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In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
Number of carjackings in DC:
Number of car crashes in DC:
Not wearing a seat belt makes you 30 times more likely to be ejected during a crash:
This man does not understand mathematics!!!!
To be fair he could think that carjacking means masturbating while driving.
Honestly, that makes more sense than not wearing a seat belt so people won't forcibly take your car. How is that even supposed to help?
It's not so they won't forcibly take your car, it's so you won't get tangled up in the seatbelt when they yank you out. Stupid any way you look at it considering how unlikely one thing is to happen vs the other, but at least there is some logic to it.