I was cleaning out a chemical storage closet at work. A hydrogen chloride container leaked out onto some iodine containers. I picked one up (bare handed) and sat it down in the grass. About thirty seconds later, I noticed the steam boiling up from around the bottom of the container. This is about 45 seconds worth of contact.
I thought it was terrifying because this was a footprint of someone who was lurking around your house, looking through your windows.
And how long had they been standing there on one leg to cause the grass to grow around them?
That sounds like poor storage and containment procedures. You contacted OSHA about the incident, right?
This is the family farm. I AM THE OSHA
chemical storage closet at work…A hydrogen chloride container leaked out onto some iodine containers.
Yep, sounds like a typical day on a typical family farm
My dad was a farmer. I AM AN ORPHAN.
Edit: Ok, I feel bad. But like… I know one dumbass with a cough that won’t go away (7 years and counting) because they wouldn’t effing listen to me about DE, another who rolled his tractor on to himself and died. Don’t take it lightly man. The bill always comes due. We all do what we have to, lord knows I’ve done some dumb shit, but it ain’t cute to dismiss it.
By OSHA, you mean Lemmy right?
Then yes, OSHA was contacted.
HCl‽ Jaysus…
I can’t let this interrobang go unmentioned/unappreciated. Good to see you, old friend…
Depends on the concentration, but usually not something you want on yourself.
I know. I’ve worked with it myself, and I once accidentally inhaled a small volume of it.
A-Level chemistry, innit.
Everyone’s done it at some point. That’s how you know not to do it again haha.
Yeah, but it would have been nice for my teacher to say that the reaction produces HCl gas BEFORE telling everyone to perform it.
Yeah. That’s their fault. Definitely should have said something.
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So apparently if I hit reply in my inbox to the deleted comment, it shows the full comment, not just the preview. I will not post it obviously, just kind of interesting I can still view it all.
But as a chemist (sadly not in the lab anymore, all computer stuff) some of that stuff seems pretty scary. Although I hope you were not the teacher. Also if it wasn’t you, that teacher does not know how to teach.
In grad school you’re not taught how to teach, but have to teach students, and I would never have let any of this come close to happening (or at least make it fully known “do not inhale concentrated acid”). Also I know it was probably years ago, but now if someone doesn’t wear the correct PPE, they’re kicked out.
Video for context
OSHA is the real culprit of the current world dumpster fires. Stoping natural selection has its consequences
Edit: omg do.I need.to.include S/ everytime?! it was clearly a joke
Why is it always the people who most need OSHA who want it removed.
Why is it always the least fit people who want to promote survival of the fittest?
Dude. If I could guarantee that my sacrifice would also remove some N>1 number of dumbshits who shouldn’t be contributing to the ecological load the Earth’s ecosystem is bearing, I’d volunteer.
The Idiocracy intro got a lot of things right.
Throwing babies in the deep end is how you get a lot of dead babies who would have grown up to be excellent swimmers.
Like, you fail to understand that youre first on the chopping block if we start to push darwinism. You wouldn’t be sacrificing yourself, you’d just be the first to go.
Maybe? Natural selection seems to work for the rest of everything in nature. But humans are special, aren’t we? Above nature; different rules apply to us, nature itself treats us differently.
I do agree that humans are fundamentally different in that more of our individual value is learned than inherited. OTOH, more of our value is learned than inherited, and that’s where the problem lies. It’s not there genes, it’s the parents and the parenting. I’m not suggesting we’ll improve humanity by removing stupidity through evolution; I’m saying there are a lot of people who I don’t believe are fit to raise children. And there’s a corpus of examples that could support that argument; how about that guy who literally shook his infant to death last week? Good father, him?
I’m not a parent myself, and I will never be one. Maybe I’d make a good father, maybe not. But I’m not breeding, so taking me out doesn’t affect the gene pool; I’m not playing in the gene pool.
And, no, I did not misunderstand the point. What I said was that if I could get a guarantee that others would also be removed, I’d volunteer to be in the group.
That was hyperbole, BTW; if I really believed it, I’d go to a Trump rally with a bunch of C4 and ball bearings wrapped around my torso. Even if I were an Einstein, it’d be a net benefit to humanity.
Lol well, fair enough!
I still aggressively assert that it still benefits humanity to protect each other, even people who don’t know they need it.
But that’s a pretty reasonable response, I have to admit lol
Ah, but I agree with you! It’s commendable that we care for our weak who would otherwise die.
The other wolf, though, thinks there’s a good chance the stupid are going to drive us to extinction.
Thanks for not taking offense when you legitimately could have. Reason 1 why Lemmy > Reddit.
I don’t want to remove it dude that was a joke dumbass
Poe’s Law, in action
