Yeah, you can think of it as a percentage. The min is 1 and the max is 99. It could be 100, but I don't trust my mostly untested side project that much, so I cut it off at 99 :)
Author here. If you're curious about MACB updates of your OS or tools, code is on the repo along with a profiling utility for shell commands: https://github.com/quoscient/os_timestamps
Some stats on Wikipedia may fuel this discussion [1] and conclude than planes are safer by km and by time, not by journey though this is an anecdotical thing (not relevant to compare 10 min trip to work to 8 hour flight).
Besides this is based on old data and as others have pointed out flying has become even safer in the last years.
as others have pointed out flying has become even safer in the last years
Modern cars have also become much safer. Which has become safer faster, and thus in which way has the ratio changed? (Real question, I don't know the answer but would be interested in the updated numbers)
I would feel stupid if I did. I believe in technology as a provider for solutions to such problems, not regression to a primitive lifestyle like the eco-hippies demand. They aren’t particularly thorough anyway, because there’s about 10-20 tons of CO2 emissions to save by relieving the world of one‘s unhappy existence after being deprived of all the fun life has to offer (we exhale about 1Kg per day). ;-)
Being old and lonely / alone is really terrifying.
> Jack still misses his late wife desperately. [...] "The weekend is a dismal time," says Jack. "The time can drag. I don't have any friends because all my friends are dead. All the ladies I loved are dead. At this age nearly everybody is dead - except me. I'm still here at 96-and-a-half."
It's hard to make friends with people and I'm in my 30s. I can't imagine how hard it would be to "find new people" when you are 90+ and probably can't even drive.
It think it's also hard because at this point you don't want to make new friends beside smalltalk (which he does).
Imagine having been with your spouse for 60 years, your friends 40-80 years (?), your children I guess at least 40 years, having a new friend has nothing to do with this, you will never know them this good and neither will they.
Yeah, my grandma had an extremely active social life well into her 80s (she died at 85ish) even with significant mobility problems. She lost my grandpa 15 years before she died.
I think the tough part is building something new after experiencing loss ..
I see that in my family, aunt, etc they complain they're lonely but I think it's even worse for them to suffer bad or too short relationships. Heart ache.
For instance here they announce it for UK, France, Germany (in 2022) and say it was available in the US/Canada since 2018: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/fi...