2024 LC Thread

We had fermentation off-gas samples in Mylar bags. We shipped them for analysis. Most popped during transport by air. We learned to specify ground shipment after that.

Those bags are pretty tough, to have two dozen of them pop must have been quite the cacophony of noise.

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lol this is hilarious. You are not kidding? This is a real thing? I had no idea.

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Dunnage bags are often used in food service freight, due to the non-uniform stacking of product on pallets. The width of freight trailers allows for two pallets side by side. Inflating dunnage bags between pallets helps them not tip over, and maybe adds some more friction by pushing the pallets against the trailer walls, to prevent sliding around.

But anything can be dunnage. You can nail two by fours to the trailer floors to help secure the load that way. Ratchet straps, load bars, cling wrap, packing peanuts…

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Yeah!

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Reddit will have the answer for you, I’m sure there is a window installers subreddit.

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I was a carpenter for 20+ years, and I can confidently say that I have no clue. Most likely some sort of bumper for shipping/install, might be to protect the glass from jobsite bumps/falls until install?

Reddit says AQ is correct and they are dunnage bags for shipping .

They just must not remove them sometimes until after install.

https://www.sercalia.com/en/transport-airbags-dunnage-bags/

I know a lot of guys who haul windows and things by the truckload (these days defined as 53-foot trailer) specialize in it, and call themselves glass haulers

Like one of the biggest flatbed companies that hires rookies is called Maverick, and they put drivers who want it on the glass account after a year or some length of time of no accidents. Maybe a couple cents per mile more pay.

I was driving across the Rockies to Vegas once and I heard what sounded like mini gunshots in my back seat. It turned out to be bags of chips popping at high altitude.

https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner/status/1730986661406814224?t=z0Q498LrJsaDI3CqIY7oQg&s=19

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I did laugh at this

https://twitter.com/cjtackett/status/1730984055171084357?t=Nle0rcUAnUUjKe7TiGA9QA&s=19

Wow, I never heard this story before.

This story is also crazy. The kidnapper who buried the girl alive ends up becoming a doctor and then a drug smuggler.

A friend of mine has a true crime podcast with her sister and they covered this story in one of their episodes. I was surprised then that it was the first time I had heard of it. Wild story.

Church has picture of ewan Mc Gregor as obi wan hanging up because they think it is Jesus.

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My Dads childhood friend was one of the cops. We visited them back in 1980. I didn’t know it he was connected until he passed a few years ago.

Ashley said she and her mother knew her dad likely only had a few months left to live, so they decided not to share his secret with authorities. The last thing she wanted, she said, was to see her ailing, 71-year-old father hauled off to prison.

Instead, she started a podcast after his death.

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https://twitter.com/peligrietzer/status/1731218605897920685

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I had no clue.

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I mean, yeah, if someone is cool and has made a living based on their talent (a talent which, in her case, has brought joy to lots of people for decades), then there’s no reason to hate on them for being born rich.

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