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Man caught driving with 'practically zero-visibility' in Dundee
A man has been charged with dangerous driving after being stopped in Dundee with snow covering almost his entire front and rear windscreens.
Police said it was "about the most extreme example of lack of preparation" that they had ever seen.
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Give that man a cabinet post
Wtf indeed. By the way, even if the window is clear, you should also clear the snow from the rest of your car, if you're driving and ice/snow slides from your car onto the next..Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Also, related to winter weather: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/l...249176120.html
I was reading earlier today that Swiss police will issue you with a fine if you have snow just on your roof and all windows are clear. Idea being that snow will blow off your roof and onto vehicles behind impeding their vision, or if you brake it may slide onto your windscreen impeding your own vision.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
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Ouch. Yet another example of people not driving to the conditions. 6 dead and 65 injured is crazy.
Our regional authority—which manages our healthcare system—made a very controversial decision, about five years ago, to start charging for coffee at all regional workplaces under their management. Because of public procurement rules, people ended up having to pay for garbage coffee from coffee machines. I just learned that this attempt to eliminate moral coffee hazard cost the region roughly 2.2 million EUR in administrative costs and lost time. Coffee is now free again for all employees. Still garbage, but at least it's cheaper garbage.
Go for the eyes, Boo. GO FOR THE EYES! RrraaaAAGHGHH!
Tomorrow will be sunny with a temperature of 16C.
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West Ham flying these days. :)
My local team is sinking lately, unfortunately. It appears they forgot that in football, defending is also a thing..
Whatever you do, don't watch the video.
Twice in one day.
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The following is of a depravity that I don't understand how people can actually do it.
Last night I was on my last round with Bella, when I noticed that there was a cluster of police car and people on the parking lot of a building alongside my route. That's not very common, but I just continued my route, went home and went to bed. This morning after waking up I remembered and checked the local news to find out that the police had been there to rescue a baby from an underground trash container. I have literally no words for this kind of behavior. The utter lack of humanity. The child is alive and well, but whoever put it there obviously did not care at all whether or not it lived.
Crazy story indeed.
Just read on the news that the parents are found and arrested, both 17 years old.
This awful story reminded me of the "baby hatches" where babies can be abandoned safely, so at least they don't die from exposure. Can't find if there are any in Amsterdam though. Glad the baby was found on time in this case.
The remark about protests leaves no doubt about this guy's political ideology (and intelligence).
I just got an email from the coach/parent of my daughter's T-ball team this summer. I thought his name was vaguely familiar so I looked him up. Turns out he's an MD/PhD professor at Harvard who was just appointed to a mid-level public health position by Biden. His CV said nothing about his experience coaching T-ball, though.
My neighborhood is super weird.
Definitely. T-Ball coach should have been included.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
T-ball? :confused:
Baseball for kids usually with the ball set on a tee at the plate (think giant golf tee). Another one of those sports where a majority of the parents try to live through their kids. Takes a special type of crazy person to willingly coach a team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Honestly it's just a way to build basic baseball skills, like throwing/catching, basic rules of baserunning, and swinging a bat. And a nice way for 6 year olds to spend an hour each weekend in a team setting. You are unreasonably cynical, OG.
I just took out an (interest free) loan for nearly $30,000. The next week one of my credit cards decided to nearly double our credit line. Because of course that makes sense in the bizarro world of credit scores.
Yeah, that's what one of my bank contacts told me as well: "This 0% loan makes you look bad!" - I simply had taken the offer to finance my new washing machine and freezer through such a 0% loan. I had just started my job, had to buy lots of furniture and stuff for my new appartment and was perfectly able to service the loan (it was just a mere year to boot), I just did not have much in the way of a reserve at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
I still don't understand why.
I think what Wiggin is describing is actually the opposite. Instead of the 0% loan making him look less appealing to the credit card company, they believed it made him less risky, or perhaps more accurately, more likely to take advantage of a larger line of credit. Essentially because he carried more debt they thought he should have access to more credit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Enoch is correct. I was given more credit because I had just added nearly $30k to my balance sheet. It makes me have a higher credit score. It's absurd.
I was honestly ready to pay for the item in cash, but if they dangle 0% financing and I know it'll improve my credit for a future mortgage... it's a no brainer. But it's deeply illogical that going into debt for $30k makes people more willing to loan you money.
So I'm assuming a loan like that is for a car. Whatcha get?
Also worthy noting that since the 2 loan types are different revolving vs installment, the credit card is just piggy backing, hoping that the change in finances might force more CC usage, it's kinda evil.
CR-V hybrid. Nothing super exciting but it's a substantial improvement over my 16 year old Scion xB.
Yeah, I know about the revolving credit thing. I only had 1 installment loan left (some student loans from undergrad) so having more 'diverse' credit makes me look better on the algorithm. I never really got this theory. I pay for everything with credit card just for the rewards, and pay the bill in full every month. The credit card companies KNOW I do this, so they know they're making barely any profit on me - mostly interchange fees minus rewards - but they still give me a big additional bolus of credit that I don't need and won't use. All it does is reduce my credit utilization score a bit more, making my credit score marginally better. It's a weird vicious cycle.
I had the exact opposite. I needed around €5k because of a cash flow problem. There was no way for me to get the loan from a high street. Basically because I had no debts at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
I want to go back to a time before I found out about this dumb as shit video:
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I'm drinking my morning coffee. On TV there's a German news bulletin. Then as illustration with an item of the lifting of restrictions in The Netherlands I see my own street on German television.
America, I don't think we can be friends anymore.
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Just will throw in a torch here. I am familiar with a psychiatrist that works with heavily disabled children here, where one of the methods is physically restraining them when they hurt themselves, just like a dog therapy where the dog is forced down and immobilized when having a serious fit. While this might seem incredibly inhumane, the effects this has on dogs, and likewise human with certain kinds of mental disabilities, appeared to be remarkably positive compared to other treatments. They had in common that the parents of these children, also supported this kind of behavioral treatment, even though doing so to a functionally well human, would be seen as literal torture. But the thing is, there has so far not in these few cases, not been alternative treatment for these kind of mental illnesses, other than strong sedatives that largely impede the life quality of the patients. The parents have spent their ENTIRE lives, many of them with "children" well into adulthood, where they are simply miserable. After having such treatment, although an extreme form, they see the near immediate positive effects on behavior and their happiness generally being improved by a lot. Yes, none of the patients enjoy their pain there and then, but that is sort of also the point - that you have brain modulation, that after a short while, rewires them to stop self hurting for instance. I do not for a second believe that the people at this facility, consider themselves heartless or evil. I believe they really think they are in the right, and just maybe, they are. The controversial episodes they mentioned, were very obviously malpractice of the episode, which they also fully acknowledged - and had made adjustments and changes thereby. And the one patient that reflected back on his own treatment, might not have been actually mentally ill enough, to warrant such a treatment plan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
I generally think that unless you have worked specifically with that kind of mental illness, one should not be so quick to judge, what would normally be seen as shocking (pun not intended) treatment. For some rare cases, it very well might be the only effective treatment that has made a change, as signed by all those parents who've tried literally everything.
This is not about restraining people for short periods of time to stop them from harming themselves—it's about quackery that has been condemned as torture, using a device that was recently banned by the FDA. You can read a brief overview here, and obv. look at the underlying reports if you'd like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_...ational_CenterQuote:
Originally Posted by Kazuha Vinland
I have indeed worked with patients who have various disorders that come with fits that can be very physical and difficult to manage. What I've seen—and what my mentors have taught me—is that, as a rule, if they are in an environment where they feel safe, and if they're well, and surrounded by competent and caring people who understand them, almost none of these children and adults need to be outright sedated into submission 24/7. To me, when a patient exhibits this sort of behavior more often, it's a fairly reliable sign that something's not right in their environment or in their bodies—not a sign that they need to be sedated, or restrained, or zapped. I understand that parents can reach a point where they become desperate, but, even when people say they've "tried everything", I suspect something has been lacking in the support they've gotten. I don't think there's any scientific support for beneficial "brain modulation" resulting from aversion therapy; the methods may temporarily solve the caregivers' problems with the patient, but not the patients' problems with the world.
But that's kinda the point. It did not just solve the caregivers' problems with the patient, but many of the patients themselves seemed to be dealing with the world in better terms after the treatment as well. The patients do not have these fits, because they deem it rational, but because there is some part of their brain that instinctively turns them to do that. Hit themselves, cut themselves etc. If the restraining therapy (coupled with A LOT of other therapy, for the record) shows that these episodes happens much less frequently, and the patients show signs of joy and happiness more actively afterwards, then the cause might warrant the method.
As for this specific shock therapy, it's not something I will be very stubborn about. I am in no way qualified to deem whether it works or not. The FDA has most likely banned it for good reasons, outside of it being an extremely controversial treatment in the eyes of bystanders. I am just saying that in terms of mental illness, you cannot always look at it as you would with a sane person. Sometimes mercy comes from such apparently cruel treatment plans. If the outcome is predominantly positive, and more so than the alternatives, then it should be at least a viable plan of treatment. Shock therapy or other kinds.
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wtaf
someone had to onion the tweet so that it'd make sense
That on the other hand is beyond bizarre.