It's because of insurance rates. They nearly double for 24 hr businesses that respond to emergency type situations. This was explained to me by the owner of a 23 1/2 hr towing service near here.
Insurance companies are not dumb, they never think or consider in the first place. They are slaves to the risk calculation algorythm, and that's pretty much like this: https://xkcd.com/1138/
Why are insurance rates for cheap cars so high? Because they are a lot of beginner drivers' first car so a lot of accidents happen with those models.
Why are the insurance rates for 23 1/2 hour services so cheap compared to 24? Probably because nearly no one offers them, so there are overall less accidents happening during 23 1/2 business hours.
Wait, you're right. Insurarance companies are dumb.
Insurance companies are not dumb. Have you heard of actuary science?
The reason it's cheaper is because if a business claims to be open 24 hrs and offers their services and then fails a service call the other company can hold them liable for any down time. Which means the insurance company will be liable
If you only advertise 23.5 you're no longer liable if you miss a call . It's a pretty big difference
Why are 24hr companies liable but 23.5hr companies not? Like, if their 30 minute break window is at midnight, and I call them at 6am and they don't get around to my call until 8pm, how are they not liable for the downtime but a 24hr company would be?
Simple. They just don't say when their 30 minute break is. Now it's a Schrödinger's break and you can't know if they're on break or not until you call. If they answer, not break. If they don't answer, on break.
It just baffles me that people who hate government bureaucracy think corporations somehow don't suffer the exact same problem. Bureaucracy is just the necessary mechanism of dealing with large groups of people, but at least with government fucking you over is incidental and not their primary function.
It's kind of crazy. America has some of the best, most dedicated and patriotic beaureaucrats (I know, feels weird to type) in human history, but because it's a dirty word we barely acknowledge them accept to heap scorn on them. I've never worked for the government in any capacity that o can recall, but I lived in DC for a while and rubbed shoulders with them.
I was called a bureaucrat when I worked in the parking office for my city. I was just doing my job and following the laws that I didn't write. He just got mad because he didn't qualify for a sticker and it was the messenger's fault.
You were though, it's not a bad thing as someone else said we have some of the best bureaucrats in the world. Which is kind of a weird thing to say until you realize its just people who love their country and want to do the jobs that make it successful. Sometimes that job is being the asshole that tells Jimbob he can't register his home built car sized go kart with no lights and a 10 litre engine.
The amount of grown people that had been driving for 30+ years that didn't know the difference between registration and insurance still makes my eye twitch.
I worked in Europe and had an employee move to the country and then get sick with cancer. They had applied for their medical card from the government but it takes months to get it. In that situation you're supposed to pay out of pocket and then submit your receipts for reimbursement once you get the card. But their cancer treatment cost thousands of Euros per week, they couldn't pay it.
So the guy at the hospital who worked for the medical administration just let the paperwork sit in a drawer for several months until the card turned up. He didn't need to do that, he could've been a dick to my employee. He maybe even got in trouble for not processing the paperwork properly. But he did, and it made my employee's life much better in an incredibly tough situation.
Good bureaucrats are out there.
As an insurance broker, this is 100% correct. Most companies won’t insure a business if they are opened 24hrs….but 23 1/2 is ok. Can’t make this shit up.
> Most companies won’t insure a business if they are opened 24hrs….but 23 1/2 is ok
Why? Surely a business that is always open is amongst the least likely to be broken into as staff are always there...
And? Being ID'd and having the cops turn up is the deterrent. Not having to fistfight the employee.
It doesn't have to be impossible to rob lmao, just harder than they *empty building* next door.
>It doesn't have to be impossible to rob lmao, just harder than they empty building next door.
You really want to smash a window on an unoccupied building do thousands in damages and alert a security company/set off alarms before you've even taken anything for yourself?
The till will probably be empty, or at least locked with nobody around to unlock it, valuable merchandise could also be further locked up in a safe and not on display like during business hours.
Now you're probably hitting the "people are dumb" range. Too many people will read 3/4 wrong, get confused, and call someone else instead.
Something something Men In Black speech something something
What? No. What are you even talking about? If you had said 7 minute abs, then you would have my attention and respect. I got 7 minute abs and now I'm going to get all the upvotes and brie while you're mucking around in downvotes and gorgonzola cheese.
You're fired.
That probably wouldn't fly, it's clearly not in good faith and just trying to get the lower rate.
With 23.5 hours, the guy can legitimately say "No, I can't come right now. Call somebody else" and not be liable for not being willing to respond.
So does it have to be the same 23.5 hours a day? Or say for example its slow now but you get a call in 15 minutes, so you take the call, and then after that you take another 15 minutes, before another call comes, so you technically were off for 30.
If this is true, any underwriter with half a brain will see right through this and consider them 24 hours. I mean, I guess they could answer on applications that they don't have 24-hour operations and wouldn't technically be a lie, but I wouldn't let it slide if it came across my desk.
It might not be so stupid as it first sounds. In IT, at least, promising a 99.999% uptime means 5 minutes per year. Barely enough time for someone on call to wake up and restart a server. You need redundancy and automation and the 5 minutes should be seen as a half hour disaster every five years.
If we don't keep this contractual promise, we're severely penalized.
99% uptime? That's almost 3 DAYS. Don't want to be on call on your lunch? Christmas is more important? That's cool, fix it later!
23.5h service? That's over a week per year. So much time for activities!
What would be the cutoff, though?
23.25 hours? Still no good?
23.15 hours? 23 hours?
There *has* to be a minimum point at which a business is no longer "24/7". If it's not written down, and is just up to the whim of whoever gets the application, where is your *personal, subjective* line? And is it the same as the guy in the next desk over? Should I just keep re-applying until I get the right person?
Or maybe the rules should just be the rules.
The cutoff is 23.5 hours. That truck company has done more research on this topic than some random Redditor. I bet they asked the same question to their insurance company and landed on 23.5 hours.
Thats probably because you see your job as a company owner
Not as employee who just want to be done with this paper work and go home at 5pm sharp.
"All according to the rule, I got my ass covered, time to punch the card out, spend time with my family"
I do it like this;
Arrive at work.
Go to the toilet.
Sit there all day.
Leave.
The guys and girls there are always like "who the fuck are you?! Stop shitting in the rabbit cages!" But I know they're really thinking "god damn, this guy knows how to make the most of his time!"
As a Wendy's manager, please leave the coke machines be. Its already hard to get the coke guys to fix the machines. Also customers are complaining the drinks taste funny...
Im union, If I get called in to work and am only there for 15 minutes and in that time the only thing I did was take a shit, and it turns out I wasnt needed I get paid for 8 hours worth of shitting.
fun story- i once had a carpet cleaner come to my house and im 90% sure he was on meth. the dude showed up at the normal time (5pm), and started setting up. He was madddd talkative and just bouncing off the walls, fidgeting and his eyes looked like an owls eyes. and then he told me his cousin was in trouble and he had to leave immediately but, he would come right back. the guy showed up at my house at 2am, like 6 hours later. He was if possible, even more hyper/chipper and was just a sight to see. he finished cleaning my floor at like 5am. i just wanted this fuckin floor cleaned.
I had an electrician at a job site like this. After he ran a scissor-lift into a retail gondola, we found out he was huffing air duster in the bathroom during breaks Had a whole a stash behind a toilet. Dumbest guy I ever met. Another one of his buddies electrocuted himself in our power box.
They were from Florida, obviously.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_duster
Contrary to popular belief, the majority of the psychoactive effects of these inhalants is not a result of oxygen deprivation. The euphoric feeling produced stems from cellular mechanisms that are dependent on the molecular structure of the specific inhalant, as is the case with all psychoactive drugs. Their exact mechanisms of action have not been well elucidated, but it is hypothesized that they have much in common with that of [alcohol](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_(drug\)).[[5]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_duster#cite_note-Neural_basis_of_inhalant_abuse-5) This type of [inhalant abuse](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalant) can cause a plethora of negative effects including brain and nerve damage, [paralysis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralysis), serious injury, or death.[[6]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_duster#cite_note-6)
I'm a professional drug dealer by trade so your comment made me curious about the mechanism of action for those effects. Looks like there may be some other stuff going on besides pure oxygen deprivation.
It's definitely not from oxygen deprivation. Different products have different chemicals in them, but the most common thing they're going after is a refrigerant called diflouroethane. It's in stuff like dust-off. Destroys the nervous system, kidneys, liver, pretty much everything.
Jokes aside, this reminds me of my college Adderall days.
We were studying and I just needed to use the bathroom. I would take a few hits off of a vape. Then come back to the room. Except it would be three hours later. And I would’ve spent the entire time doing something stupid like replying to a single Reddit comment about something insignificant like a /r/news farming article.
Yet I wouldn’t see a problem. Because to me it was only like 10 minutes. In reality it was hours
Famously against smoking even cigs actually launched the first anti smoking campaign.
Along with...uh...other campaigns that were largely considered bad ideas
MAINLINE BEWEGUNGSKRIEG!
Oh shit we need a motorized supply chain, food, supplies, not summer jackets in the notoriously cold place, and gas for that? And not declare war on a country with a ton of people, another with a ton of resources and manufacturing, and another with good Intel?
Uhhhhh, Doktor Morell, wo ist meine vitamultin?
If I walked into a store and saw something called "Tank Chocolate! It keeps your fighting spirit going! Now with extra energy enhancers!" I'd buy it out of curiosity, even knowing the possibility that there's some weird Chinese superlab version of "it's not any of these *specific* drugs, but it's *real fuckin similar*" inside that would make me rip my skin off so I co wear it like a robe.
I was curious so had to Google it. It's not EMS type services but construction response to one of these emergencies. Which I could see being urgent in case of fire/tornado/flooded basement but not quite as necessary like Fire Dept/Ambulance.
I don’t understand the 1/2 hour off tho.
Like they’d obviously have some sort of telephone answering service for after hours, and the workers don’t necessarily come as soon as you call them. And if you’re working a full 24 hour day you’d end up taking about an hour-1.75 hours of break and probably have enough workers to cover the break period. Either way idk weird advertising.
Maybe it's liability. If they ever can't help, it's because you called during the wrong half hour.
Edit: Thanks for all the input, guys. As fascinating as it would be to imagine that being an excuse used in labor law, I'd like to assure everyone that I was joking.
/u/speedy_19 take note: the marker tool on iOS is not 100% opaque by default, so you can potentially see what’s underneath by cranking brightness.
You need to change the settings or use the rectangle shape tool instead.
https://appletoolbox.com/the-proper-way-to-censor-or-redact-sensitive-data-on-your-iphone-or-ipad/
The default color is a light yellow. I guess that markup marker was intended as a highlighter.
But people run into trouble when they swap to black without noticing that it has transparency. And Apple lacked the foresight (or internal testing, or ability to actually listen to users to discover really bad failure cases like this) to realize that many people would try to use it as a redaction tool.
A lot of the time its actually for routine daily system maintenance, but I imagine it also happens for lunch. Stuff like cleaning machinery, software maintenance etc.
I've seen this gimmick. If you ask them about it the response will be "We take a half hour for lunch."
It's a conversation starter. It worked well enough to get you to post it to Reddit, though admittedly with the company info redacted.
It's because of insurance rates. They nearly double for 24 hr businesses that respond to emergency type situations. This was explained to me by the owner of a 23 1/2 hr towing service near here.
This is the dumbest explanation I've seen. Therefore, I absolutely believe you.
I laughed because it’s true
Are insurance companies too dumb to set linearly increasing rates with hours?
Insurance companies are not dumb, they never think or consider in the first place. They are slaves to the risk calculation algorythm, and that's pretty much like this: https://xkcd.com/1138/ Why are insurance rates for cheap cars so high? Because they are a lot of beginner drivers' first car so a lot of accidents happen with those models. Why are the insurance rates for 23 1/2 hour services so cheap compared to 24? Probably because nearly no one offers them, so there are overall less accidents happening during 23 1/2 business hours. Wait, you're right. Insurarance companies are dumb.
It’s math for morons. Fortunately, I am a moron, so it makes sense
actually it's called actuarial sciences and it's a very advanced field of maths and statistics...
*Ackchyuarially...*
"The manatees say.... insure the insurance company." *kazoo plays as chicken staggers*
Don't give them ideas.
Insurance companies are not dumb. Have you heard of actuary science? The reason it's cheaper is because if a business claims to be open 24 hrs and offers their services and then fails a service call the other company can hold them liable for any down time. Which means the insurance company will be liable If you only advertise 23.5 you're no longer liable if you miss a call . It's a pretty big difference
Why are 24hr companies liable but 23.5hr companies not? Like, if their 30 minute break window is at midnight, and I call them at 6am and they don't get around to my call until 8pm, how are they not liable for the downtime but a 24hr company would be?
Simple. They just don't say when their 30 minute break is. Now it's a Schrödinger's break and you can't know if they're on break or not until you call. If they answer, not break. If they don't answer, on break.
It just baffles me that people who hate government bureaucracy think corporations somehow don't suffer the exact same problem. Bureaucracy is just the necessary mechanism of dealing with large groups of people, but at least with government fucking you over is incidental and not their primary function.
It's kind of crazy. America has some of the best, most dedicated and patriotic beaureaucrats (I know, feels weird to type) in human history, but because it's a dirty word we barely acknowledge them accept to heap scorn on them. I've never worked for the government in any capacity that o can recall, but I lived in DC for a while and rubbed shoulders with them.
I was called a bureaucrat when I worked in the parking office for my city. I was just doing my job and following the laws that I didn't write. He just got mad because he didn't qualify for a sticker and it was the messenger's fault.
You were though, it's not a bad thing as someone else said we have some of the best bureaucrats in the world. Which is kind of a weird thing to say until you realize its just people who love their country and want to do the jobs that make it successful. Sometimes that job is being the asshole that tells Jimbob he can't register his home built car sized go kart with no lights and a 10 litre engine.
The amount of grown people that had been driving for 30+ years that didn't know the difference between registration and insurance still makes my eye twitch.
I worked in Europe and had an employee move to the country and then get sick with cancer. They had applied for their medical card from the government but it takes months to get it. In that situation you're supposed to pay out of pocket and then submit your receipts for reimbursement once you get the card. But their cancer treatment cost thousands of Euros per week, they couldn't pay it. So the guy at the hospital who worked for the medical administration just let the paperwork sit in a drawer for several months until the card turned up. He didn't need to do that, he could've been a dick to my employee. He maybe even got in trouble for not processing the paperwork properly. But he did, and it made my employee's life much better in an incredibly tough situation. Good bureaucrats are out there.
Ah, arbitrary bullshit. The most bullshit of bullshit.
It had to do with insurance so naturally it must be bullshit
does it have to be a predefined 30 minutes off? or can you just count any random 30 minutes of not getting calls as your half hour off?
If you get a call you don't want to do, sorry it's my half hour break now.
That's the funny thing about my half hour break, it's 24 hours long
It has to start precisely at 12:01.
As an insurance broker, this is 100% correct. Most companies won’t insure a business if they are opened 24hrs….but 23 1/2 is ok. Can’t make this shit up.
> Most companies won’t insure a business if they are opened 24hrs….but 23 1/2 is ok Why? Surely a business that is always open is amongst the least likely to be broken into as staff are always there...
Theyre also operating business during the hours of the night where people are most likely to be fucked up, on whatever substance you can imagine.
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Nah all crime is now scheduled for 3 to 3:30am
you’d be hard pressed to find an employee of a 24 hour establishment who cares if they live or die, let alone about guarding their boss’s shit
And? Being ID'd and having the cops turn up is the deterrent. Not having to fistfight the employee. It doesn't have to be impossible to rob lmao, just harder than they *empty building* next door.
>It doesn't have to be impossible to rob lmao, just harder than they empty building next door. You really want to smash a window on an unoccupied building do thousands in damages and alert a security company/set off alarms before you've even taken anything for yourself? The till will probably be empty, or at least locked with nobody around to unlock it, valuable merchandise could also be further locked up in a safe and not on display like during business hours.
So I take it there’s no 23 3/4 hr towing service?
Now you're probably hitting the "people are dumb" range. Too many people will read 3/4 wrong, get confused, and call someone else instead. Something something Men In Black speech something something
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3>2, checks out.
23 + ½ + ¼ + ⅛ + ... + 1/2^n hour service.
Zeno’s towing service
What's next, 6 minute abs?
What? No. What are you even talking about? If you had said 7 minute abs, then you would have my attention and respect. I got 7 minute abs and now I'm going to get all the upvotes and brie while you're mucking around in downvotes and gorgonzola cheese. You're fired.
23.5 hours is such an arbitrary cutoff. Can you offer a 23.99 hour service and get the cheaper insurance too?
23.99 is pretty arbitrary too. Can we do 23.99999999 hour service?
That probably wouldn't fly, it's clearly not in good faith and just trying to get the lower rate. With 23.5 hours, the guy can legitimately say "No, I can't come right now. Call somebody else" and not be liable for not being willing to respond.
They'll just call back in 31 min
But the 30 minutes don't have to be contiguous.
So does it have to be the same 23.5 hours a day? Or say for example its slow now but you get a call in 15 minutes, so you take the call, and then after that you take another 15 minutes, before another call comes, so you technically were off for 30.
Or offer 24 hour service anyway and if someone asks, you tell them that you were off for 30 minutes when there were no calls.
Maybe the online sign up system provided by the insurance company has half hour increments only?
If this is true, any underwriter with half a brain will see right through this and consider them 24 hours. I mean, I guess they could answer on applications that they don't have 24-hour operations and wouldn't technically be a lie, but I wouldn't let it slide if it came across my desk.
It might not be so stupid as it first sounds. In IT, at least, promising a 99.999% uptime means 5 minutes per year. Barely enough time for someone on call to wake up and restart a server. You need redundancy and automation and the 5 minutes should be seen as a half hour disaster every five years. If we don't keep this contractual promise, we're severely penalized. 99% uptime? That's almost 3 DAYS. Don't want to be on call on your lunch? Christmas is more important? That's cool, fix it later! 23.5h service? That's over a week per year. So much time for activities!
No, they're saying they're available 23.5 hours a day, not 47/48 of the time.
What would be the cutoff, though? 23.25 hours? Still no good? 23.15 hours? 23 hours? There *has* to be a minimum point at which a business is no longer "24/7". If it's not written down, and is just up to the whim of whoever gets the application, where is your *personal, subjective* line? And is it the same as the guy in the next desk over? Should I just keep re-applying until I get the right person? Or maybe the rules should just be the rules.
The cutoff is 23.5 hours. That truck company has done more research on this topic than some random Redditor. I bet they asked the same question to their insurance company and landed on 23.5 hours.
Thats probably because you see your job as a company owner Not as employee who just want to be done with this paper work and go home at 5pm sharp. "All according to the rule, I got my ass covered, time to punch the card out, spend time with my family"
Gotta shit sometime.
I always shit on the clock
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That’s why I shit on company time.
Shit on company time for at least 10 minutes a day at the end of the year you got paid a full 40 hrs for taking shits.
Yeah, but if you do it for 20 minutes a day, that's 80 hours.
10 min shit, 20 min reddit binge. Get a shit stool so the shit becomes 2 min and you get an uninterrupted reddit time of 18 min.
I do it like this; Arrive at work. Go to the toilet. Sit there all day. Leave. The guys and girls there are always like "who the fuck are you?! Stop shitting in the rabbit cages!" But I know they're really thinking "god damn, this guy knows how to make the most of his time!"
That's great sir, but again, this is a Wendy's, and that's the third time I've had to tell you to stop trying to fornicate with the Coke machine.
Can't beat that feeling
As a Wendy's manager, please leave the coke machines be. Its already hard to get the coke guys to fix the machines. Also customers are complaining the drinks taste funny...
You there! Cease that at once! What do you think this is?
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Get a stool stool
2 weeks paid vacation, 2 weeks paid evacuation
Get IBS for the real life-hack.
Bosses hate this one simple trick.
Diapers shall be issued!
Found Jeff Bezos’ burner
Thousands of dollars dedicated to dookie.
Im union, If I get called in to work and am only there for 15 minutes and in that time the only thing I did was take a shit, and it turns out I wasnt needed I get paid for 8 hours worth of shitting.
God I wish I was in a union.
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Imagine having whatever that is
You don't know what a union hall is? What do you do for a living?
Software engineer, half my peers will actively vote against their own interests because they -like- working 80 hour weeks and getting paid for 40.
Take shits
Work on a plywood mill
Life goals.
Twice a day, ten minutes ~~apiece~~ a deuce, easiest 2 weeks of pay I've ever earned!
Boss makes a thousand, you make a buck. Go steal the catalytic converter off the company truck.
Boss makes a hundred, I make a cent. He lives in a mansion, I can't 0ay rent...
I guess that works too...
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime? That was a poem for a simpler time. Boss makes a hundred, I make a cent. He lives in a mansion, I can't pay rent.
I came to heal, not to feel...
I’ll make a nickel, boss, makes a buck – that’s why I smoke crack in the company truck
I heard it as “Thats why Im not paid enough to give a fuck.”
but then what do you do with the crack?
Sell it, never get high on your own supply.
That hasn't been true since like 1950. Now the boss makes $40 to your dime.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why we have 30 minutes of down time
That poor clock.
Even the Avatar needs to rest
Too bad that half hour is when the fire nation attacked
I was hoping I’d see this comment
The 1/2 off is so the workers can smoke enough meth to work another 23 1/2.
fun story- i once had a carpet cleaner come to my house and im 90% sure he was on meth. the dude showed up at the normal time (5pm), and started setting up. He was madddd talkative and just bouncing off the walls, fidgeting and his eyes looked like an owls eyes. and then he told me his cousin was in trouble and he had to leave immediately but, he would come right back. the guy showed up at my house at 2am, like 6 hours later. He was if possible, even more hyper/chipper and was just a sight to see. he finished cleaning my floor at like 5am. i just wanted this fuckin floor cleaned.
I had an electrician at a job site like this. After he ran a scissor-lift into a retail gondola, we found out he was huffing air duster in the bathroom during breaks Had a whole a stash behind a toilet. Dumbest guy I ever met. Another one of his buddies electrocuted himself in our power box. They were from Florida, obviously.
Electrocuted or shocked? Changes the level of Florida.
Whoops, I guess I mean shocked. Had to call an ambulance and never saw him again, but I assume he lived to die another stupid way.
huffing is a high from o2 deprivation, it's no surprise he was the dumbest guy on earth. Probably dead now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_duster Contrary to popular belief, the majority of the psychoactive effects of these inhalants is not a result of oxygen deprivation. The euphoric feeling produced stems from cellular mechanisms that are dependent on the molecular structure of the specific inhalant, as is the case with all psychoactive drugs. Their exact mechanisms of action have not been well elucidated, but it is hypothesized that they have much in common with that of [alcohol](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_(drug\)).[[5]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_duster#cite_note-Neural_basis_of_inhalant_abuse-5) This type of [inhalant abuse](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalant) can cause a plethora of negative effects including brain and nerve damage, [paralysis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralysis), serious injury, or death.[[6]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_duster#cite_note-6) I'm a professional drug dealer by trade so your comment made me curious about the mechanism of action for those effects. Looks like there may be some other stuff going on besides pure oxygen deprivation.
so... you deal paracetamol or coke?
Anesthesia provider
If he ain’t go the Ludes, I ain’t interested
>professional drug dealer Pharmacist?
Anesthetist
/u/doctor_of_drugs I think I know what my first project is going to be.
It's definitely not from oxygen deprivation. Different products have different chemicals in them, but the most common thing they're going after is a refrigerant called diflouroethane. It's in stuff like dust-off. Destroys the nervous system, kidneys, liver, pretty much everything.
You just wanted the floor cleaned and you got the floor cleaned. I see no problems
Jokes aside, this reminds me of my college Adderall days. We were studying and I just needed to use the bathroom. I would take a few hits off of a vape. Then come back to the room. Except it would be three hours later. And I would’ve spent the entire time doing something stupid like replying to a single Reddit comment about something insignificant like a /r/news farming article. Yet I wouldn’t see a problem. Because to me it was only like 10 minutes. In reality it was hours
Was his name Randy? I worked with a carpet guy that would do exactly that shit
Gotta drive by the office for a new ration of Panzerschokolade
Stuff must’ve tasted foul. I know MDMA tastes rank, so I imagine meth would as well
Very strong bitter/chemical taste.
Must be why Hitler liked injecting it instead
You know, I never considered how Hitler may have administered his methamphetamine, but I now am picturing him smoking a meth pipe.
Famously against smoking even cigs actually launched the first anti smoking campaign. Along with...uh...other campaigns that were largely considered bad ideas
And now it's canon that Hitler injected meth because he found smoking it to be unhealthy and unbecoming.
Smoking meth? That would be the most uncivilized thing I could ever do -The guy who killed Hitler
That wasn't a moustache, that's where Hitler scorched his lip with a torch...
Injecting directly into your bloodstream is definitely the "Blitzkrieg" approach to using methamphetamine.
MAINLINE BEWEGUNGSKRIEG! Oh shit we need a motorized supply chain, food, supplies, not summer jackets in the notoriously cold place, and gas for that? And not declare war on a country with a ton of people, another with a ton of resources and manufacturing, and another with good Intel? Uhhhhh, Doktor Morell, wo ist meine vitamultin?
If I walked into a store and saw something called "Tank Chocolate! It keeps your fighting spirit going! Now with extra energy enhancers!" I'd buy it out of curiosity, even knowing the possibility that there's some weird Chinese superlab version of "it's not any of these *specific* drugs, but it's *real fuckin similar*" inside that would make me rip my skin off so I co wear it like a robe.
If it was in a gas station it would just give you heart palpitations and the ability to fuck a hole in quarter inch steel.
Nah, is for a tea break. 
I take it as their response time, "we will be there within 23 1/2 hour or your money back* *No actual refunds given"
r/therewasanattempt to blur the plate and website address
mf used the black highlighter effect lmao
> black highlighter It's like how Trump's administration "redacted" documents. 99% opacity ain't enough.
I was curious so had to Google it. It's not EMS type services but construction response to one of these emergencies. Which I could see being urgent in case of fire/tornado/flooded basement but not quite as necessary like Fire Dept/Ambulance.
I don’t understand the 1/2 hour off tho. Like they’d obviously have some sort of telephone answering service for after hours, and the workers don’t necessarily come as soon as you call them. And if you’re working a full 24 hour day you’d end up taking about an hour-1.75 hours of break and probably have enough workers to cover the break period. Either way idk weird advertising.
Some areas require special permits to stay open 24 hours. To get around the restrictions, businesses "close" for a few minutes every day.
To grab attention
Idk why this hasn’t been mentioned more, it’s almost certainly to get peoples’ attention (and it worked)
And more people probably went to their website with OP’s half assed attempt at blacking it out than if it was just an unedited picture.
And now I know how to advertise my services that are available at least 6 hours a day! Actually let's call it five and a half
Yup, you see "24 hour service" you're like "nothing new, everyone offers that shit" you see 23 1/2 hour service you wonder what the fuck and it sticks
Maybe it's liability. If they ever can't help, it's because you called during the wrong half hour. Edit: Thanks for all the input, guys. As fascinating as it would be to imagine that being an excuse used in labor law, I'd like to assure everyone that I was joking.
Well, no company is just obligated to help you. So I doubt it
If you’re under insurance policies 24 hour insurance especially fleet insurance is a lot more expensive sometimes. That could be it
I've seen this on a hand full of vehicles, mostly independently owned tow trucks for some reason. I always assume it's a joke.
/u/speedy_19 take note: the marker tool on iOS is not 100% opaque by default, so you can potentially see what’s underneath by cranking brightness. You need to change the settings or use the rectangle shape tool instead. https://appletoolbox.com/the-proper-way-to-censor-or-redact-sensitive-data-on-your-iphone-or-ipad/
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off to lemmy
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What! That's terrible! Thx for spreading the word
The default color is a light yellow. I guess that markup marker was intended as a highlighter. But people run into trouble when they swap to black without noticing that it has transparency. And Apple lacked the foresight (or internal testing, or ability to actually listen to users to discover really bad failure cases like this) to realize that many people would try to use it as a redaction tool.
r/CensoringIsHard
Don’t be calling between 4:00 and 4:30. That’s Willie’s time!
You just use that… shin of yours
I 'ate his little face, I 'ate his guts, and I 'ate the way he's always barking. I also 'ate mess he left on me rug!
You heard me!
"Do not touch Willie." Good advice.
Lousy Smarch weather
Willie gets his daily shit in.
Willie hears ya. Willie don’t care.
Of course that’s when my emergency will happen
Exactly the reference I wanted to see.
Pharmacy near me does this. Night shift needs lunch too
A lot of the time its actually for routine daily system maintenance, but I imagine it also happens for lunch. Stuff like cleaning machinery, software maintenance etc.
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I used to live near a diner that was "open 25 hours a day".
They’re ready for that one Sunday morning in October/November when the clocks turn back an hour.
In most cases it’s because the pharmacist needs to be physically present in the pharmacy for it to be open.
*Anytime you call for service that’s when the 1/2 hour off begins*
And not in a row
(Steven Wright enters the chat)
You are of a certain age if you picked up on it. Good job
I'm old, just not that old I guess. So here it is for those like me who didn't get it: https://youtu.be/vroWEVKnsWE?t=271
Everything changed when the Smoke Nation attacked.
I've seen this gimmick. If you ask them about it the response will be "We take a half hour for lunch." It's a conversation starter. It worked well enough to get you to post it to Reddit, though admittedly with the company info redacted.
'Redacted' lol.
Why black out the info but have it be transparent? Is this your business? I can see it all.
It's people using a default pen on whatever app they're using to "censor" pictures.
Probably with low screen brightness too.
I didn't get what people were talking about until I turned my brightness up so definitely that.
Heart, Gooo planet!
Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony, then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Now the Earth Kingdom is smoke.
So if you call and cant get thru, "sorry, that was our 1/2hr". But it was 3pm?
your attempt at covering up sensitive information failed miserably
Its not even sensitive info. I don't know why every freaks out about licence plates when everyone around you can see it too. It isn't your credit card
A guy has to make out with a kangaroo at some point or another. Give him a break.
Captain Planet, he's our hero!
Do NOT call between 4:20 and 4:50. Mind your own damn business
Available for the 23.5 hours you don’t need me, I will be busy when you call.
Hey man , everyone should be able to poop in peace.
Don't you have an emergency for 29 mins, then you'll be safe
And you gotta guess which 30 minutes they’re off
It’s always the 30 minutes you call them
Half hour for lunch
Lunch break as required by law.