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drunkill posted:https://i.imgur.com/SfGx5BK.mp4 Seems like it was pretty safe until the truck decided to run into it?
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drunkill posted:https://i.imgur.com/SfGx5BK.mp4 they should have raised the helicopter
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 16:28 |
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Mr. Landis, your moving truck is going to be late.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 17:53 |
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Brute Hole Force posted:Mr. Landis, your moving truck is going to be late.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 18:04 |
Here’s some fresh content you won’t find anywhere else courtesy yours truly, I think it counts as OSHA because the driver had to be either drunk or playing on his phone or otherwise distracted enough he could have killed someone. Note: this is actually the 2nd of two hits in one pass. Further up the road, the driver took out two boxes, drove about 200’ along the same pass, and then took these out. Pretty cool.
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Bad Munki posted:Here’s some fresh content you won’t find anywhere else courtesy yours truly, I think it counts as OSHA because the driver had to be either drunk or playing on his phone or otherwise distracted enough he could have killed someone. Indeed. The mail person will hurt their back bending over to put letters in those mailboxes. NOT OSHA!
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 18:15 |
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drunkill posted:https://i.imgur.com/SfGx5BK.mp4 A helicopter pilot I worked with for a while told me a story that one time he was extremely late on getting his medical and he would have to go through an insane amount of documentation and things and would be fired if he did not get his medical done that very day and unfortunately he was not near his company's chosen medical examiner. However, he did have his R44, so he flew to the hospital, landed in the parking lot, walked inside, and was confronted by the desk staff who told him he couldn't park his helicopter there, to which he responded "here's the keys, feel free to move it" There are a lot of reasons to doubt the veracity of that story but I like it E: The tail rotor is still spinning aaahhhhhh EvenWorseOpinions fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jan 19, 2020 |
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More EPA than OSHA but: Not great, not terrible, until you think about the fact that back then "dump it in the ground" was literally the way to dispose of whatever you had back then, not just used motor oil. So you have the ground thoughtfully absorbing benzene up in Love Canal, PCBs in the mud at the bottom of the Hudson River, Perc and TCE in Woburn, MA, god-knows-what in Tom's River, NJ (and also actually a lot of other sites in NJ) and Cleveland* and countless other places. Oh, and radioactive sludge in Hanford, WA. Who knew that that could cause a problem? Just dump it in a hole in the ground, it'll be fine. *Cuyahoga National Park is lovely and right outside Cleveland and also the only National Park to contain a Superfund site!
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 19:53 |
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Bad Munki posted:Here’s some fresh content you won’t find anywhere else courtesy yours truly, I think it counts as OSHA because the driver had to be either drunk or playing on his phone or otherwise distracted enough he could have killed someone. Hey man, snowplows have the right of way, those mailboxes should've moved over for him.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 20:07 |
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TorpedoFish posted:More EPA than OSHA but: The number of these we just dumped in the ground and rivers in the 60s could fill a novel. And here we are having to be the ones dealing with it.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 20:26 |
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dilution is the solution to pollution, I think they used to say
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 20:32 |
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CommieGIR posted:The number of these we just dumped in the ground and rivers in the 60s could fill a novel. And in fact probably included several thousand novels as well.
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oystertoadfish posted:dilution is the solution to pollution, I think they used to say They still do.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 20:51 |
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oystertoadfish posted:dilution is the solution to pollution, I think they used to say Just build taller chimneys.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 21:15 |
Nenonen posted:Just build taller chimneys. Or lower the water table.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 21:36 |
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I'm gonna dump my pollution like this, and if the water table gets in the way, that's its problem.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 21:39 |
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CommieGIR posted:The number of these we just dumped in the ground and rivers in the 60s could fill a novel. Indeed you can even read Max Gergel's memoirs on the site that hosts the Ignition! PDF: https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/gergel_isopropyl_bromide.pdf https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/the_ageless_gergel.pdf https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/05/27/max_gergels_memoirs quote:I came across the book in Duke’s chemistry library in 1984, a few years after its publication, and read it straight through with my hair gradually rising upwards. Book 2 is especially full of alarming chemical stories. I suspect that some of the anecdotes have been polished up a bit over the years, but as Samuel Johnson once said, a man is not under oath in such matters. But when Gergel says that he made methyl iodide in an un-air-conditioned building in the summertime in South Carolina, and describes in vivid detail the symptoms of being poisoned by it, I believe every word. He must have added a pound to his weight in sheer methyl groups. 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Kary B. Mullis posted:I never tired of tinkering in labs. During the summer breaks from Georgia Tech, Al Montgomery and I built an organic synthesis lab in an old chicken house on the edge of town where we made research chemicals to sell. Most of them were noxious or either explosive. No one else wanted to make them, somebody wanted them, and so their production became our domain. We suffered no boredom and no boss. We made enough money to buy new equipment. Max Gergel, who ran Columbia Organic Chemicals Company, and who was an unusually nice man, encouraged us and bought most of our products, which he resold. There were no government regulators to stifle our fledgling efforts, and it was a golden age, but we didn’t notice it. We learned a lot of organic chemistry. https://www.postandcourier.com/free...0d9eb9daed.html quote:The Environmental Protection Agency sought to explain the cleanup process of a dioxin-contaminated industrial site to residents of a southeast Columbia neighborhood in a Jan. 17 community meeting. And while the residents left informed, some remained concerned about a housing development planned for property next to the polluted location.The site is at 912 Drake St. in the Brandon Acres-Cedar Terrace neighborhood off Garners Ferry Road. It was the home of the Columbia Organic Chemical Co. from 1944 until 1984, when the company moved to Kershaw County. Columbia Organic made various chemicals, including bromine, chlorine and insecticides.The EPA cleanup of the site will involve removing dioxin-tainted soil.Dioxins are a “man-made chemical byproduct formed during the manufacturing of other chemicals and during incineration,” says the Healthy Children Project web site. “Studies show that dioxin is the most potent animal carcinogen ever tested, as well as the cause of severe weight loss, liver problems, kidney problems, birth defects and death.”
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 22:04 |
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i would not like to see his art. no thank you
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 22:26 |
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i've heard it's aged well, like a fine cheese
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 22:40 |
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He's famous for his careful cumpositions.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 22:44 |
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Oh and I have Kary Mullis' autobiography and he's a loving nut job. Clearly a very smart or very fortunate guy to have invented the polymerase chain reaction, but it's also apparent that he's got a severe case of smartest guy in the room syndrome and applies that to everything from climate change to psychic superpowers.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 22:47 |
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Kary spent his Nobel lecture talking about his vacation to the Anderson Valley in northern California where he figured it out, and he's kinda trashing his ex girlfriend on the biggest stage of his life because he's weird, but he also names a mile marker on a highway where he pulled over to write the idea down. I found it on Google maps once, it's in a thread here somewhere. it looked like a nice drive
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 22:57 |
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I took this picture a couple years ago, and from nearby construction it looked like it belonged to a contractor of some sort. The crucifix presumably stowed away and they didn't drive around with it upright like that, but in keeping with the thread I like to think they just left it up and sped down the freeway with it upright like this.
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 23:33 |
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TorpedoFish posted:More EPA than OSHA but:
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# ? Jan 19, 2020 23:56 |
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Nenonen posted:Just build taller chimneys. Just mix the fumes and smoke with steam so it looks good coming out the top.
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# ? Jan 20, 2020 00:07 |
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oil comes from the ground, oil goes back in the ground. what's the problem
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I took this picture a couple years ago, and from nearby construction it looked like it belonged to a contractor of some sort. The crucifix presumably stowed away and they didn't drive around with it upright like that, but in keeping with the thread I like to think they just left it up and sped down the freeway with it upright like this. Did it take anyone else like 20 seconds to figure out where the crucifix in the picture was?
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# ? Jan 20, 2020 00:33 |
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EasilyConfused posted:Did it take anyone else like 20 seconds to figure out where the crucifix in the picture was? Yeah, it's not the best picture but my phone at the time didn't have a great camera and it was more of a WTF shot than it was carefully planned.
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# ? Jan 20, 2020 00:38 |
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C.M. Kruger posted:Indeed you can even read Max Gergel's memoirs on the site that hosts the Ignition! PDF: I posted this on facebook a few years ago and found out Gergel was my high school science teacher's scoutmaster when he was a kid. It explained so much
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ej-TA1L9A just keep smashing me from behind, I'm almost there
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C.M. Kruger posted:Indeed you can even read Max Gergel's memoirs on the site that hosts the Ignition! PDF: Yup, ignition is a good read, we were incredibly reckless with chemical and nuclear waste prior to the EPA.
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# ? Jan 20, 2020 02:57 |
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quote:Exposed to hexavalent chromium via direct osha violations at temp job for Billion dollar company. How do I properly document things? This situation is aggravating (self.legaladvice) https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/efp2rq/exposed_to_hexavalent_chromium_via_direct_osha/
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# ? Jan 20, 2020 03:13 |
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https://i.imgur.com/r9RLtQD.mp4
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# ? Jan 20, 2020 03:50 |
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Genuinely expecting that guy to eat poo poo there.
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# ? Jan 20, 2020 03:59 |
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Rare video footage of the colossal S.Q.U.I.D.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Genuinely expecting that guy to eat poo poo there. Yeah I was clenching the whole video.
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# ? Jan 20, 2020 04:10 |
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All I can see watching that is how much of a clusterfuck that accident scene would be if he wiped out and went skidding across the asphalt. My back is screaming just thinking about it.
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i am harry posted:Just mix the fumes and smoke with steam so it looks good coming out the top. this practice is what got the world's first laws about disposal of industrial chemicals passed. quote:The Leblanc process plants were quite damaging to the local environment. The process of generating salt cake from salt and sulfuric acid released hydrochloric acid gas, and because this acid was industrially useless in the early 19th century, it was simply vented into the atmosphere. . .
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# ? Jan 20, 2020 04:26 |
Tons of anarchy
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Squalid posted:this practice is what got the world's first laws about disposal of industrial chemicals passed. What a punchline.
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