About 20 years ago I read an article about the US welfare system. Supposedly, about 10 percent makes to recipients and the other 90 supports the bureaucracy. In a third world country I suspect it’s not even close to 10 percent.
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About 20 years ago I read an article about the US welfare system. Supposedly, about 10 percent makes to recipients and the other 90 supports the bureaucracy. In a third world country I suspect it’s not even close to 10 percent.
Cam phasers?One of my fears with a two post vs a four post lift. But needed it to do the cab-off engine R&R on my truck.
Today’s progress:
He's just doing an oil change.
Damn modern cars.
Damn modern cars.
I was gonna say spark plugs
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Dishwasher unloading the dishwasher
Trust me... as a cave diver myself (refer to my Avatar), that would never happen. Not for me, at least. When we do cave dives, we ensure that the cave is well scoped out in advance and lined properly. One of the very basic rules of cave diving is "Always keep a continuous line to open water This, so you can find your way back when it's time to turn back. We would already know where "Devil's U-Turn" is and how it works long before we entered it. And it it was way too tricky, we'd bypass it for a much safer route. Believe it or not, there is actually, a training cave (where newbie cave divers go to train) here in FL called "Devil's Den." Open water divers can also dive there as the entrance is big enough for them as well. But there are portions of it that are gated off with the infamous "grim reaper" sign attached to encourage you to stay out.
We would never (or should never) impose that kind of risk on ourselves and our families... if for no other reason than it also imposes the same risk to the rescue divers that have to come in behind us and recover the bodies. Perhaps an even greater risk. Not saying all cave divers are that "dedicated" to safety, but they should be.
Just cause you can't see um without your bifocals.
No sir, because I was a barracks Marine in the '90's. We ran trains on stuff like that just for the story afterwards. You weren't a true barracks dude unless you were apologizing to your dick while you in the process of getting it wet. I mean, catch toes on the mattress and push off - only to have to rock back down to where you could catch the mattress with your toes again. Frequently, you had a cheering section too. It was a wild time, because we had some genuine gorgeous chicks that signed up for the same treatment.
The stories bro...
I'm reformed now (with bifocals), but that doesn't mean that I didn't run with the dirtiest of them back in the day.
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Rulez because I've broken too many already.
Just one more dishwasher to put a load in before bed.
Even if you do not own (or every use) a trampoline, the chances of you being killed by one are never zero.
Yup…. Set #4 going in. Gonna do the new ones that seem to have finally fixed the issue. But at 115K miles, I’m just gonna rebuild the motor. It’s running fine other than the start up rattle, but it seems a waste not to just rebuild it since I’m already this deep into the engine.
And upgrading almost every sinhle aspect of the motor along the way. Will have the fuel and airflow to go ~1K hp, but will detune it to ~660-700 with the fattest torque curve I can get.
Transmission shit the bed last summer too…just out of warranty of course. I pulled that a few weeks ago, and it’s rebuilt to take at least 750. That wasn’t cheap! LoL.
Rules: $15K in go-fast parts in this pic, LoL
I worked a clinic contract for the local state prison. The most common complaint was surprisingly, indigestion due to eating a Vegimite-like product. It’s a soy product, and for some reason, the predominantly black population had some serious trouble with it. Stomach cramps, foul flatulence, explosive diarrhea. Someone ,probably ACLU, filed a suit, and during discovery found that shady deals had been made, so it was taken out of the menu, for that other reason. They went to pork and chicken because that’s cheap, over new complaints of the Muslims. The response was “fast”.
It’s still the sane. The woman under Biden said it about 10 and she was going strive for 30% to the end user.
This is the “scam” with NGO. They have administrative fees etc. and once it passes through 2-3 NGO’s it been syphoned away.
The NGO then has a big luncheon for the local congressman who got the bill passed or got the NGO involved. 2k a seat and the congressman gets a 100k speaking engagement fee.
Thats how they leave office worth 20 mill when they only earn 200k a year. It’s not insider trading like everyone thinks. It’s the pass through money on a program that might actually be a good idea but is skimmed 5 times before it gets to the kid with no breakfast in Chicago.
I think it’s pass through, or kickbacks as we say and insider trading.
Why you gotta talk about your mom that way?
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A easy yet firm, Hard Fuckin No !Trust me... as a cave diver myself (refer to my Avatar), that would never happen. Not for me, at least. When we do cave dives, we ensure that the cave is well scoped out in advance and lined properly. One of the very basic rules of cave diving is "Always keep a continuous line to open water This, so you can find your way back when it's time to turn back. We would already know where "Devil's U-Turn" is and how it works long before we entered it. And it it was way too tricky, we'd bypass it for a much safer route. Believe it or not, there is actually, a training cave (where newbie cave divers go to train) here in FL called "Devil's Den." Open water divers can also dive there as the entrance is big enough for them as well. But there are portions of it that are gated off with the infamous "grim reaper" sign attached to encourage you to stay out.
We would never (or should never) impose that kind of risk on ourselves and our families... if for no other reason than it also imposes the same risk to the rescue divers that have to come in behind us and recover the bodies. Perhaps an even greater risk. Not saying all cave divers are that "dedicated" to safety, but they should be.
I’ve done about a thousand dives, and I don’t mess with no caves. The only one I would do was near Wake Island. It was simply a large room, with one way in from the top. You had to remove your tank, slide through the hole, and your buddy would hand your tank to you through the hole. The thing was, the cave was FULL of lobster. When it was time for a beach party, head to the cave, fill up a bag or two, and feed twenty people a lobster dinner.
I thought that somebody who covered his women in flour so he could find the wet spot would have a better crack than that.
You get as many points for that as your old lady as teeth... (4).
If you follow all the rules, if you train properly, if you keep your equipment properly maintained and (most importantly) if you keep your ego/attitude in check at all times (i.e. don't do dives beyond your training/experience), you should be able to go home at EOD. It's that last part where which most "dead divers" have issues. I can cave dive as deep as 130ft and Open Water dive as deep as 150 ft, but no deeper for either unless/until I complete my mixed gas training. This is where you learn to dive with gas mixes that are less than 21% O2 (i.e. the % or "fraction of O2" (FO2) in the mix). And. mostly, you substitute that with Helium. So, the basic "Tri-mix" course trains you on 18% FO2, 35% Helium and the rest, compressed air. And that should get you down to about 218ft. There is also an "Advanced Tri-mix" course, where you use 10% FO2, 70% Helium and the rest as air. And that can get you closer to 300ft in depth, but only for a short time (like 9 min.). But you must also carry all the other mixes with you and change to/from a given mix as you descend and re-ascend. That 10-70 mix should be your main bottom mix. So, you have all these spare bottles with you. And, at certain depths, you switch to the next bottle and leave the one you were using at that depth for when you return to it on your "deco" schedule. But it all has to do with how your tissues absorb O2 and at what "partial pressure." Too much O2 at deeper depths can actually kill you as PP02 can be much greater than your tissues can absorb. You die from Oxygen Toxicity. Remember, as you dive deeper, the overall pressure on your body increases, thus increasing the PPO2 to your tissues. That's why 10% FO2 works at very deep depths but also why you should never breathe it unless you are at those depths. On the surface, you could get away with only 18% FO2 if you had to. Thankfully, it's more like 21% in regular air.
Trivia quiz: How deep can you go down on breathing pure 100% O2?
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Walter Tkaczuk's son/grandsons? Of course, Walter played for the NY Rangers when Eddie Giacomin was goalie.
I hold TDI and IANTD technical instructor certifications with all the specialties. All overhead environments present challenges, but there are plenty of very friendly caves and plenty of very deadly wrecks. There are seemly serene dives that are quite dangerous if you do not make the proper preparations. You can't blanket statement anything. You have to take into consideration tides, currents, entanglements and gear snags, seam squeezing, depth, visibility, temperatures, profiles, gas switches, all of it. Nothing is dangerous if you know what you are doing. Everything is, including a 20' reef dive in warm, clear water, if you don't. It's like anything else. Proper prior planning, emergency procedures, and keeping your cool.
Speaking only for myself, I'd rather dive an unmapped cave in Florida than many of the cold water, East Coast wrecks that are popular with the technical crowd like the Andrea Doria, The Oregon, and The San Diego. The Andrea Doria in particular is a mincer, and is dangerous as hell because of the depth (the good stuff is at the bottom), current, notoriously low visibility, and how many entanglements are lurking everywhere (including fishing nets and heavy commercial fishing lines from people fishing the wreck). I did it once, as a young man and don't care to do it as an old one.
Pure O2 is toxic below 3 meters. It's a brilliant shallow and still water deco gas, but scary to use and painful to breathe.
You might want to check your post - your Tri mixes, using air as a third gas, are a might O2 rich.
The usual approach is multiple mixes for serious depth or extended bottom time - travel, bottom and deco - in side-slung cylinders - or rebreather.
