[–] -1 points 2 months ago

Well yeah, japan got to try twice. They tried it themselves, fucked it up the same way Germany did, then did it right with the Americans holding their hands and fingering their ass. Its not hard to get it right when youre a hand puppet.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Brothers what i would give for a remaster of Chromehounds on console.

    Big stompy triple doubles, whack ass drinking bird howitzers, a swam of pile driver piranhas, Gator snipers, all the things.

    I would love to see a couple modern MOBA teams running a tournament. Who is running radar? Is someone rushing base with a pile driver? Who is that widow main in the gator over on the edge of the combat area?

    It would be glorious.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I literally say "save your receipts" at the end of my post and you come back with "well what if you couldn't prove it?"

    Thats what court is for.

    Are you saying we should implicitly trust what a cop says just because they happened to be around to write a ticket? What makes an officers testimony more reliable than a photograph or video? In my state, cops arent even allowed to pull people over for minor traffic infractions anymore because they cant seem to stop targeting black and brown people. Do you think that's somehow better than a speed camera or red light cam that doesnt care if the person driving is white or not?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You are correct in theory. In reality, its messy.

    The courts suppose that a theoretical officer could be at any public place at any time for various reasons, and they are correct. Anything viewable from a public space is subject to plain view doctrine.

    Your problem is that you say the scope of the actual surveillance available is disproportionate to the reality of what officers could feasibly see in the same timeframe. You are basically arguing that a continuous surveillance of public spaces constitutes an overbroad search.

    The problem is that courts have set no upper limit on passive public observation. I cant think of any precedent where "the cops look this way too much" has ever been set as a valid cause of action against a government interest. Your best bet would be trying to argue that its prejudicial, but it'd be hard to proceed when there is surveillance on everyone pretty equally.

    My problem with it is mostly that its a private network. If these cameras and services are being paid for with public funds, then the images they capture should be available for public use. Thats a whole new nightmare all on its own, but thats kind of the technohorror future we are building towards. Anyone being able to track down anyone at any time is a scary thought. But that's what you get when you build a giant spy network with public money. The public gets access according to the law.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Cool, so anyone who can afford a self driving car is immune to tickets and traffic citations. Very bourgeois.

    Ticketing a car is a good practice to avoid police interaction, which is the real danger in this country. The burden of proof still applies in court, so even if you did get a "phantom" ticket, they still have to prove you were in control of the vehicle at the time. I recently got a red light camera ticket on a rental thrown out because I showed i turned in the vehicle 4 hours before the time of the infraction. Goddamn Hertz tried to throw me under the bus. Always keep your receipts.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    There are plenty of privacy laws, but the catch is that you have to make an effort to create privacy. Putting your blinds down creates privacy. Building a roof over your pool and walls around your yard create privacy. There is just no expectation of privacy in public, and technically anything that can be seen from public is "in plain view". Protecting your privacy is not a function of the state unless you had an expectation of privacy through explicit disclaimer or honest effort.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    They dont need a warrant for a plate that is visible from public. If your car was locked up in a garage, that would be a different story. Taking your car out in public is the same as taking your face out in public legally speaking.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    You're as native to New York as the horses that came over on the Mayflower. As a native American, its always a trip to see immigrants looking down on shiner, newer immigrants. Talking about natives and non natives like that means anything in a gateway city like NYC, SF, or LA is laughable.

    You can be a South Brooklyn chump all you want. It doesnt mean youre any more "new york" than an Amish kid who came up to the city on rumspringa and never left.

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    Mostly directed at you skinny lemmys. As a luxuriously sized north American, it struck me as odd that I could not recall my knees knocking together since childhood. True, I have enjoyed powerlifting since highschool, but still. I can press my knees together just fine seated or reclining. How often does the average Lemmy feel their knees knock together?

     

    And this afternoon, I am terminated from my employment. Open and shut retaliation. And of course the company waited until the rep is on vacation to pull this shit. Im going to drive a couple hours out to a friend's house just to get intona better heads pace. This ongoing workplace harassment has given me anxiety all weekend and today did not help.

     

    Got this old Szim lathe I'm working with at a new shop and in trying to identify what style of spindle nose this is. It looks like a typical short taper except the threaded holes are on the chuck/adapter plate instead of on the spindle nose. Haven't seen this style before and I'd like to have a name that will let me look for more adapter plates/chucks designed for this spindle nose.

    Looks like a type A2-8 short taper except the holes on the spindle nose aren't tapped. It's got this weird slotted bolt hole pattern on the back that rotates into place to secure the bolt heads while the bolts actually thread into the back of the chuck or adapter plate.

    Thanks in advance.

     

    So as the title says, I've been a welder for 15 years, and now I've been hired into a machinist position, but I'm running the machine shop in this business. I've done machining work related to the welding I've done, sometimes even working as a machinist when the welding work slows down. My last job was 90% machinist work with 10% welding repair.

    Now I'm expected to be a full machinist and run a whole machine section (2 lathes, 2 mills, and an entire wall of disorganized tooling) by myself. To the point where I'm the only guy in the shop that can figure out how to set a power feed on a lathe or mill. It's a little overwhelming tbh. But I'm struggling through.

    Today's challenge: drill and bore a hole through 10.5 inches of 1018.

    What I've done:

    chucked up the material in the 3 jaw on the lathe

    beat around the stock until it was running mostly true (as far as can be read with a dial indicator on mill scale)

    Center drilled with 3/8 center drill (only center drill available)

    Proceeded to drill through with 9/16 because that's the only drill we had that was long enough

    My problem now:

    When the drill popped out the other side, I can see through my spindle it's maybe 1/8 off center. Definitely wobble as seen from the back of the spindle.

    How can I correct the straightness of my hole? The plan was to step up to 1 inch then 2 inch drills to be able to fit in the big boring bar, but i don't want the bigger drills to follow the pilot off center. Does it matter? Can I just feed the bigger bits slower and the problem will self correct?

    Edit: Success! Flipped it around and started a couple inches with a stubby 3/4, then I got an extremely stout 1 3/4 to redrill the hole nice and straight. Once the first couple inches were started it was rigid enough to follow its own hole all the way back through.

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