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  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Boeing training rule
    10·
    2 months ago

    +1 for accuracy, thank you

    Related to fall protection training, this might be a practical demonstration of the extension length of different types of lanyards (the “rope” that secures the body harness to the anchor point) using weighted dummies. Some lanyards will stretch a few inches, some several feet. Their use varies depending on total fall height, anchor points, work space requirements, really a lot of different factors. But use the wrong one and you’ll wind up with broken legs and a wedgie instead of a safety report and buying beers for your coworkers.

    I doubt that’s what’s being demonstrated here, but it’s a possibility

    Edit: turtle loving duck, just to be clear, i was mansplaining for the masses. You clearly have a firm grasp of fall protection

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•rule
    5·
    2 months ago

    Speaking of giggles keyboard getting worse

    I think I’ll just leave whatever that’s gives me instead of correcting the dumb mistakes it makes. This will make things confusing, but possibly entertaining as well. It send to be doing well, but theirs another mistake, and another. Oh well, I’m going to get back to installing graphene of on my old pixel

    Oddly enough, there are no randomly capitalized words this time

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Map rule
    1·
    3 months ago

    You’ve never been here have you?

    I’m born and raised in Ohio slap-nut. My friends and family stretch from Steubenville, Athens, Gallapolis, on through Portsmouth, and over to Cincinnati. I can speak with some authority here

    Because nobody from Ohio would ever call southeastern Ohio It’s redeeming quality

    ??? You’ve clearly never been to the Hocking Hills, or your values are drastically different from mine

    Sure it’s beautiful,

    That’s the point

    but it’s less pretty than Kentucky

    Who the hell said anything about Kentucky?

    and the best thing you can say about the people there is that you won’t run into many.

    Ah some are okay, but yeah.

    Columbus is fucking weird

    100% agree

    in a good way.

    Ehhhhhhh, 80% agree

    Just don’t go south of Columbus or anywhere near Indiana.

    To me there is a wretched stretch of Ohio the glaciers left behind that’s great for farming and little else. It’s flat, boring, and the people that live there think they are at the center of the universe.

    Look I grew up in the flats. My extended family lived in the hills near the river. I was always jealous of them when I was a kid. Once i grew up I traveled the world a bit and found the places I really like. Fjords, snow-capped mountains, bioluminescent bays. And I found the quiet beauty of the Ohio River valley to have it’s own charm. But the flatlands of Ohio are only good for farming and, these days, solar energy.

    What southeastern Ohio lacks is economy. It’s so depressed it’s attempted suicide several times. Many rural people struggle economically, and it affects how they think. It keeps them small.

    But hey, the state name looks like a tractor, so that’s… something

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Map rule
    32·
    3 months ago

    factoid (2) - an assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.

    Absolutely 100% made up. So, if that’s the most interesting thing about each state, and it’s fictional, imagine how mind numbingly boring the corn states must be

    (I’m joking ofc, Ohio has a few redeeming qualities. The southeastern portion is particularly beautiful, Idaho has some staggering vistas, and Iowa… I mean, 75% of their name is vowels I guess)

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Map rule
    62·
    3 months ago

    Little known fact(oid).

    Ohio’s original state motto was “75% of our name is vowels”

    Iowa’s State motto was “…God dammit Ohio!”

    These are the most interesting things about both states. I should know, I’m from Ohio.

    And if you want to experience the United States Midwest in song form, look up Bird Bird Bird by Lou and Peter Berryman