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facialimpediment posted:The new engineer got the memo 
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Crab Dad posted:Somebody reset the counter. I’m too tired. It's basically spinning under its own momentum at this point 
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My cousin's college had constant bomb threats for their last exam period. Society is definitely not recovering from covid and the past couple years at the same rate across the board. Young people seem hosed up
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Grip it and rip it posted:My cousin's college had constant bomb threats for their last exam period. Society is definitely not recovering from covid and the past couple years at the same rate across the board. Young people seem hosed up Yeah it’s bad: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/teen-girls-engulfed-in-violence-and-trauma-cdc-finds/
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Crab Dad posted:Somebody reset the counter. I’m too tired. There's a reason I made  .
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Yeah it’s bad: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/teen-girls-engulfed-in-violence-and-trauma-cdc-finds/ Well when people like Jordan Peterson say poo poo like this about rape victims I'd probably be pretty loving depressed given the abysmally high rates of sexual assault https://twitter.com/thebadstats/status/1625249621168779264 Hopefully at some point one of these UFOs we keep shooting down won't be some crap Chinese balloon or whatever and some actual extraterrestrial device that can phone home and orient the planet-killing death ray right at us Hail Snorflax Snorflax-18 Slogoogledorf, may his passing blissfully eradicate the earth
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Well when people like Jordan Peterson say poo poo like this about rape victims I'd probably be pretty loving depressed given the abysmally high rates of sexual assault If spy balloon debris landed on Jorp's house while he was asleep in his bed I'd start believing in God again.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:If spy balloon debris landed on Jorp's house while he was asleep in his bed I'd start believing in God again. My country has this horrible tendency to create the cringiest loving right wingers and propel them to the world stage  To that point, on behalf of my hometown I apologize for Lauren Southern
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PSA: If you've never gone down a youtube rabbit hole of watching culverts/dams/etc getting ripped out by floodwaters it is simultaneously fascinating and horrifying. e: I think the actual failure mode is called "piping" but Youtube doesn't really support that. Basically, water gets behind the wingwalls (if there are any) and finds its way to the outlet, violates the whole soil stability structure and turns the whole thing into styrofoam. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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The Thelma and Louise remake has some budget issues.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:A town of 8000 is cut off to the point where we have no idea if it's even there Man, that is nuts. You guys get storms on a seasonal basis or do they tend to miss you guys?
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facialimpediment posted:The new engineer got the memo It's the end of the site as we know and I feel fine
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Going back to this pic for a second. Idiot decides he is going to drive through high water (see: mud on the upstream steps), guns it, and then the road isn't there and he plows into the embankment on the other side doing at least 25 mph and doesn't die?
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I logged into twitter just to block him and haven’t gone back. Also blocked that superbowl jesus group.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Going back to this pic for a second. Idiot decides he is going to drive through high water (see: mud on the upstream steps), guns it, and then the road isn't there and he plows into the embankment on the other side doing at least 25 mph and doesn't die? He was doing roughly 70, so.... 40mph? It was dark apparently and the first anyone knew of the road being gone is when he found out. He was miraculously unhurt. https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/weat...-its-population The town of Wairoa, mentioned earlier, is in a really bad way. The flooding and storm has cut all roads, the huge flooding has wrecked the water supply, there is no food in the stores, no power, no cell towers left, flooding has displaced as many as 1 in 8 residents, and the only sat phone in town is now dead since they can't charge it. Oh, and the winds are so high they can't even do an overflight. Edit oh sorry I'm underselling things - the article says actually half the population have been flooded.
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Do we have any train nerds? I saw another headline saying there was a train derailment in Tennessee also last night/yesterday. I went to look it up and found this: https://www.newsweek.com/more-dozen-trains-have-derailed-us-this-year-1780952 We have had more than a dozen derailments so far this year. Apparently, this is a common occurrence with an average of 1,704 derailments a year. My question is this: Is the severity of the accidents we are seeing due to labor issues, regulatory issues, poor/aging infrastructure, or an all of the above issue? Are we seeing more "spectacular" events because the rail workers normally prevent and/or mitigate these spills? Is it a case of, no workers to see us doing the wrong thing so we are going to do it? It just seems that there are suddenly a bunch of leaking chemical tankers falling off of tracks, what else would cause this?
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Actual train nerds will have real answers, but from doing light reading on it over the last couple decades (used to work for a place that tracked chemical spills), the real high level answer is  Maintenance costs money, giving workers rest and PTO costs money, safety costs money--and all cost more than whatever fines they'll get slapped with for destroying a town. And if the "blue collar," "pro-union," Democratic president who famously rode the hell out of Amtrak is willing to strike break for the railroad owners, none of it is going to get any better.
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stealie72 posted:Actual train nerds will have real answers, but from doing light reading on it over the last couple decades (used to work for a place that tracked chemical spills), the real high level answer is Or depending which flavor of tinfoil hatter you are, it can be little green russian men, or active sabotage by pissed off workers. Its the thing
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stealie72 posted:Actual train nerds will have real answers, but from doing light reading on it over the last couple decades (used to work for a place that tracked chemical spills), the real high level answer is Yup, when every article about the recent derailments has the White House using stern language like "asks X to take responsibility" while everything outside is dying from chemicals raining down you know the companies and CEOs are ready to sacrifice their profits/golden parachutes to make things right.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:There were derailments in SC and TX yesterday also. I saw those as well. It was part of what prompted me to start looking at things. stealie72 posted:Actual train nerds will have real answers, but from doing light reading on it over the last couple decades (used to work for a place that tracked chemical spills), the real high level answer is I get that they are probably stretching their maintenance further. I also get the labor cost issue. I'm trying to figure out the "why now?" It doesn't seem like there was a noticeable change after the strike was blocked, then suddenly, we have trains leaking poo poo and killing people all over the place. I had expected a slower, more incremental degradation of the system.
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ASAPI posted:I saw those as well. It was part of what prompted me to start looking at things. Edit: This lazy google news search without "palestine" leaves a trail of ugh over the past few years. stealie72 fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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stealie72 posted:Don't have time to find the data right now, and maybe someone else has it, but I wonder about "suddenly, we have trains leaking poo poo and killing people all over the place." We may very well have hit an increase, but I'd think it's equally probable that it's just the media is suddenly paying attention. There's a lot of train track in BFE. Good point. I hadn't considered that it just wasn't on my feed.
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It's big car running interference so we'll never get high speed passenger rail. Joke's on them, we weren't getting that anyway. Another win for the proletariat
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Rail has right-of-way legally and they are savage about giving an ounce of it up. They are loving awful to deal with. Also Feinstein is hanging it up. Not soon enough but I'm calling it a W. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1625556034189201414 Dead Nazis is always good news.
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Good. Fentanyl overdose or suicide before his trial? We will probably eventually know.
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Looks like he died the same day he was supposed to appear in court on drug trafficking charges, so probably pulled a Lowtax.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1625556034189201414 This thread is a pro-click, and Molly rocks.
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I don’t click twitter threads but that post was good enough to give me the most important detail wrt the status of this nazi
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M_Gargantua posted:Good. Not mutually exclusive things.
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