Unpopular opinions
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My most "interesting" driving experiences were from a short stint working in Cairo Egypt.
I had a driver assigned to me and on day one he missed the motorway exit and rather than drive to the next exit, he proceeded to slow down in the outside lane and pulled into a gap in the carriageway barrier. The gap between the barriers was sandy and the vehicle got stuck. The driver asked me to get out and push. I am now pushing a stuck in vehicle in the middle of a 4 lane (each way) motorway, with traffic whizzing past, so we could get onto the other side of the carriageway to retrace steps.
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I requested for a new driver.
Driver number 2. One evening leaving work during rush hour we were confronted with a completely choked roundabout. Typically we needed the last exit on the roundabout. rather than join the flow of traffic and queue the driver proceeded to go against the oncoming traffic on the roundabout to get to the exit we needed as it was a shorter route.......
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I requested for another new driver.
Driver number 3. He got caught speeding on the motorway and asked me to pay his fine for him. I told him that I had not asked him to break the speed limit so would not be contributing to him paying his speeding ticket. We drove into the back streets of Cairo. The driver shouted up into a tenement block and a basket on rope was lowered down. The speeding ticket along with some cash was placed into the basket and the basket hauled up into the police chiefs apartment. Bung paid, the stamped ticket was returned and we carried on our way.
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@RobeOfTheMagi said in Unpopular opinions:
Interesting. Looks more like a European city.
It's part of New England, so the colonists were doing what they knew at first.
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@Matt said in Unpopular opinions:
I’m no longer 100% convinced the moon landing was real. I’m being serious. It doesn’t even make sense that in 1969 we put a man on the moon AND brought him back!?!? It makes way more sense that we faked it.
I'll have what you're drinking @Matt
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I’m not even considering all the popular conspiracy theories about supposed evidence supporting a staged moon landing. I’m just not convinced 1969 technology was capable of doing something so sophisticated. And they recorded it? You couldn’t even get decent tv reception back then without having one of your kids hold the rabbit ears.
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@Matt it's totally fair to question those things, which is why it's truly one of the most amazing things ever done.
There were a lot of things that went wrong along the way, people have died, things blew up, etc.
I'll say one reason why it's so much more believable to me, is that because it was done in 1969 with people who were willing to accept and take a little more risk without needing triple or quad redundant systems like was and is still done for launch systems that came after.
It's one part of the recipe for success at SpaceX as well. But regardless, it's all good, even if you're totally wrong
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Oh it happened. We were a much better and more capable country back then.
I disagree that Occam’s razor supports a conspiracy. Quite the opposite. It would be impossible for a conspiracy with so many participants to stay under the radar.
Think it, be it.
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@mclaincausey said in Unpopular opinions:
It would be impossible for a conspiracy with so many participants to stay under the radar.
QFT
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Plus, ya know, evidence. Including from third parties who would love for it to be untrue, or have no reason to support a conspiracy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings
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@WhiskeySandwich said in Unpopular opinions:
@steelworker @Matt @seawolf i have a theory about why MD drivers are notoriously bad : it’s because they’re from everywhere else. Md is FULL of transplants and military people. This means everyone brings a different style and habits formed by their home state and laws/designs. Combine that with road infrastructure designed for half the current volume of traffic and you get a “fuck you, me first” attitude.
Also: the police don’t enforce much anything on MD roads anymore.
This right here. Base closures dropped alot of New Jersey & NY into rural Md & Pa. and they're pissed they cant get good pizza.
