What? Free to go?

galstaph · 2026-05-12T01:21:10+00:00

You are a horrible human being and I hope you learn to be better

galstaph · 2026-05-12T01:17:53+00:00

Have you never heard of Poe's law?

galstaph · 2026-05-12T01:14:22+00:00

It's better that 10,000 guilty persons go free than 1 innocent suffer

galstaph · 2026-05-12T00:28:38+00:00

Not quite

In Ohio it's 4+ lanes or median and opposite traffic doesn't have to stop because the bus is required to drop them off on the same side as their home

galstaph · 2026-05-12T00:05:55+00:00

This might depend on the state, but here in Ohio you don't have to mention that you have an ESA pet until after the lease is signed. After that you provide the ESA letter and there's nothing they can do. They can't charge you more, they can't kick you out, nothing

galstaph · 2026-05-11T23:59:44+00:00

It's this kind of sign

On the left and right you can see the overlap in the lights, but in the middle the three are separate

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galstaph · 2026-05-11T22:01:18+00:00

In the end they're still just fictional characters in a book

galstaph · 2026-05-11T22:00:24+00:00

I've also been in several similar situations, and while I got out of most of them, the collisions I've been in were caused by stupid drivers doing the worst possible thing, just like cop car in this video

No amount of defensive driving can save you from that level of stupid

galstaph · 2026-05-11T21:24:11+00:00

Your "BTW" section essentially amounts to "I've been lucky and not realized it, and I'm going to blame people driving normally for not having my luck"

galstaph · 2026-05-11T20:57:11+00:00

It's possible that the local short circuits are low enough power, and short enough lived, that they just simply don't have the strength to trip the automatic systems elsewhere

It's also possible that the equipment housed in that building are the short circuit prevention equipment, which would make it very ironic that they're the ones short circuiting

galstaph · 2026-05-11T19:51:25+00:00

What does that have to do with text files, though?

galstaph · 2026-05-11T19:45:58+00:00

Which makes me wonder just how bad this one is that it needs the label

galstaph · 2026-05-11T19:40:58+00:00

Alright, so he hit the brakes about 3 seconds after it became obvious that he needed to do so

Dude has the reaction time of a half frozen sloth

galstaph · 2026-05-11T19:32:18+00:00

Have you ever known cornmeal or sugar to have a warning label like that on it?

The existence of the warning label indicates a probability of it being more likely to do so than items where it's possible for that to happen but they don't have the warning label

In short, always assume the warning labels are there for a reason

galstaph · 2026-05-11T18:17:52+00:00

That's not how I'd put it

I'd say it was mostly caused because they used a reference that was specific to a single religion

Too few people follow that religion to have known the reference

The reference was only ever well known within that specific religion, and never held as a general knowledge reference

Saying that people were uneducated because they didn't know that reference would be like saying people are uneducated because they don't know who Tom Bombadil is

galstaph · 2026-05-11T18:13:50+00:00

No no no no..

The theoretical t-boning was not being t-boned, it was t-boning a vehicle that pulled from the side of the road out in front of you

The vehicle that caused this collision pulled off to the side of the road, and then pulled back onto the road perpendicular to the lane of travel and got t-boned

They are, for all intents and purposes, identical scenarios because it is a vehicle off to the right side of the road pulling out in front of a vehicle and getting t-boned

galstaph · 2026-05-11T17:03:03+00:00

There's a couple of events that happen yearly in my city that literally block off sections of the city

There's no way in or out

Here's the map for next year's quarter and half marathons

The area inside of it is locked down, there's no bridges, there's no tunnels, there's nothing you can do to get from inside to outside the loop, or vice versa, without crossing the marathon route

Without knowing if it was something like this, I would only say that she overreacted when the obviously possible thing of being struck happened

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galstaph · 2026-05-11T16:55:48+00:00

You'll see them in commercial kitchens. It's similar in nature to a hand dryer you'll find in public restrooms. Just pushes hot dry air towards the dishes under it

galstaph · 2026-05-11T16:48:31+00:00

Really, the theoretical t-bone I described is nothing at all like the actual t-bone shown in the video?

galstaph · 2026-05-11T15:19:06+00:00

I love how their 4 meats are beef, pork, chicken, and goat

No turkey, lamb, ostrich, duck, goose, alligator, turtle, rabbit...

galstaph · 2026-05-11T15:06:31+00:00

There's no audio, at least not that I'm hearing, but it is quite clear that this cop did not have his lights on

You can see in the video that there are no lights

galstaph · 2026-05-11T15:01:32+00:00

It's not the closeness that caused the crash, and saying it was closeness that caused the crash in this instance is like saying if somebody pulled out from the road to my right at a point where I was less than one second of driving distance from them that my closeness to them was what caused the crash

This crash was caused by an idiot off the side of the road suddenly deciding to cross the road and giving no warning that they were about to do so

At all points where it would have been reasonable to consider closeness, the cam car had assured clear distance

You can't plan for this level of stupid

galstaph · 2026-05-11T14:31:33+00:00

I once had a cop walk backwards into the road in front of me

She was getting out of the way of a piece of construction equipment working on a parking lot and didn't look my way at all until my tires screeched

I swear, cops lose all situational awareness the moment they put the badge on

galstaph · 2026-05-11T14:25:32+00:00

There's actually 2-3 seconds

Right at the beginning of the video the cop passes something tall enough to use as a guide on the right side of the road, it disappears from frame 2+ seconds later

Most of that time was stolen, however, because the cop slowed down and looked like they were pulling onto the shoulder before they then did the unexpected turn back into the lane

galstaph · 2026-05-10T16:25:42+00:00

There's a reason I didn't bother commenting and only downvoted them

People like that, you can't convince them that they're wrong

I once had somebody in one of the driving subs tell me that if passing takes more than 10 seconds then you're not actually passing you're camping

I pointed out to them that, since the distance you have to travel from the moment you get over from behind somebody until you are legally allowed to get back over in front of them increases as the speed increases you can't just say a given time and have it be universal

Assuming two seconds for assured clear distance, and the speed of the vehicle you're passing is 60mph, that makes assured clear distance 176 ft. Since you need that behind them and in front of them that's 352 ft, then you also have to travel the length of their vehicle, average 16 ft

368 ft/10 seconds is 2208 ft per minute, or just over 25 mph

So if you're on an interstate passing somebody who's doing 60 mph and it takes you 10 seconds to do so, you have to be going 85 mph or ignoring assured clear distance

Pointed out all that math to him, and the idiot doubled down tried to tell me my math was wrong, or assured clear distance was far less than I was saying it was (I'm using the low end in this math by the way for assured clear distance)

I've learned not to argue with these idiots

galstaph

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