dogorman

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by dogorman 5y ago
As I understand it, the purpose of ABS is to let you slam on your brakes and NOT swerve. If your wheels lock up then you lose all steering authority. ABS lets you slam your brake to the floor and still be able to keep your car on the roa
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by dogorman 5y ago
Yes, if you are driving responsibly then using the brakes is always an option. All cars have brakes; they're required to by law. If using the brakes is not an option then you already fucked up (e.g. you were going too fast on a slipp
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by dogorman 5y ago
Cars have this handy peddle on the floor that lets you slow down the car without power-sliding it. You should give that a try.
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by dogorman 5y ago
No!? You're supposed to not swerve, but you sure as shit are supposed to brake! If you can't safetly slam on the brakes because somebody was tailgating you or because the road surface is too slippery, then you already fucked up
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by dogorman 5y ago
I know an American civil engineer who has one of these rings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Ring Wikipedia says the oath that goes with it is: I am an Engineer. In my profession I take deep pride. To it I
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by dogorman 5y ago
They might claim they do, on their paperwork, website, etc. But what is the reality when they're actually in the air? Do you think stewardesses on these private jets are really in the habit of making demands of their multimillionaire
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by dogorman 5y ago
'Overreach' can only be defined in relative terms.
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by dogorman 5y ago
As has always been the case I think, common plebs are expected to sacrifice so the elite can continue their lives of luxury.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Your 'Reality: [...] End of story' claim does not contradict the title. They may automatically have a truck license, but also have never driven a truck. If I got a truck license more than 20 years ago (before 1999) but never dr
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by dogorman 5y ago
In the rural Pennsylvanian I grew up in, the multimillionaire family that owned the town plant went to the same church as most of the rest of the town (excepting catholics), sent their kids to the same public school, and generally sociali
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by dogorman 5y ago
Interesting that a "33 percent increase" is the same thing as 0.105% to 0.14%. Those latter two figures are both a lot lower than I would have guessed.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Potassium nitrate (the main ingredient of gunpowder) has historically been used as a preservative, particularly for curing meat. Some people might still use it, but these days sodium nitrite is more common.
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by dogorman 5y ago
I'd guess tomatoes are fine. I'd definitely think twice before eating carrots or potatoes from such a garden though, even washed and pealed thoroughly (and normally I wouldn't peal those.)
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by dogorman 5y ago
Not that I don't support warning disclaimers on facebook, but "designed to manipulate your emotional state" certainly applies to all movies, music, most books, etc. A big difference between these things and facebook is that
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by dogorman 5y ago
To be frank, I do not want to get that book nor do I want my name to be in their system as somebody who is interested in that book. A search of their online catalogues through Tor was enough to confirm my suspicion that they would not hav
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by dogorman 5y ago
Most people don't want to read most earnestly banned books. It's a very notorious book though, it would probably garner more attention than many uncontroversial books in the long tail of most library collections, which are neithe
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by dogorman 5y ago
When librarians speak of banned books, they are talking about books other people wanted banned, not the books librarians themselves wanted banned. Harry Potter gets on these lists because some christian groups in America demanded that libra
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by dogorman 5y ago
It's both, either, or neither. The spelling he used is common and widely accepted. According to legend Rochambeau played it, but there is no evidence for that. The earliest written reference to the word doesn't spell it like t
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by dogorman 5y ago
The Zeroth law, which permits a robot to harm individuals if it's good for the collective humanity, is certainly cause for concern. But it's scarcely the only concern. The three laws are riddled with holes which Asimov used a
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by dogorman 5y ago
The wealthy and powerful like to keep their heads, and have devised complex systems of liability laundering and misdirection to ensure that the general public never get mad enough at the right people to actually start chopping off heads aga
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by dogorman 5y ago
A stalker for hire who occasionally stalks somebody who's also a scumbag, if the money is right? Give me a break. Such lame defenses of the profession only serve to further damn it. > comparing them to rapists belays naiveity and
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by dogorman 5y ago
PIs are stalkers for hire. dubdigidob is being blunt, but I think he's right. I don't want rapists chiming in to offer their perspective on stories about rape; nor do I welcome PIs chiming in with their opinions on stories abou
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by dogorman 5y ago
This is a very interesting article, but the headline is an unholy synthesis of gaslighting and clickbait. Better title from the URL: Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world?"
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by dogorman 5y ago
> convergence between fish and dolphins The convergence between dolphins and ichthyosaurs is even more remarkable. Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles; air breathing tetrapods that, like dolphins, had ancestors that walked on land but e
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by dogorman 5y ago
A rising awareness of the risks posed by house fires might also suppress the rate of burglar bar installations. If there were a fire in my house, I wouldn't want bars blocking my egress.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Pro-tip, don't buy exotic ammunition that was never actually sold to the general public from dodgy guys on the internet. That youtuber who nearly blew his face off recently with his 50cal wasn't the victim of expired ammunition;
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by dogorman 5y ago
This article would be much better if it had some data and evidence. A quick check on google ngrams reveals that the phrase 'well kempt' surged in popularity after 2000, relative to the two previous centuries. 'Unkempt&#x2
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by dogorman 5y ago
Expiring bullets, from the makers of headlight fluid.
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by dogorman 5y ago
ring ring "Hello sir, do you own any firea-" click I would hang up on that call and I don't even own a gun. Surely some people will answer, but wide swaths of the American public, gun owning or otherwise, would refuse t
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by dogorman 5y ago
> A students are often formerly unhappy C students. Is there any empirical evidence for this? It flies in the face of my experience, which is that A students were A students from the start; that C students almost never become A studen

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