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  • AxExRx@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•Birmingham, England 🇬🇧. A double-parked car is blocking the road.English
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    1 month ago

    I live on a narrow 1 way road, which unfortunately means cars tend to park all the way up on the sidewalk, generally an inch from my fence. (Which gets smashed once a ywar on average, but thats another story) One day someone decided to park over the yellow line, completely blocking off one of my houses 2 exits, and the one I needed to take my mom out to get her to a post surgery follow up. I tried to get the landscapers to move the truck and they refused, so I called the local FD, explaining someone was blocking my house entrance off.

    They had a truck full of firemen over there in like 10 mins, with those steel breaker bars. Smashed the windows and passed a rope through the cab, Then climbed over the truck, rolled it over with the bars, then attached the rope to their hitch so they could drag it out and clear for the waiting flat bed wrecker to pick it up.

    The vehicle owner had come back out after they smashed the windows and tried to move it himself but the fireman in charge wouldnt let him. Told him it was too late, and his guys ‘needed the practice’

  • AxExRx@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•Why there's no quick fix in sight for the problem of dazzling headlightsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My understanding is that thwres a a federal limit of like 30% light being blocked for windshields, with most states having stronger regulations.

    My state, Mass, only allows any tint in the top 6" for instance. BUT, its really easy to get a waiver, overriding that. All it requires is taking a doctor’s note documenting photosensitivity to the DMV.

    Back in highschool, my friend’s mom had glaucoma, and got her car tinted. Because he was on his parent’s insurance, that made her a registered user of his car, and also entitled him to tint his out. He had his windshield tinted to about the darkness of a medium pair of sunglasses.

  • AxExRx@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to RepairEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Unless im missing something about the design, theres a fairly common bit already on the market that works for this, and Id assume most auto shops already have laying around. My dewalt 50 piece came with one…
    Bit looks like ( https://share.google/KHdg0HfO6zC9bab9O)

    That one of those 2 pin spanner wrencheswith one on an arm that swings to adjust size, as far as asshole design security screws go, im not too mad at this… accomplishes what it needs to (keeping some rando with a screwdriver in his pocket from just deciding to undo some exposed screws for ‘fun’, or stealing your car trim) without being so proprietary pwople who arent preppared can’t undo it with tools at hand (like the apple Pentalobe screws, and various triangle and tritip Philips variants, really anything with an odd number of contact points is immediatly more of a pita)

  • AxExRx@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I peel a hard boiled egg?
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    2 months ago

    From working in commercial kitchens where Id do 50-100+ for breakfast every day:

    first boil them, add a bit of white vinegar to loosen the shells. At that scale, i was also able to ‘age’ the eggs a bit, which helps a lot. (i ordered and set aside eggs to they spent 10-14 days in the walk in before boiling)

    then straight into an ice bath. The temperature shock will contract the whites away from the membrane a little. (This also helps prevent carryover cooking)

    Then, fish the eggs out, roll them along a hard surface to crack a band around the middle/ widest diameter, then into a second cool, but not freezing bucket of water with a cloth, and use the cloth underwater to gently peel the shells away, with a spoon handy for prying off more stubborn pieces that get stuck, or pushed into the whites a little.

    If everything worked out, for most of the eggs, you should be able to sort of twist and pull off the mostly intact top and bottom hemisphere of shell, with the rag, and then gently brush away the cracked middle section.

  • AxExRx@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some red flags when it comes to renting in an apartment?
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    3 months ago

    In my jurisdiction, the enforcement of quiet enjoyment laws are pretty much only used for ‘LL is harassing me’

    While the law requires LL to prevent others from preventing QE, a suit against a landlord for failing to protect QE is going to come down to ‘were the police called and document disruption in a report, and did they handle it?’ If no, theres no proof, or it was deemed not a problem (and therefore not interfering with QE) and if they did intervene, theres no more disruption, so problem was solved and no QE claim to be made.

    On the other hand, a landlord trying to enforce QE on their own, risks the problem tenant calling the police on LL, alleging LL interfered with their QE, and when police show, first question is going to be why the alleged infraction the LL showed up about wasnt called in, and is going to be dismissed as alleged, with only the LL’s interference as documentaries.

    Back in our 20s one of my friend was a little shit. Lived in a split lot with his LL. Almost every night, hed play music loud, LL would bang on door, hed tell him to fuck off, and LL would threaten to call the cops. Hed wait 10 mins, turn the music down for 30, then back up of the police didnt show. If they did, theyd talk to an angry LL, then come to the door and hed be pleasant and invite them in, where theyd hear perfectly normal levels of music, and agree with him he was within his rights to enjoy music at that volume. Police report would document noise complaint as unsubstantiated, and LL as having showed up at his house and then called the cops over nothing, both invasions to his QE

    After a month, LL got labeled a nuisance caller by the PD. At one point, he came to the door, knocked and friend just didnt answer. Landlord started snooping around, looking in windows with his cell camera, and friend videotaped him doing so, and called the cops on the LL.

    Landlord got arrested, and friend was presented with temp restraining order paperwork, over ‘dozens of documented harrasments.’ When landlord was being released, he was asked if he had anywhere to stay that wasnt on that property, and it turned out he had a vacant unit across town, that he was advised to stay in pending the hearing. (Idk if they would have held him the extra day or so before the prelim hearing or what)

    The prelim hearing was the next day with just my friend in court, (tro is granted provisionally or not, depending on claimants evidence, then a hearing is scheduled in 30 days where both sides gets to present their case. The dozens of lopsided police reports were plenty, and he was awarded the provisional RO, and the LL advised to stay where he was already staying until it was worked out.

    When it came to tbe actual hearing, both sides’ stories were dismissed as anecdotal with the police reports still being the only thing counted. Judge upheld the RO. LL tried to claim the house adjacent to my friends was his residence, and the judge basically said 'youve been living in the house across town for 30 days so im not granting that exception to the RO. The order was set to last the 3.5 years left on the lease, LL was advised to hire an agent to conduct all buisness on those 2 properties, and friend ended up getting awarded 6months of rent for the QE violations.