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Mustached Demon posted:Some retailers take your old car seats and give you coupons for new ones. I know a national chain that does this. They ship back to manufacturers/distributors now. You can't put them in the compactor so they ended up in dumpsters. Wouldn't you know it, they caught people grabbing that poo poo out of the trash to sell at flea markets. I don't even work there and ran people off I found doing that. Invariably, they rolled up in newer luxury cars with an older person driving. Drugs, probably, but what the gently caress?
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Piggy Smalls posted:I remember visiting Buenos Aires and it was freezing cold. You have rotten luck. Buenos Aires only gets frost twice per year.
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Piggy Smalls posted:I remember visiting Buenos Aires and it was freezing cold. We stopped at a gas station and were told we had to exit our vehicle. I didn’t know what the gently caress they were talking about since here in the US you don’t have to do that. I guess the cars run on gas (as in air gas) and if your in your car and there’s a leak you’d suffocate in your car. At least that’s what I was told.
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Piggy Smalls posted:I remember visiting Buenos Aires and it was freezing cold. Having lives there for a time, what the hell. It's a coastal city not too far south, it's pretty moderate all things considered.
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*wipes away a tear* It's so... beautiful! The best warning signs are the most eloquent imo.
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Given the intended purpose of a WWI helmet (shrapnel protection), would a modern hard hat do basically the same job? Clearly it's going to degrade faster due to the brittle nature of plastic, but for the first hit, would it be about the same protection?
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Memento posted:Given the intended purpose of a WWI helmet (shrapnel protection), would a modern hard hat do basically the same job? Clearly it's going to degrade faster due to the brittle nature of plastic, but for the first hit, would it be about the same protection? No. Before WWI the spiked helmets the Germans had were made out of boiled leather, like the old helmets firefighters used to use, and shell splinters (and fragments of rock or whatever) went through them like a knife in a Cold Steel commercial, leading to the development of the Stahlhelm. 5mm of ABS or whatever isn't going to offer any ballistic protection against shrapnel.
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The Lone Badger posted:"Please feed the alligators"? "Sacrificing the young to your god Sobek to ensure futile crops"
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dr_rat posted:"Sacrificing the young to your god Sobek to ensure futile crops" ...so you're saying not to sacrifice to Sobek if you want non-futile crops?
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The Lone Badger posted:"Please feed the alligators"? "If your alligator won't jump back over the fence, try luring it with Ben Shapiro."
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Serephina posted:*wipes away a tear* It's so... beautiful! 
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C.M. Kruger posted:No. Before WWI the spiked helmets the Germans had were made out of boiled leather, like the old helmets firefighters used to use, and shell splinters (and fragments of rock or whatever) went through them like a knife in a Cold Steel commercial, leading to the development of the Stahlhelm. 5mm of ABS or whatever isn't going to offer any ballistic protection against shrapnel. What about a modern motorcycle helmet?
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Big Dick Cheney posted:What about a modern motorcycle helmet?
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:...so you're saying not to sacrifice to Sobek if you want non-futile crops? Like, I can only say what the sign says, not how you want to live your life. 
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Pail Ale posted:When it comes to farm equipment, I like to assume that the notices were put it after that same incident occurred. Almost certainly. Hell, that's how most safety equipment/warnings come about. I think I talked about this before, but medical equipment is the same way. Enough patients die because a doctor/nurse/random person walking into the room increased the medication flow, or reduced oxygen, etc... so a new safety measure is put in place. I specialized in testing and repairing anesthesia equipment, and they are a textbook example of that. Things like a physical interlock between the nitrous and oxygen knobs so that a doctor can't increase the nitrous without also increasing the oxygen, because enough people died because too many of them did exactly that. The oxygen supply knob is also larger and has different knurling than the nitrous and air knobs so if a doctor is blindly fumbling for a knob, he's less likely to mistake another knob for the O2. Gas vaporizer interlocks. Nitrous isn't the only anesthetic gas used, other gasses, like Sevolfurane, Desflurane, etc... are delivered by small vaporizer modules that attach to the front of the machine. If one is opened, it locks out any other ones from being opened to prevent more than one anesthetic gas from being delivered at a time. The modules also have keyed fittings to refill, so you can't put Sevoflurane into the Desflurane vaporizer. There's more, and I actually just found a good paper on it here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821264/ It has citations about cases where a patient did die or was injured before a given safety feature was implemented.
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that’s so english. I was in scotland recently and there was a sign at an outdoor seafood spot that read something like PLEASE GAURD YOUR FOOD FROM SEAGULLS FOOD TAKEN BY SEAGULLS WILL NOT BE REPLACED (THE SEAGULLS DO NOT WORK FOR US)
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DrBouvenstein posted:Almost certainly. Hell, that's how most safety equipment/warnings come about. I heard a couple years ago about a new hospital that hooked up the O2 and CO2 (?) lines backwards and patients died from getting something other than oxygen. It really disturbed me, so I'm not really willing to look for it again.
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It's a thread classic at this point, but the story of the THERAC-25 is well worth revisiting when talking about medical technology gently caress-ups https://hackaday.com/2015/10/26/killed-by-a-machine-the-therac-25/
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ATP_Power posted:It's a thread classic at this point, but the story of the THERAC-25 is well worth revisiting when talking about medical technology gently caress-ups THERAC-25 is more of a classic story of how a lack of rigorous and independent testing combined with management cheaping out on a safety interlock under the mistaken belief that software would not have bugs resulted in several people being maimed or killed by a powerful gamma radiation source.
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Cythereal posted:Does "living in Delhi" count these days?
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BattleMaster posted:I feel like the Tesla autopilot poo poo is going to be in textbooks along THERAC-25 as a case study in dangerous software I just saw a news article on business insider that most bazingas feel safer with autopilot. I guess because they are inside the death machine and the innocent pedestrians are outside. And the ones that get trapped inside when the car catches on fire aren't alive to participate in surveys.
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Volcott posted:Bazingas? Nerds I think.
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Cojawfee posted:I just saw a news article on business insider that most bazingas feel safer with autopilot. I guess because they are inside the death machine and the innocent pedestrians are outside. And the ones that get trapped inside when the car catches on fire aren't alive to participate in surveys. Car drives better than them.
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:Nerds I think. snugglz posted:that’s so english.
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All 'self-driving' cars, not just Tesla autopilot are a loving disaster currently. I think this counts as OSHA: Engadget posted:Although the [system] detected the pedestrian nearly six seconds before impact ... it never classified her as a pedestrian, because she was crossing at a location without a crosswalk [and] the system design did not include a consideration for jaywalking pedestrians.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/us/florida-zip-line-park-trnd/index.htmlquote:A mother from Florida is suing an indoor entertainment park after her 10-year-old son was injured after falling 20 to 25 feet from a zip line and onto the concrete surface below, according to a lawsuit filed by the mother. It's baffling to me that there was bare concrete under the zipline and not some sort of padding.
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snugglz posted:that’s so english. I was in scotland recently and there was a sign at an outdoor seafood spot that read something like We get these kinds of signs in Australia, too. The advice goes something like
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DrBouvenstein posted:https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/us/florida-zip-line-park-trnd/index.html That place looked like it used to be a store, someone bought it, threw up some lovely plywood walls, and then installed a rock climbing wall and a zipline. I doubt any thought went into that place at all besides calling up the supplier for the zipline and getting someone to install it. The installer probably even told them they need something on the ground just in case and the owner said something along the lines of "Ok yeah, sure, thanks" while talking on the phone to the rock climbing wall company.
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