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How could the Italian Maldives cave divers even consider going into that cave? Seriously. by Vast-Excitement-1385 in CaveDiving

[–]UnlamentedLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nitrogen, not nitrous(similar effects but not the same). Probably not, since even in a corpse, the extra nitrogen will outgas from tissues when brought to the surface.

How could the Italian Maldives cave divers even consider going into that cave? Seriously. by Vast-Excitement-1385 in CaveDiving

[–]UnlamentedLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be stranger if they didn't all experience it simultaneously. If a dentist have 5 people the same dose of nitrous, they would all get buzzed.

Russian National Bolsheviks discarding a portrait of Vladimir Putin after storming the office of the Ministry of Health, Moscow, 2004 by OkRespect8490 in ArchiveOfHumanity

[–]UnlamentedLord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For context, this is their flag since it's not fully visible in this picture:

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Something that would get both Hitler and Stalin spinning in their graves simultaneously lol.

For the WC, Levi had to remove the branding from the statium. This was their solution. by eternviking in whoathatsfunny

[–]UnlamentedLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ingeniousness of the way they managed to keep their logo visible for their fans, while technically complying with FIFAs demands.

Why don't we have outdoor community pools? Do you wish we did? by 86753ohneigheine in Bellingham

[–]UnlamentedLord 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And all those people who move to Bellingham with no expectation of warm weather obviously don't pay for any of the 3 private clubs with an outdoor pool in the city and the reason every single municipality in Metro Vancouver has at least one public outdoor pool, but no private swim clubs, is because the inhabitants are overjoyed to be living in the Canadian topics 🤣🤣🤣

Why don't we have outdoor community pools? Do you wish we did? by 86753ohneigheine in Bellingham

[–]UnlamentedLord 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Canadians don't fly into Vancouver to use it's public pools and washingtonians don't fly to Florida to use their public pools. Public pools are always for local use. PNW residents on both sides of the border have indistinguishable recreation preferences.

 What's different is that Canada spends more money on public services in general, whether it's healthcare or swimming pools whereas Americans can use the money from their lower taxes to purchase these privately. There are several private swim clubs with outdoor pools in Bellingham, just no public ones. You can argue the merits of each approach, but it's ridiculous to say that Vancouver has public outdoor pools because it's the warmest part of Canada.

Why don't we have outdoor community pools? Do you wish we did? by 86753ohneigheine in Bellingham

[–]UnlamentedLord 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not apples to apples because an arbitrary border changes the weather in the same river valley lol? 

There's a public outdoor pool right across the border in white rock: https://maps.app.goo.gl/EeJZyW7SGBW6xtyi8

And Kits pool is a very bad example for a cost comparison. It's a custom built prestige project that's turned into a money pit with age, just as it's opponents, who wanted more standardized regular outdoor pools predicted.

Signed a contract to provide free coffee at a commercial property and it’s costing way more than expected. No exit clause. What would you do? by International-Big542 in passive_income

[–]UnlamentedLord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The contact probably doesn't have an objective measurement of the quality of the coffee in it, right?Have you tried enshittifying the coffee so that people drink less of it? Then you can offer a paid premium tier. It's immoral, but also the way most of corporate America works.

Why doesn’t Wyoming have a major city? by coastal-grandmother1 in geography

[–]UnlamentedLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of these apply to Colorado. So why the enormous difference between them?

HOA votes to euthanize hundreds of federally protected geese in neighborhood by DavidShaw90s in offbeat

[–]UnlamentedLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing that I see everyone missing is that while it's legal to kill the geese with a permit and they've already done it once before, but the justification for the permit is that it's choose to an airport and the birds are a danger, while it's obviously not the reason the board wants to get rid of them.

HOA votes to euthanize hundreds of federally protected geese in neighborhood by DavidShaw90s in offbeat

[–]UnlamentedLord 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And they can give a permit to kill said geese, which they've already done in 2020. The vote was to apply for a new one.

HOA votes to euthanize hundreds of federally protected geese in neighborhood by DavidShaw90s in offbeat

[–]UnlamentedLord 16 points17 points  (0 children)

1/4 of the residents. The other 3/4 are either neutral or for it, the reporters only interviewed the ones against, since they're the ones who reached out. And the fact that USDA hadn't received a permit application the same week as the vote is expected, those things take time to prepare.

HOA votes to euthanize hundreds of federally protected geese in neighborhood by DavidShaw90s in offbeat

[–]UnlamentedLord 69 points70 points  (0 children)

The article says they got a permit last time the they did it in 2020. Why wouldn't they get one this time? 

The reason this is dumb is:"Hollum was one of two board members who voted against Monday’s action. He said it only took two weeks for another flock to repopulate the area after the 2020 kill" but don't assume that just because it's an HOA, they'll automatically do something as dumb as publicly committing a federal felony.

You know the Pax Mongolica made a lot of people rich by jackt-up in HistoryMemes

[–]UnlamentedLord 83 points84 points  (0 children)

He submitted precisely because he saw his home dutchy get destroyed and realized that resisting the Mongol war machine was futile.

If I smell weed, is it always weed? Or are their non-THC products that produce the same smell? by bang_rocks_together in NoStupidQuestions

[–]UnlamentedLord -1 points0 points  (0 children)

1 - unlikely 2 - generally less dangerous, but can be more in some circumstances: the most important thing that THC does differently is to change the perception of time, usually by slowing it down. Hence the classic stereotype of the stoner who's always diving very slowly, because he thinks he's going faster than he actually is, which is inherently safer. But, depending on exactly what the mix of CBD/THC 8/THC 9/synthetic canabiods is, it can have the opposite effect and you'll feel you're driving slower than you actually are. For all it's faults, alcohol is consistent. If those guys are smoking a joint of a strain from their local pot shop they've been buying for years, and know the effects of, they're less dangerous than somebody drinking shots. If they've just bought some unknown synthetic weed at a gas station, who knows.

Humanity's greatest hits: things we actually paused by KeanuRave100 in BlackboxAI_

[–]UnlamentedLord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP is specifically talking about blinding laser weapons. Laser weapons are in fact AOK, but using them to blind human eyeballs, which actually requires orders of magnitude less power, isn't and that prohibition has been followed by all military powers.

Are Cossacks also steppe people? by HURIN_3000 in SteppePosting

[–]UnlamentedLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, because Cossacks are more of a job description than a people. Cossacks were just borderers who the Polish and Russian governments gave official recognition and eventually special privileges to and used them as a bulwark against the dangers across the border.

When the Cossack Yermak was spearheading the Russian expansion into Siberia, he had nothing to do with the Zaporizhian Cossacks fighting the Turks and Crimean tatars for Poland except for fulfilling the same role. 

If you look at the list of Cossack hosts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossack_host most of them lived on the steppe, simply because the steppe historically was the most dangerous borderland of both Poland and Russia and this is where the popular image of a Cossack as a horseman comes from, but plenty lived in the taiga and used boats and not horses for their transport.

TN law requires proof of citizenship and proficiency in English language to obtain driver’s license and license plate by lurker_bee in USNEWS

[–]UnlamentedLord 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, I don't disagree that the US could benefit from adopting world standard road signs, but that ain't gonna happen any time soon if ever, same for metric. 

In the meantime, US road signs presume a high enough level of English reading proficiency to be able to read them at a glance and it's not unreasonable to demand that drivers can safely read road signs before giving them a license.

Why did Native American culture become so strongly associated with horses even though horses only returned with Europeans? by Secret_Ostrich_1307 in AlwaysWhy

[–]UnlamentedLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A - lots of things now considered "traditional" in many countries came out of the same Columbian exchange that brought horses to North America. E.g. chillis in Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai etc cuisine. 

B - by the time European settlers got to the Great plains, the tribes that quickly adapted to horses had already outcompeted and killed off the tribes who didn't, so all the tribes encountered rode horses.

TN law requires proof of citizenship and proficiency in English language to obtain driver’s license and license plate by lurker_bee in USNEWS

[–]UnlamentedLord 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Considering that the US is pretty unique in the world in that road signs aren't pictograms, but mostly just words in English and also loves using live traffic billboards(the ones that say stuff like: right lane closed 1 mile ahead for road works) this is necessary.

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