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McCracAttack posted:Stores in the US do that too. Also worth noting: that’s in front of a liquor store. The gas station I frequent doesn’t have bollards in front of the propane tank cages. Someone even crunched one a while back... cage got replaced, no bollards. Ah well.
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Phanatic posted:That's true if you have the presence of mind to slam the brakes on fully. It's not true if you apply partial braking and let your pads overheat and your brake fluid (which you probably haven't changed according to the maintenance interval and which probably has a lot of water in it) start boiling. Good job the poor bastard will now have to sweep that first part again
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`Nemesis posted:Also worth noting: that’s in front of a liquor store. Bollards are expensive. Crushed propane cages are the propane company's problem. And certainly nothing worse will ever happen at my store says the owner trying to save a buck.
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Hydroplaning? Black ice? Road misgraded? People driving at unsafe does for the conditions? Could be anything!
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Hydroplaning? Black ice? Road misgraded? People driving at unsafe does for the conditions? Could be anything! imo it looks like a diesel spill.
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kw0134 posted:On older vehicles you can still turn off the motor while retaining electrical by turning the key one step back*, but with newer cars that have push-to-start ignitions I don't think that's really possible? Now this question is going to bother me all day. I know from a powered off stop if you press the button without your foot on on the brake it goes into electrical “accessory mode.” I think it’ll do the same when driving...
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kw0134 posted:On older vehicles you can still turn off the motor while retaining electrical by turning the key one step back*, but with newer cars that have push-to-start ignitions I don't think that's really possible? Now this question is going to bother me all day. I think if you hold the button down it'll kick the engine off in the same way. I looked it up specifically when Prisuses were having the "stuck throttle" issue some years back, but a quick google suggests its standard across the industry.
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Boxman posted:I think if you hold the button down it'll kick the engine off in the same way. I looked it up specifically when Prisuses were having the "stuck throttle" issue some years back, but a quick google suggests its standard across the industry. I would simply turn off the valve for the kerosene superheater, instruct my stoker to cease loading coke into the firebox, and drop the anchor when steam pressure has reduced. 
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My parents recently moved and in the inspection found one of these connecting a circuit powering the outlets behind a built-in basement bar which was wired to a breaker and a PAIR or GFIs (one outside the sharing wall, and one in a adjoining bathroom). Whenever the breaker was energized (with the death-cable detached) one of the GFI's would trip, but would "function" "normally" with the death-cable (and breaker off). I fixed that poo poo right away: turns out the circuit swapped live for return twice on the way from the breaker to the last GFI. There were also general fuckary with the wire gauge changing in stupid ways and branches running back and forth (almost as if they were going to loop back, but not quite connect) rather than terminate at the farthest outlet.
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:The thing about the “I pressed the brakes and I kept going” is that any car with functional brakes is going to be able to easily put out more braking force than the engine can deal with - especially when it’s always some generic 150hp sedan. In my case it was an old beater '95 Volvo who's brakes were barely there in the best of circumstances. When I finally bought a not piece of poo poo car it took me like a week or two to get used to brakes I didn't have to start pressing at almost full force 3-5 seconds before I actually needed to come to a stop.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:So, assuming the gas does get stuck and the brake is non responsive, is the correct move to slam the car into neutral and activate the e-brake? Yes and on automatics it usually doesn't lock out D<>N, meaning you can slap the drive select in and out of neutral at all times without touching the button or over shooting it. This is a "prank" my former friend tried to pull at a light. He hosed up and put my car in reverse without me noticing.
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Zero One posted:Bollards are expensive. Crushed propane cages are the propane company's problem. If you watch the old The Stand TV movie you may notice that the guy dying of the virus with his dead family in a car (Chevy Citation or Pontiac Phoenix either way, lol) would have incinerated himself if some nice old Texan boy hadn't hit the cut-off switch on the gas pump he just crashed in to. Basically what I'm saying is car fuel can melt the hong kong fluie. Or the one out of Ed Harris' secret US military bioweapons facility. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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No one responded to this, but what the gently caress?!  Why are a bunch of random assholes apparently jacking up a building with hand-jacks? Hopefully that's not actually what's happening because holy poo poo that's sketchy if so...
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Hydroplaning? Black ice? Road misgraded? People driving at unsafe does for the conditions? Could be anything! Banana peel.
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aas Bandit posted:No one responded to this, but what the gently caress?! It's not terribly uncommon to jack up parts of a house (e.g. to fix the foundation) or to move it, but, you don't usually do it from inside the building.
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I love work-to-rule strikes. They can be hilarious, and should the employer take punitive action they'll get sued. I worked in a company that had one union rep who was on his own personal work-to-rule strike. The supervisors hated his guts and knew there was nothing they could do. He was just following policy after all. One day I responded to a maintenance call from a supervisor. A pressure coupling quick-release was damaged such that you had to hold the air line down or it would pop off. The air pressure was needed to mechanically open a secondary valve beneath the standard poppet. All the operator had to do was hold the fitting down for a few minutes to finish fueling the plane, but company policy said he must monitor the pressure gauges while fueling. He couldn't see the gauges while holding the air line, so he couldn't fuel according to company policy. He called his supervisor and sat there waiting as passengers boarded. The scene when I pulled up was a very pissed off supervisor holding the air line down for him while the work-to-rule guy is nonchalantly watching his gauges with a smug grin. The supervisor was begging me to fix the coupling but I told him I can't until he disconnects because I don't want to drop my tools down a pit. So we both stood there and watched the very angry supervisor hold the fitting in place. Something either of us could have done but hey... Not our job, not our problem. 
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aas Bandit posted:No one responded to this, but what the gently caress?! that's exactly what's happening, yes
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Uh is that load-bearing scaffolding?
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Uh is that load-bearing scaffolding? Looks like the crush hazard that may occur if you touch it is the entire roof falling on top of you, yes
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How to tell a story in three images, or "the sign is literally true, more than you can possibly know"
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it's insane, like why would you build the roof or bridge or whatever before you even had supports? I need to know more.
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I saw the opposite of this at work. I work next to a giant factory. I was touring it with one of the technical people, and noticed a giant, steel girdered overhead pipe raceway outside that looked as built as a railroad trestle. It looked silly, like it was enormously overbuilt for a skinny little pipe. I asked about it, and the guy told me that it was intended to withstand a truck crashing into it without deforming, because the pipe contained some pyrophoric gas  A vehicle tapping that scaffolding in the photo with a bumper could pull down the whole roof
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It's right over the busy service tunnel that goes under and across the airport. Just temporary scaffolding, it was only left like that for about 3 years.
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Sanctum posted:I love work-to-rule strikes. They can be hilarious, and should the employer take punitive action they'll get sued. 
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Aside from the peak wine aunt energy, what am I seeing here?
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WarpedNaba posted:Aside from the peak wine aunt energy, what am I seeing here? I think it's that all her cat coworkers' combined weight caused her to lose feeling in her legs, hence the sudden need to remove them and focus on her being moving her foot at the end.
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Demonstrating the complexity and attention costs of manually managing an active climate control system
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LifeSunDeath posted:it's insane, like why would you build the roof or bridge or whatever before you even had supports? I need to know more. It allows you to build the supports in the shade.
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WarpedNaba posted:Aside from the peak wine aunt energy, what am I seeing here? a late-20s/early-30s millennial in her final form
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7/10 No ri- ultrafilter posted:No ring. 
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LifeSunDeath posted:it's insane, like why would you build the roof or bridge or whatever before you even had supports? I need to know more. The power of top down thinking.
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