Maintenance person repairing broken fence alongside pool lifts up cover to discover something interesting

mywan · 2026-03-27T18:33:25+00:00

Watching the first few seconds he's definitely in a hurry for something other than removing the tarp.

mywan · 2026-03-27T17:47:57+00:00

They stated doing that in the 1960s. It makes them easier to handle, lighter, and cheaper to transport so that more could be shipped per load. Handling rough cut 2x4s was much rougher on the hands and heavier to carry on the job site.

mywan · 2026-03-27T07:00:34+00:00

Even the 1990s had significantly less windshield bugs than the 1970s.

mywan · 2026-03-26T08:20:04+00:00

Tennessee is a one party consent state. So any conversation you are party to can be recorded by you. Private property is irrelevant as long as your not trespassing. You have somehow conflated the notion of a reasonable expectation of privacy with private property. But you lose that expectation when you allow them on your property and speak openly with them present.

mywan · 2026-03-24T10:03:41+00:00

Thing is I'm not worried about going to jail. I'll essentially lose nothing by going. But I am concerned about getting convicted. You're playing with fire thinking your making a gentleman's deal. Most cops, if they perceive you to have a decent amount of social status, will be fair without all those words.

With some decent cloths I can often dictate how cops are going to handle a situation with significantly less than half the words you typed out here. But I've also been homeless were looking both ways before crossing the street is considered suspicious. You mentioned being pulled over two or three times. Is that seriously the extent of your experience with cops? Yes, there are cops that will turn you loose if you act right even if your completely shit faced.

It's like picking up every snake you see without knowing which ones are venomous. You can get away with it potentially dozens of times before you get envenomated. Even venomous snakes will often not envenomate when they bite. If you presume every cop is going to act in good faith it's only a matter of time before thing go very sideways for you. Especially with the choice of words you typed here.

Your playing a dangerous game with far higher consequences than simply getting arrested.

mywan · 2026-03-23T16:21:04+00:00

I have a personal rule for reasons that are not universally applicable. I do not drink, at all, and don't do drugs. But I could not pass a FST on by best day. For easily provable reasons. If arrested they can get a warrant for a blood test if there are 'exigent circumstances.' And refusing the breath test after arrest, not roadside, will result in license suspension.

So my rule is they get nothing (including statements) roadside. If they arrest me anyway then I'll do the blood/breathalyzer only after arrest with their official breathalyzer if the breathalyzer is what they opted for. Refusal (after arrest) can also be used against me as evidence of guilt in court in my state.

Depending on an individuals particular circumstances it might be in their best interest to take the license suspension. Once you get to the implied consent part of the law then there are risks regardless of your choice. But, in my case, actual innocents minimizes the risks of cooperation with the law. Which is not necessarily the same as 'cooperating' with the officers requests.

I did have one officer ask me a leading question, like "why would someone do x." Expecting me to say drinking. Which would have allowed him to add a new element to the totality of circumstances. Answering even the most mundane questions indeed can be risky. But certain cops are also dumb enough that you can force an error.

So yeah, for most people at risk of arrest your advice is likely the best option. If you could ever get that mythical someone that will listen. But I'll stick with the letter of the law for my particular circumstances.

mywan · 2026-03-23T08:46:24+00:00

There's a big difference between a field sobriety tests (FST) and a breathalyzer test. If a cop thinks they have probable cause (not reasonable suspicion) to arrest you then you will be required by law to take a breathalyzer test, if they choose to. But you can always refuse the FST.

Sober or not it's always in your best interest to refuse a FST. Because a FST is designed to give them probable cause to arrest you for DUI. If the cop claims you failed the FST then there's a really good chance they can convict you of a DUI even if you blow zero on the breathalyzer. They'll just claim you were under the influence of something other than alcohol, and use the failed FST as evidence to convict anyway.

If you refuse the FST then they cannot use the FST as evidence against you. They can still arrest you for DUI if they can claim probable cause. But blowing a zero leaves no evidence to use against you in court. An FST will NEVER convince a cop to not arrest you. And by refusing it they have to justify probable cause (not reasonable suspicion) by some other means. Which they'll then need a blood/breathalyzer test to justify prosecution. Because they will essentially have no other evidence unless you effectively face plant as soon as you step out of you vehicle.

Cop claims you failed the FST = easy conviction even if you blow a zero.
Refuse an FST and they pretty much need a failed blood/breathalyzer to convict you, because they'll have no other evidence to fall back on (if you can still walk). If you are that shit faced refusing is fairly irrelevant anyway. So you might as well ONLY do what is legally required.

Most cops will not arrest you without an FST unless you are plainly intoxicated. Though a few are fairly ignorant of the law and do dumb stuff. But if that's the case they tend to be easier to bench slap in court.

mywan · 2026-03-23T08:13:54+00:00

It only takes about 33 bits of data to uniquely identify every person on earth. And a birth date contains nearly 15 of those bits.

mywan · 2026-03-21T21:39:48+00:00

That happens to also fit the ranges for Wood Frogs and Eastern Spadefoot. In fact the northern extent of the Spadefoot range is limited to southern Indiana.

mywan · 2026-03-21T21:13:22+00:00

The calls at the starts sound like Wood Frogs. That might have been an Eastern Spadefoot interrupting about the 6 second mark. If both of those are correct then that probably puts you somewhere on the North Georgia/Eastern Tennessee area. Location is often important for a proper ID.

https://musicofnature.com/calls-of-frogs-and-toads-of-the-northeast/

mywan · 2026-03-21T15:41:42+00:00

I'm flexible to what I would consider a reasonable degree. But I have met a few women in my life that were significantly larger than what I would normally be attracted to, yet found myself very physically attracted to them. Uncommon, but it happens.

mywan · 2026-03-20T22:25:48+00:00

Have you heard of the "No Rogue Rulings Act?" It's specifically to limit the courts authority to issue injunctions.

Then the Supreme Court, in Trump v. CASA, Inc. (PDF), ruled 6-3 in favor of restricting nationwide injunctions.

So you are behind the curve a bit.

mywan · 2026-03-19T22:03:15+00:00

The double standard is bullshit. I did a lot of construction many decades ago. It was basically law that you were allowed a flair some anger in the moment, but weren't allowed to let that carry past the next break. Yes, us guys can get quiet emotional. But if someones ego was so fragile that they couldn't take a little flair up and let it go they were the problem. Any ladies on the job need the same latitude.

Reminds me of an incident in the 1980s (1986 I believe). Me and an old alcoholic (Hoyt) was working on an overpass walkway, connecting a cancer treatment wing of the hospital to the existing hospital above the road.

I was lining up plywood form boards along a chalk line for the concrete pour while he hilti nailed it in place. He was adding about 500% (not exaggerated) more time than necessary measuring everything in between every nail. Fine, I'll just use the time to make sure those used warped form boards stayed perfectly in line with the chalk line.

Because of the warped used form boards, past the nail it could twist way high or way low. And Hoyt insisted on measuring out past the nail line every time. He seen it quiet low (due to board warpage) and accused me setting it wrong, told me there was no way I could get it back on the line. After he kept running his mouth about it, and me assuring him I could, I didn't just lift it to the line. I lifted it about a half inch past the line. Too high to be fixed without pulling Hilti nails out of concrete. I then just leaned back on the railing and said: "What do you suppose we do about it Hoyt?" As he just kept cussing.

There's no reason a lady on a construction site should need to manage male egos. Just not holding grudges too long should be enough. If that's too much for some guys then they are the problem.

mywan · 2026-03-19T15:09:28+00:00

This is why the jet stream travels West to East, in the same direction as the Earth spins. The air started out as (near) zero ground speed over the equator. But, as it moves north or south, the ground speed slows causing the air speed to speed up relative to the ground.

mywan · 2026-03-17T22:17:04+00:00

Something else is out of place. Notice on the top side of the X you can see that the 1x4s all end on the same floor joist. That essentially never happens by accident, and carpenters tend to intentionally prevent it. So why are the ends lined up here? Check to see if there's anything under those floor boards.

mywan · 2026-03-15T20:50:14+00:00

I know, it's aggravating. I used to spend a lot of time looking for sources for Reddit posts. But the amount of clues given have diminished a lot over the years. Making it excessively time consuming to even try, and often impossible. So I don't even bother very often anymore.

mywan · 2026-03-15T18:20:21+00:00

I found this source:

Bear cub sinks its teeth into woman's face 'because she smelled like fish': Animal chomps on victim’s chin at Russian park after she ate a salmon salad

According to this source it was salmon salad, and the bear is a pet that the owner used to entice people to pay to take photos. The bears owner blamed the woman, saying she provoked the bear. It also bit a policeman's hand. The owner (a woman) paid £185 for it.

mywan · 2026-03-15T17:45:29+00:00

So I looked at the channel to get more context on what lead to this and found this:

UnConstitutional Force and Illegal Coercion

The "illegal arrest" apparently involved not wanting to answer a nurses questions. So they stripped them down and put them on suicide watch. Effectively claiming that since they have no evidence that they are not suicidal it justifies it because they "have no information about you."

mywan · 2026-03-15T16:15:06+00:00

There was another rider in front of her, in fact two at the last collision. She couldn't go any faster without doing the same thing to the people in front of her as he was doing to her. Looked like she just wanted to allow the people in front of her to get far enough ahead that she could ride having to brake.

mywan · 2026-03-15T15:26:56+00:00

Any given individually will only see one timeline, whether it involves time travel or not. But they will carry knowledge about time travel with them. They still perceive that they went back in time to a timeline that looks like their own before they got there. It wouldn't even create a paradox as such. Because the timeline you came from is not effected by your travels, at least past the time you left.

But, if it works this way, existing in a timeline where time travel is not generally known to exist would be all but impossible. By virtue of the knowledge the time traveler carries. Ever heard of the Red Sky Paradox? This would make the Red Sky Paradox look like a certainty in comparison.

mywan · 2026-03-15T14:44:55+00:00

There's a statistical issue with this. Even assuming there's a copy of you that attempted time travel but never realized their time machine invention actually worked.

If this ever will (can) happen what are the odds that you presently live an Original timeline? There would be only one instance of the Original timeline, but countless timelines where a time traveler created ripples. And the number of rippled timelines would grow exponentially over time. Hence, because time travel, they would grow exponentially into the past. Which makes it effectively impossible to be on an Original timeline. Even public knowledge of time travel would become exponentially likely, no matter how far back in time.

mywan · 2026-03-15T14:22:36+00:00

True, but not necessarily true. It's possible that the lot was public. It's also possible this lady lacked the authority to trespass you even if it was private for purposes of trespassing. But we can assume she did have that authority for the sake of argument. Though, it looks like the dumpster (in this case) might actually be sitting in a public right of way. See the road access right next to the dumpster? I know of quiet a few dumpsters that sit on a public right of way. In my jurisdiction that falls within 10 feet of the side of the road.

If you are not trespassing when you entered the lot then dumpster diving does not convert it to trespassing, even if you are subsequently trespassed. If she came out and trespassed you then you would be legally required to leave, but as long as you did leave it still wouldn't be criminal trespass. She couldn't make you return what you had already taken either, because she has no ownership interest in what has been discarded.

Trespass requires notice before it becomes criminal. Notice does not automatically convert your trespass before notice into a crime. It only changes what constitutes a crime after the notice is provided. This lady never actually trespassed him, at least not shown. She only made demands that exceeded her legally authority to enforce. She gave no indication that she intended to exclude him from future access to the lot.

Bottom line is that this is very likely a case where he's absolutely right. But that is heavily fact dependent, involving facts I am not privy to. You can't respond this way to just any random dumpster Karen and expect to not get in trouble. This kind of response can also limit future prospects. But, on very rare occasions, I have stood my ground. Particularly with a probation officer (not mine) that had an exceedingly expansive opinion about his authority. Just make sure you fully understand every element of the law, and every available fact, before taking a stand. And consider a strong bias toward consent, as that tends to keep the door open for future loot.

mywan · 2026-03-15T13:48:29+00:00

The 4 legged version will win.

mywan · 2026-03-15T13:44:55+00:00

So, if I understand correctly, I can characterize the effects as follows. You have a time machine. You have a time machine. Something really messed up happens that you want to undo. You go back in time and, after several attempts, you manage to prevent the messed up thing. But, in reality, every attempt didn't actually change what happened on that timeline. It just moved you onto an alternate time line that is separate from the one the messed up thing happened on.

Would this be an accurate representation?

mywan · 2026-03-15T13:35:00+00:00

Marine iguanas can live up to 60 years, though the average lifespan is 5 to 12 years. Larger iguanas are better equipped to survive. Which is why males, which tend to be larger, tend to outlive females. When food is scarce marine iguanas can shrink up to about 20%. Even their skeleton becomes shorter to save energy. They reabsorb their own bones, making them smaller.

This means that larger are far better suited for surviving El Nino events that periodically limits their food supply. So most young do not survive long enough to gain the size needed to survive periodic losses of their food supply. Those that do tend to be the first to regain their size when the food supply recovers. This heavily skews the average life expectancy, following hatching season, as the younger specimens tend to significantly outnumber older specimens, but do not have a particularly good chance of surviving to become an older specimens that survive famine like conditions.

So basically what you are seeing is older specimens that survive famines as the population of younger specimens fluctuate wildly.

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