Ben Stuart
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@xwb7wk @MaliceFlare @RealPostFolder Because it’s an epic games talking point and epic isn’t in competition with those stores, only steam.
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@MaliceFlare @RealPostFolder Every store, even physical ones, and Google Play, AppStore, Microsoft Store, PlayStation store have 30% cut. Why don’t you complain about them, especially because they have dogshit service?
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@Th3WatchFrogs @Phoenix2A_1980s It’s not ai, sprinkler systems are in the ceiling in many places.
The guy on the ladder is trying to screw in a pipe with an open tap in the middle onto where the sprinkler was.
Once it’s screwed in place you can close the tap stopping the water.
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this is AI, first off, why the fuck would you have a sprinkler system in the ceiling?
also, that guy on the ladder, what the fuck is he even doing? it literally makes zero sense
also, water going through pvc and/or copper tubing in a home doesn't shoot out like that.
this is r*tarded.
i'm not a plumber, but I'm an electrician and can do some minor plumbing stuff, i had to learn plumbing when wiring and installing pool pumps...
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When you hire the 3 guys you found in front of a Home Depot to fix your sprinkler system:
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@amn81052 @TheBrianMcManus The video would be half talking about turbopumps, 40% about thr catch system, and 10% about the fuselage itself
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Hello @TheBrianMcManus, can we expect to see a "The insane engineering of Starship Superheavy" in the future? That's be something 😍
SpaceX@SpaceX
Initial Super Heavy V3 and Starbase Pad 2 activation campaign complete, wrapping up several days of testing that loaded cryogenic fuel and oxidizer on a V3 vehicle for the first time. While the 10-engine static fire ended early due to a ground-side issue, we saw successful startup on all installed Raptor 3 engines. Next up: preparing the booster for a 33-engine static fire
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@TheMindScourge A pond over 500mm of loose gravel would stop a 8 ton truck at 40mph pretty quickly.
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This is a post-9/11 design. It’s actually very interesting. Congress mandated these rules governing new US embassies in terms of setbacks from the surrounding roads and so forth. In many parts of the world they’d just put a high wall in, and they didn’t want to do that in London
The solution is what you see here: a moat or “pond”, bollards hidden within a hedge capable of stopping an 8 ton truck at 40mph, berms disguised as “meadows” or lawns, and so on
Jostein Hauge@haugejostein
I live right next to the US embassy in London. They built an actual moat around it. Who builds a moat around their embassy? Countries that do bad things and expect retaliation. Or countries who do diplomacy as if we’re in the Middle Ages.
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@BrentBPowers @iowahawkblog No one uses cm outside of clothes here.
It’s mostly mm.
“Eighteen mill ply cut to twelve hundred by sixteen hundred”
m and km when you get to longer lengths obviously.
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@iowahawkblog I'm always blown away by the smugness of metric system and decimalization advocates. As a very amateur woodworker, I love hearing "Oh, you must love fractions!" Then we have the conversation:
Hey, I need some ply.
OK, how thick?
1.9cm
It is to laugh
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Because the USA is denominated in miles. There are 640 acres in a square mile. 640 can be divided by 2 easily. A square half mile is 160 acres, a square 1/4 mile is 40 acres, a square 1/8 mile is 10 acres. Nobody in America knows what a kilometer is, let alone a hectare
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600
Not coming from an agricultural background, some measurements don’t make intuitive sense to me. A Hectares are easy enough to come to terms with: 10,000 square meters. Easy. An acre?! I still can’t wrap my head around this…
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@OXHarryH1 @GrantSlatton Our standards are written in blood. Sure the CA government might say pg 16 “turkey was mostly fine so we’re probably fine too” but I think you’re in for a horrific awakening.
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@Ben_Machine_ @GrantSlatton I believe you are wrong. The required standards are higher than you claim. See pg 16 for instance.
dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-me…
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@cumboy33596823 @thenatewolf When the sack is full, do you just kinda roll it down and hope it doesn’t break, or do you get some poor sod to carry the pee sack down and hope like hell it doesn’t start leaking.
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@thenatewolf They saved it actually, urinating in sacs made of animal intestines or even fine leather; they used it in their common time for perverted reasons.
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@OVTweetmarck I'm not a rowboat scientist, but aren't the oars on either side rowing in opposite directions? That boat's doing silly circles.
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Why would they still use galleys as pleasure cruises in the 18th century
Chris Katelaris@big_chocky
When the government tells you: “We’re in the same boat”
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@OXHarryH1 @GrantSlatton They’ll survive a 4 or 5, but I shudder to think of your death toll if you get a 6+.
I get it might come as a shock to you, but your standards are lower than NZ and Japan, probably because our deadly quakes are more recent.
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@Ben_Machine_ @GrantSlatton The bridges are engineered to survive an earthquake. Because they don't look exactly like what you would expect doesn't mean that that's not part of how their engineered.
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@OXHarryH1 @GrantSlatton Here’s what it should look like, see the black round base isolation pads at the top of the column?
In NZ and Japan they’re in every bridge built in the last 100 years, in LA it’s like 30% maybe.
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@OXHarryH1 @GrantSlatton I’m from NZ and I recently visited LA and was shocked how most of your bridges (including this one) don’t have the most basic earthquake dampening.
You can see in the middle column there’s no separation and base isolators allowing the bridge to twist and move in an earthquake.
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@kmedved Omg, took me a while to realise the article author thinks a billion is a hundred million.
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The rare "actually off by an order of magnitude" mistake.
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@44pers @JohnLeFevre @markdfabela I guarantee most of the cost is going into consultation and permits.
Bet the actual engineering costs, the landscaping and precast is about the same.
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@JohnLeFevre @markdfabela The discrepancy between the two is crazy but to be fair the bridge in CA is little more complicated to build.
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A wildlife bridge:
Colorado California
$15 million cost $120 million cost+
1 year to build 4 years+
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@k_lyons55 @JohnLeePettim13 You mean the vice grips? Or the Labrador sleeping in the truck?
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It seems I've pissed off a lot of drywallers with my tweet yesterday. I said it only takes 6 weeks to learn how to be a drywaller. For that, I'm sorry and would like to apologize. Many of you are right—it actually takes 7 weeks. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
John Lee Pettimore@JohnLeePettim13
Are you a tradesman worth your salt? And I’m not talking about drywallers or hairdressers—I’m talking about mechanics, welders, electricians, or millwrights. If you are, get into mining. Mines will relocate you. I’ve never paid for a move in my life, and it’s often 2 weeks in, 2 weeks out. Fly in, fly out. The money is great, the benefits are great. Mining is a booming business.
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@dbsb3233 @BenjiBacker In my city the local government spent more on a swimming pool than on a massive covered stadium.
Because Besix Watpac built that stadium, and they build stadiums all over the world. CPB built the pool and they are notorious for under bidding and then pushing on cost over runs.
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@Ben_Machine_ @BenjiBacker So they hired the wrong company?
Not that I'm doubting that CA is badly run, but ironically, CO pretty much is now too.
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While we're discussing wildlife overpasses, let's discuss why they're important:
They prevent ~97% of wildlife collisions
They singlehandedly save wildlife populations (and migration patterns)
They can save our country $10B per year
BUT...they (should) cost $5-15M, not $100M
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@SandyofCthulhu It’ll take a lot more than a century to fix our nonsense.
We can’t even keep our only oil refining plant and functioning oil wells going in the middle of an oil crisis.
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