Officers allegedly raided the diagnostic center, located in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, thinking it was a front for an illegal cannabis cultivation facility
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At one point, an officer walked into an MRI room, past a sign warning that metal was prohibited inside, with his rifle “dangling… in his right hand, with an unsecured strap,” the lawsuit said. The MRI machine’s magnetic force then allegedly sucked his rifle across the room, pinning it against the machine. MRI machines are tube-shaped scanners that use incredibly strong magnetic fields to create images of the brain, bones, joints and other internal organs.
An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process. The officer then grabbed his rifle and left the room, leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor, according to the lawsuit.
The amount of utter incompetence that is regularly displayed by US police officers is truly staggering, but this one is truly outstanding in its idiocy. Starting from the "justification" for the...
The amount of utter incompetence that is regularly displayed by US police officers is truly staggering, but this one is truly outstanding in its idiocy.
Starting from the "justification" for the raid ("higher than usual energy use"? Really? For an medical imaging center, one of the most energy intensive areas in modern medicine?) to the execution (Walking into an MRI room with a fucking rifle and leaving a full magazine behind after breaking said MRI), this entire thing is just... unbelievable.
I can kinda see them being interested in this but why the fuck do you need to go there full force. Just send a surveyor. If these cowards can't do it themselves, hire an outside expert.
Starting from the "justification" for the raid ("higher than usual energy use"?
I can kinda see them being interested in this but why the fuck do you need to go there full force. Just send a surveyor.
If these cowards can't do it themselves, hire an outside expert.
Those machines cost literally millions of dollars. And we are never getting more Helium unless and until we become more of a spacefaring civilization (we are unreasonably wasteful with Helium as...
Those machines cost literally millions of dollars. And we are never getting more Helium unless and until we become more of a spacefaring civilization (we are unreasonably wasteful with Helium as it is - it should never be used for frivolous things like party balloons - it has genuine needs in aerospace, medicine, maybe IT, etc...
Helium is the one element we truly, genuinely 'lose' as it ever so gradually drifts up to the thermosphere and exosphere, and then gets carried away on solar winds.
No need to stress too much about helium. A massive deposit was discovered in Minnesota, and it's very likely there are more deposits which will be searched for if the price climbs enough. Modern...
No need to stress too much about helium. A massive deposit was discovered in Minnesota, and it's very likely there are more deposits which will be searched for if the price climbs enough. Modern MRIs are also significantly more helium efficient.
Unironically, this meme covers most "resource shortages". Even things like lithium, we definitely have huge undiscovered deposits. There are just costs associated with finding them and setting up...
Unironically, this meme covers most "resource shortages". Even things like lithium, we definitely have huge undiscovered deposits. There are just costs associated with finding them and setting up new mines.
Serious question. Considering the medical context of the situation and the escalating irrationality displayed by many US police officers. Could a lot of these guys have lead poisoning? Because I...
Serious question. Considering the medical context of the situation and the escalating irrationality displayed by many US police officers. Could a lot of these guys have lead poisoning?
Because I shoot at an indoor range with a optional mask advisory, even pre covid. And they're have thick vent filters that clog up often.
Since most station ranges are probably indoors and see constant use; all while passing those particles throughout the building. Add to that the occupants have made ignorance of airborne risks a philosophical cornerstone and the general poor state of infrastructure. Everyone shooting indoors is hot-boxing heavy metals.
Just googled if this is a problem and it's been well documented and ignored since 2017.
Also saw a range with a kids policy which is just wild on every level.
I'm surprised this hasn't been more of an issue because it has to come up in physical screenings. And the behavioral symptoms line up pretty well. Hyperactivity, poor comprehension, rigid problem solving methods, anger, paranoia.
Seriously, this is a guy that did not understand a sign warning of magnet and destroyed a machine because of his impatience. Hell, the entire station got a report of high energy use and went straight to SWAT raid.
It takes 2 dozen officers to subdue a single unarmed, compliant suspect. Each of them yelling contradictory orders and clinging to their firearms like high caliber security blankets. My favorite is the cop going nuts when an acorn fell on their car.
Its just some outright dystopian nightmare. Police stations are literal monster factories.
Most LEOs in the US fire monthly or less. Department regulations vary, but qualification is usually only required quarterly. Some departments require more, some less, and some officers practice...
Most LEOs in the US fire monthly or less. Department regulations vary, but qualification is usually only required quarterly. Some departments require more, some less, and some officers practice voluntarily, but most don't.
I'd say that their exposure to lead from ranges is far less than someone who is a firearms enthusiast, and definitely less than someone who who works at a range.
The problem of police incompetentance/violence is more cultural, having to do with the culture of police work in the US, the types of people it tends to attract, the type of training that's given, and the punishment and incentive structures that are set up around police.
So I've been reading the study I linked and it looks like police officers are at the lower end of the exposure spectrum so my point may be moot. But the thing that sent me down this line of...
So I've been reading the study I linked and it looks like police officers are at the lower end of the exposure spectrum so my point may be moot.
But the thing that sent me down this line of thinking was the fact that none of this is local behavior. One bad cop is a single bad cop. A few is a station. Maybe even a state or regional issue. But nationwide just doesn't make sense and there needs to be something more to it. Like so many of those brutality clips feel like a mass psychosis event. They all have PTSD for a war that only happened in their head and they're back in enemy territory. And it's literally their neighborhood.
I've seen plenty of groups with sick cultures and attitudes. But there's always a root or and underlying grievance fueling it. This just seems like wholesale petty abuse.
I'm american and I would love to see the training for police be lengthened and the curriculum expanded in ways that would be likely to increase professionalism and reduce brutality and corruption....
I'm american and I would love to see the training for police be lengthened and the curriculum expanded in ways that would be likely to increase professionalism and reduce brutality and corruption. I would also like to see bad actors in bad incidents identified in some sort of permanent record that would prevent being hired by a different department. I'm sure there are other improvements to be made but those two would help a lot.
I'm all for training where it helps, but I don't think that's the crux of the issue with police. The issue as I see it is that police forces are so valuable that communities can't really go...
I'm all for training where it helps, but I don't think that's the crux of the issue with police.
The issue as I see it is that police forces are so valuable that communities can't really go without them. More training introduces more time, resources and barriers to making a person a street-ready officer, which is a good thing since a lot of people aren't equipped to be 'street-ready' by default, but it's also a bad thing because when the police you have now don't do what you want them to do, what is your alternative? You can't just sack the whole police force and hire new people that aren't in the union, because you spent so much time and money on the existing force and you'll have to do all of that over again on a new one, assuming there's even enough qualified people out there who want to do that job. So most communities can do nothing except live with the existing unionized force.
The police are uniquely more powerful than ordinary citizens by having a monopoly on force, and then collectively through unions they're even more powerful because there's no competing group that has similar power. Obviously there's many police unions but they're regional and I wonder if that plays a role in why they don't/can't compete. If you have a Cleveland police union, and a Pittsburgh police union, are all the Pittsburgh officers going to leave and go to Cleveland if the city of Cleveland dissolves their deal with the Cleveland union and tries to come to terms with the Pittsburgh union? The amount of money that Cleveland would have to pay to accomplish that would likely be prohibitively high, and generally speaking the union in Pittsburgh likely has the same dynamics at play there and the police there aren't going to be substantially different than the former Cleveland police.
The more the community depends on the police, the more leverage the police unions have.
I think this comment comes across as pretty anti-union-y which I'm not sure if I'm anti-union for police or if I just don't know of a solution to level the playing field, but overall I'd say I'm generally pro-union I just think that police forces are a little more unique than other occupations that make the dynamics of unions different.
It is the case that many occupations have some criticality to them, it wasn't long ago there was news about railway unions striking and eventually even the federal government got involved to the point where a deal was sort of forced upon the parties to ensure operations continued, supposedly because railroads are too vital to our economy to withstand a strike. I don't know the operations of railways enough to make any strong conclusions about that situation but my point is that I don't think this day and age that it happens to be only the police have a critical occupation, our society has become vastly more complex and in many fields more specialized, so you cannot just sack a whole workforce and start over without serious ramifications. Sometimes that is good, and other times it's not. Finding that balance is hard to achieve.
When cop training includes having it drilled into your head that people will be out to get you and you should always be on your guard, yeah that could induce some mild PTSD. They are literally...
They all have PTSD for a war that only happened in their head and they're back in enemy territory. And it's literally their neighborhood.
When cop training includes having it drilled into your head that people will be out to get you and you should always be on your guard, yeah that could induce some mild PTSD. They are literally taught that they may need to defend themselves against the people they're "protecting" and "serving."
My brother is a LEO and one of the phrases he picked up during his training is "I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six." I don't know if that was something one of the instructors said or if it was somehow spread among the recruits but that part is somewhat moot. Some LEOs are literally coming out of training with that mindset.
I’ve gone to a gun range across the street from a police training center so most of the clientele are cops. It was astonishing to me how bad they are at marksmanship, almost as a rule. There’s a...
Some departments require more, some less, and some officers practice voluntarily, but most don't.
I’ve gone to a gun range across the street from a police training center so most of the clientele are cops. It was astonishing to me how bad they are at marksmanship, almost as a rule. There’s a way to practice a skill to get better at it. It involves constantly checking results and refining your approach to get better. But it feels like most of them just point and shoot and then go again with very little review in between about what they did that they can improve on. It’s just a waste of time at that point.
Are we taking bets on if they're going to use "Qualified Immunity" and get off with no major consequences? Hopefully the fine/settlement will be enough to repair the machine, at least.
Are we taking bets on if they're going to use "Qualified Immunity" and get off with no major consequences?
Hopefully the fine/settlement will be enough to repair the machine, at least.
I don’t know much about what’s going on in California, but I’m surprised to hear that pot raids are still a thing there. I assumed those were now a relic of the past.
I don’t know much about what’s going on in California, but I’m surprised to hear that pot raids are still a thing there. I assumed those were now a relic of the past.
I’ve read that legal marijuana is so highly taxed that illegal cultivation is still quite profitable. IMO there are better things for the LAPD to be doing, but this shitshow is par for the course.
I’ve read that legal marijuana is so highly taxed that illegal cultivation is still quite profitable. IMO there are better things for the LAPD to be doing, but this shitshow is par for the course.
More or less what I hear living in the area. Personally, it’s hard to say with certainty what drives the market for illegal grow ops since I’m not into weed (no judgement against anyone who is, it...
More or less what I hear living in the area. Personally, it’s hard to say with certainty what drives the market for illegal grow ops since I’m not into weed (no judgement against anyone who is, it just doesn’t mesh well with my specific brand of ADHD) and don’t follow information about the market closely. Still, I have a suspicion that it’s more nuanced than weed being highly taxed. Mostly just because widespread market phenomenon are usually more complicated than a single reason.
But I know for certain that said grow ops are around. I hear about police raiding a house in the neighborhood every so often, or hear similar stories from friends and family. I once had the opportunity to ask a cop about it directly and they told me some growers are getting wise and setting up in remote areas of the surrounding hills and mountains where they can’t easily be seen. So, clearly there’s a strong demand if people are willing to go through that kind of effort.
Black market prices are difficult to come by, but I would find it interesting to see what like-for-like prices look like in legal states. I do not partake in pot, but having moved from a...
Black market prices are difficult to come by, but I would find it interesting to see what like-for-like prices look like in legal states. I do not partake in pot, but having moved from a prohibition state to a legal one recently and reported back to friends in prohibition states. The friends note that the prices, even with the 15% x 2 taxes here (similar to those in California), are lower for higher quality than they get on the black market. Including friends who are small business owners and get their supply at a more wholesale rate.
Of course there's multiple layers to what drives someone in a legal state to use the black market for their marijuana. Some reasons I've seen/been given:
Support small business (individual dealer vs company)
Unwillingness to pay taxes
Lack of need to provide ID (be it merely not wanting to do so for various reasons or not having ID at all)
I'm speaking specifically about flower, I think some of what I'm about to say is less applicable to distillate/concentrates and edibles. For a regular person in California, black market weed is...
I'm speaking specifically about flower, I think some of what I'm about to say is less applicable to distillate/concentrates and edibles.
For a regular person in California, black market weed is much less expensive than dispensary because of taxes and markups. The quality in dispensaries is really hit or miss, and sometimes it's awful. Old, very very dry, no smell. Sometimes it's fine. But you can't look before you buy. There are some extremely questionable practices in the legal market, related to pesticide use, which are the main reason I will never partake in dispensary weed unless I personally know people who work at that company and vouch for it. Corporations came into this having absolutely no idea what farming is, the corners they try to cut are shocking. I have seen way too much at this point... it's like when you hear your friends who work in food service tell you never to get ice in your drink. I've seen moldy tubs of weed get ground into prerolls, failed pesticide tests go into the supply chain, heavy metals in the soils being ignored. It's bad.
I know a lot of black market and legal market growers. Most of the black market weed is shipped out of state, which legal growers can not do. So part of the motivation for growing illegally is still that out of state price. It's also probably why black market prices in other states are a little higher, the odds are really high it was shipped from California.
In my experience, black market weed is a lot safer and higher in quality. But I live at the source, so it is less true in prohibition states.
So I assume the emergency stop is just dumping the helium into the atmosphere so that the electromagnetic coils lose their superconductivity because the become too hot. Would a circuit breaker...
An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process.
So I assume the emergency stop is just dumping the helium into the atmosphere so that the electromagnetic coils lose their superconductivity because the become too hot.
Would a circuit breaker also work? (I'm bad at electricity)
Energized MRI coils contain a ton of energy. In a normal shutdown, you draw that energy down pretty slowly. In an emergency stop, much of the coil energy goes into the helium coolant, which...
Energized MRI coils contain a ton of energy. In a normal shutdown, you draw that energy down pretty slowly. In an emergency stop, much of the coil energy goes into the helium coolant, which evaporates and must be vented, or it will turn the MRI machine into a bomb.
This is called a "quench", if you want to read more about it.
Thanks ! I looked up on YouTube and there's fascinating MRI videos. Like how quickly a quenching kills the magnetic field (whoever thought of having that colored strings and paperclips setup is a...
This is called a "quench", if you want to read more about it.
Circuit breaker may work, but I'm assuming they are using capacitors to run the magnets, which may cause some delay before the magnets actually shut off. This emergency release may be the...
Circuit breaker may work, but I'm assuming they are using capacitors to run the magnets, which may cause some delay before the magnets actually shut off. This emergency release may be the quickest, safest way.
Ah, makes sense especially since those eletromagnet needs tons of electricity (the stronger the magnetic field the better the image) the helium is probably pressurised to keep it liquid/cold. So...
Ah, makes sense especially since
those eletromagnet needs tons of electricity (the stronger the magnetic field the better the image)
the helium is probably pressurised to keep it liquid/cold. So it will probably exit without effort
...
This is such a comedic level of incompetence that I literally don't believe it. Like, surely not? This can't be real
The amount of utter incompetence that is regularly displayed by US police officers is truly staggering, but this one is truly outstanding in its idiocy.
Starting from the "justification" for the raid ("higher than usual energy use"? Really? For an medical imaging center, one of the most energy intensive areas in modern medicine?) to the execution (Walking into an MRI room with a fucking rifle and leaving a full magazine behind after breaking said MRI), this entire thing is just... unbelievable.
I can kinda see them being interested in this but why the fuck do you need to go there full force. Just send a surveyor.
If these cowards can't do it themselves, hire an outside expert.
How often do cops do raids around M.R.I. s? :-)
What's your point? That it's unreasonable to expect cops to know how MRIs work? Or unreasonable to expect cops to know how to read?
Important to note at any point they could have talked to staff
I mean.....yes? 🤣 They are fucking dumb.
Those machines cost literally millions of dollars. And we are never getting more Helium unless and until we become more of a spacefaring civilization (we are unreasonably wasteful with Helium as it is - it should never be used for frivolous things like party balloons - it has genuine needs in aerospace, medicine, maybe IT, etc...
Helium is the one element we truly, genuinely 'lose' as it ever so gradually drifts up to the thermosphere and exosphere, and then gets carried away on solar winds.
No need to stress too much about helium. A massive deposit was discovered in Minnesota, and it's very likely there are more deposits which will be searched for if the price climbs enough. Modern MRIs are also significantly more helium efficient.
Thank you, I appreciate knowing about the Minnesota deposit discovery, I was previously unaware of that.
Unironically, this meme covers most "resource shortages". Even things like lithium, we definitely have huge undiscovered deposits. There are just costs associated with finding them and setting up new mines.
Did Matt Stone and Trey Parker write this?
Serious question. Considering the medical context of the situation and the escalating irrationality displayed by many US police officers. Could a lot of these guys have lead poisoning?
Because I shoot at an indoor range with a optional mask advisory, even pre covid. And they're have thick vent filters that clog up often.
Since most station ranges are probably indoors and see constant use; all while passing those particles throughout the building. Add to that the occupants have made ignorance of airborne risks a philosophical cornerstone and the general poor state of infrastructure. Everyone shooting indoors is hot-boxing heavy metals.
Just googled if this is a problem and it's been well documented and ignored since 2017.
Also saw a range with a kids policy which is just wild on every level.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379568/
I'm surprised this hasn't been more of an issue because it has to come up in physical screenings. And the behavioral symptoms line up pretty well. Hyperactivity, poor comprehension, rigid problem solving methods, anger, paranoia.
Seriously, this is a guy that did not understand a sign warning of magnet and destroyed a machine because of his impatience. Hell, the entire station got a report of high energy use and went straight to SWAT raid.
It takes 2 dozen officers to subdue a single unarmed, compliant suspect. Each of them yelling contradictory orders and clinging to their firearms like high caliber security blankets. My favorite is the cop going nuts when an acorn fell on their car.
Its just some outright dystopian nightmare. Police stations are literal monster factories.
Most LEOs in the US fire monthly or less. Department regulations vary, but qualification is usually only required quarterly. Some departments require more, some less, and some officers practice voluntarily, but most don't.
I'd say that their exposure to lead from ranges is far less than someone who is a firearms enthusiast, and definitely less than someone who who works at a range.
The problem of police incompetentance/violence is more cultural, having to do with the culture of police work in the US, the types of people it tends to attract, the type of training that's given, and the punishment and incentive structures that are set up around police.
So I've been reading the study I linked and it looks like police officers are at the lower end of the exposure spectrum so my point may be moot.
But the thing that sent me down this line of thinking was the fact that none of this is local behavior. One bad cop is a single bad cop. A few is a station. Maybe even a state or regional issue. But nationwide just doesn't make sense and there needs to be something more to it. Like so many of those brutality clips feel like a mass psychosis event. They all have PTSD for a war that only happened in their head and they're back in enemy territory. And it's literally their neighborhood.
I've seen plenty of groups with sick cultures and attitudes. But there's always a root or and underlying grievance fueling it. This just seems like wholesale petty abuse.
I'm american and I would love to see the training for police be lengthened and the curriculum expanded in ways that would be likely to increase professionalism and reduce brutality and corruption. I would also like to see bad actors in bad incidents identified in some sort of permanent record that would prevent being hired by a different department. I'm sure there are other improvements to be made but those two would help a lot.
I'm all for training where it helps, but I don't think that's the crux of the issue with police.
The issue as I see it is that police forces are so valuable that communities can't really go without them. More training introduces more time, resources and barriers to making a person a street-ready officer, which is a good thing since a lot of people aren't equipped to be 'street-ready' by default, but it's also a bad thing because when the police you have now don't do what you want them to do, what is your alternative? You can't just sack the whole police force and hire new people that aren't in the union, because you spent so much time and money on the existing force and you'll have to do all of that over again on a new one, assuming there's even enough qualified people out there who want to do that job. So most communities can do nothing except live with the existing unionized force.
The police are uniquely more powerful than ordinary citizens by having a monopoly on force, and then collectively through unions they're even more powerful because there's no competing group that has similar power. Obviously there's many police unions but they're regional and I wonder if that plays a role in why they don't/can't compete. If you have a Cleveland police union, and a Pittsburgh police union, are all the Pittsburgh officers going to leave and go to Cleveland if the city of Cleveland dissolves their deal with the Cleveland union and tries to come to terms with the Pittsburgh union? The amount of money that Cleveland would have to pay to accomplish that would likely be prohibitively high, and generally speaking the union in Pittsburgh likely has the same dynamics at play there and the police there aren't going to be substantially different than the former Cleveland police.
The more the community depends on the police, the more leverage the police unions have.
I think this comment comes across as pretty anti-union-y which I'm not sure if I'm anti-union for police or if I just don't know of a solution to level the playing field, but overall I'd say I'm generally pro-union I just think that police forces are a little more unique than other occupations that make the dynamics of unions different.
It is the case that many occupations have some criticality to them, it wasn't long ago there was news about railway unions striking and eventually even the federal government got involved to the point where a deal was sort of forced upon the parties to ensure operations continued, supposedly because railroads are too vital to our economy to withstand a strike. I don't know the operations of railways enough to make any strong conclusions about that situation but my point is that I don't think this day and age that it happens to be only the police have a critical occupation, our society has become vastly more complex and in many fields more specialized, so you cannot just sack a whole workforce and start over without serious ramifications. Sometimes that is good, and other times it's not. Finding that balance is hard to achieve.
When cop training includes having it drilled into your head that people will be out to get you and you should always be on your guard, yeah that could induce some mild PTSD. They are literally taught that they may need to defend themselves against the people they're "protecting" and "serving."
My brother is a LEO and one of the phrases he picked up during his training is "I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six." I don't know if that was something one of the instructors said or if it was somehow spread among the recruits but that part is somewhat moot. Some LEOs are literally coming out of training with that mindset.
I've heard that from gun owners. It's definitely in that broader culture.
I’ve gone to a gun range across the street from a police training center so most of the clientele are cops. It was astonishing to me how bad they are at marksmanship, almost as a rule. There’s a way to practice a skill to get better at it. It involves constantly checking results and refining your approach to get better. But it feels like most of them just point and shoot and then go again with very little review in between about what they did that they can improve on. It’s just a waste of time at that point.
You know, if this keeps up, I may start to get an unfavorable opinion of the LAPD.
Are we taking bets on if they're going to use "Qualified Immunity" and get off with no major consequences?
Hopefully the fine/settlement will be enough to repair the machine, at least.
What are the odds of it being paid for with taxpayer money?
Um, 100%? Who else would pay the LAPD's bills?
Police union’s insurance or something, I don’t know. I know, I jest.
I don’t know much about what’s going on in California, but I’m surprised to hear that pot raids are still a thing there. I assumed those were now a relic of the past.
I’ve read that legal marijuana is so highly taxed that illegal cultivation is still quite profitable. IMO there are better things for the LAPD to be doing, but this shitshow is par for the course.
More or less what I hear living in the area. Personally, it’s hard to say with certainty what drives the market for illegal grow ops since I’m not into weed (no judgement against anyone who is, it just doesn’t mesh well with my specific brand of ADHD) and don’t follow information about the market closely. Still, I have a suspicion that it’s more nuanced than weed being highly taxed. Mostly just because widespread market phenomenon are usually more complicated than a single reason.
But I know for certain that said grow ops are around. I hear about police raiding a house in the neighborhood every so often, or hear similar stories from friends and family. I once had the opportunity to ask a cop about it directly and they told me some growers are getting wise and setting up in remote areas of the surrounding hills and mountains where they can’t easily be seen. So, clearly there’s a strong demand if people are willing to go through that kind of effort.
Black market prices are difficult to come by, but I would find it interesting to see what like-for-like prices look like in legal states. I do not partake in pot, but having moved from a prohibition state to a legal one recently and reported back to friends in prohibition states. The friends note that the prices, even with the 15% x 2 taxes here (similar to those in California), are lower for higher quality than they get on the black market. Including friends who are small business owners and get their supply at a more wholesale rate.
Of course there's multiple layers to what drives someone in a legal state to use the black market for their marijuana. Some reasons I've seen/been given:
I'm speaking specifically about flower, I think some of what I'm about to say is less applicable to distillate/concentrates and edibles.
For a regular person in California, black market weed is much less expensive than dispensary because of taxes and markups. The quality in dispensaries is really hit or miss, and sometimes it's awful. Old, very very dry, no smell. Sometimes it's fine. But you can't look before you buy. There are some extremely questionable practices in the legal market, related to pesticide use, which are the main reason I will never partake in dispensary weed unless I personally know people who work at that company and vouch for it. Corporations came into this having absolutely no idea what farming is, the corners they try to cut are shocking. I have seen way too much at this point... it's like when you hear your friends who work in food service tell you never to get ice in your drink. I've seen moldy tubs of weed get ground into prerolls, failed pesticide tests go into the supply chain, heavy metals in the soils being ignored. It's bad.
I know a lot of black market and legal market growers. Most of the black market weed is shipped out of state, which legal growers can not do. So part of the motivation for growing illegally is still that out of state price. It's also probably why black market prices in other states are a little higher, the odds are really high it was shipped from California.
In my experience, black market weed is a lot safer and higher in quality. But I live at the source, so it is less true in prohibition states.
So I assume the emergency stop is just dumping the helium into the atmosphere so that the electromagnetic coils lose their superconductivity because the become too hot.
Would a circuit breaker also work? (I'm bad at electricity)
Energized MRI coils contain a ton of energy. In a normal shutdown, you draw that energy down pretty slowly. In an emergency stop, much of the coil energy goes into the helium coolant, which evaporates and must be vented, or it will turn the MRI machine into a bomb.
This is called a "quench", if you want to read more about it.
Thanks ! I looked up on YouTube and there's
funterrifyingfascinating MRI videos. Like how quickly a quenching kills the magnetic field (whoever thought of having that colored strings and paperclips setup is a genius), how it looks from the outside (turns out it's quite the show), and what probably happened to that gun with a bit of imagination (literally off-scale).Good videos to drive home the point.
Reckon that rifle and its parts were bent to hell and unusable?
Circuit breaker may work, but I'm assuming they are using capacitors to run the magnets, which may cause some delay before the magnets actually shut off. This emergency release may be the quickest, safest way.
Ah, makes sense especially since
Maybe it takes longer to slow down that way, rather than having the machine seize up immediately? Not sure either.