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bluewing

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  • Intruder

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  • I got no proof other than my personal experiences growing up and observing kids while teaching them in groups at a school.

    Children by in large seem to have little empathy for others. Children have little to no problem with bullying others without any emotional issues. Even to the point of pushing other kids to suicide. They have little regard for others and even less control over maturity.

    I think empathy is something that you develop as you grow older. It's more a mark of adulthood than childhood.

  • Brazilian's impression on the united states(i have never been there and this is based on nothing)

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  • Indiana's main advantage is it's quick to drive through. It doesn't take long to get from Illinois to Ohio.

    Though I can't see a reason to drive through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or anywhere on the east coast as a trucker actually.

  • Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks.

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  • We're gonna need a bigger oven......

  • ugh i wish

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  • There was panic about raw milk looonnnggg before Covid. And I if you had read what I wrote, I did say pasteurization IS a good thing and I'm all for it. But it's just not the evil most think it is.

  • ugh i wish

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  • You have owned a dairy herd?

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  • It's a bad analogy and just plain wrong fact. Do better.

  • ugh i wish

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  • You do understand that ALL dairy farms that sell milk are regularly tested for safety of the milk they sell. This is federally mandated. You miss the thresholds for bacteria counts, you will be dumping all your milk produced until it tests clean again. So those cows can't be held in very dirty and vile conditions because your milk won't pass those mandated tests. Slackers go broke and are out of business in short order.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm all for selling pasteurized milk in stores. The milk you buy in the store can be a week old before you see it on the shelf. But the unreasoning fear of raw milk is just plain ridiculous.

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  • A very large amount of those dug up diamonds end up as "industrial diamonds." Because they are far from gemstone quality. And they definitely get used up. I have used up my share of them as cutting tools when I was a toolmaker.

  • ugh i wish

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  • While I certainly don't miss milking cows, I too miss the insanely rich texture and flavor of that fresh from the cow milk.

  • ugh i wish

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  • I grew up on a dairy farm and we drank raw milk every day. I can remember my sisters bringing the milk pitcher to the barn and dipping into the bulk tank of raw milk every morning or so. No one got sick and no one died. We even made butter at home from it after separating the cream. But pasteurization is a good thing for all you urbane urbanites out there. It increases the shelf life and safety for consumption. Plus it reduces number of small dairies near population centers that used to exist. Dairies can be 100+ miles away now. After all, you wouldn't want to be exposed to the smell of cow shit right?

    Raw milk does taste very different from store bought pasteurized milk, (whole milk ain't whole). And like shelf stable milk, I doubt anyone of you would like drinking it.

  • Why only cyclists should wear hi-viz in the dark? Cars can too!

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  • As someone who has sat behind the wheel of an ambulance and various firetrucks, even those sirens aren't enough to get other people on the road or sidewalks to pull their collective heads out of their arses long enough to pay attention to their surroundings and get out of the way. And it is possible to over drive the sound also. But cars tend to be so well sound insulated these days that it's doubtful any bicycle siren is going to really be loud enough to get one's attention.

    We finally installed a "rumbler" on some of the vehicles to assist the siren and lights to get attention. A rumbler is a large speaker installed behind the grill and aimed downwards to the ground. When you hit the switch, it would emit a very low pitched note that would literally cause the ground to rumble and quake ahead of the vehicle as you drive. They have a limited usage life, so you only used it as needed to wake someone up long enough to get them out of the way.

    But I'm personally of the opinion that bicycles should carry more lighting than they do. A headlight, rear facing marker/brake/turn signal lights should be a standard requirement for new bicycles. It would increase safety for everyone.

  • Why only cyclists should wear hi-viz in the dark? Cars can too!

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  • With all all the ebikes out there it is trivial to add a headlight, brake lights, turn signals, and marker lights and require them to be used and maintained like any other road worthy vehicle.

  • Why only cyclists should wear hi-viz in the dark? Cars can too!

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  • It's less state dependent than you think. The feds have the last say in the safety equipment that comes on your car from the factory. They write the regulations on safety equipment for all highway vehicles.

    What is interesting is that the NFPA, (the US National Fire Prevention Association), which writes the guidance for US public safety departments, has learned that you can have too much flashy-flashies and woo-woos and sparkles hanging on your vehicle. We used to hang as much as that stuff as we could on fire trucks and ambulances. Now, new rigs are toning it down to reflective chevrons and marker lights on the back end to prevent dazzling and confusing traffic as they approach a scene. The NFPA national tracking has shown a marked decline in tertiary accidents.

    Reflectives and markers are important, but you can do too much can have worse outcomes because of it.

  • Now playing in Canada

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  • I don't mind the roads so much. We plow the roads to have a snowbank on the ditch edges to act as bumpers to keep idiots and fools from careening off the road into a tree. As a retired medic, it made it easier to get people out of their cars and with less serious injuries.

    What really pisses me off is the inability of people to park correctly in a parking lot. When the lines get covered in snow pack, everyone loses their minds and just start to randomly park anywhere and in any direction. I've seen clown park across two parking spots. And it stays that way for a least 6 months out of the year.

  • Now playing in Canada

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  • Those are the best days to go outside when you can feel the brittleness of the air.

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  • Those are the lazy people. Lazy people refuse to learn new things. You don't sound lazy.

    Don't be like them. Hang out with those people that piss excellence.

  • Being an adult

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  • It's OK, I know I also sounded cranky in my reply. I just wanted to warn people who might read my words to understand the importance of learning. As I said, the learning never stops. Because when it does stop, you are dead.

    So learn new things as often as possible. Keep your mind sharp and make it sharper as your body ages and starts to fail.

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  • I suspect it might be easier to teach high school students. You get them younger and they don't know no better. Fewer things to unlearn. But the skill gaps can be eye opening for sure. I'm old as dirt. I got my feeble tech start in front of a printer terminal-- we didn't have such things as monitors. I don't think I saw my first DOS prompt until I was maybe 19 or 20. But we stilled played Oregon Trail and some Space Invader game. And we loved it!

    And the first rule of KDE is "There is ALWAYS a widget!"

  • Sigh, why do people use these hygrometers?

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  • As an old toolmaker who might have dabbled in accuracy. I just shake my head when people complain about things like this because they think absolute accuracy --an impossibility-- is the important thing, (you can't afford anything close absolute accuracy), when it's repeatability that matters the most. Choose the one that repeats the best, toss the rest. Then learn what the "magic number" is that makes you happy to read and need to get the results you are looking for. Learn to apply some bloody "windage".

    Remember: Rick Sanchez is a dumb-ass. And you only need to be 5% smarter than the tool you are using to be successful. So be smarter than the tool and understand the process.