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CommieGIR posted:That's a nice fire hazard. There's a guy in my city that's been making a spectacle of his house for decades. Old guy, incandescent devotee. Refuses to put a single led bulb up, and lights his house up enough to be seen by the ISS. He does it up right though, an outdoor shed entirely devoted to breaker boxes and relays and whatever other poo poo an electrical engineer would consider important. I've asked him what his electricity bill is like but he just smiles demurely.
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DrHammond posted:There's a guy in my city that's been making a spectacle of his house for decades. Old guy, incandescent devotee. Refuses to put a single led bulb up, and lights his house up enough to be seen by the ISS. He does it up right though, an outdoor shed entirely devoted to breaker boxes and relays and whatever other poo poo an electrical engineer would consider important. I found out from a friend who does it and it added like $190 a month for his power bill. Just for comparison: I have a Dell M1000e bladecenter than runs off 230vAC. It adds $25 to my bill.
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CommieGIR posted:Just for comparison: I have a Dell M1000e bladecenter than runs off 230vAC. It adds $25 to my bill. i love that this is considered to be a comparison that anyone would understand (yes, i know this forum is full of computer janitors) "yeah, my car's engine has 300 horsepower. how much is that? well it's about the mechanical equivalent of 3400 intel i9s running superpi"
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I know Dell is a brand of computer stuff, but other than that I have no idea. 
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Agrinja posted:Why is it weird to compare electrical power draw? nobody who isn't an IT worker has any idea what a "dell m1000e bladecenter" is or whether it draws a lot of power or a little. like a proper comparison would be to say "the $190 he spends per month, at average US electricity prices, is comparable to running four hair dryers 24 hours a day all month long" Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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You have a point. I just took it as "my huge computer uses a lot of electric.
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https://wtop.com/dc-transit/2019/12/safety-failures-left-metro-riders-stuck-near-tunnel-fire-last-week-2/ The more you read this article, the more pissed off you get the further you go, especially if you ride this thing every day. Also don’t forget that this is a site that exists: https://ismetroonfire.com
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When my company sent me to the training to be a floor warden for my office, one of the things the assistant Fire Marshal made clear was that my duties did not include assisting coworkers. I was to report the smoke, pull the fire alarm and go to the stairwell. I'm sure his logic won't be a shock to the people in this thread but their concern is if I attempted the rescue and hosed up, then they have to rescue two people instead of one. I did enjoy the looks of horror on my coworkers faces when I explained that after they made jokes about me carrying them out.
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Korean Boomhauer posted:Bonus: drat, never seen something get skeletized by an arc flash before
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Accused podcast is covering the David Bocks case for season 3. He disappeared at work in a uranium processing facility, likely remains were later found in a furnace. Apparently cops reckon he suicidally cannonballed into a vat of molten salt like this  
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Apparently there wasn't much left, and the few assorted bits were toxic and radioactive. https://unsolved.com/gallery/dave-bocks/
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If your likely remains aren't buried under yucca mountain, did you even live your best life?
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I didn't know I wanted to see a cruise ship destruction derby until now. Now I really want to see a cruise ship destruction derby.
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dr_rat posted:I didn't know I wanted to see a cruise ship destruction derby until now. be the change you want to be in the world
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dr_rat posted:I didn't know I wanted to see a cruise ship destruction derby until now. ironically probably the single least OSHA thing that goes on at these breaker yards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ouzIt4P4Rc
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This isn’t the best angle on the crash, but it shows the damage to Glory from three minutes on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ5wwR_2pCw
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CommieGIR posted:I found out from a friend who does it and it added like $190 a month for his power bill. I ran 27-strings of C-9s (the larger incandescent tapered bulb) on my 28' pine tree for several seasons. We calculated that, at nine watts/bulb, averaging 30/string (most of the strings were from the 60s) that it was pulling betweeen 7500-8000 watts accounting for resistance. I eventually ran a dedicated 30A breaker to a hot-water heater timer & on out with 10-2 to a heavy-duty receptacle, to a 10-ga extension cord, to a distributor that could handle the six extension cords coming off the tree. Think it added about $85/mo. Fortunately, it's only six weeks.
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Squalid posted:this video did not go the way I expected It took enough ingenuity to get that truck to the starting point that I'm not surprised it manages to survive
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Cartoon Man posted:https://wtop.com/dc-transit/2019/12/safety-failures-left-metro-riders-stuck-near-tunnel-fire-last-week-2/ I started taking the bus instead of metro to get to work. I've been stuck on the red line before not for anything serious just bull poo poo. At least if a bus breaks down I can get out and walk.
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KoRMaK posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahdhk1rZZrU Thanks for this, I just burned through all 6 episodes. Makes me never want to work on a ship lol.
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Nenonen posted:edit to add: sheesh, I was wondering why the OP would include #FoxNews in his tweet but then I looked at his Twitter account, the guy's a living MAGA chud stereotype... I'm assuming you mean the Matthew Bruin feed and not Stonekettle, because Stonekettle is about as far from MAGAchud as it's possible to be and still occupy the same universe (although why he retweeted a MAGAchud as opposed to another source, I have no idea).
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Well, that is a very efficient way to kill someone.
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Speaking of cruise ships and OSHA, how’s the case going where the boomer tossed a baby out the window and blamed the cruise line?
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Charges filed on Oct 29th. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/us/grandfather-cruise-ship-death.html quote:Salvatore Anello, who dropped his granddaughter from a cruise ship window in July, was charged with negligent homicide in Puerto Rico.
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https://twitter.com/AugensteinWTOP/status/1208440555379802112?s=20 https://twitter.com/Chopper4Brad/status/1208418904541974528?s=20 https://wtop.com/local/2019/12/cargo-tumbles-into-potomac-as-freight-rail-bridge-fails-near-harpers-ferry-west-va/ Cartoon Man fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Dec 21, 2019 |
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Icon Of Sin posted:Mr. Anello, 51, “negligently exposed the child to the abyss”... 
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He made him watch the non-director's cut, the monster
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Azhais posted:He made him watch the non-director's cut, the monster Y'know I didn't even know there was a directors cut, until I saw it and went 'well THAT makes a gently caress of a lot more sense now.' Now I want to watch it again, with older more cynical eyes, and try to spot all the OSHA going on in the rig.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://twitter.com/AugensteinWTOP/status/1208440555379802112?s=20 Huh, is it infrastructure week already? also, I'm the lonely wheel set left on the tracks
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I'm professional drone photographer Tim Drone.
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Azhais posted:He made him watch the non-director's cut, the monster but the directors cut is bad
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gently caress SNEEP posted:I'm professional drone photographer Tim Drone. Nominative determinism all up in this piece.
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