American Politics 16: After The Ballooning

[Free Algerstonia]

guns can be used as a doorstop to defend your home if a home invader tries to invade, just grab your gun and angle it to block the door

what if your door opens out?

then you're screwed

[Elwher]

Why would you have an outwardly opening exterior door?

Might be matter of opinion, but an outward opening door is safer than an inward opening one.

More than just opinion, that is why businesses are required the have outward opening doors. In an emergency, having to pull a door into the crowd of people trying to exit is difficult at best.

[American Legionaries]

Might be matter of opinion, but an outward opening door is safer than an inward opening one.

More than just opinion, that is why businesses are required the have outward opening doors. In an emergency, having to pull a door into the crowd of people trying to exit is difficult at best.

Well, sure, but the context was specifically a home invasion. There aren't crowds of holiday shoppers rushing my front door in a fire.

[El Lazaro]

More than just opinion, that is why businesses are required the have outward opening doors. In an emergency, having to pull a door into the crowd of people trying to exit is difficult at best.

Well, sure, but the context was specifically a home invasion. There aren't crowds of holiday shoppers rushing my front door in a fire.

I mean, you don’t know until it happens

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

what if your door opens out?

then you're screwed

Oh god. Who showed Algie House of Cards?

[Mountains and Volcanoes]

That, like it or no, is a major issue in American politics today.

A million internet bucks if a single new or interesting thing is said.

Already, have two threads full of that!

[Tarsonis]

More than just opinion, that is why businesses are required the have outward opening doors. In an emergency, having to pull a door into the crowd of people trying to exit is difficult at best.

Well, sure, but the context was specifically a home invasion. There aren't crowds of holiday shoppers rushing my front door in a fire.

It's a lot harder to pull a security door open than it is to kick one in. In an outward facing door the frame braces the door.

But we digress

[Cannot think of a name]

You win this round, having it turn into a debate over which way your front door should open is both new and will qualify as interesting. Don't spend your internet million in one place.

[Senkaku]

Perhaps I want to. That's what freedom is all about, after all.

Right! The only limits on freedom that can be justified are if my actions harm another person, not if they make another person nervous that I might do something.

I could be misremembering but didn’t Khrushchev say this during the Cuban Missile Crisis

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

I know! How Lilo and Stitch was edited cuz 9/11!

[Neutraligon]

More than just opinion, that is why businesses are required the have outward opening doors. In an emergency, having to pull a door into the crowd of people trying to exit is difficult at best.

Well, sure, but the context was specifically a home invasion. There aren't crowds of holiday shoppers rushing my front door in a fire.

There is also the worry about debris inside the building. I a fire at your home, you can pretty much always pull the door outward, but debris from falling plaster and the like can block if you have it go inside.

[Shrillland]

I know! How Lilo and Stitch was edited cuz 9/11!

Actually Disney is in the news, though not for anything they'd want to be in the news for. There may be a massive strike at Disney World later this year over insufficient pay raises.

Disney wants to keep their current raise of a dollar a year, the STCU wants three dollars right off because of the soaring COL in Central Florida.

[Tarsonis]

I know! How Lilo and Stitch was edited cuz 9/11!

Actually Disney is in the news, though not for anything they'd want to be in the news for. There may be a massive strike at Disney World later this year over insufficient pay raises.

Disney wants to keep their current raise of a dollar a year, the STCU wants three dollars right off because of the soaring COL in Central Florida.

Giving cast members free Disney+ subscriptions probably wasn't a good idea when you got 2 different versions of Newsies on there.

[Ifreann]

Extremism, by definition, is the opposite of populism.

Nah tho.

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Might be matter of opinion, but an outward opening door is safer than an inward opening one.

More than just opinion, that is why businesses are required the have outward opening doors. In an emergency, having to pull a door into the crowd of people trying to exit is difficult at best.

Private homes rarely have crowds.

[American Legionaries]

Well, sure, but the context was specifically a home invasion. There aren't crowds of holiday shoppers rushing my front door in a fire.

There is also the worry about debris inside the building. I a fire at your home, you can pretty much always pull the door outward, but debris from falling plaster and the like can block if you have it go inside.

Yes, but rather an inwardly swinging door or an outwardly swinging door is safer, in the abstract, and in a private home, is hardly as clear cut as it was presented.

[Greater Cesnica]

Oh goodie. Another gun wank.

Ain't it lovely?

[Thermodolia]

Fire after the rail disaster in East Palestine Ohio continues to rage and has prompted the total evacuation of the town as officials are now concerned about a mile wide explosion

[Cannot think of a name]

Fire after the rail disaster in East Palestine Ohio continues to rage and has prompted the total evacuation of the town as officials are now concerned about a mile wide explosion

The first inevitable disaster after the strike was forced over really did swing for the fences. That mile wide explosion happens and this goes from movie of the week to major motion picture for the 'how the fuck did this happen' inevitable movie in 5 years.''

Also of course this is very sad and knowing full well what it's like to have to casually go about your day while a big ass fire is raging a short drive away. There are those that are in material danger or already injured or killed that obviously it sucks the most for but that 'just far enough' feeling is hard to describe. "If I drive 30-45 minutes north I'll end up in a fire bigger than the town I live in..."

How long is that contract?

[Stellar Colonies]

Fire after the rail disaster in East Palestine Ohio continues to rage and has prompted the total evacuation of the town as officials are now concerned about a mile wide explosion

Mile-wide?

[Tarsonis]

There is also the worry about debris inside the building. I a fire at your home, you can pretty much always pull the door outward, but debris from falling plaster and the like can block if you have it go inside.

Yes, but rather an inwardly swinging door or an outwardly swinging door is safer, in the abstract, and in a private home, is hardly as clear cut as it was presented.

I distinctly said "matter of opinion." That is quite the opposite of "clear cut"

[American Legionaries]

Yes, but rather an inwardly swinging door or an outwardly swinging door is safer, in the abstract, and in a private home, is hardly as clear cut as it was presented.

I distinctly said "matter of opinion." That is quite the opposite of "clear cut"

Cool!

[Senkaku]

Fire after the rail disaster in East Palestine Ohio continues to rage and has prompted the total evacuation of the town as officials are now concerned about a mile wide explosion

Mile-wide?

our own RL mini “two to four megatons” moment

[-Astoria-]

Fire after the rail disaster in East Palestine Ohio continues to rage and has prompted the total evacuation of the town as officials are now concerned about a mile wide explosion

Mile-wide?

Appears so.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Fire after the rail disaster in East Palestine Ohio continues to rage and has prompted the total evacuation of the town as officials are now concerned about a mile wide explosion

What was this train carrying again?

[-Astoria-]

Fire after the rail disaster in East Palestine Ohio continues to rage and has prompted the total evacuation of the town as officials are now concerned about a mile wide explosion

What was this train carrying again?

Per the above linked article:

According to the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident, 20 train cars were carrying hazardous materials and ten of those cars derailed.

Five of the ten derailed cars were carrying vinyl chloride, the NTSB said in a statement Saturday. The agency said it has “not confirmed vinyl chloride has been released other than from the pressure release devices.”

The cars involved were also carrying combustible liquids, butyl acrylate, and residue of benzene from previous shipments, as well as nonhazardous materials such as wheat, plastic pellets, malt liquors, and lube oil, according to the NTSB.