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Had a similar thing happening once. One day, all of a sudden the back cover of my phone simply popped off. And just wouldn't stay on afterwards. At first I thought I'd somehow damaged the lugs that keep it in place or something, but those seemed fine. It was only after some hours that I realised it was because the battery had swollen up just a little bit. Some hours during which I was still carrying the thing in my pocket.  After that I gave it to a friend, because he wanted to see if he could get it to catch fire by hitting it with a hammer. He certainly could.
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Jul 13, 2021 14:23
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I just stumbled across a youtube channel whose gimmick basically seems to be "drop heavy things from very high up on other things". Which, you know, fair enough. But then the first thing they do in the video I click is this: https://i.imgur.com/QkUri24.mp4 Yes, it's soft ground and the object is heavy enough not to be moved much laterally by wind, but still. That's like one slip, stumble, or bounce away from a very very messy end.
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Sep 7, 2021 13:07
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Has sound: https://i.imgur.com/8vdvJUx.mp4
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Sep 25, 2021 15:16
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Huh, I just watched that one, too. It's a fun mix of pretty sophisticated tools like that one on one hand, and surprisingly casual methods on the other. It was a bit of a trip to see them very casually clambering around the partially uncovered bomb, very nearly stepping on top of it. Somehow I'd expected one carefully crafted protocol and checklist after another, but at the end of the day it's also kinda just a couple of guys digging up the things with a shovel and popping out the fuse before carting it off. Perestroika fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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Dec 18, 2021 16:48
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GD_American posted:https://ryanjarcy.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/how-i-blew-off-a-leg-with-a-12-gauge-shotgun-part-one/ quote:Jumping out the door, wielding my gun and screaming “GETONTHEGODDAMNGROUND MOTHERFUCKER! DOITNOW GODDAMMIT!” like a wild man, I put the side of his head in my sights and racked in a round just before he took off running to his truck yelling Spanish. He might have a gun, I thought, or maybe just yelling “don’t shoot!” Legally, I had the right to take the shot, but I didn’t want to kill someone over stolen tools. Yelling back all manner of curse words and reaching for my phone, I dove back into the small, enclosed foyer and went to call the police. Definitely the words of a well-adjusted person who should be handling firearms.
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Mar 31, 2022 11:59
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God, just the thought of somebody grabbing those cables and manipulating them by hand while they're live... 
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Apr 17, 2022 09:19
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May 18, 2022 11:41
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A smith tries to make a layered steel billet with copper layers fused between the steel layers. Guess what happens when you take near-molten copper sandwiched between steel and put the whole thing under a power hammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f_kpTrUecQ&t=373s
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Jun 19, 2022 15:36
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Apologies for Comic Sans
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Jul 6, 2022 13:02
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20 Blunts posted:i have been T-boned twice at ~40mph by red light blowers and rear ended going ~15mph by somebody 55mph on a freeway. total wrecks but zero injuries. A while back I got run over as a pedestrian crossing with a green light by a driver who wasn't paying attention as they were making a turn. Fortunately it was low speed enough that I got away with some contusions and a mild concussion. I still get reflex fear sweat any time I see a car coming in a little too quick when I'm crossing. Also, the cops who took the report probably shouldn't have just let me walk home the remaining two kilometers on a badly bruised hip. At the time I barely even noticed it, but I was pretty much immobile the morning after. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. 
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Jul 10, 2022 18:26
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Cartoon Man posted:17 year old dealing with a landing gear failure. It's funny, I always thought the thing with "propeller instantly stops with its tips bent backwards on a belly landing" was just a videogame invention for simplicity. But no, turns out that actually happens in reality. 
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Oct 28, 2022 10:53
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monolithburger posted:It came from Reddit: Aside from horror this installation, it's really cute that Australians call their electricians "sparkies". 
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It also depends on whether they've got a fuse installed, and what type that fuse is. If it's an impact fuse that didn't trigger due to e.g. soft ground or just manufacturing error, then it's sort of handle-able. Still not great, but usually the procedure is to remotely uninstall the fuse (sometiems with a rad rocket-powered wrench) and then just pick up the shell/bomb and cart it off to a disposal site. But if it's a time-delayed fuse of the sort that were used in the WWII bombing campaigns you're in way more trouble. They're often based on an acid of some sort eating through a resistor at a predetermined rate, and the bomb e.g. ending up upside-down in soft ground can cause them to fail to detonate without actually becoming inert. Those can end up being triggered even by fairly mild vibrations and shocks. And that's before you even get into dedicated anti-handling features that react to being tilted or magnetic interference. For those, your best bet is to not touch and just safely detonate the whole thing in-situ. Platystemon posted:“I was detecting in a forest looking for coins , i was diggind down when i hit a WW1 detonator for a 155 mm shell , it blow up on me. In the same hole i fond a 2nd detonator and a german stick grenade that didn explode i was very lucky i still have my both eyes. Be careful when you dig down That reminds me of an anecdote from a friend of mine who grew up in post-WWII Germany. One day, his mother found him playing with a bunch of small white marble-looking things. She asked him where he found those, apparently since they looked like they would be nice as some decorative bits for their curtains. He said he found a bunch of them in the woods, which didn't make much sense to anyone until his grandfather got involved and recognized them. As it turned out, he had stumbled across a weapon cache out in those woods. Those marble thingies were actually the bits attached to the rip cords of old stick hand grenades, which he had slowly and carefully untied from those cords:  Now, presumably those grenades would've been reasonably safe as they shouldn't have their fuses installed, but still 
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I always kind of love it when absolutely massive objects utterly fall apart when they hit the ground just a little wrong. https://i.imgur.com/UhbnYiM.mp4
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Nov 20, 2022 15:03
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Careful, I hear several states are thinking about banning high-capacity firearms.
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Nov 28, 2022 12:20
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In which a guy who absolutely does not seem qualified for anything decides to try to recreate the US knife murder missile. When he finds out that he would need a license to buy rocket motors of his desired size/power, he decides to just make his own. Testing is done by guiding the rockets along a wire that fails several times, causing the rocket to fly off into the distance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEVPgnLbguI
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Dec 5, 2022 19:12
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Dec 22, 2022 08:28
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Isn't the whole point of using a wire rather than blades with these things in the first place so that you don't get pieces of jagged metal flying around if it hits something like a rock? Perestroika fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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Jan 23, 2023 10:21
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Ah yes, the safety blink https://i.imgur.com/ly6Jra4.mp4
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Jan 27, 2023 12:44
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Always astonished to see these cables existing in the wild:
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Jan 29, 2023 18:01
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Hel posted:So how much extra force does the chain provide compared to just having the shaft be extended by the same length? Pretty much none. The only tangible benefit is that you'd feel less of an impact shock on your hands, which can help with fatigue if you're doing a lot of chopping. IIRC that's the main reason that construction came about for flails used in grain threshing in the first place.
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Feb 9, 2023 22:36
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You love to see it 
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Feb 11, 2023 23:54
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:I understand what is going in here, like in a general sense. But I have NO idea why. There's a mandrel on the inside of the tube forcing it into shape, so it's not just gravity. Not sure how the separation is achieved, though. 
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Feb 20, 2023 10:43
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drat, that one lost altitude a lot quicker than I would've expected it to, even with the dive in the beginning. 
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Mar 3, 2023 11:35
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Firearms instructor OSHA is some of the worst OSHA https://twitter.com/ohshidt/status/1632939199371304960
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Mar 7, 2023 11:38
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The machine hungers https://i.imgur.com/VSE8R5S.mp4
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Mar 14, 2023 15:06
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Mar 31, 2023 10:05
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Those cabs are some serious business https://i.imgur.com/ix87QJG.mp4
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PurpleXVI posted:Jesus loving Christ. That's a very elaborate way to risk destroying your own spine for internet attention. And also your friend's spine if you aim well. Efficiency! 
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Apr 17, 2023 12:19
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Yeah that looks like it could be really fun and exhilarating, but goddamn I would eat poo poo in the most horrendous manner like five seconds in.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:45
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Stumbled across a youtube channel of a guy making big-rear end swords in his backyard, and half the fun is him improvising with various hand power tools because he doesn't have access to larger professional tools. The best one I spotted so far was this self-made ghetto lathe (should start at the relevant timestamp): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxIU1MiqTYI&t=2435s "Much like a lot of the stuff I do, I couldn't in good conscience recommend this to anyone who's interested in like... their fingers".
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Apr 21, 2023 10:05
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Platystemon posted:He’s using a Resp-O-Rator™, and that makes me unreasonably annoyed. Yeah, I've been wondering what deal was with that thing. That nose clamp seems like it'd be way more uncomfortable in the long term than a slightly larger respirator that covers the whole area.
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Apr 21, 2023 13:57
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Optional sound: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1038524758557466675/1056985755517464696/received_1332891807182852.mp4
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May 17, 2023 18:50
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That went so much better than it had any right to
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May 18, 2023 21:59
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Isn't this exactly the kind of thing that decapitated that kid on a waterslide a few years ago? Yeah I was gonna say, those crossbars look ideally placed to catch and annihilate your extremities.
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May 23, 2023 07:44
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Personally I don't mind WTYP. The signal:noise ratio isn't great, but then again the only way I can really listen to any podcast ever is as mildly interesting background noise so it's not that big a deal. Anyway, https://i.imgur.com/s8xroUI.mp4
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This actually made me wonder: Are Geiger counters still built in a way where detecting radiation directly leads to them making that particular sound? Or are they just fully digital now and there's just a sound chip inside translating the readings into the familiar sound?
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