• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Headphones
• Game controller
• Occasional thumb drive
• since you’re talking average user, a printer

I’m all for this on laptops. I’ve had external monitors for so long that when I have to work using only the laptop screen, it’s difficult to be effective. It’s great that laptops are small and light but I’ll sacrifice some of that for more screen size

Wtf

Voting is key. People could have taken the ACA as the new normal and voted progressive so we could start moving to something more progressive. Instead we voted regressive.

Can never seem to shift society at all left before it gets shoved hard right again

Hate to say it but blaming doctors is another part of class war. Let’s blame everything on high doctor salaries so insurance companies, PBMs, pharmaceutical research companies, etc can still make huge profits at the cost of the most expensive healthcare system in the workd

Every attempt to make something idiot creates a bigger idiot

While I totally see the point this is already “solved” in that they shouldn’t have high beams on in the first place.

Pedestrians and cyclists are tough because drivers don’t think to toggle their high beams, even If they see pedestrians and auto-high beams aren’t any better. We’re out of luck

In my neighborhood we have very narrow streets and where there are sidewalks not pavement right next to the street. I never thought I’d appreciate the small amount of separation a standard sidewalk give but it actually does make a difference in how blinded your u are by traffic. But the bottom Line is similar to yours: this is a high density neighborhood with streetlights where no one should use high beams to begin with. Realistically there are several Poorly placed houses whose owners are probably even more frustrated

I’ll take being briefly blinded as a car hits a pothole over ten terrifying seconds of zero visibility as a monstrous vehicle careens toward me and I have no idea where the street is or what’s in it

At least in Manhattan, traffic is usually slow enough that pedestrians are at least as fast. Also they tend to go as a crowd. I’ll usually wait for the light but when hundreds of other pedestrians swarm into the street I figure we’re fairly visible and safe.

I would never drive in Manhattan simply because it’s the slowest and most frustrating way to get around. I used to drive around queens when I had a girlfriend there but we’d always take a train around the city, and I’m sure traffic has only gotten worse. It’s just not worth it

This may be another case of needing technology to rescue people who are just that dumb.

• Auto-high beams have been getting better over the years to the point that humans can no longer claim to be more responsive. They just work. Every time. And never forget
• my car has active matrix headlights and it’s freaky to drive at night with the high beams on and watch a dark spot follow surrounding cars

In ten years we’ll all forget how to toggle off high beams, as it will just work most of the time. But at the same time we’ll be blinded less as the machine never forgets

My similar anecdote is people taking a right on red without stopping (or apparently looking), and would probably be included in those statistics. Since there may be a pedestrian or cyclist just around the corner you can’t see until you’re at the intersection, stopping and looking is critical for safety

I used to be a proponent of right on red, because who wants to be stuck at a dead intersection? If you only consider cars, it’s a nice efficiency gain. But now non-car users like pedestrians and cyclists don’t have a safe time to cross the intersection. And it’s so much worse now that people turning right on red seem to have forgotten the parts about “after coming to a complete stop” and “yielding to other traffic”

I knew someone who did that because the sidewalks were too uneven. She had bad ankles and kept rolling them trying to walk in the sidewalk

Since pandemic I’ve fallen twice because of bad sidewalks. It’s embarrassing as shit

We’re still working on the loss of caring about driving from pandemic. For some reason it brought out the worst in people, and some of them are still there

I’m not buying that. Sure, what you say is absolutely true but we’re talking pedestrian deaths. That’s more of the fault of the high steel wall at the front, and that is purely a style choice.

There are plenty of cars with stock LED headlights and proper cutoffs, so they’re less blinding than traditional headlights

It’s aftermarket “illegal” LEDs, LEDs that are misaligned or started at a bad height, and way too many drivers who never turn off their high beams. Yet another safety rule we only pay lip service to, resulting in unnecessary deaths

My stock Subaru can handle more off-roading than most trucks ever do

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Doge was a complete failure. Just like a leading EV manufacturer with a dominant chain of superchargers firing their entire charger group. Not saving any significant money, just hurting ourselves, and will have to try to hire than all back …. Just to replace an inspired and motivated group with the same people who are now disgruntled and just going through the motions

No but Biden helped boost the economy on a long recovery after Covid, set us up for the future with a huge investment in long neglected infrastructure, and gave us hope for domestic manufacturing by investing in upcoming technologies.

You can see how Trump would want to undo that. /s

Maybe that’s the real reason for the focus on tariffs. People don’t understand it and don’t see it directly: it’s easier to lie about

That was one of my objections to replacing kitchen appliances for all too long. I’m not even going to consider all the same brand. But they’ve added enough “styling elements” that it’s tougher to fill a kitchen with similar appliances from different manufacturers