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I had a dentist in Canada tell me all my front teeth needed to be removed, implants for the top and dentures for the bottom. I was 27. I'm now 38, still have all of those teeth he'd said needed replacing. The next dentist I saw was absolutely floored when I told her what he'd advised me to do. And if he hadn't been such a condescending asshole, just a little bit more understanding that not everyone can afford consistent dental care.... well....I'd probably have gone and had him do it.

Ugh.... sometimes I forget they did that...and when I'm reminded or remember it cuts just as bad as the first time

Have you tried silver, crosses or a stake?

I feel attacked 🤌

Ftfy

fuck you

Well...it is EA...this is the appropriate sentiment.

Now, I get that a lot of people wouldn't know about all the different parts of a crane. But that's the lifting slings that broke. It would have been significantly more catastrophic if it had been the main cable, and the big block of steel, the main hook block, would have been on the ground.
My pet theory is the slings weren't being inspected frequently enough. You can see there's 2 slings, and the hook loops on one end snapped. Seeing as these are structural beams with a fair bit of length, those slings would have been in a choker or vertical hitch. Choker being wrapped around and one end passed through the loop on the other and then attached to the hook. Vertical hitch would require a anchor point on the beams.
Watching the video again, it looks like multiple slings looped together and then used in a tandem double choke. I personally wouldn't have done that, as two slings looped together are no where near as strong as a single longer sling. Whoever rigged that lift f**ked it pretty badly. But at the end of the day blame will most likely be spread around as the equipment wasn't likely being inspected frequently enough, or well enough.

Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.

In Glasgow, the Red Road towers were uninhabitable. In 2014, there was a plan to celebrate the opening of the Commonwealth Games in the city by blowing them up. Instead, they were more discreetly demolished.

Goddammit....yet more evidence that we're in the Biff Timeline.....

I never was arguing against that. Also I'm pretty sure their moral compass was pushed by the feds until he topped himself, so nothing about their bullshit has surprised me since.

Thing is, adults, like properly emotionally mature people, don't attack random people on the street because they're volunteering to raise funds for an absolutely gigantic organisation to help people. I used to work for a Croatian man and his brother in law. They fought in the Bosnian conflict, and both ended up working for a series of mercenary outfits after. The levels of PTSD in these guys was....honestly...kinda fucked. I worked with them for the better part of 10 years. Met as many of their families that survived. They were adult enough to hire a few Bosnian guys as subcontract, we'd go for drinks end of the week. And these Bosnian guys were in some of the same battles as my boss and his BiL, literally trying to kill each other. What the fuck did those UNICEF people do to fucknuts? Exist? Fuck him.

We could only hope.

Pffffffffffff...since when is it a good idea to get financial advice from randos on the internet?