According to the documentary Hell on Wheels it was mostly built by a man named Cullen Bohannon with his own hands. When he got tired, he used some Chinamen and I think maybe a woman dressed as a man for a stretch.
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I was at an xmas party one year where the workshop boys did this with an upturned 44 gallon drum. It was the loudest bang I've ever heard. I thought we were under some sort of attack.
They expected the drum to launch a little but what actually ended up happening was the upturned metal bottom blew off and launched a LOT punching a hole in the workshop roof. It's a miracle that nobody was hurt (their hearing probably was). Somehow they didn't get fired.
I work in land management and forest firefighting and you can literally come die in a fire.
I was already fighting wildfires in winter this year. Haven't had any meaningful rain in over 160 days. We're so utterly fucked.
It's not just common, it's the entire basis of the platform.
Every dumb fucking talking point they want their users to regurgitate in the real world goes to the moon. Speak the truth and be silenced.
It's a nightmare platform.
It's what you wear on your feet when it's wet out. Not relevant to the conversation though.
I dunno, iS pUtTiNg On A dUmB vOiCe PoIsOnInG tHe WeLl?
If it makes you feel any better I have almost nothing wrong with me and I take more than that morning and night.
I just like having expensive piss I guess.
You should see the ones in North QLD.
Add some very Stern warnings about crocodiles and irukandji.
Pretty frustrating place to go to the beach if I'm honest. You can basically just look at the water longingly.
Is anyone actually paying for it though?
Don't get me wrong, actual journalists deserve a great wage. I just haven't seen much of it worth paying for in recent years. Real journalists get locked up and it looks like the rest took that threat very seriously. I'm not going to pay money to read corporate puff pieces and controlled opposition.
What's your hot tip for the most reliable vehicle?
They probably should question them. Even something as seemingly benign as Paracetamol is not without its issues if used too often, or after alcohol. It can do serious harm. Most medicine can.
Another fun medicine fact. Australia banned the sale of pseudoephedrine from store shelves quite some years ago to try and reduce domestic amphetamine production. Ever since, all of the major pharma brands have sold phenylephrine based cold and flu medicine as a replacement. Our Therapeutic Goods Administration recently found that this preparation is no better than placebo. We're talking about a billion dollar industry that has been knowingly selling snake oil for ten years.
I guess what I'm saying is a healthy dose of skepticism and knowledge seeking should be applied to anything you are putting in your body or exchanging money for. The pharmaceutical industry are not saints. They're just as driven by profit incentives as every other business.