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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I work in scientific equipment. It helps to focus oneself to occasionally imagine the box as being full of $100k in $100 bills, when I debate whether to leave it in the car or take it inside overnight...

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

... I said to myself as I meticulously removed all traces of the serial number.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also, typically notoriously hard to fence, cause nobody knows what the fuck they're going to do with a gamma ray spectrometer or whatever.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Ya and taking off the serial number doesn't really matter when it's less than 10 😅

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Never again having trouble figuring out the exact welding wire needed for all the gathered materials in a project seems like an excellent perk by itself.

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