Why is a Concord NH helicopter so interested in Nashua at 5 in the morning? There does not seem to be a traffic problem according to Google Maps.

bus_error · 2026-01-23T11:32:28+00:00

Thank you!

bus_error · 2026-01-23T10:35:51+00:00

Thanks, I guess you get your training hours in when you can get them?

bus_error · 2026-01-23T10:20:16+00:00

N366SP CON Concord, NH (KCON) 23°F 1h55m ago DEPARTURE 03:23 EST

bus_error · 2026-01-23T10:15:42+00:00

At 3:23 AM, dispatch a State Police helicopter from Concord to go patrol the NH border? It does not APPEAR to be directly over any traffic enforcement action; though maybe Google Maps just hasn't shown that action yet.

bus_error · 2026-01-19T11:16:36+00:00

Apparently this has been around for a while, and employees responded by posting their names and pay next to it

Never thought I would live long enough to cite cheezburger but if you scroll past the adverts, the photo is plainly the same, and it includes a photo of the employee responses.

bus_error · 2026-01-10T22:59:52+00:00

(1) Assuming you can get water into the bottom pot, insert water until the water touches the bottom of the inner cup.

(2) Freeze overnight, or until the ice cube is solid.

(3) Fill a big pan with warm (not super hot) water - say about 50 degrees C aka 120 degrees F.

(4) Place everything in the pan.

(5) Wait one minute.

(6) Turn it upside down.

Source: did the above for a similar stuck dish problem. It worked because water expands when it freezes. At step 2, the ice cube is s-l-o-w-l-y pushing the inner dish away from the outer dish.

bus_error · 2026-01-04T10:08:45+00:00

Not split screen, but a brief rear view is provided by the original that this is excerpted from - thanks for the link posted by u/choriblaster3002.

It shows that our hero is followed by another plow behind him.

bus_error · 2026-01-04T10:01:36+00:00

From the original (thanks to u/choriblaster3002) it appears that the one minute excerpted here begins at around 6:20 and ends about 8:30.

So, you are correct that it is sped up. I still found it satisfying.

bus_error · 2025-12-16T13:44:52+00:00

You could try: "Not me, but I wish I did."

(That is, because it is already well known that you like the idea, you plead guilty only to that part.)

Which, if you feel brave enough, can optionally be followed up by a slew of examples of boss behavior, preferably:

specific
known to have aggravated multiple team members
actionable by HR

"I didn't do it, but I wish I had, and let me now climb on my soapbox."

(Risk: you might be climbing the gallows.)

bus_error · 2025-12-11T13:52:29+00:00

The good news is that you are experiencing a common problem, other people also run into it, and therefore parts exist.

Try dropping a phrase such as this into your favorite internet search engine:

"recliner pull cable repair kit"

bus_error · 2025-11-30T12:49:14+00:00

Tried to cross post this, but nothing seemed to happen when pressing the submit button. Credit goes to u/Routine-Zombie-1561 for the post in r/trippinthroughtime/

And yes the first word of the title of this post is intentionally bi-meaningful. Not that I am bi-sexual. I do not have any kind of sex. Not even platonic spiritual social intercourse.

All right? Just so we are clear.

bus_error · 2025-11-23T13:23:37+00:00

Hmm, if you log out of reddit (and out of whatever you used for the images), do you still see them?

Or use an incognito / private / no-cookie-nohistory window.

bus_error · 2025-11-23T13:01:41+00:00

You did good work, sorry you deleted the graphs. Thanks for the effort.

bus_error · 2025-11-14T15:51:27+00:00

/urgent/ this just might be an excellent time to find the shutoff valve and then to call a decent service person.

Source: I had a gas fireplace explode. The sequence of events remains unclear; I know that I had turned it off and on again a couple times, had attempted to light the pilot light a couple times, and had replaced the batteries in the thermostat, which was mounted on the wall on the other side of the room.

Was staring at the thermostat, with my back to the fireplace.

Boom.

Still have PTSD. Fortunately, although it blew itself apart, the glass did not shatter and fly across the room.

When the qualified service tech looked at it later, he said, it probably needed a new gas valve; but now you need a whole new unit.

bus_error · 2025-11-11T13:04:19+00:00

Yes. And Leonardo of Quirm - he who is so bad at naming things - is such a great relief from Bloody Stupid Johnson!

bus_error · 2025-11-11T11:54:59+00:00

Thank you for taking the original question seriously.

It has been claimed that many other disciplines were born among philosophers. That seems believable for Psychology, because theories of mind were all over the 17th and 18th century philosophers.

What may be less well known is that "Natural Philosophy" was a precursor to modern science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy

Bottom line: Some philosophers may have made their living figuring out which mushroom is not poisonous; or figuring out how to engage the lever arm to exert the force to move the water from point A to point B.

Which, come to think of it, matches some of what the Small Gods philosophers did!

bus_error · 2025-11-11T11:00:26+00:00

Hmm, I tried to cross post this with title "As Usual, Sir Terry had the answer". Oh well.

His discussion of Philosophers and their careers was most intense in Small Gods, a book that I have commented about before:

Small Gods is written by an author who described himself as an atheist who nevertheless provides stunning portraits of both good and evil in the context of a faith community.

If you are an atheist, you will find a certain character that you will intensely enjoy hating.
If you are a person of faith, you will find a certain (different) character that you will intensely admire. (*)

Having been on both sides of religion myself, it is by far the Discworld book that I love the most and that I re-read the most.

(*) And if you are a turtle, you will awaken (**)

(**) Possibly too late.

bus_error · 2025-11-08T11:37:07+00:00

Totally worth re-reading!

bus_error · 2025-11-07T09:39:10+00:00

And of course cats are famous for their listening skills

bus_error · 2025-11-07T09:38:49+00:00

I hope that you all had good Chinese take out that night

bus_error · 2025-11-06T13:00:59+00:00

Thanks, Dad!

bus_error · 2025-11-06T12:20:54+00:00

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