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Jabor posted:The zebra markings indicate a pedestrian crossing, so it seems like one of those raised tables that are sometimes used for crossings to help with pedestrian visibility. There is a yellow line on the road too. Perhaps a bus stop? Those often have the pavement raised more to allow for wheelchair access.
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Anonymouse Mook posted:There is a yellow line on the road too. Perhaps a bus stop? Those often have the pavement raised more to allow for wheelchair access. That seems very plausible. It would also explain why it's newly-added with the cycle lane - if buses used to be able to pull right up to the original curb, but aren't able to pull up over the cycle lane any more.
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Uthor posted:Is four cranes a quadruple OSHA? betrunken mit macht C.M. Kruger posted:https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/759192495782625292/767128490017030194/ripsave_-_Safety_is_number_one_priority._2.mp4 that you, tovarisch Gorbachev?
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Sagebrush posted:extremely poorly edited yes and i also can't stand the person
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sure hope that plastic handle is rated for someones full body weight
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KernelFailure posted:sure hope that plastic handle is rated for someones full body weight plus dynamic loading
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qibay4WCYq1s1ddrj.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qid8d9Kg2v1s1ddrj.mp4 ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Oct 18, 2020 |
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KernelFailure posted:sure hope that plastic handle is rated for someones full body weight Those plastic handles are only held in by two bolts threaded into the A-pillar and are certainly not rated for that type of dynamic load. Failure is imminent with that sort of behavior. Source: i work at a Ford deslership
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Log082 posted:I enjoyed the content of WTYP but I had to stop listening because Alice is extremely terrible, and the rest of the WYTP cast doubled down on it when people called her out. It's not that they're terrible just that their volume is higher than anyone else and they talk over people (a lot), but sometimes has good things to say. The one that actually reads the disaster writeup has the middle volume mic, then the third person sounds like they're calling on a cup and string and can barely be heard. It just sucks to have good content hobbled by production problems. Good lord this whole thread complaining about WTYP, guess my plan to nicely tell the podcasters about their editing problems has already been addressed into the ground lol. LifeSunDeath fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Oct 18, 2020 |
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Florida man speeds about in leaf blower-powered vehicle I think this fits in here.
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Log082 posted:I enjoyed the content of WTYP but I had to stop listening because Alice is extremely terrible, and the rest of the WYTP cast doubled down on it when people called her out. I already thought that Alice was terminally unfunny and came off as a huge piece of poo poo, good to know that my gut feelings were spot-on.
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coupedeville posted:OSHA IV: Failure is imminent with that sort of behavior.
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Does someone accidentally bump the wave dial up to 11 or how the gently caress does this happen? I've seen it happen in other wave pools
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I love them freezing like no one will see if they don't move.  https://twitter.com/cursedearthlol/status/1317847742241177602?s=20
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That wasn't the car pool lane.
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Anonymouse Mook posted:There is a yellow line on the road too. Perhaps a bus stop? Those often have the pavement raised more to allow for wheelchair access. Yeah it's for a bus stop
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but at least the pizza was delivered in time
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Jenny Agutter posted:but at least the pizza was delivered in time Even though I gave up on that book after reading the hero protagonist's name I appreciate this reference.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Even though I gave up on that book after reading the hero protagonist's name I appreciate this reference. That's honestly a weird point to quit the book at. The names being cheesy is the whole point.
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I liked the idea of the nearly-magical language stuff and the basically b-movie vibe of the setting was fun, but I noped the gently caress out of the book when it got to the skeevy underage(?) rape. Crypto had some ok ideas, but it was padded out to like 5x beyond what was needed and had something like a whole chapter unrelated to anything else devoted to the protagonist rubbing one out. Seriously, why do his books get recommended so much?
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Even though I gave up on that book after reading the hero protagonist's name I appreciate this reference.
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Antigravitas posted:That's honestly a weird point to quit the book at. The names being cheesy is the whole point. I mean, if you don't appreciate the humor in that then you probably won't enjoy the rest of the book.
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson I enjoyed his stuff back in the 90s, haven't read any since. From what I remember about the book, it was extremely 90s.
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Sentient Data posted:Seriously, why do his books get recommended so much? Woof, I could write a whole drat essay on the thing in the PYF terrible book thread. But in a nutshell, he writes geek fantasy where a small group of plucky individuals save the world since they're so goddamn smart. His worldbuilding creates interesting places (a necessity for fantasy!), and it's easier to remember the cool poo poo than it is the statutory rape that gets glossed over. His more recent works tick all the boxes on why his older stuff was good/popular, yet somehow are terrible works and shine a uncomfortable light on his own patterns and make you question your own taste retroactively. My excuse is that I was young and in Uni and was edgy, because I'm sure as heck not gonna defend those old works anymore.
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If you read "the two cyberpunk novels everyone recommends" as a teenager you'll probably dislike Neuromancer and love Snow Crash. If you read them as an adult you'll love Neuromancer and hate Snow Crash. Also Stephenson raised over half a million dollars on Kickstarter to make a "realistic medieval combat game" and then canceled it like a year and a half later and never refunded anyone.
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Stephenson is good because he lights off a big ol firework of wacky poo poo and that's fun if you're into that kinda thing. There's plenty folks who are not into that kinda thing and that's also fine.
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There's a lot of good cyberpunk and lampooning of libertarian capitalism with a fair amount of humor thrown in. Yes, there are also problematic things.
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Snow Crash in particular is an exaggerated parody of 90s sci fi tropes, more so than his other stuff. The protagonist (literally named Protagonist) crashes the high-tech supercar he uses to deliver pizza for the local Mafia franchise into a swimming pool because he's trying to get rid of the skateboard courier who literally harpooned him with a grappling hook and is riding him down the highway. This man is also the greatest hacker in the world and the undefeated master of the VR swordfighting game he created which was adopted by all of cyberspace to settle petty disputes. Later on he encounters a robot guard dog that can break the sound barrier and a cyborg whose body is a heavily armed monster truck, who band together to fight a megalomaniac rich guy who plans to take over the planet by breaking everyone's brains with a magic formula he unearthed from ancient Sumeria. If all of this sounds completely insane, that's kinda the point I read both this and Neuromancer as a teenager and like them both for different reasons haveblue fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Oct 18, 2020 |
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And then there's the Aleut riding a motorcycle with a nuclear bomb in his sidecar with a dead-man's switch connected to his heartbeat. Gotta have insurance. I love the book because Stephenson nails the tone shift as he describes people daydreaming. The entire opening chapter is Hiro bullshitting himself about what a badass guy he is and it's beautiful. I also like Neuromancer, and despite all its  , Diamond Age as post-cyberpunk.Wingnut Ninja posted:I mean, if you don't appreciate the humor in that then you probably won't enjoy the rest of the book. That's completely fair, true.
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C.M. Kruger posted:If you read "the two cyberpunk novels everyone recommends" as a teenager you'll probably dislike Neuromancer and love Snow Crash. If you read them as an adult you'll love Neuromancer and hate Snow Crash. i watched johnny mnemonic and learned that it was based on a william gibson short story, so i checked out neuromancer. that was good poo poo man!
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The White Dragon posted:i watched johnny mnemonic and learned that it was based on a william gibson short story, so i checked out neuromancer. that was good poo poo man! Highly recommend The Peripheral if you like Gibson's stuff (or this genre in general) Apparently it's getting an Amazon adaptation, for whatever that's worth - honestly would work pretty well as a show.
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