Brevity by Dan Thompson for September 03, 2019

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    wldhrsy2luv  about 5 years ago

    Duh!

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    eromlig  about 5 years ago

    She’s right — the first fatality was in 1899.

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    mddshubby2005  about 5 years ago

    “We are, however, seeing new lows in horse-and-buggy accidents. We hope our TV add blitz in Amish country will finally bring it down to zero.”

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    whahoppened  about 5 years ago

    And no airline crashes, no computer hacking, no A-bomb radioactive fallout…

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    PICTO  about 5 years ago

    150 years ago there were no crash test dummies either…

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    Zebrastripes  about 5 years ago

    I’m sure there were bang up fatalities but not of the auto kind….

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    J Quest  about 5 years ago

    Well, 150 years ago, people were smart enough not to text and drive…

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    Bill The Nuke  about 5 years ago

    They probably paid several million dollars to a research group to figure that out.

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    sfreader1  about 5 years ago

    That is true, but there were “horse and buggy” accidents at that time.

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    formathe  about 5 years ago

    Liberal Canadian statisticians.

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    BrentskiL  about 5 years ago

    But here were plenty of people killed by mishaps with horses… it’s all relative. Context is important

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    waes-hael  about 5 years ago

    Sadly, this logic persists in other fields…

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    buckman-j  about 5 years ago

    The long waits in DMV to get a license might also be a factor

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    johnstep  about 5 years ago

    What about the horse and buggy accidents?

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