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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience
Did you know that crows hold what essentially are funerals? Yeah, hundreds of them flock to the location, but avoid the body and don’t scavenge it. It’s thought that this may be a kind of survival strategy, to make sure that they avoid potential threats even if food is plentiful where the crow’s body was found.
That’s probably something ornithologists (bird scientists) know. Turns out there are a lot of facts only specialists know! Let’s take a look at some of them as shared by Redditors.
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#1
Trucker here and we don't want to be anywhere near you either.
Go around or stay back don't just ride right beside us. We can't see you very well when you are beside us and if s**t happens you're gonna go splat.
It is very very very rare that any driver wants to slow you down it's not like we get our rocks off on making you late. We work extremely long hours on very little sleep and we just wanna get where we are going without getting in an accident and killing someone.
Trust me if we could go faster we damn sure would.
Also if you give us the fist pump to honk our horn you just made our whole week. That's one of the greatest joys in a truckers life.
Be safe out there!!
Edit: A reoccurring comment is that most of you get it and are very cool but you hate when a truck driver hops in the hammer lane when you're trying to pass them at a reasonable speed. I'm with you on that and Im here to tell you most truck drivers are not a******s like that and the real truckers hate the ones that are. Every profession has a group of a******s that ruin it for the good ones.
Edit Edit: This has gotten an unexpectedly high response and I really appreciate all of you joining in the conversation. If we would all just communicate like this more often we could solve a lot of problems in this world.
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
my father always told me : "if you can't see his side-view mirrors, he doesn’t see you either"
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
A lot of truck in Australia have signs about that on their tailgates: 'If you can't see my mirrors, i can't see you'.
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ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
I cross a mountain to get to work every morning and back again every evening. There's signs that say "no trucks in left lane under speed limit." Of course, every. single. day. there's a trucker passing an even slower trucker going 35mph up the mountain on the interstate. Speed limit is 65. I can't tell you how many times I've almost ran into the car in front of me because everyone is slamming on their brakes to wait on the truck who couldn't wait 2 miles to pass. I really wish they would just make a truck lane and force the trucks over. It's stupid.
Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago
You forgot about the third truck going 1mph faster than the second truck and has to overtake the second truck.
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Christoph Pipoli 2 years ago
I don't understand in this day and age that all trucks should be equipped with cameras and video screens for all their blindspots.🤷♂️
Jrog 2 years ago
It's actually being made mandatory in half of Europe. Either you have electronic assistance, or you have to employ a trained spotter while maneuvering. Spain and France will be the first to implement it, soon to be followed by the rest.
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Bob Brooce 2 years ago
I can count really high, but not high enough to tell you how many morons have passed me on the right once I'm 100' or so in front of atruck but haven't moved back right yet.
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Sherry Moore 2 years ago
How about you stay in the lanes marked for you on certain parts of the interstate?
Justin Rogers 2 years ago
I drive a big white van and people (a******s) love to cut me off. Driving 10,000lbs of stupid takes a lot to stop folks
Whitefox 2 years ago
Also, if a trucker is trying to enter our lane, you can flash you high beams to let him know he's safe to do so. Makes my week when one flashes their lights back in thanks.
ROSESARERED 2 years ago (edited)
We do that too, flash our lights when it's safe to pull in front of us after passing...sometimes the truckie will give a great light show of flashing lights to thank you
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daniel ikelman 2 years ago
When I was a kid, getting a truck driver to honk their horn was awesome
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#2
In movies they unnecessarily yank on horses’ reins, practically ripping their mouths out. Anytime you see their mouths open with the bit pulled way back in there, they’re not having fun and it’s for no reason other than maybe drama and the trainers are s****y for letting that happen.
Snorky The Pig 2 years ago
So sad. Horses are such beautiful, intelligent animals. Gentle giants. They deserve so much better. 🐴 💖
Astrophile 2 years ago (edited)
Also they don’t make nearly as much noise as they do in movies. The only time my horses ever neighed or winnied was when one of their buddies was being walked away/coming back (including their goat buddies.) A horse at war isn’t going to rear majestically and neigh to make his current rider look good.
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geezeronthehill 2 years ago
"No animals were injured in the making of this film." Hmmm. Who audits this?
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
That phrase is copyrighted by the American Humane Society. Since 1972 they are the only organization legally entitled to authorize use of that phrase, and they guarantee supervision, consulting and audit handling standards for movie productions. Despite being an American association, they cover productions made anywhere in the world.
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Btsquestrian 2 years ago
100% If a horse really wants to ignore the bit, they can. I've seen horses bolt with their heads against their chest. Every horse should be started (or re-started) bitless. Most equestrians don't have the hands or independent seat to be trusted to use a bit only as a communication device.
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Sarah Pryde 2 years ago (edited)
OOOh i worked with horses for just a few years and so many times i am cringing in my seat watching how they handle the reins......the LOTR movies did pretty well tho, if memory serves me
Demosthenes 2 years ago
At least they aren’t just straight up killing dozens of horses to make a movie anymore. Watch a couple “sword and sandal” classics and you will see dozens if not hundreds of horse deaths. Progress is slow.
Canela 2 years ago
Why people still use bits I will never understand. They can use bit less that work just as well and keep the horses mouth out of the equation.
Btsquestrian 2 years ago
It's a psychological safety blanket for the rider. But I clicker train my horse, so what do I know /s
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People almost always try to exit through the same door they entered. In a crowded venue ALWAYS take a second to find your exit and then find a second exit. Mark them in your brain just in case. In an emergency most of the crowd is going to go for the main door they came in through. Knowing where another exit is can save your life.
John L 2 years ago
Heh, you remind me of an airline attendant. I guess I was one of the few that actually paid attention to their announcements.
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Bored Trash Panda 2 years ago
I always check for every exit wherever I go. i am also super aware of my surroundings. i guess having social anxiety in crowds comes in handy sometimes.
Tess 2 years ago
Rule one of any anxiety or panic disorder is automatically noting any and all potential escape routes, and any potential dangers, wherever you go.
Load More Replies... Herringbone 2 years ago
I've posted this before, but it's relevant here: Know where the staircases are. I worked in a tall (for the UK) building, where everyone knew the east stair, because the access was obvious. The west stair was slightly hidden in a corridor. We had a fire drill, and those of us who knew it went for the west stair, knowing it would be empty. We ran all the way down from the 29th floor and didn't meet anyone else until the 7th.
Alex Kincaid 2 years ago
Done this for years, since back in the military. Every space I enter is a new Threat Assessment, no matter how many times I've been there.
Kim Kermes 2 years ago
Funny, I did this before the military. Maybe I just like to know things?
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Didn’t help that the roadies blocked the alternate exit for people in front of the stage with “these doors are for the band only.”
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Captain Awesome 2 years ago
People don't do this? I know I'm probably in the minority, but every place I go to I know exits, bathrooms, cameras, shady people, cleanliness, etc.
Muhammad Fauzi Rizal 2 years ago
This is more reasonable than other quote I see somewhere. Thank you. Well noted.
#4
It's not the CIA or the government that's tracking your every move. It's marketing agencies.
CD King 2 years ago
Let's be honest.... both the government AND marketing companies are tracking our every move. It's only one that pays attention to the information before something happens.
Larry XK 2 years ago
Why would the government track your every move? Unless you're a terrorist or on the FBI most wanted list. Some people really think they are more important than they really are
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Joshua David 2 years ago
I don't know how well it prevents, but I always use duck duck go. Like it shows me it's blocking Facebook for me and I don't even have a Facebook or the app even installed. That's among like many more it says it blocks. Google search is much better so many times I'll copy my links from Google as soon as the page opens and take it right over to duck.
PotatoNinja5000 2 years ago (edited)
DDG got exposed a while ago for selling user data to Microsoft. It might prevent Facebook tracking pixels from loading, but I would argue that having an ad follow you around the internet is a lot more harmless than your actual details being sold.
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
Government too, in some cases. Either way, they'd be pretty darn bored if they're tracking me. No terrorist activities, I don't even smoke lol
Christof Irran 2 years ago
Yup, conspiracy theories out there a so focking ridiculous, but as soon as you replace the phrase "the government" with "corporations" they are all of a sudden no longer funny.
Simon Bolivar 2 years ago
As the saying goes: "In a game of poker, if you can't figure out who the 'mark' is...you're the mark". Just replace the word 'mark' with 'consumer'.
#5
Being nice and patient will give you a bigger chance of getting a refund or a new of whatever is broken, than being angry and blaming the random worker.
AndyR 2 years ago
In my experience, people forget about it. You get better results being nice and it's the right way to treat people. It's also much more effective on the rare occasions when you have to be firm.
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scag$y 2 years ago
The people who need this information probably can't read. Is there a pictograph version?
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Taking it to the next step: "You can get more cooperation from people with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." - Al Capone
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago (edited)
Not always. In ~1996 I was having cable installed. We'd never had it there, so I called and made the appointment for install. The guy showed up and saw the house in relation to the pole he had to make the cable run to and apologized, but said he didn't think he had enough wire to do the job. I needed a late appointment because work. I just told him "oh well, we haven't had it in this amount of time, another day or two isn't going to end the world". He laughed and told me he'd try his damnedest with what he had because "people usually start screaming and cussing" if he couldn't finish. I got my cable that night (he finished after dark) and he got a $20 tip. Just be nice.
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rumple slunkskin 2 years ago
Hehe, got to prove this in real time one day. Angry man keeps calling my store yelling and being a jerk, hanging up the phone and calling back. After 3 times I informed him that I'm the only person answering the phone and I also happen to be the person who will process his refund, which won't happen if he continued being rude, no matter hiw many times he calls he has to go through me. He amazingly became very polite and his problem was solved in less than 5 minutes of being nice after a good half hour of rude phone games.
Fiona Parky 2 years ago
I’m always polite and I always start the conversation with “I’m sorry you have to deal with this”. I’m nevertheless firm and to the point. Never have I failed to get a full refund at the minimum. It’s all about negotiation and knowing that you’re talking to a human who is most likely rolling their eyes at the stupidity of their colleagues.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
It is the best approach for everything. I am a primary school educator and I have kids who will demand I do something, and do it now. I feel like I'm constantly saying 'I'm not going to do anything until you ask me nicely'!
Solidhog 2 years ago
This is true, and also completely false. I always treat people as I wished to be treated by them. I think every job that anybody does is important and I appreciate what they do. There a few time being nice has paid off. But I spent 20 years of my life working hard and putting in lots of my own time sorting IT for schools and making it as easy as possible for both the staff and pupils to use, even thought it made my job harder. I went far beyond my role many times to help my work "friends." Then over night we joined a group of other schools and their IT department decided to take over and degraded our IT system by 20 years and made work a lot harder. Out of over 60 people I have bent over backwards for only 2 tried standing up for everything I had done. Now the system has been changed they are all moaning about it. Being nice for 20 years got me nothing and makes me feel like I wasted all that time now.
#6
People make most decisions based on emotion, then rummage around for logic to back up what they’ve already decided
Brocken Blue 2 years ago
Ah yes, my decision to vote for the only political party that respects my bodily autonomy and gender identity is emotional. Really had to “rummage” around for the logic of “wanting to be treated equally under the law.” /s 🙄🙄🙄
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Christof Irran 2 years ago
This is especially true in the automotive market place. Car purchases are principally emotion driven - I know that because my employer is a digital marketing company for the automotive industry. If it weren't so, if our car buying behavior were logic driven, we'd all drive 7 year old Hondas or Toyotas.
Bryn 2 years ago
This is why you should never make any important decision on big emotions, regardless of what that emotion is. Deliriously happy about a job offer? Ask for time and call back when you're calm. You might realize you should ask for a higher offer. Extremely angry about an argument? Ask for a break and come back when you're calm. You might realize that you were missing an important part of what was being said.
michael Chock 2 years ago
Answer questions, don't question answers. People who do research are better than everyone else at that subject. Even if it's your grandma's favorite recipe I guarantee it was her life's work to refine it and not settle on her opinion of what works.
#7
You need to finish the entire course of the antibiotics you were prescribed. You don’t suddenly stop taking them after you start feeling better.
Keira Pendragon 2 years ago
It's distressing how many people Act like they don't know this when I Know their doctors emphasized it to them. (not a medical practitioner, just a lover of science).
WindySwede 2 years ago
With the amount of flat earthers on YT I have started to be less and less chocked over self proclaimed know-it-all:ers.. 😑
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
As an MD, I can't say this enough: If you do not want to leave enough bugs alive to breed a SUPERbug? Take. All. The. Pills. This is my specialty ---- we're not idiots.
My “in my head” Voice 2 years ago
And don't expect antibiotics for everything. I was sick for an extended period (turns out I can't live at altitude) and I kept being given course after course of antibiotics. Now I'm allergic to penicillin and cipro. If I get an infection, I'm hosed
Ash 2 years ago (edited)
1. Some of the first people who were ever given antibiotics died anyway, because researchers hadn't figured out yet what a "full course" of antibiotics WAS, and they stopped giving them the meds when the patients started to feel better. Then the disease came back twice as bad and killed them. Don't be like the test subjects. 2. Stopping your antibiotics before you've finished the course of them can have really bad consequences, not just for you, but for everybody else. Stopping antibiotics too early helps to create antibiotic-resistant bacteria. That means it's creating diseases that we DON'T have a cure for! This could be a really, really serious problem for us the future. Imagine going back to a time before antibiotics were invented, and that could be what we're looking at someday! O.O
Horosho Bodka 2 years ago
OMG, My wife does this EVERY darn time! I have tried to get her to finish them and she never does. I have to slip meds to the dogs, because she stops as soon as the symptoms start to ease up.
seana lammers 2 years ago
You slip the meds to the dogs? Huh???? Or is your wife not fully treating the doggos? You need to take over their care/treatment.
Load More Replies... Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
Killing germs is like shooting feral pigs. You shoot it, you shoot it again, and then, when you're absolutely certain it's dead, you shoot it again.
Ryyde Cade 2 years ago
I know people who think an antibiotic is for every little.sniffle, ache or whteva
#8
The ER is there to keep you from having a catastrophic outcome in the next few hours/days (or next few minutes, in some cases.) If nothing irreversible is going to happen for several days, they don’t really care what the problem is.
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
Part of the problem in the US arises from our insane healthcare system. People who can't afford health insurance, or who have lost their insurance, often use the ER as their primary doctor.
My “in my head” Voice 2 years ago
Thus leading to long wait times for people who actually need immediate help.
Load More Replies... Sherry Moore 2 years ago
I worked in an ER they care about your problems,but, it's true EMERGENCIES come first
Carol LeMay 2 years ago
I worked ER for several years. There are people who come to the ER for everything. They don't have a regular doctor.
wowbagger 2 years ago
Yeah, but posts like this always make me so nervous about ever going to the ER. You can't always know what's an emergency and what isn't. Last year, on a weekend day, my mom had numbness in one hand, which passed after 15 minutes or so. She didn't go to the ER, but contacted her doctor on the next weekday. Doctor sent her for tests, and it turned out she'd had a stroke. So she should have gone to the ER, but she has terrible social anxiety and was afraid of annoying the ER personnel.
Missandei Worm 2 years ago
That’s when public education comes in. This is a two-fold problem. Think F.A.S.T. Facial droop, Arm numbness, Slurred speech, timeliness (any of those symptoms get help ASAP)
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
It's called triage. We practice it for a good reason. Your toddler with the flu will be fine in a week. (Your nerves may be shot, but the kid'll be fine.) The lady who can't feel her left leg? Needs us first.
GoGoPDX 2 years ago
Yes! All the people in here talking about having a child with a fever. Children with fevers are common and very rarely serious. Tylenol and fluids and a couple hours and everything will be fine.
Load More Replies... Nichole Harris 2 years ago
It's not that they don't care it's that they're overwhelmed.... Especially in the US
David 2 years ago
A dentist I had used to work as an ER dentist in Seattle. Obviously he was there for trauma victims with mouth injuries. But a few times he told me stories about the entitle nut jobs that would come in. Like the man coming in at 2 AM DEMANDING that he clean his teeth and then getting angry / cops escorted out when he was told teeth cleaning is not an emergency and go make an appointment.
Alex Kincaid 2 years ago
Hmmmm, and when your Dr. or Urgent Care says you have to go to the ER??? Happens all the time, "We can't help you here, you'll have to go to ER" I know healthcare in the US is messed up and clearly self defeating, but what course do we have?
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
The problem with this is in the US is the ER treats you like you should know the difference. I'm not talking about going in with a hang nail I'm talking about truly painful or distressing symptoms. Add to that the thousands of horror stories of serious issues being ignored and leading to permanent issues or death, this kind of attitude sucks. Even if you have good healthcare in the US it may be weeks before you can be seen elsewhere. Also many urgent care clinics are not equipped to deal with that non catastrophic several days before it does become irreversible gap. They might not have any access to imaging and can't refer you to specialists. They will just direct you right back to the ER. I know people who've lost their ovary to torsion from a burst cyst because they were either dismissed or the ER didn't consider it "catastrophic outcome" didn't bother to even let them know that's what had happened and simply discharged them and told them to take Tylenol.
GoGoPDX 2 years ago
A lot of the time your Drs office can talk with you and determine if something is an emergency or not. And yes, there are times the ER misses stuff, just like every other practice, it happens. The biggest thing is is the fact that general people do not know how to properly navigate the medical system to access advice nurses and in call physicians to help them figure out what is going on. I wish that there was much more education about all of this. I would love to educate people how to make their health care system work for them, but don't know where I would even start
Load More Replies... michael Chock 2 years ago
The hospital in the small town dismissed my sons fever of 104 for a week straight . He is now 11 with the mentality of a 3 year old and has seizures daily. If you 100% know something is wrong, push back. They may be exhausted, overworked and miss something.
#9
Those "high end" or "expensive" neighborhoods they slap up really fast... Usually, gated communities and other semi-exclusive suburbs full of McMansions are built with the absolute cheapest materials and poorest quality/ untrained labor.
Never buy a "spec" home without some serious research into what you're actually buying. All that "luxury" is barely surface deep.
Craftsman 64 2 years ago
Quickest way to check - are the baseboards (skirting boards) MDF? If so, run.
TFH 2 years ago
If I was low on money and for some reason absolutely had to have new baseboards I'd spend my last cent on wood rather than MDF.
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Catherine Maven 2 years ago
If you're having a house built, INSIST on keeping a sample of each material you agree to pay for, (such as flooring and cabinetry) until the project is finished Otherwise, many builders will substitute similar, but lower-quality materials and tell you this is what you agreed on! :(
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
Used to check crawl spaces for a pest control company. I agree 100%. Shoddy construction methods where the homeowner can't see. Golf course developments were the worst.
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
I’ve only lived in older houses, but when I visit my friends who have purchased the new estate homes, you can hear through all the walls, the walls and doors are flimsy hollow and feel so light. You can feel the s**t quality, it might look the part, b it it doesn’t compare to the vintage Italian houses built in the 40s that can still withstand a hurricane etc
Whitefox 2 years ago
Our home was built in the 50's and still has its beautiful hard wood floors! It's really very solid!
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#10
In Archaeology, it’s super awesome and great that you brought stuff to an archaeologist at a local dig site near you of things you found in your backyard or nearby asking us appraise it - but the thing is, we’re actually more interested in the context the item(s) are found. We need/want to see the bigger picture. Arrowheads, flintknaps, trade beads, etc are super cool but they are worth so much more when we can tell if they are part of a hoard, burials site, ceremonial site, etc.
Sand Ers 2 years ago
Context is everything. Without it an artifact is just a trinket with a black market value. That's the difference between an archaeologist and a grave robber. (Source: Dad and cousin are archaeologists.)
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Panda Kicki 2 years ago
Aaand we have the rather boring Treasury again. Petra is so full of wonders and all we ever see is the facade at the entrance.
Lauren Elizabeth 2 years ago
better to see it in situ (aka before you picked it up) and combine it with everything around it. was the doll found in the fireplace? or was it found next to the bed? where it was found changes the meaning from haunted (fireplace) to beloved (next to the bed)
Wilf 2 years ago
In the UK we have e the portable antiquities scheme. This allows metal deteectotists and chance-discoverers to report objects for identification and geo-tags their location. Archaeologists can use this data to spot patterns and identify potential sites. A major Viking settlement and an Anglo-Saxon settlement in the ares I work in were recently identified almost entirely by metal detecting and field walking recently. Responsible detectorists are a good thing. They've transformed our understanding of the early medieval in lowland England over the last 40 years or so. Heck, books I read when I was studying in the 2010s are now considered really out of date!
Directionless 2 years ago
One thing found, may lead to other things being found
Load More Replies... michael Chock 2 years ago
All sciences are like that. The answer is almost never as important as how you arrived at that answer.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I thought the "where" for archaeologists was always "It belongs in a museum!"
Laura Williams 2 years ago
So bringing things to you means someone dropped it a long time ago not fun but finding it is part of a group of people noone knows about that's the cool part yep have to agree
#11
Trees do not heal through regeneration like people think they do.
They quite literally just grow over it. The tree can close the wound off in a way not really visible to us but it will never grow back that same tissue in the same way like we would when we cut ourselves.
It would be like growing a second layer of skin over a cut and never really healing the cut. Your body would make it stop bleeding but you’d alway be able to see your cut if you peel the layers of skin that grew over top.
Trees are like onions, just like Ogres! They have layers.
I always think of a jaw breaker when I work with trees.
Did anyone get my Shrek reference? I should go to bed now.
Red_panda 2 years ago
That's what I thought. Now I'm just picturing trees all bleeding from under the surface wounds.
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PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
When logging he dead trees here, you see so many interesting marks on trees, I’ve thought of also starting an Instagram that’s so boringly cool, ‘colours of wood’ featuring all the wacky mold colours you find on the interior of the tree that you wouldn’t see without splitting it. Colours like, fluro yellow, green and pink and lilac purples, teals and azul blue shades etc all naturally made by nature that we often assume are artificial colours.
#12
Police can lie to you, including about whether or not they’re police.
ETA - In the US. (I’ve offended the Europeans by forgetting they exist. 🇺🇸😎)
Alex Martin 2 years ago
That's one of the many reasons that unless you are a victim of a crime or need a police report for insurance you never talk to the police. They say you're a potential witness but they could be sizing you up as a suspect. Many people have talked their way in to an arrest and life is never the same after that. Police care about clearing cases, they'll decide you're their person and then make sure the evidence points to your guilt. It's not necesarilly corruption it's myopia, they'll fixate on you and ignore or discount exonerating evidence because the KNOW you're guilty. There are cops who swear a guy is guilty even after the suspect is exonerated by DNA because they have such tunnel vision.
Min 2 years ago
Honest curiosity, not snark - in which European countries are undercover police operations outlawed?
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
If so, he might have been lying when he said that.
Load More Replies... Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
When I had a Mohawk in my 20's I would constantly get pulled over. Had a chat with a policeman about it (we bonded over cycling). His words "of course it's the hair, what else would it be, they'll never tell you that though, it'll be we're looking for someone fitting your description, a car fitting your description, any old carp. There's nothing you can do except get a haircut". Which begs the question what do people who are pulled over because of their ethnic background do, bleach their skin?
whiterabbit 2 years ago
Never, ever, talk to police. You have no incentive to give them any information.
#13
We have cameras that can see what is in your trash as we dump it. Some companies even take snap shots of every can's contents to catch hazmat items. They bill the city, with the address it came from, and the city could follow up with the homeowner for reimbursement if they choose. How crappy, in general, people are at making sure they are recycling the right items and properly cleaning some of their items before putting them in the recycling bin. We remember the houses with issues, people that try to double dump, overfill, and dump hazmat. We watch for those offenders specifically. We will pull out cans for handicapped people, dump them, and put them back. You have to call and have that setup though. The garbage man knows whats going on in your neighborhood, almost as well as the mailman.
Laura Williams 2 years ago
Oh sorry thank you for doing what seems to be a thankless job meant to type it go distracted.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Where I live, the garbos don't even exit the vehicle, it's all done by an arm on the truck, so they won't necessarily know what's in each can, but there is obviously a way to tell who is not recycling correctly etc, because they get fluro coloured stickers put on their bins (I think by the council). If it happens a certain number of times, as shown by different colours of stickers, then the truck won't pick it up until something is worked out with the council (I don't know if this is a fine or what because it's never happened to me).
bElLa sTairZz 2 years ago
they never said theirs didnt use the arm? and where you live can still have the cameras
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Sara 2 years ago
Who can take your trash out? Stomp it down for you? Shake the plastic bag and do the twisty thingy, too?
Kevin Hickey 2 years ago
The lesson learned is to take your garbage out really late and sneak the bad stuff into your neighbor's can.
scag$y 2 years ago
I spookily had an acquaintance who worked as a garbage collector. No lie, his name was Neville Binns. Even spookier, his best friend was called Graham. Crazy times.
Carrie Smith 2 years ago
Okay, I get the Neville Binns part. But I don't get the Graham? Why is that spooky?
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Robert Trebor 2 years ago
Many cities closed their hazardous waste drop-off points for COVID, and quite a few have not yet opened up again for budget reasons.
Christina Busse 2 years ago
As a child I perfected the art of getting as much paper as humanly possible in the paper bin in my room because I was too lazy to empty it more often (still am). One time after I finally managed to put it in the collective paper waste of our house and it got taken by the garbage truck, my parents got a bill because they weighed the trashcan and it was so heavy they thought that it couldn't possibly all be paper :D
#14
If a website is slow there’s a big change it’s not because the developers did a bad job but because marketing insisted on putting dozens of trackers and ads on it.
Robert T 2 years ago
A big part of how fast or slow a website is is down to how much traffic not only it is receiving but any other websites cohosted with it or even in the same datacenter.
Solidhog 2 years ago
This is true. Often they are hosting on a slow server with lots of traffic.
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
A decade ago, I could have a browser with multiple tabs running AND Photoshop with multiple files open AND a text file and not notice any lag at all. Nowadays, and with much more processing power, my computer will sometimes complain if I have just the browser running and try to open a second tab.
SirWriteALot 2 years ago
Uhm, no, there are many reasons. You CAN program poorly and cause delays through inefficient or unnecessary database queries.
Pandamonium 2 years ago
Multiple synchronous calls, lack of caching, etc.
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Jeremy James 2 years ago
I use Chrome for BP, but if I want to browse Cheezburger, I have to use Opera with Ad Blocker. I don't mind viewing ads to support a free site, but if I don't use Opera, only the first few images load in each article and the site is unviewable.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
can't tell you how many times I will site jump to make sure it is the site, not my hardware/internet
Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
Some of it is p1ss poor coding though, the hoops we had to jump through back in the 90's to get it running as sleekly as possible on a dial up modem was insane. The advent of ADSL changed everything, you could suddenly having sloppy coded garbage that would run fine
David 2 years ago
I never blamed the developers. My thought is usually the allotted bandwidth - either the pipeline out of the building or not enough servers. That said, the speed at which BP comments load (or sometimes don't load) seems wonky compared to the rest of this site.
#15
UTIs will often cause confusion in people over 70.
Eta:
UTI is Urinary Tract Infection and some people can get confused to the point of hallucinations and delirium. It can cause increased weakness which also leads to falls.
arthbach 2 years ago
Constipation can also cause confusion in older people. There were times older people were admitted to hospital for routine procedures, became constipated (perhaps due to a difference in diet, and the use of pain medication), and seemed to have developed dementia. When the constipation was treated, the dementia disappeared.
GoGoPDX 2 years ago
Any time we have an infection, our immune system kicks into gear to fight it off. During this process, our body releases chemicals that cause inflammation. These chemicals can also lead to many of the symptoms we feel, like fatigue or fevers. In older adults, the brain is more affected by the inflammation and the stress hormones that the body produces to fight the infection. The effects of this inflammation and stress on the brain are what show up as delirium. It is common in geriatric patients because the blood-brain barrier, a special protection between the brain and the rest of the body, weakens as we age, leaving geriatric patients more susceptible to these chemicals. The constipation delirium is usually caused by an underlying infection of the bowels.
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Happened to my grandad a lot before he died. He would be sent to hospital and be confused or borderline aggressive and mum would turn up and insist they test for a UTI.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
To the point where they lose balance. My MIL fell over a couple of times - she was in her nineties, but on both occasions it was down to a UTI. We knew to check for them after that.
Trish 2 years ago
Yes. We thought my Grandma had dimentia a few years ago. She thought there were Smurfberry trees in the woods, and ghost children in her ceiling. She called me at work, pleading for help, because she had been 'kidnapped' (my Uncle had brought her to his house so his wife could be with her during the day.) It was a bladder infection. She's fine now, and just turned 95.
Michael Sauerwein 2 years ago (edited)
As this happened to a close relative of mine, the hallucinations can be downright freaky. It was like they were dreaming while awake, with dream logic things happening that were taken matter-of-fact like the weather. They were seeing people in their house who they did not know and were not there, inventing situations that made absolutely no sense except in their own heads, and believed that they were being spied on by the police and being messed with by their sister. This also came on very quickly, within a matter of days, with no slow buildup like dementia. My relative was normally very rational and analytical, but these events did not strike them as impossible but instead as very annoying. It was like the logic center of their brain shut off. Discussing these things with them in person was very disturbing, especially when they would look over my shoulder and get annoyed at the little girl in the hallway that wasn't there. They didn't believe me that it all was not real and that they needed to go to the hospital and got defensive and angry.
Glenn Schroeder 2 years ago
I can vouch for that. When my mother got one she was hallucinating. When my otherwise healthy father got one at 77 years old he suddenly became so weak he couldn't stand, and never really recovered. He was gone about six weeks later.
Jennik 2 years ago
Illness in general can cause dementia-like symptoms in the elderly. I've experienced it twice this year with my 90 yr old mother. At the beginning of the year she fell out of bed one night and, although she refused to go to hospital initially, we had to take her in a few day later as she was in pain. Then, a couple of months ago, she got a mild case of Covid. Both times her mental capacity collapsed. She doesn't have dementia but she displayed all the symptoms during her illness and for some weeks following. At the worst of it she didn't know where she was while during the recovery period she turned complaining into an Olympic-level sport. This type of delirium is apparently quite common in the elderly when they are ill (it's not due to fever) and is worth knowing about if you have elderly relatives.
Gary Geracci 2 years ago
It also is frustrating in that, There other symptoms that are just coming to tlight
#16
Most public defenders are competent actually.
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
I really admire lawyers who choose to become public defenders. They are overworked, underpaid, and absolutely necessary.
Sand Ers 2 years ago
If this country was serious about the "justice" part of our criminal justice system, the Public Defenders Office would be funded at the same level as the District Attorney's Office. Or even higher, since there are a lot more poor people prosecuted than rich ones. Now go check your county's annual budget report. In my county, the most recent annual budget report shows the DA's office getting $149M. The PD's office got $75M.
Load More Replies... Stephanie A Mutti 2 years ago
Most public defenders are not ONLY competent, they are HIGHLY competent. The amount of skill a lawyer gets is from being on the front line DOING the law and not just sitting in an office reading. PDs are almost constantly on the front line DOING law in a courtroom where the stakes are high and the speed is fast. You learn how to think on your feet. It's the best training ground. Not even going into the great empathy and understanding a PD needs to do a good job.
ravn 2 years ago
Thanks, was going to add that :). It is a testament to their competence that they often have *minutes* (10 is being generous) to evaluate a case and act on their clients behalf.
Load More Replies... Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago
I think that they are capable but, sadly, aren't effective as they might be because they have far too many cases (in the US anyhow).
Josh Tarjan 2 years ago (edited)
Former PD here. Miami-Dade County, Florida.I can't speak for all PDs, but some of the smartest attorneys I know worked in my office. We didn't advance in the office unless we went to trial. You're constantly in court, battling judges and prosecutors. Many clients have drug and mental health problems. You have clients who never reach out to you for an appointment and others who call you (or your assistant) three times a day. You gain mad skills very quickly. You get more courtroom experience in your first six months than most attorneys get in an entire career. The PDs I knew were committed to justice and fighting government overreach. And starting out we had higher salaries than the new state attorneys, although their office had the higher budget. As newbies we also had training attorneys to mentor us. Not a day went by that something interesting and crazy didn't happen. Very stressful. But never came home thinking, what am I doing for the world? Amazing job.
Janet Sparrow 2 years ago
And often at the top of their class in the best schools. People think they're not "real lawyers". Go figure.
Stacy Jones 2 years ago (edited)
In my area, the public defenders are employees of the District Attorney's office. I don't think they're incompetent, otherwise they wouldn't have been hired; but I wouldn't trust them to defend me against their boss, either. Luckily, I've never needed one.
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
The problem is the available budget, not what department the PD works for. The cops can spend millions on an investigation trying to find witnesses and evidence of guilt. The PD's budget to defend you will be far more limited.
Load More Replies... Christof Irran 2 years ago
Not only perfectly competent, but also more motivated and more dedicated to their mission.
David 2 years ago
They can be but there is a better chance such a lawyer is fresh out of law school / in a starting position. Especially the ones handling lower level cases. It isn't a slam. Every person has to start some place. But the average lower case public defender is much less likely to be a "Perry Mason" than a partner in an established law firm might be. Another factor no matter how good they are is that in some jurisdictions they are overworked and expected to take a lot of cases.
#17
When a person “flat lines” you cannot shock them out of it.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 years ago
Well, most movies are a work of fiction after all!
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Andy Frobig 2 years ago
However, as proven by Gilligan's Island, getting hit on the head with a coconut will give you amnesia, and getting hit again will give your memory back
irishleo8371 2 years ago
Those electric paddles (clear!) are used for arrhythmia, not for a heart that has stopped
Lauren Elizabeth 2 years ago
same with pulling knives out. don't pull out the knife if you're stabbed. keep it there. if you're stabbed in the heart you're already dead, and anywhere else it's probably keeping whatever artery it's lodged in from just leaking everywhere.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Chest compressions, Chest compressions, Chest compressions! - Doctor "Mike" Mikhail Varshavski
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
My hubby is an EP cardiologist. We constantly use this line thanks to Dr Mike, but also sub the words to fit the situation.
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CD King 2 years ago
If you have a heart attack out side of a medical setting the chance you will die is 90%
Catherine Graves 2 years ago
Most people who have heart attacks outside medical facilities have a good chance of survival if seen promptly. I think what you mean is "people who have cardiac arrest" and these two things are different.
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I hate this! In real life, even in an ER/medical setting, CPR/AEDs work maybe 30% of th etime. Once someone flatlines, well, it's not good. I've done CPR, as an MD, the whole deal, and the truth is, by the time someone goes down, they usually stay down. I'm sorry for your loss, I'm sorry we can't do miracles, but the reason for their heart stopping may be irreversible, which makes CPR more or less a moot point.
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Tell us you're new here without telling us you're new here. BP's criteria for photos don't include a direct connection to the story.
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In any given nature documentary, the protagonist animal you’re rooting for is ‘played’ by several different ‘actors’ - i.e. that one brown bear’s story is patched together from footage of a bunch of different bears. And in about 90% of the ‘animal reacting’ shots they’re reacting to the camera crew. Nature documentaries are heavily constructed.
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
As with other types of movies the footage is edited together to match the script, but the script for a nature documentary is generally written after the footage is captured because you can't write any scene you want and then go out and make it happen. It's also somewhere between difficult and impossible to capture a single clip of many things that wild animals do, such as tracking, capturing, and eating prey.
Donkey boi 2 years ago (edited)
'And here we have Tenku! You can spot him because of the little notch in his ear that he picked up in a fight during the last mating season'... 'As Tenku stalks his prey, his ear magically heals'... 'And now, well fed at last, the notch has returned.'
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
"Unfortunately, despite having the astonishing footage, our editor failed to include the footage of the fight in which little Tenku actually got the notch in his ear."
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Blada DeBlejd 2 years ago
Noooo! So in that documentary when I was following that polar bear for days and weeks across the iceberg, it was not the same one? 😯 (sound of shattered glass)
#19
An elevator will go up to the top of the hoist instead of crash to the floor in most catastrophic failures due to the counter weights.
JustABored1 2 years ago (edited)
So instead of being squished, you W***y Wonka thru the roof of the building. Cool 😅
Cosmologist wannabe 2 years ago
ugh. bp censors literally blocked a freaking name.
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Robert T 2 years ago
That depends very much on the type of catastrophic failure. The one we all think of is that the cable attached to the top of the car breaks, and in that case, the car *will* fall. It won't fall very far, at they have a braking system that kicks in and holds the car in place.
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago (edited)
*Comment self deleted due to vulgar content, and insensitivity to elevators.*
Michael Largey 2 years ago
So if the elevator fails due to a fire in the building, it will take you to the top floor of a building that's on fire? Thanks!
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Maybe they should put up signs that say to use the stairs instead of the elevator if there's a fire? Maybe something like this? stairs-64f...e2a508.jpg 
Jennik 2 years ago
However, in a "non-terminal velocity" failure (I'm using the language of the elevator company involved in this incident) the elevator can still plummet to the ground pretty damn quickly. Happened to me at work. Got into the elevator on the fifth floor; the floor wasn't where I expected it to be as the elevator had dropped about 45cm after the door opened, and when I was inside the elevator took a speedy trip to the ground. I was 7 months pregnant and on crutches and it was NOT a fun experience. A couple of weeks later the building caught fire and everyone buggered off leaving me to negotiate the emergency stairs in total darkness (no emergency lighting), on crutches, and in severe pain.
Sarah Stone 2 years ago
The counter weight weighs 1.5 times the weight of the car which would make this correct. However, should the car be full of grownups the lift would want to go down. This is when the safety gear should pull in. Having said this, lifts nowadays are fitted with Bidirectional Safety Gears. ☺️
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Elevators also have at least four thick cables holding the cabine, there isn't a single record about all four breaking at once
Christof Irran 2 years ago
Most elevator related fatalities occur among the personnel servicing the elevators. User related fatalities are pretty much limited to when an elevator cab gets stuck between floors, and the occupants force the doors open and try to climb out. That's when the elevator software sensed a weight change and often started to move, shearing the person trying to climb out.
Sunshine Lady 2 years ago
One of my nightmares is going up in an elevator and not stopping on the last floor 😮
#20
If you have sad vegetables(carrots celery)or lettuce that look wilted not bad you can make them crunchy by shocking in ice water.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I have done this multiple times to get an extra day or two out of them
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago
I throw old veggies outside, and watch the rabbits and squirrels battle for it. It's like Mad Max with more fur.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 years ago
Or just cook them so they go soggy anyway, maybe not the lettuce though… You can also perk up celery by trimming off the base and standing it in water for a few hours. My Nana always used to store her celery like that (think vase of flowers principle).
Gabby M 2 years ago
Also wrap celery tightly in foil it will keep much longer than in plastic.
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Tjoori Vids 2 years ago
Also, if your bread is stale (not hard dried) put it in the microwave for 15 seconds.
Khall Khall 2 years ago
Pretty sure this is a violation of the Geneva conventions or some other element of international law...
#21
People (users) are the weakest link in most technology systems. 99% of the time.
arthbach 2 years ago
Way, way back in 1992, at a security convention, there was a prize/reward for anyone who could beat the security on a new machine. A friend listened to the person on the stall, asked for their business card, and phoned the office. The friend impersonated the salesperson and said they had forgotten the password. One of the people gave them the password. This was then used to access the computer. :) Humans are the weakest link.
WindySwede 2 years ago
I saw a lady put on a screaming baby on the computer,then phone the support saying she had forgotten the password. The password of the repporter sitting opposite her...! Well it was staged, but...
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Donkey boi 2 years ago
In what sense? Security? Maybe. But from experience in several different industries, the weakest link is usually the fact that systems are designed based on what people that are not on the ground floor using it, think the system should do. Basically, within a company the heads want a system that can monitor their figures, the workers want a system that can make their day-to-day easier. The problem is, the heads want more and more information, meaning more and more input at the ground level. I don't think I'm explaining this very well....
Sand Ers 2 years ago
A few years ago I was chatting with an agent from the huge nationwide insurance company I use. She told me that they had to have different passwords for each of three different systems. That the passwords couldn't be words, but had to be long, and of the "one of everything" format. And that they all had to be changed to something new every three months. My response; "So, they want everybody in the office to keep their passwords on a note taped to the desk beside their keyboard?" She just laughed.
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There's a reason social engineering is the way most compromises are completed...
#22
When you go out to clubs or any place with some sort of "strip" (aka Broadway in nashville) the volume is 11 times out of ten too loud. I work at barstool occasionally as AV and at night it's gotten up to 110-115 DB. For reference, the threshold of pain is 120 db. Wear hearing protection people. You can't get that s**t back.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
I've seen heavy metal, rap, and hardcore punks bands in concert. The loudest concert I ever attended was Queen, hands down. Louder than Metallica, Public Enemy, and FEAR combined.
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Horosho Bodka 2 years ago
I saw Megadeth open for Motorhead back in the 80's (yup, im old) and my ears rang for 4 days. Years of way too loud metal concerts, jet engines too close (flight deck) have made it so I have ringing 24/7 in both ears. On a bad day, I can't hear my wife unless she's right next to me at normal volume.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 2 years ago
Me too. I have ringing in my ears all the effing time these days without the joy of a metal gig to blame for it 😕
Load More Replies... Glenn Schroeder 2 years ago
It's not just at entertainment venues. I spent countless hours using electric saws without hearing protection. I'm paying for it now.
Fire Singer 2 years ago
YES! I went to a concert just a few weeks ago and brought my earplugs, they were a life saver. And the number of people there with small kids, one was even a TWO WEEK OLD BABY, without ear protection made me want to cry. I'm all for bringing your kids to family friendly concerts like this, but please protect their ears!
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Just ask my brother, the drummer, who was stupid about hearing protection when he was younger!
Linden 2 years ago
We have a drummer in the family who's the same and the tinnitus is not something I want. I always wear ear plugs!
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Red PANda (she/they) 2 years ago
I’m young, but have gone to a few concerts and I’m in a rock band and I always try to protect my hearing.
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
We've gotten used to the idea of wearing hearing protection while operating gas powered weed trimmers, but my audiologist tells me it's not the motor that ruins your hearing. It's the high pitched sound of the strings cutting the weeds that delivers the most energy to your ears. So even when I trade up to a battery powered trimmer, I will still need hearing protection. Who knew?
Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago
Needs to be that loud so that people who have headphones at max volume can hear it. /s
#23
I work in acrylic sheet.
The number of people who do not understand what translucent means is astounding.
Translucent =/= Transparent. Translucent is SOLID color that allows light transmission- it glows. Transparent is just that..transparent.
We have customers call us All. The. Time. Telling us we filled an order wrong, that they received “a solid color and ordered translucent red”.
**EDIT: thanks for all the upvotes and thoughts!
For clarification, majority of these customers order online either through our website or Etsy. Both sites have dozens of pictures and videos explaining and showing the differences!
Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 years ago (edited)
Week one of science lessons. See also, the difference between a clear and colourless liquid.
Tiny Dynamine 2 years ago
Considering the point of this, that's a really poor explanation of translucent! Opaque, not see through/ Translucent, partially see through/ transparent, totally see through. Glows? What?!
Bunzilla 2 years ago
I think what they mean is that translucent material can diffuse light, and can appear to glow if lit properly. But, yes, agreed that it's a poor explanation.
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Frank Miller 2 years ago
Translucent materials do not glow. Something that glows emits its own light. Translucent materials allow light to pass through them.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
If you speak English, it will help you a LOT to learn the Latin and Greek word forms that make up most English words. "Parere" means "appear" while "lucere" means "shine" or "light". "Trans" means "across" or "on the other side of". Transparent, therefore, means you can see through it while translucent means light can shine through it.
Phil Vaive 2 years ago
Definition of translucent from OED: (of a substance) allowing light, but not detailed shapes, to pass through; semitransparent.
Phil Vaive 2 years ago
The OP (and her business') definition of translucent is wrong.
Load More Replies... John L 2 years ago
It's sad, when you don't understand the very definition of a word....this is the state of our education system (in the states).
Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
This was hammered into us in chemistry class and the amount of people that still fecked it up was amazing.
Gary Geracci 2 years ago
So True, I don't know how many times though, I had to educate to employee of the Company selling the product. Get with it people!
David 2 years ago
This is basic vocabulary. I'm sorry you have to endure that. Those same folks would be bitching if their privacy screens (bathrooms etc) were transparent instead of translucent or opaque.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
This is another one I am surprised people don't know. I was taught it in art in about grade 3.
#24
Cement and concrete are not the same thing. Cement is the main ingredient in concrete, but concrete is the whole mixture of cement, sand, aggregate, water, etc.
arthbach 2 years ago
There are different recipes for concrete depending on how it is going to be used. But I'm not aware of any recipes where cement is the main ingredient. A fairly standard concrete mix would be 1 part cement to 2 parts sand to 4 parts aggregates. For foundations, a mix of 1 part cement to 3 parts sand to 6 parts aggregates can be used.
Ian Shaw 2 years ago
Read main as necessary in all mixes, not as volumetrically or weight dominant.
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#25
Bed bugs don’t make you a nasty person with a nasty home. An infestation isn’t due to a sanitation issue. They’re an imported pest, which means they hitched a ride on something you brought into the house. Usually luggage or furniture
StrangeOne 2 years ago
No. But donating your bedbug infested items makes you are a very nasty person.
SincerelyMeesh 2 years ago
Worked at a low income property. Bed bugs love particle board, corrugated cardboard. anything that gives them space to hide. This is a big reason not to pick up furniture at the dump or on the side of the road. If you do pick up second hand furniture you should spray it with a heavy duty killer several times, over several weeks to make sure you kill each hatching as they are all on different growth cycles. and DONT DO THIS INSIDE!!! Leave everything outside for your own safety and to prevent infestation.
Mark Boelte 2 years ago
And bedbugs ONLY eat blood. So no amount of food or trash will attract them. They are only interested in warm bodies.
Empresslockness 2 years ago
And bed bugs are not income based. Anyone, no matter what their status is can get them.
Jeremy James 2 years ago
Bedbugs and their eggs can hitch a ride into or out of your home in the spines of hardcover library books.
Big Chungus 2 years ago
Had them when I was in college and living in shared wall apartments. They didn't care which apartment they were but boy did they love it lol
#26
Generally speaking, if you add the percentage of the body covered in 3rd degree burns and the persons age together you get the likelihood of it being a fatal burn.
32 and 40% burn coverage? about 70% of people in that condition will die.
Source: Firey, working closely with several doctors from burns units.
Edit: I love the 100 year old people comments and the people with 0% burns but in thier 30s lamenting the 40% death chance.
SadieCat17 2 years ago
So a an 80 year old with burn covering 30% of their body has a 110% chance of dying?
eldizzle 2 years ago
Yeah speaking as a nurse, this simply doesn't make sense. A baby, an elderly person, or someone imunocompromised is far more likely to die than someone in their 20s to 60s. You don't suddenly become more likely to die when you go from the age of 10 to 20. Depth of burn, size, type of burn, speed and type of treatment and health of the patient are what matters.
Kim Kermes 2 years ago
Generally speaking, they said. Of course there are more considerations. Gotta start somewhere.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 2 years ago
As far as I'm concerned getting badly burned is the worst way to get injured! You'll be dealing with it for the rest of your life - skin grafts, surgery, scars/limited range of movement, etc. So horrifying.
ROSESARERED 2 years ago
Our skin is the biggest organ of our body, anything that impacts on its ability to control temperature or hold together everything else is a risk death...look after your skin. Burns will have an effect on the rest of your days..
#27
Mushrooms are genetically closer related to Humans than to Plants
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
3 main branches of life: plants, animals and fungi. Research is starting to find that fungi made it possible for plants to move onto land. So respect the 'shroom!
kasa alex 2 years ago
We've had some problems with mushrooms here in Australia recently, where a woman inadvertently served her relatives poisonous mushrooms and killed them (she'd bought the mushrooms from a grocery store which sold regular fruit and veg, so it doesn't appear to have been intentional!)
Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago
50% in common with humans and mushrooms, 80% in common with humans and cows.
Ash 2 years ago
Also never never NEVER eat a mushroom you picked yourself unless you are an absolute EXPERT in mushrooms. Some of them can kill you slowly, and you will be in excruciating pain for days before the end.
María Hermida 2 years ago
In my area in the north of Spain many people go to the forest in autumn to pick mushrooms. It's like an obsession. If you don't t go to pick mushrooms you are not a decent human being. I never, ever, ever collect them and never eat mushrooms collected by random people (neighbours, friends...) I've heard too many stories of people who ended up needing a liver transplant because they ate the wrong mushroom.
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#28
Volumetricly, most rocks are made of mostly oxygen. Most of the entire Earth (crust and mantle) is also nearly half oxygen (by mass).
If you've ever read "OxYgeN DisCoVeReD on mOOn!" ... It's rocks. It means they've discovered rocks.
Robert T 2 years ago (edited)
Oxygen as part of a compound is absolutely not the same thing as oxygen as an element. Rocks are predominately Oxides. It is water that is the interesting substance to find on other planets, as it is needed to sustain life (as we know it).
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
But water is partially made from Oxygen so I can breath underwater?
eric riggs 2 years ago
confidently incorrect :P While being TECHNICALLY correct. Oxides vs molecular oxygen. The difference is important, and not at all "scientists mistaking rocks as an important discovery".
Phil Vaive 2 years ago
God, posts like this annoy the hell out of me. There is a HUGE difference between oxygen we breathe (O2) and a silicate mineral (SiO4), both of which contain molecules of oxygen. Don't deliberately misrepresent facets.
michael Chock 2 years ago (edited)
Oxygen is a binder element, that's why our bodys need it, that's why oxygen bleach cleans things, that's why fires need it.
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
On a somewhat related note, humid air (with more H2O) is lighter than dry air
#29
The world runs on MS Excel
Erik Biesemeier 2 years ago
Actually it mostly runs on old COBOL code written in the 70's and 80's.
#30
Urban heat kills way more people in Australia than bushfires. In the 2009 Black Saturday bishfires in Victoria, 173 people died in the fires, but over 300 died of the heat prior to that.
Also, most of those deaths occur at night, not during th day.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago (edited)
Now this is something I didn't know! I wonder what the stats are on deaths from the smoke that was in the air all of the Black Summer too?
Greenmantle 2 years ago
My cousin lived about 25km south of the most southern firefront and the grapes on her grapevines became sultanas on the vine within hours
Twinbowser 2 years ago
Because night is when the majority of people sleep, and you’re less able to respond to threats to your health when you’re asleep. If you’re awake you’re more likely to notice symptoms of heat related illnesses or problems and you can then try and deal with them, whereas if you’re asleep, you reach dangerous levels of internal heat without being aware of it. Some people, especially babies and elderly people, don’t have good temperature regulation (such as being able to sweat enough to cool down), so their bodies don’t do well in the heat and they can die in their sleep.
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ROSESARERED 2 years ago
I worked in a shopping centre 40mins away from some of those fires, we had to evaluate because of the smoke. The horror stories we heard from people who survived...no words are enough...so sad. It was so hot outside, it was hard to breathe, no birds were singing, it was a very strange day, and heartbreaking for many days after.
#31
Powerful explosives are so insensitive to shock that it usually takes a smaller, more sensitive explosive to set them off.
Robert T 2 years ago
Unless they are in an unstable state. For example dynamite sweats when it is unstable and the slightest knock can set it off.
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
This also describes my hormonal state.
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Horosho Bodka 2 years ago
It's called a "firing train". A very teeny, tiny amount of very high explosives sets off a medium sized amount of medium explosives, which then sets off the large amount of the main charge. Explosives are actually measured by how fast they burn, a measurement called "brisance". Very high explosives burn at a rate of kilometers per second.
Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
Who fancies playing catch with a vial of nitroglycerin?
Zaach 2 years ago
I used to work with blasting powder when I was working on a seismograph crew and would scoop just a little bit out of each 25lb tube - shooting it with a .22 did not set it off but it did burn pretty hot. Playing catch with it with some buddies freaked them out (needed blasting caps to set it off so it was safe) - good times.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
This is especially true for the Staged Radiation Implosion used in the Teller-Ulam Devise (a.k.a. "Hydrogen Bomb")
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
A Molotov cocktail igniting sounds like a gas heater being turned on. The breaking glass from the container or window it's thrown through make more noise.
#32
There is no "fractured" vs "broken" there are only different types of fractures. It's really a semantic problem but patients get heated about it.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
It was only on BP that I found out people didn't know this. Maybe because my mum was a nurse, but I have know this from quite young, and I haven't ever broken a bone.
Fire Singer 2 years ago
I never knew there was a difference, but why would people get heated about it? If my doc said it was fractured or broken I'd say, ok how do we fix it?
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Fracture vs broken is semantic, but that's why we use *adjectives*: Simple, compound, complex, etc. Then we're asked, "So is it broken?" ... Yes. Argh.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Maybe this is the reason for the confusion. A "broken" bone sounds like it separated into two pieces. A "fractured" bone sounds like there were more pieces.
Jane Cortez 2 years ago
Agreed! When I was told that as a result of a serious accident that I had fractured about a dozen bones- between my back and ribs primarily), I shrugged. It wasn’t until the ER doctor explained that a fracture meant broken. While healing it was very difficult to remain a patient patient!
Mike D 2 years ago
Was thinking some may be confused by greenstick fractures which are incomplete fractures (they do not go completely across a bone) mostly found in children whose bones can bend and fracture on one side like bending a green stick, hence the names. Still fractured and broken though.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
People get heated because they want don't want to leave r/Neverbrokeabone
#33
Credit and debit are different. I could not believe how many people did not understand this.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
One will see you later and one will see you in a while
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Catherine Maven 2 years ago
It's pretty simple: with Credit, you are borrowing the money you're spending. With Debit, the money is coming straight out of your account. (We have Visa Debit in Canada, which Does confuse the issue - but actually, it's like having a chequing account, with Visa as the bank ...)
Let’s Be Kind 2 years ago
This isn’t the case for double-entry bookkeeping, which is what businesses use. Debits are on the left, credits on the right. A debit in accounting increases your cash, whereas a credit decreases cash. How’s that for confusing?
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Sand Ers 2 years ago
Now look up those terms in a textbook about double entry accounting, and your head will explode. (Well, mine did anyway. It was one of the earliest indications I had of the cross-wiring in my brain that can't handle certain types of abstract orientation. I have to hold maps with the direction I traveling being "up", or I simply cannot figure out which direction to go.)
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I can't believe people don't know that either. Do they not listen when setting up accounts?
Upstaged75 2 years ago
I have a credit card that takes money directly from my bank account. It's not a debit card though - according to my bank. Just in case you wanted to be more confused. ;)
Gary Geracci 2 years ago
Debit means you gotta have it in there, credit means it ain't there but you have a good record of payback!
#34
Styrofoam is a brand name, it is polystyrene foam.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Apart from Kleenex, which my grandparents used to say, we don't use those names in Australia. We call them cotton buds and jelly. We do call all wound dressings bandaids though. My grandparents also used to call all sticky tape Scotch tape.
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ROSESARERED 2 years ago
Doona, durex, walkman, chapstix...lots of brands become the common term for all alike products
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I knew this, because for some reason as a kid, my brother pretended he was afraid of polystyrene. Even a mention of the word would have him running around in 'terror'. He really hammed it up! It wasn't until later that I even knew the name Styrofoam.
#35
Your mailman knows a lot about you. More than you think.
bElLa sTairZz 2 years ago
i dont think they care (credibility is that both parents have worked for australia post for many years)
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Too overworked to care. The mailman would have known a lot about you 40 years ago when the delivery was on foot. But not now that they have to deliver to ten times as many addresses on motorbike.
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Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago (edited)
What mailman? In the UK I'm lucky if my post turns up twice a week. I've even tested it, sent myself a letter a day for 4 weeks, one week of the 4 I got 3 deliveries, 2 I got 2 and 1 I got 1. It's not like I'm even remote, I live in London.
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
As a person who never receives mail, I see this as an absolute win!
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My mailman has now seen me in two different pairs of pyjamas, which is more than most people :)
Bored Birgit 2 years ago
I explained red-faced to my mailman why I was in pyjamas- he hadn't even noticed!
Load More Replies... Laura Williams 2 years ago
Most anyone can find out more than you're comfortable with. You just have to be willing to pay for it. Lol
StrangeOne 2 years ago
My mailman now knows I'm "overdue for a pap smear" thanks to the clinic sending out open postcard reminders..
#36
A hysterectomy is removal of the uterus only, *not* the ovaries.
Robert T 2 years ago
Removal of the ovaries is called an Ovariotomy or Oophorectomy. A subtotal hysterectomy leaves the cervix in place.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
And in Les Dawson mode*whispering* "had it all took away"
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Allison Lee 2 years ago
I had a salpingoooferectomy, ovaries and fallopian tubes removed. It's a great word
Janet Sparrow 2 years ago
Because they want to make sure you have the hormones do you won't go through menopause.
JK 2 years ago
Having ovaries means you still have to go through the menopause (source: my mum and grandmother both had hysterectomies, my frandmother kept her ovaries, my mother did not - mother had mild menopausal symptoms for ~5 years, grandmother had moderate-severe for ~20 years). Ovaries are what control your hormones, uterus is mostly there for making babies and pain.
Load More Replies... Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
And hysterical originally meant they thought the womb was behaving moving around. IIRC.
Carla Phillips 2 years ago
I had an aunt who had everything removed except one ovary. It was explained to me they did that to help regulate her hormones. She developed ovarian cancer and died from it.
Sam Gernicky 2 years ago
I just had a complete or full hysterectomy and they took the uterus, ovaries, and cervix.
Directionless 2 years ago
Sounds like removing the chicken before the egg... Sorry for being blunt about it
Jodi Rinker 2 years ago
generally speaking "total" includes uterus and cervix while "radical" usually includes the ovaries.
PurpleUnicorn🇮🇪 2 years ago
TAH&BSO - total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingoophrectomy - removal of uterus along with both ovaries and fallopian tubes
Aiden Brough 2 years ago
And male = doesn't have these / Female = does - Sorry, basical biology whichever way those in dresses want to preach about this...
SadieCat17 2 years ago
Thank you for the very relevant comment that adds so much to this post, I'm so grateful /s
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Lab grown diamonds cost $2 per ct. Of electricity to grow. The "value" price has absolutely plummeted on them the last 2 years. Most especially the last 8 months. Don't overpay on them as they all perform. 1 cts currently 6-800. So for the first time in the history of the jewelry world you can officially buy moissanites from "high end" brands that are more expensive than their lab grown diamonds of same quality. 😆
The amount of people robbed of value the last 2 years is in the millions and dollar amount unfathomable. Had a guy as recent as March spend $24,000 on a 3 ct. Lab grown online when I was finding them for $5500 at the time. Places are rushing to make money back from buying in bulk. There will be a documentary about this some day.
Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
I agree! They are so basic. Of all the rocks, these have to be up there as the most boring.
Load More Replies... Catherine Maven 2 years ago
I have never, and WILL never, understand the value of diamonds. Fire opals are MUCH prettier!!
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
the De Beers silent scam : https://www.feedough.com/diamond-marketing-de-beers/
Christof Irran 2 years ago
The same is true for "chocolate diamonds." It used to be that diamonds with even only a hint of brown were completely worthless for anything but drill-heads for oil rigs. Even only suggesting that a diamond has a brown tint without any evidence supporting that claim would completely devalue it. Nowadays the monopolies are trying to fool consumers by calling these otherwise worthless stones by the romantic name "Chocolate Diamonds."
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
I have a moissanite ring containing three stones. It's beautiful and sparkly and I bought it specifically because it was made in a lab. And moissanite is almost as hard as diamonds!
#38
It takes a small army a week to shoot a 30-second commercial.
freakingbee (any pronouns) 2 years ago
yeah. my dad was in a commercial for his job and it took days even though it was a really short commercial.
#39
Pain is effectively a psychological phenomenon and a terrible indicator of physical injury.
Far too many people think the human body is a simple cause and effect model (it hurts therefore something where the pain is located must be 'wrong'). Instead it is much more like a set of wildly complex, interdependent systems like climate or stock markets. A lot of medical diagnosis is educated guessing with an overreliance on singular labels for the benefit of explaining the situation to the patient.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 years ago (edited)
All pain is processed in the brain, that’s why they knock you out during surgery. Pain is always real, no matter the cause. Pain is definitely not as simple as damage to flesh and bone or nerves = pain. Think of phantom limb pain and the case documented in the BMJ with a scaffolder in agony with a nail through his foot. When doctors removed his boot it had gone between his toes and not injured him. We’re now recognising a different pain mechanism, nociplastic pain that causes chronic primary pain. It doesn’t respond well to medication but does to learning strategies such as pacing and mindfulness. There’s no reason not to explain this well to patients and wider society.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Speaking as an MD with chronic pain, I can safely add that sometimes, we feel pain because *it still hurts* due to never being properly treated to begin with. That's not psychology. THat's scar tissue interfering with physiological and anatomical processes. All the CBT in the world can't stop my pain. It helps me live around it, that's all.
Load More Replies... geezeronthehill 2 years ago
Older I get, the more everything hurts. You have to learn to distinguish between different pains. Wait is this a new one? Is it going away or getting worse? New adventures every day.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
The whole system can become dysfunctional as well. That's what fibromyalgia is, a dysfunction in the brain's ability to correctly analyze sensory stimuli. It results is both hyperalgesia (feeling increased pain to even a mildly painful stimulus) and allodynia (feeling pain from an unpainful stimulus). For me, sudden loud noises and bright lights can be painful when neither should be. And a light tap on the shoulder can feel like being punched.
Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago
Pain is a great indicator of injury, but doctors are often not smart enough to figure out the true cause. They then blame patients for "googling" or "making it up" to cover up their lack of knowledge.
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
the problem is making the difference between " i realy do hurt therefore something and don't remember" and " this little pain hide something bigger".
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Hence why my autoimmune condition involves my brain registering things as pain and sending that signal to pressure points, when it often should just be pressure, kinetic energy, weather etc.
#40
Genetics: there's a bunch of stuff we don't report back because they're considered incidental findings. This can include genetic diseases with no treatment/mitigation. Or non-paternity. If your kid is sick with a genetic disease and you go get genetic testing done for mom, dad and little timmy, we do not automatically report back if dad is no relation or is actually an uncle. At the same time in most places you have the right to request your data.
Loren Pechtel 2 years ago
This makes no sense--just because there's nothing that can be done about a genetic disease **today** doesn't mean there won't be something **tomorrow**.
Tim 2 years ago
Or if there's no treatment, that there aren't steps that can be taken to lessen the impact.
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BPisaddictive 2 years ago
IMHO if a child with a genetic disease has a different father, the "cheating" mom should be told and should do everything she can to let the real father know that he could be the bearer of a defective gene, and check himself and his other children (or even avoid to have any if he is still in time). With all due discretion, but he needs to know (of course if mom knows who the real father is)
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
If you request the information, or the test is specific for paternity, then it's not relevant to whether or not the child or whoever has a certain disease, carries it, and so forth.
#41
The sensors in digital cameras (including phones) are monochromatic (they don’t “see” color) and have a tiny color filter on each sensor element so it can detect one of three colors (red, green, blue). Then the image is created by calculating what the other two colors might be based on one color value and the values of the nearest sensors around it. tldr; 2/3 of the color in a digital photo is calculated from the 1/3 that is actual data.
Dennis Rowe 2 years ago
I've never understood why green instead of yellow. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. All other colors (I'm not including black/white) are combinations of these. Yellow + blue = green.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
As you should have learned in school - it's yellow when it's paint, green when it's light. Black is absence of colour, white is all colours. In terms of light, Green+Blue=Yellow. It's because light is emission of frequencies, coloured paint is reflection of filtered light.
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Dane Smith 2 years ago
old school color film had at least 3 layers corresponding to different colors to make a color image.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Is this what changes when you adjust the white balance, the colour that is being detected?
Directionless 2 years ago
Strange but sounds right, sadly Sounds like a good way to approach that kinda problem
#42
A lot of people think that commercial aircraft “fly themselves.” In truth, all takeoffs are flown manually by the pilots as are the vast majority of landings. The autopilot is advanced in a lot of aircraft, but it also screws up often and without warning.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
I've watched enough movies to know that pilots perform manual takeoffs, but landings are all done by some random passenger after the pilot is incapacitated
Sand Ers 2 years ago
It's shown under various titles, but Mayday: Air Disasters is hugely instructive about the nuts and bolts of flying, and how and why things go wrong. And it has serious production standards and real expertise in the writing and narration. For one I watched recently, the primary narrator had been the chief investigator for the crash being explained.
Barbara Skolly 2 years ago
My dad is a semi retired aircraft mechanic who is often very critical of how media reports incidents.... and he says Mayday is very well done. Its not biased, it accurately reports and reenacts the investigations. I have a moratorium on Mayday anytime I have a flight booked.
Load More Replies... Laura Williams 2 years ago
Yep I think autopilot is just for movies the co pilot is actually flying the plane.
#43
When I worked as a barista: how much f*****g syrup is in flavored drinks. At the cafe I worked at, we measured flavoring by grams. If you got a large mocha, that m**********r would have like 110
grams of chocolate sauce in it.
If you want a little bit of flavor, I suggest only 1 pump. 2 max.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
I used to ask for 5 pumps in my latte at starbucks because I'm an American like that, except one time I used the wrong word and asked for 5 shots and that was a TOTALLY different experience.
Keira Pendragon 2 years ago (edited)
I miss midnight mint so bad ToT Edit: I know, it wasn't a syrup. Just thinking about Starbucks flavor profiles is all...
#44
Programming/Hacking. Many companies pride themselves on being extremely secure and "un-hackable" to an extent- they also advertise that if you use their service your assets are super secure and nothing will/could ever happen. In reality everything can be exploited. Nothing is completely safe and nothing probably will ever be completely safe. Another one which I really wish more people knew is that- anyone who encounters a person that calls themselves a "hacker" all of a sudden becomes scared of their capabilities. "I better not p**s this person off otherwise they'll ruin my life" in reality only a small portion of hackers actually have the knowledge to do something that would influence your life in a very bad way. Most people who call themselves hackers barely know anything and can only pull off a few tricks others find very intimidating. The biggest tool these types of people have are scare tactics- using simple tricks that others find very intimidating can get them very far. Dont get my wrong though- you do get hackers who can influence your life in a very big negative way but its very rare and most of the people who have this knowledge dont care enough to put in the effort to hack you unless you're someone very important.
Tim Fawcett 2 years ago
"hacker" is like "alpha male" - any one boasting about being one in public isn't
Red_panda 2 years ago
Right! A true "hacker" doesn't want people to know what they are!
Load More Replies... Laura Williams 2 years ago
Take a look at your life unless you can influence the world in a big way or you p**s off someone a hell of a lot you are not worth the trouble.
marcelo D. 2 years ago
social engineering is a basic tool used by hackers (both regular and ethical hackers), so their "scare tactics" as called here, are technically using one of the tools of a hacker array, even if they don't have advanced tools
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Anyone in Australia who had their details made public by the Medibank, Optus and other hackers recently knows how true this is!
#45
Laywers can fix almost any mistake / f**kup / blown deadline in State Court and almost never in Federal Court.
scag$y 2 years ago
The moral of this tale is, regardless of which court you're appearing in, try to get a lawyer that doesn't make any mistakes/fuckups/blown deadlines. I'm not an expert but you can probably trust me on this.
AndyR 2 years ago
If you meet one who tells you they've never screwed up or missed a deadline, they're lying. The trick is knowing what to do on the rare occasions it happens.
Load More Replies... Janet Sparrow 2 years ago
Omg so different! Whenever I appeared in federal court I felt like the judge took a HUGE BITE out of my a*s. Lol
#46
A traffic light changing colors at an intersection involves lots of math. The amount of time it stays as a yellow light followed by it turning red at which point all directions will be red for a period of 1-3 seconds is all done by specific calculations. Everything is taken into consideration for it when all the lights are red for that brief second - how many meters/feet is the intersection, what is the speed limit vs the actual travelling speed, average amount of cars that pass that spot in an hour, following distance, the grade of the road if it's on a 1% incline it'll be different timing than of it were on a 2% incline.
Robert T 2 years ago
The traffic light does no such thing. The traffic light sits at a fixed point and so all of those variables are also fixed (unless the speed limit gets changed). You mean that someone has used a formula to calculate how long the amber phase of the lights should be based on those variables and programmed it into the traffic light.
Ian Shaw 2 years ago
Unless, of course, it's a smart light with cameras to best determine traffic flow. Those do exist, and are what the OP is discussing, I believe.
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Nicola Mawson 2 years ago
Some of our lights, South Africa, change so fast you could be doing double limit as you cross the line at the moment it turns amber and still not make it to the other side before it's red
Catherine Maven 2 years ago
Unless it's a light triggered by a plate (we have a lot of these in my city in Canada). Then there's a separate set of equations, based on - I believe - how many cars go over it while it's green. The more cars, the slower it will be to respond to the "request" from the plate to change the color of the light.
Keveros 2 years ago
OMG, So much misinformation..! Static timed Traffic lights went out of use years ago except for small municipalities that refuse to move into the 20th century. All other lights use computers to calculate timing from Loops (Wires in the road), Magnetometers (Probes buried beneath the surface of the road), Cameras that identify vehicles) and other technologies that failed or are in production... Measuring Distance, speed, length... Amber and all Red sequences are Static timed as per federal regulations... Yellow Phases are between 3 to 4 seconds and the following all red is .5 to 2 seconds... Everything else is variable as per computer calculations based on traffic density, speed zones, and distance from the last traffic signal and the next traffic signal... As well as overall network plans for time of day and other environmental conditions...
Victor Botha 2 years ago
In my country SA, traffic lights are basically useless. We have so many hours of power outages, that most intersections are treated as 4 way stops. One major metro is not even replacing or repairing traffic lights anymore because of the cost of accident damage and vandalism
Laura Williams 2 years ago
That is why they need regular maintenance that 3 seconds is enough to cause an accident.
Lori Sandoval 2 years ago
I've heard this but can't confirm. In areas of low traffic, the lights stay red unless a magnetic(?) sensor near the crosswalk indicates a car is waiting.
Robert T 2 years ago
There are a series of loops of wire embedded in the road surface leading up to the lights, allowing them to sense the presence of waiting cars and how long the queue is. The length of the red and green phases are then adjusted automatically. But that is not what this is talking about - it is specifically the time that the amber light is on - which is the safety gap needed for cars to stop in one direction and clear the junction before allowing traffic to move in another.
Load More Replies... #47
The opposite sides of a die should always add up to seven. On a craps table, you'll see the "stick" dealer bring the dice to the middle of the table and separate them corner to corner. This is so the person sitting down (box supervisor) can verify with the mirror opposite of them that the opposite sides total seven. 2/5 1/6 3/4 Source: 14+ years of dealing table games. Edit: Apologies. I should've included "sides of a six-sided die".
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I knew that part, but didn't know anything about a craps table and checking for trick dice.
Load More Replies... PurpleUnicorn🇮🇪 2 years ago
Whatever the shape of the die, opposite sites always add up to the total of the number of faces plus 1 - so D20s add up to 21, D4s add up to 5 and so on
Keira Pendragon 2 years ago
To the edit, there are lots of dice that aren't 6 sided, you're good, yo.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
And there are six-sided dies that don't use the numbers from 1 to 6, And even if they do the faces have to be numbered in a certain configuration for opposite sides to always add unp to 7.
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Ash 2 years ago
There are a lot more services and information offered to people on your city and county websites than you realize. Also at your local public library. If you are having financial difficulties, there may be local government programs to help you, and if you can't figure out how to apply for them, ask at the library! They often have somebody who knows how to apply for all of it.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
Retail work: If you ask a retail worker if something is in the back of the shop s/he will probably know that they are out, but will walk to storage anyways to indicate interest in the customer's request and wait there for like 10 seconds before returning. - just because it's in your mailbox doesn't mean that the discounted stuff advertised is an legal offer to you, as offers have to be adressed to a SPECIFIC person on the same document in context to the product. - If you find a product that's close to it's "Best before" date it's OK to ask for a discount, selling a product for a lower price is still better than having it being a total loss (just be nice to the employee)
rapid unscheduled disassembly 2 years ago (edited)
I've had employees volunteer to look in the back for me without me even asking them to. I figure they just want a break, lol. Doesn't bother me!
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Doodles1983 2 years ago
Brand vs Generic Meds. The active pharmaceutical ingredient(s) are chemically IDENTICAL. It is the excipients (other ingredients that make the medication up to a swallowable volume) that may vary. If you need to save money, but have issues with generics, look up the generic versions available (or ask your pharmacist to do so) and compare excipients because it will be that giving you issues.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Absorption can vary up to 15% between brand and generics. That's enough to kill in some meds. So, please, if th ebrand name is whatyou need, don't be shy about asking it.
Load More Replies... Ash 2 years ago
There are a lot more services and information offered to people on your city and county websites than you realize. Also at your local public library. If you are having financial difficulties, there may be local government programs to help you, and if you can't figure out how to apply for them, ask at the library! They often have somebody who knows how to apply for all of it.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
Retail work: If you ask a retail worker if something is in the back of the shop s/he will probably know that they are out, but will walk to storage anyways to indicate interest in the customer's request and wait there for like 10 seconds before returning. - just because it's in your mailbox doesn't mean that the discounted stuff advertised is an legal offer to you, as offers have to be adressed to a SPECIFIC person on the same document in context to the product. - If you find a product that's close to it's "Best before" date it's OK to ask for a discount, selling a product for a lower price is still better than having it being a total loss (just be nice to the employee)
rapid unscheduled disassembly 2 years ago (edited)
I've had employees volunteer to look in the back for me without me even asking them to. I figure they just want a break, lol. Doesn't bother me!
Load More Replies... Doodles1983 2 years ago
Brand vs Generic Meds. The active pharmaceutical ingredient(s) are chemically IDENTICAL. It is the excipients (other ingredients that make the medication up to a swallowable volume) that may vary. If you need to save money, but have issues with generics, look up the generic versions available (or ask your pharmacist to do so) and compare excipients because it will be that giving you issues.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Absorption can vary up to 15% between brand and generics. That's enough to kill in some meds. So, please, if th ebrand name is whatyou need, don't be shy about asking it.
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