BillyClark

To be fair, there are problems with speed cameras that we’ve seen in the US, so probably similar problems exist in Canada. For example, they’re often outsourced to private companies, and there are privacy and accuracy concerns. Local governments with access to speed cameras can make a lot of money from speed traps, and so they have a financial incentive to make the road harder to drive on, when they should be making roads easier to drive on. People sometimes see speed cameras and slam their brakes, which can cause all sorts of problems.

Usually, the better way to control speed is to design your roads to naturally be a certain speed. Some ways you can do this is by controlling the width of the lanes, the length of the lines in the lane dividers, and the curve of the road.

I just saw this yesterday, and that article had an estimated yearly impact of how much money farmers/ranchers would lose every year if screwworm comes back to the US, and IIRC, it was something like $900 million.

Realistically, a platform where you can delete your own questions so that they disappear for everyone isn’t the best platform for technical support communities. But a platform where you can’t delete your own posts is not the best platform for for a lot of other things, like privacy.

Two use cases without overlap seems like a good argument that there should be two different platforms.

There have been cases where tap water was so polluted that it could be lit on fire, so it’s not quite as impossible as you probably think for there to be a “water fire”.

Well, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. They’ll say left side, right side. Front, back. Locals, people who traveled from far away. Guys, girls.

It’s just a way of increasing audience participation. Maybe the audiences in Europe are just naturally more fun, and so they don’t need all of the prompting from the stage?

There’s our perp, boys!

Whenever I see this sort of thing on TV, where they call out the criminal from fairly far away, and then the criminal inevitably has all sorts of time to run, I always think, “There’s no way police actually do that. If they just walked up beside the person first, it would be much harder to run away.” But I don’t know. Maybe police do it in real life, too.

I don’t think there’s any link to Europe, unless I missed something

Maybe in Europe they don’t do that thing at concerts where they ask only part of the audience to shout out?

Although I’m guessing they do that in Europe, too. My guess is that the person asking for an explanation just doesn’t go to concerts like that, and so they think it’s an American thing.

I know nobody here would, but if you put water on a grease fire, depending on how much oil there is, it will explode in a huge fireball.

This is because oil floats on water, so the water almost immediately sinks under the oil, but then, because of the heat stored in the oil, the water will also boil almost instantly. Because the water quickly turned into steam, it also expands quickly, which is an explosion, and all of that burning oil on top of the water will be flung in all directions.

That’s why you should never put water on a grease fire.

Whale language is comparable to Chinese, and so therefore whales are Chinese? What an anthropocentric way of putting it. Obviously, the whale language came first, and it is the Chinese who have appropriated whale culture, maybe even without permission!

Do u ever brush up against…

Also Yoda.

It was scientists who pushed for the American government to create the atomic bomb.

I don’t know for sure, but I strongly suspect this is the work of that artist who always posts weird public signs.

I tried jumping as high as I could, but it turns out my momentum is keeping me in orbit around Sol, and it would take an astonishing amount of energy to overcome that.

Plus, I have a suspicion that I’d succumb to the Death Space before I could get close enough.

Sol seems to be a life star.

You can see with this hidden camera footage what really happens when you replace people’s coffee without their knowledge.

Trump never does anything, not even things that are part of his official duties as President, unless there is a quid pro quo, specifically, something that benefits him personally is involved.

I just find it ironic that so many people are willing to do all of these corrupt actions for Trump and as far as I can tell, they receive almost no benefit. In fact, for lawyers there’s a correlation between working for Trump and being disbarred.

Trump would never in a million years do anything like all of these sycophants are doing. I am sure that Trump thinks they’re all complete morons.

It uses two upside down nines because if it only used one upside down nine, it would say that it was exit 69, and everybody would be stealing the sign all the time.

Maybe the standard deductible increased so much that everyone can use free services to file the EZ version.

Edit: Article blames the decline completely on AI tax services.

The last time I looked, there were also legal casinos using a similarly transparent schtick.

What they do is that you don’t directly win money from gambling. Everything is presented as if it’s related to a sweepstakes, because sweepstakes are a legal version of gambling.

It works something like, you can pay to get entries in a sweepstakes, and I think you can even gamble with your sweepstakes entries to try to get more entries. Then because you entered the sweepstakes, you automatically win, and the sweepstakes pays out in fake money like gems. Then you can also gamble with the fake money. Finally, the casinos will buy the fake money from you using real money.

I may not have gotten this explanation exactly right, but it’s in the ballpark.