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[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every time you're in a car going over 55mph.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's actually pretty slow. That's like 80 km/h.

That's like every time I'm in a car. On the Highway 130-200km/h is normal, but I'm way too scared to drive more than 160km/h (100 mph)

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Car on car: At 70mph (my interstate's posted speed in the USA) or 112 kph the chance of dying is about 50%. FWIW this is actually pretty hard to verify with direct studies/data after researching.

For every 10 mph of increased speed, the risk of dying in a crash doubles. In addition, as your speed increases so does your risk of serious injuries and damage to vehicles and property. In fact, speed accounted for approximately one-third of all traffic deaths in 2018, totaling 9,378 deaths.

https://www.emcins.com/losscontrol/insights-d/2020/08/speed-increases-risk/

https://www.keatingfirmlaw.com/post/what-speed-crash-becomes-fatal-1

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/speed-campaign-speeding-fatalities-14-year-high

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Car on pedestrian: A healthy adult has a 50% chance of dying when getting hit 70 kph or ~45mph. At 55mph, it's basically 80%. Many studies confirm this.

Sauce: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Fatality-risk-as-a-function-of-impact-speed-for-different-ages-of-pedestrians-based-on_fig2_264942812

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But isn't this about when you're outside a car?

So it's more like: you have a pretty high chance of dying when you get hit by a car as a pedestrian.

But what are the chances of getting hit by a car? Sure, lots of people die every year due to car accidents, but what is the chance that it's actually you getting hit.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I led with the car on car statistics and followed with the car on pedestrian.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yes, but not everytime you're in a car you crash someone.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

newIdentity, 1 hour ago

Well yes, but not everytime you’re in a car you crash someone.

You drunk bro? lol

Go reread the post, because you're missing something lmfao.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You drunk bro? lol

Nah. I just haven't slept that well since I took 1.1g of 5-HTP. Don't do that. The "high" isn't worth the stomach pain, throwing up and insomnia. The barely existing but definitely existing visuals are pretty cool though.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Level 5 trips are the craziest. I've only experienced them... 3-4 times off the top of my head but they each were pretty special.

Hope you get some good rest though! Glad the visuals were neat.

I mean 5-Hydroxytryptophan, the serotonin precursor. It wasn't really a "trip" and more like blurry vision and very mild drifting, similar to LSD or MDMA. It definitely was there and wasn't just there because I wanted it to have an effect. It literally just highers your serotonin production, but not MDMA does.

I probably just had a light overdose and light serotonin syndrome or something like that. Should've stayed with 0.9g