Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Plainly Difficult" channel.

  1. It sounds like everyone was on autopilot in the whole place. They had a toy train that didn't really go anywhere and they were just collecting paychecks.
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  2. Clearly a man born to be in the Air Force.
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  3. Increase the scale of anything and then it's not so simple anymore.
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  4.  @paul6925  makes you think how bad things could be. We need to be thankful for what we have. I bet they're thankful if they find anything. Most people just don't quit.
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  5. If you've been to the state fair once it's enough. How many two headed cows do you really need to look at anyways?
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  6.  @SnakebitSTI  I don't think anyone trained those knuckleheads to space out. But in their defense the system they were operating in could have been better. Apparently everyone from the top down was doing the barest minimum to get by. Collectively it wasn't nearly enough either.
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  7. The fact that anyone thought unanchored K rails were in any way an adequate anchoring is shocking to me. Those things are regularly moved around. Maybe a huge pile of them might have worked? But just a couple here and there and run guy wires to them? Yeah I don't think so. That's called a looks good job. Looks good unless anything happens.
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  8. It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.
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  9.  @davidconner-shover51  It was an amusement park ride without the amusement park. I don't think the track was anywhere near where anyone wanted to go.
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  10.  @mcarrowtime7095  that still doesn't mean the wood can't be put to better use than burning it for an exhibition. Just because they're offered for free does not mean they lack value.
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  11. I can remember riding into NYC on the train back in the 1980s and on a hot summer night there were these red glowing cracks in the ground we'd go by. Then one day we saw these guys in them bunny moon suits out there kicking at the dirt. We didn't know what was going on. But it sure looked like something was up to us. It might have been somewhere around 40.743889, -74.128358 ? If I had to guess today. We were on the Erie Lackawanna line. We could see it from there. It was creepy.
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  12. Beetles are bugs where I come from.
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  13.  @matsv201  I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
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  14.  @ProHobbyjogger  New York City had many music stores. It's New York City. I was at a flea market in New Jersey the weekend after the blackout and there were hundreds of vans there that day selling electronics. They all had New York plates too. It was a bit unusual. Englishtown flea market is a big flea market. Least it was back then.
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  15.  @Tatsh2DX  I saw it with my own two true blue eyes. Hundreds of van loads of hot electronics after the blackout. Row after row of them. They took it all to Jersey to sell. Because of course they did.
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  16.  @jasonleigh4938  it is a crowd of 70,000. But yeah as a woodworker seeing that much hardwood being burnt is hard. A lot of it does look knotty and twisted to me though. Still, it is a lot of wood. But I get why they do it. Bonfires are a tradition with football. Everything has to be bigger in Texas too. They're just jerks like that.
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  17. The phones worked because the phone company has their own electrical grid. When the power goes out they have backup generators that kick in. I used to live next door to a phone switching station and a few times they started up the generators they had on site.
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  18. Our state fair is in the middle of the summer. It seems like they pick the hottest week to have it on. The week of the state fair you just know it's going to be hot. Like no one in their right mind would be outside hot. Not if you didn't have to be and not for fun. Mad dogs and Englishman weather. But one year it wasn't too bad one day so I went. I never knew there were so many different kinds of cows. They packed a huge barn full of all kinds of different cows. No two were alike. The competitive horse riding was fun to watch too. There were some pretty phillies there. The horses weren't bad either.
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  19. I thought for sure they were going to scrap the whole stainless containment tank. But what they did was nearly as bad so not disappointed.
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  20.  @Dinnyeify  those are valuable materials indeed. But only if you know what you're dealing with.
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  21.  @dsan8742  things are tough all over. The Philippines has their challenges.
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  22. Joe Biden's America.
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  23.  @stanley3647  well, it's not like they choked the life out of them with their bare hands. It was just a simple mistake is all.
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  24. Adjusted for inflation it is $73,000
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  25. It wasn't the weather. That stage was built totally inadequately. They anchored it to movable concrete rails. It may have looked good from afar but it was far from good. The guy wires were basically lip service. Yeah, yeah we put them up. No, you didn't.
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  26.  @saintuk70  when everyone says the same thing just go with it.
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  27.  @jasonleigh4938  milled and dried wood is expensive. Trees, not so much. In fact a lot of sellers are pretty unhappy at what trees are fetching on the stump these days.
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  28.  @blxvkpxndx  the looting certainly happened and all of those goods definitely ended up somewhere. I saw mountains of it myself the weekend after the blackout at Englishtown flea market. It looked like just about all of it ended up there. Cash is untraceable after all.
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  29. Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
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  30. ​ @elilla331  I lived right next door to a big building full of switch racks. They had big windows and you could see right inside the place. During a blackout they'd fired up the generators they had in their basement too. I could hear them running. The phone company don't mess around. I wonder what's there now? Hmm according to Google maps it's still there as of Aug 2021.
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  31.  @elilla331  it was a very long time ago when I lived next door to that place. We didn't lose power often either. I only remember them having to run their generators once. But it may have been more than that? If it was I just don't remember it. But it was like living next door to a racing locomotive when they did fire those generators up. So it's good it didn't happen often.
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  32. They knew the storm was gonna hit, but they didn't know the structure was going to collapse. I'm sure up until it did collapse everyone thought it'd be just fine. They just turned out to be wrong. It does happen. Mistakes were certainly made. And I think chief among them as you point out was using movable concrete barriers as anchor points.
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  33. If you want to see flames look up Edison Natural Gas Explosion - Durham Woods, There's video of that here on this site. Now that's some flames. I was about 20 miles away when that happened and I could see it from where I was.
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  34. You can easily pause the video.
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  35. Indiana is in fly over country. It's one of those states in the midwest that no one can keep straight. But at least it's not one of the square states. I'm pretty sure Indiana is the state shaped kind of like a spear point? Or is that Illinois? I always get those two confused. Ah OK Indiana is next to the one shaped like a spear point. I was close.
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  36. Take that you commie tree!
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  37. I worked for Filthy Phil Berkowitz the 44 caliber electrician. No relation, I don't think? There was a bit of a family resemblance though. Around the beady eyes.
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  38.  @squidcaps4308  If you're setting K rails with a machine it's pretty obvious then that the things are mobile. You don't anchor anything to them but stray puppies. Certainly not 48 foot tall structures. Maybe one with 10 more on top of it for weight. But one here and there with guy wires going down to them? No.
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  39. I never heard of it. It looked like the building had plenty of steel reinforcing in it. I'm surprised the building looked so old considering it wasn't old.
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  40. If you think that's something check out the interstate transport line gas main explosion of 1994 in Edison New Jersey. That pipe was 36 inches in diameter. The flames shot a mile in the sky. I could see it from my house. I lived in a different county.
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  41.  @xenevlillil6392  the same human behavior still applies.
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  42.  @r0x0r-p4t  I've heard of weird stuff that goes on in China. Time is money in the racket. So everyone has an incentive to finish jobs quickly, unless it's time and materials. Then we take our time.
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  43.  @daleviker5884  ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
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  44. When your job is to pump gas you pump gas.
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  45. Space flight is inherently risky. It's just dangerous. That's not likely to change any time soon either. We just weren't born to go mach 21. That's the fact.
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  46. I don't think it is quite that hot there. In fact the hottest is is predicted to get is just half that hot.
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  47. It seems like a teachable moment to me.
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  48. I think you could have filled the whole bingo card up with this one. Including shift change. I'm not so sure about recently inspected though.
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  49. They were just in a critical phase of the mission with no latitude for changes. It was going to work or it wasn't. In their case it didn't.
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  50. Ramming speed!
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