mrgoosmoos
@mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Is this true for Germans? 1 day ago:
*bagger
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 1 day ago:
no bylaws against stuff like this? we typically have bylaws against this for reasons like rodent attraction
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 1 day ago:
automated machine design
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 2 days ago:
this is why the final step of our hiring process (don’t worry, there are only three steps, one of which is simply a short HR screening call) is to come to the shop and walk around and look at stuff about talk about it effectively
if you can’t do that, you can’t do the job, because that’s like half the job.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
no, only having sex with women is gay now, didn’t you hear
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 1 week ago:
nah mate isn’t this like a “near miss” situation ?
/s
- Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
your Sienna isn’t much bigger than my car despite having twice the cargo volume. vans rule. my buddy’s similar year Sienna treated our group well as a hauler to many events, rain snow or shine, with multiple people and gear.
I love driving next to vehicles where my head doesn’t go above their wheel well. fuck, some stock trucks have that height these pasts few years. and it’s not like I drive a Miata… for fuck’s sake even a BRZ is smaller than my car. and a (old) Miata is like half the size of a BRZ
- Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
dude I lose my Subaru Outback sometimes
newer ones will park next to me and they dwarf it in size, everything is taller and wider and longer
- Comment on Facts 1 week ago:
yeah that’s why I’m waiting until I have time lol, so when that happens I don’t care. just gotta rotate out some hobbies after I get some projects done first
- Comment on Facts 1 week ago:
I want to go to your bar
also, I’m older than you but haven’t played morrowind yet. been waiting until I can set aside a few hours a week reliably
- Comment on Can I use your shower? 1 week ago:
I’ve used that shampoo before.
good stuff.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
one thing that makes me feel better about tasks like this is that I try to double them up with general cleanup
I made a mess of my garage fiddling with all the lathe stuff, but when I cleaned that up, I also did two other outstanding cleanup tasks in there, so it’s a net positive.
well, except for the wallet
new chuck works great, though. now if only I had a carriage and crosslide setup so I didn’t have to turn parts by hand like on a wood lathe, then I could get more accurate parts…
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
I wanted to kill a rat in my garden, so I borrowed my parents’ air rifle. but the scope was too tiny to be any use at night, so I bought an air rifle with a bigger scope. but that rifle sucked and an internal part broke, so I bought a proper one. but I still have the crappy one and want to tinker with it, so I printed some replacement parts. but I want to make proper replacement parts that will withstand impact abuse, so I need to turn them on a lathe. but my lathe is just a wood lathe, so I designed and printed a four jaw chuck. but it’s not any good for parts requiring more than one setup, so I bought a cheap real 3 jaw chuck. but it didn’t come with the adapter plate to mount to my spindle, so I tried to buy one. but there doesn’t seem to be any suitable adapter plate for sale that will fit both my chuck and my spindle (there’s one that is close, but would require machining to make it fit - machining that I can’t do without a lathe), so I decided I’ll just drill mount holes through my existing faceplate. but that faceplate isn’t true with the shaft, so if I want to mount my chuck on it and have it be useful then I need to turn it true. but I don’t have carbide tools for metal lathing, so I needed to buy some. and I need to locate the holes that I need to drill to mount the chuck, so I drew up and am printing an template. and that’s where I’m at right now, waiting for that to finish printing, so I can center punch the bolt holes.
so that I can mount a chuck, to turn a replacement part for an air rifle that isn’t even ‘the good one’, to shoot a rat that is digging in my garden and making holes in my yard that’ll twist my ankle eventually
hobbies huh.
- Comment on Great guy 2 weeks ago:
Right? I bet they don’t even have a niece, I bet it was actually them that this happened to
- Comment on Anon's neighbors have chickens 2 weeks ago:
most cities in Canada have bylaws against it
apparently you can have quail in some though
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 2 weeks ago:
there is no decision to be made, the default state is lid closed, and anything otherwise is incorrecct
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
disclaimer: I have not tried a dipper
but I do use spoons and even butter knives for honey, and it works fine. well, even. and I’m somebody who likes efficiency and effectiveness in most things. I can’t see why I would want one of these, even after reading all the comments about the pros.
it just doesn’t seem any better for me. I don’t need to carry the honey more than a foot from the jar. I don’t need to be able to dose out the honey from the utensil, because I measure it out when taking it from the jar. I do need to be able to close the honey jar so it seals.
I have half a dozen local honey products in my cupboard rn fwiw
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if there’s like a specific German name for it, but the term that I do know is just “honey dipper”
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 2 weeks ago:
he’s cutting down the old growth
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 2 weeks ago:
it’s a tree farm
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 weeks ago:
just went through this myself
needed a gooseneck phone mount for tomorrow morning. nothing local has something suitable, so damnit amazon it is
oh look, it’s dozens of the same product, using the exact same photo often even, from random shit brands
I’ve been doing pretty good at avoiding amazon for the past year or two, but every two or three months there’s something that I just can’t get somewhere else on the timeline I need or at a reasonable price
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 3 weeks ago:
I like to hope it was intentional to expose the fraud
- Comment on Screw MS 3 weeks ago:
I would make them get me a different laptop
that’s a serious ergonomic issue to not have CTRL where it should be. I am not even joking. my RSI wouldn’t let me.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
yeah, I’ve been with my current company as we’ve grown from like a million dollars in sales to 20 times that
at a million dollars in sales, it was like five of us doing everything and we all worked so much to get it all done and build things to grow as time went on. so while I think this is opposite of what Jenny is trying to convey, a million dollar company would likely require no callouts at critical times.
now, two points:
- that doesn’t make it ok. in my situation, we all enjoyed it and we’re compensated for it. that’s why it worked.
- a multi-million dollar company, with like 50+ employees, that’s I think what Jenny is trying to get at, real “big company” shit — in which case, a proper company such as that can handle a few callouts, else they are by definition not a company with their shit together
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 3 weeks ago:
I wonder how many of my health issues are because of injuries being left untreated (professionally).
like I tore my leg open on gravel last summer, nice big patch completely gone down below the hair follicles. just cleaned it out when I got home a couple hours later and kept flushing it multiple times a day and putting antibiotic cream on it, for a few weeks until it eventually healed over. took forever because of how deep and large it was, also I guess I’m just older and heal slower now. it definitely was at least a little bit infected for the week or two. it healed itself though
but, like, I’ve done that all my life. how fucked up is my body because of that. good thing was I got my overdue tetnis shot a few months earlier when I did go to emerge for something else that wouldn’t stop bleeding
- Comment on The Bat 3 weeks ago:
ty, I’ve kind of given up on discovering new music
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 weeks ago:
the thing I don’t understand with so many people being paycheque to paycheque is that, like, you need to come up with the money sooner or later. so just don’t fucking spend it on what you don’t absolutely need, and build up some savings.
like, I get that some people are literally hand to mouth, I’m not talking about them. I’m talking about the people with a 2 year old car and newer clothing who claim paycheque to paycheque but use BNPL schemes. that’s just shitty financial decisions. if you’re financing every gift season, maybe… just save up a bit of money before each gift season by cutting back temporarily on something else? or do you like paying extra to be in debt unnecessarily? you clearly have the capacity to repay the loan, so just save for it ahead of time and pay less overall because no fees…
- Comment on What is in your pockets? 3 weeks ago:
and the fastener heads on the knife are all fucked up
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
if you guys don’t have much competition, you should start treating those customers fairly
and by fairly I mean treat them how they treat you
- Comment on Anon does a drug bust 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s like external ads, just ads for Minecraft stuff hosted/promoted by Microsoft. idk, I don’t pay attention to them and try to avoid bedrock. but yes, you have to pay for each version of the game, around $30 each