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A certain amount of risk-taking is helpful for innovation, over time it is good for the group. A group that never voluntarily takes risks or changes or challenges anything will stagnate. It's nearly always young men taking the really insane risks. Rarely women, and most men who survive their teens/twenties tend to settle down. Having the young men do the risky poo poo is good because young men are the best suited for surviving many kinds of risks, and because having a small percentage of young men die doing dumbass stunts doesn't really affect the group's ability to thrive. A small surplus of nubile young women is rarely a problem.
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Lufiron posted:so then explain russia Russia defies explanation. A wizard did it.
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Three-Phase posted:I always thought those transformers came powder-coated from the factory that way. They probably come powder coated, but if they are outside for years eventually the paint will get dinged up.
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Jan 30, 2015 03:32
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Supradog posted:More fun about the bridge, looks like the land owner had not applied for any permits or approvals for the work at all. It's both a known hazardous area with a lot of clay + the stream running in that small valley is protected because of the fish in it. Wow. I guess now everyone is going to frown sternly at him, until he promises not to do it again. 
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Feb 3, 2015 17:02
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Jusupov posted:http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/spain-toxic-orange-cloud-catalonia-after-explosion-igualada-chemical-plant-photos-1487738 Hmm, yes, these paper dust masks will surely protect us from airborne chemicals.  
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Feb 12, 2015 22:36
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Do It Once Right posted:
The owner took over the business from his uncle 9 years earlier, despite having little experience in the field and no safety training. None of his employees received any safety training. He hired 14 and 15 year olds when it is illegal for anyone under 16 to work in construction (he claims he didn't know that, that the regulator "doesn't advertise it" and that he thought all he needed was the parents permission). He was eventually fined $33,000.
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Feb 25, 2015 02:55
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Haruharuharuko posted:As funny as this looks you may want to Nws that as the woman there actually died. The gif is fine, it doesn't show her dieing or even bleeding or anything. Sure, she dies later, but everyone dies later.
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Mar 9, 2015 06:56
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Tunicate posted:It was made for me. Why?
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Mar 16, 2015 02:34
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Dillbag posted:It's referencing a comic from a Japanese manga horror series that is a popular in-joke/meme on these forums. I know about the comic. Why would the guy go in the hole in real life though? Where does the hole go? Presumably he isn't simply dedicated enough to the meme to die down there.
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Mar 16, 2015 04:51
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FIRST TIME posted:I went to some half rear end christian fundamentalist grade school that was literally right next to the railroad tracks. I mean they could have put up a fence or something but instead they just warned us not to play on the tracks because we'd trip and fall and break our leg or something. Oh and there was a wetlands behind the building. That place was a loving death trap. Stop being such a sissy. Everyone's grandparents had to get through childhood without any candy-rear end safety fences, and they all turned out fine. (Because all the kids who died aren't anyone's grandparents.)
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Mar 24, 2015 22:44
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`Nemesis posted:My mom broke a thermometer intentionally so I could see and play with the mercury. I spilled it into the carpet later and didn't think of it again until many years later when I actually learned about mercury. Mercury is bad, but it isn't that bad. People used to drink the stuff as a remedy for constipation. Kids used to play with it in chemistry class, and the chemistry teachers used to have several classes playing with it every year. A single touch of the silver liquid isn't guaranteed death. A broken fluorescent bulb doesn't need a hazmat team to clean up.
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Apr 14, 2015 07:27
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`Nemesis posted:I agree with you, it wasn't a big deal. But that also didn't stop the EHS team at a prior employer from calling in a remediation team to do a full on hazmat cleanup because a mercury wall thermostat broke and spilled mercury behind the drywall. They had to have spent 30k on remediation services for something that wasn't given second thought by me or my parents when I was a kid. lol
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Apr 14, 2015 09:10
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WarpedNaba posted:Re: Space elevator talks, aren't they considering placing the whole thing on a floating platform in international waters? Apparently that makes the whole thing a little more flexible and makes it easier for the materials of the elevator itself to cope with atmospheric shifts and high winds. Sure, and then China builds an island next to the space elevator, claims they've always lived there, and the space elevator is in their territory and belongs to them.
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Apr 18, 2015 23:34
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Met posted:Anything that gets you that horizontal speed. Getting to space is easy. Getting into an orbit is hard. As seen here: http://corpsmoderne.itch.io/flappy-space-program
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Apr 21, 2015 03:02
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Wasted.
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May 15, 2015 06:22
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flosofl posted:Pretty sure he meant where underperforming hardware store employees are culled. Shame on you, the Tool Land killing fields are nothing to joke about.
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May 18, 2015 22:46
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Ninurta posted:Tosses Tribe Garlic Hummus in the trash. Well, gently caress. I hope I didn't eat Soylent Green. He died over a year ago. Any bits have long since been rinsed out by his replacement cleaner.
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May 22, 2015 07:47
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RatHat posted:It looks like it only went through the sack anyway, not through either of the actual testicles. No big deal then. Walk it off.
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May 29, 2015 10:08
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RatHat posted:Oh I'm sure it still really hurt, especially if the rebar scraped a testicle on the way on. But it's not as crippling as piercing a testicle. I know, I'm just busting your balls. I also had a moment of thinking "that guy was really lucky" for a guy who has been impaled.
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May 29, 2015 10:11
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Say Nothing posted:Slowly... slowly... gently caress. There's a whole pile of lumber next to the guy on the ground. Couldn't they have made a ramp?
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Jun 3, 2015 06:57
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Dillbag posted:IIRC there was someone in either the passenger seat or in the vehicle he was towing. lol he left them to die
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Jun 13, 2015 15:45
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chitoryu12 posted:I don't know about purely being an "after party" contractor, but specifying that in your services could easily get you a ton of clients. You really shouldn't leave holes in bathroom walls for any length of time. Humidity gets back there and things can get very bad.
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Jun 22, 2015 00:51
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Caconym posted:A friend of a friend shared this on facebook. Supposedly from a passenger ferry. Oh no I flushed my phone, stop the boat!
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Jun 23, 2015 09:35
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goodness posted:How often do people actually get their home renovations/addons inspected. I assume there is a fee with getting it inspected and passed? There's a bigger fee if they catch you. Depending on the project that can include tearing the thing down and starting over.
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Jun 30, 2015 03:34
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Zopotantor posted:Poles are not that stupid. Use a Russian instead. They don't give a gently caress.
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Jul 11, 2015 09:52
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FIRST TIME posted:Sometimes one of the living room power sockets will be controlled by a light switch near the door. It was fun times growing up when you'd accidentally plug the Nintendo into that socket then someone comes into the room and flips the wrong switch to turn on the lights and you lose all your game progress. You aren't supposed to plug in your nintendo there, that socket is for lamps. So you can turn all your lamps off and on with one switch.
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Jul 13, 2015 04:26
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Dukes of Hazzard sequel looking good.
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Jul 15, 2015 02:22
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Would they have to do physiotherapy on the hand while it is hanging out on his leg to prevent the muscle atrophy?
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Jul 19, 2015 08:18
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PromethiumX posted:how many people did I just watch die? It looks like they had time to bring in a tow truck, so probably all the passengers had already evacuated.
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Jul 21, 2015 02:26
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DemonToadGoat posted:So this one time, my bud and I were building the frames for an apron, and We're setting the pins on the string, I'm holding them, he's hammering them. And it wasn't till we had 4 driven in that I realized the wood had shrank and the head was coming off the hammer. Pins and string are good, but you should really use a sewing needle, not a hammer, if you want to make an apron.
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Jul 30, 2015 04:21
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bitcoin bastard posted:What did he think was going to happen anyway? If he cleared the top of the roof, it was just gonna slide off the other side. Maybe he thought the roof was rough enough that friction would keep the sheet in place?
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Jul 31, 2015 18:07
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I think it is pretty common to get an x-ray before an MRI? Maybe? Not a full body x-ray though. Dunno what happens if you're getting your head MRI'd and you've got shrapnel in your shin.
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Aug 7, 2015 01:39
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bitcoin bastard posted:I'm the complete lack of a plan for what happens when the guy up top pushes the couch just a bit further. That's what the old man with the cane is for.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:This sort of poo poo is why I get pissed about balloons. Other than the fact that retards release them outside so they can become somebody else's problem. I thought balloons mostly used lower quality trash helium that wasn't worth purifying further?
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Aug 9, 2015 17:04
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Scaramouche posted:So what you're saying is that we should switch to Neon for children's balloons. Does it change your voice too? This could be win-win Hydrogen is cheap and plentiful. 
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DemeaninDemon posted:It smells horrid so there's that. In 9th grade we had a field trip to the local sewage treatment plant, complete with bubbling tanks of dooooom. It didn't smell that bad. Not as bad as you'd expect it to smell. And you might not die if you fell in, there's a ladder! You just have to hold your breath and feel around the wall until you find the lander, then climb the slippery poo ladder before you run out of air. JK you'll die.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Last time I was at Cedar Point a ride attendant closed a restraint directly on my blind friend's cane, snapping it. They replaced the cane and gave us a bunch of line-skipping passes to let us use the back entrance to the rides (also known as the exit). Best theme park incompetence ever. Did your blind friend enjoy the roller coasters?
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Toadvine posted:For the curious, this spools the cable, the other end of which is tugging that coaster train w/ 16 people, accelerating it from 0 -120 mph in 3.8 seconds. I've recited a similar spiel to riders countless times. Are there rules about not letting brittle old people on the ride, or is it assumed grandmas with osteoporosis will know better than to try it?
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Zero One posted:Cedar Point has a whole book you can read about this: https://www.cedarpoint.com/assets/uploads/Guest%20Assistance%20Guide%20REVISED.pdf Almost all the rides say people with back or neck trouble are prohibited, lol.
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Drive until you encounter a fire truck. Is the fire truck heading toward the fire? You are probably okay. Is the fire truck heading away from the fire? Run you fools!
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