Canonical_Warlock
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- Comment on Why do a lot of frozen salmon thawing instructions say to remove the salmon from the individual wrappers before thawing? 6 days ago:
It’s also made much worse by defrost cycles. During a freezer defrost cycle the air temp in the freezer will often get above freezing. It shouldn’t be above freezing for very long but it can be long enough for the surface of food to thaw very slightly and then refreeze again. This is why food lasts longer in old school chest freezers. Those freezers don’t have any automatic defrost so food isn’t repeatedly slightly thawing and refreezing.
- Comment on Young people five times more likely to have no friends than a decade ago | IPPR 1 week ago:
Sounds like you have friends.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Never heard of it either. Only way I can see it happening is if someone was really drunk.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 weeks ago:
They do but you have to really work at it. I see them all the time as set screws on the fans in commercial ovens. Leave a set screw in an oven for years and that bastard will be so profoundly sized that you can round out even a hex screw.
- Comment on "feminine" 2 weeks ago:
Pile of crusty socks? This is an adult. There should just be a couple of rigid towels.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
There’s also temp agencies. They’re shit and the jobs they give you will be shit but they’re pretty good at finding something for basically anyone who isn’t completely unemployable. Someone whose only issues are a lack of transportation, housing, and work history would still be considered a good get by most temp agencies.
- Comment on You can trust me 3 weeks ago:
I’m a service tech. I frequently ask staff at places I’m working if they can shut off the alarm one one of those doors so I can use a door closer to my van. The alarms are almost never enabled to begin with. Hell, it seems like half of those doors never even get latched. The sign seems to be the main security measure on many of those doors.
- Comment on It's gay to brush your teeth 3 weeks ago:
Just release some fake research about how vitamin C estrogenizes you.
- Comment on Anon is 23 5 weeks ago:
If it was then I didn’t interpret it that way at all. It’s all good. The job does frequently suck and anyone doing it solely for the money is going to be miserable.
- Comment on Anon is 23 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, it makes the jobs suck much worse. But the pay is still nice. Or at least that’s what I tell myself whenever I find myself working in a location where the dewpoint is getting concerningly close to body temp.
- Comment on Anon is 23 5 weeks ago:
HVAC is booming right now. That’s about the only bright side of the planet getting hotter.
- Comment on Anon is 23 5 weeks ago:
I’m in the US and I never got any formal education in my trade (HVAC-R). Most of the techs here didn’t. The few techs we’ve hired who did go to trade school came out of it with practically no knowledge which couldn’t easily be taught on the job in a couple months. It seems like, for HVAC at least, the tradeschool programs teach enough that maybe you could manage some light residential work, but they barely touch on refrigeration, let alone the heavy commercial and industrial refrigeration we often do. When evaluating candidates, a tradeschool cert means less than a year of experience in some sort of maintenance position.
The same seems to be true of many other trades. At least in my state no certs are required or even beneficial to become a licensed plumber or electrician. Those liscenses are all based solely on years of experience. Technically you can become a master electrician solely with an electrical engineering degree and 0 years of experience but if you have that degree then you probably have better jobs available to you.
- Comment on Pervert cancer 1 month ago:
You never know. My dad has been a life long handyman but he also has MS. His body still works pretty damn well considering his age but that’s only until he gets too warm and his legs suddenly stop responding. He can still do most of the things he used to do just only in short stints. However, prolonged physical exertion leaves him unable to walk.
There are a lot of handicapped people who will look perfectly fine to the average person but may have a limited ability to remain fully physically abled for more that short periods of time.
- Comment on Anon works in an office 1 month ago:
Basically every factory has people like that. I used to be one in an electronics plant. Basically you just start at a shit factory job, as long as you have 2 braincells to rub together you will eventually become a machine operator, then you just rotate around until you learn every machine. Once you know all the machines you’re basically a shoe in for an engineering support job like process technician. Then your whole job is to sit around and put out fires as needed.
- Comment on Anon tries something new 1 month ago:
Asexual ≠ Sex Repulsed
Asexual = No Sexual Attraction
There are ace folks who are sex repulsed but it isn’t the same thing. You can still have a sex drive without being sexually attracted to anyone. It’s definitely not the norm but one ace person I know will basically screw anyone because it’s all the same to her. While that’s a bit of an extreme example, there are plenty of sex positive ace folks out there. Personally I don’t feel sexual attraction but I still crave intimacy and sex is pretty intimate so it still fills that.
- Comment on UK heatwave leave fridges struggling to 'deal with the heat' 2 months ago:
Clean the condenser coils and I’m willing to bet that will fix most of them. It is absurd how often I get called out to fix a “broken” fridge/freezer only to see the condenser looking like an uncleaned drier lint trap. This includes big systems. The condenser coils for walk-in coolers/freezers and AC systems should be hosed out at least twice per year. I’ve probably spent most of the past month fixing “broken” refrigeration systems with nothing but a garden hose.
- Comment on brand new sentence 2 months ago:
Not to defend the guy but when I got my wisdom teeth removed they wouldn’t let me walk. They said it was a liability thing that any time they discharged a patient who received any amount of anesthetic in the prior 24 hours they had to wheel the patient out in a wheelchair. So I had to sit in the chair until they got me out the hospital doors but after that they didn’t give a fuck what I did.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Protip, just tell them it’s a business number. I’ve done that twice and suddenly the number of spam calls I get dropped off a cliff.
- Comment on Sorry, honey 2 months ago:
I don’t even get woken at all.
Are you still sleeping?
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 months ago:
Basically. We had previously driven the screw worm south of the darian gap and we had been keeping it there by continuously dropping sterile flys across the region to prevent them from breeding. But the mitigation measures were cut to save money so now we’re back to having screw worm in the US.
- Comment on Finally found a pair of pants that fit very good 2 months ago:
Are your feet AI generated?
- Comment on Just me and my cement truck 3 months ago:
Just set ANFOgetaboutit.
- Comment on If it doesn't have sugar or alcohol , I don't want it 3 months ago:
Damn that’s an expensive garrage cooler. Nice get. I hope it’s a conditioned garrage though. That cooler doesn’t like high or low ambient temps.
- Comment on outsmarted 3 months ago:
That’s way too mich effort spent on those morons. If they don’t have the money then I tell them leave and go back to what I was doing before. I am not about to spend any amount time entertaining someone who is trying to rip me off. I don’t even care if they somehow “find” the rest of the money. I’m done dealing with them. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
- Comment on heater 3 months ago:
I remember one time I was at a large industrial site working on a cabinet cooler (dedicated air conditioning for large electrical cabinets) on a motor drive cabinet which was was running 480V 3 phase with feeder wires the size of my thumb when their safety guy walked by and saw me poking at the cooler fan with a screwdriver. The conversation went something like this.
Safety guy looking rather concerned: “What are you doing?”
Me: “Cabinet is getting warm because the cooler quit. The fan motor isn’t running so I’m trying to give it a bump start with a screwdriver to see if the motor is siezed. Gotta do it this way because otherwise I have to pull the whole cooler off the cabinet to access it properly.”
Safety: “You know those wires there are 480V right?”
Me: “Yup.”
Safety: “You know those will kill you if you touch them right?”
Me: “That’s why I’m not touching them.”
- Comment on heater 3 months ago:
Could also electrocute though if your body is a better path to ground than the bad connection.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Wearing nothing but booty shorts with “straight man” bedazzled on the ass and a feather boa in straight pride colors.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Which head?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
If its the stuff I’m thinking of then the grenage will definitely bounce. That film is called huricane film because it’s designed to stop debris hucked by huricane force winds. If someone can pitch a grenade through that stuff then they have a future in MLB.
- Comment on Goon 3 months ago:
Unrealistic Male Fantasy #532: Being the loyal henchman of a mafia boss that actually takes care of their people.