As a retired toolmaker, I see your trebuchet and raise you the artillery piece I made for myself - a small Coehorn mortar of about 50mm/2" bore.

I’ve known 2 toolmakers that have built their own full scale full functional Gatling guns from scratch also.

Meteorologists do those graphs. What do you expect. Having set through more than one lecture by NOAA person for certification as a weather watch person as a firefighter. They love graphs and photos of clouds. Sooooo many photos of clouds…

Still, they are easy enough to read once you get used to them.

Yeah, the YTers I follow all are now using internally sourced ads where they get the money. While I will never use or want Hello Fresh or Manscape, I at least know the monies paid for those placements are going directly to the YTer I’m watching.

The downsides is that you need to be a fairly popular YTer to get such funds. Which is creating a high bar for new creators to start up.

Never got paid holiday pay as a medic, firefighter, or county technical rescue. It was all just another day - 24/7/365…

The “Den” has been rebranded as the 'Office". Same room, just under different management.

They eventually do, but it can take several weeks and a noticeable amount of lost production and hence income. Growing up on a dairy farm, switching back and forth sucked for the cows and the rest of the livestock.

Farmers as a rule dislike DST. And I still do.

I would assume he’s either a car collector or he owns a small fleet of work vehicles for his small business, (like a plumbing business or such).

Gotta wait for the blue light special though.

Termite infestations are rare. And they can be easily eliminated through pesticide control if you should be that unfortunate.

As a father who raised 4 daughters, you try and stop a young woman from wearing jewelry, perfumes, and even makeup. That’s a fight you WILL lose every time.

You should see the dating scene. A young Amish boy holding hands with a young Native walking down a hallway, (or vice versa). It ain’t right I tell you.

The “rules” the Amish live by are determined by the Elders of that group. They can be quite strict or fairly loose. And can vary by a fair bit from colony to colony even as neighbors. Cell phones can be fine for one group and be forbidden for the next.

Like some much in life, the rules are open to interpretation.

I keep trying to make that doughnut. And maybe someday I will succeed - or not.

Either way it’s got to itch.

It’s called destructive testing and it’s a lot of fun to do. Just don’t be the driver…

A definite possibility. Or perhaps he discovered the being retired isn’t as much fun or relaxing as he thought.

Oddly enough, there isn’t maybe as much fun in fishing or traveling or pursuing a hobby(s) every day as you might think. It can be hard to understand for those of us who still need to get up and “be somebody” everyday that not having a reason to do so can lead to mental degradation and depression.

https://www.auntminnie.com/clinical-news/mri/article/15682270/mri-scanner-explosion-in-south-africa-injures-3

https://www.auntminnie.com/clinical-news/mri/article/15588232/mri-magnet-explosions-warrant-improved-venting-and-inspections

https://awesomejelly.com/mri-machine-explodes-into-a-million-pieces-due-to-pressure-build-up/

https://www.medtechdive.com/news/philips-mri-recall-explosion-risk/703309/

Just a small handful from a very fast search. Feel free to look for more with photos of the damage.

Real life has always been either Pythonesque or the 3 Stooges. And as far as anyone can tell, is unlikely to ever be fixed.

But it’s also not unusual that E-Stops can cause severe damage to a machine when used. After all, such switches are meant to instantaneously bring everything to a screeching halt for safety reasons without worrying about the machine.

And in this case, the E-Stop is meant to prevent the MRI from exploding and sending pieces of shrapnel flying everywhere. MRI machines can be quite dangerous in operation.

The issue is the complexity of the bespoke design of drive trains. It’s nigh on impossible to design a “one size fits all” or even “fits a majority” of solutions for a conversion kit that isn’t stupidly expensive.

See: Edison Motors. A Canadian heavy haul truck manufacturer startup that is trying to offer electric conversions for commercial light and medium duty trucks.

Japan still has a higher density of population and far less landmass to cover. My nearest neighbor is over a mile away. Are you going to build a bus route or light rail just for me? Or through county, state, and federal forest lands? Logistics is a bitch.