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Slugworth posted:This man is incorrect, please don't plug a suicide cord into a pug. Watched a documentary on Netflix that included a guy who murdered horses at their owners' request as part of an insurance fraud scheme. His difficult to detect method of choice was an extension cord in the horse's anus to electrocute it, because even to a veterinarian's eye it looked pretty similar to when a horse thinks about ants and becomes mortally colic.
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Well that's loving horrific, but honestly has left me wondering how expensive horse insurance must be.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:Well that's loving horrific, but honestly has left me wondering how expensive horse insurance must be. Considering even a relatively fancy horse is basically the cost of a small house that actively wants to burn down, I'm guessing a lot.
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https://i.imgur.com/Gpn8Loc.mp4 The logos keep being pretty great.
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half the reason to post toolgifs gifs these days is to play find the logo
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That one was fairly obvious. But still friction welding is both awesome and terrifying
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DelphiAegis posted:https://i.imgur.com/Gpn8Loc.mp4 
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DelphiAegis posted:https://i.imgur.com/Gpn8Loc.mp4 Oh hey I did this (more than) once with a drill bit. Check your coolant levels.
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OwlFancier posted:Reminds me of the oil site I worked at breifly where the office complex is abandoned because the managment did not want to work "inside the blast radius" so they relocated somewhere else Guess I'm a few pages back... I don't think "want" had anything to do with it. BP Texas City and other incidents made a step change in facility siting practices, including abandoning existing structures.
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nollij posted:Guess I'm a few pages back... Yeah but have you considered that we should go in the other direction? Make them fear the sword of Damocles.
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DelphiAegis posted:https://i.imgur.com/Gpn8Loc.mp4 That person is an artist
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I'll be honest I feel like an unpowered glide landing would have resulted in less damage
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ol qwerty bastard posted:I'll be honest I feel like an unpowered glide landing would have resulted in less damage Assuming you can find an open, flat place to put it down. The parachute lets you land safely in the middle of a forest.
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ol qwerty bastard posted:I'll be honest I feel like an unpowered glide landing would have resulted in less damage I'll be honest I feel like an unpowered glide landing would have resulted in less damage to his underwear.
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Everyone is Bob Hoover till they hit a wire.
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I was expecting them to say r/toolgifs on the inside.
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Those layered candy making videos are, for me, the closest thing to what I imagine asmr is like for some people.
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ASMR except it makes me hungry instead of wanting to stick an icepick into my ears 
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Roundup Ready posted:Considering even a relatively fancy horse is basically the cost of a small house that actively wants to burn down, I'm guessing a lot. Yeah it was a confluence of several bad incentives. Horses have a very wide range of values, from scrap rate at the glue factory to millions of dollars for horses that win big purses at competitions and then have a long-lived second income stream in breeding. People buy horses from breeders with notable bloodlines for a small fortune. Then they spend more money on training, care, and whatever else to try to turn their horse into a champion. An insurer says, sure, you paid $150k for this horse that could end up being worth 10x that amount, we'll insure it as an asset for $150k. It's a bit like buying a lottery scratcher ticket that you get to gradually scratch off over the next 2 years. You might figure out pretty soon that you aren't holding a jackpot ticket, and you've got an average or below average horse that has no chance of winning anything big. Maybe they get injured, are not hitting training milestones, or they're just slow. They're a dud, and won't win back their purchase price, much less cover their ongoing expenses. You can't sell the horse for what you paid for it anymore, because everyone can now see that the horse's earning potential is not good. But if the horse dies, you get an insurance payout and cut your losses.
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MrYenko posted:I was expecting them to say r/toolgifs on the inside.
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Captain Hygiene posted:ASMR except it makes me hungry instead of wanting to stick an icepick into my ears It's like glassblowing and shaping, except you can touch it and eat it.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:
You can touch and eat glassblowing. Once.
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Where's the Simpsons doink?
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those things loving hurt, stopped one with my shin once, huge mistake.
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Struck by pitch—cameraman advances to first basket
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canyoneer posted:Watched a documentary on Netflix that included a guy who murdered horses at their owners' request as part of an insurance fraud scheme. to add to this, it's very easy to be a corrupt veterinarian, because it's a vastly under-regulated field that has access to huuuuge quantities of cheap drugs that are just as fine of quality as what you'd get from a pharmacist. consider Ketamine, the most popular club drug at the moment. That's just a horse tranquilizer. consider pet insurance, a quickly expanding market that is very vulnerable to fraud. insuring an animal like a horse that has a value is one thing, doing fraud there will get you looked at, but doing low value fraud by gathering strays and insuring them and then "doing" unnecessary procedures just to disappear small quantities of narcotics isn't going to attract the attention of the insurance house if you make your money selling the drugs instead of bilking the insurance house. if they make their money they're not going to look twice, hell, they probably won't even look the first time. e: and lets say they do come looking to verify whether the procedures were necessary. "oh no, sparky died, we don't keep records past then" BasicLich fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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CainFortea posted:You can touch and eat glassblowing. Did ya hear what happened to the glassblower who inhaled? He got a pane in his chest.
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BasicLich posted:to add to this, it's very easy to be a corrupt veterinarian, because it's a vastly under-regulated field that has access to huuuuge quantities of cheap drugs that are just as fine of quality as what you'd get from a pharmacist. consider Ketamine, the most popular club drug at the moment. That's just a horse tranquilizer. I used to know a lady that had an epileptic black lab and every 6 months she brought home a brand-spanking new, uncracked pharmacy bottle of phenobarbital lol
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Is nominative determinism a thing for dogs? Do labs do more “research chemicals” than other breeds?
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this isn't even a new development, older sources I know in the equestrian community say that the biggest coke dealer they ever knew was a vet who specialized in horse dentistry and this was back in the 1980s. nobody ever asks where it comes from e: oh here's another fun story, my mom had a big great dane, just the biggest sweet baby, completely afraid of loud noises. got prescribed dog xanax. Uncle I always thought was a scumbag came to visit and stole the prescription. my mother searched his vehicle surreptitiously and the bottle was found. SCUMBAG CONFIRMED BasicLich fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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Computer viking posted:I'm in Norway, most of the country is wired IT style where you only bring the live phases out to the consumer, who provides their own protective ground. The 240V phase-to-phase is the desired consumer equipment voltage, and the phases are indeed just 120V or so to ground. I've heard something about how you where moving from this to harmonize with the rest of the nordics? i.e. 400V phase to phase and 230V phase to neutral. I have an old kemppi stick welder from the 80s that runs on single phase, but you can hook it up to two phases for 400V "single phase" operation. A lot of old resistance heaters in houses are made this way as well.
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BasicLich posted:to add to this, it's very easy to be a corrupt veterinarian, because it's a vastly under-regulated field that has access to huuuuge quantities of cheap drugs that are just as fine of quality as what you'd get from a pharmacist. consider Ketamine, the most popular club drug at the moment. That's just a horse tranquilizer. The idea that the industry lends itself to corruption is sort of a strange argument to be made at a time when every fifth show on a streaming service is about the opioid epidemic.
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How do I find a veterinarian willing to sew me up quietly after a gunfight, like in the movies?
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