ILL Machina posted:

ILL Machina posted:

https://i.imgur.com/LTvaNVh.mp4

Taeke posted:

And like, even if you're a good driver it's so loving dangerous. I remember distinctly driving along a country road near my village, not even going fast. Probably 50 km/h or so on excellent roads. Just enjoying the weather with some tunes. I saw a friend cycling on the opposite side so I took my eyes off the road for a second and as I raised my hand in greeting out of nowhere some old people on bikes came from behind a bend and decided to cross the road without looking so I had to slam the breaks. I came to a stop like a foot from them. Still kinda haunts me to this day how lucky we all were.

Mozi posted:

Tailings dam?

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harryshimmin
9 Brits and 1 American on a guided tour of the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan. We’d just reached the highest point in the trek and I separated from the group to take pictures on top of a hill/cliff edge. While I was taking pictures I heard the sound of deep ice cracking behind me. This is where the video starts. I’d been there for a few minutes already so I knew there was a spot for shelter right next to me. I was on a cliff edge, so I could only run away from the shelter (hence why I don’t move). Yes I left it to the last second to move, and yes I know it would have been safer moving to the shelter straight away. I’m very aware that I took a big risk. I felt in control, but regardless, when the snow started coming over and it got dark / harder to breath, I was bricking it and thought I might die.

Behind the rock it was like being inside a blizzard. Once it was over the adrenaline rush hit me hard. I was only covered in light powder, without a scratch. I felt giddy. I knew the rest of the group was further away from the avalanche so should be okay. When I re-joined them I could see they were all safe, although one had cut her knee quite badly (she rode one of the horses to the nearest medical facility). Another had fallen off a horse and sustained some light bruising.

The whole group was laughing and crying, happy to be alive (including the girl who cut her knee). It was only later we realised just how lucky we’d been. If we had walked 5 minutes further on our trek, we would all be dead. If you look carefully in the video, you can see the faint grey trail winding through the grass. That was the path. We traversed it afterwards, walking among massive ice boulders and rocks that had been thrown much further than we could have run, even if we acted immediately. To make it worse, the path runs alongside a low ridge, hiding the mountain from view, so we would have only heard the roar before lights out.

Mozi posted:

Tailings dam?

Weembles posted:

My city has been getting aggressive about putting in curb extensions at intersections. So far the main reaction to them has been drivers writing angry Nextoor posts about how they're now forced to slow down at intersections and how much more attention it takes to make right turns on red.

Lobsterboy posted:

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfyT6xcA27D/

Spalec posted:

Got an actual OSHA-adjacent question:

Are there any respirators that work with facial hair/beards? My work is increasing use of them (done studies suggesting particulate count for certain tasks is high enough to require them) and I'd rather not keep clean shaven . I don't have a huge beard, but enough to keep the seal from doing its thing.

Work is willing to buy them if we can find something that'll work.

MisterOblivious posted:

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Robot arm traps worker.

Uthor posted:

Everything I hear is how roundabouts are safer, and I for them, but there's a pair of them on my way to work (one on each side of the highway for the on/off ramps) and they are double lane roundabouts and EVERY DAY I see people enter the roundabout and immediately change lanes while going around. Thankfully, it's only been a close call a couple of times the 8 months I've been working there.

There's another one that I hit when I decide to avoid the highway due to traffic that is right after a stop light intersection. So, I have to wait for a green light before entering. What's the point?!

Uthor posted:

Everything I hear is how roundabouts are safer, and I for them, but there's a pair of them on my way to work (one on each side of the highway for the on/off ramps) and they are double lane roundabouts and EVERY DAY I see people enter the roundabout and immediately change lanes while going around. Thankfully, it's only been a close call a couple of times the 8 months I've been working there.

There's another one that I hit when I decide to avoid the highway due to traffic that is right after a stop light intersection. So, I have to wait for a green light before entering. What's the point?!

Weembles posted:

My city has been getting aggressive about putting in curb extensions at intersections. So far the main reaction to them has been drivers writing angry Nextoor posts about how they're now forced to slow down at intersections and how much more attention it takes to make right turns on red.

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

It doesn't help when the roundabouts are poorly signaled in your GPS, and you can't tell what lane you need to be in for which direction you're going. I had a friend riding shotgun through an area with a confusing roundabout and still nearly beefed it picking the right approach and exit.

I do think they're optimal when it's a single lane situation in a 4-way intersection, and I have no major issues with roundabouts as a traffic design. I just want the signage and the GPS instructions to be clearer during the approach.

Mister Speaker posted:

Toronto has been putting in a lot of physically separated bicycle lanes in the past few years. I don't even ride a bicycle that much but I just love hearing drivers bitch about them. They have their faults (mostly pedestrians outside bars who like to stand in them) but they definitely have improved the safety of neighbourhoods they're in. Oh yeah, local business owners love to bitch about them too, saying the lack of street parking is driving away customers. Good. If your business was worth a drat people would be willing to walk to it. Fuckin' petite bourgeoise.

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

It doesn't help when the roundabouts are poorly signaled in your GPS, and you can't tell what lane you need to be in for which direction you're going. I had a friend riding shotgun through an area with a confusing roundabout and still nearly beefed it picking the right approach and exit.

I do think they're optimal when it's a single lane situation in a 4-way intersection, and I have no major issues with roundabouts as a traffic design. I just want the signage and the GPS instructions to be clearer during the approach.

Mister Speaker posted:

Toronto has been putting in a lot of physically separated bicycle lanes in the past few years. I don't even ride a bicycle that much but I just love hearing drivers bitch about them. They have their faults (mostly pedestrians outside bars who like to stand in them) but they definitely have improved the safety of neighbourhoods they're in. Oh yeah, local business owners love to bitch about them too, saying the lack of street parking is driving away customers. Good. If your business was worth a drat people would be willing to walk to it. Fuckin' petite bourgeoise.

Deteriorata posted:

We have a roundabout near us that Google maps will say, "Turn left at the roundabout" - meaning to go 270° around and exit out the left side. Nonetheless, every day there are people taking that literally and turning left as they enter the roundabout, going the wrong way around.

Bertha the Toaster posted:

That's really weird, in the UK it says take the first exit, second exit, third exit, etc. off the roundabout. I wonder why it says it in a different style?

Turpitude posted:

I lived in Toronto from 2009-2012 and the birching and moaning was beyond belief. meanwhile every day a cyclist gets run over by a cement truck or some poo poo. Now I'm back in Victoria and we are doing the same things, absolutely *gorgeous* bikelanes that skateboarders can also use for travel. Less bitching and moaning here, but we also have a waaaay smaller population.

SimonSays posted:

Totally normal and desirable way for a society to work. I absolutely love it and it doesn't make me shake with fury every day I have to live in it.

hailthefish posted:

They're safer in that the collisions in them are likely to be low speed impacts at oblique angles rather than high speed t-bones.

But yes, a lot of dumb near misses. There's an overpass dumbbell like that near me that also gets a ton of semi and dump truck traffic which definitely makes things extra dicey.

Uthor posted:

Recently move to Milwaukee. First place I've lived with bike lanes (and with people actually walking on the sidewalks, so I can't ride on them). It's not a super safe feeling being between moving traffic and parked cars that may pull out/open doors. But I was driving downtown and a few of the streets put the bike lane next to the sidewalk and the parked cars between the bike lane and drive lane.