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-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


Cojawfee posted:

Like earth and earth?

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Nov 12, 2007


If anyone hasn't seen the HBO Chernobyl miniseries they should. Good drama and pretty much wall to wall terrifying nuclear OSHA nightmare fuel. I intended to watch one episode and ended up binging the entire 5 hours in one sitting.

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


Ferret poop will stop protons.

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


It's annoying that manure lagoons are still an issue when we have the means to make them relatively safe and produce Methane at the same time that can be used to provide power at best, or safely flared off at worst.

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


Got one from my work.

I'm in Afghanistan overseeing generator overhaul contractors through some local national safety guys. Just after Christmas one of our contractors needed to move a generator across their shop yard. They did this by renting a lovely undersized crane, planning nothing, documenting nothing, providing no secure footing under the crane, and then physically dragging the generator sideways across the yard with the crane using I think the hoist point on the engine block in the generator housing.




Even dragging the generator sideways they still had enough force on the crane to cause to to twist enough that the outside outriggers were unloading and the outside tires started twisting off the ground.







I sent the contractor and asked them to please never do that again and I got an apology/non-apology that included the following items.

Crane operator not wearing a hard hat while leaning out of the cab with the door open and the boom up:
"The crane operator doesn't need a hard hat because there was no overhead threat since the crane was so badly underrated that it couldn't actually lift the load overhead."

In regards to the report that our safety guys sent.
"Yes the crane was dangerously unstable, but why didn't your safety guys stop us? Isn't that his job? Also, he quoted the wrong safety regulation telling us that cranes must be operated on stable footing. We think you need to train them better."
(I did ask my guy to never do take pictures like this again or at least take them from across the street or anywhere but close to this poo poo)

We have a firm fixed price contract stating that the contractor SHALL comply with all included safety regulations with a crisp contractor signature right at the top and price negotiations took several months.
"if we make our Afghan subcontractors conform to the these safety requirements it will raise the cost of the contract!"

-Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Dec 30, 2019

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


cakesmith handyman posted:

That's an impressive amount of brass neck "it's your fault for not stopping us"

I yelled at another contractor for not having a crane to lift the head off a 1500 kW generator engine and instead having 4 guys do it by hand. Their excuse on that one was that the ANA and Taliban were currently fighting 3 km away and they were limited to parts and tools they could sneak through Taliban checkpoints by hiding them under a pile of poo poo in one of the tech's cars. We let that one go.

Giant balls and a diminished self preservation instinct are a pre-requisite for being a contractor here.

E: Another contractor gave us a pump that our local QA immediately became suspicious of. They claimed it was authentic German and when when pressed provided this spec sheet. Find the one problem.


This place is wild.

-Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Dec 31, 2019

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


In which some Russians make an AMG rim using a steelie and some square stock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuY0_uYO8jk

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


https://twitter.com/Marshall_Audrey/status/1219787425318305797?s=20

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


Another channel that does CSB style accident breakdowns but with aircraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wsa3vhnowk

Playlist here

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0bO-Szfn8

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


https://twitter.com/PerfectlyShots/status/1296892943962447881

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


wesleywillis posted:

Perhaps its just this thread, but why does it seem like forklift drivers are always the ones mentioned on the various shirts stating things similar to the following:
I'm a forklift driver, I drink BEER. I eat MEAT, I poo poo CINDERBLOCKS, I piss ACID I love PUSSY, cuz I'm a REAL MAN.

And so on......

People with jobs they think people don't respect putting on false bravado to regain their won self respect, or people with poo poo jobs they have no way of escaping rationalizing their lot in life to being better than what other people have.

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Nov 12, 2007


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Nov 12, 2007


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Nov 12, 2007


Azathoth posted:

I know multiple people that have had their cars hit by deer, including one that had it happen while they were fully stopped waiting for the deer to cross the road safely. I've never seen an animal with such little regard for its own safety as a deer when it's running.

I think the issue is they don't want to hit you or the other way around, but their brains are wired assuming you are trying to chase them.

They go for the juke, or try to run through you assuming you'll get out of the way and RIP. You not wanting to kill and eat the deer is just not a possibility in their minds so they do all sorts of weird poo poo. Doesn't help that they seem to be too dumb to learn.

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


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Nov 12, 2007


everydayfalls posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ahQPN5v.gifv

The guy hiding under the trailer is a nice touch.

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqPvVxxIDr0

I like the other pilot who cant take a hint and stop jumping in-between ATC and a plane with an emergency.

"That thing set down like a butterfly with sore feet"

-Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Sep 21, 2020

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


Cojawfee posted:

I'm just an accountant, how was I supposed to know that placing two different metals near each other in salt water causes corrosion?

The engineer on the phone you just called because you saw something you didn't recognize and wanted more information before you made an arbitrary decision told you.

That is a purely theoretical scenario though. No one has actually ever tested this in the real world.

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


Military OSHA

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007



New on vinyl, "The Chipmunks sing the Screams of the Damned"

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007



I like how you can see the escalating levels of I-don't-want-to-be-here from the guy running the gun.

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


Kitfox88 posted:

edit: ahaha the dude opening the passenger door of the car who spun him into the wall so he could yell at the guy.

He tried coming over in front of the Porsche before he was completely past when the Porsche was already up against the grass with nowhere to go. He's the rear end in a top hat.

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


uber_stoat posted:

our drone tech lets you watch the collapse of America as it happens!

https://twitter.com/TJ_Cooney/status/1334537236491214860?s=20

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


LifeSunDeath posted:

just a cursory watch and they're pulling drum mags out of a lake that have been there since WW2, and they still look new? Strange.

If its cold water and a low oxygen environment on the bottom then little if any oxidation or rust will happen. Notice it pretty much metal and some rubber that's surviving. See also bog mummies and underwater loggers.

E: Here's a guy breaking some vices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcbTopj5u7A

Destruction starts at the 14 min mark

-Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Dec 6, 2020

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


Pretty slick until the 2 min mark
https://mobile.twitter.com/cctv_idiots/status/1343122287315267587

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


Little late, bit the mention of SL-1 got me looking around for a picture of the reactor before the accident and it turns out there is a fantastic 60's video explains and giving diagrams for the event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWi_w2H1saE

-Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Dec 31, 2020

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


1940's steel production

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hlfqggGOZw

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


https://twitter.com/memecrashes/status/1351861610164473856

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007



I like the guy in the black up front just casually throwing his garbage in the bushes

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


FCKGW posted:

Looks like whatever is on fire has traveled up inside of the car as well



So where is the base of the fire, is it on the ground or is the fire dripping out the bottom of the car? :thunk:

ruptured fuel line?

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007



Wasp nest

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


deoju posted:

Is that tambourine metric or imperial?

Whitworth

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007



Since none of them are getting out of the way or reacting much and that seems like a ton of gravel, I'm guessing they are spreading it down the path like that intentionally from where it was dumped up trail?

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


A spicy meatball
https://twitter.com/atomicarchive/status/1288544466983432198

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


https://twitter.com/Russia_NC/status/1362710060514836480

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xADcMXHT3HA

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Nov 12, 2007



Since every time I see one of these vide I get reminded of it, anyone who hasn't seen Danger UXB! should. Follows the life of a UXO crew England during WW2 and its' all up on daily motion for free.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6s1ejp

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