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"Try" to hurt? Half-burned diesel particulate is absolutely cancerous, it can enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier and they're generating cl
by KennyBlanken 5mo ago
"Try" to hurt?
Half-burned diesel particulate is absolutely cancerous, it can enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier and they're generating clouds of it, probably thousands of times more than what a modern 18 wheeler puts out in half an hour of driving. And they're doing it to someone breathing hard.
If I sprayed some cancerous chemical in someone's face, I'd be arrested within the hour. I'd be on the regional news, even.
The double standards around motor vehicles never cease to amaze.
- stavros 5mo agoWtf people are doing this on purpose? What's wrong with people?
- curt15 5mo agoChest-thumping
- llm_nerd 5mo agoCan you provide a citation on this? Sounds like worthless conjecture. Please provide a arXiv claim to back up your post or delete it from HN.
- mmh0000 5mo agoThe "people" doing this are exactly the type of people you'd expect... Just the first thing that came up in a youtube search, there are thousands more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPMbLO4pAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPMbLO4pAY
- stavros 5mo agoWait, this isn't something that they configure the truck to do all the time? They can turn it on and off? I thought this was some shitty way of being "special", like a loud exhaust, but being able to turn it on and off to gas people is downright evil.
- mmh0000 5mo agoIt's not a "switch" per-se (though some of the kits have realtime tuning switches to make more/less smoke on demand). It's a purposely poorly-turned engine + accelerator control. TL;DR: poor turning, and floor it (high RPM). This video gives a pretty good overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTnnJ7xMv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTnnJ7xMv8
- stavros 5mo agoAh, even worse, you can gas people and your engine pollutes normally as well. I didn't think people would be this shitty, but here we are.
- UltraSane 5mo agoA nasty combo of sadism and tribalism and stupidity.
- kortilla 5mo ago> If I sprayed some cancerous chemical in someone's face, I'd be arrested within the hour. I'd be on the regional news, even. No you wouldn’t. You’ve just described 2nd hand smoke which you can easily get hit with walking down any sidewalk in the US.
- marysol5 5mo agoDoing an intentional act, vs a passive outcome is two differing things
- kortilla 5mo agoBlowing smoke in someone’s face can be very intentional and nobody would ever make news or be arrested for doing it to some passerby
- array_key_first 5mo agoBlowing smoke in someone's face is very little smoke in practice, because air is a thing. Also, realistically, you're not getting cancer from someone blowing smoke in your face. Smokers get cancer because they smoke tens of thousands of cigarettes. You won't get cancer because you kind of smoked .1 cigarettes. Also, the majority of lifetime smokers don't even get lung cancer.
- defrost 5mo agoLargely because there's so many other tobacco and nicotine related diseases to get instead: A full range of scientific evidence, extending from the molecular level to whole populations, supports the conclusion that secondhand smoke causes disease. The scope of this evidence is enormous, and encompasses not only the literature on secondhand smoke but also relevant findings on active smoking and on the toxicity of individual tobacco smoke components. * The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44321/ 356 links to supporting studies and works