• nocturne
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      552 years 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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        152 years 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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          92 years ago

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

    • Gormadt
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      212 years 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

      • @[email protected]
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        2 years 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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          42 years 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.

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        22 years 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.