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PopeCrunch
Feb 13, 2004

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I love that GIF but sort of feel bad about it. That deer cold got Meet Joe Blacked.

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Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012

PopeCrunch posted:

I love that GIF but sort of feel bad about it. That deer cold got Meet Joe Blacked.

I don't. gently caress deer.

Random Hajile
Aug 25, 2003

PopeCrunch posted:

I love that GIF but sort of feel bad about it. That deer cold got Meet Joe Blacked.

Meet Doe Black

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Random Hajile posted:

Meet Doe Black

Meat Go Splat

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


Buff Skeleton
Oct 24, 2005


How else are you supposed to keep a tree powered these days

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


There were also cables coming out of the ground that I just noticed didn't make it into the pic. I don't even know.

The Wiggly Wizard
Aug 21, 2008


FIRST TIME posted:

Imagine if you will a bank shuts down but leaves a pile of money in the vault. This pile of money is radioactive and makes anyone who comes in contact with it horribly sick. Those who are in charge of the bank and responsible for its contents know the danger the money poses but they take their sweet time in dealing with properly disposing of it. Scavengers break into the poorly secured building looking for anything valuable to loot. They find the money and don't know that it's dangerous so they spend it, spreading sickness into the local community.

What could have more easily have prevented this from happening?

Proper precaution and timely action by those who were responsible for the money and knew its danger?

or

Every criminal in the area deciding to either go straight or to carry geiger counters to every job?

This is literally a TNG plot

Wikipedia posted:

Data is sent to a pre-Industrial planet to recover the radioactive remains of a deep-space probe that crashed on the planet. However, Data is injured during the recovery, and without memory of who he is or his mission, walks into a village carrying the case of radioactive parts. Garvin, the village magistrate, and his daughter Gia, take Data to their healer, Talur, who determines he must be an "ice man;" Gia names Data "Jayden." Garvin discovers the probe's fragments, unaware of their hazard, and attempts to sell them to make a profit. As the village folk begin to wear the fragments as jewelry, they start to succumb to radiation poisoning, though Talur is unfamiliar with the symptoms.

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

The Wiggly Wizard posted:

This is literally a TNG plot

this kind of knowledge makes for good mod material

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
I wonder what future Herbie goes bananas is like

INCHI DICKARI
Aug 23, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
is there a military version of OSHA? (Fo, r the love of god please dont let this spur a huge derail about unfunny military related deaths and tragedies, lets keep it entertaining)

Diet Sodium
Apr 29, 2009

amityville anus posted:

this kind of knowledge makes for good mod material

To boldly go where some mods have gone before.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

14 INCH SLIT posted:

is there a military version of OSHA? (Fo, r the love of god please dont let this spur a huge derail about unfunny military related deaths and tragedies, lets keep it entertaining)



https://youtu.be/v2v1Pgpzp88?t=46s

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

The Wiggly Wizard posted:

This is literally a TNG plot

I don't think I've actually seen that episode but I am familiar with the plot. Thank you for reminding me so I can actually watch it finally.


14 INCH SLIT posted:

is there a military version of OSHA? (Fo, r the love of god please dont let this spur a huge derail about unfunny military related deaths and tragedies, lets keep it entertaining)



Sorry, all this picture reminds me of is the guy on that aircraft carrier who took a missile rail to the face.

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

FIRST TIME posted:

I don't think I've actually seen that episode but I am familiar with the plot. Thank you for reminding me so I can actually watch it finally.


Sorry, all this picture reminds me of is the guy on that aircraft carrier who took a missile rail to the face.

And gently caress you for reminding me.

INCHI DICKARI
Aug 23, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Yeah, see, I've seen that picture too, but it's a lot harder to make Three Stooges woop woop noises to

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGJ0fJN10YY

nullEntityRNG
Jun 23, 2010

Mostly pseudo-random.

Disappointed it wasn't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1pzYhpibjA
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oxeX3TyX64

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
http://i.imgur.com/k84Erk9.gifv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl7KK4U_yLY

Armacham
Mar 3, 2007

Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?
Have you guys ever heard of the USS Forestal? Known affectionately by sailors as the USS ForestFire because it wouldn't stop bursting into flames. in 1967 there was an incident in Vietnam involving an ordnance malfunction that killed like 134 people. Also John McCain was there, so there is a great conspiracy theory that he was such an awful pilot that it was somehow his fault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6l_gjxXM4

Cheez
Apr 29, 2013

Someone doesn't like a shitty gimmick I like?

:siren:
TIME FOR ME TO WHINE ABOUT IT!
:siren:

Welcome to are channel.

Mandy Thompson
Dec 26, 2014

by zen death robot

Samuel posted:


Yet if somebody steals Gasoline from me, neither me, the gas station , or British Petroleum are accountable for the eventual damages caused.
I'd argue the same goes for any "medicine" I might have lying around my private property that a burglar steals and OD's on.


It's absolutely speculative to say it wouldn't be properly removed in time before it was stolen. It just further proves that thieves got to it before the proper removal services got to it.

The burglar can OD on meds and only kill himself, but radioactive waste can kill lots and lots and lots of people. The burglar might be worthy of a Darwin award but the community was imperiled by this company's negligence.

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Armacham posted:

Also John McCain was there, so there is a great conspiracy theory that he was such an awful pilot that it was somehow his fault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6l_gjxXM4

Which is especially ironic because it's the one plane that got wrecked under him that definitely *wasn't* his fault (electrical malfunction in another plane fired a rocket, which struck a plane, which caught fire, which caused one of its bombs to explode, which destroyed McCain's plane).

Hoohah
Jun 27, 2004
Chimp

Armacham posted:

Have you guys ever heard of the USS Forestal? Known affectionately by sailors as the USS ForestFire because it wouldn't stop bursting into flames. in 1967 there was an incident in Vietnam involving an ordnance malfunction that killed like 134 people. Also John McCain was there, so there is a great conspiracy theory that he was such an awful pilot that it was somehow his fault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6l_gjxXM4

The Navy still uses the Forrestal as an exemplar reason why everyone enlisted in the Navy learns how to fight fires, at least once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6NnfRT_OZA for the good ole government training video version, which has a poo poo ton of on-deck camera video, so maybe :nms:

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Armacham posted:

Have you guys ever heard of the USS Forestal? Known affectionately by sailors as the USS ForestFire because it wouldn't stop bursting into flames. in 1967 there was an incident in Vietnam involving an ordnance malfunction that killed like 134 people. Also John McCain was there, so there is a great conspiracy theory that he was such an awful pilot that it was somehow his fault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6l_gjxXM4

My dad packed parachutes on that mothball back in the day

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
New video from the Dutch crane collapse shows how lucky it was that only a pet dog died:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDRgvP3qe7g

RabbitWizard
Oct 21, 2008

Muldoon

Bone_Enterprise
Aug 9, 2005

Inception Cigars
www.inceptioncigars.com

ekuNNN posted:

New video from the Dutch crane collapse shows how lucky it was that only a pet dog died:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDRgvP3qe7g

Wow!

Samuel
Nov 5, 2011

ekuNNN posted:

New video from the Dutch crane collapse shows how lucky it was that only a pet dog died:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDRgvP3qe7g

The comment(s) on that video and this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055igd7tyrc

It's like Russians try to find any dirt and spin it into asinine slogans to feel good about themselves.

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Please do not be doubting Mike Smith's capitalist tendencies, comrade Samuel.

"[s posted:

Mikhail Kovalev[/s]Mike Smith"]
How country with such low level of very basic engineering knowledge could investigate Malaysian Boeing MH17 crash?
Could someone tell to Dutch that crane must stay on a STABLE surface. Floating barge for this task is not a stable surface.
A separate barge for each crane in this case is like Dumb and Dumber.
Stick to what you can do best - tulips, brothels and drugs, but leave engineering to professionals.

Samuel
Nov 5, 2011
I had to take a deep breath after that one, I was like: Oh no he didn't.

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



bitcoin bastard posted:

Please do not be doubting Mike Smith's capitalist tendencies, comrade Samuel.

"[s posted:

Mikhail Kovalev[/s]Mike Smith posted"]
How country with such low level of very basic engineering knowledge could investigate Malaysian Boeing MH17 crash?
Could someone tell to Dutch that crane must stay on a STABLE surface. Floating barge for this task is not a stable surface.
A separate barge for each crane in this case is like Dumb and Dumber.
Stick to what you can do best - tulips, brothels and drugs, but leave engineering to professionals.

That boggles my mind. Especially considering the modern dike-works and sea walls which are marvels of engineering.

Samuel
Nov 5, 2011
These are the same people that film decrepit sidewalks in st.petersburg and then broadcast that it's footage taken in Europe.

Literally no lie is too low, no claim bold enough for the extent of the propaganda machine. What bothers me most is that like ISIS, mentally ill people and edgy youngsters buy into the Kremlin's poo poo and parrot their opinions.
Because obviously the enemy of my enemy (society) is a totally good and cool guy.

ghosTTy
Sep 22, 2008

bitcoin bastard posted:

Please do not be doubting Mike Smith's capitalist tendencies, comrade Samuel.

Mike Smith posted:

How country with such low level of very basic engineering knowledge could investigate Malaysian Boeing MH17 crash?
Could someone tell to Dutch that crane must stay on a STABLE surface. Floating barge for this task is not a stable surface.
A separate barge for each crane in this case is like Dumb and Dumber.
Stick to what you can do best - tulips, brothels and drugs, but leave engineering to professionals.

the russian has a point though.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

ekuNNN posted:

New video from the Dutch crane collapse shows how lucky it was that only a pet dog died:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDRgvP3qe7g

I'm the dude sitting on the sidewalk ignoring everyone running away past me until stuff is literally falling on me.

Slanderer
May 6, 2007

bitcoin bastard posted:

Please do not be doubting Mike Smith's capitalist tendencies, comrade Samuel.

This guy may actually be a paid pro-russian social media troll

Samuel
Nov 5, 2011
Please mass report this guy.

ThePriceIsRight posted:

the russian has a point though.

Too obvious, poo poo bait.

JB50
Feb 13, 2008

Samuel posted:

Please mass report this guy.


Too obvious, poo poo bait.

CRANES CANT DESTROY HOUSE MADE WITH BEAMS!!!!

or something like that.

Samuel
Nov 5, 2011
A bicycle has hit the second windmill.

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Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

Yeah, the Russians are really pissed off about the MH17 thing. They are running a campaign to say that the investigation wasn't done properly. And they used some stupid excuse to implement annoying extra border controls for Dutch flower imports.

Aaaanyway, that comment seems to be removed. Let's get back on topic here.

So they started an independent investigation to what caused this collapse. They want to be thorough, so they'll expect it'll be several months before a report is published. People and companies involved in the case don't want to say anything about it until that time.

Journalists then decided to interview some independent engineering experts, such as an engineering professor at some Dutch university. They seemed to agree that several mistakes were made:

- This should never have been done with two floating cranes. When they did a similar thing at the same place a few years ago, one of the two cranes was on solid ground. This gives the crane operator much more control. Operations like this are never done with two floating cranes and this shouldn't have been an exception.
- A year ago, a complete safety investigation was done by people hired by the city. They described the possibility of cranes falling over, and suggested those buildings should be evacuated for this procedure. This didn't happen, and at this point nobody knows if any recommendations from the safety report were followed.

Now, the thing is that the construction and crane companies weren't just some backwater idiots. They're apparently well-known and they were trusted by the government for doing good work. So I don't know what happened this time. Maybe they got sloppy with safety procedures over the years.

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