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uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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I'm sure I watched that hour-long video about sugar mills before, and it used to have awesome annotations. Fuckin' youtube :mad:

Speaking of illegal crops, there's a lot of poppies grown locally here (stealing the image from wikipedia though)

# ¿ Dec 19, 2019 01:51

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 18:42

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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Fire evacuations are easy. When the alarm goes off the most important things are to save your work, look out the windows for a bit, and then get to the assembly area promptly, even if your route will take you outside and then back into another wing of the same building where the alarms are also going off because it's a lot shorter than following the driveway round and everyone else is already doing it.

The second step is to start gossiping immediately RE:whodunit this time.

Finally, also via gossip, figure out which missing employees are potentially trapped inside and which ones just went for lunch without bothering to sign out.

(We also had a broken SMS warning system for a while so I came back from an outing, unlocked a few doors and walked to my office in the middle of a lock down drill, totally oblivious to the silence around me)

# ¿ Dec 20, 2019 14:06

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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Cartoon Man posted:

https://twitter.com/AugensteinWTOP/status/1208440555379802112?s=20

I don't know who's in the right here, but Tim might be grounded:
https://twitter.com/vbagate/status/1208487685196787712

# ¿ Dec 22, 2019 03:41

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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:smiliewheretheguywalksthroughthedoorandimmediatelydies:

In case anyone else was wondering what he was doing with them:

quote:

The crime related to Sayers�s operation of EPS [Electro-Plating Services, Inc.], which used chemicals such as cyanide, chromium, nickel, chloride, trichloroethylene, and various acids and bases, as part of the plating process. After these chemicals no longer served their intended purpose, they became hazardous wastes, which required handling in compliance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Rather than having EPS�s hazardous wastes legally transported to a licensed hazardous waste facility, Sayers stored the hazardous waste in numerous drums and other containers, including a pit dug into the ground in the lower level of the EPS building in Madison Heights. For years, Sayers stonewalled state efforts to get him to legally deal the hazardous wastes. Ultimately, the EPA�s Superfund program spent $1,449,963.94 to clean up and dispose of the hazardous wastes.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/michigan-company-and-its-owner-sentenced-illegally-storing-hazardous-waste

quote:

The cleanup was completed in January 2018.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2019 14:24

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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tangy yet delightful posted:

What even is the thing the guy is way up high on? Like a balloon but he's tethered to the ground?

Original source, I think - he's paragliding?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI3Nq-fjkXI

edit: switched video for a longer version

uvar fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Feb 15, 2020

# ¿ Feb 15, 2020 23:30

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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I found a better video (and edited post above).

And here's the official Slutrapport! It's from Sweden. https://www.havkom.se/en/investigat...ypen-ozone-mojo

quote:

An aircraft of the model SAAB MFI 15 took off from Sundbro, Uppsala, for a VFR flight to Johannisberg, V�ster�s. Shortly thereafter began winching of a paraglider from H�rkeberga, located along the aircraft's route.
At the final stage of the winching, at about 350 meters altitude, the paraglider pilot saw an airplane coming straight at him at a slightly lower altitude. The aircraft passed below the paraglider a few seconds later without colliding. The height difference was estimated by the paraglider pilot to about 50 feet and the distance to the line was 1 to 3 meters.
The pilot of the aircraft never perceived the event. The map data that the pilot used - and which is the most widely used in general aviation - had no special marking of the paragliding activities at H�rkeberga. Neither the paraglider nor the aircraft flew at altitudes implying contact with controlled airspace.
In order to investigate the possible consequences, SHK commissioned a study of a hypothetical sequence of events where the aircraft collides with the line.
The overall conclusion from the study is that no serious consequences would have occurred in a collision between the aircraft and the paraglider line.
The incident was caused by the pilot's flight maps lacking data on paragliding activities at H�rkeberga which meant that the flight could not be planned and carried out safely. Contributing factor has been reduced visibility due to backlight conditions.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2020 23:45

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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Deteriorata posted:

Unfortunately, that script is specifically for webm and doesn't seem to touch gifv or mp4 videos. I don't know enough about scripting to modify it to include them.

I don't know what the difference is, but the version I have is a little simpler, change the max-height if it's too big (edit: SA keeps adding url tags, you'll need to delete those)

code:

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# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 06:30

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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Found on twitter (I'm behind on the thread but skimmed the last few pages and don't think it's been shared): 14 minutes of a house demolition and apartment construction in 1950s Los Angeles. Things sure were simpler back then! There are some interesting practices every now and then, and good luck spotting any safety gear.

https://archive.org/details/000435_202005 (note: no audio AFAIK)

# ¿ May 22, 2020 06:39

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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https://twitter.com/safrazie/status/1292339621590835207

Oh, and they finally recovered the remains from the Hard Rock Hotel, ten months after the collapse.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2020 08:02

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/zgBo6RV.mp4

Why even bother wearing trousers at that point?

# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 08:50

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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You'd think they could automate the step of "poke a knife into the massive press as it closes".

# ¿ Sep 20, 2020 02:28

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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AceClown posted:

the latest Cody's Lab is OSHA as all gently caress

starts off with a generator in a closed barn and doesn't get much better

I don't watch those kind of youtube people, it was kind of this guy to make a compilation last year (probably posted at the time) so I can be alternately anxious and angry for a solid ten minutes. Why do they always hate safety gear and love cluttered workspaces?? Spend a few minutes arranging things nicely before you turn the camera on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC7jvo0W8Ps

# ¿ Sep 24, 2020 06:40

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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PurpleXVI posted:

I did a vaguely similar thing once. We were disposing of some porcelain items at the dump, including an old toilet. I missed the throw on the toilet into the dumpster and just cracked the base in half on the edge, at which point the journeyman at the wheel is yelling at me to get going...

This reminded me of another way that ceramic toilets are (potentially) hazardous
https://twitter.com/DrPhiltill/status/979583605637877760
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/979583605637877760.html

And trying to find that led me to this person who truly lives safety-first https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16725631

quote:

No, I just really like my hearing. I resolved to always wear earplugs out of the house one day after a particularly nasty bus with squealing brakes made my ears ring. I ride my bike a lot so that just made sense. At home, I was putting in ear plugs when putting away dishes, because I want to just get that poo poo done, pulling handfuls out of the dishwasher and stacking them hard and fast, like you do if you're not a priss. Except the sound was making me act pretty drat prissy. I cook a lot and I'm impatient, so that just made sense too. Some other things like that caused me to just keep plugs on hand all the time.

But I realized I couldn't possibly predict all of the potentially damaging acoustic events in life. It also occurred to me that maybe the full 30+ dB earplug is overkill for most of these things, and I could use something like half of that full-time, and still be perfectly functional. I consider these "mild" earplugs similar to clothes, which I also wear most of the time even though they're not, strictly speaking, necessary.

EDIT: I also wear glasses at all times when I'm out of the house. Not for vision -- I have excellent vision -- but plano lenses for protection. I started doing this after one day in college when a loving tree branch nearly went in my eye as I walked down the street. I just didn't see it. I think I was looking sort of downward, and then looked up just in time to catch a spear in my eye. The only thing that saved my cornea was the fact that I was wearing sunglasses. I've had several other instances of random poo poo flying or poking at my face, but that was the closest I've come to a serious eye injury.

Just normal fairly slender wire-framed glasses, with clear polycarbonate lenses that filter almost as much UV as sunglasses. Nothing fancy. Haven't had my eye poked out since, happy to say.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2021 23:35

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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This is beside the point, but how much would 80lb of tannerite cost?

# ¿ Apr 23, 2021 08:15

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 18:42

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
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Wingnut Ninja posted:

Holy poo poo. If you liked "helicopter buzzsaw" you're going to love the newest trend: helicopter flamethrower.

https://twitter.com/CALFIRE_PIO/status/1508847963115868163?t=YFYEielCXGif4DvId-wCkQ&s=19

I know the local forestry plantation does something similar as part of their bushfire strategy, but their helicopter-mounted device releases little incendiaries that explode on impact. This version actually seems safer.

Fake edit: phew, I was misremembering and it wasn't quite as crazy, I'm stealing the text from another website but this was what I was thinking of, it's apparently a totally normal thing that's been around since the 60s

quote:

Incendiary Balls, Capsules. This one drops ping pong type balls or capsules that have a powder in them and as they leave the ignition machine that is installed in the helicopter they are injected with glycol which causes a reaction and ignites the ball 30-60 seconds after leaving the helicopter.

Bonus that I came across while double-checking, some info and photos on aerial fire ignition methods from the 60s and onwards: https://victoriasforestryheritage.org.au/activities1/fire/fire-aviation/348-aerial-ignition.html

# ¿ Mar 31, 2022 03:55

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