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Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

organburner posted:

Do not watch this if you don't want to see hosed up hands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzosDKcXQ0I

I appreciate her explanation of why an RCD or GFCI won't work to help prevent shocks from transformers, that's something I only know from working on ungrounded Delta distribution systems and isolating ground faults.

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3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Gonna try that wood-burning thing it looks neat. Thanks for the video!

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS


ekuNNN has a new favorite as of 04:55 on Jun 22, 2022

Zipperelli.
Apr 3, 2011



Nap Ghost

At that point, what even is the point of the gravel? gently caress it, just pour it in a hole, down your kitchen sink, into a local pond, wherever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

Zipperelli. posted:

At that point, what even is the point of the gravel? gently caress it, just pour it in a hole, down your kitchen sink, into a local pond, wherever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So it drains furter down and you don't step on it, I guess?

Devor
Nov 30, 2004
Lurking more.

Zipperelli. posted:

At that point, what even is the point of the gravel? gently caress it, just pour it in a hole, down your kitchen sink, into a local pond, wherever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you backfill a hole filled with oil, the oil will want to seep back 'up' the sides of the hole, if the ground is firm/undisturbed along the sides, and the backfill material isn't porous. The gravel gives the oil somewhere to hide after you cover it up. Out of sight, out of mind.

titties
May 10, 2012

They're like two suicide notes stuffed into a glitter bra

I mean it came out of the ground to begin with? Life hack when you are done using something put it back where you got it, everyone appreciates it when you clean up after yourself

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Zipperelli. posted:

At that point, what even is the point of the gravel? gently caress it, just pour it in a hole, down your kitchen sink, into a local pond, wherever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think the gravel is supposed to function like a leach field. It increases the surface area for the oil to diffuse into the ground... hopefully...

I have no idea if oil actually does that and I am certain the EPA would be very very happy with you if it did.

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


Zipperelli. posted:

At that point, what even is the point of the gravel? gently caress it, just pour it in a hole, down your kitchen sink, into a local pond, wherever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the gravel maintains the hollow under the ground for long enough for the oil to slowly seep out of sight and thus out of mind to become Someone Else's Problem™, and if you cap it with dirt and tamp it down, runoff won't sweep in and ruin Betty's planter with oil

hey Betty do the carrots taste like metal this season? okay so it's not just me?

rydiafan
Mar 17, 2009


https://twitter.com/jtrebach/status/1544410778136190981

moist turtleneck
Jul 17, 2003

Represent.



Dinosaur Gum
what makes me mad about the plastic wrap hacks is that you know they aren't cleaning it all up afterwards

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Leave Mo Trace

Sir Lemming
Jan 27, 2009

It's a piece of JUNK!
Even fast-forwarded that looks like a ridiculous amount of work. Possibly the same amount that goes into creating a commercially made hammock. And it can never be reused.

(Of course, I'm accepting the implicit premise that this is supposed to be a "hack" and not just a fun video someone made. I'm not mad at it if it's just the latter.)

Busket Posket
Feb 5, 2010

✨ⓡⓐⓨⓜⓞⓝⓓ✨

Use this lifehack in the woods of central Louisiana, and wake up the next morning with Trench Body from basting in your own sweat all night. The internal water cycle turning sweat to rain is the only thing that slowed the tiger mosquitoes from swarming in through the carbon dioxide funnel at the entrance.

watho
Aug 2, 2013


The real world will, again tomorrow, function and run without me.

it just keeps going

RoboRodent
Sep 19, 2012


Something about this makes me think of watching a spider spin.

Mind you, if it were silk, it would be infinitely better.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

There's a guy named Steve Wallis who does fun camping videos on youtube and once did one where he tested a small party tent covered in bubble wrap as shelter. This kinda reminds me of that although he's generally a lot more sensible about things, in general.

it blew the gently caress away almost immediately and he ended up sleeping on a bare cot in the middle of a snowfield

Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007


As an art exhibit the cling film tent is a nice one.

As an actual tent it's probably poo poo.

As an Instagram story it's loving poo poo because guarantee you those degenerates left all that mess there once they got the shot.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




moist turtleneck posted:

what makes me mad about the plastic wrap hacks is that you know they aren't cleaning it all up afterwards

Especially since she just throws away the empty roll.

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)
"What if the Primitive Technology guy just said gently caress it"

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1553796804000583681

Relyssa
Jul 29, 2012




PYF Stupid Lifehacks: cramming 300-400 ants into our gaping maws

bunnyofdoom
Mar 29, 2008

I've been here the whole time, and you're not my real Dad! :emo:
Wait you guys take anrs orally?

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

I kind of want to know the definition of those asterisks. Like, yes, there is ATP in ants. And since it contains calories, it technically does build muscles, and helps building DNA and does act as a form of aphrodisiac, compared to starvation.

Relyssa
Jul 29, 2012



bunnyofdoom posted:

Wait you guys take anrs orally?

We got an Ant Boofer over here, everyone!

Dip Viscous
Sep 17, 2019

Relyssa posted:

We got an Ant Boofer over here, everyone!

Is it too soon for a new thread title?

Zipperelli.
Apr 3, 2011



Nap Ghost

Dip Viscous posted:

Is it too soon for a new thread title?

PYF Stupid Lifehacks: We got an Ant Boofer over here, everyone!

watho
Aug 2, 2013


The real world will, again tomorrow, function and run without me.

Empty Sandwich
Apr 22, 2008

goatse mugs

Relyssa posted:

We got an Ant Boofer over here, everyone!

formic-assed

Zipperelli.
Apr 3, 2011



Nap Ghost

What is this, a burger from ants?!?!

Relyssa
Jul 29, 2012



Zipperelli. posted:

What is this, a burger from ants?!?!

You can't see because of the date sticker but it's actually made from pANTS.

Quiet Feet
Dec 14, 2009

THE HELL IS WITH THIS ASS!?





Zipperelli. posted:

PYF Stupid Lifehacks: We got an Ant Boofer over here, everyone!

Nah, just replace cramming "olives" with "ants."

Quiet Feet has a new favorite as of 00:46 on Aug 2, 2022

Zipperelli.
Apr 3, 2011



Nap Ghost

Relyssa posted:

You can't see because of the date sticker but it's actually made from pANTS.

What is this? A burger for pANTS!?!?

McPhearson
Aug 4, 2007

Hot Damn!



cant cook creole bream posted:

I kind of want to know the definition of those asterisks. Like, yes, there is ATP in ants. And since it contains calories, it technically does build muscles, and helps building DNA and does act as a form of aphrodisiac, compared to starvation.

https://lostempireherbs.com/product/ant-extract/

The asterisks don't seem to link to anything. They have a 'references' section, but the references are numbered so there's no way to link any of them to the statements. None of the scientific paper references (at least the abstracts) even mention half the poo poo they claim.

I'm not opposed to eating insects (I'll straight up devour a bowl of chapulines) but don't try to market it as some life extending magic powder.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


Philippe posted:

"What if the Primitive Technology guy just said gently caress it"

Not a huge surprise but apparently the majority of those "make elaborate stuff with just hand tools" videos are extremely faked.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

cant cook creole bream posted:

I kind of want to know the definition of those asterisks. Like, yes, there is ATP in ants. And since it contains calories, it technically does build muscles, and helps building DNA and does act as a form of aphrodisiac, compared to starvation.

it’s a Traditional Chinese Medicine thing, but the erections are probably from the sildenafil.

Kwyndig
Sep 23, 2006

Heeeeeey


Yeah all kinds of products from shady companies that promise all natural penis enhancement/enlargement/erection time are laced with sildenafil. They pop up for a few months, get regulated into the abyss, and then come back with a different name and essentially the same product.

Edit: Every once in a while (because these companies have no safety standards) someone will take the product and then have a heart attack or blood pressure incident, not to mention an enormous boner that needs to be painfully drained of blood.

Kwyndig has a new favorite as of 06:12 on Aug 2, 2022

Scientastic
Mar 1, 2010

TRULY scientastic.
🔬🍒



“Supports DNA and RNA”

As in, if you put DNA on top of ant powder, it won’t melt through it like jet fuel through a steel beam

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Kwyndig posted:

Yeah all kinds of products from shady companies that promise all natural penis enhancement/enlargement/erection time are laced with sildenafil. They pop up for a few months, get regulated into the abyss, and then come back with a different name and essentially the same product.

Edit: Every once in a while (because these companies have no safety standards) someone will take the product and then have a heart attack or blood pressure incident, not to mention an enormous boner that needs to be painfully drained of blood.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/medication-health-fraud/tainted-sexual-enhancement-products

39 pages of FDA warnings on this sort of poo poo, all over undeclared drug ingredients

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Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)

muscles like this! posted:

Not a huge surprise but apparently the majority of those "make elaborate stuff with just hand tools" videos are extremely faked.

Yeah there was a youtube video about it recently. I can't say I'm very surprised.

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