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    28 days ago

    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.