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It's like school shootings. As utterly incomprehensible as completely unpreventable from keeping on happening again and again using any means imaginable.
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Home Depots definitely have sprinklers and then they have rack sprinklers in places where it's needed like paints/solvents/etc. The racks are spaced/designed to discourage the flames from jumping between aisles. This can only do so much, however.
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Apr 11, 2022 15:17
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Home Depots definitely have sprinklers and then they have rack sprinklers in places where it's needed like paints/solvents/etc. The racks are spaced/designed to discourage the flames from jumping between aisles. This can only do so much, however. At the end of the day, it's still a building full of all the things a small fire needs to grow and thrive. Haters and sprinklers can't keep down a sufficiently motivated fire when it has these sorts of opportunities for advancement into an inferno.
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Apr 11, 2022 15:32
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As someone said earlier, in things like department stores, sprinklers exists more as a way to allow people to escape then to stop fires.
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Apr 11, 2022 15:38
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MatteusTheCorrupt posted:As someone said earlier, in things like department stores, sprinklers exists more as a way to allow people to escape then to stop fires. And reduce insurance rates!
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Apr 11, 2022 16:56
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:And reduce insurance rates! I think most large companies like that are self-insured.
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Apr 11, 2022 17:08
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binge crotching posted:I think most large companies like that are self-insured. Not if they can help it. Why absorb the inevitable cost yourself when you can make someone else do it? Remember, the primary purpose Red Hat plays in the computer ecosystem is to allow people to sue them for downtime, which allows for the corporate adoption of linux with risk adverse companies. Its just standard practice to offload as much cost as possible when you are a giant corporation, and insuring poo poo like this is one way.
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Apr 11, 2022 17:14
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When you're large enough that problems only affect one area of the business, and you can amortize that loss over the entire rest of the company that's still making profit, you save money overall by self-insuring. That's literally how insurance works, they aim to charge you more than they pay out when spreading those losses over all their other clients that didn't suffer whatever disaster they're insured against. Something like "our head office computer systems went down" is likely to affect the entire company, so is something you'd want to carry insurance for. "One store burned down" isn't really going to affect the profitability of your other stores, so if you have enough stores to spread that risk over then you can quite reasonably just self-insure and save money. Maybe you carry some cheap overage insurance that only pays out if like three stores burn down in a year or something, just to mitigate any worst-case scenarios.
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ra2sq5os2M1qigfjt.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r9n1glum4n1zurqo3.mp4
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I'm just going to assume that no lessons were learned this day.
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Jabor posted:When you're large enough that problems only affect one area of the business, and you can amortize that loss over the entire rest of the company that's still making profit, you save money overall by self-insuring. That's literally how insurance works, they aim to charge you more than they pay out when spreading those losses over all their other clients that didn't suffer whatever disaster they're insured against. From personal experience, TI will sue over a single fab out of 100 worldwide going down, caused by a bug in a single server. (Iirc HP actually ended up eating the cost of that very minor $100mil outage)
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Apr 11, 2022 17:46
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The rear end in a top hat racing the motorbike in the white car who ran the red light may have learned a lesson the hard way. The motorcycle guy probably just thinks he's now provably immortal.
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Apr 11, 2022 17:50
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I drew a lot of bladed weapons as a teenager and I am extremely jealous that this guy turned it into a career path.
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Apr 11, 2022 17:53
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DiHK posted:I drew a lot of bladed weapons as a teenager and I am extremely jealous that this guy turned it into a career path. Dude even had like... 6 episodes of a show on the Discovery Channel
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DiHK posted:I drew a lot of bladed weapons as a teenager and I am extremely jealous that this guy turned it into a career path. As a teenager I did a couple of weeks of apprenticing with a rural blacksmith, and jesus gently caress is it hard work. It was fun to turn iron into steel and hammer out a knife or something like that, but the abuse your body takes is crazy.
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I know a few blacksmiths, and like welding you can't go through airport security anymore after a few years of it because of all the metal shards embedded in your skin, and the degree of physical labor will end up destroying your body pretty quick. All thay said, every one of them says it's worth it for the satisfaction of being able to make that stuff
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This guy is one of my favorite things on YT, he does super fun stupid weapons.
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that friggen face blade at the end lmao
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Especially in anything you're gonna get the sprinkler or deluge discount, self insurance is usually a matter of carrying the insurance expertise to insure yourself. It's more a vertical integration than a functional excellence question in a weird way. There's a lot of right to operate concerns in various jurisdictions that require properly documented insurance and documenting insurance is the hard part if you're otherwise a cash flush enterprise. Then you insure the insurance. Getting an SLA contract from some IT provider for running things that are otherwise off the shelf or free in the jnternet isn't not insurance. But you're also not going to face legal action if your POS goes down and you don't get it working again soon (plus or minus some weird stockholder stuff). It's more functional excellence: you get to blame someone else if something happens to something you're not even in the business of doing to begin with. If your building burns down without a sprinkler and insurance and someone got hurt and can't recoup damages because the company is now insolvent because also the goods are ruined, that's a rare case you might actually lose the protection of incorporation. There is usually some form of right to operate laws to actively enforce against ever getting to that point and if you do, being able to go after people instead of corporations.
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I wanna blare this out of my truck when I have a sketchy load. Having a bunch of crap tied down in the back of my truck is a frikken magnet for tailgaters.
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DiHK posted:I drew a lot of bladed weapons as a teenager funny, while you were doing that, I was slammin' rear end.
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well while you were partying he was drawing the blade
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That’s the Ukraine coat of arms he's tracing at 0:30. The Russians are f*cked.
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This is apparently a 15 person space company that wants to go to Mars in two years. Per the linked article, the founder says you don't have to be smart to do so, you just have to work hard. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/pythom-space-tests-its-rocket-with-questionable-safety-practices/ See how many safety issues you can spot in their test fire! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GkzxeDQRj0
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:This is apparently a 15 person space company that wants to go to Mars in two years. Per the linked article, the founder says you don't have to be smart to do so, you just have to work hard. They went Elon one better, implementing both a fart noise *and* a giant stink cloud
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That’s what NASA has been missing: the proper grindset
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Can your ego be big enough to escape Earth's gravity?
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Head so far in the clouds it crosses the Karman line
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Apparently the guy behind that rocket has climbed Everest a bunch and I guess he thought "well space isn't that much farther away than the top of this mountain, it's gonna be easy!"
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LifeSunDeath posted:funny, while you were doing that, I was slammin' rear end. I'd come back with something clever but it's absolutely true. I got laid twice in HS. edit: By popular demand posted:Can your ego be big enough to escape Earth's gravity? Let me check my notes... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hughes_(daredevil) No.
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Top of mt.Everest - 8,848.86 m Top of atmosphere - 10,000,000 m Yup, nearly there.
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DiHK posted:I'd come back with something clever but it's absolutely true. I got laid twice in HS. Still, impressive if you were homeschooled
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Still, impressive if you were homeschooled 
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Still, impressive if you were homeschooled
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Still, impressive if you were homeschooled 
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By popular demand posted:Top of mt.Everest - 8,848.86 m what if, and hear me out, what if we launched rockets from the top of everest!
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AceClown posted:what if, and hear me out, what if we launched rockets from the top of everest! Excellent idea. We can use
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As a bearded weirdo-steampunk-blacksmith myself, I want that respirator.
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350lbs.
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