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@dkf At one time, my commute included a bus that stopped at the former mental facility. A lot of riders got on and off there.
It had been a residential facility for the developmentally disabled. It been closed as part of California's deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill (AKA kicking them onto the street to (fail to) fend for themselves and become the core of California's homeless population) and sold or leased to Sun Microsystems. I haven't been by there in years, but I assume they're still using now that they're Oracle, which seems appropriate.
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@boomzilla said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@hungrier said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Gąska Except that buses are much much dirtier per passenger mile than cars.
Which is cleaner? A car driving exactly where it needs to go with four passengers getting 60mpg on petrol with an engine that has extensive emissions controls, or a bus driving round and round the city in the longest route possible with ten passengers on getting 4mpg on diesel with absolutely no emissions controls?
Umm... what cars get 60 MPG? My car, which was near the very top of fuel efficiency available when I bought it ~6-7 years ago, gets around 40 under ideal conditions, and a bit less in typical city driving.
Depends on what size your gallons are, I guess. In proper Imperial gallons, 60 mpg is a chunk easier than it is with those wimpy American ones.
But anywhere they would use those gallons uses liters instead
Which are actually
really tiny gallonsslightly oversized quarts.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@boomzilla said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@hungrier said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Gąska Except that buses are much much dirtier per passenger mile than cars.
Which is cleaner? A car driving exactly where it needs to go with four passengers getting 60mpg on petrol with an engine that has extensive emissions controls, or a bus driving round and round the city in the longest route possible with ten passengers on getting 4mpg on diesel with absolutely no emissions controls?
Umm... what cars get 60 MPG? My car, which was near the very top of fuel efficiency available when I bought it ~6-7 years ago, gets around 40 under ideal conditions, and a bit less in typical city driving.
Depends on what size your gallons are, I guess. In proper Imperial gallons, 60 mpg is a chunk easier than it is with those wimpy American ones.
But anywhere they would use those gallons uses liters instead
Which are actually
really tiny gallonsslightly oversized quarts.Keep reading.
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@HardwareGeek I zoned out a bit while reading the parenthetical statement and for a moment thought that the homeless and mentally ill had been sold off to Sun Microsystems
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@hungrier said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@HardwareGeek I zoned out a bit while reading the parenthetical statement and for a moment thought that the homeless and mentally ill had been sold off to Sun Microsystems
Now that would be cruel and unusual punishment, at least when Sun got sold to Oracle.
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@hungrier said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@HardwareGeek I zoned out a bit while reading the parenthetical statement and for a moment thought that the homeless and mentally ill had been
sold off torunning Sun Microsystems
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Gąska Except that buses are much much dirtier per passenger mile than cars.
Which is cleaner? A car driving exactly where it needs to go with four passengers getting 60mpg on petrol with an engine that has extensive emissions controls, or a bus driving round and round the city in the longest route possible with ten passengers on getting 4mpg on diesel with absolutely no emissions controls?
Umm... what cars get 60 MPG? My car, which was near the very top of fuel efficiency available when I bought it ~6-7 years ago, gets around 40 under ideal conditions, and a bit less in typical city driving.
Depends on what size your gallons are, I guess. In proper Imperial gallons, 60 mpg is a chunk easier than it is with those wimpy American ones.
What, there are different sizes of that? Again?!
Well, all my numbers were converted from "liter / 100 km" using Google, so for comparison with other people's numbers in here I just assume that Google used the "right" version of a gallon.
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@HardwareGeek said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@dkf At one time, my commute included a bus that stopped at the former mental facility. A lot of riders got on and off there.
It had been a residential facility for the developmentally disabled. It been closed as part of California's deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill (AKA kicking them onto the street to (fail to) fend for themselves and become the core of California's homeless population) and sold or leased to Sun Microsystems. I haven't been by there in years, but I assume they're still using now that they're Oracle, which seems appropriate.Your story proves that time travel is possible!
Not going to explain that joke/random thought too much, but it's about the relation between Oracle and a mental institution.
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@topspin said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Gąska Except that buses are much much dirtier per passenger mile than cars.
Which is cleaner? A car driving exactly where it needs to go with four passengers getting 60mpg on petrol with an engine that has extensive emissions controls, or a bus driving round and round the city in the longest route possible with ten passengers on getting 4mpg on diesel with absolutely no emissions controls?
Umm... what cars get 60 MPG? My car, which was near the very top of fuel efficiency available when I bought it ~6-7 years ago, gets around 40 under ideal conditions, and a bit less in typical city driving.
Depends on what size your gallons are, I guess. In proper Imperial gallons, 60 mpg is a chunk easier than it is with those wimpy American ones.
What, there are different sizes of that? Again?!
The word you need there is "Still" rather than "Again"...
Well, all my numbers were converted from "liter / 100 km" using Google, so for comparison with other people's numbers in here I just assume that Google used the "right" version of a gallon.
So it gave you it in miles per Imperial gallon?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Or if you can get there on one bus without changing, it takes an hour for a journey that you could make on foot in 57 minutes.
So for the price of 3 additional minutes, you get to travel sitting down and arrive rested? That's a pretty worthwhile tradeoff in a lot of people's minds.
You're not wrong, except that unless the traffic is really fucked up, doing it by car involves a fairly direct route without too many weird stops, and takes fifteen minutes at the most, while that bus takes in every weird neighbourhood and stops here there and everywhere.
And involves dealing with strange, smelly, violent, or otherwise uncomfortable fellow-riders. That's the real problem with riding public transport--all the other people.
As someone who regularly commuted on public transit for over a decade and ran into such people probably an average of less than once per year, that's not really a serious problem.
As someone who regularly goes on punishment transport during off season, the stankiest ones are females that bathe in cheap perfume. My nose and throat feels like someone runs barbed wire through them when I have to breathe that shit, and they are plentyful.
I much prefer riding my motorcycle during season.
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@boomzilla said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@hungrier said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Gąska Except that buses are much much dirtier per passenger mile than cars.
Which is cleaner? A car driving exactly where it needs to go with four passengers getting 60mpg on petrol with an engine that has extensive emissions controls, or a bus driving round and round the city in the longest route possible with ten passengers on getting 4mpg on diesel with absolutely no emissions controls?
Umm... what cars get 60 MPG? My car, which was near the very top of fuel efficiency available when I bought it ~6-7 years ago, gets around 40 under ideal conditions, and a bit less in typical city driving.
Depends on what size your gallons are, I guess. In proper Imperial gallons, 60 mpg is a chunk easier than it is with those wimpy American ones.
But anywhere they would use those gallons uses liters instead
Which are actually really tiny gallons.
Well, it makes up for the puny short miles used in the US.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@topspin said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Gąska Except that buses are much much dirtier per passenger mile than cars.
Which is cleaner? A car driving exactly where it needs to go with four passengers getting 60mpg on petrol with an engine that has extensive emissions controls, or a bus driving round and round the city in the longest route possible with ten passengers on getting 4mpg on diesel with absolutely no emissions controls?
Umm... what cars get 60 MPG? My car, which was near the very top of fuel efficiency available when I bought it ~6-7 years ago, gets around 40 under ideal conditions, and a bit less in typical city driving.
Depends on what size your gallons are, I guess. In proper Imperial gallons, 60 mpg is a chunk easier than it is with those wimpy American ones.
What, there are different sizes of that? Again?!
The word you need there is "Still" rather than "Again"...
I'd put my money on "As well".
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@HardwareGeek said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
However, I've never lived nor taken transit in places like NYC, south Chicago, or east Oakland, where I think unpleasant encounters would be much more common.
When I was new in Chicago and didn't really understand local customs or territorial borders, I didn't realize at first that as a white person I'm not supposed to be riding green metro line. So the one and only time I did that, there was a rather large group of colorful youth (something like 8-10 people), standing in circle near the exit door and smoking joint. Note that it was back when Colorado was the only state where weed was legal.
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@dcon So does my 20-year-old Landrover. Totally non-toxic exhaust emissions, it's just water and carbon dioxide. If I'm driving behind a bus or large truck, the stuff coming out the exhaust is actually cleaner than the air going in because it burns all the particulates, CO and unburnt fuel.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Depends on what size your gallons are
I'll go with the metric type plz
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
And involves dealing with strange, smelly, violent, or otherwise uncomfortable fellow-riders. That's the real problem with riding public transport--all the other people.
As someone who regularly commuted on public transit for over a decade and ran into such people probably an average of less than once per year, that's not really a serious problem.
If there isn't any weirdo on your bus chances are high you are the weird one on this bus.
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@Luhmann said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
And involves dealing with strange, smelly, violent, or otherwise uncomfortable fellow-riders. That's the real problem with riding public transport--all the other people.
As someone who regularly commuted on public transit for over a decade and ran into such people probably an average of less than once per year, that's not really a serious problem.
If there isn't any weirdo on your bus chances are high you are the weird one on this bus.
I am the weirdo no matter if there is another one or not.
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@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Totally non-toxic exhaust emissions, it's just water and carbon dioxide.
Both of those are toxic in sufficient quantity, although it's rare to talk about water poisoning. (CO2 poisoning is definitely a thing, though.)
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@dcon said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
on diesel
Many of our buses now use LPG.
Same here, where "here" means Lille, in the north of France.
It's probably a good idea to note that in fact, because they are in France, they run on gaz de pétrole liquéfié, abbreviated "GPL".
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
it's rare to talk about water poisoning.
And if you do, it usually happened in some form of hazing activity.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@dcon said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
on diesel
Many of our buses now use LPG.
Same here, where "here" means Lille, in the north of France.
abbreviated "GPL".
So definitely toxic. Viral, in fact. This must be why France is so keen on getting rid of fossil fuels--they're all funding those weirdos at the FSF!
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Totally non-toxic exhaust emissions, it's just water and carbon dioxide.
Both of those are toxic in sufficient quantity, although it's rare to talk about water poisoning. (CO2 poisoning is definitely a thing, though.)
It's usually referred to as "drowning" instead.
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@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Totally non-toxic exhaust emissions, it's just water and carbon dioxide.
Both of those are toxic in sufficient quantity, although it's rare to talk about water poisoning. (CO2 poisoning is definitely a thing, though.)
It's usually referred to as "drowning" instead.
that's more asphyxiation than water poisoning. if you want to go by water poisoning what you do is drink so much water that you dilute your blood to the point it's too thin to effectively pump, also too thin to contain enough red blood cells per unit volume to effectively oxygenate, and piss out electrolytes faster than you replenish them so your body basically just stops working right. combine all three and you have a recipe for death.
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@Vixen said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Totally non-toxic exhaust emissions, it's just water and carbon dioxide.
Both of those are toxic in sufficient quantity, although it's rare to talk about water poisoning. (CO2 poisoning is definitely a thing, though.)
It's usually referred to as "drowning" instead.
that's more asphyxiation than water poisoning. if you want to go by water poisoning what you do is drink so much water that you dilute your blood to the point it's too thin to effectively pump, also too thin to contain enough red blood cells per unit volume to effectively oxygenate, and piss out electrolytes faster than you replenish them so your body basically just stops working right. combine all three and you have a recipe for death.
CO2 poisoning is also pretty much asphyxiation.
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@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Vixen said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Totally non-toxic exhaust emissions, it's just water and carbon dioxide.
Both of those are toxic in sufficient quantity, although it's rare to talk about water poisoning. (CO2 poisoning is definitely a thing, though.)
It's usually referred to as "drowning" instead.
that's more asphyxiation than water poisoning. if you want to go by water poisoning what you do is drink so much water that you dilute your blood to the point it's too thin to effectively pump, also too thin to contain enough red blood cells per unit volume to effectively oxygenate, and piss out electrolytes faster than you replenish them so your body basically just stops working right. combine all three and you have a recipe for death.
CO2 poisoning is also pretty much asphyxiation.
that I can't argue with.
i mean there is a form of CO2 poisoning you can get without straight up asphyxiating, but that basically requires you to be skirting right on the edge of asphyxiation for so long that...... yeah in practice you're going to die from straight up asphyxiation long before the other thing that can happen has a change to get its boots on.
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@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Vixen said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Totally non-toxic exhaust emissions, it's just water and carbon dioxide.
Both of those are toxic in sufficient quantity, although it's rare to talk about water poisoning. (CO2 poisoning is definitely a thing, though.)
It's usually referred to as "drowning" instead.
that's more asphyxiation than water poisoning. if you want to go by water poisoning what you do is drink so much water that you dilute your blood to the point it's too thin to effectively pump, also too thin to contain enough red blood cells per unit volume to effectively oxygenate, and piss out electrolytes faster than you replenish them so your body basically just stops working right. combine all three and you have a recipe for death.
CO2 poisoning is also pretty much asphyxiation.
Even if you keep the oxygen content of the air high and raise the CO2 content by lowering nitrogen instead?
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
because they are in France,
I feel your pain
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@topspin said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Well, all my numbers were converted from "liter / 100 km" using Google, so for comparison with other people's numbers in here I just assume that Google used the "right" version of a gallon.
I tried, and I'm disappointed to report that Google gives me the same conversion result when I use "liter / 100 km" or "litre / 100 km". Also Google calls it "US miles per gallon" (vs. "miles per gallon (Imperial)"), so does that mean they use the same gallons but different miles?
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
So it gave you it in miles per Imperial gallon?
You're right to ROFL, it should be nautical miles per imperial gallons.
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@remi said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
different miles
There are several different definitions, but they're super close to each other, enough that it doesn't matter for anything that isn't already employing a metrologist.
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@dkf said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@remi said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
different miles
There are several different definitions, but they're super close to each other, enough that it doesn't matter for anything that isn't already employing a metrologist.
the Nordic mile is roughly 6.2 US miles.
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@dkf said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@remi said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
different miles
There are several different definitions, but they're super close to each other, enough that it doesn't matter for anything that isn't already employing a metrologist.
What does weather forecasting have to do with it?
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@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@dkf said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@remi said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
different miles
There are several different definitions, but they're super close to each other, enough that it doesn't matter for anything that isn't already employing a metrologist.
the Nordic mile is roughly 6.2 US miles.
So either the Nordic folks have really long legs, or whoever set that up doesn't know what a mile is supposed to be.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@dkf said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@remi said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
different miles
There are several different definitions, but they're super close to each other, enough that it doesn't matter for anything that isn't already employing a metrologist.
the Nordic mile is roughly 6.2 US miles.
So either the Nordic folks have really long legs, or whoever set that up doesn't know what a mile is supposed to be.
I don't remember what the base was, but yeah. There was, shortly, the alternative name myriameter.
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@Vixen said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Totally non-toxic exhaust emissions, it's just water and carbon dioxide.
Both of those are toxic in sufficient quantity, although it's rare to talk about water poisoning. (CO2 poisoning is definitely a thing, though.)
It's usually referred to as "drowning" instead.
that's more asphyxiation than water poisoning. if you want to go by water poisoning what you do is drink so much water that you dilute your blood to the point it's too thin to effectively pump, also too thin to contain enough red blood cells per unit volume to effectively oxygenate, and piss out electrolytes faster than you replenish them so your body basically just stops working right. combine all three and you have a recipe for death.
It's called "hyponatremia", specifically of the "high volume" type, which despite its name sounding like it's caused by not enough sodium intake(1), is actually caused by drinking too much water, and diluting the electrolytes. That kills you long before the blood-thinning part can happen.
(1) The body is really, really good at retaining salt if you don't get enough in your diet.
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@dkf said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@remi said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
different miles
There are several different definitions, but they're super close to each other, enough that it doesn't matter for anything that isn't already employing a metrologist.
Except for nautical miles, which are about 20% longer than ordinary miles.
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@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Vixen said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Totally non-toxic exhaust emissions, it's just water and carbon dioxide.
Both of those are toxic in sufficient quantity, although it's rare to talk about water poisoning. (CO2 poisoning is definitely a thing, though.)
It's usually referred to as "drowning" instead.
that's more asphyxiation than water poisoning. if you want to go by water poisoning what you do is drink so much water that you dilute your blood to the point it's too thin to effectively pump, also too thin to contain enough red blood cells per unit volume to effectively oxygenate, and piss out electrolytes faster than you replenish them so your body basically just stops working right. combine all three and you have a recipe for death.
CO2 poisoning is also pretty much asphyxiation.
It isn't, actually. It is "respiratory acidosis", where the blood pH falls too low because the lungs aren't removing enough CO2 from the blood. (Most of the descriptions seem to talk about lung disease and similar causing that, but it's easy to see how an elevated CO2 level in the atmosphere would cause the same effect.)
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@dkf said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@remi said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
different miles
There are several different definitions, but they're super close to each other, enough that it doesn't matter for anything that isn't already employing a metrologist.
What does weather forecasting have to do with it?
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@Mason_Wheeler Seeing how a US mile is like 6000 feet, it kind of blows away the 1000 paces idea...
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@dkf Yes, that's the joke. (I originally had a note that this is an intentional misreading in an invisible div, but it turns out will show the CSS styling you set up in a preview, but not the actual post, so I edited that out.)
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@Gąska said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
as a white person I'm not supposed to be riding green metro line.
Racism thread is .
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@Carnage said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
CO2 poisoning is also pretty much asphyxiation.
And a fat person sitting on your face is assphyxiation
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@Captain said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler Seeing how a US mile is like 6000 feet, it kind of blows away the 1000 paces idea...
5280 feet. Or perhaps more relevantly, 1760 yards. If you take the origin of the mile as 1000 strides or or 2000 paces, it makes sense. A typical pace is ~3 feet, a stride ~6 feet. A bit less. Multiply by 1000 or 2000, and you get something reasonably close to our modern definition of a mile.
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@HardwareGeek Yeah, I noticed roman paces were two of what we'd call a pace today. I did that after I talked.
You're welcome.
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@Captain said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@HardwareGeek Yeah, I noticed roman paces were two of what we'd call a pace today.
I remember sports lessons in primary school where the teacher spent most of the lesson trying to explain everyone what "3 paces" rules meant in basketball, handball etc.
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@boomzilla said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Or if you can get there on one bus without changing, it takes an hour for a journey that you could make on foot in 57 minutes.
So for the price of 3 additional minutes, you get to travel sitting down and arrive rested? That's a pretty worthwhile tradeoff in a lot of people's minds.
You're not wrong, except that unless the traffic is really fucked up, doing it by car involves a fairly direct route without too many weird stops, and takes fifteen minutes at the most, while that bus takes in every weird neighbourhood and stops here there and everywhere.
And involves dealing with strange, smelly, violent, or otherwise uncomfortable fellow-riders. That's the real problem with riding public transport--all the other people.
As someone who regularly commuted on public transit for over a decade and ran into such people probably an average of less than once per year, that's not really a serious problem.
This differs with my experience, so I'll pretend I'm you and tell you that your experience never happened.
Weird stroke there. You should probably use LPG when you're gaslighting.
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@Steve_The_Cynic Right, but unless there's a really serious amount of CO2 or water vapour in a room, breathing it in won't kill you. CO will kill you extremely quickly, because it prevents your blood from transporting oxygen.
This is why warehouse forklifts run on propane instead of petrol (and they don't run on diesel because of all the soot).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@boomzilla said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
Or if you can get there on one bus without changing, it takes an hour for a journey that you could make on foot in 57 minutes.
So for the price of 3 additional minutes, you get to travel sitting down and arrive rested? That's a pretty worthwhile tradeoff in a lot of people's minds.
You're not wrong, except that unless the traffic is really fucked up, doing it by car involves a fairly direct route without too many weird stops, and takes fifteen minutes at the most, while that bus takes in every weird neighbourhood and stops here there and everywhere.
And involves dealing with strange, smelly, violent, or otherwise uncomfortable fellow-riders. That's the real problem with riding public transport--all the other people.
As someone who regularly commuted on public transit for over a decade and ran into such people probably an average of less than once per year, that's not really a serious problem.
This differs with my experience, so I'll pretend I'm you and tell you that your experience never happened.
Weird stroke there. You should probably use LPG when you're gaslighting.
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@gordonjcp said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
@Steve_The_Cynic Right, but unless there's a really serious amount of CO2 or water vapour in a room, breathing it in won't kill you. CO will kill you extremely quickly, because it prevents your blood from transporting oxygen.
This is why warehouse forklifts run on propane instead of petrol (and they don't run on diesel because of all the soot).
If there's enough water in the air for it to be a serious asphyxiation risk, you are more likely to die of heat-related problems than asphyxiation. And I'm sure the "random changes of subject" thread is around somewhere.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
I'm sure the "random changes of subject" thread is around somewhere.
There are plenty of those; in fact there's even a complete index of every single one.