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COMRADS! YOU HAD ME AT MAYDAY CELEBRATE YOUR WORKING CLASS COMRADES! Posts that belong in the news thread: -Actual news -Discussions of news. "Well I think this could have been averted if the engineer had not overgreased the bearing like a monkey who only knows one trick." -Debate about news. "I disagree, over-lubbing a shaft bearing is a valid approach if one considers the Engin R DUMB theorem" Things that don't belong in the news thread: -Discussing other posters. "Stop licking the engineer's boot you dumb piece of poo poo." -Ad hominem attack. "I bet you got your engineering license in a trashcan, where you belong, you engineer piece of poo poo." -Attacks against merchant marine engineers. They already have it hard enough, the poor ginger bears.
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And no more attacking the Suez Canal with giant freighters.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMlWwIXg3M Still got 22 minutes!
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Kesper North posted:And no more attacking the Suez Canal with giant freighters. That was the deckies (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Moving over from old thread.Stravag posted:Nations fighter command had an Easter egg where a ufo would show occasionally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgXUe0m2msY It was absolutely this game and it was a mind gently caress as a kid. It was WEIRD.
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Where did April go? Seriously, that month just vanished.
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Zamujasa posted:Where did April go? Thankfully it did! Flying back that states. Been 11 stressful months of wondering if the country was gonna collapse. A quick stable April was just what I needed?
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Zamujasa posted:Where did April go? April went by so fast I forgot to get drunk on my EAOS date 
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Happy May Day. gently caress all bosses. Workers of the world unite.
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A driver on a narrow street in Queens this week tried to pass another car by going into the bike lane at 50mph. Newsworthy because, in so doing, they collided at full speed into an outdoor dining space, murdering one and wounding another—avoiding an all-out massacre only because there were hardly any diners at the time. Police initially announced it was a result of a medical incident, but then video came out of the wanton negligence the driver displayed. https://twitter.com/CurbJumpingNYC/status/1388136498076262401?s=19 There are three things to be done to prevent this in the future: fundamentally transform Americans' behavior behind the wheel into something less ragingly sociopathic; fundamentally transform our urban road infrastructure from prioritizing driver's speed to prioritizing the safety of everyone else using the street; and, of course, get personal cars off the roads in favor of walkable, bikeable, and transit-accessible urban areas. The more likely outcome, of course, is assholes in city government using this as an excuse to shut down outdoor dining. And, since this has been a point of confusion ITT before, no, this doesn't mean your family in the sticks needs to give up their car.
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You will never change america's car culture and the attitudes that make it lovely.
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Cugel the Clever posted:A driver on a narrow street in Queens this week tried to pass another car by going into the bike lane at 50mph. Newsworthy because, in so doing, they collided at full speed into an outdoor dining space, murdering one and wounding another—avoiding an all-out massacre only because there were hardly any diners at the time. Police initially announced it was a result of a medical incident, but then video came out of the wanton negligence the driver displayed. I'm happy to be pointed to quotes to the contrary, but I believe any disagreement in the Current Events thread previously centered towards primary residential types in urban areas and discouragement of the use of single-passenger vehicles from the suburbs to city centers. My only point of contention with your comment is that Design Speed is not the controlling design factor in urban geometric design. Current design standards heavily consider multi-modal and pedestrian access needs, however were not standardized until the 1980's, well after most of American urban infrastructure was already constructed. Transforming from the former to the latter is going to cost $Texas and DOTs are critically underfunded and forced to prioritize budgets of failing infrastructure (and litigation), even prior to COVID.
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quote:Your text: I'm happy to be pointed to quotes to the contrary, ...(show all text)  I assume that’s what you were going for.
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Platystemon posted:
Do I even want to ask what that is
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I thought you were being extra longwinded as ploy to head off a derail, but if that’s just how you write, my bad. It’s a computer saying you used a bunch of long words and long sentences, basically. Your text is a good example of why such measures are simplistic. The words you used are long, but they are not rare. “Multi-modal” is the only term I expect anyone who can read at a fifth-grade level might be unfamiliar with.
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Platystemon posted:I thought you were being extra longwinded as ploy to head off a derail, but if that’s just how you write, my bad. Oh no, I'm just a transportation engineer that gets prickly when the design speed thing gets brought up. e: In general, I do try simplify language when possible, as I've read a couple of books on exploring the divide between the scientific community and general public where that was hypothesized to be a large chunk of the root cause. In this situation, I was attempting to refute a technical issue. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 12:48 on May 1, 2021 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:You will never change america's car culture and the attitudes that make it lovely. I had YouTube on in the background for bird sounds (for my birds, duh) and this obnoxious Nissan ad came on like "cars used to mean freedom! Cars used to be your life! Now with Nissan cars cars truck sub truck freedom America!" loving insanity
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I had YouTube on in the background for bird sounds (for my birds, duh) and this obnoxious Nissan ad came on like "cars used to mean freedom! Cars used to be your life! Now with Nissan cars cars truck sub truck freedom America!" loving insanity
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https://twitter.com/How2Drink/status/1388449542866096128?s=19 Happy May Day
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stealie72 posted:Especially since Nissan is a leading provider of milquetoast automobiles. I see about 1 nissan ad a day. Literal drop in the bucket. I see the same VW commercial (tiguan on a runway w/ 3 other brands) just about every commercial break on comedy central. Sometimes twice. I flip over to CC around 7am (cartoons) and leave it run in the background until the office starts. I've probably seen that VW ad over 100 times this week. I'm also sick of the Chris Stapleton Dodge ads (cause he's a ram, yes he am). Not really digging his new release anyhow, which is a shame because Traveller was so good.
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April thread is better. Day 2 after Moderna. Arm hurts and I just feel kind of off. I don’t really have any describable symptoms except maybe a little lethargic feeling (and the sore arm). When do I sprout my antennae?
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boop the snoot posted:When do I sprout my antennae? I break this rule all the time, but “antennae” implies insect characteristics. Cyborgs have antennas. Mothman > alligator, IMO. Let me know if you turn into one.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I'm happy to be pointed to quotes to the contrary, but I believe any disagreement in the Current Events thread previously centered towards primary residential types in urban areas and discouragement of the use of single-passenger vehicles from the suburbs to city centers. See kids this is an example of how to properly disagree with someone in the CE thread. Keep it up y’all. Also squirrelly is a real engineer, not a boat engineer. I have no memory of starting this thread. FrozenVent fucked around with this message at 15:00 on May 1, 2021 |
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FrozenVent posted:See kids this is an example of how to properly disagree with someone in the CE thread. Keep it up y’all. Aw shucks 
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You want some traffic fun? Instead of a roundabout, its a weird figure eight. If you’re going faster than 15mph or so it almost feels like you’re going to flip. This is in Hays, KS. The vestigial Vine St. isn’t actually a road anymore. The yellow road is Vine now.
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FrozenVent posted:COMRADS! YOU HAD ME AT MAYDAY This is the coast guard prepare to be boarded Milo and POTUS posted:You will never change america's car culture and the attitudes that make it lovely. Perhaps instead of asking nicely, we should be more forceful?
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Mr. Nice! posted:You want some traffic fun? I've been to Hays once before and I'm trying to remember if I saw that. Edit: I did drive through that intersection but I don't remember anything jumping out at me as weird about it. Flikken fucked around with this message at 15:04 on May 1, 2021 |
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ElMaligno posted:This is the coast guard prepare to be boarded My gangway is ready. 
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Flikken posted:I've been to Hays once before and I'm trying to remember if I saw that. This is relatively new construction. It was built in the last year or so. I’ve never driven through anything like it. It’s very much a traffic calming design because people used to race down vine at 60+ and now you can’t go faster than 20 through that part or you’re gonna have a bad day. E: google street view hasn’t updated since the construction so it still looks like two lighted intersections. It’s very different now. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 15:08 on May 1, 2021 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:This is relatively new construction. It was built in the last year or so. I’ve never driven through anything like it. Ok, I was out there in December of 2019
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Mr. Nice! posted:You want some traffic fun? I hate to be the one who has to say it out loud, but that traffic device is way too sexy.
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I still prefer the diverging diamond, if only because some rear end in a top hat will always gently caress it up and slam into oncoming traffic. I hate driving through Kansas, probably going to pass through it this summer unless I detour around.
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I think once you get to talking about roundabouts you’re caught in the matrix time loop and something needs to happen to pull you out of it. You do not have the will power. Roundabouts rule though.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I still prefer the diverging diamond, if only because some rear end in a top hat will always gently caress it up and slam into oncoming traffic. The whole point of the diverging diamond is to lessen the possibility of that. You'd have to drive over a curb. We've got 1 in PA. 2 more under construction to my knowledge. They put roundabouts in at the front and back end of my home town and I think someone plowed through the sign under the influence in the first week.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:The whole point of the diverging diamond is to lessen the possibility of that. You'd have to drive over a curb. "Ain't no curb gonna stop my illiterate rear end with my big pickup, woo!" The one time I saw someone go the wrong way on the one here in the Springs (Fillmore exit), it was an absolutely ancient guy that was probably legally blind in a decade or so old truck. DDs are well designed but you're still gonna have the ancients who refuse to follow the signage because "that's the wrong side of the road! (dry fart)."
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SquirrelyPSU posted:The whole point of the diverging diamond is to lessen the possibility of that. You'd have to drive over a curb. That's because pennsylvania roads are a madmax free for all
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Flikken posted:That's because pennsylvania roads are a madmax free for all I mean, well yes, noone debates this.
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