• nocturne
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        542 months ago

        Is this the dipstick that tried it with a carrot, it cut the tip off and then said he was going to try it with his finger to be sure?

        • @essteeyou@lemmy.world
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          142 months ago

          I don’t see “dipstick” in the wild very often, but I always appreciate it. Are you English by any chance?

          • nocturne
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            92 months ago

            I am not. I had a vulgar word there, and decided to tone it down a little.

      • Gormadt
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        -262 months ago

        A baby carrot

        It takes about the same force to bite through a baby carrot as it does to bite through a finger

        As long as the carrot is pretty close to the size of the finger you’re wishing to stimulate

        I wish I didn’t know that

        • gregorum
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          2 months ago

          This isn’t true, and I know it as a fact. I’m not gonna tell you how I know, but I know.

          Biting through a human finger bone takes much more force than it does to bite through a fucking carrot.

            • gregorum
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              252 months ago

              Ever eaten oxtail? Even after it’s cooked, tendons and shit is really hard to bite through. Way harder than a damn carrot.

              • deepfriedchril
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                42 months ago

                Tendon after 6 or so hours simmering or 1 hour in a pressure cooker and you got my favorite pho add in.

        • @vanderbilt@lemmy.world
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          Having done my time as an Army medic, this is incorrect. It takes more force than that, but less than you might think. A good 25 kilos with some velocity behind it will easily sever a phalange. Up it to 50 or 80 kilos and you can claim an arm or shin. Mass is the real killer. I’ve seen a vehicle at comically slow speed absolutely yeet someone because it had several tons of momentum behind it.

          • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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            42 months ago

            Casual readers might remember a recent very low-speed collision that nonetheless caused a catastrophic failure due to the tens of thousands of tons of weight. The MV Dali vs. the Francis Scott Key Bridge, if you didn’t guess. It struck the bridge at about 8 mph.

        • @muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee
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          152 months ago

          Fortunately I don’t think that’s strictly accurate. Try biting through a chicken wing its not as easy as a carrot.

    • @CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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      602 months ago

      He did demonstrate it that way, specifically with a carrot. And it somewhat worked. The problem is they programmed it to do more and more pressure every time it fails meaning that doing the carrot first actually caused a safety issue. He only moved onto his finger because the safety feature seemed to be working.

      • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        362 months ago

        The engineer told him the frunk increases in pressure every single time it closes and detects resistance, Judkins said. It’s going to assume you want to close the frunk and maybe something like a bag is getting in the way, which would make it close harder.

        Geniuses.

        • @toofpic@lemmy.world
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          102 months ago

          Because I am the bag commander. If I want the bag to fit, and it doesn’t fit, I’d better crush it!

        • @rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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          12 months ago

          With that association - can Apple, Tesla etc marketing be generalized into something to be put into law?

          To fucking ban those companies and make their patents public domain (or make them expire, not sure of the term).

          I don’t care if a Google or two get stomped as a bonus.

      • SkaveRat
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        172 months ago

        No, it has to be something bigger than the panel gap