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Found this above my train platform. Seemed OSHA adjacent at least. I guess if it's just some power distribution with fuses it shouldn't weigh a ton, but also 2 straps seems a bit low effort.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Probably the old reliable Kackeschieber. (Rubber block that presses on top of the front tire lol) If there's a front brake it's either hydraulic or a v-brake typically. Dutch people use all kinds of bikes, both sporty and upright, for leisure and otherwise. The classical Dutch bike is what used to be a women's bike because you don't need to sweep your leg over the saddle, allowing more clothing types to be used. It's called the Omafiets (grandmother's bike). Upright bikes are just much more comfortable because you're not hunched over, and allow easier swiveling of your head, important in high-density traffic situations. For the distances and frequency of use, that's more important than efficiency in transfer of power. I once ran into a Van Moof employee at a train station with my self-made foldable bike and he was so impressed with the concept he said he was gonna try and make one himself. Not long after that the tube going from saddle to crank shaft broke at the crank shaft because I cut it incorrectly and the weld was under constant force  I'm happy to say my dong did not get smashed that day
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Yeah no, proper brakes instead of coasting brakes and a handful of gears isn't some exotic, unobtainable feature tech. I'm not gonna judge anybody for getting what's really available in their region but it's still weird. Is this going to turn into another helmet chat? 
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Platystemon posted:Coaster brakes are inexcusable, agreed. It’s not like they take less maintenance than V-brakes. They’re just bad. I have never had to fix or replace them, while the v-brake pads require regular replacing. I haven't had a bike without v-brake on either wheel in 10 years, but they're really fine in this country. Our privatised train company has been running a bike renting program at many of its stations, and they only have coaster brakes, with no major issues. For the speeds those bikes go at you're at standstill within maybe a meter. Anyway, there are also plenty of bikes with cable brakes for both wheels, and with the advent of electric ones that only increases. Leandros fucked around with this message at 04:57 on May 6, 2022 |
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solarNativity posted:Hearing the Dutch talk about bikes is like hearing the 1% talk about money. It's just not relevant to the rest of the world. I'm sure many here are familiar with Not Just Bikes and similar channels so you'll know that the Netherlands was on a path to automotive hell in the 60s until we decided to change it. It's a long path, Copenhagen is a good example of a place where they are working on changing it but not quite there yet, but it's certainly not impossible in most places as long as the political will is there. R1 zoning sucks a big fat poo poo and would be a good step to move away from for starters. Also proper driving education. Leandros fucked around with this message at 14:42 on May 6, 2022 |
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solarNativity posted:more on-topic I bet the actual act of building cycling infrastructure is safer than traditional roadwork. Unless it's just linepainting, then everybody's hosed. It is much more, and it's not even geared to just bikes, just non-automotive in general. If you don't already I really recommend you check out Not Just bikes.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/hFasLu8.gifv  Sometimes they're centered around a poorly moveable (flammable) object, a park bench or bus stop bites the bullet (the latter are often removed to prevent that, or explosive fireworks from breaking the glass panes):   Sometimes a municipality plans the bonfires because it's more manageable. They'll make them a bit bigger, maybe use leftover Christmas trees:  In The Hague, our political capital and city on the North sea, however, there are 2 neighbourhoods full of white trash (one of them was used as detention for Nazi collaborators ) that have a rivalry of who can build the biggest bonfire:   Only as I find above images, I realise that the video above is NOT from here, it seems to be a Norwegian attempt. Not sure why they wouldn't use a cherry picker, seems kinda dumb. Anyway. The rivalry has been getting out of hand for a couple of years now (back in the day it would also involve drunken brawls with fireworks in the mix, seems to have died down a bit). Apparently the towers you can see here were almost 40% taller than allowed: 48m vs 35m, so here's the really OSHA bit: couple years back there was a strong wind causing a shitload of large smoldering pieces to rain down on the white trash neighbourhood. Some small fire tornadoes caused additional updraft of the embers, and some houses caught fire (nothing major iirc).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNSmyZxlIjE&t=1013s This caused a bit of a poo poo stir because builders and municipality didn't stop the pile getting larger, instead opting to just put the barriers back a bit. There was supposed to be someone OK-ing the fire situation (and thus saying no due to winds), but I guess nobody wants to be a party pooper. The year after it was curtailed by a lot and there were (fireworks infused) riots in the white trash neighbourhood for a week or 2, it was fun. Thanks for reading! Leandros fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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I vaguely recall chip etching masks used to be drawn human-size and then shrunk down with some method of optical projection. This is back in the 70s, and I think I saw a photo of it but I'm not sure what search term to use to find it. Anyone have it, or know what to look for?
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Jul 23, 2022 21:44
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The hairs behind eyes story is bullshit, your eye is not some free-floating marble in a socket. There's a protective layer called conjunctiva over the white of your eye, and it prevents objects from getting in behind (and probably other functions, ianad).
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:And yet, strange things happen They were globbed together just under the upper eyelid, not behind the eye. The conjunctiva folds into the eyelid there.
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Rectal Death Adept posted:I often worried I had metal shavings behind my eyes from my redneck father's safety squint procedures when we worked on cars leading to countless instances of poo poo getting in your eyes and trying to blink it out. The first time i got an MRI they were like ".........it's probably fine" My mother caught a spark from a train wheel once and has never dared to go in for one. I suppose a CT could confirm it but she's never needed either, luckily.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:https://twitter.com/hardestrides/status/1571360415883624448?s=20&t=c_U7T2eeZGCsVSLYDvbfhw So many things have to go wrong before this could happen that the odds of this not being a prank are nil, so nice animal abuse I guess
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Tunicate posted:Oh no! Dogs only drive cars when they are very distressed! Would you enjoy being placed on board a high-velocity vehicle with no way of knowing how to steer it and no guarantees it won't collide with something?
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hell yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkQ2pXkYjRM
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Cartoon Man posted:Gonna post some porn, there’s sound. Considering a lot of these plugs move out of the bounds of the typical hole they would be in I'm wondering how representative the clips are of how they actually work? Except the cavity wall plugs?
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Phantom fireworks? If it wasn't before it certainly is now! 
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Am I the only one who didn't understand where all the matter was going until the tube moved?
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   Windmill tube slid off its trailer and has been blocking a major highway over here. Leandros fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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We're running out of helium, I applaud their efforts not to be wasteful. Also considering the burn time it seems they put it in pure and not mixed with oxygen straight out of some funky electrolysis setup, that would've been a much worse time.
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Nenonen posted:For example Lidl has their own Parkside brand. Lidl shops are much smaller than Walmarts, but for some reason they have a pretty good range of tools for a store where you would normally expect to find just daily groceries. I'm not sure if I would invest heavily into a system from a chain that specialises in cheap lager, but it seems like they reach the kind of clientele to whom that is a powerful combo. I believe Parkside is designed by another (maybe multiple) German company and sold as separate cheap tool lines, and Lidl rebrands it as their own. It's decent stuff for the price, and if it's not your livelihood it's fine. I've been replacing corded tools with their 20V portfolio and haven't encountered issues, though some of it is clearly skimping out on precision or material costs.
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Hadlock posted:Not OSHA but on the topic of grain silo stuff, South Africa turned a concrete grain silo into a a museum In Rotterdam they made a music venue out of one. Fits the DnB parties I visited there quite well.
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CW: shitload of animal guts draped over a truck after sloshing over the trailer walls while abruptly braking in traffic jam.  Now available in dashcam format! https://twitter.com/p911sc1978/status/1636437515761532946
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Dude's about to be blinded by a lovely edm party
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My first thought was "oh so that's how they slow down large vehicles coming off inclines  "
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Some trainfuckling when a night train (about 50 passengers inside rather than 20 times that during rush hour) collided with a rail maintenance crane on the tracks of the busiest section in the Netherlands. A car also somehow got hit and combusted. Lot of questions still how the train got onto the track the crane was on, one person working on the track has died, the train operator has somehow survived with a bunch of broken bones.     Somehow a cargo train was involved also  No service for days apparently. Should be a hoot.
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Jabor posted:The bit that kills people at the blue hole is the arch - you look at it from the surface and the water is crystal clear and it looks like it's not that far down, and you can just swim through, and then whoops it turns out that it is really far down! And if you're breathing a normal surface air mix, you can literally just go into convulsions and drown because there's too much oxygen in it for that depth. e: I was going by the depth in the image above but the blue hole arch is way lower than that, ignore Leandros fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Apr 4, 2023 |
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I think it's a recommended route for diving, starting at El Bells and going through its ~30m deep arch, going along the ocean wall and entering the blue hole through the 6m deep hole. The blue hole tunnel is only shown as the hole at the bottom.
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ekuNNN posted:I dont think you can really say anything resulting in someone posting a creepy anime v-tuber video was really "handled as it should". Theres a bunch of these VR chat interview channels doing the rounds and they have some interesting guests, not all using anime avatars. It's just how they meet these people, it's not like it's Jared Leto talking to a cartoon.
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SLOSifl posted:The best way to detect radiation is by building a bubble chamber and making "pew pew" sounds yourself.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Replaced the original battery from my Samsung S8+ today. She was a puffy boy, ready to pop. I only noticed because I was bored at work and spun my phone on the desk. To my surprise it kept spinning, which meant it was spinning on a high point on the back of the phone. Popped the phone out of it's case, and the battery had bulged enough to almost fully separate the back plate from the phone. I happened to notice this happening to my mom's phone after she had kept it in the sun driving through Greece in the summer. The entire phone was fully deformed and she did not notice at all. I also thought my MBP from work was doing a similar thing because it was wobbly. It was always blasting the fan from having to run all the lovely corporate apps, so I assumed I had a grenade on my hands, but it was the MDF glue of my table bulging due to the heat being ejected out of my MBP. So instead of being able to replace the laptop for free I have a hosed up table 
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RDM posted:If a bunch of metal cans aren't gonna earth through a wooden deck I don't think a guy with boots will If that dude is at another potential it doesn't matter if he has a path of low or high resistance to the ground, he'll still get zapped. Probably won't be as bad because it won't try and find its way down though. Leandros fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Aug 24, 2023 |
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LifeSunDeath posted:truck done fuckled can't park there mate
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I've seen this maneuver so often I'm starting to suspect it's like the third thing you learn in small excavator thing class.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Just guessing, but it could be one of those "ghost buildings" they keep building in China, where some contractor just builds a loving ghost village out in the wilderness and surprisingly nobody wants to move out there, and then they either get abandoned or torn down. Those ghost villages invariably fill up after the western reporters had their fun.
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This is from a Red Bull event based on a TV show called "Te land, ter zee en in de lucht" ("By land, by zee and in the sky") which started off as "jump off an 8 meter platform above water and using an unpowered device, stay in the air for as long as possible," and split up into a bunch of "reach a hard to reach place above water and ring the bell" in various flavours (this one, with just 2 cables spanning the whole or part of the level, starting off in the water and with the bell being 8 meters above the water, etc) and then going bonkers like "win a race on an actual track while driving in reverse" or "win a race on an actual track with a camper trailer hitched" See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUqQKF8ZYM8&t=578s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-O-sI9Xq08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ipFApsFec
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CainFortea posted:God that place is so weird, I haven't been in decades. https://mashable.com/article/oregon-fire-enchanted-forest-pictures
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Dr.Smasher posted:Meat wagon heading to a plant that makes pet food. You don't want to know what the inside of the trailer looks like. But if you do, check out my post in this thread 
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Scratch Monkey posted:He speaks in Dutch but swears in English? Dutch is around only due to momentum, English is heavily injected into conversation, moreso with younger generations. Plus he also swears in Dutch: he said "kut" which means oval office but can be used akin to how "gently caress" is used
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