Canonical_Warlock
@Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Anon is 23 16 hours ago:
HVAC is booming right now. That’s about the only bright side of the planet getting hotter.
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 day 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 4 days 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 week 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 week 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' 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Are your feet AI generated?
- Comment on Just me and my cement truck 1 month ago:
Just set ANFOgetaboutit.
- Comment on If it doesn't have sugar or alcohol , I don't want it 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 months ago:
Could also electrocute though if your body is a better path to ground than the bad connection.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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] 2 months ago:
Which head?
- Comment on 2 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 2 months ago:
Unrealistic Male Fantasy #532: Being the loyal henchman of a mafia boss that actually takes care of their people.
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 2 months ago:
I’ve never had youtube block my VPN. Is they just something they only do on chrome or have I just been lucky so far?
- Comment on What is a Lemmy user called? A lemming? 2 months ago:
Fedofiles.
- Comment on When a judge tells the jury to ‘forget XYZ,’ how can the jury possibly do that? 2 months ago:
When I was on the hiring team at work, I googled an applicant and discovered that they were arrested in the 90s for filming themself having sex with a cow. That is increadibly offputting but they had a clean record in the 30 years since then and even if they didn’t it was in no way applicable to the job in question so I simply disregarded that fact. Obviously I still knew they fucked a cow but I simply didn’t consiously factor it into the hiring decision. They did get the job btw.
I imagine it is the same for a jury. Obviously the jury can’t literally forget something that was said but they can consiously choose to disregard it when it comes to their final decision. Obviously it’s not perfect because any information admissable or otherwise will subconsciously influence someones verdict but if they try to actively ignore that info then it is better than nothing.
- Comment on Why are dads like this? 2 months ago:
- Comment on They're somehow always baffled that their cakes are melting 2 months ago:
Not to mention, indoors you have to worry about building code issues. Ansel systems, air exhaust, air makeup, etc. In a temporary structure none of those codes apply. The last thing you want to do is publicly televise breaking the law.
- Comment on oh no guys theyre gonna report us to the FBI 2 months ago:
- Comment on I guessed 2 months ago:
stupid fucking comment
FTFY
- Comment on Haxxed 2 months ago:
Correct. The only way to know for sure is to walk out the airlock and see with your own eyes.
- Comment on Good advice 2 months ago:
*Fuck
- Comment on It has what kids want 2 months ago:
I hope they’ve grown a bit because you should only be feeding babies baby oil.
