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City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians
- BizarroLand 3y agoThis was a good read, it was nice how they put the contested signature top right and prominent and also clearly reiterated the story the mayor tried to squash.
- kotaKat 3y agoIt's as if the city council decided to drive right into their own bridge[1] and now we get to watch the chaos unfolding all the same. [1] http://11foot8.com/ http://11foot8.com/
- pityJuke 3y agoCompletely unrelated to the parent topic: oh my god, they added warning signs on top of 11"8+8, and people are still messing up? EDIT: Nope, my memory is bad, the "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" sign was always there.
- threesevenths 3y agoHaven’t the warning signs always been there, even when it really was 11’ 8”?
- pityJuke 3y agoYou're right, woops. Memory is a fickle mistress.
- suierklepye 3y agoYes the warnings have been there all along not a surprise its happening
- mike_hock 3y agoThe bridge is fucking world-famous and they still manage to mess up.
- jeroenhd 3y agoThey've put up extra height bars and they've added a blinking light using a sensor for warning overheight trucks (OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN) which shows to an extra long red light. I also believe they've lowered the road a little bit, but there's only so much they can do. People still crash into it, somehow.
- kiba 3y agoIt's called inattentional blindness. People not only see with their eyes, but with their mind. That's why you might see cyclists with blinking taillight, or even lights in the daytime.
- concinds 3y agoYeah. I think that sign would be more effective if both lines were swapped: "Must Turn, Overheight" rather than Overheight Must Turn". It sounds like a generic warning, I bet these truck drivers don't think it's specifically about them.
- Clamchop 3y agoPays to be imperative: TURN NOW. Needs more bright red blinkenlight, too.
- jeroenhd 3y agoThe sign that warns driver does actually blink though, for this exact reason. I believe there's a separate electronic sign further up the road as well that flicks on when a vehicle triggers the sensor. Even without all that, an educated driver should just see the sign on the tunnel and determine their truck doesn't fit... Funnily enough, blinking taillights are actually banned here because it's very difficult to guage distance and speed from a blinking tail light.
- kiba 3y agoThat's why you have a blinking taillight and a continuous light.
- adhesive_wombat 3y ago"OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" is almost comical in it's dangerous ambiguity. My first parse is "if you were over height, you would have to turn", not "you, yes, you! Stop! Now!". I'd take a bet that the person who choose that wording wanted the accidents to continue but also have plausible deniability because they did do "something".
- xypage 3y agoThat is exactly what it means though, they don't want everyone to stop just overheight vehicles. What do you want the sign to do? Encourage everyone to stop?
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoIt has a sensor and only goes off for overheight vehicles. If you see it come up, you will hit the bridge if you continue straight, but it's worded too like a generic warning to all vehicles: which is the parse you have also apparently made. Better wording would be "Overheight! Do not proceed under bridge!". If you have space: "you are overheight!" or "overheight vehicle detected!" Add the number plate with an ANPR camera for bonus "this means you" (it also triggers a red light phase whenever it sees an over-height vehicle, so you will have time to read it). And yes, this is possible, I've seen supermarkets flash your number plate at you as you enter to warn you the parking times are being recorded.
- xypage 3y agoI see what you mean, you're probably right that it would help, but honestly I just don't think the people hitting it are reading it in the first place. It doesn't light up until they're at the intersection, at which point they're either very focused on the light or the traffic, and definitely not looking way above even the yellow bar. Most people seem to be driving rentals, and in their case they're just not thinking about the size of their vehicle, and the rest have gone under a thousand bridges that look to the unfocused eye just as tall, so they're not worried about it at all. What they really need is probably just something that hangs at that height in front of it so you can hear it bang off of your car with minimal damage before you actually hit the bridge, and push the intersection further away from the bridge so there's more time to look at the signs.
- joshstrange 3y agoIt always amazes me that truck rentals like we see in a few videos on that site are legal, like with a normal license. Every time I’ve rented one all I can think of “I can’t believe they trusted me with this thing that I drive once every few years at best”. I guess they don’t care, they have insurance but still. Whenever I see someone else diving one of these I give them a very wide berth and assume they have no idea what they are doing since they normally don’t.
- stronglikedan 3y agoI once reserved a 20 footer, and at the last minute they called me and asked me if I would take a 26 footer instead. Man, I didn't know what I was getting into. That is a whole different beast than the standard 20 footer. Never again - what a pain in the ass that was - every aspect of it was a hassle. The whole time I was wondering how the hell it was legal for me to be driving that thing around.
- wil421 3y ago26 footers are terrible. I’ll gladly tow a massive trailer and it’s much easier to position a trailer. In fact it’s easier with longer trailers over something like a jet ski trailer. A roommate in college worked for Lowe’s installing appliances off a 26 footer. He crashed into things and cars once a month. After 9 times they said don’t get a 10th, luckily he changed jobs.
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoSame, I got the Big One when I was moving out of SF. Driving that monster around town (and parking right on lower Haight where my apartment was) is not something I would ever willingly do again.
- dekhn 3y agois that the one with "grandma's attic"? I have never driven a truck with a (manual) transmission that was older than me until I drove one. I manage to parallel park it near the panhandle in a two-car space. I was proud (still am!)
- stronglikedan 3y agoMy current favorite. Feel resistance? Keep going! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LK5RzZDJoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LK5RzZDJoQ
- bombcar 3y agoI mean 99%+ of the vehicle got through fine! That's perfectly within the SLA.
- saganus 3y agoTwo things I was not expecting from this video: - the amount of people that just keeps going at _full speed_ (even after violent shaking and noise) - how much it would make me laugh. For some reason the absurdity of it all just cracked me up
- MetaMalone 3y agoSo fkn funny. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7pO39Sh6THg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7pO39Sh6THg
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoAt some point, you would think they would lower the road beneath the bridge.
- tialaramex 3y agoThe road there is stuck. Raising the railway, which has been done once already, is very expensive. Lowering the road would require moving a sewer main, which is a fairly delicate and also expensive job. Both railway and sewer are very old and substantially pre-date the modern assumption that you can just drive trucks wherever you want as if that's some basic element of civilisation rather than a weird temporary glitch.
- opwieurposiu 3y agoApparently there is a gravity-flow sewer underneath the road, making it very difficult to go any lower.
- mschuster91 3y agoAt some point it becomes cheaper to install a lift pump and a pressurized section for the sewage than to constantly have crashes to clean up and disrupt service.
- greatfilter251 3y ago[dead]
- bratgpttamer 3y agoReminds me of one of my favorite headlines: "Teacher says every time a truck storrows, an overpass gets a trophy" (storrowed = putting a 12'6" truck under a 10'6" bridge) [1] https://www.universalhub.com/2019/teacher-says-every-time-truck-storrows-overpass https://www.universalhub.com/2019/teacher-says-every-time-tr... [2] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=storrowed https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=storrowed
- dtgriscom 3y agoAh, yes. September is coming, and with it the "DON'T TAKE TRUCKS ONTO STORROW DRIVE" signs land on every major road entering BOSTON.
- shove 3y agoHell yeah, nice local reference
- lysp 3y agoAustralia has their own - Montague Street Bridge ("Monty"). It's 9'11 (3.0m) https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/ https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/ It has dozens of warning signs, an overhead gantry with rubber paddles that hit a high vehicle's roof, flashing lights and still gets hit approximately once a month.
- pityJuke 3y agoIs there a way to get an RSS feed for just "The Signpost"? Really interesting read.
- Arnavion 3y agoSubscribe link in footer -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Subscribe#RSS_feeds https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost...
- notpushkin 3y agoLooks like you can get any category on any MediaWiki website as RSS. Neat! https://mediawiki-feeds.toolforge.org/ https://mediawiki-feeds.toolforge.org/
- pityJuke 3y agoWonderful, thanks!
- mvdtnz 3y agoThere's a link at the bottom labelled "Wikipedia Signpost RSS feed", I haven't double checked it but I suspect that's what you want.
- vorpalhex 3y agoI wonder if havig a name and shame website, with a copy of the material they want removed, would be valuable and not just cathartic. Props on Wikimedia Foundation for doing it right.
- akolbe 3y agoActually, the Wikimedia Foundation was not involved. The Signpost is written by unpaid volunteers (like the rest of Wikipedia), not by Wikimedia Foundation staff.
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- bloopernova 3y agoEdited to add: they were apparently born in 1969, I've spent too much time online, and I enthusiastically leapt to the wrong conclusion. Original comment follows: The lawyer who sent the letter has the wikipedia username "kimlynn69". You'd think that a lawyer, engaging in actions on behalf of a client, would use a more professional username.
- tomalpha 3y agoTo be fair, a glance at her LinkedIn profile (top google search result for her name) suggests that 1969 could well be her birth year.
- silisili 3y agoOur of pure boredom, I can confirm records show this.
- bloopernova 3y agoAh, well not the first time I've made a fool of myself jumping to the wrong conclusion. I'll change the comment.
- JoelMcCracken 3y agoI mean, nobody forced them to use their birth year in their username
- AdmiralAsshat 3y agoTotally unprofessional to be born in that year, IMO. She should have considered the long-term ramifications when deciding to emerge from the womb.
- bloopernova 3y agoIt's like the apocryphal 13th floor in hotels, people should be born in either 1968 or 1970. Otherwise I might make a fool of myself by mocking their username. Same as anyone born on April 20th.
- rdtsc 3y ago> The WMF told Indy Week that they had not received the letter and that the letter that had been made public contained an incorrect postal address for the WMF's headquarters I wonder if the lawyer did it on purpose. They've probably had enough dealing with an unreasonable client so they made a few "mistakes" to blow the case up so the city can get a new official and they won't have to deal with them any longer. If you listen to the linked video of the official yelling obscenities and acting unprofessionally, imagine working for them. On one hand, they'll do what they are told, on the other, mistakes "just happen". And look at that, they are not seeking re-election any longer, sounds like a "win" for the attorney.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoDo they have to send those with Certified Mail?
- mschuster91 3y ago> An eyewitness interviewed by Indy Week alleged that Durham council member DeDreana Freeman had attempted to strike Durham Mayor-pro tempore and council member Mark-Anthony Middleton during the shouting session, but instead struck O'Neal once and punched the head of fellow Durham council member Leonardo Williams twice before Williams subdued her. In the aftermath of these incidents, O'Neal announced that she would not seek re-election as Mayor and a state investigation was opened into the extortion allegation (Holsey-Hyman denies the alleged extortion attempt and a separate allegation that she ordered city employees to perform campaign work on her behalf). Wtf. That alone is wild, open brawls in parliament are usually something associated with dysfunctional democracies. Attempting to censor that and invite the Streisand effect? That's new. If you decide to throw fists in politics, at least don't attempt to contradict the evidence. JFC.
- int3 3y agoeh, Taiwan is a functional democracy and yet it has had parliamentary brawls too
- LordShredda 3y agoNothing says loyalty and patriotism more than a good old fist fight in the name of democracy
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoIt is said that during the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325), St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra became so angry with Arius the heresiarch that Nicholas punched him in the face. True or not, this certainly imparts some significance to the Sacred Council's condemnation of Arian propositions and their proclamation of the divinity, and eternal Godhood, of Christ. Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas!
- mschuster91 3y agoDidn't know that, had a quick Google and stumbled over a ton of reports spanning many years - including a bunch of legislators throwing pig guts around [1]. Wild. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/11/legislators-threw-pig-guts-taiwans-parliament-heres-what-you-need-know-about-legislative-brawls/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/11/legislato...
- axus 3y agoThe topic after Durham was about RuWiki. Apparently the director of "Wikimedia Russia" was banned from making edits due to "Long-term abuse: creating a Wikipedia fork which includes stolen content from Commons as well". I get that pushing a state-sponsored, censored clone of Wikipedia is bad for free information, but it seems out of scope of the real Wikipedia. Stealing information from Wikipedia is a bad thing, by itself?
- div72 3y agoProbably because of attribution. I assume that most Wikipedia articles are licensed under a version of CC with attribution requirements.
- sen_armstrong 3y agoTIL that Рейму Хакурей (Reimu Hakurei) is a bot that removes possible vandalism on Russian Wikipedia, and that its creator's page rains touhou powerups.
- kornhole 3y agoThis is an interesting read of some of the politics around editing of Wikipedia, but the problem is much bigger. This show interviewing the founder dropped last night and covers many of the problems as well as some potential solutions to decentralize the knowledge and search capabilities such as encycloreader.org. https://rumble.com/v33wemb-wikipedia-co-founder-condemns-it-most-biased-encyclopedia-in-history-system.html https://rumble.com/v33wemb-wikipedia-co-founder-condemns-it-...
- veave 3y agohttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Elaine_O%27Neal.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Elaine_O...