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hands to an undergrad (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I work in scientific equipment. It helps to focus oneself to occasionally imagine the box as being full of $100k in $100 bills, when I debate whether to leave it in the car or take it inside overnight...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

... I said to myself as I meticulously removed all traces of the serial number.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

For the stuff that's worth >a million bucks, the serial number is like "6"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Also, typically notoriously hard to fence, cause nobody knows what the fuck they're going to do with a gamma ray spectrometer or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

Ya and taking off the serial number doesn't really matter when it's less than 10 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Never again having trouble figuring out the exact welding wire needed for all the gathered materials in a project seems like an excellent perk by itself.

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