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The Rosary works y'all Please, idc what religion you follow if any, just try & pray it every day for just a few weeks & I promise you whatever intention you put your heart into will be honored in time God bless you all, links & further info below, because I know it's a lot

March 11, 2011. 2:46 PM. 33 Shinkansen bullet trains were running through northern Japan. Several were moving at 300 km/h. Then the earthquake hit. Magnitude 9.1. The 4th largest ever recorded. Epicenter: off the Sanriku coast, 130 km ESE of the Oshika Peninsula. Every single train stopped safely. Zero passenger injuries. Here's what happened. 12 to 22 seconds before the violent shaking reached the tracks, a seismometer on Kinkazan — a small island off Japan's Pacific coast — detected the quake and sent a signal inland. The signal traveled faster than the earthquake itself. Power to the tracks was cut. Every train in the zone automatically braked. By the time the ground started shaking violently, the trains were already slowing down. One empty test train derailed at Sendai Station. Not a single train in service derailed. The Shinkansen has been running since 1964. In 60 years, it has killed zero passengers — not in a collision, not in a derailment. Zero. Most people stop reading here. The real story starts now. Japan built this safety system in two layers, for two different problems. First: UrEDAS — the Urgent Earthquake Detection and Alarm System. Invented in the early 1980s, deployed on the Tokaido Shinkansen in 1992. The world's first operational P-wave warning system for trains. Its seismometers sit along the coast, listening for earthquakes out at sea. When one hits, the system reads the first 3 seconds of P-wave motion, estimates the magnitude and location, and sends a warning inland to the tracks. Second: Compact UrEDAS. Built after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, which struck directly beneath a city with almost no warning. When the earthquake happens directly under the train, there's no time to calculate anything. So Compact UrEDAS asks one question: "Is this shaking dangerous?" It answers in about 1 second. Both systems end the same way. They cut the power. The Shinkansen is built so that the moment it loses power, emergency brakes engage automatically. The driver makes no decision. There's no time to. A 300 km/h Shinkansen takes about 90 seconds to stop. No warning system in the world buys you 90 seconds. The goal isn't to stop the train before the earthquake arrives. The goal is for the train to be slowing down when it does. This is the part foreign coverage misses. The goal isn't to prevent the accident. The goal is to make the accident survivable. In-service Shinkansen have derailed twice in 60 years. 2004. Niigata Chuetsu earthquake. A trackside Compact UrEDAS detected the P-wave. Power was cut one second later. Emergency brakes engaged 1.5 seconds after that. But the earthquake was directly beneath the train, which was moving at 204 km/h. 8 of 10 cars derailed. The train skidded 1.6 km before stopping. 154 passengers on board. Zero injuries. 2022. M7.4 off Fukushima. A Shinkansen traveling at 320 km/h detected the first tremor and began braking. As the train decelerated toward a stop, a second, stronger quake (M7.4) hit. 16 of the 17 cars derailed. 75 passengers. 3 crew. Zero deaths. No serious injuries. Two other derailments involved empty trains. 2011, Sendai Station, a test train. 2016, Kumamoto earthquake, a transit train. In every case, the warning system had already cut the power before the shaking reached its peak. The system does not stop earthquakes. It does not always stop derailments. It just makes sure the earthquake arrives after the train is already slow. Japan's earthquakes and Japan's trains grew up in the same country, watching the same ground. Somewhere in Japan right now, a Shinkansen is moving at 300 kilometers per hour. Far away, on a quiet coast, a sensor is listening to the rock beneath it. It has been listening since 1992. Every time it was needed, it worked.

@leptokinesis You have a book?? Fuuuuuck I wish I wasn't poooooor

i love when people new here have no idea what i do for a living, what i have on film, what i have published in books. like you dont sound crazy, you sound like a newly initiated. and i just wish youd research my and my work before you ask me shit. lmfaoooo

@D4rkwinger Idk about a medication but I got a few things you could always try n a few more I gotta stock up on

They should invent a sleep medication that doesn't increase my chances of having a bad dream

@leptokinesis So fuckin real

@DIET_RIOT_07 this is literally me rn

ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS SAY THE J WORD AND YOULL IMMEDIATELY BE REMOVED FROM THE NORMILES ALGO. HOLY SHIT FINALLY!

@leptokinesis FUCK YEAH FUCKEM

@DIET_RIOT_07 FUCK THE NORMILES!

確かに日本人は『インターネットの精霊』かもしれない。 興味のあるものに近づいてきて楽しそうに踊り、自分たちも真似して遊ぶ。 そして時々供物を捧げた人々が予想もつかないことをして驚かせる。 ピーナッツコーラにとんでもないアレンジを加えて、南部のアメリカ人たちに悲鳴をあげさせたように。 まったく、イタズラ好きの困った精霊たちだよ。

@leptokinesis Speaking of funny words that totally don't rhyme with ewe x.com/DIET_RIOT_07/s…

@leptokinesis YEAHHHHH FUCK NORMIES

I graced @NuCowboy's eardrums with the words "stinky poopoo" & he hit me with a pillow

@Magni314 They're huge but I eat 2 meals a day so I can easily clear 1000 plus calories a meal That & I've done retarded work on my metabolism Only regret is that I'm completely sober rn & really can't change that LOL

@DIET_RIOT_07 I'll allow it. I saw those, straight monstrous!

Yea that's cool and all but did you get a Chalupa and an Ultra Ego Baja Blast?

I'd get land & materials, because a home you own is a fuck of a lot less stressful than the shit we have for a housing/renting market these days & stress is a number one killer sooooo... Yeah. Freedom is health

Doug Walker responded to my superchat. I said I hope his popularity recovers soon, and I meant it. His videos are still good, guys. @ChannelAwesome 's collapse was sad but Doug still makes mostly good videos. I hope you'll give him a chance and not be too obstinate.

A little something to commemorate when the USA and Japan came together on X.

@215Hyde @PerryALPHA I may have seen 'im around but never followed. think I may just change that off the cuff, fuckit why not

@DIET_RIOT_07 @PerryALPHA another mutual called him "the ric flair of twitter"

occasionally I will follow somebody for the sole fact that they sound fuckin nuts & I just wanna see how shit rolls insanity is a fun trait, you know I'm right

@215Hyde perry?

@DIET_RIOT_07 Like perry?

@SlapLordActual I think tumbler or hollow points make better warning shots for a home invasion. It helps make sure they can't break into another home again.

The Mailbox Test, like the breakfast test, is an excellent way to tell who you can allow to wield power in your society. Goes like this: If someone is hurt trying to destroy someone else's stuff in order to take pleasure from their pain, do you sympathize with... The aggressor because he got hurt? Or with the guy who owns the stuff, because he wasn't the aggressor? You can have people in your society who fail the Mailbox Test. That's okay... they can work at hospices, or shelters for orphaned kittens, or something. But you cannot allow them to vote, or otherwise wield political power. Because if you do, they will open the gates of the city to the enemy. I am personally tired of everyone pretending that people who enjoy ruining things for random strangers are just kewt smol beans who are only aggressive because of all the complex socioeconomic factors and lack of resources. They knew someone would be hurt by what they did. They knew that someone had done literally nothing harmful to them. And those two ideas, in combination made them feel pleasure. And they went and did it. That is the sign of a rotten soul. Defending ourselves and our property is not just a right, it's a moral obligation. Otherwise, we just kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with, someone who may not be able to defend herself. I don't care if a vandal breaks his arms trying to destroy my stuff. Because I value my stuff more than a vandal's arms. And the fact that he tried to destroy somebody else's stuff shows that he, too, values his arms less than the opportunity to hurt somebody. We cannot allow such people inside the city, and we cannot give the keys to those who would open the gates for them.

9 years running and I still get use out of this pasta.