• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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        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.

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        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.

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      Though I’d add on to that that cleaning glass can be difficult to do right. You need to clean/rinse it properly, otherwise whatever is left over will dry into streaks, which catch light like this.

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        Hehe, yeah. In the oldendays there was newspaper as an option for drying glass streak-free. It was never the best choice luckily, but it used to be prevalent. A squeegee was the old better solution, and a microfiber cloth is the new better solution.

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    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

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    I’ve been in the situation plenty as a driver and if you don’t know how to handle it, destroy your driver’s license.

    Jesus fucking Christ.

    You people have the privilege of being able to legally drive on public roads… FFS.

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        It’s a meme sure, but it’s a dismissive meme about an issue that when poorly handled, kills people. That people have a heated reaction isn’t entirely unexpected, nor strictly unreasonable.

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        Why? If people think this is an acceptable situation to go ahead and drive in, then people are going to get hurt or killed.

        How calm should I be about driver’s being so irresponsible that they endanger themselves and everyone around them because “lol, what was I supposed to do?!?” … Exactly?

        Can’t see? Don’t drive. It’s not fucking rocket surgery.

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            I’ve been having a shit week and I don’t mean to be a dick about it.

            I’m not sure why I give this much of a shit about a post that should be ha-ha funny.

            I’m sorry.

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              I hope you’re doing better, or will be soon. The world’s a shitty place at the minute. Keep the faith! Sorry if I’ve brought you down further.

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                I appreciate that. I can’t say anything is better right now, but I can say that I think I’m handling it better. So that’s something, I guess?

                Either way, I wanted to thank you very much for your words. Be well.

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    this is so a pre-2010s problem

    the new problem is LED headlights. I nearly hit somebody last week because I went when the light turned green and somebody was walking across the intersection on the other side, but completely invisible until the last second because of some asshole on the other side with LED headlights

    bUt ThEyRe StOcK aNd AiMeD pRoPeRlY

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      But I need to outshine the quasar at the center of the galaxy to see where I’m going!

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    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.

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        Nothing says “I can tell this is a joke, but it’s not funny” like telling OP that they’re acting dangerously as though they’re actually doing this, and giving them actual advice as though they asked for any.
        /s

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          Joke not funny, advice dumb. People no haha, give better advice.

          Judging by those advice posts being massively upvoted - seems most agree.

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            advice dumb. People […] give better advice.

            Not my comment flying straight over your head. That reply typifies what I’m talking about.

            What advice do you think the joke was giving? Why would you think a joke is providing actual advice? Why would you think that actual advice is a useful response to a joke?
            Even if it wasn’t funny, if you recognize it as a joke, none of the behavior makes sense. This smells strongly of lying to save face.

            Once again, I can’t tell if you’re too autistic to understand a joke, or I’m too autistic to understand your advanced satire.

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      Okay well maybe you should count me in with the autistics because what I see in that post is a filthy windshield and driver can’t see the road with the sun in their eyes and he’s also taking a picture while driving. Major threat to road safety.