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20 kg bumper plates, made from 45 lbs bumper plates
  • Pretty creative problem solving!

    Nice bonus that the hole you needed to drill was sized similarly to the central hole for the bar.

    Sometimes making things is not about the most fancy stuff, just making something fit for your purpose can be great too.

  • Hank’s Cruzbike recumbent road bike: A time trial conquering machine?
  • While this is a good road bike, the real time trial monsters are the faired recumbent bikes. I personally would prefer a faired recumbent over a car. It keeps you dry, you go to work in a reasonable time due to the speed, and you work out.

    Recumbents are a great way to extent the distance you can commute with a bike without requiring electric support.

    They are however less common, and thus car drivers dont always take them into account. So be careful when crossing roads.

  • Baby Goldfinch made it to my feeder
  • That crest is very characteristic of a goldcrest. I know of two sub species of gold crests, one has the yellow stripe the other a slightly orange stripe and body

    This seems to me like the goldfinch, regulus regulus. Not the common firecrest , regulus ignicapilla.

    My information sources is the Merlin Bird spotting app.

    EDIT: the correct name is not goldfinch but goldcrest. As it is not in the finch family at all.

  • US Majors With The Highest Unemployment/UnderEmployment Rates
  • I majored in physics, even living in a country with a ton of technology companies. There are only so many research labs, and only very few companies want dedicated physics people. Often they just want to run a mechanical simulation known as FEM, they hire mechanical engineers for it.

    Also, physics is very broad. While companies are usually looking into a specific topic. If you didnt happen to stumble in the right area of physics you might not have valuable knowledge for a company. Often a Physics education is not even focused on deepening a specific topic, but more on how to solve complex problems. In my opinion that can be applied to many problems we face today, if given the chance.

    Physics education is based on the idea of a renaissance man, one who knows how everything works. Companies simply don't care about that.

  • Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany
  • As mentioned in the article, the numbers of elephants in botswana are growing. And the large number of elephants are causing problems with the human population. You need to do something with the situation.

  • Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
  • Pretty decent article, thanks for posting it

    Looks like optimizing value for shareholders is not compatible with quality, safety, or decent working conditions. There is too much control from these useless bloodsuckers in wall street.

  • Heathrow Airport Passport Control Staff Vote To Strike
  • A 90% agreement to strike sounds pretty high. The cohesion of the union is either very strong.Or, the potential impact to the passport control job is so high.

    Either way i wish them good luck!

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