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Mobile Suit Larry (funkula@goblin.camp)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 17:51:29 JST Mobile Suit Larry
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Why do I find these illustrations so hilarious
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1. A diagram of a dangerous situation (grain leaving a void under a crusted top layer, which will collapse if walked on) and a cartoon of a surprised looking man buried to the waist in grain
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2. Two panels, one of a guy flailing as he sinks into a pit, and one where the grain has closed over his head. Caption reads "you can be completely submerged in grain in about 8 seconds"
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  Mobile Suit Larry (funkula@goblin.camp)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 17:51:30 JST Mobile Suit Larry
  
  Are you a void underneath a crust of grain? You have to tell me or it's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_entrapment
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    Grain entrapment
    
    Grain entrapment, or grain engulfment, occurs when a person becomes submerged in grain and cannot get out without assistance. It most frequently occurs in grain bins and other storage facilities such as silos or grain elevators, or in grain transportation vehicles, but has also been known to occur around any large quantity of grain, even freestanding piles outdoors. Usually, unstable grain collapses suddenly, wholly or partially burying workers who may be within it. Entrapment occurs when victims are partially submerged but cannot remove themselves; engulfment occurs when they are completely buried within the grain. Engulfment has a very high fatality rate. While the death rate from workplace accidents on American farms has declined in the first decades of the 21st century, grain-entrapment deaths have not, reaching an all-time annual high of 31 deaths in 2010. Many of those victims have been minors. Agricultural organizations have worked to protect them and improve rescue techniques, as well as spread awareness among farmers of prevention methods. Primary among these is a federal regulation that forbids opening an auger or other opening at the bottom of a grain...
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