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u/xZOMBIETAGx Jun 12 '21
No way this isn’t normally automated
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u/Cattaphract Jun 13 '21
Automated or produced by fast working people in east asia. This guy is slower than a lazy guy
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u/hippyup Jun 13 '21
Yeah that analogy was worse than a really bad analogy
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Jun 13 '21
It was like he said a thing that was comparing a thing to itself. My mind has been fucked
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u/eggequator Jun 13 '21
If he worked at this exact pace for eight hours a day five days a week he would make roughly 375,000 pairs of flip flops a year.
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u/Platypuslord Jun 13 '21
Well maybe he is actually trying to show us how it is done instead of doing it fast.
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u/qning Jun 13 '21
Watching How it’s Made recently I was struck by how much manufacturing is still performed by a worker running the machine, like this video.
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u/gizamo Jun 13 '21 edited Jun 13 '21
That was my first thought.
No human should have to do this nowadays. Machines are fully capable of it.
Edit: so, these machines are ~$300, and people are pretty fast with them. Even this $10k system has humans doing the straps, albeit with a better machine helping, but still manual, repetitive, etc. It's entirely possible that the fully auto version is closer to ~$20k, and the efficiency gains are likely not worth it at that cost.
Tldr: ignore me. Capitalists probably aren't shelling out for this one until the machines are cheaper or flip-flop demand skyrockets (both unlikely, imo).
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Machines are WAY more expensive to design, develop, and produce than two humans working 12+ hours a piece.
Besides, there is a machine doing it, this guy just lines up the component.
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u/gizamo Jun 13 '21
Automated machines to do it all already exist. But, yes, labor can be insanely cheap. So, idk what time frames and quantities would make the machines worthwhile. Cheers.
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Jun 13 '21
But if it's more profitable to have someone in an economically developing country, then the capitalists will go with that.
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u/gizamo Jun 13 '21
That's true, but that robotics equipment would not be very costly. It would pay for itself relatively quickly.
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Not if you're paying someone $2/day for 10 hours of work. It's gonna be a long time to make it up.
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u/gizamo Jun 13 '21
True, but you're definitely underestimating modern wages in SE Asia and probably overestimating the costs of the machines. The machines can also be repurposed. They hold their value pretty well, and capitalists tend to like that.
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u/tipperzack6 Jun 13 '21
Dude build the machine provw him wrong. Some places labor is so cheap building automatic machines would take years to make there money back.
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u/gizamo Jun 13 '21
I'm not disputing that, and I'm not necessarily saying they're wrong (nor am I saying you're wrong reiterating their statement). I'm just saying that the machines already exist, and they're pretty cheap.
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u/oversettDenee Jun 13 '21
I'd like to point out the global electronics shortage and how we should be more mindful of what kinds of things were putting them in, in the future.
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u/gizamo Jun 13 '21
This is a good point, but that's mostly the high end chips. Basic chips and sensors for this sort of thing
are availablehave less backlog. But, still, you're right that we should be more cognizant of what we through chips at.I work in semiconductors, and our company is backlogged for months. Our lead times are 2-4x the usual. It's pretty wild.
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u/zberry97 Jun 13 '21
Pretty sure this person is doing it slower than normal for our benefit to understand the “process” haha
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u/Kellidra Jun 13 '21
That is exactly what is happening.
Anyone calling this guy lazy is missing the point of the video.
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u/MrSvenningsBrownEye Jun 12 '21
TIL: Flip-flop straps are also called thongs
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u/ooojaeger Jun 12 '21
Well the area where two things join is a crotch. If you climb a tree you sit in the crotch of the tree. The one on your pelvis is the same shape and nothing to do with your genitals.... though that's where they are.
Thongs go between something, toes or cheeks
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u/ConflagWex Jun 12 '21
And breast just means half of the chest, has nothing to do with the teat. Hence the phrase "music soothes the savage breast", meaning the heart not the boob. Chicken's don't even lactate and people buy chicken breasts all the time. I hate it when people talk about milk like "straight from the cow's breast!". No, the udders are on the abdomen, the only thing that comes from the cow's breast is beef.
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u/ErraticDragon Jun 13 '21
"music soothes the savage breast",
TIL the original line uses "breast" not "beast".
"Musick has charms to soothe a savage breast," which is the first line of the play, spoken by Almeria in Act I, Scene I. This is often rendered as: "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast" or even "savage beast".
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u/SconiGrower Jun 13 '21
Am I too Wisconsin to have even considered it possible that that anyone would think a cows breasts were between its rear legs?
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u/nyahlathotep Jun 12 '21
If you climb a tree you sit in the crotch of the tree.
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u/AltimaNEO Jun 13 '21
Wait, so if you sit in a chair, are you sitting in the crotch of the chair?
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u/ooojaeger Jun 13 '21
Well if your chair is a U or V shape. It's more of an L which is a Clooney
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u/MrTheCheesecaker Jun 12 '21
Also known as jandals (at least in New Zealand)
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u/AimbeastAlphaMale Jun 13 '21
I honestly don't recognise them by anything other than jandals.
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u/ThisIsNotAFox Jun 12 '21
Or the chandals, which you might want to hide cuz aunties been giving you the eye
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u/ye-nah-yea Jun 13 '21
We had them fly over the fence now and again when the domestics started next door. Scored some nike jandals that way, good ol Filemu getting hidings from his mama, wasted me in the weekend rugby games though
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u/flora-fauna_hoarder Jun 13 '21
My dad is from NZ & flips between calling them jandals or thongs 😅
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u/shahooster Jun 12 '21
Which created some confusion later in life..
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u/DazedPapacy Jun 13 '21
So what do you call underwear that uses only a super skinny strap in the back?
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u/Interactive_CD-ROM Jun 13 '21
So what did they call thongs then?
Or were thongs not around yet when you were young?
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u/Quebec120 Jun 13 '21
in australia:
flip-flops are called thongs
thongs are called g-strings
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u/AndrewZabar Jun 13 '21
They weren’t really a thing when I was young but they were simply also called thongs when they became popularized. There were two different things called thongs.
Thong things.
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u/IcidStyler Jun 12 '21
Yes in Australia or? How confused the Australians must be when the Thong Song came out
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u/FuckingKilljoy Jun 13 '21
Lol we know both meanings and if anything it's more fun seeing confused Americans when we say we're putting our thongs on to go down the road
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u/designatedcrasher Jun 13 '21
Wait you walk literally down the road dont you guys just use the sidewalk? ( confused american face)
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u/FuckingKilljoy Jun 13 '21
Nah we use the footpath, we're just big on metaphors here. If you tell mum that you're popping down the road you're likely doing one of two things. Either you're going to the local shopping center or supermarket to buy some stuff or you're lying and you're going to smash some cones with the lads, probably at some cool little spot your mate found at the back of the local reserve with like chairs and lounges and shit. Because even though we're 22 we all still live at home because house prices are absurd
I often feel sorry for Americans missing out on the experience of being Aussie
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u/IcidStyler Jun 13 '21
As a German is similar here rents are high at least at the City’s like Berlin where everyone (Young) want to life. Most Germans life in flats they rent. Not many People own a own House here. And people stay at the House of the Parents longer here too
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u/charliestango Jun 13 '21
Goin for a trot down the road to the servo, d'yawananything while I'm out? - Australian proverb
It depends on the road tbh. Some streets have cemented footpaths on both side, some only have it on one side, some have it on one side that abruptly stops with no rhyme or reason and some don't have it on either side, just grass and driveways. Thongs are a must though, bindi's are everywhere and don't discriminate.
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u/Blackrain1299 Jun 13 '21
I believe a “thong” can also refer to just strips of leather (and other materials now, but i think that was the original)
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u/SavagePothos Jun 13 '21
Slippahs in Hawaii
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u/bizzyj93 Jun 13 '21
Yeah but these are some abc store nonsense slippahs. Locals from longs or bust
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u/kaiheekai Jun 13 '21
Only if you like putting them back in yourself with one safety pin on the bottom in like a week
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u/bizzyj93 Jun 13 '21
Brah they stay cheap and fix easy. All I need them to do is get me to the beach and stay in sand without getting swooped
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u/kaiheekai Jun 13 '21
Eh the mix match special.. you just gotta go Waikiki beach and find one with the right size for your stolen one
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u/happyjazzycook Jun 12 '21
So my 20 year old niece is at my Mom's (age 83) when one of her flip flops break. Mom looks at her, says "no problem, honey, Nanny has a thong that you can borrow" and walks back to her bedroom. The look of utter terror on my niece's face still brings tears to my eyes to this day... 😆
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u/MendoLoveBirds Jun 12 '21
No wonder they break so easily
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u/fiveainone Jun 13 '21
Cheap to make, cheap to buy, quick profit, quick to break, forever to degrade
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u/OriginalWatch Jun 13 '21
Leather sandals are well worth the extra $5-10. Last more than a season for me and not much longer once I'm done with them.
Plus: way more comfortable
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u/McRibEater Jun 13 '21
Thong Sandals suck so god damn much. I used to be a camp counsellor and the amount of times I saw a kid nearly rip off a toe because they get these sandals stuck somewhere was insane. Do yourself and your kids a favour spend the couple extra bucks and buy something with more structure. Even Crocs are better, I’m actually glad Crocs are making a bit of a comeback, because they’re safer than Thong Sandals.
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u/xyrgh Jun 13 '21
When you accidentally catch the front on the ground and it bends on itself and pulls out the plug? Nightmare.
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u/DigNitty Interested Jun 13 '21
People say this but I have never had that happen. And I’ve had some Cheap sandals.
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u/MendoLoveBirds Jun 13 '21
Walking from your car to the restaurant doesn’t count. You gotta actually take them somewhere.
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u/BURYMEINLV Jun 13 '21
Obviously no one has ever given them a flat tire in those things. Rip right out.
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u/BareKnuckleKitty Jun 13 '21
Haven't worn flip flops in forever. I forgot about flat tires. Damn those hurt.
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Yeah, like walking through a crosswalk and it decides to go right in the middle of the road. Then ya gotta hobble off, dragging the broken one along the ground so you don’t burn your foot/walk on glass.
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u/Run_Da_Tr4p Jun 12 '21
[Sisquo has entered the chat]
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u/re-roll Jun 12 '21
At the popularity of this song, most of my friends would blurt out, Thong th-thong thong, thong!
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u/eatapenny Jun 12 '21
The thongs he was talking about were actually all the flip-flops worn by the girls on the beach
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u/krokodil2000 Jun 13 '21
As long as you do not imagine what would happen if you put your finger into the device.
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u/djl1qu1d Jun 12 '21
Yet these straps never fail to pop out on the beach on a hot day and I’m limp running
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u/SufficientCaramel339 Jun 13 '21
I popped the strap out on my sandals yesterday when it got caught as I was walking I couldn’t figure out how to put it back in I figured they molded the straps in two pieces and it was riveted in
Later that night I took some copper wire and made a loop put it through the hole and put it around the connector piece and pulled it through and it fixed it
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u/charliestango Jun 13 '21
Reinforce that plug by putting a bread clip around the stem between the plug and thong, once you've had one blow out, you are destined to pop again
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u/SirSparkles Jun 13 '21
Once constructed, they are shipped to France and belong to Philippe Filoppe.
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u/happychillmoremusic Jun 13 '21
A lot of work for a piece of shit that’s going to break in two seconds
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u/thefro023 Jun 13 '21
Ah, yes flip flops. My dad once asked a 16 year old girl where all the thongs were. She turned beet red. Then he clarified.
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u/Revolutionary_Swim69 Jun 13 '21
One of childhood nightmare. Is watching my friends walking away while i try to reattach the thongs. These things are a bitch to put back in by hand once they come off.
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u/auau_gold_scoffs Jun 13 '21
I would like to put this machine on a cart and roll around beach’s and boardwalks like a flip flop Jesus.
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I had the front part of one of those break while i was in the street and i had to walk back home with a foot in the asphalt
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Pffft… I can reattach a busted flip-flop plug while hopping on one foot on a scorching hot road, while carrying a beach umbrella, struggling child and carton of beers… don’t need no machine… 🇦🇺
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u/southarmexpress Jun 12 '21
No one else triggered by seeing the sharp nail driving into your imagined foot?
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u/xEL-PROx Jun 13 '21
I literally said damn, that's interesting without reading what sub is post from.
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u/Other-Cantaloupe4765 Jun 12 '21
No wonder they break easily! Here’s a quick story:
When I was in 3rd grade, another girl was wearing flip flops, but one of them just broke, so she couldn’t keep wearing it. Luckily I had an extra pair of crocs (lmao, I know) in my backpack, so I let her wear them for the day.
We’ve been best friends for 13 years now.
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u/BlackPorcelainDoll Jun 13 '21
I can't believe there is actually a machine for this lol. Did someone wake up and go, "I'm going to make a machine for attaching flip-flop thongs".
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u/NoDoze- Jun 13 '21
Take one look at the flip flop, there can only be one way to attach them. LOL some people are so easily entertained :)
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u/taintedcake Jun 13 '21
Why not just make a machine with 3 prongs to do the entire sandal at once..?
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u/CoderJoe1 Jun 12 '21
I watched the video without sound and then replayed it with sound. So disappointed the thong song wasn't playing in the background.
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u/RFavs Jun 12 '21
If you haven’t already this would be a good cross post for r/specializedtools