The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Naively it's Approximately 30 times more dangerous than a car. But, of course, that's on a per billion miles basis, so figuring about 20k miles per year traveled, it would average a fatality every 230ish years if you only traveled by motorcycle. Assuming you have a 30 year riding career left, if you did all your traveling by motorcycle you'd have a lifetime ~1/8 chance of dying that way.
Now adjust for how many miles you'll actually travel on it. Then adjust for whatever percentage of accidents you think are attributable to recklessness above what you intend to stick to. So if you're only doing 5k miles a year, it becomes a 1/32 chance, and if you figure half of deaths are recklessness you won't demonstrate, then it's 1/64.
All numbers after the initial chart are from Myers Young Associated Statistical Surveys.
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