evil_bunnY posted:

How many YT’s do you know willing to admit the US is a racist country, for comparison’s sake?
Not saying the Dutch aren’t racist (I’ve lived there and experienced it first hand), but let’s not start being ridiculous.

Say Nothing posted:

evil_bunnY posted:

How many YT’s do you know willing to admit the US is a racist country, for comparison’s sake?
Not saying the Dutch aren’t racist (I’ve lived there and experienced it first hand), but let’s not start being ridiculous.

SelenicMartian posted:

What's the title? In case I can't avoid getting a huge ship.

Carbon dioxide posted:

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY time to buckle up for 10 pages of discussion about racism in the OSHA thread!

mostlygray posted:

I kid. Most of the sections books are so esoteric that it's hard to put any of it into context unless you were staring at the belly of an Iowa Class Destroyer.

Buttcoin purse posted:

Actually, that's a class of battleship.


I have stared at the belly of one, and they told me you start the engines via a procedure something like this: they had this pole with a sort of shield near the end, and you put a rag on the end or something, dip it in fuel oil, light the rag with a lighter and then stick it in the boiler or something? I don't really understand how boilers work, I should go read about it, but maybe just on Wikipedia

SelenicMartian posted:

You wouldn't want to go into that unbuckled.

NGD80 posted:

Back in the early 2000s I was a management trainee for a manufacturing company in the UK, and I was responsible for quality control and production management. I was 22 years old, keen as punch and ready to change the world.

About 11 months into the role, I got a new boss, let's call him "Fred". Fred was also the company owner's son, and was basically a 45 year old gently caress up who had only ever been a drug dealer/DJ and now stood to inherit the entire company. His management style was, let's say, 'interesting' and he would deviate from "screaming at you for the most benign thing ever" to "I can't deal with the pressure so I'll go home for the day" in a matter of hours. He also thought he was a manufacturing GENIUS. His ideas were batshit crazy, but he would scream at anyone who questioned him.

There was a 52 year old machine operative, let's call him "Roy", who has worked on the same machine for over 30 years. Roy could tell when his machine was 2 weeks away from a breakdown, just because it sounded different. He was truly at one with his machine.

Fred decided that we would modify Roy's machine so that we could extend the range of products we could manufacture. In order to do this, he decided that we would add an additional spindle to the machine. The problem was that each product would finish at a different time and you would need to remove a product from the machine while the other one was still spinning.

Roy protested and said he'd never use it, but Fred went ahead and modified it over the weekend with a subcontractor.

On Monday, Roy said "you must be joking, I'm not using that". Fred said "you will use it, or you'll be looking for a new job tomorrow." Roy said "it's not safe and I won't use it. If you try to make me I will report you to the HSE." And then Fred said "if you report me, I'll make sure you don't find work ever again".

So Roy smiled and said, "ok, fine, I'll load the next job but you can run it first."

Roy loaded on his next job, and took two steps back...he also looked at me and said "stand back".

Fred started the machine and all went well.... for about 30 seconds.

The first job had reached the diameter required and Fred pressed 'stop', however he now had to lean over the other job that was still running at 2,000 RPM. I didn't see it happen but I heard an awful scream and then saw blood squirting everywhere. Fred fainted onto the machine, narrowly missing the spindle with his face and greasy long black hair. We pressed the emergency stop and picked him up, and it was then I spotted his fingers in the machine. I picked up two middle fingers and gave them to a colleague to put into a freezer bag, which was a waste of time because they couldn't reattach them, they were too mangled.

Fred never came back to work. Apparently he told his father he wasn't cut out for running the company and I also left about 6 months later. I saw recently that it was bought out in a management buy out and good old Roy was the operations director. Good for him!

MoneyTreeFiddy posted:

TL,DR; Roy anticipates a rounding error, digits truncated in the worst way.

Platystemon posted:

quote:

Three children in NSW are very sick with lead poisoning after using Hashmi brand eyeliner products. New South Wales’ Regulation Minister Matt Kean says doctors have tested the children, all from the same family. He says the tests found high levels of lead in their blood.

Testing has found that the eye makeup products contain up to 84% lead along with high levels of arsenic, cadmium, chromium and mercury. This is especially concerning as the packaging of the products specifically states that they do not contain lead.

The NSW government has issued a public health alert over the Pakistan-made products and are urging people to stop using them.

The cheap eyeliners are sold in Indian and Pakistani stores. Shop owners are now removing the products from shelves.

luxury handset posted:

there's a bit of a difference between admitting the whole country is racist vs. the whimsical holiday tradition of a prancing blackface clown

Platystemon posted:

Lazyhound posted:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45503501

*gets swarmed by wasps*

*falls out of treehouse*

*lands on meat skewer*

SniperWoreConverse posted:

The Bloop posted:

Join us for the Late Stage Capitalism Games

The Lone Badger posted:

Isn't that just an inferior circular saw?

SniperWoreConverse posted:

quite stretched out posted:

i cant believe i recognised a screenshot of the slingshot guy from youtube based on his driveway but i cant remember my loving ex's name half the time the internet has ruined me

tardwrangler posted:

Barefoot roadside foundry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MotZZ6bDh_4

tardwrangler posted:

Barefoot roadside foundry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MotZZ6bDh_4

Splicer posted:

Not Dutch, but I always assumed black Peter was a really old tradition from the depths of time that could, theoretically, not be about actual black people.

Turns out he's from the 1850s.

cyberbug posted:

HPC guys have made the Fing-Longer for forklifts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyaH-dG_Q3M&t=598s

What could go wrong? Nothing goes wrong