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PinheadSlim posted:
Man I want a cafe like that! All we get are pretentious hipsters, MAMILS or Karens socializing away on their rich husbands money.
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Platystemon posted:“dipped several times into whale oil” Sperm whale oil was allegedly also one of the best cutting fluids for machining before modern emulsified cutting oils were developed.
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Elissimpark posted:I love the margarine one: The thought about killing whales to make margerine is just too depressing 
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haveblue posted:Sir Terry’s last act was pretty OSHA, he requested that the hard disk with his unfinished work be smashed by a steam roller A single tear rolls down Kevin J. Anderson's cheek.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:The toaster oven chat from earlier made me remember when we had a toaster oven when I was a kid, and the most distinct memory of it that I have is that it absolutely sucked at toasting bread. The cheap-rear end toaster we had at the time was much better. And, I just realized, I still have that ancient loving toaster and it STILL works fine. Thing must around 40 years old at this point and still going strong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y tl;dw old toaster is better than your loving toaster.
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DelphiAegis posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y I love this video whenever it is posted. All of Technology Connections videos are amazing.
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Jan 5, 2021 13:23
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Likewise we have an old style rice cooker, no modern crap in it, lasts forever.
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I have an old‐style rice cooker. It’s a pot.
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Platystemon posted:I have an old‐style rice cooker. A pot can't cook anything.
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Humphreys posted:I love this video whenever it is posted. All of Technology Connections videos are amazing. I would say he's delightful to put on in the background while you do other stuff (and he is!) but if you turn on captions, he fully self-captions every episode and does jokes using them and on-screen popup captions as well. To be honest, he very much gives me a turbo-encabulator vibe. That is to say, totally serious sounding but is really a comedic act.
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DelphiAegis posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y I have had a couple Sunbeam Radiants, and rebuilt one. The technology is relatively simple, yet elegant. It actually registers the albedo of the toast, and when the correct shade is reached, triggers it to stop. The raise/lower is a bimetal spring. Every other toaster is just a timer.
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haveblue posted:...how did whatever he was trying to reach get up there if the stock picker doesn’t work in that position I figure either it was put up there before the yard settled enough to make it a problem, it was put up there by someone with a relaxed attitude to safety, or someone found the one spot where the ground was just barely flat enough for the stock picker to grudgingly lift them. But, yeah, god, I'm not even our safety rep(our actual one does suck poo poo and doesn't do his job, though), but I'm always baffled by the dumb loving things people do when I'm not literally there to tell them not to. Like, I've seen people using a wheeled cart with no brakes to reach a high shelf... when there was literally a stepladder leaning against the opposite side of the aisle, within loving arm's reach. Yesterday I had to bawl out one of the department heads for using the forks of a loving forklift instead of a stepladder. Like goddamn, man, are you THAT eager to brain yourself on the other fork when you inevitably fall one day? And a new employee told me how his ex-employer had pressured him into accepting a bribe in return for not reporting that he'd gotten run over by a loving forklift at his old job, which likely also meant the accident hadn't been reported, which will give him some real loving issues if it develops into a medical problem down the line.
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Lazyhound posted:then molten lead, which is wiped off bare-handed After knocking off the excess by banging the sword on the edge of the bath.
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PurpleXVI posted:run over by a loving forklift That reminds me of one of my first jobs out of high school where I got sort of run over by a forklift and I felt bad about it because I should have been more attentive of where the forklift was. In retrospect that was probably partially true, but the guy should have looked in the direction of travel before he started moving from a standstill. gently caress that place in general for management pressuring me to climb racks to knock some product down off an unbalanced pallet on a third tier rack
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:That reminds me of one of my first jobs out of high school where I got sort of run over by a forklift and I felt bad about it because I should have been more attentive of where the forklift was. In retrospect that was probably partially true, but the guy should have looked in the direction of travel before he started moving from a standstill. gently caress that place in general for management pressuring me to climb racks to knock some product down off an unbalanced pallet on a third tier rack I remember being 15 and put on a pallet strapped to a forklift that hoisted me 12 feet into the air. They needed someone to grab some cereal boxes in the warehouse of the grocery store and chose me since I was the smallest guy there. There was absolutely no safety protocols followed, and they could have injured/killed me just because I was a dumb minor who didn't know to say "no."
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PinheadSlim posted:British Pathe videos are fantastic sources of OSHA, misogyny, and a fascinating window into old British culture. Here's a couple that are less offensive and more hilarious. Sometimes they got an exciting one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdrISbwy_zI
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PainterofCrap posted:I have had a couple Sunbeam Radiants, and rebuilt one. The technology is relatively simple, yet elegant. It actually registers the albedo of the toast, and when the correct shade is reached, triggers it to stop. The raise/lower is a bimetal spring. It registers the temperature of the soon-to-be-toast, not the albedo. Which is why there is guards for the sensor so it doesn't flag and trip the circuit early. Try it with wheat toast and you'll get the same perfect toast every time.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:That reminds me of one of my first jobs out of high school where I got sort of run over by a forklift and I felt bad about it because I should have been more attentive of where the forklift was. In retrospect that was probably partially true, but the guy should have looked in the direction of travel before he started moving from a standstill. gently caress that place in general for management pressuring me to climb racks to knock some product down off an unbalanced pallet on a third tier rack You got partially forkfuckled. Truck crash last night or this morning in Toronto.  https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/01/05/highway-401-tractor-trailer-crash/
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Every logistics company slogan looks extremely excellent on a truck that's crushed itself and is hanging half off the road.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Sometimes they got an exciting one! Over 860 crew went down with that ship. Cameraman was on HMS Valiant, a sister ship to Barham.
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Dick Trauma posted:Over 860 crew went down with that ship. Cameraman was on HMS Valiant, a sister ship to Barham. Ugh. The ship is SWARMING with doomed sailors on the side of the hull right before the explosion.
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Nocheez posted:I remember being 15 and put on a pallet strapped to a forklift that hoisted me 12 feet into the air. They needed someone to grab some cereal boxes in the warehouse of the grocery store and chose me since I was the smallest guy there. There was absolutely no safety protocols followed, and they could have injured/killed me just because I was a dumb minor who didn't know to say "no."  Jesus loving Christ. Is Staplerfahrer Klaus no longer required watching for getting a forklift cert?
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Machines taking everyone's jobs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKJB2f7GaYw
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https://i.imgur.com/fU3vSdm.mp4 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Flame_Falls
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How to ignite a gas flare from a safe distance: https://i.imgur.com/4cPaqHP.mp4
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Why doesn't it just have a spark plug?
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Kith posted:How to ignite a gas flare from a safe distance: 
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Sagebrush posted:Why doesn't it just have a spark plug? Why would you use a spark plug when you can shoot guns at it??? 
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Kith posted:How to ignite a gas flare from a safe distance: That job and "Sailor who fired the grenade launcher to send a line over to a ship for an underway replenishment" have to be fun jobs. Or really lovely and getting to do that is the one perk.
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Cthulu Carl posted:That job and "Sailor who fired the grenade launcher to send a line over to a ship for an underway replenishment" have to be fun jobs. Or really lovely and getting to do that is the one perk. I really want to be the guy who shoots a howitzer at snowy mountains to trigger avalanches on purpose. Hell I'd pay to do it.
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To hell with climbing up there every time the igniter gets corroded and needs replacing, shooting a flare out of a gun is way more fun than pressing a button anyway.
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Best of both worlds, shoot the button with the gun!
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Effective-Disorder posted:To hell with climbing up there every time the igniter gets corroded and needs replacing, shooting a flare out of a gun is way more fun than pressing a button anyway. I was gonna say that spark ignition controlers are like a hundred bucks, but yeah gently caress having to maintain that poo poo in a salt air environment. 12ga and a box of flare shells.
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PinheadSlim posted:I really want to be the guy who shoots a howitzer at snowy mountains to trigger avalanches on purpose. Hell I'd pay to do it. I think some crews toss bombs onto the snow from helicopters LOL EDIT: "What are you doing this weekend?" Oh, not much, just hand-fusing 50 pound bundles of explosives wrapped in duct tape, lighting them, then chucking them out of a helicopter." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJkZgjrzJ40 Cthulu Carl fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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Cthulu Carl posted:I think some crews toss bombs onto the snow from helicopters LOL I knew a 20ish dude who put his sick cat Ninja in a backpack and went trudging over active avalanche flows trying to get to the vet while the wildlife troopers in the helicopter were dropping those bombs. The troopers had to actually arrest him because when they landed he refused to voluntarily turn around. He wanted to get his cat to that vet. He was a nice guy. A bit weird, but nice. The cat was super cute. Edit: ha found the article, with a picture of Ninja! https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/woman-says-she-tried-cross-richardson-highway-closed-due-avalanches-save-her-cat/2014/01/30/ Double edit: I found a video of the avalanche the knucklehead was scrambling over with his backpack cat. https://youtu.be/ijeHF0MWoyc BigHead fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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BigHead posted:I knew a 20ish dude who put his sick cat Ninja in a backpack and went trudging over active avalanche flows trying to get to the vet while the wildlife troopers in the helicopter were dropping those bombs. Pro click, would make a great animated movie if you took some artistic licenses with the details.
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Kith posted:How to ignite a gas flare from a safe distance: well that looks really fun
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PinheadSlim posted:I really want to be the guy who shoots a howitzer at snowy mountains to trigger avalanches on purpose. Hell I'd pay to do it. Howitzer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_BPcqIL0KY Or tank? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLfboCceGA
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Lights automatically turn off in lab with live virus (MA) (self.legaladvice)quote:I sometimes work in a high security lab with pathogens up to BSL3 (e.g. concentrated SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) that has automated overhead lighting. The most secure labs with the more dangerous pathogens have no windows or natural light and are located deep in the building. In the past, the secure labs were lit 24/7, and less secure labs and common areas (including bathrooms with showers) were lit 12 hours/day. We have asked them to either make all lights on 24/7 or give us manual control many times over the years, starting with our direct supervisor, to the facility manager and going up to the director. Nothing was ever done.
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