Recent comments in /f/newjersey

ScumbagMacbeth t1_j9yrf7r wrote

I moved out at 22, I was making $20/hr. Moved back home at 24 when my dad got cancer. Stayed until he died, stayed for a few more years to help my mom (she never lived alone before and my dad handled a lot of the bills and household tasks so she didn't know how to do them) and save money. I didn't have any long term relationships by choice, and did date around successfully. Moved back out at 29 making like $30/hr. But this was a while ago so inflation, etc. I don't regret moving back home and I think with the economy the way it is it is totally understandable.

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Dicksapoppin69 t1_j9yqx9d wrote

Reply to comment by garth_meringue in Move over... by JS_NYC_208

Stubborn hardheaded shit is staying in lane you're not supposed to be coasting in, and agitating a tailgater. Or being the asshole tailgating because you're impatient.

Yellow has no obligation, or duty to act to placate the tailgater, or make space for the other inept driver.

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Wandego t1_j9yqk5h wrote

Whales use sound to navigate so the extra loud sonar blinds and scares them. They swim to get away and end up on the beach or maybe have lingering physical damage causing distress and eventually death. I don’t know if this is the case with the sonar mapping here, but I’m hoping the marine biologists are looking into it.

I am not a marine biologist, but I think of it this way: Imagine you are walking outside, minding your own fucking business, and are suddenly accosted by a sound so loud it bursts your ear drums and blinds you. You would run to get away from the sound, but being unable to use your ears or eyes to navigate your escape, you could run into traffic or off a cliff, or some other dangerous situation.

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THE_some_guy t1_j9yqdti wrote

They’re using sonar to survey the sea floor in preparation for building wind turbines there. People are claiming that the sonar activity is what’s causing the “recent” increase in whale beaching.

…except the trend of increased beaching goes back at least 10 years, well before any wind farm related activity. And the organizations making the most noise about “those poor whales” are very clearly funded by the oil industry, who would obviously prefer that we keep burning their product instead of making electricity from wind.

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Anonymoushipopotomus t1_j9yq9j5 wrote

I was talking to someone at the Surf City Hotel who was talking loudly about this. In the same sentence he went from the windmills are going to block the wind coming from the ocean and it will make the beach hotter, and it will also somehow make it more powerful so that it blows the dunes back over the island.

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4rch t1_j9ypva9 wrote

Yeah like I said they're more pronounced from South Jersey observation points due to the deployment being mostly focused there.

Most people are worried the conditions providing visibility on page 10 will be the norm instead of the exception. https://www.boem.gov/sites/default/files/documents//VIA-South-Attachment-E-Photosimulations-Part-5-BHB01.pdf

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raindropdroptopz t1_j9yprid wrote

I made a post about this the other day because it’s a rabbit hole I went down the other week haha. Even got banned from one of the “Protect Our Coast NJ” Facebook pages when I pointed out the donate link literally linked to a big oil think tank…

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ManInKilt t1_j9yp8rz wrote

Because turbines are actually kind of terrible. Maintenance intensive, takes a lot to produce, can't recycle the blades when they wear out so they just get buried, expensive.... All around not worth the squeeze. But they look good and green so people do it anyway

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Dicksapoppin69 t1_j9yp3ab wrote

Reply to comment by garth_meringue in Move over... by JS_NYC_208

The yellow car doesn't need to do shit for the green or red. Red needs to either speed the fuck up, or slow back down to get behind yellow. Red need to follow the fucking law and unless they're actively passing, get the fuck over.

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Dicksapoppin69 t1_j9yorvz wrote

I read that they dump hundreds of barrels of diesel into the water to make them start to spin and that to put them into the ground they gotta use TNT to blow up the ground and then use dangerous chemicals to make the bases

I read it in my "I fucking love Oil" Facebook group

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Bogart_The_Bong t1_j9yokuu wrote

Funny story. The increased beachings of migrating oceanic creatures will continue as Earth's magnetic pole continues to to move off spin axis (the axis of the planet as it spins). At present the magnetic pole and the axis of the planet diverge by almost 24° - not good considering the magnetic makeup of Earth (a LOT of iron).

Of course we all have our fingers crossed that the past 40 years of apparently instability and movement will right itself back to within ≈10° of axial spin, but so far it doesn't seem to be doing what we'd like it to. Not to say this indicates a pole reversal which would be drastic even with GPS systems in place for navigation ^*1, but because science is working with incomplete data planetology... well, bad, missing and misinterpreted data... and have NO idea of how this phenomena occurs. Reversal seems to occur cyclically.

So no Frank - it's not Q-ball related fantasy/idiocy... it's something even more sinister than their idiotic rantings - it's the natural order of things making sure no one species gets too damn comfortable living on this rock.


Funny story. Do you remember when GPS became THE thing - get as many satellites into orbit for navigation purposes as quickly as possible? That all precipitated upon discovery of magnetic 'movement' in the Earth's pole magnet.

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