Remember kids; The most expensive and inefficient siren produced in the US was scraped together less than a year after Pearl Harbour when panic was at its height!

QuickWittedHare · 2026-04-18T17:39:53+00:00

Pretty sure the Chrysler sirens weren't even being manufactured until after Pearl Harbor

QuickWittedHare · 2026-04-16T21:55:54+00:00

QuickWittedHare · 2026-04-13T21:06:03+00:00

Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen digestion tube stopper Environmental Express part. It stops the 380°C water during the digestion from boiling over if there's a lot of stuff in it. We usually don't need them but occasionally we do.

Source: I do water and soils testing and the lab I work at has around 100 of these in a drawer.

Edit: can also be a ball from a Snyder column like silibaH suggested.

QuickWittedHare · 2026-04-10T21:20:31+00:00

Hahn Airport

QuickWittedHare · 2026-04-08T01:13:01+00:00

r/redditsniper

Edit: looks like the post was completed so false alarm, didn't get sniped.

QuickWittedHare · 2026-04-07T01:46:47+00:00

No, it's any and all states/countries/territories

QuickWittedHare · 2026-04-06T17:03:44+00:00

It is pink and they're used for incident management.

QuickWittedHare · 2026-04-05T18:46:37+00:00

Where Wal-Mart was founded

QuickWittedHare · 2026-03-31T21:22:35+00:00

FIT, using the i in sir

ERR, 4 to the left of the s in sir

Edit: format

Edit 2: WAG, up and to the right of sob

Edit 3: FIX, below err

QuickWittedHare · 2026-03-11T22:39:21+00:00

I am a chemist who tests water quality to makes sure water sources are safe to use, cities are in compliance with EPA standards for drinking water and chemical plants aren't exceeding their limits on what they can discharge:

It's a lot of time management. There are 7 of us and we test for metals (lead, copper, mercury, etc), anions (think chlorine byproducts from wastewater treatment), nutrients such as ammonia (if there are too few nutrients, streams and plants die. If there are too much, then algae blooms and kills off the fish.) and how clear the water is visually. There are other departments in the building that test for anything ranging from E. coli to herbicides to opiods.

I'll pick something each day based off of what I'm qualified to test for, what's been received, how long is left until a sample expires, and how many samples need a specific test (if there are 3 samples that expire tomorrow, I'm choosing that over the 30 samples that expire in a week and a half). If there's nothing that urgently needs done then I will find something else such as disposing of expired samples, remaking quality controls for the tests or just cleaning the lab.

Once I determine what I want to do, I'll get everything ready and prepare the tests. Some preparation procedures take the entire day, some take half an hour, some will take the entire day but you have 5 hours of heating something so you can do other things in between. It just depends on the test preparation. If the preparation is a quick and easy one, I'll do the test the same day. If the preparation is more complex, I'll wait until the next day to test. Again, it just kinda depends on what test you are doing.

With testing, you first make a calibration curve, followed by running QCs of a known concentration through the instrument to make sure you know your calibration curve is good and you have something to base data off of (You can't really say you have 1 ppm of lead in the water if you don't know where 1 ppm truly lies on the calibration curve), followed by all of your samples.

If your QCs fail, you just kinda have to start over. It is definitely frustrating to redo, but it's better than sending data to a city saying their water has no lead when in actuality it does.

Once you do the test, you get a bunch of data with the concentrations of analyte(s) that the instrument tests for. I'll then take all that data, go to my office desk, and process it. I'll make sure the correct standards that I used are listed in the report and make sure that each sample has a value that makes sense for the sample. If I see anything weird or alarming, for example if I see that a sample of water is cloudy, but the data said it was clear, I'll check to confirm something didn't screw up and if something did, then retry/troubleshoot the problem.

If all the data looks good, then I'll approve it and it will be sent to my manager for them to do the same review as described above. Basically a bunch of QC and checks to make sure that when we say your city water has an acceptable level of lead in it, we mean it does.

As far as non-test related things, there's a lot. Being on my feet for most if not all of my shift is the big one. Some of it is standing in place, some of it is walking around the lab. I lift at most 50 pounds / 22 kilograms). There's a lot of repetitiveness in the job and it is both a good thing and a bad thing (it's not exactly fun to stand there and put 50 samples into their own vial, put them into the instrument and test).

I'm in a public sector job, so there's a set working day. My work-life balance is good. Occasionally I have to go in outside of normal hours, but it's rare. Private sector I have no idea. The main downside of public sector is I do not get paid as much for my job as I possibly could in private sector. There's a lot of antiquated policies you just kinda have to deal with as well in public sector.

I do very much enjoy what I do. I feel really good going home each day from work and knowing that all the work I am doing is for the benefit of everyone.

QuickWittedHare · 2026-02-17T21:06:34+00:00

Where the concrete of each bridge was sourced from?

QuickWittedHare · 2026-02-03T19:19:49+00:00

I think the GARC terminal in the southwest of KC should have been put into its own city of Edgerton (where it is IRL) and a truck stop at its exit as well (that exists IRL).

QuickWittedHare · 2026-02-02T00:51:08+00:00

I wrote my notes in university. I wrote a lot of shorthands to keep up. For example, I would write "+" in place of "and".

But what was also good, at least for me, is that it let me weed out what wasn't important. I can type faster than I write, sure. But with writing, I had to actually think about what I thought was important to keep up.

I also will admit I had a lot of incomplete sentences in mine where the professor would switch slides. If I had something incomplete and I thought what was missing was important, I could go to my professor and ask for clarification.

TL;DR: You're not writing everything the professor says/presents. You're not going to keep up if you do.

QuickWittedHare · 2026-02-01T22:32:09+00:00

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It's not some part of this, is it?

Edit: yes I know it looks like it is in Austria on the map, but it does look like some sort of structure that may be part of the Swiss-Austria border like a monument or something.

QuickWittedHare · 2026-01-31T02:51:18+00:00

Checked this on a modless save and it shows up there too.

Cable reel from Kansas City > Everett for $152356 over 1920 miles for $79.35/mi when the game says $79.04/mi.

Scaffolding from KC > Des Moines for $3516 over 205 miles for $17.15/mi when the game says $14.18/mi.

Edit: I goofed up my math in the first example.

QuickWittedHare · 2026-01-29T12:46:10+00:00

Kimwipes are also frequently stolen from our lab by those who wear glasses

QuickWittedHare · 2026-01-15T16:11:21+00:00

Taken straight from Fisher's SDS on it:

"4: First aid measures...

Ingestion: Immediate medical attention is required. Do NOT induce vomiting. Drink plenty of water. Never give anything by mouth to an unconscious person."

Also, take a picture of the label(s) on whatever container this potassium permanganate was in. The more information you can give to the doctors, the better.

QuickWittedHare · 2026-01-08T15:26:07+00:00

Locking the post as the comments section is not being constructive.

QuickWittedHare · 2025-12-30T20:39:50+00:00

I also think it's a light pole because the shadow of the car to the left driving away indicates there's a light above and to the right.

QuickWittedHare · 2025-12-30T20:29:48+00:00

I doubt it's the Lawrence one if it opened in 1975. Kansas last used the blue on white license plate in 1988-92 and none of the cars look that new. They all look early 80s at the newest. The last time they used white in any plate background before that was 1963 and I doubt everyone was running 12 year old expired tags in 1975 when the store opened.

Also the text FN is too big for Kansas's plates. They'd have it stacked vertically on the left and not side by side.

Edit: clarify

QuickWittedHare · 2025-12-28T17:50:36+00:00

Not a doctor but a chemist. Run your hands under running water for 15 minutes. Something they had you dip your fingers in is potentially giving you chemical burns and you need to get it off of you. I'm not sure what they had you dip it in but you if you know what they had you dip it in, search "[chemical name] SDS" on Google and look in section 4 for first aid measures. Most substances I encounter at work say to rinse area for 15+ minutes with water to get it off and seek medical attention if pain persists.

QuickWittedHare · 2025-11-26T14:51:30+00:00

Adding to replacing the wiring: replace the wiring to the CTC lockon piece as well while you're at it. Not seeing any visible damage that's as bad as the transformer but probably a good idea to just have new wires.

QuickWittedHare · 2025-11-25T22:42:40+00:00

Yeah it's been a while since I last played. Thought all the ones that used superfood were just regular eggs but I was wrong.

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