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Goons Are Great posted:Jumping from the sidewalk question, can an American explain jaywalking to me? I live in Europe and it's legal to cross the road pretty much anywhere, as long as you are not endangering or disturbing (meaning someone has to stop or brake for you in any way) existing traffic. Of course, there are roads where you cannot cross the road or even be as a pedestrian, like highways, the German Autobahn or some special speed roads, but it's rather rare. Additionally, you of course have traffic lights or cross walks, where cars have to stop for you anyways. Sidewalks exist absolutely everywhere where pedestrians are allowed to walk, too, so if there is none it's a good indicator you are in a very wrong place. The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
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Legally speaking in every state I've lived in every intersection counts as a crosswalk, even if it's not marked, so cars technically have to stop for you at ANY intersection. Most people don't know this though, even the cops. If you cross between intersections I think it's okay legally if the distance to any intersection is great enough. I think the only time jaywalking is enforced is people crossing against an actual light or signal. Every once in a while a city might even do a targeted enforcement week or something and give a bunch of jaywalking citations to send a message. It's a bullshit message as pedestrians don't pose the hazard that cars do. Jaywalking as a concept was pushed by the american automotive association in the mid 20th century when they were pushing hard for the city to be a place for cars and not people. The term derives from a "country jay" which is like saying country bumpkin or simple country man, implying you're an idiot who doesn't understand how things work in the city. e: didn't see the new page, beaten 
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Oct 6, 2020 13:41
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alnilam posted:I think the only time jaywalking is enforced is people crossing against an actual light or signal. Every once in a while a city might even do a targeted enforcement week or something and give a bunch of jaywalking citations to send a message. It's a bullshit message as pedestrians don't pose the hazard that cars do. Pretty much this, it’s rarely enforced in most places most of the time. An element of it to keep in mind is that driving laws can vary from state to state or county to county in the U.S. A good example is making a right turn at a red light, which is notably illegal in New York City, in other areas limited or not allowed at certain intersections or during certain hours, while other states you can do it almost anywhere. A lot of these things, and probably how much jaywalking is enforced to keep it vaguely related, depends on how the area is set up for pedestrian traffic. New York is obviously a city with millions of people walking, where other areas (Again, South Florida in my case) are largely laid out with cars being the first priority, and everything else is absolutely second, so intersections or crosswalks can be much further apart.
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Oct 6, 2020 13:53
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I visited northern Virginia a couple of years ago from the UK and easily half of the buttons to push for the crosswalk signals in the area around my hotel simply didn’t work. So crossing the three or four lane roads (literally like 50 metres sidewalk to sidewalk) was incredibly hair raising. America is explicitly built for cars and not people, and only the tiniest amount of lip service is paid to providing infrastructure that even acknowledges the existence of people in this system. Admittedly this visit was one tiny place, but I have had similar experiences in other places in the US as well.
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Oct 6, 2020 14:04
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jaywalking is one of those fun us-style laws that are used exclusively to gently caress with poors it's convenient for shitlord cops to always have an excuse to arrest anyone they want, so we have lots of little laws that everyone breaks all the time without consequence. until a cop decides they don't like you, and then you go to jail for crossing the street in the wrong place or having too darkly tinted windows or not wearing a shirt or whatever
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Oct 6, 2020 19:44
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What percent of millennials WANT to be a parent? Usual survey sites like Pew Center are reporting on births and poo poo, but not stated preferences.
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Oct 6, 2020 20:12
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TURGID TOMFOOLERY posted:What percent of millennials WANT to be a parent?
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Oct 6, 2020 20:23
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If I were to put stickers on my laptop hand-rests (where I usually use my wifi mouse) would they prevent scratches? (located to the left and right of the mouse pad that I dont use)
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Oct 6, 2020 20:25
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Grouchio posted:If I were to put stickers on my laptop hand-rests (where I usually use my wifi mouse) would they prevent scratches? uh. yes? but only under the stickers, i feel like i have to say that 
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Oct 6, 2020 20:26
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Is it just my imagination or have weather forecasts gotten really inaccurate in the last year or so? I know in general weather prediction is way more accurate than it used to be like twenty years ago, but at least for my area you basically can't trust the morning forecast to tell you what's going to happen that afternoon. I'm wondering if it's just some bias on my part or if some weird model changes happened.
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Oct 6, 2020 21:36
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Manager Hoyden posted:Is it just my imagination or have weather forecasts gotten really inaccurate in the last year or so? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02198-4
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Oct 6, 2020 21:41
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Wow I didn't expect a real answer but there it is. Thanks!
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Oct 6, 2020 21:52
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Generally speaking, if you're in a city that has crosswalks, you're supposed to use them. Crossing elsewhere is considered dangerous and can cause traffic congestion/accidents as people have to brake unexpectedly if you lurch out in front of them. My experience is that you can't rely on the good judgment of pedestrians to know when to cross without crosswalks. That said, people jaywalk all the time in cities and I've never seen someone get stopped or ticketed for it. Most jaywalking happens at or near a crosswalk, just not when it's technically allowed (crosswalk isn't green but there's no traffic so people scurry across). But I'm white, so my experience won't speak for everyone  In rural areas people don't give a poo poo at all. I'll see people casually stroll through a highway with traffic flying by at 65mph and nobody bats an eye. Or, in five lane sections, they run to the turning lane and stop and wait for an opening to get the rest of the way across. Eclipse12 fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Oct 6, 2020 |
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Oct 6, 2020 22:58
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I picked up a cool old 1980s Philco stereo recently and wanted to learn more about it and how to do some repairs. Which forum should I use? Make a Tell Me thread? Put it in the music forum? It's big and gaudy and badass, but it needs some love 
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Oct 6, 2020 23:03
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This thread in IYG has people who open up old stereo equipment and poo poo.
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Oct 7, 2020 00:32
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Cool. Thanks!
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Oct 7, 2020 00:47
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Can anyone point me towards easy ways to watch a movie with friends? I think I missed the compilations of those sort of things at the beginning of the pandemic. I don't plan on doing it too often, so I'm ok with doing things like pointing a webcam at the tv and using twitch but if I could do one level up from that.... And it's free......
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Oct 7, 2020 05:56
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Jyrraeth posted:Can anyone point me towards easy ways to watch a movie with friends? I think I missed the compilations of those sort of things at the beginning of the pandemic. i think discord has a screen sharing thing, and there's a brand-specific one for amazon poo poo getting promoted a lot lately
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Oct 7, 2020 06:05
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Why is there no nutrition information on alcohol labels? Speaking specifically about Australia, but I'm guessing it's probably the same in other countries since I don't think I've ever seen nutrition info on imported alcohol either. Even the bottle of water in my fridge has nutrition info on it that just says 0g/100mL for everything because it's literally just water, but other than the ABV and standard drinks there's basically nothing on beer and wine bottles; not even ingredients.
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Oct 7, 2020 15:40
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In America at least the laws around alcohol make zero sense because the craziest loving people keep pulling them in opposite directions for disingenuous reasons. I've given up on trying to make sense of them. Just go to a local town council meeting the next time they want to change a zoning law for a bar or liquor store and you'll see what I mean. You'll think the whole thing is a setup for a hidden camera prank or something. Also, food and drink manufacturers would rather you didn't know what was in their products and alcohol lobbyists are very, very well funded.
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Oct 7, 2020 15:54
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I'm trying to check the stock on an item from IKEA. Instead of giving me an estimated time when it will be back in stock, all it reads is "out of stock" with no date. When I check other stores, it says a date where they expect to get more in. What's with that? Why doesn't it list an estimate date for my store?
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Bioshuffle posted:I'm trying to check the stock on an item from IKEA. Instead of giving me an estimated time when it will be back in stock, all it reads is "out of stock" with no date. Just for clarity sake, you are asking why the IKEA you shop at does not have an estimated In-stock date, when other IKEA stores have a estimated date for that same product? This is kind of general, and it's been about 15 years since I worked retail, but it worked like this back in my time. I worked at a best buy, and at that time they specialized each store to cater to a different demographic: Young Gamer, Man-cave Dad, Music and Movie Guy, Appliance Mom, etc. Each store would tend to stock items that catered more to one demo over the other. For example the Dad store would stock these big comfy chairs that you wouldn't find in most other stores. The Gamer store would have higher quantities of games and systems and accessories. And on and on. If you had a local store and they didn't carry the thing normally, they could special order it no problem. So, this piece of furniture that you are looking for might not be a normal item that the store keeps on hand regularly. The other stores might get a few of them on the shipment truck every time, so they expect more to come in with the next delivery.
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Oct 7, 2020 18:41
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fartknocker posted:Yeah, I’m in South Florida and the only places that don’t have sidewalks on at least one side of the road, if not both, are very rural areas and occasionally some parts of older neighborhoods that were built in the 50’s or early 60’s (If not before) that also usually don’t have mailboxes close to the road and are simply designed and laid out different than anything built in the last 60~ years.
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I feel like I should preface this question by saying I live in the US. When I go to the dentist the last thing they do is schedule another appointment in six months. When I go to the doctor he always says, "By the way, you should come in for a regular checkup and blood work, we haven't seen you in a while." but they never actually schedule those regular visits like a dentist does. Why don't doctors just schedule twice a year checkups for their patients like dentists? Seems weird that I see my dentist way more than my doctor. Like, I had a professional make sure my teeth are good twice this year but who knows how the rest of me is doing. Do I have a bad doctor or do medical costs in the US make that unrealistic for most folks?
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(This is pure supposition) Dentists aren't sexy. They don't save lives or deliver babies. They're an upper-middle-class profession that is dependable, useful, and occupied mainly by incredibly boring but nice family-oriented people (usually men). People that go into dentistry are the type to think about good ways to ensure their income is stable and reliable over the course of their life. Thus they make sure their practice has people come in reliably twice a year. Doctors think they're super sexy life savers. They have large egos and enjoy the high income but hate thinking about what they do as a business, that's far too pedestrian. People go into medicine to Save Lives and be known in their community and get laid. So they're lovely at business and don't do basic things like automatically book people in for regular appointments. But yeah I dunno it's pretty weird.
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Trapick posted:(This is pure supposition) yeah i don't know the answer but i'm pretty sure it's not this. stupid sexy doctors
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It's more likely that doctors, esp PCPs, already have very full schedules because there aren't enough of them, for many stupid USA reasons. So they might not be as excited to pre book healthy patients. Some don't even have time to accept new patients! Dentists (and dental hygenists) on the other hand probably have a little trouble filling their schedule cause people hate going to them. FWIW some PCPs and many specialists do, in fact, pre book in this way in my experience.
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I'm also in the US. McCracAttack posted:Why don't doctors just schedule twice a year checkups for their patients like dentists? 
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Oct 8, 2020 02:29
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Oh also I bet a well visit doesn't bill for much compared to doing stuff to a sick patient, more stupid USA stuff
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owlhawk911 posted:i think discord has a screen sharing thing, and there's a brand-specific one for amazon poo poo getting promoted a lot lately ..... That's way easier than I thought. Thanks.
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I’ve read in the past that shipbreaking is really bad for the surrounding environment in places where it happens. Is this true and if so, why? Is it something unique to ships? Or just doing any big industrial deconstruction like that is probably gonna be bad?
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Oct 8, 2020 03:30
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Old bunker oil left in the sumps, toxic heavy metals leaching into the ground and the ocean, paint flaking off and doing the same. Plus there are ships old enough that have asbestos fireproofing, and that's certainly not being dealt with in an appropriate manner. Any major deconstruction like this could be managed properly, and would probably be toxic if not managed properly, but there's less money in that.
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Oct 8, 2020 03:42
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Badger of Basra posted:I’ve read in the past that shipbreaking is really bad for the surrounding environment in places where it happens. Is this true and if so, why? Is it something unique to ships? Or just doing any big industrial deconstruction like that is probably gonna be bad? A lot of ship breaking happens in west africa or central america.
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Oct 8, 2020 03:43
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alnilam posted:Oh also I bet a well visit doesn't bill for much compared to doing stuff to a sick patient, more stupid USA stuff So, I'm just a simple back woods sort of fellow, but wouldn't insurance companies see the value in "preventive maintenance" of their "stock"?
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Oct 8, 2020 03:59
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McCracAttack posted:So, I'm just a simple back woods sort of fellow, but wouldn't insurance companies see the value in "preventive maintenance" of their "stock"? why bother when they can just deny you coverage when you actually get sick
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Memento posted:why bother when they can just deny you coverage when you actually get sick I don't know. I'm not sure what else to do but go down to the town square and try to set my senators regional office on fire. I'm sure I've never seen a person walk in there.
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This is where we need an actual expert but yeah you'd certainly think so. I imagine well visits wouldn't be covered at all if that weren't the case but obviously they're not compensated highly enough to pay well enough to be easy to get so that's a market failure (I thought those weren't supposed to happen in capitalism  )I feel like this is one of the things that obamacare specifically was supposed to address, and of course while you could call it a small step in the right direction it was woefully inadequate.
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Badger of Basra posted:I’ve read in the past that shipbreaking is really bad for the surrounding environment in places where it happens. Is this true and if so, why? Is it something unique to ships? Or just doing any big industrial deconstruction like that is probably gonna be bad? One of the issues is that ships are really big. They can’t be hauled into a warehouse where the debris is somewhat contained. It all happens in the open on a beach. Dry docks could be used, but ships are, gram for gram, the cheapest thing in the world to move across the globe, so of course unscrupulous owners move them to wherever is “business friendly”.
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McCracAttack posted:So, I'm just a simple back woods sort of fellow, but wouldn't insurance companies see the value in "preventive maintenance" of their "stock"? My lovely high-deductible insurance covers preventative maintenance 100%. So an annual physical and bloodwork, shots for the kids, mammograms for women once they reach whatever age that’s recommended, colonoscopies for all when appropriate, etc. if I get sick it’s 100% out of pocket until I reach my $3,000 deductible, but the routine stuff to help me not get sick is completely covered.
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