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Jun 14, 2020 14:04
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Old swampland sinks like a motherfucker for a longass time as organic matter that accumulated underwater for centuries decays under the new ærobic conditions. Parts of the Netherlands that were drained a thousand years ago are dropping by almost a centimetre per year today, though to be fair that’s possible only because water table was so high that decay was almost suspended for most of those centuries.
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Jun 14, 2020 14:14
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My YouTube suggestions have sent me down an old British Transport Films rabbit hole, came across this wonderful retro pre-HSE (UK OSHA) video on how they started adding Overhead Lines to our railways. I've linked to a bit on them putting the gantries in, completely with a worker just climbing up and walking over the beams without any safety equipment at all  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNQ2jPaaDDY&t=735s Also I noticed how you weren't dressed for the job without a cigarette JingleBells fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Jun 14, 2020 |
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Jun 14, 2020 14:38
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Dysgenesis posted:Or merge into a single, larger battery that fits nothing.
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Jun 14, 2020 15:29
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wolrah posted:C batteries. The only place I've ever seen them used is in '80s-90s era portable stereos, and strangely never in anything that wasn't large enough to have fit Ds instead. C batteries are for sex toys yo
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Jun 14, 2020 17:14
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wolrah posted:C batteries. The only place I've ever seen them used is in '80s-90s era portable stereos, and strangely never in anything that wasn't large enough to have fit Ds instead. My cat’s feeder uses C batteries, but it’s a pain in the rear end. I’m gonna solder in a power jack and get rid of the drat things altogether. Autocorrect really wanted “rear end” to be “AAs.”
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Jun 14, 2020 18:02
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:My cat’s feeder uses C batteries, but it’s a pain in the rear end. I’m gonna solder in a power jack and get rid of the drat things altogether. Poor autocorrect, desperately trying to make you presentable. Goodpancakes posted:C batteries are for sex toys yo Guess depending on context you might need the C or the D.
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Jun 14, 2020 18:07
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cross-posting this crazy poo poo from the AI Horrible Mechanical Failures thread: https://i.imgur.com/6os8oSe.mp4 that thing flying through the air is a tanker  story here:https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/massive-tanker-explosion-injures-more-than-100-in-china-20200614-p552ds.html
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Jun 14, 2020 18:28
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snugglz posted:cross-posting this crazy poo poo from the AI Horrible Mechanical Failures thread: New Just Cause looking good
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Jun 14, 2020 18:34
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Xakura posted:New Just Cause looking good Just out of frame a guy grapples onto it and rides it to the next island.
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Jun 14, 2020 18:35
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wolrah posted:C batteries. The only place I've ever seen them used is in '80s-90s era portable stereos, and strangely never in anything that wasn't large enough to have fit Ds instead. I was literally thinking of C batteries when I posted. I dont think I have ever bought one but somehow they turn up in the drawer. Goodpancakes posted:C batteries are for sex toys yo Orly? I shall ask el wife-o.
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Jun 14, 2020 18:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZjCOAnmUaQ
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Jun 14, 2020 19:06
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the original Mag-Lite (not the mini AA one, not the extended D one for cops to beat people with) used C batteries.
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Jun 14, 2020 19:12
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Farming sim 2020 update is channeling real world energy hard.
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Jun 14, 2020 19:52
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My first use of c-cell batteries in maybe a decade came last week because Sloan no-touch automatic flush valve retro-kits use them. I hate these things, but no-touch fixtures are gonna be going in all over the place now thanks to the corona.
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Jun 14, 2020 20:23
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Sagebrush posted:the original Mag-Lite (not the mini AA one, not the extended D one for cops to beat people with) used C batteries. I have a C-cell powered Mag-Lite that I'm quite sure I could beat people with. I've owned since the late 1990s or so. It's a snazzy metallic green. Of disappearing battery types I'd say 9v used to be super common but now I rarely see it except in smoke detectors, and even those seem to have largely abandoned it.
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Jun 14, 2020 22:24
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Who would of guessed standardisation of parts for manufacturer and consumer convenience leads to parts being the same.
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Jun 14, 2020 22:29
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I have a C-cell powered Mag-Lite that I'm quite sure I could beat people with. 9 volt batteries are very large with not very much capacity, so they're avoided whenever possible for most designs. These days the higher voltage isn't required often, especially now that dc/dc power supply circuits are so good
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Jun 14, 2020 23:06
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I'd say the rarest battery type that used to be super common are those giant 9v lantern batteries. Kinda miss those monsters
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Jun 14, 2020 23:20
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The real hipster battery is A, I don't think those were ever sold as OTC alkalines
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Jun 14, 2020 23:22
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I have a C-cell powered Mag-Lite that I'm quite sure I could beat people with. I have a big ol' purple one that I've upgraded with a LED and is bright as hell now.
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Jun 14, 2020 23:31
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haveblue posted:The real hipster battery is A, I don't think those were ever sold as OTC alkalines only time i ever saw one of those was in some ancient portable radio in the shop i worked at in high school, it was this bigass dry cell thing that looked more like a car battery or one of those gigantic square lead acid batteries that home security alarms used to use than something you'd put in a modern or semi-modern device no idea if it was an actual "A" battery or just what it was labeled from back in the bad old days when replacement batteries were something that had to be ordered out of a catalog and that was just how they described it
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Jun 14, 2020 23:35
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FCKGW posted:I'd say the rarest battery type that used to be super common are those giant 9v lantern batteries. Strange, those are 6v here. We took some apart in primary school as a science lesson, they were 4 x 1.5v cells in a case.
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Jun 14, 2020 23:44
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FCKGW posted:I'd say the rarest battery type that used to be super common are those giant 9v lantern batteries. omg, my grandparents had a few of these batteries. probably to power old people dildoes.
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Jun 14, 2020 23:55
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Azathoth posted:only time i ever saw one of those was in some ancient portable radio in the shop i worked at in high school, it was this bigass dry cell thing that looked more like a car battery or one of those gigantic square lead acid batteries that home security alarms used to use than something you'd put in a modern or semi-modern device Huh, I'll be damned. There was a rectangular format bigass A Battery for use in one vacuum tube radios. There's also a rare A cell that is cylindrical and larger in size than AA. Here's some info
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Jun 15, 2020 00:09
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Azathoth posted:only time i ever saw one of those was in some ancient portable radio in the shop i worked at in high school, it was this bigass dry cell thing that looked more like a car battery or one of those gigantic square lead acid batteries that home security alarms used to use than something you'd put in a modern or semi-modern device That's another naming scheme specific to vacuum tubes.
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Jun 15, 2020 00:10
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ili posted:Strange, those are 6v here. We took some apart in primary school as a science lesson, they were 4 x 1.5v cells in a case. I remember being surprised that the cells inside were actual retail batteries, complete with standard printing and all the 6v case was essentially a disposable holder: that was far harder to find in shops than the 1.5v batteries.
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Jun 15, 2020 00:15
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Splode posted:9 volt batteries are very large with not very much capacity, so they're avoided whenever possible for most designs. These days the higher voltage isn't required often, especially now that dc/dc power supply circuits are so good 9v batteries are still used by a good deal of guitar effects manufacturers probably just from inertia and if they tried to change it there'd be guys complaining they don't sound the same. Fortunately most manufacturers also include a power connector for hooking up a 9v adaptor.
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Jun 15, 2020 00:32
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starkebn fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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Jun 15, 2020 00:35
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I have to assume the music industry is using it as an excuse to sell a nickel cost wall wart for $10. Otherwise I don't know who would be running their Casio keyboard with batteries outside of a power outage but they should be sent to jail.
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Jun 15, 2020 00:35
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Lurking Haro posted:That's another naming scheme specific to vacuum tubes. lol now i really wanna know how old that radio was thing was ancient back in the 90s...
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Jun 15, 2020 01:00
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IT means your blinker fluid is low.
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Jun 15, 2020 01:01
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haveblue posted:The real hipster battery is A, I don't think those were ever sold as OTC alkalines *snort* yeah, I guess you could call that a rare battery. I'm personally really into B cells these days. They're pretty obscure 
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Jun 15, 2020 01:09
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https://i.imgur.com/9G6L0a7.mp4 https://wyo4news.com/news/train-fire-near-airport/
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Jun 15, 2020 01:16
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HARDCORE
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Jun 15, 2020 01:24
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Jun 15, 2020 01:45
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I drive a semi truck across I-80 in Wyoming every week and missed seeing this by like an hour.
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Jun 15, 2020 01:54
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Had to reevaluate the scale of that fire a couple of times in that vid, holy poo poo
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Jun 15, 2020 01:58
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Moo the cow posted:I remember being surprised that the cells inside were actual retail batteries, complete with standard printing and all the 6v case was essentially a disposable holder: that was far harder to find in shops than the 1.5v batteries. Fair dinks, that's surprising. As I recall these were just c or d sized cells in plain cardboard or somesuch, but it was thirty something years ago so might be wrong. Those 6v torches are still popular enough with boaties too, they come with an led bulb now but aside from that are pretty much unchanged.
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Jun 15, 2020 01:59
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It means Ken Miles is nearby
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