There Are No Accidents
by Jessie Singer · first published 2022
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> It’s the same language used when taking about “car accidents” See perhaps the book There Are no Accidents by Jessie Singer: > We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But as Jessie Singer argues convincingly:…
on “Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division” ↗…society where you need to put a child in a car to do virtually anything? Blaming the last failure in a chain of failures -- the drunk driver, the tired parent, the 737 pilot --- prevents prevention. There Are No Accidents. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accident...
on “Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)” ↗There's a book called "There Are No Accidents" that goes into depth discussing this fallacy that you should read. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/02/15/excerpt-there-are-no-...
on “Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes” ↗I'd recommend reading the book "There Are No Accidents", if you haven't already. Really goes into detail on this.
on “Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes” ↗…friend a few recommendations based on their interest. I find listening to books far easier but they have to be non-fiction (or a reread of fiction) and not too complicated. Cobalt Red, Outlaw Oceans and There Are No Accidents were all great listens from this past year. But it's the only way I get through the 2hr minimum of exercise my dog needs a day.
on “Read fewer books and feel better about it” ↗…was trippy, too, that the NTSB spokesperson used almost the exact title of this book I just checked out, and happens to be big-ish in the urban planning/transportation community: https://www.amazon.com/There-Are-No-Accidents-Disaster_Who/d... i'm guessing this announcement, the follow-up visit by DOT, was because Trump actually visited the disaster area. maybe that's all there really is to it -- another disaster, one political…
on “Crew Alerted to Problem Just Before Ohio Derailment, Investigators Say” ↗…their brethren who crashed and died. "How could anybody fail to check his hose connections? And how could anybody be in such poor condition as to pass out that quickly from hypoxia? ... One theorem was: There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines; there are only pilots with the Wrong Stuff. (I.e., blind Fate can't kill me.)"
on “Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels” ↗…aggressively pushing for jaywalking laws instead, which ended up winning out. I always wonder what American cities would look like were the auto industry less successful. [0]: https://bookshop.org/books/there-are-no-accidents-the-deadly...
on “To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM is limited to 55MPH” ↗Probably a good idea to check the balconies. I've been reading the book "There Are No Accidents" and it mentions a ship tipped over four years after the Titanic because all the people stood on one side of the boat.
on “Old Paris balconies 'pose risk to crowds watching Olympics opening ceremony'” ↗