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Speaking of power tool safety switches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9IUO9IHY8A&t=240s
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The only dual-trigger drill motor I’ve ever used was an ancient stainless-bodied AC motor that my dad keeps around because it’s unkillable. Terrible chuck, brushes are so worn it makes clouds of ozone and is self-lighting, and you have a 50/50 chance of energizing the housing when you plug it in, since it’s not grounded and the plug isn’t polarized. But it has a safety switch. 
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Aug 22, 2018 14:01
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bitterandtwisted posted:Has there ever been a horror movie based on Looney Tunes jokes? https://youtu.be/hJoPNBEdduk
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Aug 22, 2018 14:02
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quite stretched out posted:every fiber of my being wants to ride in one when it flips over the top though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJBD1wf-YQ
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Aug 22, 2018 14:02
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Say Nothing posted:Screw paternosters. I was waiting for the first girl to come up dead on the other side.
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Aug 22, 2018 14:07
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Platystemon posted:Speaking of power tool safety switches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2dJLDxoTIY&t=945s
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Aug 22, 2018 14:19
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Thats it! Different angle though. Thanks!
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I was reading a book that had a chapter about the first commercial nuclear power plant in the US. This story seemed kinda osha:Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes posted:Then there was the midget welder. “In building an atomic plant, you spend a lot of time just looking for weak and leaky joints,” the Westinghouse project manager for Shippingport told a journalist. “One day an X-ray revealed a defect inside a bend of fifteen-inch pipe. It was a hard place to get at. We considered dismantling the pipe, but that would have been costly as hell in time and money. Then we learned of a firm in Georgia that hires out midget welders for just such jobs. They sent us one who was just thirty-nine inches tall, and he crawled into the pipe and made a good, solid repair.”
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Aug 22, 2018 15:43
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Papa Emeritus III posted:I know this is a few pages back but this is one of the most fascinating gently caress ups I have ever read about. My knowledge of nuclear energy is rudimentary at best but god drat it is interesting. read https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Accidents-Meltdowns-Disasters-Mountains/dp/1605986801 and https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion-ebook/dp/B00C5R7F8G
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RoastBeef posted:I was reading a book that had a chapter about the first commercial nuclear power plant in the US. This story seemed kinda osha: As long as they followed the appropriate confined space requirements, it should have been fine. Not something I would like to do though.
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Say Nothing posted:Screw paternosters. Man engines are far superior - unless you are a drunken idiot at a fairground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn10aErrE7M
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Aug 22, 2018 15:59
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Facebook Aunt posted:I've used three, and all three had both a finger trigger and a thumb slider that had to be used at the same time to make the drill go. Have . . . have I only been allowed to use drills designed for retards? lol that thumb slider just changes between forward and reverse
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Dr. Despair posted:read https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Accidents-Meltdowns-Disasters-Mountains/dp/1605986801 and https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion-ebook/dp/B00C5R7F8G I'm still trying to decide if it's hilarious or heartwarming that the guy who wrote Atomic Accidents did so in part as a defense of nuclear power. Like, "this is literally the worst that could happen. We already got that out of the way, the world didn't end." Except for Louis Slotin, and the guy who yanked out the only control rod in SL-1, and a whole bunch of Russians and Japanese guys.
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Aug 22, 2018 16:23
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Man engines are far superior - unless you are a drunken idiot at a fairground. man i'm rasonably sure i'd be confused by this even if I wasn't drunk
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Aug 22, 2018 16:28
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Platystemon posted:Start reading this page at “Well, I want to tell about some of the special problems I had at Los Alamos that were rather interesting.” Oh man his stuff about lockpicking and censorship makes him sound like the world's smartest ADHD preteen
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aphid_licker posted:Oh man his stuff about lockpicking and censorship makes him sound like the world's smartest ADHD preteen Let's not drag Fishmech into this.
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aphid_licker posted:Oh man his stuff about lockpicking and censorship makes him sound like the world's smartest ADHD preteen Feynman was cool as hell and a great storyteller.
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Aug 22, 2018 17:29
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FCKGW posted:lol that thumb slider just changes between forward and reverse My drill has three settings for that slider, with the center position being a lock to keep it from being turned on. It is, however, surprisingly easy to knock it out of the center position and not notice. That's what I figure happened here too.
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I have a co-worker who like loving clockwork will put that switch into the locked position EVERY drat time he touches that drill. We do a lot of awkward drilling on one of our machines and it drives me insane that I will hand him the drill to hold for a second while I reposition myself and he hands it back locked.
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Aug 22, 2018 18:39
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:I have a co-worker who like loving clockwork will put that switch into the locked position EVERY drat time he touches that drill. We do a lot of awkward drilling on one of our machines and it drives me insane that I will hand him the drill to hold for a second while I reposition myself and he hands it back locked.
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Phy posted:I'm still trying to decide if it's hilarious or heartwarming that the guy who wrote Atomic Accidents did so in part as a defense of nuclear power. Like, "this is literally the worst that could happen. We already got that out of the way, the world didn't end." Except for Louis Slotin, and the guy who yanked out the only control rod in SL-1, and a whole bunch of Russians and Japanese guys. you're right, someone needs to write a book about all the other ways people have died to balance it out
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Aug 22, 2018 18:45
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evil_bunnY posted:That's a loving great habit actually. You don't hand someone a firearm with the safety off either. I've noticed whenever I'm holding a drill and not using it, I keep my index finger straight and off the trigger out of habit.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I've noticed whenever I'm holding a drill and not using it, I keep my index finger straight and off the trigger out of habit.  and same for my kid. He's surprised himself once already (with a low speed driver) so now we're learned finger straight and it hasn't happened again.
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Aug 22, 2018 19:24
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Fancy_Breakfast posted:I've worked EMS at a couple of car rallies like this. Thankfully safety was super strict and we had marshals every kilometer making sure crowds didn't do in stupid poo poo like in this video, but every year it was inevitable somebody would get hit regardless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsZBXlTHPCg Some choice quotes: "So yeah, these guys aren't sane" "I have a lots of metalwork" "Couple of fractured vertebrae, pneumothorax, that's fine for racer" "A seagull to the forehead at 180 mph, I can assure you that hurts" "If you think the racers are great at ignoring risk, the spectators are in another league altogether" Also a boot having come off is generally really bad news, everything in that leg up to and including the pelvis is broken
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cyberbug posted:This is a great presentation by the "Flying Doctor" John Hinds who rode a fast response bike in motorcycle road races, meaning that he started after the racers in races like Isle of Man TT with pretty much the same gear except with a big pack of medical gear on his back: this is fascinating but what the gently caress like doesn't enabling this sort of activity violate your hippocratic oath lol
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Gunshow Poophole posted:this is fascinating but what the gently caress like doesn't enabling this sort of activity violate your hippocratic oath lol People are going to race fast things whether you have a doctor on standby or not.
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Aug 22, 2018 20:28
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That loops very well
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I like to imagine that the door gives a gentle muah sound as it kisses him on the forehead. 
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quite stretched out posted:every fiber of my being wants to ride in one when it flips over the top though They don't flip! https://i.imgur.com/AkZfQoK.mp4 MisterOblivious fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Aug 23, 2018 |
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MisterOblivious posted:They don't flip! Where..... where do they go?  Also, thanks for all the nuclear reads, guys. It's making my day interesting. 
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Papa Emeritus III posted:Where..... where do they go? Xen.
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It worked, didn't it And everbody on the shift got a bonus, they could each take 2 items from the customer food donation bin.
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Powershift posted:It worked, didn't it https://business.financialpost.com/business-insider/wal-mart-food-drive quote:A Cleveland Wal-Mart store is holding a food drive — for its own employees.
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I saw so much worse poo poo working at Wally World. Back in 2003 or so I was on overnights for a while during a remodel that involved moving lots of shelving and taking them apart. A couple of us got told to take down the shelves that held the lighting displays, so it was wired. Had a line dropped from the ceiling and the wires were behind conduits that were glued on. I, quite foolishly in my youth, did not test the power, but managed to get it mostly disassembled without crossing wires because you just don't cross wires, even if they're off. Then something slipped, and from then on bumping the unit wrong would give you a little zap like licking a 9 volt. 4 of us were put on guard to not let anybody near it while they waited for the electrical contractor to get back from lunch.
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PPPPfffff quote:A company spokesman defended the food drive, telling the Plain Dealer that it is evidence that employees care about each other. New Gilded age quote:Last week, 50 people were arrested after protesting the retailer’s pay at a store in Los Angeles.
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