Ugh. Jesus christ.

And yet, people living in vehicles are ‘homeless’ and looked down upon. They’ve left no room for anything else to be realistic

Hey, BRT is great! I’ll happily support that rather than building regular car infrastructure.

I also still vastly prefer the train. Or a ferry, if that’s an option.

Point not brought up by the other person: Bicycles. I am primarily a bike commuter, and have had one good experience with a bike and bus:

Last bus out of the city, like 2:30am. Driver has no time for our shit, tells us to bring them inside and hang on, to hell with the front rack. We didn’t even pay.

I’ve also had my bike half pop out of said front rack, get taco’d, and got absolutely nothing out of it. Totally fucked. No restitution.

Best case with bikes on a bus is you get lucky and get a spot, usually you’re better off just riding the whole way.

Trains, have room. Never not made a train with my bike.

Lol

Oh ho ho!

Well, are we talking stuff scored at the bar, or on the drunken stumble back?

Because I have a penchant for grabbing city property that’s been wiped out by some drunk driver already.

Bike racks. Innumerable signs and posts. A fire hydrant, a big fucking fatty, too. Car parts EVERYWHERE That yellow grippy stuff at the crosswalk. Many, many signs and posts. A whole assed traffic light (fucking finally)-not the post. Jesus, not the post. Yes, I tried. A wooden telephone pole (I had help, and we sang chanties while we did it) The lightbox with the little man and hand. It works! So does the traffic light :)

For the record, drinking and driving IS nevada’s state pasttime, and a friend of mine once scored two actual streetlights, posts and all. Bastard tried to sell them to me :/

Oh just think cucumbers are fucking disgusting.

Lol

You do you of course. I just wish sushi joints would do celery instead of cucumber

The memory of the medics explaining it to me is a little hazy, due to the heat injury. Something about potassium ion channels?

I’m a mechanic, not a medic, so I haven’t the knowledge base to know what that means, I just recall them saying things like sour patch kids are basically magic, because they do a thing the vast majority of electrolyte stuffs don’t

It’s older, but I recall liking Earth 2 quite a bit

Stay the fuck away from me, and anyone you see having a medical emergency

How many comorbidities do you have

Gross

What’s really crazy is how fucking Good all those microphones are.

I’ve been using alfredcam to utilize old phones and tablets, and holy shit they can hear so well.

Like the k88, an ancient tablet that was useless when it came out, foisted upon at&t users. The mic on it will pick up conversations clear as a bell OUTSIDE my house

Shit’s fucked, yo

What the fuck

I want to know more

So I have a solar setup-older panels, like 15 years old. They can be 3/4 obscured by a building or whatever, and still make 85% of what they’re rated to.

Which is fucking awesome. Right now, they’re covered in so much dust I can see the ‘clean’ spots where the morning dew condensed on them, and they’re still kicking 20 amps, about 15 more than I actually need.

Daily cleaning? Way excessive. Monthly? Maybe, probably less. Not a whole lot going on in between rails.

I’d be way more worried about tweakers trying to steal the wiring

The cleanliness of the panels isn’t actually as big a deal as it’s made out to be. Like yeah, they can’t be completely obscured, but you’d be surprised at how fucking filthy they can be and still make juice. Or half-or more- covered with trees, or other shade.

Right now, my panels are covered in enough crap I really should hose them off, and they’re still kicking 20 amps. So ahhh… fuck it. Maybe it’ll rain and I won’t have to.

Same with cloudy days-sometimes I get more power on cloudy days because the panels don’t get at hot. Hell, some streetlights put out enough light to harvest energy from-but they’re largely getting replaced with LED’s. Sad face?

I expect with the type of traffic going on between rails, these will need vanishingly little maintenance. I hope it goes well

Gatorade isn’t actually a good source of electrolytes though.

It’s sugar and pinch of salt.

However! There’s totally good electrolyte powders that are packed with the goods, and they’re not much pricier.

Also, sour patch kids have a weird ingredient in the coating that most electrolyte stuff doesn’t have. Potassiumsomething something, irrc?

If you’re super dehydrated while drinking a fuckload of water, stick some of them under your tongue

Where’s your tattoo that says you’re an ignorant cunt?

EMTs and paramedics aren’t allowed to acknowledge DNR tattoos, you literally have to file paperwork in your fucking county to have a signed, notarized DNR mean anything.

And they’re still going to break every goddamn rib in your chest before they look up the paperwork

An honest, actual recovery with CPR is less than half of that 3% ‘success’ rate that gets bandied about. A true, ‘this person actually healed up and had a life afterwards’ recovery is less than half a percent.

It’s freak accidents that happen to young people. Like 45 or younger.

Most people getting CPR are medically fragile already-hence the fucking heart stoppage-and foisting a chestful of broken ribs on top of whatever chronic ailments they already have does nothing but extend their suffering.

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I have never had one fail. Never even heard of one snapping.

The one on my stepvan doesn’t pull quite hard enough on its own, but it works.

And …it’s a cable? Like seven cents a foot?