.

Presciptivism is where it’s at, broseidon! I use factoid for when something seems like a fact, but you can’t verify it right then. I know the internet often uses it for something quoted so much that people take it as fact even though it’s false.

Wikipedia just hates us all. I don’t want it to be a brief truth, waaah!

It might even include medical emergencies while on board.

Parachuting/skydiving is incredibly low risk compared to the average person’s perception. The us had 9 deaths last year in 3.8 million skydives.

Wing suit usage has a similar number, IF you don’t include base jumpers, which you shouldn’t, because it’s fundamentally a very, very different sport that happens to use (almost) the same equipment. You wouldn’t include each bump in a nascar race as an accident and lump it into driving statistics, I would hope, nor do the same for people hiking in the woods and people fist fighting bears in the woods.

Considering I travel a mile or two, give or take, on each canopy flight when I jump, that’s 9 deaths in ~8 million miles. Wing suits have a much better glide ratio when flying, so that would change things up as well. I’m curious how that would hold up to walking. Using the other feller’s number of 4000 pedestrian deaths (on stairs) in germany, and estimating they walk 3 miles a day in a country of ~83 million, that’s 249 million miles, giving us 1.6x10^-5, while skydiving is 2.4x10^-6.

But really… who would consider those activities as a mode of transport anyway?

There’s a reason that drugs are illegal in many jurisdictions. It’s still a tragic loss, but those junkies made the active decision to operate a needle that is already dangerous in an even more dangerous way.

Dude, take a step back and look at data, not the crappy chain of thought you call logic. Accidents involving injuries go down when lane splitting is made legal.

The numbers would go down by half, which is meaningful, but also way less than you’d want it to. I can’t be arsed to pull up the NHTSA data url right now, but I use the factoid all the time when I talk to people about my riding: give or take 54% of motorcycle deaths are single vehicle accidents. Of those, the vast majority involve alcohol or speeding. So if I avoid alcohol I cut my chances by a large factor.

Speeding is slightly fuzzier, because the statistics are built from crash reports by police, and you can never know if they take the word of a witness that a motorcycle passed at a 4mph difference in speed, which, c’mon, is not the same as someone whizzing down a canyon road at 20mph or more over the limit.