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XeeD posted:This is goddamned table salt, isn't it? probably! i was thinking it looked a lot finer than the rock salt they use in places that actually get snow. lol I was also thinking "huh, i can't imagine that technique does much...maybe the salt spreads around when cars drive over it...i guess they know what they're doing, though!" and on learning the context, that's also a lol
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The Management posted:Here’s that rust you ordered I was just wondering why that one truck is so happy to follow along behind them for so long. I can only imagine it is a spotter working with them
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Sagebrush posted:
I mean, doubtful? They're basically creating irregular patches of traction amongst the ice, assuming it even melts in those areas covered in salt, which it might not as much since the whole point of lowering the freezing temperature is that you do it throughout the ice, not just in small patches which probably won't unfreeze because all the ice surrounding them isn't getting any of the effect. But at least they're allowing the tow truck drivers to get lots of work, so 
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I want to believe they are drug runners just ahead of the cops trying to ditch the evidence. The Wurst Poster fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Ahhhh Texas, never change.
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The Wurst Poster posted:I want to believe they are drug runners just ahead of the cops trying to ditch the evidence. It's the Mexican cartel giving free samples to everyone.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:lol I did this with an aluminum eddy current standard when I was in tech school. Got my ring finger stuck in the 3/4" hole. Luckily they were able to get my finger out with some ultrasonic couplant I highly doubt that they still tell that story. At this point, they tell the story of the dumbass airman who got his dick stuck in the half‐inch hole.
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"You burnt the loving money!" "Can you fly, Bobby?"
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Facebook Aunt posted:Failed state, or awesome state? In a truck with a machine doing this you'd employ 1 or 2 guys. This method employs at least 5 guys (3 we see plus the driver and camera man). End unemployment, have everyone shovel salt. Or how about we use the machine, still employ 5 guys and everyone works like half the time for the same benefits? I'm kidding of course, don't want to get on a watchlist for radical leftists.
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Evilreaver posted:A scrote of Teslacles 
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What? That's an ntsb regulation to honk at level crossings.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:What? That's an ntsb regulation to honk at level crossings. Yeah, but the sound of a locomotive splitting a loaded school bus in half is much more pleasant.
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I'm sure two random nimbys will get the railroad companies to do a single loving thing when whole-rear end major cities can't get them to stop loving with them.
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Deteriorata posted:Yeah, but the sound of a locomotive splitting a loaded school bus in half is much more pleasant. Finally achieving inner peace as those darn kids are off my lawn for good
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The cheapest apartment I ever rented, in the depths of my wasteful bachelor days, was directly adjacent to one of those crossings. Like I could have thrown a rock and hit the intersection. It was far, far worse than the place I lived adjacent to a meth house, or the place I lived adjacent to the farm. It drove me completely suicidal and homicidal, not to mention severely curtailing my chances at getting laid. I used to be very anti nimby until I lived there. If they can't ban the horns, ban the crossings themselves. I can't imagine trying to raise kids there, with those horns blasting every two hours from 4am to 10pm. They so dramatically lower property values too, if nothing else. I'll buy the pitchforks and torches to support their peasant uprising.
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Oh no, not the property values!
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:What? That's an ntsb regulation to honk at level crossings. Where I used to live they worked out something with the trains no longer having to hit the horn when going through the city. They improved the signals at the crossings as well.
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There's a provincial park here in Ontario that's surrounded by lake, but like 250 meters away is a railroad crossing that gets a lot of train traffic and because sound travels over water so much easier it literally sounds like you're about to be run over by trains and then... the horns start going. It's awful.
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CitizenKain posted:Where I used to live they worked out something with the trains no longer having to hit the horn when going through the city. They improved the signals at the crossings as well. That's how it works, yeah. There are Federal Quiet Zone rules where you improve the crossing's safety devices, and the trains no longer have to sound their horns. It's stuff like quad gates, median barriers, basically equipment that makes it really hard to ignore the approach of a (silent) train.
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Though good loving luck on just declaring a quiet zone without the community spending the money to make it sufficiently safe for a million ton beast to basically glide through an intersection silently.
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RDM posted:You're the first person who doesn't work for the state of NY I've ever heard call it the Cuomo. I usually call it the Tappan Zee but I'm not from NY so I didn't know the "legit" name. Like here in Philly they renamed a section of Delaware Avenue to Columbus Blvd but I will call the whole thing "Delaware Ave" until my dying day.
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The Wurst Poster posted:I want to believe they are drug runners just ahead of the cops trying to ditch the evidence. I assumed they were shoveling asbestos.
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went to visit a buddy in Madison, WI some years ago and woke up convinced I was about to be run over by a train when it honked, and then had some difficulty drifting off when it continued to do so. my friend told me the next day that the engineer wasn't supposed to use the horn in town anymore, let alone constantly the entire time, but he refused to comply with whatever new rules had been set up.
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kw0134 posted:Though good loving luck on just declaring a quiet zone without the community spending the money to make it sufficiently safe for a million ton beast to basically glide through an intersection silently. simply declare the entire are a library, problem solved
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GWBBQ posted:Lol if you consider any of that "driving in New York," lol at calling it the Cuomo Bridge, and I'm still confused about getting to the Cape via Boston, although driving in Boston is really terrible. As a Philadelphian I barely consider New York, period. gently caress New York. I don't typically drive up near Boston to get to the Cape, but it has happened for the reasons I already specified.
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Domus posted:I’ve taken driving classes. I just suck at physical objects in 3d space. I have terrible proprioception, too. I’d love to stop hitting my hips on stuff and tripping over things and dropping items. If anyone has heard of PT or something that makes you better at visualizing the movement of objects in spacetime, I’m all ears. Occupational Therapy can help with proprioception and visual perception/processing. You have to find one with specialized training in it. They also have driver rehab in some places.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:What? That's an ntsb regulation to honk at level crossings. it definitely isn't, trains dont honk at the level crossings near where i live. there isn't even a gate. it probably helps that the trains are rarely moving more than 15 mph so there's plenty of time for folks to pay attention to the signals, i dunno what stipulations are around these crossings to waive them from honk warnings Scholtz posted:Don't build homes next to railroads, and don't build railroads through residential zones in a lot of places both the homes and railroads predate modern regulations so i'll leave it up to you whether the government needs to buy out the homeowners or buy out the railroads Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:it definitely isn't, https://railroads.dot.gov/highway-rail-crossing-and-trespasser-programs/train-horn-rulequiet-zones/train-horn-rule-and-quiet quote:Under the Train Horn Rule (49 CFR Part 222), locomotive engineers must begin to sound train horns at least 15 seconds, and no more than 20 seconds, in advance of all public grade crossings. There are exceptions.
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Phanatic posted:https://railroads.dot.gov/highway-rail-crossing-and-trespasser-programs/train-horn-rulequiet-zones/train-horn-rule-and-quiet This page gives info about establishing a quiet zone. Seems like a reasonable way to start the discussion with your local government. quote:Establishing Quiet Zones:
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I hope the page for learning how to set up a quiet zone just says "gently caress YOU" real big and then plays a loud train horn mp3.
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Be the change you want to see in the world!
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Empty Sandwich posted:went to visit a buddy in Madison, WI some years ago and woke up convinced I was about to be run over by a train when it honked, and then had some difficulty drifting off when it continued to do so. They should have huge PA systems at the gates that play the sound of the Fat Boys beatboxing when a train approaches.
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Send an emergency message push to every phone in town saying "a train is coming"
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kw0134 posted:Though good loving luck on just declaring a quiet zone without the community spending the money to make it sufficiently safe for a million ton beast to basically glide through an intersection silently. Forbidden Technique: Shinobi Train Execution
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haveblue posted:Send an emergency message push to every phone in town saying "a train is coming" The train Has destroyed my eardrums Yes YES The train is coming
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Scholtz posted:Don't build homes next to railroads, and don't build railroads through residential zones A lot of the homes built near railroad tracks are targeted toward low income people. Likewise, municipalities always put new tracks through low income areas. These areas are also typically majority minority and are also areas that the us government previously redlined for home loans. Generally speaking, a lot of these types of their problems have roots in our nation's systemic racism.
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