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Sometimes it happens, and sometimes not. I lost my wallet 4 times in total, 3 in Brazil (which is $HOME), 1 in Germany. Got it back 3 out of 4 times. Guess where.
Are you sure you didn't lose your wallet 1 time in Brazil and 7 times in Germany?
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> Speeding tickets make sense. They're putting people's lives in danger by speeding. Driving is the most dangerous thing most people do regularly. Having a set of predictable behaviors saves a lot of lives. People who think that think they're "great drivers" or "everyone else is doing it" violate those norms and create risk. Speed at which you drive has very little to do with your predictability. "Oh, no, Betty is dr…
"Even if you try to give an example of someone coming up on your left at a 50+mph difference" 70 mph in a school zone? Not an issue if you just look both ways before crossing the street! Seriously (not that you sound very serious) every morning, I make a left turn out of my development onto a nominally 30 mph road where people go 40-45, and it's impossible to see very far to the left before pulling out. Given normal…
If the visibility is good, there's nothing wrong with going faster. Aggressive speed limits make more sense to be followed when there's very limited visibility, high chance of stops, people crossing the road, intersections, etc.
But if visibility is good, I don't see it making a difference much in what speed you're going.
Everyone who picked her up warned her that what she was doing was very dangerous. She was lucky, they said, to get a ride from them, and not the criminals all around them. She got ride after ride like that. Family after family picked her up and took her along on their trip and all of them said, “You are in danger! You are lucky we are the ones who picked you up!”
In this manner, she traveled around Mexico for a month, and she never had a dangerous ride.
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There is an interesting selection bias at work. 1) If someone on the street approaches you, they are probably up to something. 2) If you randomly select someone on the street you have probably picked a moral and upstanding person who would love to do you a good turn. Because of (1) people tend to be a lot more defensive than they need to be when assessing what the average stranger is likely to do.
The same thing applies if something gets stolen. Countless individuals have "not" stolen that item. You only take note when it gets stolen.
I am nervous with one other person in my subway car.
I feel completely safe with 5+ unrelated people in my subway car.
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Wtf? It _is_ a dark pattern. It prevents you from _knowing_ someone has messaged you. In 99,9% of cases you want to know someone sent you a message.
In 99.9% of cases you don't. It's mostly spam. Facebook is a friend platform, not a stranger platform. Don't use it to message strangers, it's very explicitly not what the platform is designed for.
In terms of the kindness of strangers, I’m reminded of a friend who decided she wanted to hitch hike around Mexico when she was 18. She was poor but she wanted adventures. She wanted to get away from the beaten path, away from tourist traps, and go out into the rural areas so she could discover what Mexico was really like. Everyone who picked her up warned her that what she was doing was very dangerous. She was lucky…
In terms of the kindness of strangers, I’m reminded of a friend who decided she wanted to hitch hike around Mexico when she was 18. She was poor but she wanted adventures. She wanted to get away from the beaten path, away from tourist traps, and go out into the rural areas so she could discover what Mexico was really like. Everyone who picked her up warned her that what she was doing was very dangerous. She was lucky…
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/2...
Life lesson: Keep a note with your email address in your wallet - clearly marked "wallet owner's email". Paranoid version of the life lesson: Keep a note with an anonymized email address, with forwarding set up for the message to go to your actual mailbox, in your wallet.
I assume your drivers license is in your wallet. You are concerned about anonymized email?
The times I’ve found a wallet, I’ve called one of those support lines. The support person was able to contact their customer to give them my phone number. The customer called/texted me, and we arranged for them to pickup the wallet. This has worked every time to get the wallet back to its owner within a couple hours of my finding it with minimal inconvenience to me.
In terms of the kindness of strangers, I’m reminded of a friend who decided she wanted to hitch hike around Mexico when she was 18. She was poor but she wanted adventures. She wanted to get away from the beaten path, away from tourist traps, and go out into the rural areas so she could discover what Mexico was really like. Everyone who picked her up warned her that what she was doing was very dangerous. She was lucky…
He ended up being not the worst and let me keep my keys and license when I asked.
It only takes once, and the consequences for her would probably have been much worse.