On 2024-03-20 18:57, Andrew wrote:

Notice that by following up to groups with "politic" in the name, my
filters automatically kill the subthread. Thus I am not reading or
commenting on what you said.

Removing:
alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.society.liberalism,talk.politics.guns

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Cheers, Carlos.

Carlos E.R. wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:14:35 +0100 :

> Thus I am not reading or
> commenting on what you said.

Doesn't matter. It's all been said before since we've discussed this in the
past in gory detail, where you don't remember anything that was said then.

The fact remains, everyone thinks that cellphones must raise the accident
rate simply because they're an added distraction, and they are an added
distraction - but there is no reliable evidence that they have any effect
whatsoever on the accident rate in reliably reported USA Census Bureau
Statistics.

Furthermore, the fact remains everyone thinks making laws to make people do
safe things would lower the accident rate, but again, teh reliable
scientific evidence shows thta also is not the case.

The laws have no first order effects whatsoever on safety but they do have
a minor but statistically valid second-order effect on length of hospital
stay.

This was covered on March 16, 2016 on this newsgroup, and again in even
more gory detail on July 6, 2020 on this very newsgroup, Carlos.

Morons (without a shred of evidence) disputed it then.
Those same morons (with no evidence) dispute it now.

Morons will always be morons, but the facts remain true.

The main reason cellphones have no effect on the accident rate is likely
two fold, one of which is there are hundreds of distractions. Adding one is
like adding another hair to your head. It changes nothing in statistics.

In addition, cellphones prevent accidents, so they have a cancelling effect
on the accident rate because they may prevent as many as they cause.

It's not clear why cellphones have no effect whatsoever on the accident
rate, but what's eminently clear in the reliable records is there is no
change in the downward trend of accident rates in the USA for decades.

Just like the first post-Covid should have been a superspreader event if
all the morons were correct (and it wasn't), the facts show that cellphones
do not change the accident rate (neither up, nor down) in effect.

As with the Fermi Paradox, if you feel otherwise, you have to answer this:
Q: Where are the accidents?

Andrew wrote:
> Carlos E.R. wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:14:35 +0100 :
>
>> Thus I am not reading or
>> commenting on what you said.
>
> Doesn't matter. It's all been said before since we've discussed this in the
> past in gory detail, where you don't remember anything that was said then.
>
> The fact remains, everyone thinks that cellphones must raise the accident
> rate simply because they're an added distraction, and they are an added
> distraction - but there is no reliable evidence that they have any effect
> whatsoever on the accident rate in reliably reported USA Census Bureau
> Statistics.
>
> Furthermore, the fact remains everyone thinks making laws to make people do
> safe things would lower the accident rate, but again, teh reliable
> scientific evidence shows thta also is not the case.
>
> The laws have no first order effects whatsoever on safety but they do have
> a minor but statistically valid second-order effect on length of hospital
> stay.
>
> This was covered on March 16, 2016 on this newsgroup, and again in even
> more gory detail on July 6, 2020 on this very newsgroup, Carlos.
>
> Morons (without a shred of evidence) disputed it then.
> Those same morons (with no evidence) dispute it now.
>
> Morons will always be morons, but the facts remain true.
>
> The main reason cellphones have no effect on the accident rate is likely
> two fold, one of which is there are hundreds of distractions. Adding one is
> like adding another hair to your head. It changes nothing in statistics.
>
> In addition, cellphones prevent accidents, so they have a cancelling effect
> on the accident rate because they may prevent as many as they cause.
>
> It's not clear why cellphones have no effect whatsoever on the accident
> rate, but what's eminently clear in the reliable records is there is no
> change in the downward trend of accident rates in the USA for decades.
>
> Just like the first post-Covid should have been a superspreader event if
> all the morons were correct (and it wasn't), the facts show that cellphones
> do not change the accident rate (neither up, nor down) in effect.
>
> As with the Fermi Paradox, if you feel otherwise, you have to answer this:
> Q: Where are the accidents?
>

Why not drop it then?
Fiddling with a phone while driving is illegal most places, but a real
smart guy could figure out ways to get away with it. Maybe even prove how
safe it is.

Get busy, and do something!

Hank Rogers wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:54:32 -0500 :

> Fiddling with a phone while driving is illegal most places

Plenty of things are illegal, where in California, it's now illegal to NOT
compost your food waste, but what does it mean to be illegal to you anyway?

New Law Gives California Green Light to Fine Residents
Who Don't Recycle Food Waste
https://californiainsider.com/california-news/new-law-gives-california-green-light-to-fine-residents-who-dont-recycle-food-waste-5579378

> Maybe even prove how safe it is.

Been there. Done that.
<https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=1681&group=news.admin.peering#>

Andrew wrote on Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:47:18 -0000 (UTC) :

>> Maybe even prove how safe it is.
>
> Been there. Done that.
> <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=1681&group=news.admin.peering#>

Most people are shockingly stupid, but that's what we have to deal with.
1. The morons have it easy
2. They never look anything up
3. They just make it up all the time

Which is why only a moron believes cellphones raised the accident rate.
They're sure of it.

They're all Dunning-Kruger left of Mount Stupid morons.

Me?
I would have thought the same thing the morons did, at least at first.
But then I looked it up.

However, it's a bitch to look things up.

But I made it easier for everyone, with this thread.
https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=1692&group=news.admin.peering#1692

You're welcome.

On 2024-03-20 15:14, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2024-03-20 18:57, Andrew wrote:
>
> Notice that by following up to groups with "politic" in the name, my
> filters automatically kill the subthread. Thus I am not reading or
> commenting on what you said.
>
> Removing:
> alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.society.liberalism,talk.politics.guns

I should be as careful. I have the bad habit of not removing the booby
sites when replying x-thread...

--
“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
- John Maynard Keynes.

On 3/20/24 8:47 PM, Andrew wrote:
> Hank Rogers wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:54:32 -0500 :
>
>> Fiddling with a phone while driving is illegal most places
>
> Plenty of things are illegal, where in California, it's now illegal to NOT
> compost your food waste, but what does it mean to be illegal to you anyway?
>
> New Law Gives California Green Light to Fine Residents
> Who Don't Recycle Food Waste
> https://californiainsider.com/california-news/new-law-gives-california-green-light-to-fine-residents-who-dont-recycle-food-waste-5579378
>
>> Maybe even prove how safe it is.
>
> Been there. Done that.
> <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=1681&group=news.admin.peering#>
>
FWIW. Here we're expected to put our food waste in plastic bags, tie
them closed, and deposit the little bags on top of our yard waste in the
yard waste container. There was much discussion about the nature of
these plastic bags and whether or not we were required to buy
compostable plastic bags.

The yard waste containers are picked up by a grabber-truck and the
contents dumped into the truck. Supposedly the bags are removed by
employees in hazmat suits where the yard waste trucks dump their
contents. They are then transported... somewhere... something.

I think unicorn poop may be involved, but I have no actual cite for
that. I can't imagine that the little bags aren't completely torn up by
rolling around in a truck full of twigs, logs, etc. but what do I know?

I'm sure that this works as well as plastic-recycling, aren't you?

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On 2024-03-23 21:14:20 +0000, The Real Bev said:

> On 3/20/24 8:47 PM, Andrew wrote:
>> Hank Rogers wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:54:32 -0500 :
>>
>>> Fiddling with a phone while driving is illegal most places
>>
>> Plenty of things are illegal, where in California, it's now illegal to NOT
>> compost your food waste, but what does it mean to be illegal to you anyway?
>>
>> New Law Gives California Green Light to Fine Residents
>> Who Don't Recycle Food Waste
>> https://californiainsider.com/california-news/new-law-gives-california-green-light-to-fine-residents-who-dont-recycle-food-waste-5579378
>>
>>
>>> Maybe even prove how safe it is.
>>
>> Been there. Done that.
>> <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=1681&group=news.admin.peering#>
>>
>
> FWIW. Here we're expected to put our food waste in plastic bags, tie
> them closed, and deposit the little bags on top of our yard waste in
> the yard waste container. There was much discussion about the nature
> of these plastic bags and whether or not we were required to buy
> compostable plastic bags.
>
> The yard waste containers are picked up by a grabber-truck and the
> contents dumped into the truck. Supposedly the bags are removed by
> employees in hazmat suits where the yard waste trucks dump their
> contents. They are then transported... somewhere... something.
>
> I think unicorn poop may be involved, but I have no actual cite for
> that. I can't imagine that the little bags aren't completely torn up
> by rolling around in a truck full of twigs, logs, etc. but what do I
> know?
>
> I'm sure that this works as well as plastic-recycling, aren't you?

Last year here in New Zealand, the Auckland City Council delivered
little green hand-carried bins to every house. These are meant to be
used to put food waste in and collected from the kerbside each week.

And, as with most of these greenie knee-jerk reaction ideas, it's a
complete and utter waste of time and money.

1. It was forced on every household and the cost is an added fee in the
household city taxes ... whether or not you wanted the bin, whether or
not you use the bin. So those who already compost their own food waste
are paying for a service they don't need or want. (For comparison, the
general rubbish collection is paid for via tags you buy to put on the
bin which, if not stolen beforehand, are taken off when the bin is
emptied. The recycling wheelie bins are emptied for "free", although
would be included in increased household city taxes.)

2. The bins are small and light (especially when empty), so they blow all
over the street in windy weather.

3. Houses now put out two bins every week (three every second week when
the recycling is collected) on the same day in the collection area,
meaning the kerbside and/or pavement is covered in bins, and then
when empited many are left on the road.

4. There are presumably* now two rubbish trucks going around doing the
collecting every week on the same day. Three trucks on every second
week when the recycling wheelie bin also goes out. (* I've never
bothered to see if both the general rubbish and food waste is simply
dumped into the same collection truck, but recycling does go in a
separate truck to general rubbish.)

5. All the food waste is *supposedly* trucked down south to another city,
three hours drive away, for processing into whatever they use it for:
biogas, fertiliser, etc. (The same company processess the food waste
from all over New Zealand's North Island.)

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:14:20 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:

> FWIW. Here we're expected to put our food waste in plastic bags, tie
> them closed, and deposit the little bags on top of our yard waste in the
> yard waste container. There was much discussion about the nature of
> these plastic bags and whether or not we were required to buy
> compostable plastic bags.

There are two kinds of people when it comes to composting ability, one of
which lives in an area where it's not feasible to compost into the ground.

I'm lucky in that I compost everything back into the ground, which requires
five things to do well, all of which I have an abundance of to do it right.
1. Layers of shredded paper/cardboard + kitchen/yard greens & browns
2. Space (to put the compost while it's being degraded by microbes)
3. Water (to enable the microbes to survive while dining on your scraps)
4. Periodic aeration (as oxygen consuming microbes do a better job)
5. Time (each bucket of compost takes about 3 months to decompose)

It would also be nice to have an outdoor industrial sized blender, as a
wood chipper is too big & messy and a kitchen blender far too small.
> The yard waste containers are picked up by a grabber-truck and the
> contents dumped into the truck. Supposedly the bags are removed by
> employees in hazmat suits where the yard waste trucks dump their
> contents. They are then transported... somewhere... something.

I always wanted to see what it looks like at the scrap yard where they have
to separate the broken lightbulbs from the bags of dog poop & the like. :)

> I think unicorn poop may be involved, but I have no actual cite for
> that. I can't imagine that the little bags aren't completely torn up by
> rolling around in a truck full of twigs, logs, etc. but what do I know?
>
> I'm sure that this works as well as plastic-recycling, aren't you?

It seems that for a short while, China bought our plastics but now it's no
longer feasible where a lot seems to be dumped into the oceans instead.

On 3/23/2024 2:14 PM, The Real Bev wrote:

<snip>

> The yard waste containers are picked up by a grabber-truck and the
> contents dumped into the truck.  Supposedly the bags are removed by
> employees in hazmat suits where the yard waste trucks dump their
> contents.  They are then transported... somewhere... something.

In my area the food waste and yard waste are turned into compost which
is available to residents for free. They do a good job at removing the
non-compostable stuff that gets dumped into the yard waste bins.

In fact, today is the first day of the seven month window that it is
open:
<https://www.cupertino.org/our-city/departments/environment-sustainability/compost-site>

There are no garbage police, yet, but it does benefit residents to sort
their trash into the gray, blue, and green bins because garbage rate
increases are tied to the amount of waste that ends up in the landfill,
versus waste that is turned into compost, or waste that is,
theoretically, recycled (I say "theoretically" because most of the
recycled material is usually no longer recycled (other than aluminum cans)).

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really do matter less than the opinions of experts. It's not
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