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"It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa," Rubio said, regarding students who "participate in movements" (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Okay, but if I pull a lever it will do the same thing as if Chuck Shuemer pulled the lever.

To be clear, I guess this saying applies more to production machinery rather than more complex machines like cranes with a ton of different levers. The lever on a welding press does one thing and you can't make it do something else by pulling the lever. A crane can do a ton of stuff because it has lots of levers that do different things - you can even break the machine just by pulling the levers wrong.

So, maybe the saying isn't as pithy as I thought.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

On reading your original comment I realised you are right. It doesn't matter who pulls the lever.
I'm just being a bit oversensitive about dangerous operation of machinery.