Comment on Why don't railroads need expansion joints?

Gloria@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• zombyreagan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  He’s so American that he’s actually Australian

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  • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I didn’t know I needed to be Dutch to use the Dutch angle perspective in my photos.

    Or a cowboy to use the cowboy shot.

    Using a method named after a place or something does not mean being from that place etc

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  • Gloria@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I bet his main viewership is American and that is why he makes the videos like this. If it were for his home turf it would contain way more slurs and accent.

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• sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s a shit title because the video us actually about metallurgy and thermite welding, not track expansion and contraction.

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  • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m subscribed, when the video came out something along those lines was the title. They likely changed it because it performed better with viewers.

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    • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      He has a video from a while back where he gets into how he does A/B testing with titles and thumbnails. TL;DR click bait titles and thumbnails work.

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      it’s a good hook because I always thought they were supposed to have gaps

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I imagine this guy watching a vsauce video going “oh god there’s so much irrelevant shit”. I like that these videos are about being curious about one thing and discovering other things for it, rather than being about learninga single fact.

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    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      He probably just noticed this amazing video that is about what the title says - youtu.be/zqmOSMAtadc

      (It’s Practical Engineering).

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      • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        woah it goes on and on for 16 minutes just to say because strain? pssh, I could’ve watched 4000 tiktoks in that time all split between someone saying half a sentence with “wait for it” messages to keep me invested in the second half at the top and subway runner at the bottom

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• Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  TLDW: skipped through until 25:47: the rail doesnt lengthen it just extends to the tops and sides.

  That isn’t really true though. He never talked about ‘sun kink’ which is a thing. Apparently mostly due to poor ties and bedding.

  There’s a neat discussion I found on some forum

  So it appears the topic wasn’t able to be covered fully in 30 minutes, let alone 5.

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  • YodaDaCoda@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah in Melbourne several years back we had a heat wave that fucked up a bunch of the train tracks.

    Isn’t the thunk-thunk as you’re travelling the wheels of the carriage passing over the expansion joints?.

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    • flyingSock@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nowadays there are no thermal expansion joints, the rails are welded. Any thunk thunk left is at switches.

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    • BangCrash@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You should probably watch the video. It’s informative and answers your question.

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