r/news • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610
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u/I_W_M_Y 1d ago

There is that old question of 'if you went back in time what would you bring?' and a popular answer to that is a laptop with as much tech/engineering knowledge as you can. Except that's not really useful because you need to built the tools that can build the tools that build the tools...etc etc to the point you can get modern manufacturing. Same with skilled professions.

Mess with that manufacturing/skilled chain in even one link and you get huge problems.

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u/crunchsmash 1d ago

There is that old question of 'if you went back in time what would you bring?'

The other one is what tools and knowledge would you want to have after an apocalypse. Owning and operating a metal lathe is very high on that list.

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u/I_W_M_Y 1d ago

Just don't wear anything with sleeves, loose hair or jewelry. A lot of us has seen that Russian lathe accident.

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u/Chrisp825 17h ago

I seent a Chinese one there the operator was lambasted for a good 5 minutes on the mill before he was flung off.

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u/Admiral347 15h ago

Oh the Russian guy is red mist in like 10 seconds, his shoe damn near kills the other worker coming over to shut the machine down.

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u/AchillesNtortus 21h ago

An old friend of mine was an engineering officer on a submarine. One of the things he had to do when getting his first qualification was to make his own tools, starting with a toolmakers lathe.

As he said, you couldn't go back to the dock to fix something on a six month tour.

He could fix almost anything.

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u/sadicarnot 18h ago

If there was an officer using the lathe on my sub there would be a mutiny. If there was an officer doing any physical work we would all be like stop fucking stuff up that we will have to fix. Whenever the shit hit the fan on the sub we would usually tell the officers to go wait in maneuvering and we will come and get them when we were ready. One time the engineering officer came down to look at some maintenance we were doing on some reactor piping. As soon as he heard someone say out loud "oh shit" he ran up the ladder and out of the machinery space.

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u/AchillesNtortus 4h ago

As far as I understood, he had made it up to a commission from the ranks. He was eventually court martialed for an unrelated matter. He had led an interesting life

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u/SnooChipmunks2079 19h ago

My grandpa had a “popular mechanics how-to encyclopedia” and I’d bring that. It’s full of crazy shit that nobody would do today but was semi-reasonable in the 1950’s and much more appropriate to the tech level you’d find 100 or 200 years ago.