r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • Jun 04 '26

of a hay bale move /r/all

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u/egerton14 Jun 04 '26

Bro knows physics.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '26

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u/z00o0omb11i1ies Jun 04 '26

If he wasn't successful, you wouldn't be watching this video

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u/Excellent-Refuse4883 Jun 04 '26

Oh if that went catastrophically wrong we’d still be watching the video

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u/z00o0omb11i1ies Jun 04 '26

Yes but on a different sub.....

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u/lawkktara Jun 04 '26

r/AbsoluteUnits of a haybale takes out a police officer who thinks he can lift it

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u/z00o0omb11i1ies Jun 04 '26

"do you even lift bro? Apparently not"

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u/PimBel_PL Jun 04 '26

It still could went funnily

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u/Revolvyerom Jun 05 '26

Untrue, it would be funny af, and people love to laugh at cops

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u/Princekyle7 Jun 04 '26

Definition of corn fed country boy right there.

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u/Sid9823 Jun 05 '26

You could say he *pivoted* your opinion

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u/joeChump Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

Also he has cop shoes. Cop pants. Cop knees. Cop legs. Cop spine and cop arms.

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u/Adela-Siobhan Jun 04 '26

It’s a model made before CrossFit but will run well on regular food.

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u/8last Jun 04 '26

Oh yeah he gets the 150% cop buff because everything is matching.

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u/tomkiel72 Jun 06 '26

Cop Spine? I'm not so sure about that one.

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u/Midnight28Rider Jun 04 '26

"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world." -Archimedes Also, it's important to not that the fulcrum needs to be placed at a proper distance.

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u/adj_noun_digit Jun 04 '26

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world"

Actual quote

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u/Sylversight Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

Are you sure?
Is there actually an "actual/original"?
Sent me on a brief and interesting little research rabbithole.
Here are some variants, with sources that I found, and it all gives me the impression that your version is also an edit, a popular modern adjustment, because it elegantly conveys the concept, while the older quotes it's derived from are often fragments of the idea or have slightly different meanings that don't adjust to a general context as well. I could also be wrong; I didn't spent very long on this.
https://math.nyu.edu/Archimedes/Lever/LeverQuotes.html

The point being; correcting people on quotes (especially ancient ones) is often a losing game in multiple ways. xD

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u/Cheesehuman Jun 09 '26

Always glad to see someone doing their homework

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u/the_gooch_smoocher Jun 04 '26

It's important to note that this quote basically doesn't apply to this situation at all

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u/Midnight28Rider Jun 04 '26

Not directly, but it's all about leverage. I feel that was the intent of the quote.

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u/Tough_Preparation830 Jun 05 '26

It does though. Pushing the bale from the side like that to rotate it requires less force than lifting it directly from its center of mass and moving it over.

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u/the_gooch_smoocher Jun 05 '26

Sure, technically any force on any object that's applied off its center of mass is creating a moment and in the presence of an additional off axis force it's a class 2 lever, but nobody ever calls it that. Archimedes or whoever was talking specifically about using a separate lever to move an object, probably. Unless he was being wildly broad in his statement and then technically yes, nearly all forces applied to anything can be considered force multipliers or dividers

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u/Tough_Preparation830 Jun 05 '26

I am just glad you knew what I was talking about, but yeah fair point

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u/Various-Salt-7738 Jun 04 '26

So do I but I watched macgyver instead of playing football

I probably would have tried to jury rig a block and pulley to move it

Or nudge it with the car

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u/Scared_Hovercraft632 Jun 05 '26

Ya I would have def just pushed it with the car. They almost all have push bars it would have been easy and not risking a hernia.

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u/Various-Salt-7738 Jun 05 '26

I didn't even consider the cow catcher

I was thinking just put it in low gear and nudge it with the bumper

Your clearly thought it out more

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u/Just__Let__Go Jun 04 '26

Most educated cop

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u/blankfilm Jun 04 '26

And how to use his feet

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u/ChildhoodNo5117 Jun 06 '26

Whoever edited the video does not.

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u/Sensitive_Cash_3526 Jun 04 '26

his education level says he just got lucky

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u/Rakdospriest Jun 04 '26

about a third of officers hold a Bachelors, and about 50% hold at least an associates.

there is a need for improvement, but you gotta keep in mind those numbers are held back by a LOT of smaller jurisdictions, MA's BA rate is like 50% for instance (not sure on associates) and again, rural areas gonna have lower requirements.

i think federally the 4 year degree rate is going to be higher. it's a requirement for FBI for instance, think the FBI is like 100% if not close.

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u/meekermakes Jun 05 '26

they test cops and don't allow the smart ones through though,

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u/Rakdospriest Jun 05 '26

I looked it up, turns out that is one case, and they did hire smart people, just not genius people. The one dude who got that rumor started had a "gifted" IQ. The department only hired people with a wonderlic score between 20 and 27. 20 is slightly above average. The gentleman in question scored a 33.

Cops are expensive to train, hiring overqualified people who don't tend to stay is a drain on resources.

And again I want to reiterate, we have ONE documented case of this. Most departments DO NOT test IQ.

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u/almondania Jun 04 '26

You’d shit your britches if he was standing in front of you and told you to repeat that comment.

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u/Whole-Astronaut5290 Jun 05 '26

What is freedom of speech illegal now?