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I made my own PPE today. Trying to find solutions for second line medical staff and service workers locally. ER nearly ran out of face shields the other night. https://twitter.com/boudloForge/status/1242981610913501185
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:The whole DIY PPE thing is terrifying, and it's only gonna get worse. I used to work at an eye clinic which is currently still seeing urgent and emergent patients, and they haven't been able to get masks. Solution? I've been making them fabric surgical masks (at their request) that they can sterilize and reuse, and the fabric I've been using was originally a sheet I got at the thrift store. I know fabric masks only protect at 50% or less but that's better than 0%. It's like those Arab Spring guys using cooking pots as helmets. The design was spurred by a phone call from a nurse friend in our local ER. They were having to go without or at best share and sanitise shields last week. They managed to get more in but only for key staff. We have a group ramping up to print the Czech Prusa open source one using the laser cutter at the local school but they don't have the printer capacity so being on the board of the local makerspace we've put out an APB to print frames frames frames. In the short term I have capacity to make up to ~275 of these lightweight ones. Tomorrow I'm picking up a KAM snap press to make them modular and washable. Takes about 5 minutes to make one from a bare sheet and IMO it works really well. The return lip on the bottom stiffens the shield, catches moisture and also hooks the users breath back up and out the sides of the mask. This is evident by matter of you get a real good idea of what your breath smells like. The main compliment it has had is that it is incredibly light and low-fatigue.
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Plans in case you are without and want to roll your own face shield from random stationary, stay safe goons. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1XnDbY_xf06vkaHSAbl583Zmc9VVEaKsT
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Mierenneuker posted:I do enjoy this little trip into the UK. The UK gammons go on about Parents These Days being super protective and not letting little Tarquin outside without at least three minders and a risk assessment, but all of my generation grew up seeing this horror show poo poo on TV and even at school in addition to prime time accident porn shows like Casualty and 999 where in one episode they featured the real story of a kid who got a loving javelin entirely through his neck during school sports.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Audio. In many british houses the fuse box and meter is just inside the door, a throwback from when the electricity guy used to come around and read the meter manually for billing. I live in a rural area where there is basically no crime and people regularly leave front doors unlocked. My neighbours went away for a few days and left their dickhead 17 year old son home alone. Of course he had a party. Had it been the weekend I honestly wouldn't have cared, I would have been out drinking, but it was still going at 2am on a Thursday. I banged on the door but they were all two floors up and the music was too loud for them to hear. So I opened the door and shouted, yelled up the stairs, still nothing. Sure enough there was the little cupboard by the door. I threw the switch and heard them swearing, stumbling drunk around the pitch dark house upstairs. I left. They didn't get the hint though and started the music again, they must have known what happened because when I went around again the door was locked. However, the big sash window next to the door was closed but not actually latched so I hopped in, locked the window behind me, hit the breaker switch and then let myself out the front door and latched it. I think it freaked them out and I had no more problems. Not like he could call the police or tell his parents.
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LifeSunDeath posted:drat bro I don't know for sure that he saw me, but our neighbour across the road, who wouldn't usually give me the time of day, gave me a nod and a smile the day after.
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waffle iron posted:In the US a lot of electric companies switched to smart meters that send their readings live over radio waves (cell data????) and for years people would protest based on "rf sensitivity". Haven't thought of it in years and all those folks have moved on to the new pseudoscience thing. When they moved to smart meters we had the exact same RF conspiracists coming out of the woodwork and writing to the local press that they were getting migraines or morgellons or whatever. Then they all looked like idiots when the company revealed that the meters they were fitting actually sent the reading up the cable Ethernet-Over-Power style to the nearest substation and didn't use radio at all.
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Mister Speaker posted:Do police in your neighbourhood not respond to noise complaint calls or something? It was getting on for 3am and I wasn't in the mood to be up until first light dealing with the police whenever they could be bothered to get up to us. This fixed the problem quickly and my otherwise nice neighbours didn't get a call from the police about their son at 3am while they were on holiday. Son learned and didn't do it again, and all without having to get murdered by his parents who would have had to fly back.
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Wedding rings in tough materials can be OSHA right? Inconel. Couldn't resist a ring made from rocket engines. I promise not to wear it in the workshop, thread. My ED Nurse friend has confirmed they can cut it.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Not inconel, it's fairly ductile for its hardness. I think you're thinking of metal composites like tungsten carbide. Yeah I was going to say, with Inconel ductility is the point. It's not -super- ductile but it remains ductile down to cryogenic temperatures and resists creep up into rocket motor territory. Designed in the 30s for steam turbines, used in the first jet engine, currently a lot of it flying around in orbit and doing critical things in Nuclear plants.
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KoRMaK posted:solidarity brother Fond memories of 'raves' in the basement of the little apple reseller I used to work at. I organised the workers against the management in that basement. I made the little quisling store manager cry when we all quit.
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Boba Pearl posted:He wasn't a quisling unless he joined you guys and quit. Managers are always on the side of capital. I only know quisling as a term for a collaborator/traitor? He had been one of the workers but when they put him in charge he pulled up the ladder really fuckin quick. To be clear, he cried because he was a little boot licking turd and he knew how much poo poo he was in and how much of his job he'd have to actually start doing now.
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Powershift posted:
No kink shaming
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_VTquJR6fg I'm always sort of equal parts awe- and dumb-struck by the poo poo some people get up to in the USA. Like you can find the resources and materials to build practically anything in your shed and use it however the gently caress you want and it always seems to manifest in someone in crocs doing something incredibly dangerous near power lines. 
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C.M. Kruger posted:eh that's not really much worse than the poo poo people get up to with motorized paragliders/hang gliders and ultralights/etc. Humphreys posted:I'm the powerlines he takes off under I'm the mono-wheel e-scooter thing he uses to drive the craft through busy traffic on it's little pram wheels.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:That's how a lot of firearm training systems work (like the FATS system the fbi uses) however the hose would need to be cg'd out and it would make the actor move awkwardly. You can get CO2 airsoft guns that take 12g bulbs inside the magazine, no need for a hose. I have a CZ and an M4 that are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, they even take real parts like grips and so on. They charge, reload and lock back on empty like the real thing. The recoil can be made nearly as strong as a real firearm and as many actors are going to limp wrist them anyway it works out just fine.
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Oct 22, 2021 19:12
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Use our app to decide if you live, die or go insane! (do not use our app, actually) 
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Theo Jansen phoning it in these days.
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With Northern Europe and the UK being hit by a huge storm, The roof has been ripped off the O2 arena in london, church spires are toppling. https://twitter.com/djstay81/status/1494652836273176578 https://twitter.com/BKellymor/status/1494608022886391809 https://twitter.com/BJFHubbard/status/1494650273549201408 ...and the angry pink men who crack pinged on COVID are now becoming Storm-skeptic. https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1494600487022305282 for the avoidance of doubt - he is being completely unironic
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Storm-skeptic Update https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1494661922574286854
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Nenonen posted:Here's a little traffic safety from Ukraine: Warhead or no, people trying to get selfies with UXO sketches me right out. Used to work in humanitarian de-mining and a lot of people die to poo poo that was meant to explode but didn't (when it was supposed to, anyway). PSA: The dud rates on basically all explosive ordnance (bombs, mortars, rockets, shells, cluster munitions) is bullshit. This is basically a deniable convenience for most militaries, as the unexploded ordnance denies areas indefinately without breaking international law regarding literal landmines. We lost a colleague in Rwanda to a BLU-97 cluster munition that just went off while they were preparing to blow it. Possibly from nothing more than the change in temp/moisture from clearning the leaf litter from it. We also got to help investigate incidents of civilians loving with ordnance. One that sticks in my mind, I wasn't there for it, but I read the report. Northern Uganda, some guys from the village bicycle repair shop find a downed helicopter gunship in the bush, and they take the ammunition for the cannon. They were taking the shell (projectile) out of the rounds, heating the shells up in the fire, then popping the copper driving band off the shell with a hammer and chisel. They had done quite a few by the time they heated one up hot enough for it to detonate. Killed everyone in the shop and wounded some outside. They wanted the copper for brazing bicycle frames.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Ukrainians are goddamn hardcore: Don't pull AT mines out of the ground, here's why:  AT mines might need a vehicle to set them off, but they often have a secondary optional fuze hole which can have an anti-tamper fuze added. Sometimes they just get a regular grenade wedged underneath. Edit for anecdote - I knew a guy who was in the legion. While he was somewhere in [ redacted ], North Africa, he was pulling out AT mines like this stacked three deep, with chained anti-tampers and more. ReelBigLizard fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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Orphaned Land are neat if you like middle eastern flavoured prog metal with a pro peace message https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hurWzo01FpM
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John Wick of Dogs posted:The thing that strikes me is you can't really turn your head far while using that thing without loving up your center of balance, and he's wearing a hoodie thus has extremely limited peripheral vision https://youtu.be/fDaONrHK1f8?t=3
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Tobermory posted:I realize that this is a strange nit to pick, but who the hell puts a drop ceiling in a factory that's working with combustible metals? I think the real problem was putting the ornamental hydraulic oil fountain right above the hot line. Sure it looks pretty and it's refreshing in the summer but cmon, think about it.
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Bismuth posted:Did the truck driver have his eyes shut?? Statistically, he was cranking his hog
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-Zydeco- posted:A new (old) member of the comically dangerous log splitting machines, a 1930s Scandinavian homemade shing cutter run by a 1913 1hp diesel donkey engine. from a few pages back, but that is a truly impressive collection of hazards and violations.
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POV: Your mom's dildo shipment just cleared customs.
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TheAlmightyFrog posted:Is that Mike and Ike? Mike and Ike you loving piece of poo poo! 
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I watch a cow hoof trimmer religiously 20 years ago this would have been a loving weird statement. Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/HannaBarberaCap/status/1564343157063647238?s=20&t=5zJcPkG0vR84PEizjEJaTA Why'd Fred need all that poison...
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Nenonen posted:A private two engine jet going from Spain to Germany did not respond to communications and apparently has now crashed in the Baltic Sea. German and Danish fighters pursued the aircraft but didn't see anyone in the cockpit. We had a similar crash locally a couple of years ago when Emilio Sala's flight crashed in the sea near Alderney. I think the investigation suggested that the plane filled with CO for a while until everyone just went to sleep forever. I think that's probably the best case scenario 
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What ever happened to the Tesla fanboy trying to run over the kid?
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Eeyo posted:This is literally a recurring nightmare for me, I'm in the back seat of a car I'm driving and I can't hit the brakes. Ghost riding the ship.
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Is he training to kill god?
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https://twitter.com/investorzhim/status/1576045875213742080?s=20&t=nVdyqzxmtsp6E-lbMnNaTQ Me, too high, needing a poo poo, trying to get to the bathroom. ReelBigLizard fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:Hold on a second: Knobbly Benjamin
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One of our local ferries has probably killed three fishermen this morning.  This is the second of their ferries to sink a fishing boat. From 2011:  Edit: for efficiency I'll post this now. 
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ChesterJT posted:Since usual maritime logic says the small boats are responsible for getting out of the way of the big boats, does the sheer speed of these ferries change that? It seems like by the time a couple dudes in a fishing trawler realize a ferry is heading straight at them and fire their engines up it's too late. The inquest into the first collision found that they were going nearly full ahead (30-40kts) in fog and relying on the radar and transponders, but there is an unconfirmed rumour that the French boat was running with the transponder off because they were in illegal waters. So it was still the ferry company at fault. Antigravitas posted:Those things go >40 knots. You actually have very little time to avoid one if you are in its path. Todays collision was actually involving a conventional ferry, the Goodwill, at about 20kts.
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So the neighbouring island which just had the ferry / fishing boat disaster just had a huge gas explosion at 0400 this morning. https://i.imgur.com/z1hud65.mp4 One dead and 'around a dozen' missing after block of flats destroyed in explosion https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2022-12-10/large-part-of-st-helier-cordoned-off-after-explosion Apparently the fire department were there last night after reports of the smell of gas. They couldn't find anything so they concluded it was a false alarm. These apartments are, of course, social housing provided by public-private partnership.
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