ThadisJones

ThadisJones t1_je17ato wrote

They made fun of your robe and wizard hat? TURN THEM INTO FROGS

>and follower of bro code

But seriously. "Ignore people right in front of you who might be injured" isn't part of the bro code. What weird version of this do you have.

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ThadisJones t1_jdomr6p wrote

> And this isn’t a trickle

This is a massive understatement. My lab's safety showers will fill up a five gallon bucket in ten seconds.

Mine are activated will a pull handle, which opens a valve in the ceiling. The first time my assistant and I did a safety check, I held the bucket while she pulled the handle. A few seconds later, I realized I'd made a critical error by not explaining how to close the valve before having her open it.

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ThadisJones t1_jba3o77 wrote

Science Lesson Time: Caffeine is a type of organic chemical called an alkaloid. Plants make these chemicals to try and deter insects and small animals from feeding on them. In other words, alkaloids are some of nature's poisons. They are often particularly potent against small animals (because they can't take as much of a dose) and herbivores, because the evolutionary arms race is a son of a bitch. This is why the advice for giving pets caffeine is always going to be DON'T.

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ThadisJones t1_ja9w7ej wrote

This was a significant chunk of my entire childhood. Milk at every breakfast and dinner, and then I got sick soon afterwards, every time. I am lactose intolerant and my mother didn't understand this was even a thing. For the longest time I thought that everyone naturally got sick after drinking milk, but everyone just put up with it because it was "healthy".

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ThadisJones t1_ja46rvl wrote

In 2004 or so when I was a college student living in a studio apartment, I was working on a project over the winter break and wanted to heat treat some small titanium parts. The college's metal shop was closed for the break, so I decided to do it with a torch in my kitchen. The ventilation was not adequate and I gave myself metal fume flu, making myself really sick for two days. 1/10 got real sick, would not recommend (but the finish on my parts turned out sick (the other kind of sick))

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ThadisJones t1_j9tdnso wrote

In 2015 my city had a prolonged bout of extreme cold and snow, and a pipe burst in the building my company leases. The leak was directly above the main transformer for the building, which shorted and exploded, causing a fire. I got The Mother Of All Texts at 5am from my lab monitoring systems screaming that every fucking thing had switched to UPS power or was offline.

I raced into work in a blizzard and started our shutdown/tie-in protocol. The building owners ended up renting a truck-mounted generator for a week and parking it in the loading dock to provide emergency heating, emergency lights, and emergency power for critical equipment.

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ThadisJones t1_j8xr53a wrote

>I've recently moved into my own place for the first time

I remember all the bad habits and worse decisions I made when I did this (at 19) and also about how it was a learning experience in developing self-discipline.

Other things I learned were "don't heat anodize titanium in your kitchen over winter break when your college's metal shop is closed, because you will 100% get metal fume poisoning" and "you have class and work tomorrow and playing World of Warcraft until 3am will not help with that"

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