• Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      Capitalism in a nutshell.

      You get to choose from one million different equally sucky options.

      • davidgro@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        For those unaware.

        “Some early riders came back with lacerations to their bodies, whose cause was later determined to be teeth that had been knocked out of riders’ mouths and become lodged in the interior walls.”

        • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          This is like reading about early oval racetracks in the US, which were made out of wooden boards: the drivers were getting splinters flying in their faces, aside from a host of other problems.

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          A former Navy physician found that riders were experiencing as much as nine Gs of acceleration as they went through the loop.

          v2 / r is a bitch.