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RaffyTaffy posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-47540092 rofl @ the last paragraph: quote:Some MPs have expressed concerns after OMA was recently put in charge of sprucing up the parliament building, but a government spokesman has assured them that these are "two completely different projects" - a turn of phrase unlikely to mollify the architects or their critics. They awarded them a contract to fix another building afterward. perfect. surely they can't gently caress up TWO things at once
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BattleMaster posted:There was a building under construction along my route to the train station and I when they started putting the bricks on I realized it was just a facade over the "real" wall and not a structural component, and also that it didn't look like there was a lot holding the bricks to the wall. It made me wonder if the bricks could just fall off if something hit them just the wrong way. Well, there *should* be brick ties that are integrated that are lagged into the studs. Generally there aren’t enough, or they’re just poked through the sheathing and not held into anything structural, or maybe they’re rusted through because of water between the facade and sheathing. Modern code/inspectors probably do a better job at making sure they’re used properly than the old days. Or maybe not.
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RaffyTaffy posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-47540092  tbf I wouldn't expect safety standards to be priority in S.P.E.C.T.R.E. head quarters anyway
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RaffyTaffy posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-47540092 My first job was for a real estate company, where they had portable office unit on site of a large neighborhood construction project. The second room in the office was loaded floor to ceiling with boxes of pamphlets. The office unit itself was on stilts because of the unique site geometry. Well, one day the portable could take no more, and the entire floor of the unit fell out of the structure. Not even in "horrible accident" sort of way, the floor just evenly dropped 4 feet to the ground below, with the secretary still sitting at her now sunken desk, somewhat stunned but otherwise fine. There was no "skirt" hiding the under side of the portable either, so the public saw this happen and were all "... why is there a women sitting at a desk under this building".
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Isn't there a law that requires that brick facades can't be attached to the wall so it can't take any load or something?
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Bad Munki posted:https://i.imgur.com/ecMO9fj.mp4 A few months ago, a car drove into the building where my wife worked. To us, it was such a big deal and we couldn't understand how the gently caress something like that could happen. Once the police/fire department got on site, they got the whole area cleared out, inspected, car towed away, paperwork and statements done and processed within a half hour. So my wife asked the Fire Marshall, how often do cars drive into buildings that your're so well practiced at it? About twice a week, he said. Just in their town alone.
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Mar 14, 2019 17:22
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RaffyTaffy posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-47540092 Somehow that renovation got a sustainability award? Is it because they included how crushing a few thousand people will have a negative carbon footprint?
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Bad Munki posted:https://i.imgur.com/ecMO9fj.mp4 Solution: Removed wall
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Perestroika posted:That reminds me of another somewhat OSHA incident from the war (unfortunately I cannot quite remember the battle or location). During an offensive, a German unit managed to successfully capture a small village along the front lines, driving out the French defenders and settling in to wait for reinforcements. Unfortunately, word of their success never got back, so their own side decided to shell the village with artillery. Master race my rear end. Dienes posted:Somehow that renovation got a sustainability award? Is it because they included how crushing a few thousand people will have a negative carbon footprint? Obviously, they're using the space much more efficiently now. They don't have to build another building to accommodate the extra 1600 people.
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Boeing: Safety is an optional feature! https://twitter.com/_pem_pem/status/1106223995962228736 e: ok, a goon elsewhere brought up an interesting point: Shame Boy posted:according to the voice recorder the pilots correctly identified the instrument mismatch way before they crashed, which is all that light would have done anyway. the problem is still the airline cheaping out (on maintenance) and Boeing loving up (on training, documentation and safety features of MCAS) but this isn't really part of it iospace fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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Renegret posted:A few months ago, a car drove into the building where my wife worked. To us, it was such a big deal and we couldn't understand how the gently caress something like that could happen. I live in a pretty lovely part of town and... I would love to see how much municipal money is taken away from everything else just to pay for the 3-4 traffic lights and light poles I see knocked down every month. theres one corner by my house that simply cannot maintain a working traffic light due to 2002 Ford Explorers loving it up
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There are still 2002 Ford Explorers on the road? The transmissions in them had a roughly 100% failure rate
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FuturePastNow posted:There are still 2002 Ford Explorers on the road? The transmissions in them had a roughly 100% failure rate My son had a 1998 with just short of 200,000 miles on it until it suffered injuries incompatible with life a year ago. Still had original everything as far as I know. E: maybe you meant that year specifically?
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FuturePastNow posted:There are still 2002 Ford Explorers on the road? The transmissions in them had a roughly 100% failure rate I had a 2002 sport trac, can confirm. I killed the transmission at around 269,000 miles and sold it for $1000
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I had a 2002 sport trac, can confirm. Parents had a 2002, the transmission went at 80k. From what I understand, the Ford V8's at that time had problems with the spark plugs blowing out of the head really easy. The 3rd one blew out right before the transmission went, so they said gently caress it and put it on Craigslist that day to get rid of it. Strangely someone bought it for asking price the next day. Was definitely going to cost more than it was worth to fix up.
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IRL Rocket League looking solid.
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BattleMaster posted:Maybe I'm a coward but I would refuse to set foot in a building that has warnings like that No, pretty sure that's just common sense. If there is a rule against stacking copy paper too high because the floor might collapse, then there is no way that's safe to enter.
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Walk into the boss' office and ask for a raise, threatening to jump up and down if not agreed.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:No, pretty sure that's just common sense. This was the case at a VA regional office a while back in Winston-Salem, NC. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/veterans-affairs-backlog-files-were-stacked-so-high-they-posed-a-safety-risk-to-va-staff-1 quote:“created an unsafe workspace for (VA) employees and appeared to have the potential to compromise the integrity of the building.” quote:According to the report, the sheer weight of the combined folders actually exceeded the load-bearing capacity of the building itself.
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gently caress safety this poo poo rules
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LifeSunDeath posted:people getting decapitated trying to slide tackle the goalie I find it amazing how operating specialized machinery becomes another appendage to people.
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CmdrRiker posted:I find it amazing how operating specialized machinery becomes another appendage to people. I remember watching Gravity and wondering how the hell people correct spins/rotations when you're going all over the place, and then I started playing Rocket League. 3 years later and it's like I can "feel" which way I need to go to orient my car the right way. I need to go back and rewatch that scene to see if my brain makes sense of it now.
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Nocheez posted:I remember watching Gravity and wondering how the hell people correct spins/rotations when you're going all over the place, and then I started playing Rocket League. 3 years later and it's like I can "feel" which way I need to go to orient my car the right way. I need to go back and rewatch that scene to see if my brain makes sense of it now. you can get into a sooooort of similar situation when you're flying a racing drone. You'll be flying fast and one of your arms will clip something which sends the entire rig cartwheeling through the air and all you can really see in your goggles is LIGHTDARKLIGHTDARKLIGHTDARKLIGHT as the camera points towards the ground/sky over and over again. There really is no way to guess the "right" way to correct in the instant you're flying out of control because the event usually happens so quickly and violently but the basic correction procedure is to wrench the yaw control back and forth while jamming on the throttle (these two controls are usually on the same stick), hoping the flight controller can slow it down in SOME direction so that your eyes can make sense of your heading and brain can take over and finish the rest of the corrections. Not being in the vehicle you have no inner ear to rely upon and shutter speeds can make super fast movements unreliable to guess direction of travel so its weird. Makes you feel like a brain genius flyboy when you do it successfully but its not something that is easy to do consistently
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bring back old gbs posted:you can get into a sooooort of similar situation when you're flying a racing drone. You'll be flying fast and one of your arms will clip something which sends the entire rig cartwheeling through the air and all you can really see in your goggles is LIGHTDARKLIGHTDARKLIGHTDARKLIGHT as the camera points towards the ground/sky over and over again. There really is no way to guess the "right" way to correct in the instant you're flying out of control because the event usually happens so quickly and violently but the basic correction procedure is to wrench the yaw control back and forth while jamming on the throttle (these two controls are usually on the same stick), hoping the flight controller can slow it down in SOME direction so that your eyes can make sense of your heading and brain can take over and finish the rest of the corrections. Not being in the vehicle you have no inner ear to rely upon and shutter speeds can make super fast movements unreliable to guess direction of travel so its weird. Oh man I've wanted to get a drone with a headset like that for a while, but stupid Mrs. Nocheez had to want children instead of toys 
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Nocheez posted:Oh man I've wanted to get a drone with a headset like that for a while, but stupid Mrs. Nocheez had to want children instead of toys Hear me out: chest mount camera on the kid, vr goggles on you, use voice commands to drive your new bipedal drone They have pretty good self righting features and, depending on the age, the homing functionality is solid. Sometimes actually TOO good, like, the drone won’t move out and get a job.
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:My son had a 1998 with just short of 200,000 miles on it until it suffered injuries incompatible with life a year ago. Still had original everything as far as I know. They were redesigned all-new in 02. The only problems with the older ones were rust and also they'd think of ants and rollover (there's the OSHA tie-in). Try to think of how many 02-10 Explorers you still see on the road; then try to compare them to how many old Trailblazers are still driving around.
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Bad Munki posted:Hear me out: chest mount camera on the kid, vr goggles on you, use voice commands to drive your new bipedal drone He's about to start walking any day now, but he definitely has poo poo self-righting features and his UI for voice control is pretty garbage.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:No, pretty sure that's just common sense. A free standing building should probably be a little more immune to doing this badly but no guarantees, that's a PSI that's equivalent to packing the room with people wall to wall and then some. Anyone dealing with mobile prefabs will have very clear rules about no stacking paper in the trailer, even if your budget means you needed to buy extra to keep the budget from shrinking.
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Love to destroy my workplace by accidentally assembling a critical mass of paper
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Bad Munki posted:Hear me out: chest mount camera on the kid, vr goggles on you, use voice commands to drive your new bipedal drone Lol excellent Content: the classics never go out of style 
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haveblue posted:Love to destroy my workplace by accidentally assembling a critical mass of paper The 'Paperless Office' of the late 90s never came to be.
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haveblue posted:Love to destroy my workplace by accidentally assembling a critical mass of paper Next OSHA event, some office worker crushed to death while manipulating The Demon Stack with a screwdriver
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haveblue posted:Love to destroy my workplace by accidentally assembling a critical mass of paper There's a craft beer store near me that had to rearrange all their shelves towards the outside walls of each room. They bought a historical home that they turned into the store, and originally had their shelves in the middle of each room. The weight of the shelves caused the floors to sag enough that it was a hazard. I can only imagine the beer nerds who would have cried at all that lost product had the place collapsed. Evilreaver posted:Next OSHA event, some office worker crushed to death while manipulating The Demon Stack with a screwdriver 
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