If I remember later today, I might take a photo of the pair of water fountains at our park. The top stainless steel side looks perfectly fine, but the metal panel underneath both of them is totally rusted out. I’m pretty sure they disabled/disconnected both of them.
Not sure where I might post the photo though, guess I might post under Nowhere Else To Post… 🤷
Said not our Rotary Club.
I don’t know exactly what model water fountains they installed out there, but they look like the one on the left, totally rusted out now.
Probably not supposed to be installed outdoors, but they did… 🤷
Generally true, but the ones out at our city park have totally rusted out underneath. Nobody’s been pissing on them, they’re just exposed to the weather.
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Can either one of them survive being outdoors in a city park without totally rusting out underneath?
I thought Gidget was cute, back when I was like 12…
Interesting.
I saw a couple weeks ago where someone said TACO TOFU…
“Trump Always Chickens Out, Trump Only Fucks Up”
Fun fact:
STRAP ON spelled backwards is NO PARTS
You’re welcome.
We are a result of our own ancestral design.
Think about it for just a few moments. When our ancient ancestors figured out how to make fire, rather than carry it around in a sled thanks to a lightning strike, everything changed…
It’s done all three, more or less in that very order.
Initially, modern tech was a progressive tool, helping immensely with science, mathematics, and documenting history and literature.
Then it became commonplace, everyone and their grandma has the internet, posting their random brainfarts, cat memes and fails of the day.
Now we’re digressing, people using AI left and right, while simultaneously losing their own critical thinking skills, and also finding it harder and harder to double check anything without running into another AI brick wall.
Yes I realize your question is more about how tech has affected civilization. Technology has always been affecting civilization, so its done all three, evolved us, stagnated (I think peak useful tech and functioning generally happy civilization stagnated around 2014), and has been regressing since.
I’m pretty sure that’s part of the general design intent yes, but you’d have to know the exact angle of my impact. Chin first, left side, dragging upwards, from about 6 feet in the air, tire level, which means my head started off about 9 feet in the air. It also jammed my glasses into my forehead, which is how I know the angle I hit. It only takes about 7 pounds of force to snap a neck, and I impacted chin first with all ~150 pounds of my body weight from pretty high up.
I could have largely avoided the chin/face impact if I had put my arms and hands out in front of me, but I would have ended up with broken arms and my handlebars stuck through my gut instead.
Yes things would have went differently if I had been wearing a helmet, perhaps could have been better, perhaps could have been worse. No way to truly know, and I’m damn skippy not about to try it again.
The reason that happened was because the ramp wasn’t secured to any sort of frame, it was just a sheet of plywood laid on a ~4 foot high dirt mound. There were 4 of us taking turns ramping, and as my front wheel came off the ramp, the next friend was just hitting the ramp behind me. That caused the plywood to flex, pushing my back wheel upwards as I was leaving the ramp.
I had a whole second or so to say “OH SHIT!” and decide whether to keep hold of the straight handlebars or not. I didn’t want my handlebars stuck through my gut, so I held the bars.
Anyways, from that sort of height, chin/face first, I don’t think a helmet would have made all too much of a difference. But if I had been wearing a helmet with a visor, my glasses probably wouldn’t have been jammed into my forehead, which would have meant that my head would have been pushed back at more of an angle. Even the ER doctors noticed that.
Not saying it’s right, but in my 42 years of life, I’ve never met a bicycle rider that even owns a helmet. To even obtain a helmet, you gotta ride to another city to even get one. And the intersection at that Walmart is one of the absolute most dangerous intersections out there for bike riders. So oddly enough, its safer to avoid the only place we can even get helmets.
TL;DR - I was 16, doing stupid shit and ramping a rigged up ramp with 3 other friends, and nobody out there wore or even had helmets. What did I learn? Don’t do stupid shit, don’t ramp, keep the wheels on the ground. So I switched to flatland.
You’re right, I’m no Olympic athlete.
I think outside the box, have no brakes, and don’t even need shoes.
Don’t try this at home, but it’s almost the 4th of July, so I might as well share. Yes this is me…
Only minor motor control damage on the right side, for like 2 years, which recovered practically perfectly. The worst I’m left with is a partly numb lower left lip.
I don’t even ride my bicycle over 15mph, unless I absolutely have to for some reason. I don’t race, and at absolute max my single speed low geared BMX bike can only achieve is 24mph, which I practically never ride that fast.
Read my other comments, my usual cruising pace is ~11mph, and when I do BMX flatland tricks, those are only usually around a mere 5mph. I don’t ride any faster than my feet can stop me in a pinch. Brakeless rider here no less.
Try watching a BMX flatland video or three, flatland isn’t about speed, its about balance. Sure some riders like to speed, but not me, I just like to cruise and pull some occasional bike tricks.
You might as well insist that the Olympics make ice skaters wear a helmet, equally as dangerous at such low speeds.
I was 16, you think I was thinking much back then? Like I said, I’ve since quit ramping. My current bike’s cruising speed is about 11mph, and is a single speed geared low where even at absolute max it simply cannot exceed 24mph.
I’m not into racing, If I’m not cruising around 11 to 15 mph, I’m doing BMX flatland balance tricks probably around a mere 5mph.
I do thank you for the thoughts and advice though, but you’re assuming I’m going way faster than I usually do. If I somehow manage to hit my head doing anything at 5mph, I’ll just retire from riding altogether.
I’m nowhere near as skilled as these riders, but I took lots of inspiration from these professional riders. Note what the pros don’t even use in flatland…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fMOkI4DQm_0
Enjoy the video clip, or not, up to you. Have a good day.
People that rely on AI are rapidly losing critical thinking skills, and even those of us that don’t rely on it are still seeing AI generated content damn near everywhere now.
I think it can be funny at times, when deliberately and obviously used to make funny memes and stuff, but really shouldn’t be used for anything serious, and definitely shouldn’t be used to make deepfakes.
Even when used in good intentions, AI can be erroneous or just outright wrong. All the while, as the machines ‘learn’, more and more people are blindly trusting it and forgetting how to think for themselves.
TL;DR - I don’t like AI
You just reminded me I have the first version of that game around somewhere, I might dig it back out one of these days soon.
I took a pic today…
https://lemmy.world/post/32435059