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Clitch posted:Was there an industrial pioneer of the 20th century who wasn't a tin-plated bastard? quote:Their factory has warm rooms to dry clothes and places to heat food. In 1893, they start buying land around the factory to build a worker’s village. Each house has a garden big enough to grow vegetables. George provides football and cricket fields for the men and boys and a playground and a garden with a lily pond for their wives and daughters. George’s wife helps plan a ‘Garden City’ for their workers. In 1895, 143 cottages are built on 140 acres. Good wages, medical treatment and even pension plans make Cadbury’s employee extremely exceptional. Carnegie was professionally not good, but he did give away 90% of his fortune
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Feb 12, 2021 09:02
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Anne Whateley posted:Carnegie was professionally not good, but he did give away 90% of his fortune Isn't that just the Calvinist way of trying to buy your way into heaven?
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Feb 12, 2021 09:07
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"Don't post death" had always been a thread rule right from the very start, the OP makes it real clear:Ornamental Dingbat posted:Post some delicious schaden. Standard rule applies: no images of death and keep the derails to 3 pages or less. If someone posts images or video of people dying then report them so the mods can deal with it
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Feb 12, 2021 09:09
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Speaking of Republicans. Gun advocate and US Representative Lauren Boebert is the child of an incestuous coupling between her mother and her mother's first cousin - wrestler Stan Lane. Which one is Lauren Boebert?
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Feb 12, 2021 09:15
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"Don't post death" had always been a thread rule right from the very start, the OP makes it real clear: While I agree the pileup is a poor example of schadenfreude in the spirit of this thread, none of the videos I've seen have been graphic. Obviously people did get hurt but it's not like the video had bodies in it. Can only hope it just hand't been reported that anyone was seriously hurt when the initial post was made. CaptainSarcastic posted:Also, studded tires and snow tires are different things. NOT TO ME 
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Feb 12, 2021 09:23
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Junkie Disease posted:The Hershey guy? The vomit chocolate guy? How did it go again? Pay the government to reclassify rotting ingredients which were not fit for human consumption to "additives" and now all Americans think chocolate is supposed to have the same taste as vomit.
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Feb 12, 2021 09:38
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Roads are frozen over and you don't have much experience driving in such conditions. Do you: D) Was never taught to drive properly, basically handed a drivers license at age 16 so anything can loving happen.
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Feb 12, 2021 09:50
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In the UK we are taught that if it takes you 2m to stop when dry (at 20mph), it will take you 4m in the wet and 20m in icey conditions. Those distances of course increase depending on the speed you are doing. This poo poo is drilled into our heads, and if we get enough questions on such things wrong we fail the theory test, which is mandatory before the practical driving tests can be sat.
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Feb 12, 2021 09:57
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The Schaden is on me for voluntarily wading through post after post of goons blaming victims of deadly accidents for their misfortune and telling everyone how they would not have been so dumb as to drive unaware into a sudden freeze in Texas of all loving places and lose control of their vehicle with horrible consequences for them and their families
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Feb 12, 2021 10:00
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Feb 12, 2021 10:19
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relax-o-vision posted:Which one is Lauren Boebert? The 30 yo restaurant owner from Colorado that graduated highschool six months ago and poisoned a bunch of her customers with undercooked pork.
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Memento posted:https://twitter.com/msdanifernandez/status/1359712798209503234 Good! MAKE NO BABBYS posted:Tessica has repeatedly said that she’s not looking to sue (although gently caress them, she ought to) and the claim she was planning to a racist dog whistle from the NY Post so let’s just let that one die and stop repeating it, eh? Ah so you are part of what is loving broken with America constantly wanting to sue yet only feeding money to Lawyers. Good to know. Die in a fire. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 12, 2021 12:18
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I'm still amazed at this one. Someone went through the effort of selecting/masking it out, and instead of just filling it with a solid colour, they turned down the brightness? Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil aka Mr Swirl. 
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schreibs posted:Not just that... quote:"Who was responsible for safety on this roadway?" (State Rep) Romero said, calling for an investigation into the crash. "Who was responsible for deicing this portion of our highway? Who dropped the ball and why? Does TxDOT oversee safety measures on tollways or do we just trust these private companies to handle it?" I’m sure trusting private companies to handle safety measures was lauded by lawmakers as a great idea that saved taxpayers money. When it turns out that the private company was able to decide not to salt the road because the conditions for salting weren’t clearly stated in their contract and they weren’t legally obligated to do anything, I bet no lessons will be learned and Republicans will continue barking for deregulation and privatization
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Feb 12, 2021 13:53
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The vomit chocolate guy? It's weird, isn't it? It's like some strange experiment where they wanted to see if people could be convinced soap was actually tasty. I'd love to hear from a Brit living in the US who has found decent chocolate (that can be bought in most supermarkets, not something artisanal). I tried 5 or 6 different brands there and they were universally awful.
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Feb 12, 2021 14:03
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Gromit posted:It's weird, isn't it? It's like some strange experiment where they wanted to see if people could be convinced soap was actually tasty. I'd love to hear from a Brit living in the US who has found decent chocolate (that can be bought in most supermarkets, not something artisanal). I tried 5 or 6 different brands there and they were universally awful. Soap can be tasty! Ever eat Thrills gum? https://candyfunhouse.ca/products/thrills-gum one of my faves.
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Feb 12, 2021 14:04
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LawfulWaffle posted:I’m sure trusting private companies to handle safety measures was lauded by lawmakers as a great idea that saved taxpayers money. When it turns out that the private company was able to decide not to salt the road because the conditions for salting weren’t clearly stated in their contract and they weren’t legally obligated to do anything, I bet no lessons will be learned and Republicans will continue barking for deregulation and privatization Did TX salt any of their other roads? Obviously it will still be on the private company, but I live in a snowy winter hellhole and counting on the government to clear and salt roads isn't a given even when we know days in advance what's coming.
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They were considering de-icing the roads but figured it would just be salt in the wound.
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Steakandchips posted:In the UK we are taught that if it takes you 2m to stop when dry (at 20mph), it will take you 4m in the wet and 20m in icey conditions. I'm definitely not going to argue the standard of driving isn't miles better in the UK and the driving test rightly much more stringent than the absolute joke of a process in the States, but I don't think the theory test actively translates to real world experience on UK roads and the only way people really learn about how terrifying ice is is by actually skidding on it
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Feb 12, 2021 14:49
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I think my record is something like a half mile stopping distance both backwards and downhill.
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Feb 12, 2021 14:53
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Butterfly Valley posted:I'm definitely not going to argue the standard of driving isn't miles better in the UK and the driving test rightly much more stringent than the absolute joke of a process in the States, but I don't think the theory test actively translates to real world experience on UK roads and the only way people really learn about how terrifying ice is is by actually skidding on it
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Feb 12, 2021 15:06
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Butterfly Valley posted:the only way people really learn about how terrifying ice is is by actually skidding on it This is why some sort of winter driving/low-traction driving course should be absolutely mandatory as part of taking a driver's license.
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Feb 12, 2021 15:11
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DickParasite posted:The 30 yo restaurant owner from Colorado that graduated highschool six months ago and poisoned a bunch of her customers with undercooked pork. You left out her sex offender husband who likes to show his dick to minors at bowling alleys, of which she was listed as a witness on the police report. This was before they married, and the now-congresswoman from Colorado thought that was great husband material.
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Feb 12, 2021 15:13
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nomad2020 posted:I think my record is something like a half mile stopping distance both backwards and downhill. "Sliding backwards down a hill in a 3 ton ambulance" is mine. Can confirm it's not fun.
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Feb 12, 2021 15:16
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Solice Kirsk posted:The rule for the longest time is if it involves people dying it shouldn't be posted here. Personally I don't see the difference, but it's a rule that is in place for a reason because when it wasn't around there would be pages and pages of fatal accidents posted and it does get tiresome to go through 100 images of plane/motorcycle crashes when all you were in the mood for was a toddler falling off a swing set trying to catch a butterfly or a dog that keeps dropping one ball to pick up another. You would think "don't be a psychopath" would be an easy rule to follow but some people seem to have a really hard time with this.
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Feb 12, 2021 15:20
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xtal posted:You would think "don't be a psychopath" would be an easy rule to follow but some people seem to have a really hard time with this. There are lots of goons out there. In any large enough sample size of people, you're gonna have some real lovely ones. See permabanned poster randaconda for example.
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Feb 12, 2021 15:23
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KozmoNaut posted:This is why some sort of winter driving/low-traction driving course should be absolutely mandatory as part of taking a driver's license. Hm yes lets make everyone in Texas, all 29 million, take a trip to Illinois or the like in order to get their driver's license; or let's build car sized ice rinks instead, and require everyone to drive on them repeatedly in order to train their skills for what is at best a freak once a year occurrence. And lets do this all while making a driver's license the de facto only form of identification so that you need it for absolutely everything. There is nothing wrong with this idea. Nope, completely feasible. Out if curiosity i went to my local Walmart here in Texas today and they don't sell winter tires or snow chains. Best you can get is All Season, which is frankly good enough for what Texas normally throws at you. Except for yesterday, when climate change hosed us up.
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xtal posted:You would think "don't be a psychopath" would be an easy rule to follow but some people seem to have a really hard time with this. I mean arguably there's kind of a sadism in the whole concept of the thread. I understand there's a line but sometimes it might not be as evident to some as to others. I'm 100% fine with death and "NSFL" content being banned here. But this is a thread about reveling in the suffering of others.
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Feb 12, 2021 15:34
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marshmallow creep posted:Hm yes lets make everyone in Texas, all 29 million, take a trip to Illinois or the like in order to get their driver's license; or let's build car sized ice rinks instead, and require everyone to drive on them repeatedly in order to train their skills for what is at best a freak once a year occurrence. And lets do this all while making a driver's license the de facto only form of identification so that you need it for absolutely everything. There is nothing wrong with this idea. Nope, completely feasible. Have you ever heard of a skid pan my guy?  Or a skid control cradle? 
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Gromit posted:It's weird, isn't it? It's like some strange experiment where they wanted to see if people could be convinced soap was actually tasty. I'd love to hear from a Brit living in the US who has found decent chocolate (that can be bought in most supermarkets, not something artisanal). I tried 5 or 6 different brands there and they were universally awful. Lindt do a dark chocolate with sea salt that's pretty good. US-made milk chocolate is almost universally bad.
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Feb 12, 2021 15:40
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Nope, those are new to me. And looking for where they are available in Texas, it seems limited to private racing experience schools in major metropolitan areas that charge between 400 and 1400 dollars, which puts them considerably out of my price range and out of my range to normally travel.
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Feb 12, 2021 15:41
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KozmoNaut posted:This is why some sort of winter driving/low-traction driving course should be absolutely mandatory as part of taking a driver's license. No amount of winter driving courses will help drivers cope with ice if they're in cars fitted with summer tires. Or even all-seasons. It's ice, for gently caress's sake.
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Feb 12, 2021 15:42
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marshmallow creep posted:Hm yes lets make everyone in Texas, all 29 million, take a trip to Illinois or the like in order to get their driver's license; or let's build car sized ice rinks instead, and require everyone to drive on them repeatedly in order to train their skills for what is at best a freak once a year occurrence. And lets do this all while making a driver's license the de facto only form of identification so that you need it for absolutely everything. There is nothing wrong with this idea. Nope, completely feasible. Slippery conditions can have multiple reasons, including sudden downpours, gravel on the road, oil spills and worn tires. Knowing at least the basics of how to react when your vehicle loses traction, and having tried it in practice, is a good idea for any driver. No matter where they live. I do agree on the idiocy of making driver's licenses and car ownership basically mandatory. There are a lot of people who don't like driving, who don't want to drive and really aren't comfortable behind the wheel, but they're forced to do it because of car-centric planning. marshmallow creep posted:Nope, those are new to me. And looking for where they are available in Texas, it seems limited to private racing experience schools in major metropolitan areas that charge between 400 and 1400 dollars, which puts them considerably out of my price range and out of my range to normally travel. It's only that expensive because so few places offer it and so few people are interested. Make it mandatory, offer it at more facilities, make economy of scale work for you. drgitlin posted:No amount of winter driving courses will help drivers cope with ice if they're in cars fitted with summer tires. Or even all-seasons. It's ice, for gently caress's sake. Knowing the limits of your car's equipment is part of being a responsible driver. As is choosing to not drive if the conditions are bad, but unfortunately due to car-centric planning and onerous work policies, a lot of people are not allowed to make that choice. Ice is not some mythical no-friction sci-fi substance, it can absolutely be braved on decent all-season tires and in emergency conditions with great care on summer tires. This is one of the important lessons you learn on a winter/low-traction driving course, the difference between tires and how their performance differs in different conditions. You also learn that low traction doesn't mean you just give up and hand Jesus the wheel. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Feb 12, 2021 |
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Zurtilik posted:But this is a thread about reveling in the suffering of others. Misfortune, not suffering. Someone having lost their phone in an air vent and being able to hear it ring for a month is comedic misfortune. Someone having their phone taken away from them and being able to hear their friends trying to ring them is Sadism. It's a bit more blurry when people die to poor fortune (Man dies as he's hit by a lightning bolt for the 3rd time doing the same thing? Tragic, but funny), but I think we can agree as a society that revelling at highway automobile deaths is in poor taste. The 'no deaths' rule is good, it puts an arbitrary line down for those who can't tell the difference.
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There was apparently no shoulder and concrete barriers on both sides of the road so I'm not sure what anybody could have done other than know in advance and just not be there in the first place. Scary stuff.
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Yeah, I can agree that at least getting people comfortable with wet conditions would go a long way in Texas. Especially here in East Texas where it actually rains a fair bit. And I would love to decouple the DL from being the defacto ID. While I'm complaining, give my people some public transit that works, Abbott, god drat it!
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Have you ever heard of a skid pan my guy? So will these be maintained at the county level, the city level, or by private industry that will charge for their use despite being gov mandated?
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marshmallow creep posted:Hm yes lets make everyone in Texas, all 29 million, take a trip to Illinois or the like in order to get their driver's license; or let's build car sized ice rinks instead, and require everyone to drive on them repeatedly in order to train their skills for what is at best a freak once a year occurrence. And lets do this all while making a driver's license the de facto only form of identification so that you need it for absolutely everything. There is nothing wrong with this idea. Nope, completely feasible. This is a dumb take for reasons that have already been outlined but skid pans exist and are mandatory to learn on in some countries, and learning to train on a reduced traction surface is incredibly useful for myriad reasons that have nothing to do with ice marshmallow creep posted:Nope, those are new to me. And looking for where they are available in Texas, it seems limited to private racing experience schools in major metropolitan areas that charge between 400 and 1400 dollars, which puts them considerably out of my price range and out of my range to normally travel. It's almost like more should be built as part of a comprehensive overhaul of driving in the United States where it's treated like the high-risk activity that it is, along with serious efforts to reduce the reliance upon the automobile in general?? Even with large parts of the country being beholden to the automobile industry it should still be possible to vastly raise the standards of driving education. But that would require the US to value human life over money so
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