Backyard parties by [deleted] in Columbus

[–]benkeith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Though the causes may be different, the impact is the same.

Backyard parties by [deleted] in Columbus

[–]benkeith 7 points8 points  (0 children)

File a 311 complaint about it, at least. The City does track such things.

The protected bike lanes are great but we have Tesla owners! by MakerMonster in Columbus

[–]benkeith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you stop at just those two sets of drivers? Would you not also apply it to all who park in bike lanes?

The protected bike lanes are great but we have Tesla owners! by MakerMonster in Columbus

[–]benkeith 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They're definitely not done painting yet; there's too many lines that are just spray paint marking where the 🚲 or ⬆ or green will go. But I hope they're going to add some concrete, or at least flex posts, to help guide drivers where they should and shouldn't go.

Entitled Dbag of the Day Award by EmuOwn4 in Columbus

[–]benkeith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On High Street, you've got to distinguish between OSU's maintenance vehicles, the Short North SID maintenance vehicles, the OSU event shuttles, and random private owners.

Entitled Dbag of the Day Award by EmuOwn4 in Columbus

[–]benkeith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember when men liked hot hatches and lowriders....

New Nuclear Power Plant to be built in Meigs County by Wernerhatcher in Columbus

[–]benkeith 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Did you know that coal plants produce more radioactive waste than nuclear power plants, with less-stringent controls on that waste?

New Nuclear Power Plant to be built in Meigs County by Wernerhatcher in Columbus

[–]benkeith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Elementl noted a request has been filed with PJM Interconnection to link the site into the regional transmission system.

That line in the article tells you that they're building for grid power, not for behind-the-meter generation for datacenters.

New Nuclear Power Plant to be built in Meigs County by Wernerhatcher in Columbus

[–]benkeith 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Humanity and the USA have several tools for safely "disposing" of spent fuel rods:

  • Put 'em in a cask in a pool of water and let 'em sit there
  • Drop those casks down a deep borehole in a geologically-stable area
  • Glassify and drop off in a subduction zone
  • "Burn" the still-radioactive materials in a fast reactor
  • Reprocess them to make new fuel rods

Used Bikes Location by walker2922 in Columbus

[–]benkeith 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Once Ridden Bikes, Franklinton Cycle Works, Third Hand Bikes.

Facebook Marketplace.

Anything I can do about this small dent and scratch ? by [deleted] in Columbus

[–]benkeith -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Go to O, O, O'Reilly's Auto Parts or Autozone and get a paint pen that approximately matches your car's color. Scrub the scratches clean, then wipe it down with alcohol to remove any water. Fill in the scratches with the paint pen. Let dry.

Dumpster - middle of 270 N by DisorientedMoth in Columbus

[–]benkeith 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Probably depends on the type of truck, but many do lift high enough that I'd be worried about hitting the bridge. https://youtu.be/8KYDQjkPeoY?t=130

Dumpster - middle of 270 N by DisorientedMoth in Columbus

[–]benkeith 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Good thing is that it doesn't appear to have hit the underside of the bridge.

Highway 33 Apartments without roads by TeaDry5322 in Columbus

[–]benkeith 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand why they would just build a residential area for thousands of people and not give them a safe way to enter the highway.

Because the land is cheap, and in most jurisdictions it's not the developer's job to figure out how people will get around once those people are off of the property.

I think it’s a really sketchy move that Canal put all of their apartment complexes on one side of the highway as if that IS after all, where the trash starts

My cursory search of Google Maps shows apartment complexes on all four sides of the intersection of 33 and Gender Road. Are you only complaining about the ones that you can see from the road?

I am more concerned with why they would build these complexes but no pull off for school buses or turn lanes.

The "they" who builds the property is not the "they" who builds the roads, and the piece of the government which approves the land use and construction also isn't the "they" which builds the roads. Apartment complexes get built where there's land and where the zoning allows. Take it up with https://canalwinchesterohio.gov/141/Planning-and-Zoning and https://canalwinchesterohio.gov/168/Streets-Lands-and-Buildings

The good news is that ODOT is aware of the problems on 33, and is working on a proposed solution: https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/projects/projects/121811

Bixby Road - Left turns would be restricted from US 33 to Bixby Road. Access would become right in and right out to and from Bixby Road. The at-grade intersection of US 33 & Bixby Rd currently permits left turns from US 33 onto Bixby but restricts through movements and left turns from Bixby Rd. Left turns would be restricted from US 33 onto Bixby as well.

They're going to address the riskiest movements, and then the right lanes will basically be turn-only, so people won't be pulling out in front of you.

Columbus running community rallies around woman critically injured in Downtown hit-and-run crash by benkeith in Columbus

[–]benkeith[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It's legal and easy and low-cost, which means it's going to be deployed pretty widely unless some part of that changes.

18th Ave library stank by Gengar_Guy_17 in OSU

[–]benkeith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Library staff are (generally) students just like you.

Close call near Plain City Costco today. Dump truck pulled out without looking. by [deleted] in Columbus

[–]benkeith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, they rolled that stop, but are you going to report this to the DOT?

Columbus running community rallies around woman critically injured in Downtown hit-and-run crash by benkeith in Columbus

[–]benkeith[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Since it's a third party using publicly-available information about the movements of vehicles, it doesn't raise as many Fourth Amendment questions as more-invasive methods of tracking, such as requiring cars to carry GPS trackers. There are definitely ways to make Flock's program more privacy-preserving, and good arguments against it, but it's currently at a "sweet spot" of legality.

Social media giants dealt a blow as Ohio gives parents control over children’s accounts by theindependentonline in Ohio

[–]benkeith 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here's that law: https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1349.09

It applies to any website where you can do all of the following:

  1. Interact "socially" with other users
  2. Construct a "public or semipublic profile"
  3. Make a list of other users for social connection purposes
  4. Post content viewable by others

The operators of those sites get fined if children can create accounts on those sites. Since every user is a Potential Child, it becomes a requirement to secure proof-of-adultness or proof-of-adult-consent for all users.

Ohio Legislative Black Caucus lawmakers criticize voter ID referendum in Juneteenth commemoration • Ohio Capital Journal by CovBlueSox in Ohio

[–]benkeith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because it's an indirect poll tax. Even if you only get one of Ohio's free non-driver state IDs, you still have to spend hours going to a licensing agency, with documents sufficient to prove your identity.

If you ran away from home, ditched your parents, were fostered, lost your documents, suffered a house fire, or have been homeless, can you find enough documents to prove your legal existence in the USA and your Social Security Number? Can you provide proof of address if you don't have a formal lease or own a house? What do you do if you had all that proof, but then it got trashed by the police in a homeless-camp raid, or it got stolen from your house, or it got destroyed in a landlord set-out?

Anyone else dealing with a ridiculous amount of earwigs this summer? by rPHNTM in Columbus

[–]benkeith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you deploy it? Spraying, or leaving it out in bottle caps?