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I hope st Peter automatically negs anyone who got killed by a search engine
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I hate driving through NC, it feels like every single piece of interstate is under construction, over budget, and behind schedule all the time and NC drivers are aggressive maniacs. Getting flipped off because I'm only doing 15 over the speed limit in the right hand lane is not something that has happened to me in any other state but it's happened in NC more than once. Thank god I only have to drive through it once every few years. I almost get side swiped every week and actually was sideswiped about two months ago. Why don't they look? Tell me. Why don't they look.
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Sep 23, 2023 16:54
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I almost get side swiped every week and actually was sideswiped about two months ago. Are you driving in blind spots?
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Sep 23, 2023 17:11
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No. 6 posted:Are you driving in blind spots? i mean if you are driving along in traffic you are naturally going to be in people's blind spots sometimes as they pass you or you pass them, it's absolutely on the person changing lanes to make sure there is no one in their blind spot first
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Sep 23, 2023 17:22
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Bouillon Rube posted:in any sane country there would be an expectation for the local government to provide a solution here
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Sep 23, 2023 17:31
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:that's a poo poo situation with the road and that. It was at night and raining. I think the township is more at fault, how the gently caress do you not at least throw up a blockade
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Sep 23, 2023 17:32
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SilvergunSuperman posted:It was at night and raining. yea i mean they wouldnt even have to actually build anything, a bunch of traffic cones and one or two of those flashing barricade lights wouldve been enough.
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Sep 23, 2023 17:35
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If that TRAMP Sandra hadn't wrecked our home maybe we could talk about putting some rocks in the way or something but her son runs the quarry
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Sep 23, 2023 17:36
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SilvergunSuperman posted:It was at night and raining. article says it belongs to some developer that no longer exists. but yeah something is entirely hosed if neither city or county put up barriers in all that time regardless of Official Responsibility
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I hate driving through NC, it feels like every single piece of interstate is under construction, over budget, and behind schedule all the time and NC drivers are aggressive maniacs. Getting flipped off because I'm only doing 15 over the speed limit in the right hand lane is not something that has happened to me in any other state but it's happened in NC more than once. Thank god I only have to drive through it once every few years. I almost get side swiped every week and actually was sideswiped about two months ago. Why don't they look? Tell me. Why don't they look.
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Sep 23, 2023 18:04
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I almost get side swiped every week and actually was sideswiped about two months ago. too busy keeping a lookout for death bridges
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Sep 23, 2023 18:06
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We did have a local bridge collapse not too long ago. I think it was in Durham.
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Sep 23, 2023 18:12
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Mulaney Power Move posted:
Cuz they're driving with their buttcheeks
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Sep 23, 2023 18:16
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I remember a friend in college driving us somewhere almost swiping someone hardcore, all of us screamed and it was a miss by millimeters/honking situation. The friend driving got mad at us for yelling and said "I saw him..." indignantly
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Sep 23, 2023 18:20
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Sometimes you just need to ram someone to get over and if they don't like it, there is a machine gun in the glove compartment
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Sep 23, 2023 18:21
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Sometimes you just need to ram someone to get over and if they don't like it, there is a machine gun in the glove compartment Driving a car like a ww1 duo plane. Me in the back passenger up front firing crossfire across 4 lanes and throwing bombs
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Sep 23, 2023 18:25
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Instead of those goggles and a scarf it's raybans and a trucker hat that says "eat poo poo."
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Smugworth posted:This Skynet just realized that it's cheaper to trick humans into driving off cliffs vs building murder robots
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Sep 23, 2023 18:34
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Why would you drive over the bridge that clearly doesn't exist?
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Instead of those goggles and a scarf it's raybans and a trucker hat that says "eat poo poo." The hat also has a picture of a trucker holding a shotgun out a window Wow this hat rules where can I buy one
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Sep 23, 2023 18:35
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actually i have heard of it tanks to your brilliant posting op
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verbal enema posted:Cuz they're driving with their buttcheeks back before all my books got thrown in the trash there was a one that contained a short story about how the proest of pro space pilots fly their hyperdrive by buttcheek haptic interface & posers wore assless chaps in public trying to act cool this same story gave me the advice where if you have to lie about a scenario you pick exactly one thing to lie about and remain completely truthful about everything else, otherwise you'll end up in a tangled web. Also don't get into situations where you have to lie but everyone should already know that
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SniperWoreConverse posted:back before all my books got thrown in the trash there was a one that contained a short story about how the proest of pro space pilots fly their hyperdrive by buttcheek haptic interface & posers wore assless chaps in public trying to act cool What story is that also why did all your books get dumpsterd :c
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AARD VARKMAN posted:I remember a friend in college driving us somewhere almost swiping someone hardcore, all of us screamed and it was a miss by millimeters/honking situation. The friend driving got mad at us for yelling and said "I saw him..." indignantly There’s a weird natural anger that happens in those moments, or maybe it’s frustration/terror but it comes out as “gently caress u buddy I saw it we good”. The Loin King posted:M a p q u e s t It’s not a quest unless there’s danger!
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i don't remember the title of the story or the book it was in. possibly it was in one of the editions of conjunctions, but honestly i can't remember. i feel like that actually that's maybe wrong and it was in some weird tales type book, but published in the last idk 15 years. There was a part where a different dude who paid for space passage wormholed up his own rear end, was memorable. The pilot survived the rigors of noneuclidian hyperspace but the space cops had queries. Basically could have been expanded into a chuck tingle but it was in a book of collected stories that weren't porn and wasn't super mega porny iirc. as far as the books my parents' didn't like em and dumped em is the bottom line. They also had literally no idea what any of them were, cool cool
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Sep 23, 2023 19:35
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How the gently caress there aren't barriers all over that?? And worse the goddamn apathy of these people to just shrug at it for 10 god damned years
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I'm a part time map nerd with something like 500 published edits on OSM. My label correction work is all over abandoned railroads in PA and WV. But I've only sent update reports to google maybe 10 times. Usually updates about businesses permanently closing or incorrectly labeled bicycle routes. With OSM you know what you get, it's a bit like a wiki process and there are overlapping oversight domains to prevent database vandalism. With google it's a black box google internal thing. You send an update and you get a message received type acknowledgement back and often time it'll be 6 months or a year later before they act on it. I don't know about random unincorporated hamlets but cities generally have some form of central authority managing a GIS database that all public works, property and road management etc plug in to. And Google has APIs that let municipalities publish their updates directly. Google also subscribes to a variety of map update channels used by state administrations. Road closures can be reported through this interface and within minutes it shows up correctly on the map. It works well and it's in use by cities all over the world. I suspect that the NC city municipality here for whatever reason is too dysfunctional to use such tools, and google simply assigns only very few people to process user submitted stuff. They probably get a bunch of noise through that channel and attempts at organized vandalism so it could be that their over-reliance on algorithmic filters didn't allow these user reports to bubble to the surface.
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you don't get how tiring it is to set that stuff up... people don't think about me having to check that the barrier lights are still on and the barricade itself is intact every month... it isn't just set it and forget... nobody understands what we highway dept folks have to deal with on a daily basis.. smdh
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frumpykvetchbot posted:
*sigh* it's really hard to use ArcGIS and keep it updated.. the dept is absolutely swamped with literal swamp work and adding these bridges is just really really tough and complicated this is just another example of people thinking that it would have been so easy to prevent this..
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every single day for years a disembodied voice at city hall kept saying “you must construct additional pylons” and nobody knew what it meant
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frumpykvetchbot posted:I don't know about random unincorporated hamlets but cities generally have some form of central authority managing a GIS database that all public works, property and road management etc plug in to. And Google has APIs that let municipalities publish their updates directly. Google also subscribes to a variety of map update channels used by state administrations. Road closures can be reported through this interface and within minutes it shows up correctly on the map. It works well and it's in use by cities all over the world. ive emailed google a couple of times about unsafe bike routes and got back a nice email from a human every time and the change was reflected immediately. that was years ago when their bike maps were new and still in beta and i think it was a pretty small team working on it but yeah its odd that this poo poo was on google maps so long
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No. 6 posted:Google knew about the problem for years and has done nothing. Do you think they have no responsibility here? they did change their motto from 'dont be evil' so it was probably on porpoise.
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sex excellence posted:adding these bridges is just really really tough and complicated this is just another example of people thinking that it would have been so easy to prevent this.. I wonder what simple municipal road management functions would look like in a libertarian hellworld.
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How do you blame the guy in this situation What is wrong with so many of you?.?
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everyone knows the risk when they get in an automobile
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flubber nuts posted:they did change their motto from 'dont be evil' so it was probably on porpoise. it wasn’t until two years after the bridge the collapsed that google changed it’s motto from “don’t be evil” to “do the right thing”
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Spinz posted:How do you blame the guy in this situation I'm blame him for not seeing that there's no bridge because lol was he just looking at his Google Maps the whole time while driving?
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Dick Fontaine posted:
not making excuses for google but if you are driving and see that there is no bridge where there used to be one maybe take your foot off the gas, just a thought
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it was night and raining so it was probably hard to see the dropoff and there were no barriers or signs or anything indicating the bridge was out like of all the people at fault here the guy who died is the least at fault. really the main culprit is the city for not at least throwing up a simple barricade.
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Earwicker posted:at at least throwing up a simple barricade. didn't you hear? it's hard man. someone has to like go out there with a truck now and then. or you know just do the job right. put in some loving concrete blocks that the kids can't easily pickup and throw in the creek.
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