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TauZero

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  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • The guardrail can serve the don't-drive-off-embankment function equally well positioned before the sidewalk. The problem is when an out-of-control car strikes the guardrail at a glancing angle, it takes a long time (by design) to grind down to a stop. This creates a bowling alley effect. The guardrail keeps the speedy car centered right on the sidewalk. Any human bowling pins are toast. Some of the most horrific traffic death videos I've seen involve that. Whole families wiped out.

  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • Is that a bicycle path and a dirt running track, or is the desire path in the dirt the official bicycle route and the side road behind the guardrail is for horses or golf carts or something?

  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • Saw an example of correct guardrail usage today, with the overgrown path that some other commenters were worried about.

    (Lincoln Highway Hackensack River Bridge in Newark)

    Let me tell you one thing, I would 100% rather ride on this overgrown sidewalk than on the shoulder of the 55mph highway without a shoulder. This is the official bicycle/pedestrian bridge crossing. I wasn't sure whether the bridge path is even open or exists, but it does and there were even other people using it. (There is a second mesh fence on the embankment side, more so to protect the bushes than to stop you falling over.)

    And then take a look at this other beauty today:

    (Weequahic Park Drive, New Jersey)

    Correct guardrail usage AND perfectly maintained path! Alas, pedestrian only, but not a problem to ride on 25mph street. Proof that putting the guardrail before the sidewalk is perfectly possible, both legally and practically. (There is a lake down the embankment. Don't walk into the lake.)

  • They will sell you vitamin D, they don't want you to know its source

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  • I see even the vegan stores use language that is misleading and contradicts itself. e.g.

    https://www.vegetology.com/blog/lanolin-and-vitamin-d

    Vit D3 (Vitashine) We developed a vegan Vitamin D3 alternative to Lanolin which is derived from lichen

    https://www.vegetology.com/supplements/vit-d3-2500iu

    Our exclusive, vegan vitamin D comes from lichens: unique, organic plants that are packed with nutrients

    Their vitamin is not exclusive and they did not develop it. Vitashine is manufactured by a pharma lab and then sold to pill manufacturers as a powder or white label. Vitashine is also sold at https://www.veganlifenutrition.com/products/vitamin-d3-5000-iu-soft-gels/ and https://imunihealth.com/collections/all/products/imuni-immune-defence and https://www.doctorsbest.com/products/doctor-s-best-vegan-d3-with-vitashine-d3-62-5-mcg-2-500-iu-60-veggie-caps-51402. At best, the only thing "exclusive" is their specific pill brand, but that's not what they wrote. GHT also claims their Vitashine is exclusive:

    https://theghtcompanies.com/vitashine/

    VitashineTM The GHT Companies’ Exclusive 100% Vegan Vitamin D3

    Looks like Vitashine was developed by UK-based ESB Developments Ltd in 2012 and contracted with Global Health Trax (GHT) to white-label it in the US.

    lichens: unique, organic plants that are packed with nutrients

    Nutrients useful to lichen, maybe. I don't see anyone chomping on some. None of those nutrients end up in the pill of course, the cholecalciferol is heavily purified. Why imply your pills contain plant nutrients that are good for you?

    plants, plants, plants!

    Lichen are not plants, dammit! They are a unique symbiote. At best the algae half can be called a plant, the simplest crappiest plant there is. I suspect the cholecalciferol comes from the fungus half though. Respect the fungi kingdom!

  • Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket

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  • There has never been a law that someone selling something must offer the same price to everyone. Outside of some government regulation, like banning discrimination based on a few specific protected groups under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, government-set energy prices on state-granted monopoly electrical grids, annual rent increase percentage caps, etc. merchants have always been free to set any price on any product or to any customer.

  • Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔

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  • In NYC they put parking meters on the sidewalk behind metal bollards. Note that they do not put bollards on street corners at pedestrian crossings. Even in the modern intersection redesigns with the wider sidewalk cutouts, the DOT still only ever uses collapsible plastic bollards at best, if at all. Every time I wait for a crossing light as a pedestrian in one of those brown-paint-only sidewalk cutouts at street level, I look over my shoulder to one of these parking meters up on the curb behind their bollards and awe at how much more protection a dumb piece of metal street furniture gets than the squishy me.

  • I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.

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  • In NYC, 99% chance it's gonna be a deliverista on an e-bike. So the screenshot is literally wrong. Elsewhere in the country - yeah...

  • They will sell you vitamin D, they don't want you to know its source

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  • 👍 Report back if you get reply!

  • They will sell you vitamin D, they don't want you to know its source

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  • I see there are the "VegaDELight" D3 powder from lichen made by https://www.nutralandusa.com/, used in SportsResearch brand; "Vitashine" D3 powder from lichen made by https://theghtcompanies.com/ used in VeganLife and Doctor's Best brands; "VegD3" D3 oil from algae made by https://aidp.com/ in a variety of brands. So looks like the options do exist now, though none yet in the 50kIU dose that I need.

    Did you link the wrong Garden of Life pill bottle? That one is "vegetarian", meaning cellulose capsule, "vegetable blend" filler, and lanolin active ingredient. They have another bottle though that does say uses D3 from lichen.

  • They will sell you vitamin D, they don't want you to know its source

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  • Vegan vitamin D did not even exist 5 years ago, during my last review of the field. There were only hundreds of product comments asking "is this vegan?" met with either silence or admissions that the source is lanolin. Now it looks like some brands did manage to extract cholecalciferol from mushrooms or lichen. The fungus part of the lichen symbiote must be seemingly sufficiently animal-like to produce it. The potency is still very low though, I'd have to pay 20x more to get the same dose. The rest of the companies just slapped green decorations on their design without changing the formula.

    This would actually be a great use for GMO - using modified yeast to ferment industrial quantities of ergocalciferol without using animal products.

  • I just spent four months in hospital in the UK. How screwed (financially) would I be in the US?

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  • Ah! Guess my memories are a few years out of date, from before r***it still existed.

  • I just spent four months in hospital in the UK. How screwed (financially) would I be in the US?

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  • Good to know! Still have to watch out for that every service you receive is counted as "in-network". I've read horror stories where somebody with an emergency goes to a hospital that their insurance promises them is "in-network", then later receive a surprise bill because one of the doctors that attended them at that hospital was "out-of-network". Why was the doctor at that hospital then? It's just something they do apparently.

  • I just spent four months in hospital in the UK. How screwed (financially) would I be in the US?

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  • On the order of hundreds of thousands to over a million dollars without insurance, on order of $50k-$100k in copayments with insurance. Either way will wipe you out financially, effectively forcing you to go through medical bankruptcy and resetting any savings you have to $0. In addition, the equity in your house and car can also be seized, above some personal homestead exemption ($250k in New York for example, where the average house price is $2M, and $5k for vehicle). Not sure if they kick you out of the house immediately, or put a lien on it that comes due when you die/move out and house is sold. The only savings that are safe from bankruptcy are retirement savings in IRA and future social security payments.

  • A Balanced Diet

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  • As NT-master race, had to look it up:

    methylphenidate = Ritalin

  • VPN Provider with Port Forwarding & SOCKS5

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  • can be configured per application

    wireguard can too using network namespaces

    not exclusively as an interface in kernel mode

    Which devices are you people running where you want VPN/proxy but don't have kernel permissions to run wireguard? Firefox on iPhone? Porn on wifi washing machine?

  • Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.

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  • but hopefully for the last time

    That's what they said last time. "Never again" etc.

  • VPN Provider with Port Forwarding & SOCKS5

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  • Curious, what is SOCKS5 used for that regular wireguard cannot do? I'm only familiar with the use case of telling Firefox to connect through a SOCKS5 proxy, which may be convenient as a form of split tunneling - only firefox traffic goes through the VPN and everything else through clearnet - but wireguard can be configured into a split tunnel form as well with a bit more work, and works for all software not just the ones aware of SOCKS proxies. Is it for use on a system where your permissions are too limited to turn on wireguard but not so limited that you cannot change Firefox proxy settings?

  • There are only 2 elements and 116 mental illnesses

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  • Only 1%

  • VPN recommendations, Summer 2025

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  • Talescale is a VPN, "private network" is what P and N stand for. It's just one with only forwarded ports and no outbound traffic. The question was are forwarded ports important, and yes they are. So important that some users pay for a VPN twice! Once for something like Mullvad with no port forwarding, and once for Talescale for port forwarding. It's true it has benefits like static IP, but even on my commercial VPN I get the same forwarded IP and port when connecting to the same server, so I don't want to pay twice.