If it was an accident — tank rupture or otherwise — they would just say so instead of firing the driver.
Maybe the driver just pulled the dump valve, got back in the bus, and drove away leaving a long streak of disgusting on the road behind him, but the stretch over the bridge is the only part we hear about??
It seems unlikely any professional driver would expect to get away with that without being noticed.
How does this happen, physically? Do fancy tour buses have a “dump poop” button that the driver can actuate while under way?
My motor home has a black tank with a dump valve, but to open it I have to be standing outside the back of the vehicle, open a big hatch to the wet bay, and pull a lever. This is not something that could happen while the vehicle is in motion.
Also it takes a few minutes for the tank to drain out — much longer than the time to drive across a bridge — and if I did it without the sewer hose attached it would mostly go out the hole for the sewer hose under the dump valve, but also I’m sure the side splatter would make an unholy disgusting mess inside the wet bay as well.
Assuming you wanted to do a deed like this with any normal motor home, I don’t see how you could.
Has anybody got more technical detail on how this dastardly deed was done?
I was trying to make a point that, when we are faced with choices having only unpleasant options — taking one of those unpleasant options is still a choice.
We have limited agency in this world, and saying “I had no choice, I had to do it” instead of “of the various choices I had, I picked this one as least-bad” is a kind of self-delusion that makes our lives feel even more constrained than they really are.
Keeping this awareness in mind, that I do have other choices, helps me hold my emotions together in times like now when I find myself choosing to swallow a shit sandwich as my best-available option.
My vet told me some dogs ate sensitive to grapes and some dogs can have as much as they want without harm and you only find out which way it is for your dog by watching them die of kidney failure
Yes, those count as technical skills and there are many, many people for whom it’s too big a hurdle.
picking out a decent micro PC that actually works is hard.
Getting a pc install (presumably windows) configured in a way that will display in the TV legibly from the couch is hard.
Requiring a keyboard and mouse to use your TV from the couch is weird and off-putting. Most people won’t want to and some people will have difficulty understanding what they’re supposed to do with these objects
The technical competence bar for getting a TV plugged in and working is just ridiculously, ridiculously low, and that’s for a reason
It does not — dumb people have the same access to the better drugs as smart people.
A eugenics-driven society where dumb people are left to die and smart people get extra health care likely would be effective at breeding children who are better at passing the “smart people” test, but I would not like to live in a society like that.
If you’re about to argue that having enough money to pay for health care correlates with intelligence… I would welcome some evidence. I used to think that was obvious but, having grown up and experienced the world some, the only thing I see that correlates with intelligence is depression.
Sounds great as a headline but I bet it winds up somehow very easy for Elon Musk to unmask his haters and very hard for John Q Random to drive that same process.
Meanwhile government agencies and big tech advertising schemes get a great new way to track who's using which website for what activity.
Super all around for everyone who already has power.
I had the same question and found: https://lemmy.world/post/22183725
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If it was an accident — tank rupture or otherwise — they would just say so instead of firing the driver.
Maybe the driver just pulled the dump valve, got back in the bus, and drove away leaving a long streak of disgusting on the road behind him, but the stretch over the bridge is the only part we hear about??
It seems unlikely any professional driver would expect to get away with that without being noticed.
The party is split precisely about whether we really need to be fighting the fascists or not.
You can’t come together ignoring differences to accomplish a shared goal when the goal is not actually shared.
How does this happen, physically? Do fancy tour buses have a “dump poop” button that the driver can actuate while under way?
My motor home has a black tank with a dump valve, but to open it I have to be standing outside the back of the vehicle, open a big hatch to the wet bay, and pull a lever. This is not something that could happen while the vehicle is in motion.
Also it takes a few minutes for the tank to drain out — much longer than the time to drive across a bridge — and if I did it without the sewer hose attached it would mostly go out the hole for the sewer hose under the dump valve, but also I’m sure the side splatter would make an unholy disgusting mess inside the wet bay as well.
Assuming you wanted to do a deed like this with any normal motor home, I don’t see how you could.
Has anybody got more technical detail on how this dastardly deed was done?
Mostly tradies are learning by hands-on apprenticeship with a master. All that discussion is not on the internet.
I’m out of the loop. What’s going to change tomorrow?
I was not trying to be rude here.
I was trying to make a point that, when we are faced with choices having only unpleasant options — taking one of those unpleasant options is still a choice.
We have limited agency in this world, and saying “I had no choice, I had to do it” instead of “of the various choices I had, I picked this one as least-bad” is a kind of self-delusion that makes our lives feel even more constrained than they really are.
Keeping this awareness in mind, that I do have other choices, helps me hold my emotions together in times like now when I find myself choosing to swallow a shit sandwich as my best-available option.
You do you, man.
Everything is a choice. Sometimes the options are shit. But we’re still making choices all our lives and the shit options are still options.
You can just pay for entrance without a card. They are not mandatory.
You didn’t have to get one. You could also just not.
Depends on which people. But we’ve lost any expectation for other kinds of justice so …
Rephrased, “it’s not just fixing things that is my job. It’s also important that nobody else besides me can fix the things.”
Is this the same as “shit or get off the pot”?
Or is this literal advice about going to clubs?
I feel like Mel fucking Brooks may have less energy available at this point in his career to push his artistic vision through.
I feel like this movie is the cinematic equivalent of 90-year-old congresspeople giving us “greatest hits of ideas that played well decades ago”.
Go. Retire. You had a great career for a long time. Now find a smaller audience.
My vet told me some dogs ate sensitive to grapes and some dogs can have as much as they want without harm and you only find out which way it is for your dog by watching them die of kidney failure
A trans woman sold me a car tire once outside Calgary and seemed to be having a just fine day working at the tire shop with her co-workers
I drive a giant motor home with headlights about five feet lower than my eye level.
Other cars’ reflectors work fine.
Sometimes it’s hard to read reflective signs above way over the highway, but retroreflective stuff at road level is definitely working
Yes, those count as technical skills and there are many, many people for whom it’s too big a hurdle.
picking out a decent micro PC that actually works is hard.
Getting a pc install (presumably windows) configured in a way that will display in the TV legibly from the couch is hard.
Requiring a keyboard and mouse to use your TV from the couch is weird and off-putting. Most people won’t want to and some people will have difficulty understanding what they’re supposed to do with these objects
The technical competence bar for getting a TV plugged in and working is just ridiculously, ridiculously low, and that’s for a reason
It does not — dumb people have the same access to the better drugs as smart people.
A eugenics-driven society where dumb people are left to die and smart people get extra health care likely would be effective at breeding children who are better at passing the “smart people” test, but I would not like to live in a society like that.
If you’re about to argue that having enough money to pay for health care correlates with intelligence… I would welcome some evidence. I used to think that was obvious but, having grown up and experienced the world some, the only thing I see that correlates with intelligence is depression.
Sounds great as a headline but I bet it winds up somehow very easy for Elon Musk to unmask his haters and very hard for John Q Random to drive that same process.
Meanwhile government agencies and big tech advertising schemes get a great new way to track who's using which website for what activity.
Super all around for everyone who already has power.