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Cake day: June 30th, 2023
  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.workstoNews@lemmy.world•Rand Paul floats Elon Musk for House Speaker
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    18 days ago

    Heres a hot take: you didn’t have to be that smart to be any kind of medical doctor. Good at memorizing? Hell yes. Persistent? You bet. Good at associations and drawing on things you’ve seen before? Absolutely. Good at reading between the lines and really solving the tough cases? Sometimes. Magic hands? Definitely if you’d like the big big money.

    At the end of the day most doctors are walking on ground someone else already traveled, and of course there are some greats who expand the field, but that’s not everybody. If youve got the tenacity to do any medical degree, kick butt. We need you and you earn your take with pride. You don’t need to win a nobel prize to be valuable.

    It is, however, NOT a job you get for being a great thinker. It’s a lot of college and a lot of residency and a lot of shoveling crap. A lot of thinking? Not compared to other education tracks or professions. You can absolutely be a medical doctor and be an idiot.

    This has been a soapbox rant about professional doctorates.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.workstoNews@lemmy.world•Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Won't Open
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    1 month ago

    I mean fine, yes, we want consistent behavior for as many car systems as possible. I agree.

    My perspective is if you do something different, like use electronic systems, and 5 times out of 1000 in emergency situations it doesn’t work as intended, is that REALLY cause for redesign if there’s a benefit to doing something different?

    I am sure there are other vehicles that, after a crash or a drop in the water, have doors that won’t open as expected or windows that don’t roll or break, or maybe thet sink too fast or who knows what other thing. I don’t think that fractional percentage points of situations warrant scrapping or redesigning basically anything that is not universally adopted.

    I’m super griped that, as an early adopter of EVs, everybody wants to lay a turd on the cars I have had nothing but good experiences with because the CEO is a fuckwad and tech bros try to cheat the VERY prominent warning messages.

    They are by no means the nicest made cars I have ever owned, but as far as the whole EV package goes, I don’t think you can go wrong buying one even still if you can afford it. I super hope someone gets a better option on the table soon, but the meme Tesla hate is probably driving people away from a generally solid car choice.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.workstoNews@lemmy.world•Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Won't Open
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    2 months ago

    Let me google that for you:

    • Tesla vehicles have had a fire rate of one for every 175 million miles traveled, compared to the U.S. average of a vehicle fire for every 19 million miles traveled.
    • According to the National Fire Protection Association, Tesla’s fire rate is significantly lower than the national average, with one fire per 170 million miles driven.
    • A study by the University of Berkeley found that electric vehicle fires, including Tesla, occurred at a rate of 4 per billion miles, which is significantly lower than gasoline vehicles.

    Anything else I can type in your search engine?

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.workstoNews@lemmy.world•Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Won't Open
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    2 months ago

    Probably every vehicle has some number of stupid deaths. I assume you don’t fly because Boeing fucked up. That’s way more than 83 people if just one plane crashes.

    It’s just way cooler to shit on Tesla though. Very trendy. Very cool.

    0.052% (232 / 443,956) fire rate.

    Comparison to Industry Average: For context, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports an average fire rate of 1.5 crashes per million miles for all vehicles. Tesla’s fire rate of 0.052% (based on the reported 232 fires) is significantly lower than this industry average.

    But it’s not very cool to do research that way shrug