• nocturne
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        547 months ago

        Is this the dipstick that tried it with a carrot, it cut the tip off and then said he was going to try it with his finger to be sure?

        • @[email protected]
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          147 months ago

          I don’t see “dipstick” in the wild very often, but I always appreciate it. Are you English by any chance?

          • nocturne
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            97 months ago

            I am not. I had a vulgar word there, and decided to tone it down a little.

      • Gormadt
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        217 months ago

        A baby carrot

        It takes about the same force to bite through a baby carrot as it does to bite through a finger

        As long as the carrot is pretty close to the size of the finger you’re wishing to stimulate

        I wish I didn’t know that

        • gregorum
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          7 months ago

          This isn’t true, and I know it as a fact. I’m not gonna tell you how I know, but I know.

          Biting through a human finger bone takes much more force than it does to bite through a fucking carrot.

            • gregorum
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              267 months ago

              Ever eaten oxtail? Even after it’s cooked, tendons and shit is really hard to bite through. Way harder than a damn carrot.

              • @Anyolduser
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                197 months ago

                For real. If fingers were that easy to lob off nobody would make it to middle age with all of their digits.

              • deepfriedchril
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                47 months ago

                Tendon after 6 or so hours simmering or 1 hour in a pressure cooker and you got my favorite pho add in.

        • @[email protected]
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          7 months ago

          Having done my time as an Army medic, this is incorrect. It takes more force than that, but less than you might think. A good 25 kilos with some velocity behind it will easily sever a phalange. Up it to 50 or 80 kilos and you can claim an arm or shin. Mass is the real killer. I’ve seen a vehicle at comically slow speed absolutely yeet someone because it had several tons of momentum behind it.

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            47 months ago

            Casual readers might remember a recent very low-speed collision that nonetheless caused a catastrophic failure due to the tens of thousands of tons of weight. The MV Dali vs. the Francis Scott Key Bridge, if you didn’t guess. It struck the bridge at about 8 mph.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          I wish I didn’t read that, and then read it again repeatedly trying to process what I just read. Lol. I’m sorry.

    • @[email protected]
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      607 months ago

      He did demonstrate it that way, specifically with a carrot. And it somewhat worked. The problem is they programmed it to do more and more pressure every time it fails meaning that doing the carrot first actually caused a safety issue. He only moved onto his finger because the safety feature seemed to be working.

        • toofpic
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          107 months ago

          Because I am the bag commander. If I want the bag to fit, and it doesn’t fit, I’d better crush it!

        • @[email protected]
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          37 months ago

          With that association - can Apple, Tesla etc marketing be generalized into something to be put into law?

          To fucking ban those companies and make their patents public domain (or make them expire, not sure of the term).

          I don’t care if a Google or two get stomped as a bonus.

      • SkaveRat
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        177 months ago

        No, it has to be something bigger than the panel gap