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2023-12-26 -Land of the Free

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Posted by Bobby 2023-12-26 09:23|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 There is a reason he's no longer living in South Africa. I believe I know what that reason is. Perhaps some folks should listen a bit more closely to this young man.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-26 09:38|| 2023-12-26 09:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Hopefully he invents a way around Heinlein's "bad luck."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 09:39|| 2023-12-26 09:39|| Front Page Top

#3 The government needs to careful. Elon is a mad scientist, he built space rockets that land on floating barges, remember NASA laughed at him, he built a car company in America, something that has not been successfully done in a century, he control a global communication system. He is a haircut and a shaved cat away from Dr Evil.

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-12-26 10:56|| 2023-12-26 10:56|| Front Page Top

#4 He liked a picture on my Facebook page. I don't think it was really him.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-12-26 12:53|| 2023-12-26 12:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company's Texas factory during violent malfunction - leaving 'trail of blood' and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button

Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-26 15:41|| 2023-12-26 15:41|| Front Page Top

#6 The Daily Mail joins the attack, reporting on a three=year old incident, which may have been as simple as the worker getting in between the robot and its target.

80-100 years ago, punch press operators sometimes lost fingers. A couple of years ago, a guy caught his necktie in a rotating machine with horribly messy results.

Posted by Bobby 2023-12-26 15:47|| 2023-12-26 15:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Spacex/Starlink will be the backbone of next generation US war fighting capability. I hope Musk is making friends in the DOD, if they’re not too busy touching up their lipstick.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2023-12-26 16:16|| 2023-12-26 16:16|| Front Page Top

#8 but but but he is 'afro-american'!

Posted by irish rage boy 2023-12-26 16:19|| 2023-12-26 16:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Caught his necktie

Heh. Worked at a tool and die place where everyone in the "front office" had to wear a coat and tie. If you had to go out on the shop floor you had to remove jacket and tie for safety reasons. So, everyone found a reason to go out on the floor right after arriving at work.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 17:01|| 2023-12-26 17:01|| Front Page Top

#10 A couple of years ago, a guy caught his necktie in a rotating machine with horribly messy results.

Never walk on the factory floor wearing something loose, not even if you’re just passing through. A female engineer* of my acquaintance told about taking a shortcut across the floor in our paper factory... Since she wasn’t staying, she didn’t bother to put on a hairnet. Naturally, her long ponytail got caught in the rollers. One of the workers heard her scream and hit the emergency shut-off, stopping the thing just before her head was pulled in. They had to cut her hair off to set her free, and she never grew it longer than an inch below her ears until she retired.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-26 17:08|| 2023-12-26 17:08|| Front Page Top

#11 My dad treated a guy who got literally scalped when his pony tail got caught in a truck driveshaft.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 17:20|| 2023-12-26 17:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Likewise a local woman, dairy farmer, got her long hair caught by the milking machine- the suction cups that go on the udder. Horrible.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2023-12-26 18:40|| 2023-12-26 18:40|| Front Page Top

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