SoleInvictus

@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they want⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I got a Switch so my partner and I could play games with their sister. It collects dust as it turns out my partner has no interest in learning to play games and I can play modded Switch games with better graphics on my PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing Grace⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a shit post at all. Don’t take it down, but it’s not shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was poly for about a decade. There’s a lot of solid advice in this thread. The only point I want to hammer home is the amount of drama inherent to human relationships increases significantly. It doesn’t just double: going from a two to three person relationship it quadruples.

  Nothing disastrous or even bad happened due to being poly. I don’t regret it at all and would consider it again in the future. When I met my current partner and they said they wanted to be monogamous, though, I was happy to take a break.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 11foot8 bridge opens another big can⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oil for the oil Lord!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anybody hates real-time combat. That feels like a strawman.

  I do, but just because I have a disability that makes more button presses painful and turn-based tends to have fewer per hour. I also know others who dislike real-time because they’re bad at it. I agree with your sentiment completely, though. Liking real-time isn’t exclusive of also enjoying turn-based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not op, but I love tea; however, if the restaurants I frequent started replacing their drinks with a new lineup that ultimately all boiled down to variations on Darjeeling, I’d eventually find myself tired of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Talking story is my favorite part of EHS! I’ve spent a lot of time working in the semiconductor industry. It uses some terrible chemicals, one of which is hydrofluoric acid, HF. HF is awful. Exposure to moderate amounts usually doesn’t do anything. Not immediately. Without treatment, a very painful burn will appear about 24-36 hours later, as if by magic, due to liquefaction necrosis: it dissolves your tissue into a jelly. Small burns just hurt a lot, big burns can result in abscesses.

  It has a very high affinity for calcium, so a single large exposure can result in cardiac arrest due to it binding the calcium in your blood. Chronic exposure to low levels can lead to it leeching the calcium out of your bones, resulting in bones collapsing or simply dying. This is very painful.

  Despite it being scary, it’s dead simple to work with: don’t get it on your skin. If you do, wash it off, slather on a calcium gel, and it’ll likely be like nothing happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Awww, thanks! I’ve worked in some dangerous industries, which tends to make employees very grateful that I’m actively working to keep their bones undissolved (not exaggerating), so I luckily get a lot of love in between the safety cop jokes. Plus if they’re nice to me I’ll show them where they won’t get caught napping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, please argue with me! I always tell my crews to call me out if they disagree. I’m not perfect, I get things wrong. It’s hokey but true: safety is a team effort.

  I would recommend bringing up the OSHA guidelines as suggestions on how to improve the workplace and thereby worker morale. There likely isn’t much that’s enforceable that they could report to OSHA as it stands - they seem to be closer to “really damn uncomfortable” territory than imminent danger, but there may be more to this situation I’m not aware of. Getting OSHA in for something unrelated but enforceable is a good tactic too. Keep in mind a certain dipshit administration has cut funding and gutted agencies, so response times may be slow.

  I do caution folks to be strategic about speaking up and filing complaints, and to keep a detailed CYA paper trail of EVERYTHING they can for at least a year afterwards, more if they have a sketchy employer. While it’s illegal to retaliate, at-will employment makes it really easy to do so anyhow. I know - I, the damn safety person, once got fired for getting hurt on the job!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are 100% correct about concern for wet bulb temperature above body temperature, although we start getting concerned at a couple of degrees below body temperature too. The environment has to be a bit cooler so waste heat can be dumped fast enough, otherwise body temperature will begin to increase. Two degrees cooler is barely enough and it’s a miserable experience if you’re doing anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Preface: I work in environmental, health, and safety, and industrial hygiene, so this is my job. Not stating I know all there is to know, just that I know some.

  The problem is those are all recommendations, not regulations, so nothing there is enforceable. The NWS heat index advice is meant for the general population without accounting for any mitigating conditions - it’s a catch-all recommendation. It’s meant for you, me, and my 400 pound, 90 year old neighbor with congestive heart failure, all sitting in direct sun without any water or moving air. Millions of people work in hotter conditions on a regular basis, and can do so safely as long as extensive precautions are taken. It’s not comfortable, but it’s safe as long as people are smart about it. Is OP’s employer being smart? Maybe. Let’s go through it together!

  Let’s go off of Cal/OSHA’s guidelines, which is a decent program. I think it needs a hard “stop working it’s too damn hot” cutoff, but that’s just me (and every other safety person). Anyhow… if OP has hit 95°F, with a relative humidity of 50%, their heat index is 105. For anything above 80°F, employees need access to a nearby cooler rest area below 82°F. A work environment at 87+°F (82°F w/ hot clothing or high radiant heat) triggers a further response from the employer, foremost in the form of feasible engineering controls - things that make it cooler. This could include air conditioning but, for a larger workplace environment, often ends up being ventilation in the form of big industrial fans since HVAC is massively expensive. Don’t discount the fans, though - I got one at auction and they seriously kick ass. If the employer can afford HVAC but opts for fans, it’s still legal as long as fans work sufficiently (i.e., this wouldn’t fly in a foundry but is fine in many factories), but the employer is just a piece of shit. 'Murica! Past that, we go to administrative controls - changing what people do. This includes mandatory 14 day acclimation periods for new employees, breaks in an air-conditioned space, scheduled hydration, monitoring for non-acclimated employees, and an emergency response plan. Then we’re on to PPE - neck fans, cooling vests, ice packs, etc. The stuff you use when everything else still doesn’t quite cut it.

  I don’t know the exact details of op’s workplace but, based on what they’ve communicated, their workplace likely isn’t a serious hazard for a reasonably healthy, heat-acclimated adult taking at least most of the above heat illness precautions. I need more info (like if they’re working with ovens or other heat producing equipment) but my professional, somewhat off-the-cuff recommendation is employees be dressed appropriately, acclimated to the temperature, remain hydrated, take periodic rest breaks in an air conditioned space (I’d advise 10 minutes on the hour, maybe more), and implement a monitoring/emergency response program. Work won’t be comfortable, but it’s unlikely to hurt anyone based on my current, incomplete understanding. Is their boss a giant turd for not getting HVAC when building a helipad was a consideration? Definitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course! And seriously, hit me up if you need any EHS advice or some real official sounding verbiage. I got laid off so I suddenly have a lot of free time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in environmental, health, and safety, and industrial hygiene, so workplace safety is my jam. You are correct that the regs are shit. Unless you live in one of five states with heat related regulations, you’re really only covered by OSHA’s general duty clause, which can be summed up as “employers have to at least make a good faith effort to do the bare minimum to not hurt their employees”. It sucks.

  For workplace temperature, what you’ll want to look at is wet-bulb temperature, not the dry-bulb reading provided by a thermostat. You can find online calculators that’ll calculate it by temperature and relative humidity. Wet bulb is the measurement accounting for evaporative cooling, so a better approximation of what temperature a human body experiences. Theoretically, a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C (95°F) or more isn’t sustainable and will always lead to heat illness with sustained exposure. Around 30°C (about 85°F) is where we start seeing issues if people don’t consider any steps to avoid heat illness.

  It gets tricky from there as there are a ton of variables to determining a safe temperature, e.g., hydration, environmental radiant heat, cardiovascular health, level of acclimation, nature of the work, body mass, break frequency, access to air conditioned spaces, etc.

  For example, at 94°F, a healthy adult performing moderate physical activity out of the sun (or away from any other heat source) should be fine up to about 75% humidity, assuming they are dressed appropriately, acclimated to the temperature, remain hydrated, and take periodic rest breaks (I’d advise 10 minutes on the hour).

  Let me know if I can help at all. I love heat, but working in it is just miserable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: OSHA recommendations aren’t enforceable. Not supporting this, but the only way you can get traction on workplace temperature (unless you’re in California, Colorado, Minnesota, Oregon, or Washington) is under the general duty clause. While a smart employer keeps their employees safe and reasonably comfortable, all federal OSHA requires is that you vaguely don’t hurt them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gutless. Flourishing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fully and forevially delitized tube worm. Permanently ham and cream cheese plume, permanently bologna tube, foreverial ham and cheese trunk, forever tied up and loving it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York City Mayoral Primary Election Results 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Awww yeah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want these walls back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It must be a regional thing as we’re probably about the same age. Growing up in CA, I frequently saw portions of walls made of these, especially in businesses and universities. One house by me had a cool turret staircase with alternating wall sections made of these glass bricks. There wasn’t much privacy at night, although you could only make out vague shapes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use chrome once or twice a year, when I need to figure out if a website problem is my browser or the site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i'm old graeg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy now, fuzzy little man peach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The roses, of course. Ow.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  DARK FISH KREW 4 LYFE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still like FF12, although I’ve never beaten it. I had no idea people disliked it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(゜O゜;⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course! I’m a biologist, I try to use my powers for good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(゜O゜;⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Functional changes in coloration are much “easier” (read: more likely) to develop through random mutation than functional changes to complex mechanical structures like bone structure or musculature. Given their predecessors were already under selective pressure by predation for millions of years prior, it’s reasonable to assume they’d developed countershading (light bottom, dark top). Plus current agnathans are usually pretty dull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a mysteria⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely. The minimum infective dose is around 10-100 million CFUs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just had a guy in his early thirties gush at great length about making AI “art” and “music”, literally right after talking about how he highly values artistic creation. It was gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner and I have surprisingly little in common when it comes to interests. I like a lot of nerd stuff: homelab, 3d printing, robotics, brewing, welding, woodworking, sci-fi, etc. They like not nerd stuff: copaganda shows, murder porn (podcasts and documentaries), dog training, cooking, etc. I like metal, they like jangly indie, we both like punk. We both love cats.

  We also both hate small talk, so we only discuss what we find to be pertinent or interesting. Since we have a lot of individual interests, we actually have a lot to talk about. We just had a really great conversation on using Docker or a VM to circumvent some silly online testing issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Company agrees to 4-day week at full pay—worker reveals dramatic result⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really the best. Those three days are completely useless for anything other than work, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I felt sorry for them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Arrrr! 🦜🏴‍☠️⛵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't fooled by planes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a really thoughtful take, I’m glad you shared. I think it has merit. I think proximity is a factor too. The public rarely gets up close to a jet, but I can attest from personal experience they seem much faster when you’re closer during takeoff and landing.