Willie Stroker

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Is the UV light thing a scam? Everyone is pushing that now

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My AC guys did start recommending UV light on mine due to the mold/mildew they were seeing on my units during twice yearly seasonal checkups.

Of course I had questions. I asked why they had never raised this issue with my previous less expensive and less efficient unit. I asked why these units recommended by them are demonstrating a problem they did not share with me as a consideration for the purchase decision.

I also mentioned that the previous AC guy who left their business recommended that I do an air quality test to determine if the black spots around my ceiling vents were simply dust that grabbed onto moisture or more harmful mold spores.

I bought this LINK and tested several rooms. The package also includes a control test which is used to sample outdoor air as a point of comparison. The results showed no mold or mildew in any room, which demonstrated there was nothing dangerous for UV light to affect.

They sent me an estimate anyway and the cost was a few thousand.

I’m no longer paying that service agreement and will find another local business for my winter checkup.

It’s probably cheaper to just clean up the mildew twice a year than to buy UV lights but I hope an HVAC expert can better educate me on that.

For what it’s worth, we did lose a lot of GenXers doing stupid shite.

They didn’t all make it out of that era.

I knew a guy who played chicken with a car while driving a 3 wheeler. You know the outcome.

And you read that right. There was no such thing as a 4 wheeled ATV.

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The flock cameras come in different shapes and sizes and after searching found that the one in the vid is definitely a flock camera.

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That is not the one in the video.

This is the one in the video:

What’s his license plate? I took a walk this morning and searched for every license plate i could capture. Not a single one showed up with data on that website and we have a flock camera at the entrance to our neighborhood.

I’d like to see what data is displayed.

Maybe someone can post a license plate with data. LPs are public information. It should be shareable.

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Yes, in some cases, they were.

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List them. Word of mouth? Or can you link it?

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If the answer is the Joos, we should also look deeper. That probably correlates with other variables relevant to the issue.

Crime rates? The Upper West side had zero murders and zero rapes so far this year. LINK Among all precincts, it’s among the safest from violent crime and property damage.

Translation: for a business making capital investments, it makes sense to prioritize return on investment.

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Thats why I used AI data center outrage. We now know its funded by NGOs linked to the chinese govt. They would like nothing better than to stop all of them in the US, so use the useful fools to protest.

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Here’s another observation about it.

The ANTIFA movement promotes property damage as a form of tantrum behavior to achieve their goals- social disruption, anarchy, and obviously the disruption of property rights.

What solution do we keep reading about on these topics? Vandalism. People are promoting the destruction of private property in order to address their grievance of too much transparency when out in public spaces. They only want some witnesses, not the ones who can and do intervene and remove criminals from society.

We saw this same line of reasoning when they were taking over public spaces, burning public and private businesses, and destroying private assets like the Waymo vehicles right after Trump’s election.

Real libertarians do not embrace tantrum behavior. They weigh the tradeoffs in that they value freedom until it interferes with their personal liberty and where they have an expectation of privacy.

But there are clever organizations adept at manipulating human behavior and capitalizing on groupthink.

Not all of the people jumping on board this social movement would think of themselves as ANTIFA members, but they should be questioning whether or not they are the useful idiots drawn to movements like this based on a tempting premise.

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Ring cameras are privately owned and operated by homeowners/citizens.

The issue is with a network of cameras used by the government/law enforcement.

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Many businesses and private citizens are using Flock cameras. Citizens can just as easily turn in their private video to police to result in the same situation you described as if that is the outcome you object to.

Your statement that police can come “grab you and take you to the police station and show you a video recorded from a flock camera of a crime being committed and say you're the guy in the video. Even if you didnt do it and it was a mistake with the facial recognition technology or AI, you're about to be spending thousands of dollars defending yourself and wasting months of time. Better hope they give you bail or else you're losing your job too” was actually intended to be limited to flock cameras as if the same thing cannot happen with private cameras?

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Imagine the police come grab you and take you to the police station and show you a video recorded from a flock camera of a crime being committed and say you're the guy in the video. Even if you didnt do it and it was a mistake with the facial recognition technology or AI, you're about to be spending thousands of dollars defending yourself and wasting months of time. Better hope they give you bail or else you're losing your job too.

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Should we ban Ring doorbells too?

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Sounds like you have a history of bad decisions.

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Yep. Learned from them. Made better decisions. Eventually retired in my 50s because of the better judgement that resulted.

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Then we should probably be dedicating more funding to nip this bigger problem in the bud, instead adversely affecting innocent civilians who subsidize the program.

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That probably had a lot to do with why some agencies are cancelling their contracts.