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noncongruent t1_j6ot9r1 wrote
Reply to comment by MalcolmLinair in Faked-Evidence Case Collapses as Prosecutors Fail to Turn Over Evidence by walkandtalkk
Not to mention that all the people convicted with the cop's fake evidence now have no way to pursue exoneration and expungement.
noncongruent t1_j6orncy wrote
Reply to Utility Trailer Help by Syberthug
Also, unless the rims themselves are junk/damaged/corroded, it's usually easiest to just take them to a tire store and get new tires put on them. I would not assume there's enough standardization between different manufacturer hub designs to want to even mess with trying to install new hubs on the existing spindles, at that point might as well replace the axles and then buy spare hubs for the new axles from the same axle manufacturer.
If the rims are corroded but otherwise serviceable, I would just take them to a tire store and have the tires removed, take them home and refurbish them, then take them back to get new tires installed, overall that's probably going to be the cheapest way to four new tires.
noncongruent t1_j5h198f wrote
Reply to comment by betcher73 in How did they install this fence post? by Trapdoormonkey
I know that OP's picture shows a metal post in concrete, though the drilled wooden post is definitely not a way I've seen before. Typically you'd use a full-length galvanized post and use brackets to connect the wooden fence panels. Not sure why OP's was done that way, seems to be extra work with no real gain.
noncongruent t1_j5gsv6c wrote
Reply to comment by Traveling_Carpenter in How did they install this fence post? by Trapdoormonkey
Yep. There are cities in my area, DFW, Texas, that require galvanized posts in concrete. There's a lot of clay in this area which holds moisture, so wood posts tend to rot enough to blow over in a storm in just five or ten years. OP should check to see if their AHJ has particular fencing requirements, what they've got now might be because of restrictive local fence codes.
noncongruent t1_j5gfeci wrote
Reply to comment by obrecht72 in How did they install this fence post? by Trapdoormonkey
Setting wood posts in concrete isn't legal everywhere, some cities prohibit it because the posts rot in the concrete if the climate is wet enough.
noncongruent t1_j1wccog wrote
Reply to comment by IstandOnPaintedTape in Parking in Unfinished Basement by DirtyScoobie
I used double layers on my HVAC air handler closet along with an insulated steel door for noise abatement, and doubled the sheetrock on the bathroom walls as well for the same reason, along with insulating both sets of interior walls. Very quiet now, it was worth it.
noncongruent t1_j1spryo wrote
Reply to comment by 2wheels30 in Meet the amateur astronomer who found a lost NASA satellite by jarvedttudd
> government backed loans (ultimately forgiven)
Minor correction, those loans weren't forgiven, they were paid back a decade early, with a prepayment penalty:
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-doe-loan-early-repayment-penalty-elon-musk/
Tesla wasn't the only company to get loans from the DOE program created by Bush intended to help kick start certain technologies in this country.
noncongruent t1_j0k6h02 wrote
Reply to comment by lurq_king in Angelina Jolie bows out as envoy for U.N. refugee agency by Worldly_Pirate_9817
I will note that she's only 47, so she's done this for over two-thirds her adult life.
noncongruent t1_izd7lb2 wrote
I've always thought the 747 was the most beautiful airliner, it just has so much style. All the others are just functional-looking.
noncongruent t1_ixt1ng8 wrote
Reply to comment by razrielle in China regulator says Tesla recalls more than 80,000 cars by MrsSynchronie
Yep, Model 3. Release is right where the door handle would be, my friend keeps telling me to push the button instead.
noncongruent t1_ixrp0by wrote
Reply to comment by Range-Shoddy in China regulator says Tesla recalls more than 80,000 cars by MrsSynchronie
The statement was that with Tesla's door handles emergency responders can't open the doors from the outside, and the way NHTSA rules work, all car doors regardless of design can't be opened from the outside if they're locked. First responders are already trained how to deal with this common situation, which is to break the glass, and if necessary, use powered tools to pry or cut open doors. In other words, Tesla door handles do not present any additional difficulty to first responders than any other kind of car, and in fact, Tesla isn't the only company to use flush door handles:
https://motorandwheels.com/cars-without-door-handles/
Edit: And by law all Teslas have manual internal door releases that do not require battery power to operate.
noncongruent t1_ixrlovu wrote
Reply to comment by DBMS_LAH in China regulator says Tesla recalls more than 80,000 cars by MrsSynchronie
Yeah, I'm still pissed at that. Chrysler was slow-rolling the recall updates and hadn't gotten to his Jeep yet by the time he was killed, but did accelerate the recall, which could only be done in person at the dealership to upload the update. It still took them most of a year to get them all done. Honestly, vehicles by law should be mandated to have OTA update capability since that's a life-critical safety feature, as demonstrated by Anton's death.
noncongruent t1_ixrl3cp wrote
Reply to comment by DBMS_LAH in China regulator says Tesla recalls more than 80,000 cars by MrsSynchronie
If Chrysler could do OTA updates Anton Yelchin would still be alive.
noncongruent t1_ixrkjh2 wrote
Reply to comment by AgentOrc in China regulator says Tesla recalls more than 80,000 cars by MrsSynchronie
Ford just recalled 2,900 of their Lightning EV pickup truck because of a TPMS fault that could lead to tire failure. They've only sold 8,700 of them, so that's around one-third of the total production run.
noncongruent t1_ixrk3x9 wrote
Reply to comment by twitch1982 in China regulator says Tesla recalls more than 80,000 cars by MrsSynchronie
This is a huge problem with regular door handles as well, when the door is locked and emergency responders don't have a key to unlock the door, the door handles are mechanically disconnected from the door latch assembly and trying to operate the door handle to open a door doesn't work.
noncongruent t1_iv2qqnk wrote
Reply to comment by paul_wi11iams in Ukraine suffered a comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues by thatoneguy889
Yep, the terminals are geofenced so that if Russians get ahold of one and torture passwords out of a Ukrainian they still won't work in Russian-held territory. This means they won't work in Crimea at all, and when battle lines are shifting rapidly on active fronts there's a delay from when Ukraine can tell SpaceX they've regained control of territory and when SpaceX can propagate the new geofence info to terminals. This is likely only a problem where Ukraine is making rapid progress, which isn't along the entire battlefront.
noncongruent t1_irlfm42 wrote
Reply to comment by ClearlyCylindrical in Continent-Size Dust Storm on Mars Threatens to Shorten NASA InSight Lander's Last Days by Sariel007
On the other hand, being able to wipe a few times would dramatically extend the mission lifetime. If InSight had been launched with a brush attachment instead of HP^3 then it would likely have another decade of service ahead of it running the other experiments, especially the seismometer. Eventually other parts will fail, especially the onboard batteries since there's not really any such thing as battery chemistries that have indefinite lifetimes, but then again this is more of a hindsight observation.
noncongruent t1_jdxowzx wrote
Reply to Hypothetical question by jd-sutton
The problem is that in order to see past events, you need to get the telescope out there faster than the speed of light. A photon leaving the Earth travels at the speed of light, and since no known or suspected technology allows traveling faster than light, or for that matter even at the speed of light, it means that no matter how far away you put the telescope it'll always only be able to catch photons that left Earth after the telescope did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone