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Der Shovel posted:I was then dogpiled by some "bicycling advocate" and his followers, because BICYCLE HELMETS HURT MORE THAN THEY HELP. Oh, word? How? Well turns out some people don't want to wear helmets and if they are forced to, they will instead just not ride a bike. So the spokesman for some pro-biking association advocates against bike helmets because mandating their use might limit the number of cyclists, despite being pretty loving essential protective gear. Even if helmets weren't required I would still wear one. But as a counterpoint most bike helmets don't prevent whiplash or concussions because they were designed using computer models that treated the brain as a solid object.  
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Cartoon Man posted:
That gives off a vibe more like the sort of tender scene you find under a table as you turn the light on at the pub
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grillster posted:Aren't a few cracks fairly normal? It's really only a problem when chunks fall out and air gets through, or when the police are looking for an issue. Unfilled cracks and flecks in safety glass will some day spider web the entire pane and reduce visibility to 0. Never drive with a messed up windshield. The safety glass spirits to be free and try to forcibly exit through any imperfection. Most insurance has reduced or no deductible for glass work and doesn't count it as a real claim because of people being like $200 to fill a chip haha not gonna and then spiderwebbing and getting into a real accident. So they just pay out for glass repair minimum questions asked unless you're getting like 5 chips filled a year.
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My buddy has had a cracked windshield for close to ten years, now. It's cracking from both sides and he's waiting until they meet in the middle. Yes, he has the money to fix it.
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Borrow his car and drive it over corrugated roads until that happens, then tell him he's a dickhead from me
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zedprime posted:Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh More importantly, in modern cars, windshield glass is included in the calculations for crumple resistance of the top of the vehicle (A- and C-pillars), as they absorb and distribute impact force in a rollover. Having the window pre-cracked, especially if the crack reaches the edge, fucks up that calculation by preweakening it severely. I'm a moron who managed to put a barbecue grill through the rear windshield of my pickup while unloading it, and Allstate covered the whole thing for free. Last year, some rear end in a top hat at Lowes whacked my windshield with a 2x4 and put a crack in it that quickly shot across to both sides. Allstate covered the whole thing for free. Check with your insurer, for real.
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lots of people have cracked windshields like that in texas because its dry so there's lots of rocks and there's wild temperature variations that cause chips to turn into cracks with a quickness. I don't believe an uncracked windshield is part of the texas inspection, but then again I haven't had to do a texas vehicle inspection in over a decade.
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Sapper posted:I'm a moron who managed to put a barbecue grill through the rear windshield of my pickup while unloading it, and Allstate covered the whole thing for free. Last year, some rear end in a top hat at Lowes whacked my windshield with a 2x4 and put a crack in it that quickly shot across to both sides. Allstate covered the whole thing for free. Check with your insurer, for real. Do you have full coverage or something that covers you breaking your own window? Because I'm pretty sure my liability-only-plus-uninsured-and-underinsured-motorist-coverage won't pay to replace a window if I break it.
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vortmax posted:Do you have full coverage or something that covers you breaking your own window? Because I'm pretty sure my liability-only-plus-uninsured-and-underinsured-motorist-coverage won't pay to replace a window if I break it. Pro tip: don’t tell them anything other than it’s broken
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That is giving me all kinds of bad juju feelings and I can't articulate why
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https://i.imgur.com/N63QwUl.mp4
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An Iranian crypto-mining datacenter / waterpark
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Want to ride that arcology's lazy river.
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huh well now that I know it's that kind of mining I no longer care
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Do... do they think they can generate electricity by pumping water up to the top and then running it through turbines coming down? Which in turn power the water pumps?
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Do... do they think they can generate electricity by pumping water up to the top and then running it through turbines coming down? Which in turn power the water pumps? Jeez, another idiot who doesn't understand how Bitcoin works... 
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PainterofCrap posted:I had a hood do that on my '67 Cadillac at 45-MPH. (it was built with no secondary / safety catch for the hood) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjVCAF2dARo
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horrifying negative ion products https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TwBUxxIC0
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lol this is great cinematography
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You've heard of dissolving stitches? This is the same concept. When that seam has healed enough, those bolts naturally fall out.
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Piss Meridian posted:horrifying negative ion products Yup its usually Thorium. So afraid of RF they straight expose themselves to ionizing radiation
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 "do you think we need a buffer zone after using the water to cool our rigs" "nah just radiate the heat generated by a supercomputer into the water slide" the free market will sort them out!
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A waterslide 40% taller than the WTC is awful enough to make the stupidity of the bitcoin angle negligible.
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shame on an IGA posted:A waterslide 40% taller than the WTC is awful enough to make the stupidity of the bitcoin angle negligible. Hey, at least it's not a zipline!
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shame on an IGA posted:A waterslide 40% taller than the WTC is awful enough to make the stupidity of the bitcoin angle negligible. I mean it's not difficult for something to be taller than the WTC
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vortmax posted:Do you have full coverage or something that covers you breaking your own window? Because I'm pretty sure my liability-only-plus-uninsured-and-underinsured-motorist-coverage won't pay to replace a window if I break it. I have comprehensive. It's $80 a year on me and the wifemobile and it covers vandalism, angry exes setting themselves on fire while setting the car on fire, and broken glass. But check with your insurer, or check that long-rear end policy tort document you got when you set up your policy. Glass is a safety issue, so it may be covered, and some insurers cover it as an enticement bonus.
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Piss Meridian posted:I mean it's not difficult for something to be taller than the WTC Hehehehe
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BRB suing Iran for stealing my middle school sketbooks.
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That waterpark is 100% somehow going to burn down.
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Wait...so they're generating power by spinning water wheels...with water they spent energy to pump up. A guaranteed net loss. So at what point do they reveal the secret Iranian tech that lets them break the rules of physics. Because Bitcoin sure seems to break brains.
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You let the pools fill up during summer, when, due to the tilt of the Earth, the building is facing down. Then, during winter, when the Earth tilts away, you generate electricity as that water drains
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Is concentrated H2O2 used in semiconductor manufacture? I swear every time I've driven over by Intel lately, there's been a big ol' tanker truck full of the stuff on the same route.
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Alkydere posted:Wait...so they're generating power by spinning water wheels...with water they spent energy to pump up. A guaranteed net loss. it's necessarily a net loss but i'm assuming it's like hybrid engines where you expend more energy spinning your tires than you can regenerate through braking. like if you're going to have to pump it back to the top anyway, yknow?
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Segmentation Fox posted:Is concentrated H2O2 used in semiconductor manufacture? I swear every time I've driven over by Intel lately, there's been a big ol' tanker truck full of the stuff on the same route. Yeah it's used at very high concentrations to clean silicon wafers and etch copper
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Alkydere posted:Wait...so they're generating power by spinning water wheels...with water they spent energy to pump up. A guaranteed net loss. If they use their hydroelectric generators to supplement other power sources, they can reduce the amount of power they need from external sources. Not the worst idea in theory, but you would have to run the numbers to see how much effect it would have.
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Piss Meridian posted:horrifying negative ion products CommieGIR posted:Yup its usually Thorium. So afraid of RF they straight expose themselves to ionizing radiation Radium water all over again
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Arban posted:If they use their hydroelectric generators to supplement other power sources, they can reduce the amount of power they need from external sources. If that site is to be believed it's supposed to be completely self-sustaining, but those hydroelectric generators are the only source of power listed.
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