_bcron

@_bcron@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The torque better not be too strong with this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Torx is cool and all but all the touted virtues such as less cam-out go out the window if you have to drive them in at wonky angles, like tight fitting spaces. If you gotta angle the driver it’s not gonna seat well at all, apt to jump and wear out your bit. And if your only T20 rolls away and falls under a deck, yuck, 10mm problems.

  Phillips has a place and that place is ‘a wonky place to hold a power drill’. That said I’m a huge fan of square head because it’s a happy medium between those two

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any important document I have is named ‘yyyymmdd(number)(briefdescription)’. Sort by name or date, I don’t care

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It has nothing to do with your right to work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The most common argument I’ve heard, totally boiled down: “unions just protect the bad workers and if there weren’t unions the best workers would be able to get get paid more than those guys”.

  But I also hear this kinda stuff predominantly from people who aren’t in professions that commonly benefit from collective bargaining. Most pipefitters understand that even a free rider benefits from collective bargaining, and that without unions it’s more often a race to the bottom rather than getting obscene raises for meritous reasons. The dude who drives parts for NAPA or whatever is usually the guy to say unions are dumb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll be thinking the same thing tho and if there is a greater than 20% chance of them pulling the lever it’d be worse in terms of losing family members than not pulling at all.

  But in terms of overall death, not pulling the lever is 1 or 4, and pulling the lever is 4 or 13

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The outcome from both levers pulled is so steep that it really makes no sense to pull the lever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiger Predators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen people get out of vehicles to try to take selfies with grizzly bear cubs. But yeah you get slapped once by either and you’re pretty much dead if you aren’t within 10 minutes to a hospital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at your bodies, women! An internal inguinal canal less likely to cause a hernia, lower center of gravity, higher body fat, and less body hair for easier cleanup. God created you for spending long hours in the coal mines!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No excuse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s say you turn right to park in a spot but your turning radius sucks so you’re at an angle and your rear right is really close to the next car.

  Crank the wheel right as far as it’ll go and crawl forward a handful of inches so the front of your car is equally close to the car on the right and you’re parallel with that car but really close.

  Straighten your wheels, reverse out all parallel to that car until your front bumper clears that car, then crank the wheel left and crawl in reverse a handful of inches, until the rear of the car is aiming in the other direction.

  Straighten the wheel and crawl another couple of inches, until your rear axle is centered in the space, then put it in drive and pull right in now that the rear is centered

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home Depot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t vouch for the others but I just remember seeing that truck pic make its rounds on reddit. Hard to tell what’s real and not with the compression in this pic tho and with all the AI stuff floating around, never hurts to be skeptical!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home Depot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That one’s real tho - higher res image here. Truck beds are mega flimsy up top aside from the stake pockets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home Depot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got carried away with a 2004 Chevy Cavalier coupe at Ikea like 15 years ago. I bought a bedframe, nightstand, dresser, and a couple cheap wood chairs.

  And then I saw a small cheap couch and decided to grab it impulsively on my way to checkout like it was a pack of gum or something.

  I got everything except the couch to just barely barely fit, and I started looking at that huge box for the couch and thought “have I lost my mind” and had to go back in and return it right then and there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Useless Otters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And then we have beavers which have seemingly mastered the use of gates in order to direct and impede flow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to be ethical⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They still don’t want an honest 95%+ ethical person in any role because it might conflict with the corporation’s desire to have workers rationalize that the needs of the corporation are more important than ethics, ie not wanting to hire potential whistleblowers.

  They want ethical but only to the point that they’re willing to be unethical for the corporation, but not to the point that they’d ever be unethical towards the corporation. Basically sketchy ‘ride or die’ logic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon rides a bike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gross metabolic efficiency is gonna be around ~25% so you’re best off measuring kilojoules of work as an approximation of calorie burn, and then compare that to how many gallons of gas would be consumed when in a car, but you’d still probably wanna drink the gas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon rides a bike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Be me

  Download Pokemon Go

  Start running to work

  Gotta catch them all

  4 months later run a 50K

  “What was your training like?”

  “I dunno, run more?”

  (true story back in 2022)