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Groda posted:My boss said she was going to fire me, if it weren't for the censor bars. That's neat, do you work in a censor bar factory? Platystemon posted:This guy purchased a ghost town and the mines underneath it. This reminds me of a guy who bought a Titan II silo and was trying to rebuild it himself, is he dead yet?
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mobby_6kl posted:This reminds me of a guy who bought a Titan II silo and was trying to rebuild it himself, is he dead yet? He’s still alive. The place looks like a Chipotle now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHVo9E8ztMo
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Platystemon posted:He’s still alive. The place looks like a Chipotle now. I hope he's not done because it looks terrible and unfinished.
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HardDiskD posted:I hope he's not done because it looks terrible and unfinished. I was trying to figure out what the point of it all was, and apparently they are marketing it as a destination event space/conference center, except their website doesn't even bother to tell you where the thing is (Arkansas). The open air shower in the bedroom looks like it would be absolutely miserable to use.
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 A guy on my town facebook group is apparently using his car as a generator while all our power is out. Can you spot the problem with his plan?
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Talkc posted:What is the procedure, i have to ask, in an industrial accident, should one actually get molten aluminum on one's foot? It can’t be that bad, I've always heard that small accidents never happen in a foundry.
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wilderthanmild posted:
Is he running it inside the garage?
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mobby_6kl posted:Is he running it inside the garage? Yep, and defending it by saying he turns it off from time to time.
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wilderthanmild posted:Yep, and defending it by saying he turns it off from time to time. I don't really see what the problem is. The Carbon Monoxide will just vent out of the garage and into the house.
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oh cool its the company that made all those asbestos drop-ceiling tiles
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I don't suppose it's possible to argue for exceptional circumstances and have their sentence be capital punishment? Because fines are clearly not deterring these people.
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Deteriorata posted:The US has been officially metric for decades. At least since the 60s, probably earlier. It's always just been a formality, though, as there has never been any programs or efforts to officially convert. Industry has been extremely reluctant to convert as everything is in imperial dimensions and they have rebuild everything to change over to metric measurements. I mean, no, it hasn't. It may use Metric for every conceivable science related activity and may be using it more and more in general use, but the USA explicitly did not put metric into law as the legal system of weights and measures, nor were any of the laws designed to enforce metric actually mandatory, meaning companies simply didn't use it. Other countries made adherence to metric units mandatory (eg, everything is sized in a metric measurement), made their conversion mandatory (eg, packing had to have both, or just metric) and made, legally speaking, the metric figures take precedence over others. Eg, if there is a court case over the amount of milk sold in pints versus mls, the mls figure is taken as the "correct" figure even if it's inconsistent with the pint value. The USA has never done this. Companies may be using metric because from an international supply chain point of view it makes much more sense, but "officially" metric isn't in use in the US.
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Drone_Fragger posted:I mean, no, it hasn't. It may use Metric for every conceivable science related activity and may be using it more and more in general use, but the USA explicitly did not put metric into law as the legal system of weights and measures, nor were any of the laws designed to enforce metric actually mandatory, meaning companies simply didn't use it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act
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wilderthanmild posted:
I see no problem. Melkotians don't need oxygen to breathe.
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wilderthanmild posted:
yes, just running the alternator is a hideously inefficient way to harvest power guy needs a tire dynamo built into the floor side benefit: at least he doesn't have to heat his garage after maybe another 5 minutes lol
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Deteriorata posted:I misremembered the data. It was 1975. I mean, the Wikipedia article itself makes it clear the act is entirely voluntary and has no enforcement powers to ensure metrification. It even states that the US customary units are still allowed to be used. Even worse, in the states the metric units are defined by their relation to US customary units.
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Drone_Fragger posted:I mean, the Wikipedia article itself makes it clear the act is entirely voluntary and has no enforcement powers to ensure metrification. It even states that the US customary units are still allowed to be used. Even worse, in the states the metric units are defined by their relation to US customary units. That's exactly what I said. I don't understand what your objection is.
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Drone_Fragger posted:I mean, the Wikipedia article itself makes it clear the act is entirely voluntary and has no enforcement powers to ensure metrification. It even states that the US customary units are still allowed to be used. Even worse, in the states the metric units are defined by their relation to US customary units. Did you stop reading after the first sentence or
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Drone_Fragger posted:Even worse, in the states the metric units are defined by their relation to US customary units. This is dumb but it's also fine for everyday large measurements like travel distance and food volume It's not like scientists are going to give a poo poo about that technicality
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Drone_Fragger posted:Even worse, in the states the metric units are defined by their relation to US customary units. This is not true, and in fact the exact opposite is true. All US customary units are defined by metric units, going as far back as 1893.
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Talkc posted:What is the procedure, i have to ask, in an industrial accident, should one actually get molten aluminum on one's foot? One of the thread's favorites poured some molten AL on a steak, and cooked a steak on molten tin. In some situations, molten metal is safer than other hot liquids like cooking oil. The higher temp means you get can get a brief safety period from the leidenfrost effect, and higher surface tension means the metal will tend to stick together instead of coating you. Any prolonged contact will absolutely gently caress you up, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPwc2fDhuM4 Splashes from home foundries are probably just treated like burns. AL doesn't stick to skin like molten plastic. Small bits are going to form balls on or near the surface, larger chunks that form skins should be easy enough to pull off the burned skin underneath.
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Deteriorata posted:That's exactly what I said. I don't understand what your objection is. Sorry, you said that the US is "officially metric" since 1975. The US isn't officially metric, since the bill is voluntary.
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Yeah by the time you have even flecks and beads cooked into you, you're going to get a Very Intense Brushing that will take away the flecks and beads and also much of your dead skin and fat. If you're in the nice part of town you might get medical maggots instead.
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This guys beard breaks most any safety guideline I can think of
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Drone_Fragger posted:Sorry, you said that the US is "officially metric" since 1975. The US isn't officially metric, since the bill is voluntary. "Officially" in this context means "according to official rules or regulations", not "thoroughly or completely".
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demonstrating a stab proof vest https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qjuyy9FCWk1s1ddrj.mp4 hail https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qjvnu51yx11r0uzl6.mp4
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jetz0r posted:One of the thread's favorites poured some molten AL on a steak, and cooked a steak on molten tin. In some situations, molten metal is safer than other hot liquids like cooking oil. The higher temp means you get can get a brief safety period from the leidenfrost effect, and higher surface tension means the metal will tend to stick together instead of coating you. Any prolonged contact will absolutely gently caress you up, though. Will confirm. As a product of my misspent youth, I may have gotten a few drops of molten lead between my toes. Hurt like a motherfucker, and definitely gave me some blisters, but it's not like metals are going to weld to your skin or adhere like napalm.
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Whole lot of thread content in this gallery. . A few favorites:  
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wilderthanmild posted:
Ugh. A good friend of mine died due to carbon monoxide from working on his truck in what seemed like a well-ventilated garage, and he had the garage door open. This just looks phenomenally stupid.
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The worst part is that since Ancient Greek times we've known that asbestos was bad for people. Widespread research in the 1930s linked it with cancer. James Hardy spent decades fighting in the courts until everyone they sentenced to death with mesothelioma had either died or given up.
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Kind of like how we've known about climate change since the 1800s but it's still financially beneficial for some people to pretend it doesn't exist.
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I'm pretty sure everyone in this photo was dead 20 years after it was taken.
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I just wanted to say I approve of this post
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Memento posted:The worst part is that since Ancient Greek times we've known that asbestos was bad for people. Widespread research in the 1930s linked it with cancer. James Hardy spent decades fighting in the courts until everyone they sentenced to death with mesothelioma had either died or given up. Wikipedia posted:The term asbestos is traceable to Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder's manuscript Natural History and his use of the term asbestinon, meaning "unquenchable".[7][8][12] While Pliny or his nephew Pliny the Younger is popularly credited with recognising the detrimental effects of asbestos on human beings,[14] examination of the primary sources reveals no support for either claim.[15]
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https://mobile.twitter.com/PeterMeiszner/status/1327352891846246400 Keep safe, wear a mask! 
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priznat posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/PeterMeiszner/status/1327352891846246400 I read through the first dozen or so replies and not one person posted thatsapenis.gif Very disappointed in the internet right now
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quote:Although Roman scholar Pliny the Elder often gets credit for the earliest documentation of the detrimental effects of mining and use of asbestos, the Greek historian Strabo probably preceded him describing a respiratory sickness in slaves who mined the substance Kratzke, P & Kratzke, RA (2018) Asbestos-Related Disease Journal of Radiology Nursing, Volume 37, Issue 1, March 2018, Pages 21-26 quote:Strabo (/ˈstreɪboʊ/; Greek: Στράβων Strábōn; 64 or 63 BC – c. AD 24) was a Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
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