#misidentifying the driver

[petit-papillion]

I'm just happy this race put a spotlight on Alex Jacques and the F1TV team and feed.

I know a lot of people watch and love F1TV, myself included, but most people still consider Sky and Crofty to be the most popular feed, and I think the F1TV crew doesn't get the recognition they deserve.

I used to watch the Sky commentary back when I was a new fan, but then I switched back to F1TV and never went back. I find they're more technical, less biased, and honestly at this point the crew is familiar to me and I love their dynamics. Alex is a great commentator. Jolyon provides really good driver knowledge and isn't afraid to call them out. DC brings some humour alongside Jolyon. Hinch is awesome when he's around (I hope he's going to Montreal!), and I do like the analyses from Sam and Alex Brundle. And of course Laura, Will and Lawrence (though I know some people dislike some of them) are really fun in the pre and post shows.

The only person I didn't love on F1TV was Ben Edwards when he filled in for Alex - I just wasn't a fan of his style of commentary or his voice. I'm not sure if he's around this year.

But yeah, I love F1TV. If any of you are not already watching it and are able to access it, I definitely recommend giving it a shot!

Yeah, I think I am now a convert tbh. I really like Martin Brundle's technical comments, and Ted can unexpectedly blurt out some gems, but Crofty should reserve his puns for Free Practice, not iconic race wins. I was disappointed with his commentary for both Lando's first win (and he is such an unapologetic Norris fanboy!) and Charles's home win.

Funny story: I had the commentary set for Sky, but my cat Orion decided mid-race it was time for Netflix (i.e. stepped on the remote) and I had to scramble to change it back to F1TV. Took me quite a few laps to realize I was not listening to Martin and Crofty anymore, and I only noticed because the commentary was so nice and quiet. I should've just left it at F1TV at that point instead of switching back. Orion was on to something there, ha ha!

I do already watch a lot of the F1TV pre/post-show and analyses, so may as well fully commit now. I love Laura - she totally wears her heart on her sleeve. Kept getting choked up after Charles's win. And man, Alex Jacques's commentary for Charles's final lap was exactly what was needed there. I am absolutely going to re-watch the last few laps of this race with his commentary. Maybe I will be able to breathe this time...

[carletes]

You ever see a fight on tumblr dot com and go “actually you’re both a little wrong”?

Edit: to be SO clear. I think max is being purposefully obtuse and harmful. My guy is not experiencing racism in this sport because of his passport please be so for real. BUT British bias absolutely exists, and drivers feeling that aren’t wrong, they’re just not experiencing racism lmao.

[thunderboltfire]

They got lost on their way to a festival.

I definitely associate each of them with different styles of rock and metal, too. Igna'd definitely listen to power metal. She'd be more concerned with how energetic and catchy her music is, than with the technicalities, and the occasional fantasy silliness is an added bonus. I'd bet she'd listen to Blind Guardian, Rhapsody of Fire and maybe Hammerfall, with a side of Battle Beast.

I can't precisely put my finger on why I associate Argo with celtic punk so strongly, but probably due to the hopelessness of it. He's pretty self-conscious about being an unitnentional failure of his family, and he faces the prospect of early death head-on. Also, coincidentally despite all my love towards celtic punk, it's not a genre known for pretty vocal XD To some degree I think regional styles of rock, especially from post-soviet countries fit him too, mainly due to the melancholic lyrics.

Theria practically has 'folk metal' written on her forehead. I'm firmly convinced in a modern AU she'd listen to Korpiklaani and Ensiferum. She probably wouldn't be opposed to listening to some variations of power and viking metal too.

I'd expect that Daen would wear t-shirts of Rammstein, but actually I associate him most strongly with Sonata Arctica. I see him as partial to good symphonic metal, too.

Haart would be your classic denim and leather wearing dad metal guy, who oscillates between New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and classic rock and metal bands. He'd have several t-shirts of Iron Maiden, he'd own the whole discography of Saxon and would bond with Igna over Gamma Ray.

[werewolfbarista]

lyft driver talked w my wife after dropping me off at my stop and he/him'd me, misidentifying me as............ a sk8er boy. but i could be. i COULD be a sk8er boy.

[pitconfirm]

I will not start discourse about people misidentifying certain drivers as twinks. but I’ll think about it

[starfragment1979]

Before I got sick, I was very much an outdoorsy person, which is one reason that becoming housebound had been so hard for me. A week or two ago I was in the kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil and a dragonfly happened to zip past the window, and I realized with a start, holy shit, I have not seen a dragonfly all summer. Because I'm just not outside. Which just fucking kills me, it really does.

But before I got sick, I spent years and years trying to learn about the plants and bugs and birds and everything around me. The city I live in is full of trails and parks and wilderness, and there's a lot of nature within walking or biking or public transit distance from anywhere in the city, and I was out in it as often as possible, and god I just miss the outside world so much.

Anyway, a lot of that knowledge is still in my head, and a lot of my learning was focused on urban nature, because as someone who's never gotten their driver's license, that was all that was available to me most of the time. But there's still a lot of nature in the city! Even without going off into the trails and parks. You just need to know where to look for it.

The problem is that a lot of wildflower field guides focus on the rare and showy and ornate flowers--because they make for pretty pictures and people buy books with pretty pictures. But that means that the growing-through-cracks-in-the-sidewalk weeds are often harder to identify, even though those are the kind of wildflower that people are more likely to see every day, because they're written off as too common to be worthy of notice or because they grow in abandoned lots or along the overgrown edges of alleyways or some other unseemly location.

So my point is, at some point in the past two decades I had misidentified this little flower as deptford pink (Dianthus armeria) and the ID just stuck in my head. But when I was writing out the alt text for my last post I realized that was wrong, but I couldn't figure out what it actually was. And it bothered me that I couldn't figure it out, that there's this super common weedy flower that I've been calling wild pinks for years and they're not wild pinks but wtf are they and am I really so out of touch with the outside world that I can't figure this out etc etc etc spiraling into gloom.

But this morning during my daily morning bed flop, I brought a bunch of my wildflower books up with me and did some better research, and I did have to make one wobbly trip down the stairs and back outside to go touch the stems to make sure they're sticky, but now I have successfully (I think) ID'ed it as dwarf sweet william catchfly (scientific name is either Silene armeria or Atocion armeria).

And like it feels so good that I was able to figure this out, that I can still learn new things even when I'm stuck at home or in bed so much of the time and that I can still make new plant friends.

[best-movie-ever-tournament]

Everything is Illuminated was described as follow:

This one is a bit out there but it's a film (partially auto-biographical, mind you) about a young American Jewish man traveling to Ukraine to locate the woman who saved his Jewish grandfather from a Nazi massacre. The film addresses what the impact of war did to a community, how some people are actively trying to erase the misdeeds and crimes of the past by wiping away the memory of the massacre victims and their town. It also shows the resilience in people committed to remembering those that were lost to war.

Atlantic Wall was described as follow:

"Just copy pasting the wikipedia summary because I couldn't do as short and detailed

The story is set during the Second World War, under the occupation of France, and shortly before the Battle of Normandy. Léon Duchemin is a peaceful restaurateur whose wife left him twenty years earlier. He lived in the company of his eccentric sister Maria, and his young adult daughter Juliette. His clients represent the whole of society in the village, ranging from Rommel's driver, to resistance fighters and black market traffickers.

One evening, during an air raid, Jeff, a British aviator whose plane was shot down, almost falls into Juliette's room. The next day, Leon hangs out with Charlus, the craftsman responsible for repainting his storefront. Leon is misidentified as the painter in question and is taken to the Kommandantur, where they have a similar job to offer him. Leon inadvertently carries a secret plan concerning the fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. Having made the acquaintance of Jeff who understands the interest of the discovery made by Leon, the latter is therefore obliged to join the French Resistance. The resistance takes the two men to England. Leon then finds himself in a British army training camp, under the orders of Jeff himself. He does not yet know that his daughter Juliette is pregnant and that the aviator will become his son-in-law."

[braxbrowastaken]

Red-light cameras often are utilized in intersections with far shorter yellow light timings than normal (sometimes illegally so) so that whoever is collecting the fines can collect more fines from:

those who were too close when the light turned to stop safely

those who were unsure of their ability to stop safely, who thus committed to passing through the intersection

those who the automated system misidentified as running a red light, possibly due to misaligned cameras, bad configuration, etc.

For good measure, speed cameras often are set up around areas with unnecessarily low speed limits (read: set below the speed limit the road is designed for/encourages) for similar reasons.

Red light cameras and speed cameras have horrible perverse incentives for the governments utilizing them (and the contractors managing them) and ironically can cause more accidents than they prevent (there's a little bit of buffer time in most intersections so that those who are just barely caught by the red have time to clear before the next group has a green) by causing drivers to slam on their brakes unpredictably to avoid fines that they often cannot afford to/choose not to contest in court, often due to the time off work required to do so.

Other ways of preventing dangerous driving are usually more effective and safer, such as by planting trees or creating structures that narrow the apparent width of the road so that people are less prone to treating them like highways and driving fast.

SQL injection via car.

[bingkitch]

Within the context of party organizations trying to win elections, I’d also like to put forward that the Democratic Party’s messaging groups (the folks who give speeches and media interviews, put out press releases and spend a lot of time shaping messages) seem to struggle with an empathy gap on how education status deeply entrenches and ties into class in the US.

That’s always been the case, and it’s an intersectional issue - but it feels like dem messengers have reached out to queer people, to Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color who don’t have an education and call out their struggles as members of those demographics, but without acknowledging how sparse opportunities are for anyone without a college education.

If you have a college education, it doesn’t mean you’re doing well. We have a ton of over-educated folks stuck in underpaid roles, but even more bleak are those who are crowded out from even those jobs because their resume doesn’t have a degree starting with a B on it.

And I think that there’s a problem when folks without educations complain about their economic prospects. Sometimes they misidentify the drivers and best solutions to economic problems, but instead of empathy, policy, and connection the surrogate response is “actually a study said the economy is great. Shut up. Uneducated people suck so fucking bad.”

It doesn’t help.

[jwood718]

Oh, poor Springfield, OH.

The story about the pets being eaten has a couple of germs: someone in Canton, OH was arrested for stomping a cat to death, while a woman in Springfield posted a fake story on Facebook about a cat being killed and hung from a tree. Then the Neo-Nazis got involved and everything went to hell, complete with "the great replacement theory" and bomb threats.

CantonRep.com's Nancy Molnar wrote about an incident in August of this year, when a woman was arrested after stomping a cat dead and (maybe?) eating part of it. The same woman was also arrested over 10 years ago and is not Haitian, and, y'know, she's in Canton (which is more than 140 miles away on the other side of the state).

The Haitians in Springfield were offered work permits and Temporary Protected Status because of the years-long strife in their island home country. Springfield's local Dole plant and an auto parts company both wanted for labor post-Covid lock-down, and the Haitians had been "trickling in" since 2017 -- so they seemed a likely population to invite in larger numbers. Essentially: factories needed workers, Haitians wanted to work, Springfield worked to make that happen.

As The Guardian's Stephen Starr writes, "the glut of new arrivals has also stretched hospitals and schools in the area, angering many locals who resented their presence. The outrage reached a crescendo last August, when an 11-year-old boy was thrown from a school bus and killed after its driver swerved to avoid an oncoming car driven by a Haitian immigrant ...Soon, rightwing extremists seized on Springfield’s unrest.

Armed neo-Nazi members of Blood Tribe...flew flags bearing swastikas and marched through a prominent downtown street while a jazz and blues festival was taking place nearby in August." Plus other asinine neo-Nazi stuff.

Then after the debates came the bomb threats. As Edward Helmore writes: "Two hospitals in Springfield, Ohio, were sent into lockdown after bomb threats, police said on Saturday, marking the fourth such case in as many days that appears linked to false claims circulating among the far right that Haitian immigrants there are eating domestic pets and wildlife."

Evacuations, searches (no bombs -- so far), frayed nerves, Haitians staying behind closed doors, Black Americans being threatened on the streets (apparently they look Haitian?) and then Helmore relates this convoluted tale:

"On Friday, a Springfield woman, Erika Lee, apologized for rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets that resulted from a post she wrote on Facebook claiming that the friend of a neighbor’s daughter lost her cat – and then found the animal strung up outside the home of a Haitian family.

Lee now says she had no firsthand knowledge of the claim. The neighbor referenced in the post, Kimberly Newton, revealed that she also had heard the story from an acquaintance and not her daughter.

Lee said she was filled with regret and insists she never intended to put a target on the backs of the Haitian community.

'It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,' Lee told NBC News on Friday."

And there may be the man in Columbus, OH, who was getting injured geese out of a roadway in that city who may have been misidentified as a hungry Haitian -- but anyway.

Plus, just icing on the cake, J.D. Vance says he just makes shit up to make a good campaign trail story!

"In a stunning admission, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, said he was willing 'to create stories' on the campaign trail while defending his spreading false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in a town in his home state of Ohio.

Vance’s remarks came during an appearance on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, where he said he felt the need 'to create stories so that the … media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people'" as Helmore writes in a separate story.

Seems to me there are plenty of ways to highlight American people suffering that doesn't require making up shit about legal workers eating pets, but once the rumor mill starts churning, why not just keep it going?

[automatismoateo]

My Atheist Hot-Take: Religious people train their brains to work wrong. via /r/atheism

My Atheist Hot-Take: Religious people train their brains to work wrong. I'd welcome anyone educated in neuro-science to chime-in on this, but I'm of the opinion that the interplay between neuroplasticity and religiously-minded thought-patterns causes religiously-minded people to literally build their brains wrong. My (admittedly limited) understanding is that the human brain, complex as it is, largely presents in two ways. Often referred to as subconscious and conscious, lizard-brain and mammalian-brain, amygdala and grey-matter; etc etc. The former controls our survival instincts and fear-responses, while the latter is self-aware and can do math. So one assumes that, optimally, that the best way for our brains to work is that our grey-matter uses its complex logical capacity to govern and oversee the much-more impulsive and irrational reactions of its counterpart. Religious thought-patterns, however, operate entirely opposed to this. A core assertion of practically every religion is that it puts our conscious mind in-touch with something. Whether that something is a canonized 'God', a more abstract concept of 'spirituality', or some manner of pseudo-psychic bond with the rest of reality. In-short, I assert that the something which religiously-minded people are trying to connect with is simply their own subconscious, which religious indoctrination has caused them to misidentify as an entity or idea outside of themselves. As a result, they start using their grey-matter to justify their subconscious impulses rather than to regulate them in any way - Because to try and regulate those impulses would literally be questioning God/The Stars/Your Connection to the Universe; or whatever one's subconscious has been misattributed as. This is where the aspect of neuroplasticity I mentioned at the beginning comes in, which I'd appreciate a more informed perspective on: Neuroplasticity is the reason that 'habits' exist. Our brains are complex problem-solving instruments, and when it finds a resolution to a problem which assuages it, it literally builds that solution into its neurons; and tends to approach future problems with a similar solution. So, every time a religious person invokes willful ignorance to discount the ways their beliefs are provably wrong; every time they casually throw-out a thought-terminating cliché; every time they appeal to a concept like 'faith' rather than thinking about a subject any deeper; they're training their brain to continue operating that way. They're actively putting their lizard-brain in the driver's seat over their mammalian logic. Over enough time they'll actively re-wire their brain to operate this way by default, effectively becoming slaves to their own innate preconceptions and prejudices because the whole rest of their brain is utilized to reinforce these things rather than manage them. This is why there's such high degrees of overlap between religious conservatism and most forms of bigotry. Innate human tribalism causes our animal brains to send-off some uncomfortable signals when we see someone different from ourselves. Most people are able to logic-through those feelings and mitigate their impact on our behavior - Eventually leashing these impulses to be less-severe as we keep our logical minds in the metaphorical 'drivers seat'. However a religious mind feels that same tribalism, and puts it in control of their logic by beginning to concoct justifications for why they should feel that way. These kinds of self-reinforcing systems are why it's so hard to argue with - not just religious people - but anyone who's emotionally-entrenched themselves into something they believe. Submitted July 06, 2024 at 12:17AM by Geminel (From Reddit https://ift.tt/rWyH85E)

[ainews]

Gargoyles have become a popular subject in literature, movies, and even video games, but the mythical creatures also seem to have a strange relationship with roadways. Some people have reported seeing gargoyles on various highways and streets, while others have claimed that these creatures are the reason for accidents and mysterious road markings. But why are roadways so fictitious for differences of gargoyles?

First of all, let’s clarify what gargoyles are. These winged creatures are often depicted as monstrous and grotesque, with long talons, leathery wings, and sometimes even horns. They have been a part of European architecture since the Middle Ages, adorning cathedrals, churches, and other structures as decorative sculptures. But as time went on, gargoyles made their way into popular culture and have even become a symbol of protection against evil spirits.

With this background, it’s no wonder that people have reported seeing gargoyles on roadways. The creatures have a strong association with buildings and architecture, so it’s not surprising that they have been spotted near roads and highways. However, it’s important to note that these sightings are most likely misidentifications or hoaxes.

In most cases, the “gargoyles” seen on roadways are actually misidentified animals or simple illusions created by the environment. For example, a large bird perched on a streetlight may appear as a gargoyle to a passing driver. Additionally, streetlights and other structures can cast shadows that might resemble the menacing figures of gargoyles.

On the other hand, there have been reports of individuals deliberately placing gargoyle-like sculptures or props on roads and highways to scare drivers or create viral internet content. These hoaxes only add to the false notion that gargoyles are somehow connected to roadways.

Finally, it’s important to mention that accidents and mysterious road markings are not caused by gargoyles. These are often just coincidences or the result of weather conditions and other factors. Blaming these occurrences on fictional creatures not only spreads false information, but it also takes away from the real causes and solutions of road issues.

In conclusion, roadways are not fictitious for differences of gargoyles. While these creatures may hold a significant place in art and imagination, they have no real connection to highways and streets. As exciting as it may seem to spot a gargoyle while driving, it’s important to keep a logical and critical mindset to avoid falling for hoaxes and creating false narratives. So next time you hear a story about gargoyles on roadways, take it with a grain of salt.

[hirosensei]

Actually I may have misidentified the source of my philosophy (I'm gonna have to call this "love of wisdom" when using it in this sense to differentiate it from it's more recently reified meanings sorry). Well, I haven't examined that before, anyways, I just assumed I "liked it for the sake of liking it" as it were, and phobagnosis was the first thing I reached for when pressed for a deeper underpinning. I definitely often do experience phobagnosis, though, as well as FOMO (phobamperia!...Am I doing this right?), which I think are related to eachother. Hmm, much to consider. Is it not enough to say I love wisdom for the sake of loving wisdom, much as practitioners of pure sciences seek knowledge for the sake of seeking knowledge? (Suddenly realizing the possibility that you may have meant one of the more recent meanings of philosophy in the op and my parsing it for the bit is derailing the whole conversation...yeah if you meant something like "personal worldview" originally I think I agree with you outright, but I digress.)

Alright, you appear to be offering a dichotomy for the underpinnings for one's love of wisdom, either love or fear of the world. I don't think I care strongly about the world like that? At least, not in an abstract sense like that. Concretely I think the world is fine enough, considering I exist in it, although things could be better, considering I and many others have been in a state of suffering within it. I do enjoy learning about the world, although I also enjoy learning about counterfactual worlds and possible worlds (and I dare to say I would enjoy learning about the absolute if it were possible to do!), not just the real world. Can such knowledge contribute to love of wisdom and vice versa also? Does enjoying learning about a world count as loving it?

Hmm, okay back to phobagnosis and FOMO, are these things drivers of my behavior, or are they just undercurrents that temper or even interfere with my experiences? (This is probably the most important question I've asked myself today, thank you sincerely). I may need to observe and report back on that. Which may be difficult considering the [circumstances I probably shouldn't be too specific about online]. Hmm...

yeah it's past my bedtime I don't think I'm arriving at a conclusion here

I suppose I feel like, if philosophy doesn't emerge from philocosmy, what's the point? But for many, philosophy seems to emerge from phobocosmy...

[jimclarkposting]

i live in constant fear of misidentifying drivers in posts (like that time i didn't look a photo closely enough and went "ah yes this is a fine photo of didier pironi" when in fact it was instagram icon jean-pierre jarier)

[zerogate]

The Kaṭha Upaniṣad (3.9) compares the body to a chariot, the senses to the horses, the mind to the reins that control the horses, the buddhi to the driver who controls the reins and charts the course, and the puruṣa to the inactive passenger. Buddhi, intelligence; ahaṅkāra, ego; and manas, mind, together comprise the internal body (antaḥkaraṇa), the inner noetic world of thoughts, emotions, feelings, determination, will, cognitions, memories, etc. The puruṣa soul is cloaked in these psychic layers prior to receiving a gross body and senses. As noted, the Yoga school, while using the terminology of (especially) buddhi, but also ahaṅkāra and manas, differs somewhat from that of Sāṅkhya in conceiving these three as interacting functions of the one citta, mind, rather than as three distinct metaphysical layers. Citta, then, is the term used by Patañjali and the commentators to refer to all three of these cognitive functions combined (thus it is not a separate evolute from prakṛti).

[...]

According to Patañjali’s definition in the second sūtra, yoga is the cessation (nirodha) of the activities or permutations (vṛttis) of the citta. The vṛttis refer to any sequence of thought, ideas, mental imaging, or cognitive act performed by the mind, intellect, or ego as defined above—in short, any state of mind whatsoever. It cannot be over-stressed that the mind is merely a physical substance that selects, organizes, analyzes, and molds itself into the physical forms of the sense data presented to it; in and of itself it is not aware of them. Sense impressions or thoughts are imprints in that mental substance, just as a clay pot is a product made from the substance clay, or waves are permutations of the sea. The essential point for understanding yoga is that all forms or activities of the mind are products of prakṛti, matter, and completely distinct from the soul or true self, puruṣa, pure awareness or consciousness.

[...]

The citta can profitably be compared to the software, and the body to the hardware. Neither is conscious; they are rather forms of gross matter, even as the former can do very intelligent activities. Both software and hardware are useless without the presence of a conscious observer. Only puruṣa is truly alive, that is, aware or conscious. When uncoupled from the mind, the soul, puruṣa, in its pure state, that is, in its own constitutional, autonomous condition—untainted by being misidentified with the physical coverings of the body and mind—is free of content and changeless; it does not constantly ramble and flit from one thing to another the way the mind does. To realize pure awareness as an entity distinct and autonomous from the mind (and, of course, body), thought must be stilled and consciousness extracted from its embroilment with the mind and its incessant thinking nature. Only then can the soul be realized as an entity completely distinct from the mind (a distinction such clichés as “self-realization” attempt to express), and the process to achieve this realization is yoga.

--  Edwin F. Bryant, The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali