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Noslo posted:My issue with motorcycles is that you can do everything right and still be killed instantly when some dipshit isn't paying attention. That is exactly right, and the biggest reason I stopped riding. I loved my Triumph, but it was an invisible speck compared to nearly everything on the road. The thrill is not worth the risk.
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cyberbug posted:Have a pretty bonkers motorcycle chase from Finland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1vHwz8FVa8 There's some fun to be had following this chase along in Google street view, if you're into that sort of thing. Start about here, facing east. Tricky when he goes off-road, of course. Gromit fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jan 11, 2020 |
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Sagebrush posted:The government should seize the SawStop patent, open the license, and make it mandatory for all new saws sold. This sounds like a job for Bernie Sanders.
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Trabant posted:That is exactly right, and the biggest reason I stopped riding. I loved my Triumph, but it was an invisible speck compared to nearly everything on the road. The thrill is not worth the risk. Had me a sweet '07 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Custom with some light customization, and it was the best thing, loved it so much. Then I had kids and realized they were relying on the rest of the world to not kill me, regardless of how careful I was. Same for my wife and her bike. :|
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Some good OSHA content here from Popular Mechanics: 
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Sagebrush posted:The government should seize the SawStop patent, open the license, and make it mandatory for all new saws sold. Track saws can do pretty much everything a table saw can (dado cuts I suppose it can't but those are pretty dangerous anyway), are cheaper, don't require shop floor space, and most importantly are far less likely to injure you since it's basically an overgrown circ saw.
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Docking a boat must be hard, doubly so when your boat wants to ram the police boat just ahead of you. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7HmXINpRsy/?igshid=1su1o61qahjw5 mixing up your forward and reverse throttle on a boat isn’t something that typically happens to anyone even remotely sober
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Omnikin posted:Putting out a request for any great dramatic articles on OSHA disasters. I know I've read a few in this thread's history on the El Faro sinking, the Challenger disaster and the hurricane hunters plane in... Hugo? I believe. A fun story in which no one dies: the Gimli Glider. A series of fuckups leads to a 767 taking off with about half the fuel it was supposed to have and running out at altitude. quote:Pearson and Quintal immediately began making preparations for a one engine landing. Then another fuel light lit up. Two minutes later, just as preparations were being completed, the EICAS issued a sharp bong--indicating the complete and total loss of both engines. Says Quintal "It's a sound that Bob and I had never heard before. It's not in the simulator." After the "bong," things got quiet. Real quite. Starved of fuel, both Pratt & Whitney engines had flamed out.
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haveblue posted:the EICAS issued a sharp bong--indicating the complete and total loss of both engines. Says Quintal "It's a sound that Bob and I had never heard before. It's not in the simulator." After the "bong," things got quiet. Real quiet. Starved of fuel, both Pratt & Whitney engines had flamed out. I too got quiet and flamed out after the bong.
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haveblue posted:A fun story in which no one dies: the Gimli Glider. A series of fuckups leads to a 767 taking off with about half the fuel it was supposed to have and running out at altitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVvt7hP5a-0 yes, they confused a forward slip and a sideslip
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Omnikin posted:Putting out a request for any great dramatic articles on OSHA disasters. I know I've read a few in this thread's history on the El Faro sinking, the Challenger disaster and the hurricane hunters plane in... Hugo? I believe. Here's one on the Hyatt hotel walkway collapse in 1981 (killed > 100 people). https://interestingengineering.com/understanding-hyatt-regency-walkway-collapse
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WorldsStongestNerd posted:I didn't see this mentioned but I have several sets. They aren't hard to get. $10 at a harbor freight will get you a 100-piece set of security bits.
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EvilJoven posted:So one of my wife's colleagues now knows the magic words that'll get the triage nurses in the ER to drop everything and come to you immediately. Always use the wandel double push stick method.
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 quote:The first gas station in Canada opened at Cambie and Smithe Streets. Sometime this year it occurred to employees at the Vancouver office of the Imperial Oil Co. that the usual method of fuelling automobiles to this time—namely, carrying a sloshing bucket full of gasoline up to the vehicle and pouring it through a funnel into the tank—was somewhat dangerous. So Charles Rolston, manager of Imperial’s local office, built a small open-sided shed of corrugated iron next to the storage yard. Atop a tapering concrete pillar he placed a 13-gallon (59-litre) kitchen water tank fitted with a glass steam-gauge, with 1-gallon (4.5-litre) increments marked off by white dots. The tank was gravity fed, being connected to Imperial’s main storage tank. The filling hose was a 10-foot (3-metre) length of garden hose, which the attendant drained with thumb and finger after filling a car. https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/history/canadas-first-gas-station-1907-1933728
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Here is a link to all the newly-released Boeing emails. I was frustrated that none of the news reports actually linked to the full emails so dug this up. https://archive.org/details/boeingemailsocr quote:Sent: 6/5/2617 ’8:02:55”pm”’ quote:8:55 am: Mozi fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Jan 11, 2020 |
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Slightly late to the motorcycle PPE chat but I had a bad motorcycle collision in 2009 and I believe I'm only alive because I was wearing my helmet. I was stopped on a 2 lane road behind a couple cars, with the lead car wanting to turn left across traffic into a driveway or something. Sunny day, mid afternoon. Had my foot on the ground just sitting there waiting when a pick up truck hit me from behind doing 30mph. Didn't even touch his brakes. If I had to guess, the driver was dicking around with the radio or phone and didn't see all of us stopped in front of him. He couldn't use the excuse of not seeing my bike since there was a minivan and another vehicle in front of me, all stopped. Thankfully I got catapulted off before his truck crushed my bike in to the rear of the minivan. All I ended up getting was a little road rash on my elbow and hip and a compression fracture in a vertebrae in my lower back. My helmet had a large crack straight down the back side of it where it impacted the asphalt. I live in a no-helmet-law state so I'm sure if I had not been wearing it, that would have been a skull fracture.
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Squalid posted:hmm. . . . the experience might feel a bit like those of the fish in both of these gifs: From a couple pages ago but I feel compelled to post this (Sound on): https://twitter.com/SuperDepressin/status/1160660867408715778
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https://webm.red/view/Dtij.webm Imgur link since Webms no longer work here  https://imgur.com/gallery/ghYwRGu Korthal fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Jan 11, 2020 |
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devmd01 posted:Wife and I did a week in New Orleans last year for our tenth anniversary. A+ would do it again. This shot was from the Natchez cruise, I wonder what chemicals went through there in its heyday! Holy poo poo that piece is bonkers huge. Nice.
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cyberbug posted:Have a pretty bonkers motorcycle chase from Finland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1vHwz8FVa8 Yeah, it seems super not worth it to risk the death of a bunch of cyclists/pedestrians to catch this guy for drving too fast on the highway or whatever they chased him for. Have some more motrocycle cop OSHA:    also: 
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F that cop in the first one though, what a dick.
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Bad Munki posted:F that cop in the first one though, what a dick. F the cops in all of them tbf Here's a cop just randomly pepper-spraying a group of motorcyclists passing by, which also doesn't seem like the safest practice:  http://thefreethoughtproject.com/texas-cop-caught-video-pepper-spraying-innocent-motorists-drove/
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iroc.dis posted:Slightly late to the motorcycle PPE chat but I had a bad motorcycle collision in 2009 and I believe I'm only alive because I was wearing my helmet. Hi! If you didn't have the helmet you'd almost certainly be dead, and if you were lucky, you'd just have a debilitating brain injury. Your story, coupled with my EMS experiences convinced me to sell my motorcycle 20 years ago. I might, one day, get a race bike, and I'll trailer that poo poo to the track, thank you very much. I felt safer racing a bike on a track than I did sitting at a red light.
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Smiling Jack posted:I felt safer racing a bike on a track than I did sitting at a red light. I had two accidents and one close call in the five or so years I rode. One was me stopping at a red in the right turn lane, watching the person behind me come to a complete stop, looking left for uncoming traffic, and getting hit from behind. They said they thought I went. The other was a "typical" person making a left turn across my direction of travel. Almost stopped in time, hit their fender at ≈2 mph. I dropped the bike after stopping, the cop said "so you laid it down", and I got pissed at him. The close call was entering a turn too fast for my skills. I'm surprised that I held it and didn't go wide into an oncoming car. Was shaking the rest of the way home.
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 Don't Drive Blindfolded! - 1925 ad for Bosch electric-automatic windshield wipers 
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https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51058929 quote:One unnamed employee wrote in an exchange of instant messages in April 2017: "This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys."
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Nenonen posted:I wonder what the actual severance package would have been. A Boeing Dreamliner filled with money? Pfff, don't be silly. Of course it would be an Airbus filled with money.
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The reverse OSHA fine surely will hit these companies hard. $150k bonus to the CEO for every customer killed.
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Number_6 posted:Here's one on the Hyatt hotel walkway collapse in 1981 (killed > 100 people). Here's a better one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2t0MOGnVc
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Kate Wagner needs to go over Groverhaus. Surely she's seen the pictures.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Kate Wagner needs to go over Groverhaus. Surely she's seen the pictures. https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell/status/1034492352310730754
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Lurking Haro posted:Pfff, don't be silly. 
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