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Happy International Women's
Day 2021! At first I thought this was to celebrate international women like
Gal Gadot and Sofia Vergara. It turns out to be an international celebration of
all women with a focus on fighting gender bias. With all due respect to Gal and
Sofia, that's probably for the best. They get enough attention every day as it
is.
Obituary: Allan McDonald, Who Refused To Approve Shuttle Challenger Launch, Dead At 83. Thanks RedEye9.
Obituary: Allan McDonald, Who Refused To Approve Shuttle Challenger Launch, Dead At 83. Thanks RedEye9.
International Round-up
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- Dos.Zone. An interactive database of DOS games playable in a browser (see also Internet Archive). Thanks Boing Boing.
Breakfast Links
- Motor Vehicle Deaths in 2020 Estimated to be Highest in 13 Years, Despite Dramatic Drops in Miles Driven. Thanks Max.
- Women used to dominate the beer industry – until the witch accusations started pouring in. Thanks Acleacius.
- The worst bed also perhaps the best.
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RedEye9 wrote on Mar 8, 2021, 13:33:jdreyer wrote on Mar 8, 2021, 13:30:My uneducated guess is less public transportation use.
Motor Vehicle Deaths in 2020 Estimated to be Highest in 13 Years, Despite Dramatic Drops in Miles Driven.
Surprising, I would have thought a drop in deaths by 25% over 2019. I wonder what the cause is. Self driving cars can't come soon enough.
You have a lot of people that went out and bought vehicles so they could avoid buses and subways, and most of them I bet are unskilled drivers.
I bet the number of fender benders are through the roof.
I like your thinking here. Would explain the uptick even while miles driven are down. I wonder if the massive uptick in Instacart, etc. use is part of it too. People rushing around to deliver stuff before it melts.
I'm a smoldering volcano of virility. At least, that's what I tell myself.
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