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by LoganDark 12 days ago
How the actual fuck do you coincidentally end up with failing brakes right after a controversial social media post? The braking system is designed to be one of the most resilient systems in a vehicle. A coincident like that sounds a cosmic ray bitflip level of rare.
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Among crashes where a "vehicle defect" is identified as the critical reason for a crash, brake problems account for 22% of them. It is a normal failure.
Both of these things can be true. Brakes can be the most resilient component in a car, but since they are so important, failure usually guarantees a crash.
It's nuanced. The brake system has several failure modes. Dual reservoir master cylinders would result in only half of the system to fail. You would absolutely be able to stop a car using only front or only rear brakes under normal conditions.
That is a very tiny percentage of overall crashes, it is not a normal failure.
It's painful to say it, but it's more likely that it's a false flag attack than a random fraying.

And now let's talk about the epidemic of cancer in the Trump administration....

> And now let's talk about the epidemic of cancer in the Trump administration....

Two out of a large administration, from a cohort especially prone to cancer diagnosis:

- Older (the baseline incidence rate for cancer in people over 60 is 1%)

- Selected for skepticism towards medical advice and guidelines

- Access to world-class health screening

Umm... I was going for conspiracy theorem style ranting. You're not supposed to take it seriously.

But you have to include gabbard's husband in this, so it's three in the last 6 months or so