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angryrobots posted:I'm a lineman. Witchita?
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Oct 30, 2019 00:59
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Nah, he's still on the line
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Oct 30, 2019 01:21
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Every song and movie about my job sucks balls. I guess that's only appropriate.
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Oct 30, 2019 01:45
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Darchangel posted:When I was in middle school, my friend's dad was a lineman for the local power company and lost half of one foot and three toes of the other when the bucket hit the power line accidentally. He wasn't even in the bucket - he was standing next to the truck. It could have been worse - initially the doctors were thinking he'd lose a leg and lower leg, then the prognoses progressively got better. To add to the fun, his wife was a nurse at the hospital in town. At least she didn't have to go far to be with him, I guess. When I worked for the power company, I went through the mandatory electrical systems training and they had a guy on who got relatively lucky getting hit by power thanks to a lovely cherry picker operator. It burned a hole right through his arm and then out his foot; you could look up through his foot and it was almost like a pinpoint meat tunnel about two inches deep (healed by the time we saw it, of course, but he did have pictures). What I remember the most about that demo was him complaining that the affected extremities were always cold, no matter what.
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Oct 30, 2019 01:46
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angryrobots posted:Every song and movie about my job sucks balls. Lawyers get movies that are highly inaccurate. However, as for songs, this is the most accurate song I know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgRmzlsAvQ4 I can name at least 5 attorneys I personally know that it accurately described.
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Oct 30, 2019 02:25
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angryrobots posted:Every song and movie about my job sucks balls. If you’re a porn star it’s okay, though. 
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Oct 30, 2019 02:26
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Tranny in my dad's GMT800 Yukon XL died and he's shopping for a new car. For some reason he's convinced he still needs something huge. Anything else I should point him to? When did the Expedition/Navigator get good?
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Oct 30, 2019 04:22
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Put the ghetto winter wheels without TPMS on the Mazda, and nary a squeek from the thing. Granted, I've only done a few short trips since then, but still... I miss my giant Bahco jack. It's sitting at a friend's while I'm garageless, so I elected to buy the cheapest little red jack I could find, and, oh my, I'm glad I still have all my fingers.
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Oct 30, 2019 05:32
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blk posted:Tranny in my dad's GMT800 Yukon XL died and he's shopping for a new car. For some reason he's convinced he still needs something huge. Anything else I should point him to? When did the Expedition/Navigator get good? They really didn’t get good until 2018 or 2019. For large, cheap, plentiful, and reliable, maybe a Toyota Sequoia?
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bolind posted:Put the ghetto winter wheels without TPMS on the Mazda, and nary a squeek from the thing. Granted, I've only done a few short trips since then, but still... I can usually get about halfway through winter before my Fit realizes it doesn't have TPMS sensors anymore. I think it takes about 20 miles without being shut off before it notices which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. It figures out the sensors are back within like half a mile once the summer wheels are back on so 
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Oct 30, 2019 06:36
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Got a bit confused when I got pulled over for a brake light not working earlier. All but 1 bulb on the back of the car have been replaced since I've had the car, and I saw the reflection of the one old bulb in a car's window when I was backing out of the garage. One of the inners was only letting a single filament work at a time, and it's dark, so the headlights were on (i.e. parking light works, light goes off entirely when I step on the brakes.. lights off, brake light works, just a bit dimmer). So bad ground, right? I swapped the bulbs side to side to make sure it wasn't the bulb, and... everything's working fine now. Bad bulb? Socket obviously has a decent ground, and I believe the ground is shared with the backup light on that side (which works fine). Subharness looks factory fresh. I guess next step is (another) new bulb and doing a wiggle check on the ground wire into the socket...
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Oct 30, 2019 06:40
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I was hit head on by a drunk driver running a red light driving home from work. The injuries I sustained from that just added on to the issues I already had and now I'm waiting around to get approved for disability. Oh poo poo, that's awful. The worst part is that you can't do anything about crashes like that, they just happen to you, and then you're not the same forever. I hope everything goes back to normal for you as quickly as possible! On my part, I was working late in the lab, thought I had turned off a high voltage power supply, went to reconnect a wire (that I thought was dead, and obviously wasn't), and POP! STR posted:If it was the line running to the house from the transformer, meh, 240 isn't the end of the world. Not quite a 10kV transmission line, but it was an 1100VDC power supply. Only missed one day of work due to mandatory hold at the hospital, so it could have been a lot worse. Olympic Mathlete posted:it ain't the voltage that kills you... amperage is what stops your heart. I had the logger running, due to the experiment I was attempting, so I know the peak current was 2.6A  That's, uh, a lot. My saving grace was that I was leaning against a grounded piece of the machine, so the current entered my hand via the allen wrench I was holding, and exited the same hand into ground. Talk about "what should have killed you;" over 180 joules was delivered by the power supply over the duration! 
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nm posted:Lawyers get movies that are highly inaccurate. The Bottle Rockets are great 8)
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Oct 30, 2019 07:57
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Friends dad put the mast of his sailing boat into a 33KV line while holding onto said boat. He's missing a few digits at entry and exit now, luckily he had fallen in earlier, so it was wetter on the outside of him than the inside of him! And my dad put an 800mm auger through a pair of 11KV lines that weren't where they were meant to be at a shopping centre when he was younger. He was fine because he was sitting on the machine, but the arc jumping out of the drill mast fused the gearbox and burnt a hole in a sign when it jumped back to earth.
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Oct 30, 2019 08:19
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Galler posted:I can usually get about halfway through winter before my Fit realizes it doesn't have TPMS sensors anymore. I think it takes about 20 miles without being shut off before it notices which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. It figures out the sensors are back within like half a mile once the summer wheels are back on so I spoke too soon, it came on on my commute. No ill effects so far though. Ferremit posted:And my dad put an 800mm auger through a pair of 11KV lines that weren't where they were meant to be at a shopping centre when he was younger. He was fine because he was sitting on the machine, but the arc jumping out of the drill mast fused the gearbox and burnt a hole in a sign when it jumped back to earth. Did he get to keep the sign as a souvenir?
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Oct 30, 2019 12:05
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Raluek posted:Not quite a 10kV transmission line, but it was an 1100VDC power supply. Only missed one day of work due to mandatory hold at the hospital, so it could have been a lot worse. YOUCH! The worst part about DC is it's a lot more likely to grab you by the nuts and hold you there. Though once you're into that kind of voltage AND/OR amperage, it hurts the entire time you're dying either way. 
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Oct 30, 2019 12:21
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click this link you assholes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRKi2yoojHo&fbclid=IwAR1nyU7JtRlUTJ441ifoyRXXd0YEeIZPBXo-SznD9nY-z_gu8oR_NTVLZKQ
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Oct 30, 2019 15:03
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I was hit head on by a drunk driver running a red light driving home from work. The injuries I sustained from that just added on to the issues I already had and now I'm waiting around to get approved for disability. I got rammed up the arse (no str not like that bb) buy a drink driver once and it no poo poo ruined my life for a few years, gf at the time fractured her c4 vertebrae and i was a full time carer (even tho my knee and shoulder are still ruined) and once she could do life stuff without me she dumped me. Weirdly enough im saltiest about my first car getting written off because the insurance company hosed me hardcore and I went from a 9 year old car to a 30 year old car. Absolute bullshit and the main reason why i have full comp these days.
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Oct 30, 2019 15:26
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STR posted:Got a bit confused when I got pulled over for a brake light not working earlier. All but 1 bulb on the back of the car have been replaced since I've had the car, and I saw the reflection of the one old bulb in a car's window when I was backing out of the garage. Pulled over for 1 brake light out of 4 not working? Really? Tax dollars at work. Also, I'm really beginning to hate 1156/1157 bulbs after getting my Crown Vic with the 2156/57 bulbs. Those older bulbs seem so unreliable now. Mainly due to how the spring terminals work (or don't) I think. Rhyno posted:click this link you assholes Not bad. Goes together pretty well. I prefer "ThunderBusters" though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfms4h2YAA0 Wax Audio in general is really good at these. EDIT: changed the vid to one that doesn't freeze half way through. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Oct 30, 2019 |
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Oct 30, 2019 15:37
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I made cupcakes. They were terrible. 
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Oct 30, 2019 15:57
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Did you put weed in them?
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Had gotten invited and planned to go along to my friend's parent's place a few hours north in a neat area for this weekend away with some pals. Then I decided, you know what, gently caress it. I've been out of town the last two weekends in a row, and done poo poo for several weekends before. Going up with them means I'm gonna stay up til 3 or 4 AM two nights in a row and spend a bunch of money. I'm gonna stay home on the couch with my girlfriend all weekend, build the LEGO ship in a bottle she got me for our anniversary, buy and play Switcher 3 and Luigi's Mansion 3, and probably cook a whole buncha stuff.
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Oct 30, 2019 16:15
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Rhyno posted:Did you put weed in them? No, thank GOD. Because that would be miserable trying to ingest that much sugar just trying to get high. But there's weed in the rice krispies treats.
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Oct 30, 2019 16:15
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:But there's weed in the rice krispies treats. Nice
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Rhyno posted:Nice very. 
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Oct 30, 2019 18:30
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bolind posted:I miss my giant Bahco jack. It's sitting at a friend's while I'm garageless, so I elected to buy the cheapest little red jack I could find, and, oh my, I'm glad I still have all my fingers. T-Square posted:Then I decided, you know what, gently caress it. I've been out of town the last two weekends in a row, and done poo poo for several weekends before. Going up with them means I'm gonna stay up til 3 or 4 AM two nights in a row and spend a bunch of money. I'm gonna stay home on the couch with my girlfriend all weekend, build the LEGO ship in a bottle she got me for our anniversary, buy and play Switcher 3 and Luigi's Mansion 3, and probably cook a whole buncha stuff. for bridesmaids stuff Saturday morning then the wedding Saturday night. Drive to the venue is a minimum 45 minutes and the longest took an hour and fifteen minutes. Add on already feeling under the weather then getting chilled Friday night and all the other poo poo.... Spent Monday night ~6:30pm-2am in the ER getting fluids, woke up still feeling like poo poo so back to the ER at around 4pm yesterday. Admitted for constant fluids and monitoring. Should be fine and I feel better now that I have in a week so that's good. Still pretty run down but that could be from people waking me up every other hour to check on me. Either way it sucks and I hate hospitals, at least the room isn't too bad at this one. I won't be going to the race I've been working for all summer. Car isn't ready and even if I drove down later than planned I'm sure out session in the car would put me back in the hospital. There's a vintage (VDCA) event next weekend I might sign up for, if the wife will let me go, at the same track and it's a much more relaxed event than SCCA would be.
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Oct 30, 2019 19:54
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Raluek posted:Talk about "what should have killed you;" over 180 joules was delivered by the power supply over the duration! Bloody hell  nm posted:Lawyers get movies that are highly inaccurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-UEqJ85KE don't be a lawyer 🎵 meltie fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Oct 30, 2019 |
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Oct 30, 2019 22:20
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If you like dealing with detailed requirements and specifics like a lawyer, become an engineer instead. It's an actually respectable profession, and you generally get away with more swearing at work, too.
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Oct 30, 2019 23:53
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Counterpoint: Most lawyers you meet are obviously assholes and don't hide the fact while secretly being "libertarians", unlike engineers
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Ether Frenzy posted:Counterpoint: Most lawyers you meet are obviously assholes and don't hide the fact while secretly being "libertarians", unlike engineers Well the first part rings true for engineers too at least. Source: am rear end in a top hat engineer
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Raluek posted:Oh poo poo, that's awful. The worst part is that you can't do anything about crashes like that, they just happen to you, and then you're not the same forever. I hope everything goes back to normal for you as quickly as possible! Man, I would print out that logger result and frame it. That's a hell of a break.
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Oct 31, 2019 02:13
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I'm optimistic about engineers because the younger ones I work with are moderately immune to bullshit. Of the 7 engineers I directly work with: 1 is a libertarian gun nut type 1 is super apathetic about everything, doubt he even votes 1 is a self described Anarcho-communist, (hyper liberal) 4 are basic no nonsense trump hating liberals whose pet issues are socialized health care, campaign finance reform, wage equality, and action on climate change. I fall in to the last category as well. Electrical safety: One of my college professors had facial burn scars and would do the safety lecture in a burnt leather jacket every year. He would then tell everyone about the time he was showing kids how to use a multimeter in a breaker box, where he accidentally shorted a 480v 100A welding circuit and the arc vaporized about 1 cubic inch of solid copper bus bar at his face and torso. He almost died. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Oct 31, 2019 |
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Oct 31, 2019 02:44
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LloydDobler posted:accidentally shorted a 480v 100A welding circuit and the arc vaporized about 1 cubic inch of solid copper bus bar at his face and torso. He almost died. Jesus Christ 
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Raluek posted:Oh poo poo, that's awful. The worst part is that you can't do anything about crashes like that, they just happen to you, and then you're not the same forever. I hope everything goes back to normal for you as quickly as possible! The strobe systems that I build only run at 350V, but up to 600J of energy is stored in the flash capacitors. I have a very healthy respect for them. The trigger transformers hit 14kV. Instantaneous current is approximately 1500A.
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sharkytm posted:You are incredibly lucky. In and out the same body part is the best case. Yeah, I know. If I would have adjusted my grip for a moment, so that the best path to ground was through my other hand, that would have not turned out well at all. Doesn't matter if it's 2.6A or 1500A if it goes through your chest. Liquid Communism posted:Man, I would print out that logger result and frame it. That's a hell of a break. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what to do with it. It's just an excel file, so not very attractive or interesting without the story attached.
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Darchangel posted:Pulled over for 1 brake light out of 4 not working? Really? Tax dollars at work. I've been pulled over more times since moving here than I did from 2005 to 2018. Williamson County deputies are bored, and really don't like people in beaters. <my suburb> police are bored too.
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Oct 31, 2019 10:10
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Rhyno posted:click this link you assholes It's no NIN's Perfect Drug/Taylor Swift's Shake it off mash up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhvXST1Rc3g
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It's best mashup/remix time again in the thread? Hood Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLweJruGx_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FeO8FpXgWY Schadillac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-JYhjnV4mU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFK_UpKSwA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClL6y55TupU Special mention to Skratch Bastid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4q9fbR56yg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ETYoszdJk https://soundcloud.com/ukimusik/jay-z-luciferuki-x-ticklish-x-skratch-bastid-remix
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roo0CeT1VXI Happy Halloween!
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