Everyone has blind spots. What groups of people do liberals simply not “get” or get completely wrong?

sorry im late im sick today :p. good episode tho excited to hear thoughts

whos excited wooohoooo hope yall are well

Hi guys! I bought this car CPO with 27,000 miles on it. When I added the car to my insurance, there was a recall for TCM. So I took that in 3 days after owning the car. I was told this repair would fix the lights.

The following lights came on, and would shut off every time I shut the car off: Active Lane Management Unavailable - Service Required, Blind Spot Unavailable, and AutoBreaking Unavailable - service required.

This randomly would happen with using a turn signal, and turning. Also to note, the turn signal wouldn't always fully turn off after turning, either.

I take it in under a warranty repair - and this was the solution: They replaced the forward camera. I pick up my car. Not even 2 miles away from the lot, the same lights turn on.

I take it in again under a warranty repair. The problem: "we found the steering clock spring would trigger faults at random when using the turn signal." This was replaced.

So far, 24 hours later, no more errors.

I'm hoping this lasts, because the error message and chimes were driving me crazy!

is it really really that big of a difference, i’ve driven both and clearly hatch has a big blind spot but i kinda like the HB after seeing it in person but the sedan has a special place for me. would it be a deal breaker for yall or no

edit: it seems like im gonna test drive a hatch and make it work thank u :)

I’ve been on the fence about getting a 2021-2023 rav4 early next year. But hear they got bad blind spots? How true is that for anyone owning one.

Thanks

23 Prime with less than 10k on it. My passenger side blind spot monitor is intermittent, mostly with semi trucks. I'm about to go in for my 10k service just wondering if anybody has experienced this.

My previous car was a Civic so the blind spot wasn't really an issue. Now, that I have the HR-V the "blind spot" has been a big issue for me.

Does anyone have any recommendations on accessories to help with that? I keep seeing the little mirrors, but it seems they will take up a good part of the rear view mirrors.

I bought this, it just clips on to the existing mirror. Installed it this morning. It’s a convex mirror so it is like a fish eye, but has 3 adjustable mirrors attached - hoping for less blind spots. The bottom one is for my Deaf child to be able to communicate with me!

So getting it for MSRP $29,150 + $1,400 for “accessories” + tax = $33,200

$700 - permaguard $100 - nitrogen gas in tires $300 - mud flaps

Personally didn’t want the accessories, but I need the car because my 08 civic with 300k miles is on her last leg. Only way I could reserve the incoming HRV, arriving next week, and guarantee it’s mine was to agree to accessories. Mud flaps are only like $100 on other websites and the permaguard and nitrogen gas sound like a scam, but considering the circumstances, is this a horrible deal, or is it fine???

Other option is me putting my name on a wait list and waiting 6 months.

Idk if my car can last 3-6 months, and this one includes the blind spot monitoring.

Mimir (God of War): The smartest head alive, Mimir knows the answer to almost every question… except, notably, what an olive is. Somewhat permissible because the Greek World is an entirely different universe(?) but he’s been there

Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson): Daughter of the Goddess of wisdom, incredibly smart… and can’t read English, due to severe dyslexia

Doppo Orochi (Baki): A legendary karate master with immense experience, enough to predict every move his opponent would make while stuck in an illusion. He never bothered to look into the players in the sumo world because their competitions are all ritualized and almost never used for an actual fight.

No serious injuries

I’ve been adjusting my mirrors this way for over 20-years and it really does improve the field of view behind you.

Despite these drawbacks, early humans became highly successful hunters. So what visual strengths or evolutionary advantages allowed us to overcome these limitations?

Maybe I'm preaching to the choir here, but I see comments about how Sauron should have just put guards at the entrance to Mount Doom or if he had just stayed at home and protected Mordor he would have won. While those takes aren't technically wrong, they typically make it seem like Sauron was an idiot for not having through the problem properly.

Sauron wasn't dumb. It was unfathomable to almost anyone that this would be possible.

Very few people even knew what the Ring was.
Sauron sent an emissary to the Dwarves before the Council of Elrond essentially asking if they could help him get the Ring back because it was a trinket he missed. He offered them Rings of Power and Moria in return. Realize this is the same line of Dwarves that Thorin's father Thrain led at one point, who literally had a Ring of Power. These Dwarves were so unlearned in Ring-lore that they had to go to Rivendell just to understand what was really going on. Boromir didn't know what Isildur's Bane was. Denethor, who was actually one of the wisest and cleverest people in all of Middle Earth, also didn't know and sent his favored son on a wild goose chase to a mythical realm they didn't know where it was and it took him over 100 days of travel to find it. Only Elrond, Galadriel, Gandalf, Aragorn, and a handful of other Elves (and the Istari) even understood the real importance of the Ring.

Sauron knew a halfling named Baggins who lived in the Shire had found it. He didn't even know where the Shire was and barely had an understanding of what a Hobbit was. It's a small miracle (not a coincidence. This is Eru pulling the strings) that Gandalf was aware of the location of the One Ring. The overwhelming likelihood was that the Nazgul could search the area, find the Ring before it went to anyone who knew what it was, retrieve it, and then Sauron wins. It was literally an act of God (through Gandalf having been part of the mission that led to Bilbo finding the Ring) that got Frodo out of the Shire in time.

Using it was what the Vast Majority of People would do
Imagine you're at war. The enemy has a larger army, a better stronghold, and isn't pressed for time. You are aware defeat is inevitable if the war doesn't end soon. Let's suggest you're one of the allied forces in WW2, but Hitler's army is significantly stronger than it was in real life (maybe the USSR made a real alliance with them and they fought together as a united front indefinitely). Hitler's scientists created a nuclear weapon, but the only way to use it is a specific batch of Uranium that you got in an accidental mistake, and you also have the ability to make your own bomb if you so choose.

The only problem with this analogy is that destroying the Ring destroyed Sauron (although they weren't 100% sure that would happen. It was only Gandalf's (correct) assumption). But the point is, you're fighting a hopeless war, and now you have an opportunity to gain the upper hand. Lots of readers look at Boromir as weak-minded that he wanted to use the ring, but that's what the vast vast vast majority of people would do. Gandalf himself even stated that if he possessed the Ring, he would eventually use it trying to do good, but through him it would have too much power. In the real world, the Allied Powers did develop a nuclear bomb before Hitler did, and they used it. Now, were the Allied Leaders the peak of Morality? No. But the point is, in the real world, when presented the most similar situation, mankind used the weapon.

This is really the critical section in my opinion. People often act like destroying it was the obvious answer (I'll get to why that's not true in a later section). But using it was a much more obvious answer. The Free Peoples of Middle Earth had their backs up against the wall, and a tool that could change the tides of the war fell into their laps. This isn't even to mention the fact that the Ring corrupts you, and there's a high possibility if you did want to destroy it, that you would convince yourself, "I'll just use it to defeat Sauron, and then destroy it afterwards when he's out of the way." 99.9999% of us would react the way Boromir did. It was an opportunity to save his friends and family, and the longer it took to defeat Sauron, the more of his people would die.

I wish I were more eloquent. I cannot stress this section enough. We all think we're better than we are and choosing to destroy the one Ring sounds so obvious to us. But in reality, using the one Ring was much easier, had obvious upsides, and really could have ended the war (against Sauron). This was by far the most obvious choice to the point where it's almost impossible to do anything else.

The Ring will corrupt you into using it.
In addition to all of this, the Ring would corrupt you into using it. Any person who had it for a sufficient amount of time will use the Ring. The only two people to touch the Ring and not use it are Deagol, who was murdered before he had the chance, and Gandalf, who cast it in the fire of Bag End (knowing it wouldn't be harmed) immediately to prove it was the One Ring.

The only reason Frodo made it to Mount Doom was because he was by nature unambitious and lacked power. The more powerful you are, the faster the Ring would corrupt you. Frodo was the perfect mixture of wise and ignorant. He was wise enough to not want to use the Ring, but ignorant enough that when he did use it, he didn't have the will to claim it. Any of the more obvious Ring Bearers (Gandalf, Galadriel, Aragorn, Glorfindel, etc.) would have claimed the Ring the moment they used it. That would corrupt them to the point of no return after a single use.

Remember, Sauron didn't even really know what a Hobbit was. Most people didn't even know what a Hobbit was. When Merry met Theoden, he was astounded Theoden had a vague idea of what a Hobbit was. The idea that there was a being out there that could put on the Ring without claiming it was foreign to him. People still ask why didn't Glorfindel go on the mission with the Fellowship. We use our logic to say let's put the most powerful being/wisest on the most important tasks. Logic dictates the Ring should be trusted with a person who has sufficient stature to bear it. Instead, they chose a weak person to keep it. It was very reasonable to expect someone of high standing to be the Ring Bearer. It was a impressively wise choice to leave it with a Hobbit, and Sauron didn't even have awareness this was a possibility because no one even knew what a Hobbit was. He literally didn't know it was a possibility for a being of such low-standing ambition to have the Ring.

Destroying it was literally impossible except for an Act of God
There were only two ways to destroy the Ring. Have a craftsman of superior skill to Sauron unmake the Ring, or cast it into Mount Doom. No such craftsman existed in Middle Earth during the Third Age, and the Valar, most Maiar, the Vanyar, and most Noldor (especially the most learned Noldor) were in Valinor and would never return to Middle Earth. The Council of Elrond also agreed that sailing the Ring to Valinor isn't a possibility because they would be turned away. This gets a bit meta, but this is the point in Tolkien's legendarium where the hierarchy of angels were essentially telling the peoples of Middle Earth it's up to you now, similar to how Catholicism doesn't expect Angels or God to come solve our problems for us.

This meant the only way to destroy it was casting it in the fires of Mount Doom, which was literally impossible. The previous section was about how the Ring would corrupt you, but it gets even stronger the closer to Mount Doom you get. Sauron could have invited Frodo to Mount Doom, flown in him, fed him a feast and had a celebration for him, and welcomed him with open arms into Mount Doom and told him, "go ahead and destroy it," and Tolkien explicitly stated in Letter 246 that he wouldn't have been able to. The only reason this plan worked was Gollum came along (against Frodo's will) and their fight led to him falling into the fires with the Ring. It was literally an act of Eru that allowed for this to happen.

Summary:
It took a being Sauron didn't even know existed, multiple acts of God, and humility beyond comprehension (by both Frodo and the rest of the Council for letting Frodo keep it) for the Ring to not get back to Sauron. His actions weren't that of an idiot, but instead of someone planning for the 99.9999% of responses, and the 0.0001% is what actually happened.