William Returns To YouTube - Safety Third #27

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Safety Third is a weekly show hosted by William Osman, NileRed, The Backyard Scientist, Allen Pan, Peter Sripol, and a couple other YouTube "Scientists". Sometimes we have guests, sometimes it's just us, but always: safety is our number three priority.

[usernamea]

Imagine opening up your patron rewards and it's just "kevin's left arm" and now you have to collect an entire kevin.

[eggi]

everyone's shirts match their respective backgrounds really nicely

[lee]

Re: Getting a buttload of straws from McDonald's

I used to be in a punk band that had a gimmick of throwing ketchup packets into the crowd. It turns out if you ask a fast foot employee for 500 packets of something that's free, they'll give it to you. They don't care.

[bricoschmoo]

Hi! I stop at 21 seconds to say I'm 80% sure that Nigel's stand is mounted so that the weight of the microphone unscrews its mount. I've been guilty of this for years, until someone pointed that out to me. Yes, there's actually a way to mount that the wrong way :'D

If you mount your stuff so that the weight tends to tighten the stand, this "floppy" problem will almost disappear by itself.

[cody]

Speaking of tedious work; i converted my backyard into a small farm this year, close by kevin's house. A single acre, rectangle shaped. Little did i realize when i started, filling the single arce (209 by 209 feet) might not sound like a lot, but at one plant per square foot it takes over 43, 500 plants.

I'm 79 days into sowing what i now refer to as "the field". i feel like i evolved into a different person over the last 2 months.

[justlok]

As a former McDonalds employee. That manager was deff just a solid dude, seizing the opportunity to take a jab at his tyrannical overlords. He takes the same pleasure in stealing chicken nuggies out of the tray all day.

[GolenCheeseIt]

56:50 I really respect how nicely Nigel handles being interrupted. He was cut off mid-sentence a lot during this podcast, and almost every time it happens he's calm and polite about it.
Sure this isn't an incredibly special skill or anything, but it's sort of refreshing to see. This probably happens to everyone else too, but Nigel's the only one with new glasses, so it's almost hard not to compliment him.

[this]

Finally, Safety Third back to consistency.

[steampunq]

Your polaroid problem: only send out one person's pics each month and rotate who's on that month. Then all you need to know is if they qualify and they just get put in the cycle.

[ALIVE-Company]

Hey everyone, I cited y’all as an inspiration to become a Biomedical engineer for my final today hopefully my teacher doesn’t tell me to change it haha

[joki]

The McDonald's manager is Nigel from the future to save the Mr beast squid games video. He was just too awkward to talk to his younger self.

[spcjam]

New Safety Third always makes my day :) Also Nigel looks very good w his new glasses 🥺

[ElBiebs]

I would love to see the patreon polaroid's become a gacha game. "I pulled the Nigel Summer edition"

[_comment]

"It figures out who they've gotten already and who they need to get"
One simpler way would be to just have it set by month. Month 3: William, Month 6: Kevin, Month 9: Nigel, Month 12: Allen, Month 15: Bernard, etc.
(The script to do this wouldn't be too hard - even to do it the hard way - I could do it, but so could a lot of other people.)

the "trading card" aspect of getting them randomly might be something people would be interested - maybe do a poll for patrons?
(If you were going to do any randomization, then do it truly random, no stored list of what people have received)

[memejeff]

man, the timing couldnt be better. I really like Nigel's glasses btw. Schools still have absolutely terrible systems. I did a lot of the things you guys talked about back in 2016 at my highschool. It has barely improved. My highschool pleaded me to not do the stuff in exchange for unlimited free pc's to mess with. I used localaccnt to log in with free network access and admin permission. I changed the the hdmi signage settings on the tv's around. I performed deauth attacks on their wifi. Used rubber duckies on the teachers pc's. Messed with projectors with remote apps. Created and ran password retrieval malware, logged onto fronter and changed my teachers profile to porn. Gave homework. and changed teachers passwords to lock them out. I also sometimes made a permanent background change that was stuck in the registry. oh and I also gave people admin rights on their own account but secretly set up remote desktop too

[mistaecco]

Former Dave and busters employee here - the way we're directed to load cards is to have a set pattern for the rare cards. That way, they can ensure a regular rate of payouts and chances to win. Each field on a star trek/wizard of oz pusher (same exact machine, just different styling) is assigned two coin hoppers and one card dispenser. Track your dispenser and see what it spits out on each side.
This is all memory and it's been years, but I think the way it went was 5 common cards, then a holographic. Repeat that something like 3 more times, then add the rare card on top. Repeat that whole pattern a few times and then on one of the runs it'll be the holographic rare card for the full holo set.

Edit: oh yep you guys covered this next section in the podcast. Leaving the rest in here for context though. Progressive jackpots where you beat the machine by N+1 until it's maxxed out, you can absolutely make money. The guy I know had hella spreadsheets, Cashback credit cards, and all the free credit cupons in existence. He was absolutely making more than minimum wage - he CLAIMED to make more hourly than a d&b employee, but that's not a high bar to pass.

For the record, there's folks that clip coupons and game the system and stick to only the skill based games, min/maxing every aspect and playing perfectly, coming in for maybe 40 minutes a day to rack up their daily totals then leave. The one guy tended to cash out for an Xbox or similar every week or so. Kinda a loser, but he was dedicated - I'll give him that. There's credit pricing strategy for the pushers, but generally the best strategy is to only start trying to get the set once you've secured the rare one. Having others on either side of you (say you're sitting on station 2, watching 1 and 3 - all connected to the same card hopper) will let you more easily track the current status of cards dispensed, if you want to grind for specific ones. Fishing for it, you're gonna have a bad time.

[paddyyyyyyyyyyyy]

This is a certified safety third classic

[bib_goose]

these are the highlight of my week, loving the consistent uploads!

[martha]

On one hand this Podcast motivates me to continue studying and on the other hand it calls me dumm in so many ways :)

[zooftra]

When I was in 7th grade, I emailed my teacher a project I wrote about bats. It turns out the school had an automatic word filter on their emails, which for some reason changed the word "guano" to "****". My teacher thought I had put the term "bat shit" in my presentation. Thanks old school IT.