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Once I was driving up a windy moorland road near Haworth — proper Brontë Country — straight into the sunset and I was going at an absolute crawl, feeling pretty self conscious that I was holding up traffic somehow. Think I made the right decision though as we saw a car that’d tried to go at speed off the road down a gully after entirely missing a corner, with the driver stood on his phone.
* but also, have a baseball-cap in the car.
Love to see Limmy on Lemmy!
This comment section is either too autistic or not autistic enough, because they’re either unable to identify the joke in the post, or I’m unable to identify their level 7 advanced satire.
Not drive. If you can’t see you are supposed to not drive.
Yeah. City roads should have been planned on the 45°, not the cardinal compass directions. Would have prevented this and saved lives. The sun would be higher and not be in your face as much.
http://stevekluge.com/astronomy/riseazimuth.html
At the Equator, where the Sun rises and sets perpendicular to the horizon, the Summer Solstice Sun rises 23.5° north of due East, and sets 23.5° north of due West.
The Sun moves around a lot over a year. I don’t think it’s practical to try to plan a grid around it.
Oh hey Jesus, mind taking the wheel bud? Thanks!
Clean your windshield, inside and out, and polarized sunglasses, or sunglass clips for glasses. And make sure any level of astigmatism you may have is known and corrected for.
If after washing your windshield, it still scatters the incoming light too much, it is probably pitted. You may have to consider replacing it. It is part of maintaining a vehicle. It may suck to be surprised with an expense like that, but the surprise expense of an avoidable accident is much worse. And might not only be expensive.
Clean your windshield, inside and out,
Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.
Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don’t stare directly into the sun.
That’s why it’s really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.
If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can’t fix everyone, you can only fix you.
But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.
Every so often I have moments like this where I encounter actual adults out in the wild and am reminded that I am just masquerading, and poorly.
I recently found a new shower cleaner that actually works for the first time, and it cleaned the heavy deposits from my weird local water on my tub in less than five minutes, which normally takes me half and hour or more of scrubbing.
I felt like a superior adult, started sharing the news with all of my fellow grown up children. Maybe some day I’ll identify a funny noise in my car as well and earn my real adult degree.
For those of us adulting along at home, could you tell us the name of the product you used for the shower?
Made by a company called EcoLab, legitimately made me happy for days every time I saw my tub and remembered it was actually clean.
Thank you for this!! I’ll be picking some up this weekend.
Oh yeah, EcoLab is used in pretty much every restaurant I’ve ever seen the back of. Good shit.
Please share, if my water was any harder rocks would come out of the tap.
I have the same issue. For your toilet, get some bar keepers friend liquid toilet cleaner. Shits magic.
I have some BKF for the kitchen sink but didn’t know they made toilet cleaner, thanks for the tip!
Sweet, thanks! Fingers crossed this will be the answer to my shower woes 🤞
I’m rooting for you! I’m convinced it’s magic so it might even cure diseases, who knows.
I am an autistic 41 year old man that lives in my parents basement. I just collect information and re-distribute it where it is needed.
I am basically the pre-cursor to an LLM, an LLM made of meat.
If you’ve ever watched or read anything with that “wise old hermit” that people line up to ask their philosophical questions to. That was an oldendays autistic person of the same type as me. Can’t function in society, but has no emotional thinking to cloud their logic. The thing is, no matter how logical the advice was, and how much it made sense in the moment, it may not have been applicable to normal people. Though I am of course aware of the nature and source of my clarity and try to keep it in mind when giving advice. Unlike the wise hermits of old.
Not to say I am always right, and not to say logic is always the correct solution. But it often is, and I often am.
The next time someone calls me a know-it-all I shall inform them that I am actually just an LLM made of meat.
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You might enjoy this graphic novel. A post man with Asperger’s serves a town whose entire population is hiding from the law.
He’s your ‘wise hermit.’
Well as someone who has crewed on race cars and had a hand in building more than a few, not a single word of what you said was wrong.
As an incredibly forgetful neurotypical person with a partner who is on the spectrum, I cannot say how much I appreciate her and you.
We all learn from each other bro. You’re doing great, just for the fact you can recognize good advice. We are all imposters. Keep plugging.
No no no just because we know the grown up thing to do doesnt mean it happens. It means we grumble about “getting around to it” and dont.
Eh if it was pitted you’d probably see the light shining the pock marks even when dirty. This just looks like OP hasn’t cleaned the inside of their windshield in a while.
It was general advice for the situation, not specific to the image. There are many things that can cause it to be much more difficult to see when driving towards a low sun than it actually needs to be. It’s not a great situation at it’s best, but it shouldn’t be fully debilitating.
I used to avoid driving at certain times of day because I thought my astigmatism was making it too difficult to see. Turns out it was my windshield! Cost about $400 to to replace
I’m impressed you got your windshield replaced in one hour on Black Friday
Lol! I had it replaced two months ago. Of course now I’m wondering if Safelite runs Black Friday sales
you can show up to work before sunrise and leave after sunset.
signed,
your boss
Easy enough in the winter. This pic is my commute both ways in autumn though.
Your own fault for living west of your workplace.
easily done with 10am sunrise and 2pm sunset
Wash your window, dumbass.
Why… why did that arm need to be digitally (ha!) added to the otherwise perfectly fine clip?
Because he points to the left and thy wanted to point to the comment above
Oh. My bad, it never even cross my mind. So it’s basically the gif equivalent of “This.”?
Thy doth pointeth
you put on the hazard lights and slow down while steering to the side of the road to assess the situation or until you can see again.
like holy shit why would you even consider accelerating when you can’t see where you’re going
I think it’s a joke
It’s a funny joke image with silly joke text, it ain’t that serious
Except that it’s not funny. :p
Jesus take the wheel jokes are always funny
I trust Jesus will keep me safe.
You stick your head out the window like Ace Ventura
Done this to get kids to school on time once or twice. Twas only for a few seconds/meters but was mildly scary all the same
Instructions unclear. Stuck my head out of a rhinoceros’ ass.
No I think you nailed it
Of course, just step on the gas. But more importantly, don’t forget to shout "FOR FRODO!! while doing it.
Take a photo of your filthy windshield in the sun so you have something to post as engage-bait when you get home…
Or don’t ever outside and just repost other people’s engage-bait…
Either way.
Slow the fuck down?
Car brainrot is real
Car brainrot [sic] is real
I’m pretty sure the meme is a joke.
Literally said “literally”
I hate cars more than anything on this planet. And my great sorrow is that when I die, I will never have seen a car-free day in my life.
You could spend a day camping in the wilderness before you die?
I hate this so much. I’m secretly hoping a rock will crack my windshield bad enough that my insurance will pay for a new one.
Have you cleaned the inside of your windscreen?
They can get scratched up, but if you haven’t cleaned the inside of the glass before, most of the crud is probably there and cleaning it will make a huge difference.
People who vape in their car need to do it minimum monthly. The film of glycol just makes everything look smeared.
Vaping in my car is what made me start keeping a microfiber cloth in my door pocket. The vape went away, but the cloth is actually really handy for cleaning off the window when sitting at red lights. Would recommend to everyone that drives.
Funny thing about rocks, they are everywhere. Grab one and get crackin
