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Leviathan Song posted:Here's one example article but lawn mowers are worse for both. Small two‐stroke engines release really noxious fumes, highly disproportionate to their fuel consumption. Global warming potential, however, is almost directly proportional to fuel consumption. US airlines used 18.27 billion gallons of fuel last year, far, far more than the 0.6 billion used by lawnmowers. Before you ask, jet‐A and gasoline generate nearly the same carbon dioxide per gallon, 21.5 versus 19.6 pounds, respectively. Lawnmowers are causing more than their fair share of respiratory and cardiovascular disease, but they’re not destabilising the climate nearly as rapidly as aviation is.
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This guy has been featured in the thread before for standing in stormwater and unclogging drains. It turns out that he has a pet leech, oddly appropriate for a man of his interests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfxb4VDqL1s quote:this time the leech is like four times as big and there was a lot of blood thinner I didn't stop bleeding for 30 hours next time I'm going to be a lot more prepared
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Platystemon posted:This guy has been featured in the thread before for standing in stormwater and unclogging drains. Thanks but I’m not watching that
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Leviathan Song posted:Source any of that. Leaded gasoline is only used in rich people pleasure aircraft, not commercial aircraft. Commercial aircraft are equivalent to buses per person mile in efficiency. For the record, the total annual consumption of leaded avgas in the USA is equivalent to about 6 hours worth of motor gas consumption in the USA. It's literally a drop in the bucket.
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Also no lawnmower in the last 40 years has been a two stroke
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Two stroke? Who told you that?! I'll sue for slander!
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Also no lawnmower in the last 40 years has been a two stroke Two strokes are still used for weed eaters, augers, tillers, blowers, etc. Also dirt bikes and other recreational poo poo. Also giant diesels like Detroit V-series that are used in a shitload of military trucks, like HEMTTs, PLSs, and HET truck that tows around Abrams. But diesel fuel is essentially the engine lubricant in those instead of additional oil. Two stroke isn't dead, it has several niches.
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There are also large marine diesels, but at that scale, the two‐stroke is a very different beast. They’re quite polluting, but that’s mostly because they burn literally bottom‐of‐the‐barrel fuel at huge scales. 
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All this train talk is reminding me that I don't actually know how train wheels grip the tracks.
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https://twitter.com/compgeke/status/1268374337305710592?s=21
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WarpedNaba posted:All this train talk is reminding me that I don't actually know how train wheels grip the tracks. Sheer mass
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WarpedNaba posted:All this train talk is reminding me that I don't actually know how train wheels grip the tracks. The locomotive is very heavy. Even though the coefficient of friction between steel and more steel is pretty small, the fact that there's a lot of weight pressing them together gives you enough traction to get it going. And if you're on a flat, that's all you need - even a tiny bit of traction is enough to start building up speed, and the rolling resistance is very low so it's not difficult to maintain once you are going. This is why hills are a much bigger problem for a train than they are for a car - rubber car tyres have plenty of extra traction force to pull the car up a hill, but the train doesn't have enough grip to be lifting the entire lot of loaded cars against the force of gravity. So train tracks are limited to much shallower grades. Back in the age of steam, steeper grades would have banking locomotives that were just there to help push trains up a slope that they wouldn't be able to manage on their own.
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The contact patch is also very small. Train wheels are conical to allow the train to self right itself as well as go around corners despite both wheels being one piece of metal. The wheel rides along the inside edge of the track.
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Huh. Huuuuh. Still hard to picture in my head, I'll admit.
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McSpanky posted:Riding Amtrak a while back, a conductor told me that passenger trains lease rail time from the cargo movers who own the rails, so if there's a conflict the cargo trains always get priority. When I was a Network Controller, our lines were intermodal in a sense that cargo, livestock and passengers used the same lines, but separate physical trains. The PR line of importance of care was 4 legs, 2 legs, no legs (livestock, passengers, freight), but in reality it was no legs, 4 legs, 2 legs.
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WarpedNaba posted:Huh. Huuuuh. This video helped me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHNqwswuQDk
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:This video helped me: Aaaaaaaaaah. Clever.
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WarpedNaba posted:All this train talk is reminding me that I don't actually know how train wheels grip the tracks. Learn from one of the greatest minds in history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE
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Memento posted:Learn from one of the greatest minds in history. Neat! Thanks
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 Nothing good can come from that. I... want one...
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they're for listening to house music
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Memento posted:they're for listening to house music 
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The ultimate in wet willy tech.
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Alkydere posted:But yeah I'm a Packer. I don't put your essential dildos in storage or take them out, I put them in the box or envelope to send to you. The questions I'll be best for answering are basically on the outbound (packing and outbound dock) side....
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Cable Guy posted:Coming so soon after the dildo part, I read that as "packing and outbound dick".
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Platystemon posted:There are also large marine diesels, but at that scale, the two‐stroke is a very different beast. The motor for your mom's....
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Amazon is pretty much the largest sex toy retailer in the world. I think they even have an AmazonBasics branded toys. When I worked pick in TN, the religious people would throw a goddamn hissy fit about grabbing a dildo from a bin. They're packaged so you don't know what it looks like (black bags or blackout packaging), but you know what it is the second you grab it. Jesus' bitches would go cry to the pick desk that they didn't want to touch those diabolical objects and they had to sort those picks out to people who didn't give a poo poo. They were usually the same people who waddled around at a slow pace, nowhere near quota, and would quit a week later because their feet were toast from carrying their fat asses around the warehouse. Just drama queen bitches.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Amazon is pretty much the largest sex toy retailer in the world. I think they even have an AmazonBasics branded toys. I got pretty weirded out the first time I had to wipe an old mans rear end. Now I'm totally gung-ho about it. And it's some of the least gross stuff I've gotten into compared to doing wound debridement. So I say to prude christains, what would jesus do?
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Two strokes are still used for weed eaters, augers, tillers, blowers, etc. Also dirt bikes and other recreational poo poo. Right, which is why I said lawnmowers specifically. Two strokes in general are still in wide use for certain applications like you said but in the US at least, lawnmowers have been 4 strokes for a long time.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Amazon is pretty much the largest sex toy retailer in the world. I think they even have an AmazonBasics branded toys. As someone who once worked a job where I raked used condoms out of raw sewage...............toughen the gently caress up. It’s a sanitary object in sterile packaging
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It's because Tennessee is full of loving baptist prudes that would rather "donate to Israel" to bring about the apocalypse than touch a piece of silicone. I assume the same happens in other amazon warehouses, but the South is full of people who get pissy about little things no one else cares about. I've worked way worse jobs in way shittier places, grabbing a rubber dick out of a box doesn't remotely effect me. poo poo, during my army stint as a mechanic, I filled a condom with silicone sealant, left it in a shipping container for a month of Iraqi summer heat, then we (like, a dozen troops) played hot potato with the drat thing. It smelled horrible from baking in the heat, so we would hide it amongst other peoples' gear to get a rise out of them. We also filled a guys' room with maxipads and tampons. So many people and church groups sent feminine hygiene products as "any soldier" packages that we'd accumulated thousands of the drat things well after our companys' women stocked up, so we had to do something with them. Pranks were just the easiest thing to come to mind.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:It's because Tennessee is full of loving baptist prudes that would rather "donate to Israel" to bring about the apocalypse than touch a piece of silicone. I assume the same happens in other amazon warehouses, but the South is full of people who get pissy about little things no one else cares about.  https://local.theonion.com/horribly-awkward-first-sexual-encounter-worth-the-wait-1819565082
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LifeSunDeath posted:I got pretty weirded out the first time I had to wipe an old mans rear end. Now I'm totally gung-ho about it. And it's some of the least gross stuff I've gotten into compared to doing wound debridement. So I say to prude christains, what would jesus do? I've had to have a wound debraded and for whatever reason the nurse decided not to give me any painkillers. That sucked and i swore a lot but geniunely thankful as she did a good job and it didn't get infected again. 2 years later i did basically the exact same injury and it got infected and the nurses i had were all crap at actually clearing the wound so i had bits of poo poo coming out of my leg for months.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:It's because Tennessee is full of loving baptist prudes that would rather "donate to Israel" to bring about the apocalypse than touch a piece of silicone. I assume the same happens in other amazon warehouses, but the South is full of people who get pissy about little things no one else cares about. I get all of my dildos and other depraved sex toys directly from Amazon because I know they have a strict zero return policy on them. I know it's killing honest small sex shop owners but you never know if someone has taken a gadget for a test drive when you buy from one of them.
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hemale in pain posted:I've had to have a wound debraded and for whatever reason the nurse decided not to give me any painkillers. That sucked and i swore a lot but geniunely thankful as she did a good job and it didn't get infected again. That's why physical therapy cleans wounds, we're better at it! Nurses don't debride wounds, they just change dressings and apply medications. Even my gf who's a woundcare nurse doesn't debride, but she can do a hell of a wound-vac. I go in there with a scalpel and a pulse lavage gun and taken off chunks daily, and do dressings. Hell even doctors are bad at it, they're rough as hell, they don't want to waste time, had one just take rongeurs and rip out chunks of necrotic tissue and cause a ton of bleeding, i'm in there being super delicate. LifeSunDeath fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Jun 4, 2020 |
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jetz0r posted:
I used to have a beard trimmer that used a 3.5mm plug for charging. It was actually kinda nice because it would really lock in when it was connected, unlike most power adapters. I also remember Radio Shack stocking 3.5mm ends for the universal AC adapter, but I don't ever remember a customer needing one.
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Azathoth posted:I used to have a beard trimmer that used a 3.5mm plug for charging. It was actually kinda nice because it would really lock in when it was connected, unlike most power adapters. I also remember Radio Shack stocking 3.5mm ends for the universal AC adapter, but I don't ever remember a customer needing one. I'm pretty sure those were on dc converters, that dropped the charge to a low voltage/amperage. It wasn't just blasting 120v ac straight into your shaver. edit: Though plugging it into the headphone jack of your phone or something would probably not be good for it
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Azathoth posted:I used to have a beard trimmer that used a 3.5mm plug for charging. It was actually kinda nice because it would really lock in when it was connected, unlike most power adapters. I also remember Radio Shack stocking 3.5mm ends for the universal AC adapter, but I don't ever remember a customer needing one. Those are after the wall wart transformer though, a little bit of low voltage DC on an exposed plug isn't even close.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I get all of my dildos and other depraved sex toys directly from Amazon because I know they have a strict zero return policy on them. I know it's killing honest small sex shop owners but you never know if someone has taken a gadget for a test drive when you buy from one of them. I worked at an adult store as my first job back out of the army, nine months in a Lion's Den (usually found along interstates, a few city stores though). We threw returns away unless they were DVDs. Just left it in the bag the customer returned the item in and chucked it in the dumpster at the end of the night. The mark-up on sex toys at that point (over a decade ago) was 300-500%. DVDs were anywhere from 100% to 2000% marked up. If anyone brought a toy back, it was just easier to throw it away and write it off taxes than deal with customers asking if it was a return. DVDs were shrink wrapped back in their cases and put right back on the shelf. If it was a big item that the company didn't want to write off, like, it cost more than $100 from the vendor, we'd ship it back as used/defective and get a credit. That was pretty rare though. It was a fun job for a while, but by the six month mark, it was dreadfully boring.
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