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What was the plan there? To do shoulder presses with the van?
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mobby_6kl posted:What was the plan there? To do shoulder presses with the van? He was hanging off of it initially, which caused it to tip and fall. 
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Oct 26, 2020 11:39
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By popular demand posted:That came very close to being a stupid way to die. So close. I'm honestly surprised he's still able to walk and move. 
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Oct 26, 2020 12:29
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 I realise it would be very difficult to blow yourself up doing this, but whatever slim chance exists still doesn't seem worth the payoff.
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Oct 26, 2020 13:03
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Memento posted:
I used to smoke while decanting bottles when I was a young fella. And I thought this was stupid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRciV7pwbrM Humphreys fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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Oct 26, 2020 13:05
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I assumed that was a grinder before I gave it a closer look. A cutting torch is significantly worse.
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Oct 26, 2020 13:07
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https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/1320708636394557443?s=20
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Oct 26, 2020 13:54
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I guess it's true, people who buy fancy new cars are hasty idiots in all things.
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Oct 26, 2020 14:02
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sinky posted:Do the 3d walkthrough on this property to see a disgusting living area turn into an actual amazon resellers warehouse*. It is a cave of wonders this house is gross af
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Oct 26, 2020 15:03
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By popular demand posted:I guess it's true, people who buy fancy new cars are hasty idiots in all things. 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS!
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Oct 26, 2020 15:04
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Stoatbringer posted:Or having to wear a Milwaukee Brace for 23 hours a day for months at a time. Which, I have been reliably informed by someone who wore one as a teenager, is really not much fun at all. Been there done that. The brace was miserable in Texas summers, but the metal bars up the front and back made for great pranks. It was also handy when a bully tried to sucker-punch me in the stomach. First time I ever saw a boxer's break IRL. The surgery isn't spine breaking, I had C-D Spinal Instrumentation when i was 16. Curvature went from 49* to 14* and I got almost two inches taller.
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Oct 26, 2020 15:16
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The closest I ever got to being part of a serious accident was when I was behind some chucklefuck who slammed on the brakes from 120km/h (75 mph) because he spotted a speed trap, even though he was driving the speed limit. I avoided rear ending him because I was keeping a good distance, but gently caress that guy.
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Oct 26, 2020 15:18
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oh look a CGI video
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Oct 26, 2020 16:30
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Memento posted:
That's a good example of a Safety Squint
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Oct 26, 2020 17:14
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/711384212044775447/770325719753818232/DASH_360_4.mp4
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Oct 26, 2020 17:39
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LifeSunDeath posted:https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/711384212044775447/770325719753818232/DASH_360_4.mp4 OSHA IV: River of Pain Au Chocolat
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Oct 26, 2020 17:41
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Apparently when powerlines would originally go up, farmers would lease their land for the towers surprisingly willingly, but then the lines would show unexpectedly high losses. Power companies would stop by and find farmers had tons of wire wrapped around in their houses to leech power from the transmission lines for their own houses It's dubious as hell because the cost of the tons of wire would probably exceed the cost of the energy you'd be able to steal with that wire in a human lifetime. Also the voltage produced by your coil would vary with the magnetic field strength of the transmission line, which means that it would generate a high voltage on a hot summer day when everyone's running their AC but at other times would produce much less. So it wouldn't exactly be reliable, either.
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Oct 26, 2020 18:08
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gently caress SNEEP posted:oh look a CGI video That looks like a Completely Genuine Incident to you? 
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Oct 26, 2020 18:57
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LifeSunDeath posted:https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/711384212044775447/770325719753818232/DASH_360_4.mp4 I'm so mad at the guy driving the grader, ARGH, COME ON, MOOOOOOVE
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Oct 26, 2020 19:02
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This randomly* popped up on my Youtube feed, felt like something to share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf4Ux4SlyT4 * To be honest, probably 'cause of watching too many videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkQ2pXkYjRM
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Oct 26, 2020 19:08
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Phanatic posted:It's dubious as hell because the cost of the tons of wire would probably exceed the cost of the energy you'd be able to steal with that wire in a human lifetime. Steal the wire. It's not too far from what has been happening in S. Africa. Steal cell-tower batteries and charge them through tapped lines to power squatter villages. Copper theft is also a massive problem. I will note here that this is done by desperate people in desperate situations, abandoned by the state and exploited by organized crime. SA's public utility company, Eskom, falling apart doesn't seem to be helping either.
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Oct 26, 2020 19:08
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Communist Bear posted:2 FAST 2 FURIOUS!
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Oct 26, 2020 20:01
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Phanatic posted:It's dubious as hell because the cost of the tons of wire would probably exceed the cost of the energy you'd be able to steal with that wire in a human lifetime. I feel like this could be one of those "grains of truth" stories, where somebody's pa was moving a couple hundred foot spool of barbed wire and got a little tingle from it.
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Oct 26, 2020 20:09
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madeintaipei posted:Steal the wire. Still not gonna do you much good. Voltage induced in a coil is Faraday's law: V= -N*(dΦ/dt), Φ is the magnetic flux through the coil which is the area of the coil times the field strength. 60 Hz power, the magnetic field strength is going to go from maximum to minimum or vice versa 4 times per cycle, so dt = 4.2 milliseconds. Typical magnetic field strength 50' away from a 230-kilovolt line is a few microtesla, let's say 5. So let's say you make a rectangular coil 5 meters on a side, 25^2 total area, to get 120vrms (170 volts peak) at your coil on the ground with the lines 50' up you need (170)(4.2ms)/(25m^2)/5uT = 5712 turns in your coil. Now let's say you steal the wire, stuff you're gonna steal is going to be pretty thick, 14 gaugeish. One turn is 20 meters, you've got 5712 of them, you need about 100,000 meters of wire, so that's a lot, about .2 cubic meters of copper, or 1800 kilograms of the stuff. Copper's about $3/lb right now, so that's about $12,000 worth of copper if you took that to a scrapper. But you turned it into a coil. The coil itself has substantial resistance, whatever load you hook up to it is going to add to that, and you're only at 120 volts. V^2/R isn't going to give you a lot of power beyond what's dissipated in the coil. Inductance of that coil's gonna be big. 1000 Henrys. So the reactance of that coil's gonna be enormous: 2*pi*60*1000, about 380 kVAR, your power factor is going to be..., let's see, power triangle is sin(theta) is reactance/resistance, so that comes out to approximately a power factor of gently caress/all. Electricity needs to be *really* expensive to make this worth your while. I mean, okay, you could squeeze some smaller amount of wire and run it through a die to stretch it out, but there's all sorts of other things you'd rather be doing, like stealing batteries and vampiring them into the wires. Now if you don't need 120V, and just want enough to power a cellphone charger or an LED lamp? Okay, then it gets a lot more reasonable, but farmers (or anyone else) aren't going to be powering their houses doing this.
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CleverHans posted:I feel like this could be one of those "grains of truth" stories, where somebody's pa was moving a couple hundred foot spool of barbed wire and got a little tingle from it. Where I ride my mountain bike locally has the parking lots right under the transmission lines and on hot, humid days I can feel the vibrations through my handle bars. It's very unnerving.
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Oct 26, 2020 21:15
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Phanatic posted:Still not gonna do you much good. Do you trust me?
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Oct 26, 2020 21:19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avb1XbO0EIs The one SNL skit that had buried itself into my 10 year old impressionable brain.
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Oct 26, 2020 21:44
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madeintaipei posted:Do you trust me? Stay away from my Romex.
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Oct 26, 2020 21:47
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Nocheez posted:Where I ride my mountain bike locally has the parking lots right under the transmission lines and on hot, humid days I can feel the vibrations through my handle bars. It's very unnerving. Yeah the parking for the supermarket I go to is under power lines and you can feel a bit of a buzz in the metal. Also further along the same wires there is a dog park which loving sucks because you are wearing shorts and the grass touches you on the leg it’ll zap you. Also patting the dogs will usually zap too. It’s a poo poo place for a dog park.
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Something else to consider is that if you did plan to leech a bunch of power from transmission cables and have enough turns in a wire to be able to power your house, any suitable coils are going to want to move current through themselves as soon as they're in the field of the power lines, which includes every point between starting to bend the wire into coils and having it hooked up to your house. Maybe you could have the ends hooked up to a big resistor or something until you're ready to use it? Kind of a tiger by the tail situation
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Oct 26, 2020 22:13
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Edison was right: should have gone with DC.
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Oct 26, 2020 22:21
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Phanatic posted:Still not gonna do you much good. Or, just do what others do when stealing power and jury rig a conductor to bypass the meter coming in to your house. Unauthorised, illegal electrical work like this is certainly very OSHA.
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Oct 26, 2020 22:24
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Varkk posted:Or, just do what others do when stealing power and jury rig a conductor to bypass the meter coming in to your house. Unauthorised, illegal electrical work like this is certainly very OSHA. I 100% believe that farmers figured out a way to steal electricity but that it wasn't via a goddamn coil tossed over a line. Electrification in rural areas was very haphazard, with a lot of poor farmers not having electricity while their neighbors across the road did, simply because they couldn't afford it. The lines and other infrastructure were all there at least up to a point, so I'm gonna bet that there were a whole bunch of unauthorized connections when electrification came to an area, just like a shitload of people had unauthorized cable boxes or taps directly into the lines back in the day.
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Oct 26, 2020 23:51
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now just why in heaven wasn't he already on a rope
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Oct 26, 2020 23:55
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<sensible chuckle> - gotchu, I gotchu, ha ha, gee whiz you almost fell off the mountain there sonny! What a lark!
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Oct 27, 2020 00:04
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pretty cool sport, totally safe and worth it.
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Oct 27, 2020 00:10
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Potato Salad posted:now just why in heaven wasn't he already on a rope It's been a while since I've seen the whole thing, but I think he might have been tied off to a point further down.
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LifeSunDeath posted:pretty cool sport, totally safe and worth it. if they want to be cold and wet and exhaused, I've got a huge driveway they can come shovel. i'll even give em a set of vr goggles so they can see interesting things while they do it.
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I wonder how badly that pastime is going to be hosed by climate change. Can't ice climb if there's no ice!
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