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I heard that nearly every train engineer with more than two years of experience has been involved in a fatal collision with a car. Is there any truth to that? Also, thanks to all the folks recommending uBlock here. My computer is nearly old enough for gradeschool now and I definitely noticed a difference on installing.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:I heard that nearly every train engineer with more than two years of experience has been involved in a fatal collision with a car. Is there any truth to that? Sounds like bullshit. Bureau of Labor Statistics says there were 67,100 train operators/engineers in 2010. Fatal train accidents have been trending downwards... just 267 fatalities in 2014, out of 2,280 collisions. 832 injuries though. 2010 numbers - 2,051 collisions, 260 fatalities, 887 injuries. What isn't clear to me is if that figure includes suicides, so no automotive aspect. I found a figure that says there was 173 suicides by train in 2011 in the US, so the number isn't significant and I'm gonna guess the above doesn't count it. 2280/67100= 0.033. So a given operator has a 3% chance of being involved in a collision in a year... this is probably low as there are going to be operators/engineers that never leave a rail yard. Operators going cross country or operating commuter rail probably have higher likelihood of being involved in a collision. 260+173=433 433/67100= 0.0064, so less than a 1% chance of being involved in a fatal collision, including suicides. Again the number is probably lower than reality.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:46
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Roobanguy posted:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=554_1427122292 The sound effects made it for me.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:54
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Roobanguy posted:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=554_1427122292 I have no idea why this is so amusing. And it reminded me of the best (Out of one, I guess.) pizza throwing incident ever. Here comes the pizza! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufSQMXLO95w
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Mar 24, 2015 01:31
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Mar 24, 2015 01:40
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I really wish one of those great gif wizards would change the arrow painted on the street to match how the car drove. Ending with a horizontal line left going off the screen. https://fat.gfycat.com/GentleClearHellbender.webm
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Mar 24, 2015 02:32
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A White Guy posted:Ah, the Mosquito I played this poo poo for literally 4 seconds and all four of my dogs began barking, and I got a little queezy. I'm also 29 and I could hear it. That was awful.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:38
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skylined! posted:I played this poo poo for literally 4 seconds and all four of my dogs began barking, and I got a little queezy. I'm also 29 and I could hear it. That was awful. I found it a little irritating, but with four little brothers, a lovely high school experience and a number of terrible bosses I kinda have to label the Mosquito as 'Small-time'.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:41
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A White Guy posted:Ah, the Mosquito We have a "deer repeller" in our front yard that emits that noise. It does gently caress all for the deer but it certainly annoyed several pizza delivery guys.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:46
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skylined! posted:I played this poo poo for literally 4 seconds and all four of my dogs began barking, and I got a little queezy. I'm also 29 and I could hear it. That was awful. It's like someone left a CRT TV on all the time.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:48
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Renzuko posted:We have a "deer repeller" in our front yard that emits that noise. It does gently caress all for the deer but it certainly annoyed several pizza delivery guys. Then you, my friend, have a Pizza Delivery Boy Annoyer.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:56
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Have some cute freude.  
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Mar 24, 2015 03:02
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Tony Phillips posted:And it reminded me of the best (Out of one, I guess.) pizza throwing incident ever. This is way funnier than it has any right being.
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Mar 24, 2015 03:08
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:I love how he could tell he hosed up the taco catch and tried to abort before it hit him. Fritz is bad at catching food, but he's pretty great at being a dog.
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Mar 24, 2015 03:13
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Yes, it certainly is.
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Mar 24, 2015 03:20
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skylined! posted:I played this poo poo for literally 4 seconds and all four of my dogs began barking, and I got a little queezy. I'm also 29 and I could hear it. That was awful. I'm 39 and have a bit of an annoying ringing in my ears (the kind I really notice when it's otherwise totally silent, and it's just prevalent enough to bug me), and I can hear the sound in this video as clear as day. I don't know if I'm in good shape or bad now. 
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Mar 24, 2015 03:56
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Data Graham posted:I'm 39 and have a bit of an annoying ringing in my ears (the kind I really notice when it's otherwise totally silent, and it's just prevalent enough to bug me), and I can hear the sound in this video as clear as day. A lot of consumer speakers can't actually reproduce sounds that high - most people can't hear them, so why bother? It's possible that you're instead hearing lower-frequency distortion. In a similar vein, it's possible that a lot of people who aren't hearing anything in that video are actually capable of hearing the sound, but their speakers have a low-pass filter to prevent distortion from those high-frequency tones and so aren't actually playing anything.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:09
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The amazing thing about this gif is that it's actually worse than it looks. The driver originally comes through from the other side as the gates are closing, does a u-turn, and then drives through the completely closed gates. Sadly, my google-fu has failed me today and I can't find the full clip. EDIT: found it! Shocking Footage of Texas Train Colliding with Family SUV, All Miraculously Survive Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 04:25 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Mar 24, 2015 04:19
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I decided tonight as I was watching a report about people being hit by trains on Nightly News that I'm okay with people being hit by trains as long as they aren't pushed onto the tracks by someone else.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:23
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im pooping! posted:I decided tonight as I was watching a report about people being hit by trains on Nightly News that I'm okay with people being hit by trains as long as they aren't pushed onto the tracks by someone else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atU33HD-Ln0 (don't watch this if you like cows)
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Mar 24, 2015 04:35
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Cows are equal parts adorable and completely stupid creatures but I love them anyways. Especially rare with a side of garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:47
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Tusen Takk posted:Cows are equal parts adorable and completely stupid creatures but I love them anyways. Especially rare with a side of garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus. How about just plain mashed?
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Mar 24, 2015 04:53
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Holy gently caress, I'm glad I'm not this guy.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:54
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Mildly Amusing posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atU33HD-Ln0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a33sr9UGvo
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Mar 24, 2015 04:55
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JacquelineDempsey posted:This might be old hat for some folks, but I've never seen Obama's roasts at the White House correspondents' dinner. As someone who loathes Donald Trump, gotta say this one was pretty awesome (The Donald does NOT seem to be taking it like a good sport in the reaction shots): It got so much better just one day later. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/president-obamas-trump-joke-comes-to-life-osama-bin-laden-news-preempts-celebrity-apprentice/
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Mar 24, 2015 04:56
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Tusen Takk posted:Cows are equal parts adorable and completely stupid creatures but I love them anyways. Especially rare with a side of garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus. They have nothing on reindeer. A train got a reindeer multikill this winter that approached triple digits and I had the pleasure of driving by later. fe: They are also more delicious than cows.
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Mar 24, 2015 05:14
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Not only can I not hear the sound in the video (I'm 23) but now I know that the ringing sound I have in my ears when it's super quiet is tinnitus. Then again this thread showed me ublock, so it evens out in the end.
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Mar 24, 2015 05:20
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Mildly Amusing posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atU33HD-Ln0 Up here in Alaska, moose constantly try to cross railroad bridges (because they are the only bridges for a million miles sometimes). Their legs will often go between the slats, and all four legs will then fall through and the moose gets stuck. Then a train comes, and cleanly severs the head and torso from all four legs, which plop down into the water. The drat moose can't move, they can just flail about and watch their own impending deaths and contemplate the poor choices they made that led to them being stuck in the middle of a railroad bridge. It's a metaphor for a lot of things we humans face, but to the moose it's a train to the noggin.
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Mar 24, 2015 06:24
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Mar 24, 2015 06:26
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Craptacular posted:Holy gently caress, I'm glad I'm not this guy. An ex girlfriend of mine has the last name Fox. Her dad's parents were German immigrants and he became a teacher. Apparently American school children saw the name "Fuchs" and instantly referred to him as Mr. Fucks.
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Mar 24, 2015 06:33
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Can't they use the big mosquito to scare off the moose?
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Mar 24, 2015 06:34
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kenny powerzzz posted:An ex girlfriend of mine has the last name Fox. Her dad's parents were German immigrants and he became a teacher. Apparently American school children saw the name "Fuchs" and instantly referred to him as Mr. Fucks. Was his first name Fred, by any chance?
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Mar 24, 2015 06:47
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Craptacular posted:Holy gently caress, I'm glad I'm not this guy. quote:Talented: Mr F**k, a student at Medicine Hat College in Alberta, said: 'It doesn't mean what people think it means. In German it means "fox"' No it doesn't. "Fuchs" would be fox. And neither gently caress nor fuchs is pronounced foo-kee. This article confuses me.
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Mar 24, 2015 07:03
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RabbitWizard posted:No it doesn't. "Fuchs" would be fox. And neither gently caress nor fuchs is pronounced foo-kee. This article confuses me. It's the Daily Mail so there is a good chance some or all of it is just straight up bullshit. Especially "funny" quotes like that tend to be tacked onto otherwise factual stories to make them completely absurd.
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Mar 24, 2015 07:15
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artsy fartsy posted:Can't they use the big mosquito to scare off the moose? Alaskan mosquitoes can carry off small children but a moose is at least one order of magnitude larger than a Palin babby.
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Mar 24, 2015 07:18
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Mildly Amusing posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atU33HD-Ln0 I'll never understand how this creature is just so uninterested in a large, loud object with bright lights hurtling straight at them.
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Mar 24, 2015 07:32
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Cows are not the brightest livestock. Say you lock cows in a barn with some horses, and then light it on fire. The horses will panic and kick their way out of the barn. They will literally break their legs busting down solid wood doors. Cows, on the other hand, will sit in the barn, mooing ever more urgently as it gets hotter and hotter, never understanding that all it has to do to survive it kick open the goddamn barn door, and will instead burn to death. Horses aren't too bright either, but cows are the dumbest livestock we breed. They have zero self-preservation instinct.
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Mar 24, 2015 07:49
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:I'll never understand how this creature is just so uninterested in a large, loud object with bright lights hurtling straight at them. Trains are fairly quiet until passing by and don't look much like any predators. It's really a design flaw that trains dont resemble charging bears or lions.
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Mar 24, 2015 07:51
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Anosmoman posted:Trains are fairly quiet until passing by and don't look much like any predators. It's really a design flaw that trains dont resemble charging bears or lions. Well he does lay on the whistle Also, I agree that trains should resemble apex predators but merely because it is awesome.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Well he does lay on the whistle I think evolution will eventually recognize that trains are linear apex predators. It will take a few generations of hoofed slaughter to recognize it, that's all.
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