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You simply underestimate how many people will be lining up to buy bootleg lettuce out of the back of a van so that they can save 10 cents off the for-profit store price while not having to suffer the indignity of going to the commie store. Only have to move a few tons a day to make a tidy profit, it’s easy money!

Dave’s not here man

This goes against all the hard data we’ve got from the past 80 years of the Fed independently managing interest rates, but yeah dawg, I’m sure your vibes-based economic theory has finally cracked the code that Shadow Emperor JPow has been hiding from us, and all that rampant inflation from 0% interest rates is fake news.

For the sake of argument, let’s use your numbers and say an average astronaut ends up taking a dozen flights on rockets designed to NASA’s 1-in-270 “loss of crew” standard. If that probability holds, then we would expect 4.4% of all astronauts flying in modern rockets to be in a fatal accident during their 12-mission career.

For comparison, lifetime driving fatality risk for American drivers is right around 1%.

For a more recent data point, how about NASA’s safety requirements for SpaceX manned flights, circa 2020?

Josh Finch, a NASA spokesperson, told Spaceflight Now that the agency’s calculated “Loss Of Crew” probability for SpaceX’s Demo-2 test flight is 1-in-276, exceeding the commercial crew program’s requirement threshold of 1-in-270.

Would you get in a car if you had a 1 in 270 chance of dying during each trip? Those aren’t great odds for surviving a year’s worth of daily commutes.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/05/22/nasa-review-clears-spacex-crew-capsule-for-first-astronaut-mission/

what are the chances that being an astronaut is actually safer than driving an hour long commute?

A trip to space is actually about 100,000 times more likely to lead to a fatality than a 20 mile car trip.

People really underestimate how dangerous space travel is.

(The math is in another comment below if you’re curious.)

Good catch! Lost track of my zeros

Are you asking to change the definition of a car trip to the ~500,000 miles it takes to get to the moon and back?

In that case, rate of fatality is around 1 in 200 “driving to the moon and back” trips. 0.5% chance. So taking the rocketship is still significantly more dangerous.

More realistically, 500,000 miles is roughly a lifetime of driving. So these astronauts are being exposed in a single trip to a fatality risk equivalent of 2+ lifetimes of driving.

Or to look at it from a different angle, 5 out of the 413 total manned space flights have ended in fatalities, or 1.21%.

Auto travel in the US has a fatality rate around 1 death per 100 million driven miles. Assuming an average trip of 20 miles, that’s 1 death per 5 million car trips, or 0.00002%.

So, roughly 10,000 (EDIT: actually 100,000, missed a zero!) times more dangerous than driving.

It is massively dangerous.

As of April 2026, a total of 791 people have flown into space and 19 of them have died in related incidents. This sets the current statistical fatality rate at 2.4 percent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents

you brought two souls in peace from a non-existence to a extremely harmful and competitive world of soft slavery

Are you okay? This characterization of life doesn’t sound like it’s coming from someone who’s in a mentally healthy headspace

I would be surprised if this is still true, at least for home use. It seems like the non-gamer, non-power user segment of the PC market just switched over to tablets and smartphones instead. PCs and laptops just aren’t really necessary anymore for “normal” people who just want to check their email, watch YouTube, and surf the web.

Hold up, you’re eating unpeeled bananas? Just chomping through the skin and chewing everything up?

Is that actually a thing?

Maybe part of why Lemmy skews older is because this is basically what “old” Reddit felt like.

Before Reddit became the Walmart of internet forums that put all the little guys out of business and gained enough critical mass to have a niche community for every topic under the sun, it was just a quirky place that catered towards tech, politics, and this exact sort of “general everyday discussion” you’re talking about.

I loved that era of Reddit, and I love that Lemmy is providing something that’s close to that experience.

I honestly consider that to be a feature, not a bug.

Reddit, Facebook, Twitter etc. all started out great, then grew so large that they lost all their magic.

Why should we try to speed run that process with the Fediverse?