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Polarized sunglasses.
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.
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.
Oh yeah, EcoLab is used in pretty much every restaurant I’ve ever seen the back of. Good shit.
Thank you for this!! I’ll be picking some up this weekend.
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!
Alternatively, if you get those rings of iron right at the water line that refuse to wash away, pumice stones work great.
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.
[off topic]
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.’
Important to note:
LLMs absolutely do not use logic.
Hehe, I just meant the collecting and redistributing knowledge part. Though yes, it also doesn’t qualify as knowledge, just a string of words that seems like it fits the occasion. Though… not to sell myself short, but not super far off.
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.
As an incredibly forgetful neurotypical person
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.
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.
Fine enough for the car ahead of you but then there’s the issue of oncoming traffic.
I would love to know why anybody would downvote this observation.
I guess some people can’t imagine a 2-lane, opposed traffic route/rural highway. 🤷
If there’s a lot of traffic then increasing the distance every time someone fills in the gap, you’ll soon be standing still hah. Not every issue can be fixed, just gotta wash it with windshield wiper fluid often
Late is better than calling insurance. Maintain distance.
Maintain sensible distance for sure
Then stand still
I don’t think stopping in the middle of a highway is a good idea
I don’t think driving a multi ton machine while blind is a good idea
No shit lol
You know you are arguing a lot about your right to drive blind. You might be a narcissist. You are arguing very clearly that if you hurt someone while driving blind it’s their fault.
Maybe you are just incapable of empathy. If you kill people bit you get to your destination quicker… that’s a Win.
Maybe you just suck?
Let me ask you this
You’ll get 1 million dollars but a new born infant will be skinned alive… do you take the money?
I think you need a breather, my friend
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
An actual adult in the room.
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.
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.
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.
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
Geeeez, just rotate the image π/2 radians then.
How would that help? his eyes are closed. Didn’t you read it?
Ohh nah, I was reminding myself to wash my window.
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
You stick your head out the window like Ace Ventura
Instructions unclear. Stuck my head out of a rhinoceros’ ass.
No I think you nailed it
reverse-nailed it, more like.
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
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
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 think it’s a joke
I trust Jesus will keep me safe.
Like holy shit why would you see this and thick that OP is really doing this for real?
Clean your windshield (correctly) and get some polarized sunglasses
But first he should surrender his driver’s license after revealing he’s a careless threat to his road safety & others’.
Or! And hear me out, here. A wile E. Coyote style painted brick wall.
Not drive. If you can’t see you are supposed to not drive.
\*slams brakes in the middle of the road*
NO EXCEPTIONS
You’d kill less people that way
I’m not sure the people driving behind me would agree
They’d live to disagree. The people you kill by driving blind wouldn’t. That survivorship biase
They’ll survive. Their cars might not…
Nobody will die , so I’m not sure what you’re saying.
Rear-ending someone at highway speed is pretty fucking dangerous to everyone involved
Is this the only argument?
Because while that’s dangerous, modern safety standards in vehicles mean the probability of mortality in these situations is substantially reduced.
My point is that people won’t die, not that it’s a good thing to do.
People die from being rear-ended or rear-ending someone all the time though
Irs actually not dangerous in the same way driving blind is. I doubt you care about crumple Zones.
In one situation you drive blindly into an accident… the other “well rear ending can sometimes be bad!!!”
It never is. The you’re wrong, crazy, and also stupid.
You’re entire argument is “driving blindly is safer than stopping blindly” it’s dumb. It’s a dumb argument. When is going ever safer than stopping lol? You are dumb.
You do realize that if you are driving blind on a highway you would probably rear-end someone, same thing you would do by slamming on the breaks lol
should’ve had following distance.
Indeed. However, it won’t do you much good if you’re being blinded by the light and can’t see.
I can’t control the car behind me and I definitely don’t want them slamming into me
clean your windshield that shit is dirty as fuuck
If only there were some device built into all cars to block out the sun and clean your windshield while driving!
Some individuals even have articulated limbs capable of blocking specific overly bright spots of their point-of-view at a comfortable distance from the eyes.
While laborious & not as cool as driving several tons at speed blind, some would insist that driving without such high-level-of-complexity solution wound be insane.
Some individuals even have articulated limbs capable of blocking specific overly bright spots of their point-of-view at a comfortable distance from the eyes.
Big if true!
As I understand, some have several digits at the very end of those forelimbs and possess sufficient dexterity to use specifically the middle one of those to block the bright light.
GTFOH troll. Stop playing on fantasy land.
* but also, have a baseball-cap in the car.
Love to see Limmy on Lemmy!
What is your name traveller… 😆
I would love to see Limmy on Lemmy. He’d fit right in here.
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.
I hope you did them a proper Brit and yelled “you cannot park there mate” 😉
with the driver stood on his phone.
What terrible luck, first he breaks his car, then steps on his phone and probably breaks that too!
Can’t stand these super bright headlights, like everyone has high beams on constantly.
That’s the sun >.>
yeah well someone should do something about this “sun”
yeah and it drives like an asshole
It seems like the sun is being reflected off the bus’s window.
Would polarising glasses help?No, it’s the actual direct fucking Sun ffs
Oh right.
Had to look at it a bit longer to realise.
The rear light on that vehicle looked kinda like that of a bus though.Kill it!
High beams are worse because they direct the light up and out. And assholes think they can get away with it because they don’t have “the bright” lights.
tbh I’d rather drive by a 2010 car with high beams on than a 2020 car with lowbeam LEDs
and have done many times, it’s hilarious to be able to see better when a 2008 Corolla is coming towards me with high beams on that are perfectly adequate for lighting up the highway at speed, and a 2020 Corolla goes by after it and I can’t see the fucking road at all or anything around it or even where the 2020 car exactly is
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’m still pretty sure the meme is a joke. Ever heard of context clues?
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?
Do you camp in the wilderness? Because most people insist on bringing their car or their SUV with them.
I make it a point to cycle to provincial parks and use rustic camp grounds, but most of these still have parking spaces. In fact, the provincial parks here literally have a disclaimer on their website to warn people that some camp sites are not accessible by car. You have to tick a box that says “I understand this camp ground is not accessible by car”.
And if people want to go on crown/public lands where wild camping is permitted, then they’re probably gonna use a fucking car.
I camp in the wilderness. I can still hear the cars. There is no escape. You’d have to go way out into the wild to be free from noise pollution. Or other pollution. And there’s still going to be both.
So go to one of those campsites inaccessible by car and spend a couple days
That’s the point. You have to traverse serious wilderness to get away from it. It used to be the normal state of the world. Now it’s all fucking smog and 24/7 engine noise. You’d have to go seriously off grid to get away from it.
I do, I do. There’s always engine noise. You can’t escape it. I can’t even imagine what life must have been like five hundred years ago. It must have been so quiet and peaceful. No cars, no radios, no tvs, no planes, not the constant droning of some kind of engine, not even lights.
In the evenings it would be calm and quiet and dark, apart from conversation, maybe some birds chirping, the sounds of an inn cooking dinner and serving guests, the only light coming from flickering candles or torches or fires. Streets were for walking. You’d meet people, friends, enemies, children, pretty girls, and I believe it would all be fairly hushed early in the evening, because people would go to bed when it was dark and no further work could be done for the day, and men would sit huddled around campfires and drink whatever beverage they had, like wine or beer, from bottles made of glass or clay.
Sure, there’d be some serious drawbacks to that life too, but at least their air wasn’t poison, they didn’t breathe poison.
I’ve seen another “joke” like this when I was on reddit and I had to save it to remind me how most people think it’s funny to drive a multi ton lethal vehicle when they can’t see shit around them.
You saw a joke and you though “this just be what most people truly believe”?
Can you walk me through how you reached that conclusion?
Just perform a safety squint.
