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That's the guy who claimed to have read up on all the debates that happened while writing the Texas constitution, but didn't know that "purity of the ballot box" meant "don't let black people vote".
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LifeSunDeath posted:drat bro I don't know for sure that he saw me, but our neighbour across the road, who wouldn't usually give me the time of day, gave me a nod and a smile the day after.
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Does a face mask do anything at all against hydrogen sulfide? I’m pretty sure that calls for acid gas cartridges.
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That guy is exercising a stupid reflex but putting your covid mask on for H2S is like getting out a band aid for a sucking chest wound.
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Aug 16, 2021 17:18
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Wolfsbane posted:Lol, throwback. The electricity guy still comes round to read our meter every year or so just to make sure that we're not lying on our DIY readings. In the US a lot of electric companies switched to smart meters that send their readings live over radio waves (cell data????) and for years people would protest based on "rf sensitivity". Haven't thought of it in years and all those folks have moved on to the new pseudoscience thing.
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Aug 16, 2021 17:21
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I don't know how many hydrogen sulfide fatalities there are per year in the US, but it's a lot. When your brain is so broken you're upset at people being notified a cloud of deadly gas was released
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Aug 16, 2021 17:22
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wheatpuppy posted:Would have been better if they balanced a cigarette at the edge of the bucket right where it would catch the flame. Look again, that's not a bucket.
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Aug 16, 2021 17:24
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waffle iron posted:In the US a lot of electric companies switched to smart meters that send their readings live over radio waves (cell data????) and for years people would protest based on "rf sensitivity". Haven't thought of it in years and all those folks have moved on to the new pseudoscience thing. I don't remember if it was the water or electricity meter, but my parents' city sent out a notice saying that you don't have to switch if you don't want to, but they will charge you extra to pay for someone to read your meter in person.
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Aug 16, 2021 17:25
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waffle iron posted:In the US a lot of electric companies switched to smart meters that send their readings live over radio waves (cell data????) and for years people would protest based on "rf sensitivity". Haven't thought of it in years and all those folks have moved on to the new pseudoscience thing. Used to be you could buy stick on mesh screens that you could put on your phone that they claimed would bounce the radio waves away from your head.
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Aug 16, 2021 17:25
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waffle iron posted:In the US a lot of electric companies switched to smart meters that send their readings live over radio waves (cell data????) and for years people would protest based on "rf sensitivity". Haven't thought of it in years and all those folks have moved on to the new pseudoscience thing. The true believers moved to Green Bank, West Virginia. It’s part of the national radio quiet zone and there are some massive radio telescopes there, so you’re pretty much SOL if you want wifi. Or a microwave. Or a gas powered car (spark plugs!) in some parts of the county. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-14887428
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Uncle Enzo posted:I don't know how many hydrogen sulfide fatalities there are per year in the US, but it's a lot. So many problems could be solved if every street had a bucket of cyanide with a note on it saying "President Biden and Doctor Fauci strongly advise you don't drink this."
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Aug 16, 2021 17:41
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waffle iron posted:In the US a lot of electric companies switched to smart meters that send their readings live over radio waves (cell data????) and for years people would protest based on "rf sensitivity". Haven't thought of it in years and all those folks have moved on to the new pseudoscience thing. When they moved to smart meters we had the exact same RF conspiracists coming out of the woodwork and writing to the local press that they were getting migraines or morgellons or whatever. Then they all looked like idiots when the company revealed that the meters they were fitting actually sent the reading up the cable Ethernet-Over-Power style to the nearest substation and didn't use radio at all.
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ReelBigLizard posted:When they moved to smart meters we had the exact same RF conspiracists coming out of the woodwork and writing to the local press that they were getting migraines or morgellons or whatever. Then they all looked like idiots when the company revealed that the meters they were fitting actually sent the reading up the cable Ethernet-Over-Power style to the nearest substation and didn't use radio at all. That’s sophistry because the cables are unshielded and act as antennæ, but it’s sophistry for a good cause. They are poor antennæ at the frequencies used for meter communication, granted.
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Evilreaver posted:Well he appears to be all right now!!! Because there's not much left 
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  From Facebook person is very proud of their packing job.
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waffle iron posted:In the US a lot of electric companies switched to smart meters that send their readings live over radio waves (cell data????) and for years people would protest based on "rf sensitivity". Haven't thought of it in years and all those folks have moved on to the new pseudoscience thing. Friend of mine was house shopping recently and ended up googling the current owner of a house he was looking at. He found a video of her court case vs the power company. Turns out she pulled her self-reporting meter and replaced it with a regular one. Power company got pissed, disconnected her service, and slapped her with a huge fine for tampering with the meter. She ended up buying a bunch of solar panels and batteries and stayed off grid.
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Aug 16, 2021 19:31
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I guess that's about the best possible outcome from that specific delusion.
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Computer viking posted:I guess that's about the best possible outcome from that specific delusion. Yeah, turns out having a bunch of money makes everything work out better for you, even being crazy.
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Aug 16, 2021 19:39
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That strange guy posted:
Finally some stereo equipment that actually fell off the back of a truck.
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Rad-daddio posted:Timely reminder that lathes hunger for flesh From the cradle to the lathe
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:That's part of their charm! Couple pages back, but I fly out to knowville TN at least once a year to see family and the American flights are all like this. That one row seat is the best.
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That strange guy posted:
For some reason, this screams: "Play that funky music white boy"
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this was posted on imgur with the consensus that the person opening the door is at fault for not paying more attention to her mirrors. https://i.imgur.com/RPiTEOQ.mp4 i contend that the person driving the car that hit a stationary object is the one at fault but what do i know
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Aug 16, 2021 22:01
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ReelBigLizard posted:In many british houses the fuse box and meter is just inside the door, a throwback from when the electricity guy used to come around and read the meter manually for billing. I live in a rural area where there is basically no crime and people regularly leave front doors unlocked. Do police in your neighbourhood not respond to noise complaint calls or something? Because it seems to me you could have just called it in instead of literally breaking into your neighbour's house twice.
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Aug 16, 2021 22:08
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Sagebrush posted:this was posted on imgur with the consensus that the person opening the door is at fault for not paying more attention to her mirrors. How would the person have enough time to notice the door is opening and slow down.
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Aug 16, 2021 22:14
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They're driving awfully far to the right. It looks like they drove over the parking spot's white markings. If so, I say it's 50-50.
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Sagebrush posted:this was posted on imgur with the consensus that the person opening the door is at fault for not paying more attention to her mirrors. It's impossible to tell without seeing the whole and knowing the full details (did the black car change lanes, are there any obstructions in view, was the black car speeding, etc...). Looking it up though, it seems to depend on the state, but the fact that the black car didnt take any evasive actions may mean that they will share fault
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Platystemon posted:Does a face mask do anything at all against hydrogen sulfide? You're right. N95 and P100 particle filters aren't going to do poo poo against H2S, because it's a 3 atom molecule. You need an acid gas cartridge to filter it.
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Also you'd have to see if they were driving too fast for that road Still dumbshit to just open your door into traffic, "fault" or not
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Aug 16, 2021 22:17
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Thankfully where I am, the law is clear - if you open your door into traffic you're to blame.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Thankfully where I am, the law is clear - if you open your door into traffic you're to blame. Same here. In Ontario it's up to a $1000 fine and three demerit points, because it's such a huge problem that's hurt a lot of cyclists. Of course, whether the police enforce it is another matter, since they are notorious for not properly prosecuting motorists who hurt or kill cyclists/pedestrians.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Thankfully where I am, the law is clear - if you open your door into traffic you're to blame. "into traffic" isn't clear lol, this is why insurance companies go to arbitration to assign points of liability. it's like saying "pedestrians have the right of way 100% of time" in a bunch of states--its rarely treated as such (in especially in cases where a driver could not have reasonably avoided a collision)
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Mister Speaker posted:Same here. In Ontario it's up to a $1000 fine and three demerit points, because it's such a huge problem that's hurt a lot of cyclists. Of course, whether the police enforce it is another matter, since they are notorious for not properly prosecuting motorists who hurt or kill cyclists/pedestrians. Just because it's illegal doesn't automatically assign 100% of the insurance liability onto that party, unless canada's strange santa court thinks differently than in the USA
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Going frame by frame it looks like the black car was on the right side of the lane but the car's door crossed over the threshold of the parking space painted there right before it got hit. It's hard to tell if the black car maintained it's lane but the silver car absolutely opened the door into the traffic lane to some degree. The shadows are going straight down and just slightly away from the camera, and the shadow of the door still crossed over the lane marker before the impact, so the door was over the threshold by at least a couple inches. From the time the car door cracked open to impact was about one single second, it's really unlikely the black car could have done anything to prevent it. Reaction time alone is, on average .7 seconds with .8 seconds for response for a total of 1.5 seconds from an event to when the response to the event begins. This drops to something like .75 seconds if the event is anticipated. That .75 total time only happens if the person responding has the muscled memory to make correct responses without conscious thought, so that sure as hell doesn't apply here. There is very little chance any average driver could have responded to that before impact.
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In the UK from an insurer’s perspective that would be the parked car’s fault 100%, regardless of how fast the other car was going or whether they should have been on that part of the road or not. Don’t open the door without checking there’s nothing coming!
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Even with the moving vehicle driving on the wrong side of the road? But yeah, even if you're 100% not at fault but had a way to avoid an accident, may as well avoid the accident. EvenWorseOpinions fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Aug 16, 2021 |
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Even with the moving vehicle driving on the wrong side of the road? Yeah, just because it shouldn’t have been there wouldn’t excuse not seeing it.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Even with the moving vehicle driving on the wrong side of the road? theyre all on the wrong side in the uk tho
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Just to make sure I''m not missing anything: - That's a huge US flag and the driver is on the left, so this looks like the US - Given that the previous cars are driving on the left side of the road, in the US, this is a two-lane road with both lanes going the same direction - The car that hit the door is in the right ("non-left") of the two lanes I guess he's not exactly centered in his lane, but he's hardly "on the wrong side of the road", right?
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