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Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Memento posted:

Conan! What is best in life?

(about seven people on the planet will get that reference, and I doubt any of them post here)

To crush your enemy, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women

# ¿ Apr 12, 2020 14:56

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 10:04

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Cartoon Man posted:

Any idea which ship in the 7th fleet the captain originally came from?

# ¿ Jun 1, 2020 19:35

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Alkydere posted:

Yyyyeeees and Nnnnnooo? It depends on where you work. I work in SAT2 which is one of the better buildings in many ways (management gives half a poo poo and treats you like a person) but there's other sites you hear rumors about.

The jobs are basically all RSI inducing shitshows since you basically do the same thing over and over and over again unless you can get a role that's a specialist job or computer touching. I really don't know about Stow/Pick very much because those involve the RSP (Robotic Storage Pen: our moving inventory on giant murder-roombas that will break your ankle if they run into you: there's a reason going onto the bot floor without training/permission and a radio harness to tell the bots to slow down near you is an INSTANT TERMINATION).

For example there's people literally called "inductors" who's job is to take stuff off of one conveyor belt and put it on another conveyor belt system. When you're doing that [many lots]* times an hour and you can get heavy rear end poo poo now and then (drinks, brake disks, weighted blankets) it's a good way to hurt your arm.

But yeah I'm a Packer. I don't put your essential dildos in storage or take them out, I put them in the box or envelope to send to you. The questions I'll be best for answering are basically on the outbound (packing and outbound dock) side. Also I will note Amazon jobs are GREAT at losing weight**. Even managers don't get to sit down on the floor and the facilities are massive. Even the IT guys walk several kilometers every shift, going up and down stairs, responding to trouble tickets.

*Amazon does not like us talking about rates so I'm gonna dodge and weave around any questions involving those the best I can.

**Including one guy I know who nearly worked himself to death by busting his rear end so hard he lost 80 pounds in under a month. For reference he's better now and has a nice chill job and even if he didn't Safety does not let managers assign him to him do the job that hosed him up.

I have a friend who worked as a picker years ago. The facility he was in was several buildings stitched together so there weren't any easy routes from one end to another. It was all one soul killing labyrinth and missing a single beat hurt your pick rate and thus your worth. Then there were the slow times when the pick orders were obviously being skewed so you never had idle time.

Then there was the time he found the bin for the triple clit flicker and that's a product name that lives in our hearts to this day.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2020 14:42

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Alkydere posted:

Oh, you're talking about non-RSP picking where it's dozens of people walking up and down aisles of stuff. Yeah, my facility is an AR sort facility (Amazon Robotics). Yeah non AR-Sort facilities are either old buildings made before Amazon had ALL the money or they're dealing with specialty/large items. I never want to work in an non-AR-Sort facility.

Seriously, I'm a Learning Ambassador (fancy way to say I train new people) and part of the training I got involved watching a lady train people for non-AR-Sort Picking and by the end of the video the entire room was curled up into their chairs going "NO! NO! WHYYYYY!?" like we were watching a horror movie.

Yeah the quotas are not nearly the nightmare people think they are once you get used to them. But there's so much walking. So. Much. Walking. The best thing you can ever do for yourself if you get a job at Amazon is get yourself a new pair of shoes. After that, if you're hired and waiting for a shift at least go for a walk for a few miles every day you can.

Yeah, this was years ago, full manual picking with just your trusty Amazon pick scanner tracking your pick rate as your only friend. Amazon doesn't even use the facility anymore and it may even be empty now. I want to say it used to be (in part) a large book warehouse, which gives some insight into how and why they were using it.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2020 21:28

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Usually they're more for "low level" jobs (labor, low end office workers). I felt offended the time I had to take one at a job site as an engineer.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 22:35

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Cartoon Man posted:

PC load letter

At an old job, we actually had a toner vacuum. It was really useful for cleaning inside printers. I would have to empty it like 20 times at least just to make that look semi normal again. I do not envy whoever has to clean that up and the cancer they'll get from it.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2020 16:18

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Our workers have to manhandle the bins, so they publish guidelines on what they want to see from us in the cans. Things like easily liftable by one person (less than or equal to 50 pounds). If they feel like you're loading them up too much, they'll usually take it once but leave you a note to not do it again.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2020 17:14

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Alkydere posted:

Literally how I landed the flying transport in the glory days of BF2142: taking full advantage of how in one of the first patches the devs realized no one could actually land the suckers without crashing and gave the thing wonky physics that made them resilient to physics damage.

My friend who had a flight stick was good enough he could literally crush tanks, coming down on them like an orbital teabag to take advantage of how no other vehicle had the transport's physics.

2142 was the best battlefield.

In some OSHA content, I'm happy to have a circular saw smarter than me. I was recently cutting the tops off of some 4x4s and my habits of running drills had me running the saw while going backwards in the cut. Something I know is supremely dumb, but forgot in the moment until my saw shut off via kickback prevention.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2020 15:01

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

EvenWorseOpinions posted:

One of the guys in the room brought it up to me, I thought he was talking about it being static until I touched it. I have gotten nipped at by 120v AC a couple times before, you can feel the voltage oscillation.

This is very true. It's a strange vibrating sensation, but definitely 60Hz.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2020 20:25

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

That's loving terrifying. As best I can tell, this is where the blast was. From what I see, it looks more like the warehouse by the water than the silos, but I could very well be wrong.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2020 17:10

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

CommieGIR posted:

That't the exact spot actually, good job.

Thanks, luckily there were enough landmarks it wasn't too hard to figure out from some quick poking around.

In some non horrifying explostion OSHA talk, we recently implemented a masks required policy in our office (full of stipulations, of course), but they aren't required on the production floor, so a lot of us have had a lot of cases of walking out with a mask on and completely forgetting safety glasses, or taking off masks and putting safety glasses on when entering the office. No injuries or anything, just funny how one little extra PPE requirement throws everyone off and makes us dumb. I've forgotten my safety glasses at least three times.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2020 17:57

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

How many times on the same page are we going to post the palm tree?

# ¿ Sep 25, 2020 15:27

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Winklebottom posted:

This is the first step in evolution toward Mega Man met hats, isn't it?

# ¿ Sep 29, 2020 15:33

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

haveblue posted:

What's the play if you jetpack out to the guy and discover he needs to be transported

I was going to post something like this until I paid closer attention to the video. The company runs helicopter ambulances, so I presume they send a heli if transport is needed before the rocketeer zooms off to somewhere else.

# ¿ Sep 29, 2020 21:49

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

UraniumAnchor posted:

Gonna need more than a book to stop that thing from getting you.

I just want you to know, I saw and appreciated this.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2020 15:49

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Our corporate overlords base our yearly bonuses on profitability and safety. If our incident rate is over something like 1.08 for the year, we get punished, for example. I'd say it's safe to say that they highly value both factors.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2020 20:53

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Scratch Monkey posted:

I live in a state that has safety inspections and I couldn't imagine that some states wouldn't have them. many years ago I saw an episode of pimp my ride where some guy had a car that was made of the front of one car welded to the back of a different kind of car. I thought "pffft this show must be fake. there's no way that he'd be able to get that inspected!" But then I learned that places like California and Florida exist. Even later I learned that states like Arkansas and South Carolina don't even require emissions.

The only check of any kind in Kansas is that you have to run your VIN and have an officer physically look at the vehicle if you bought it used from out of state.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2022 23:31

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

FuturePastNow posted:

Of the two major cities I've really driven much in, Chicago drivers are very aggressive but predictably so, and they expect you to be predictably aggressive as well. It's the only place I've been in literally bumper to bumper traffic at over 80 MPH on the Interstate. On the other hand, St Louis drivers are all meth heads and you never know what the cars around you are going to do.

The St. Louis observation extends to all of Missouri. You can never tell what they're going to do next, you just know it's going to piss you off.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2022 15:36

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Submarine Sandpaper posted:

oh deer

That is an unamoosing comment

# ¿ Oct 19, 2022 20:31

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Fumble posted:

arson?

Arson around, for sure

# ¿ Jan 18, 2024 16:39

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

No inspections of any sort in Kansas unless you buy a used car from another state, and that's just a case of taking it to the local PD and paying :20bux:

to make sure it's not stolen.

The bitch is the sales tax on cars. Kansas is getting theirs regardless of where you buy it.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 16:39

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

ILL Machina posted:

https://i.imgur.com/TvbFO2k.mp4

I had to watch this a second time before figuring out what the problem was. I just thought it was water the first time.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2024 21:44

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Kith posted:

im here to punish you all for continuing bike chat

https://i.imgur.io/KUjvjVA.mp4

The only positive here is the judgmental chickens.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2024 18:45

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Deteriorata posted:

Pretty cool trick. I bet he's a hit at parties.

I'm just glad the good boy/girl wasn't close enough to get hit with part of a ladder.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2024 22:47

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Serjeant Snubbin posted:

The problem with "innovative" is that it also means unproven and dangerous in the tunneling business. A good example of an "innovative" tunnel technology would be the tunneling shield made by Marc Isembard Brunel over 200 years ago.

Look at all the poo poo in those tunnels, the video of the sludge that they were forbidden from cleaning up because it would slow them down. Steve Davis likely doesn't understand "tech debt" and how that can slow an organisation down if that's how he treats worksite tidiness. It's not like it's making them slower. It's taken them 7 years to build 1 mile of tunnels that are all wonky and embarassing to look at.

Compare instead with this tunnelling project, which was going steeply uphill in geologically difficult rock. Look at all the time they spent on safety and making sure it was safe before proceeding and properly assessing things. Turns out they were way faster to dig a tunnel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AV2NcyX7pk

I never knew I wanted to watch a video on drilling a tunnel so much.

ILL Machina posted:

Reposting aloofloofah's reposts seems like cheating but they do good work.
https://i.imgur.com/tgxOvrN.mp4

Nobody showing any love for the watermark here? For shame.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2024 16:44

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Nfcknblvbl posted:

That sounds exactly like some 90s Armored Core menu music, and I love it.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Gran turismo, but i agree

I think we can find an agreement in "PS1 as gently caress" as the genre.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 16:50

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

zedprime posted:

If those are the actual cells there's a relatively low mass fraction of hydrogen as well as being filled with exhaust water. The hydrogen tank is not a fuel cell.

Fuel cell is very bad terminology and I'm glad it didn't catch on just because of the wording.

I was originally taking the tweet at face value and thought "Well, fuel cells there wouldn't be that bad." Then I kept thinking about your post and had to confirm if they were H2 tanks or fuel cells. Apparently that car was originally designed to use fuel cells, but now is now running on hydrogen combustion. So not only is it confusing as a concept, but doubly so for this specific case as it went from one to the other.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2024 21:01

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

LimaBiker posted:

Old school diesels smoke like crazy at full throttle from low RPM, because the turbo hasn't caught up yet with the air demand, and old diesels just smoke at the maximum power output.

Today you don't notice it with diesel road vehicles anymore because of modern diesel injection systems and filters, but if you floor an old mechanical diesel passenger car at 1500rpm, you can bet there'll be at least *some* smoke. How much depends on how the specific injector setting.

Modern diesel can smoke too, but usually in a power range not accessible in normal use.

So to me, it does seem like it's smoke from the actual 'oh gently caress' engine setting.

It's funny seeing this from the perspective of vehicles. On commercial/industrial burners that are UL listed, any smoke above a 0 on a 0-10 scale is a failure, and is also wasted fuel.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 15:57

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Would it be possible for the rebuilt bridge to have fewer towers to reduce the likelihood of this happening? I'm not a civ-e, so it's out of my expertise.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 18:59

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

weg posted:

I hope that you can.

I was going to type out a bunch more boring stuff to explain the situation but no one cares and I know I did nothing wrong.

I'm guessing you had two lanes of traffic in the same direction

# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 16:25

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Issaries posted:

Are those kind of things standard in America?

My dryer doesn't have an exhaust pipe.
It has a small filter at the front, that I empty between each load.

They usually shoot out through a nearby wall horizontally instead of up through the roof, but yes.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 16:01

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

Bajaha posted:

The humidity goes down the drain. A ventless would typically be a heat pump unit. Moist air from the dryer drum passes over a cold evaporator coil which causes the moisture to condense and then drain out of the machine. The cool drier air is then heated back up by the condenser coil and this goes on until your clothes are dry.

It does take longer than just blasting your clothes with hot dry air though.

So I think it would be fair to say that all dryers require an accommodation of "exhaust" where for Americans it's air and for Euros it's water.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 21:31

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

SyNack Sassimov posted:

Yeah only in Europe they call it a "drain".

They call it a drain in America too when it's for water, but that's what it's called in Europe.

Right, hence the quotes. Whether it's water draining for air blowing outside, they're helping the same process in different ways.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 22:06

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 10:04

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

LimaBiker posted:

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/MAB0703.pdf

A report on the boiler explosion on the cruise ship SS Norway in 2003.

Contains among other things:
- 7 people died.
- Boilers running at 60 bars of pressure - superheated steam takes no prisoners.
- Inadequate boiler water chemistry
- A continuous history of severe cracking in the boiler's drums, and multiple leaking or ruptured boiler tubes.
- Copper globules worked into the cracks in the boiler, with the report strongly suggesting the copper was deliberately worked into the cracks to make those less visible. I had no words for this one. Just total amazement.
- Long cracks in the drums of about 3m length, repaired by welders that may or may not have been skilled in the very specific welding technique needed to weld up pressure vessels without causing heat stress in the boiler's metal.
- person refused to be interviewed on advice of his legal councel

URL of news report with a video of the explosion: youtu.be/AWSy-cLAQWM

I'm around boilers a lot, since I work for a burner company. I will tell you without hesitation I'm far more afraid of steam than I am of any combustible. I wonder if the burners were using lovely LFLs for the burner controls. There's a chance they were using early LMV5s, but I doubt it. LFLs are fun, because of the fact that they are old school style mechanical controls that have an internal motor that spins around and makes and breaks contacts as it does so for sequencing. At least they can't be spun by hand, like some old Honeywell controls, which were super OSHA when people were being impatient during purges.

# ¿ May 9, 2024 20:19

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