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Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired (jalopnik.com)

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[–] bostonbananarama@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We all experience what our brains cobble together from some sensory inputs, saying "it wasn't as loud as a gunshot" is, at best, a meaningless statement, and at worst, utterly idiotic.

What the hell are you talking about about? An acorn hitting a car might be 50-80 decibels; a Glock 17 9mm pistol is 162 decibels, that's louder than a jet taking off. That is ridiculously loud, perception doesn't factor in at that point. If you can't tell the difference between an acorn and a gunshot then you are not properly tethered to reality.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

damn, I didn't realize our ears are infallible decibel meters, nor that it is output into a chart instead of a big sentient tapioca interpreting electric signals (PS: you are inherently not tethered to reality, you are sentient tapioca pudding trying to make sense of a whole big jumble of electric signals)