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- Comment on Always use proper lifting technique 3 hours ago:
I mean, I exaggerate a little. But only a little. OSHA regulates how we attach ourselves to the structure - harnesses, lifelines, lanyards, etc. But how we do the pulling is, as far as I know, completely unregulated. You’re a professional - don’t drop shit.
In my home market, we do often use progress capture shivs, and this improves safety since if you fuck up and let go for some reason, the shiv takes the weight. But one wheel only provides a redirect of force - which can mean a more advantageous pulling direction, but isn’t technically a mechanical advantage. If you set up a 3-1 to pull a point, you would almost certainly be demoted to stagehand, since you would be pulling more than 3x slower than everyone else. And considering that I regularly do fairly strict one arm deadlifts on the 20mm edge of my tension block with about 130lbs, pulling a 100lb chain isn’t a huge deal.
Also, we are one of the stricter, more conservative markets, since a lot of both our riggers and managers are rock climbers who have little ego attached to the job. Other markets can be significantly more cowboy. A climber who rigs for a living wants to get the job done efficiently and go home with enough energy to climb hard the next day. But the blue collar guy who got the job because he had too many face tattoos and too little patience to learn to weld will see his job as an opportunity to get his rocks off and prove his masculinity or something. And a tour rigger who just landed after following the band through UAE, Rio, and Mexico City will laugh and say OSHA can suck their dick as they slam pins with an unteathered hammer, legs snaked through the tower truss to hold on, since they climbed up with neither harness nor hard hat.
So yeah, straight pulling your point is quite common.
- Comment on Always use proper lifting technique 13 hours ago:
I’m a concert rigger. My job is to bend over, balanced on a 6" beam, and pull a 100lb chain 100feet in the air over and over again.
- Comment on oh and it's also a crime 1 day ago:
I mean, I don’t want to be all doomer. But big tech companies (Meta in particular, iirc) are the ones pushing for age verification at the OS level. So the laws would be crafted in a corporate office or think tank paid by the corporate office, then presented to lawmakers to approve.
- Comment on Always use proper lifting technique 1 day ago:
I know this is a joke, but I have this rant locked and loaded, so it’s going off.
Just fucking lift things.
The reason you always see this advice with the beige corporate art style is because that’s who invented it. Corporations. They noticed they kept having to pay workers comp when people threw out their backs on the job, and so started parroting this line rather than actually doing anything to solve the problem.
Essentially what they are trying to get you to do is use a powerlifting style squat/deadlift technique to lift everything. Which makes some sense. Powerlifters can lift a lot of weight. But it doesn’t make that much sense because most things in real life aren’t barbell shaped. They are weird and bulky and awkward and asymmetrical and have no good places to grab with your hands. You grab them however you can, and lift them however you can, because the job needs to get done. The human body is not a delicate flower that will wilt and die if you don’t use perfect squat technique to lift every object you ever lift until the day you die. We know this because you’ve lifted all sorts of things all sorts of ways and you’ve mostly been fine.
Does technique matter? Of course! That’s why real weightlifters and powerlifters practice it obsessively. You aren’t gonna pull 600lbs raw without having some damn good technique. But you aren’t pulling 600lbs when you pick up a bankers box full of tps reports.
The real way to avoid back injuries is:
- Move around a lot during the day. If you work an office job, stand up and go get a coffee and talk to Bill in accounting, or go for a stroll around the parking lot. Stretch out a little if something feel tight.
- Exercise. Start by just going out and doing literally anything - hiking, cycling, playing soccer, yoga, etc. The most important thing for back health is just having a core that is fairly strong and fit, which is trained by doing “fun” sports. If you are already regularly exercising, you can supplement with some heavy lifting.
- Don’t overdo it. Most tweaks happen when people are fatigued, and their muscles aren’t coordinating in the way they usually do. So if you are getting tired, call it early.
Now, what should the person who lifts things for their job do? Well, fingers crossed you aren’t already injured. In that case, start hitting the gym - probably just one day per week, or as job fatigue allows - and start building up the big lifts. If you can pull 600lbs, you probably won’t throw out your back moving a couch, even if you are moving couches all day.
- Comment on Impress Me 2 days ago:
Six pack abs are also aesthetics, tbf.
But as someone who keeps chasing abs to make up for his personality - I feel ya, bro
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 3 days ago:
If you spend it eating out, drinking, getting your house renovated, flying somewhere - then you end up paying tax and spending money and there’s some trickle down. If it sits in a bank account or in stocks or real estate, less so.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how an individual’s wealth can be useful to society. Societies become prosperous when they do things that are good for people, and that is what the money is best spent on - making society better. Sure, if they go to the bar every night and spend $200k getting hammered, maybe we netted a little extra tax revenue. And the bar is certainly doing better. But it is far better for everyone if that money becomes the startup capital for, say, a new plumbing business or taco restaurant or law firm or real estate development. Put it into something that actually does something
And that’s essentially what buying stocks is. Putting your money in stocks is good for the economy.
- Comment on Protest today. Message received! 3 days ago:
Then why didn’t they make look like a potato?
- Comment on Protest today. Message received! 3 days ago:
Then why the red circle slash under it?
- Comment on Protest today. Message received! 4 days ago:
No fucking shit
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 4 days ago:
So, are ya Chinese or Japanese?
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 4 days ago:
Holy shit the doomerism is off the charts here.
I was literally in an arena filled with thousands Mexicans and Mexican Americans last night, watching a Mexican band absolutely bring the house down. There was a big Mexican flag on stage while they sang about their amor, their pickup trucks, and how much they love being vaqueros. Everyone was having a good time, the show went off without a hitch, and everyone went home happy except anyone who died in a drunk driving accident.
Obviously what ICE is doing is bullshit, and they and their leaders should be sent to an El Salvadorian prison. But jesus tittyfucking christ - if you actually believe the shit you just said, then you either aren’t actually in America - in which case, shut the fuck up - or you havent left your house in 6 months and are surviving by doomscrolling and stockpiling your own urine - in which case, also shut the fuck up.
- Comment on Are all billionaires and fortune 500 companies famous? 4 days ago:
No.
I mean, various people and institutions do their best to track very rich people and successful companies. So they are typically known by someone (with the obvious caveat that if these institutions don’t know they exist, then, almost by definition, they are not well known, and are almost certainly doing a lot to hide their wealth and identity).
But if you aren’t a regular reader of Fortune or Forbes with a penchant for remembering arbitrary names, then you are unlikely to know all billionaires or fortune 500 companies off the top of your head.
Yes, if they go to a public gala event, they might get their photo taken. A photog would be doing a bad job if they missed a shot of a billionaire showing up at an event they were shooting. But that doesn’t mean that if they just wander into a Wendy’s that everyone in the store would know who they are.
Similarly, I haven’t reviewed the fortune 500 list recently, but I would be completely unsurprised if large chunks of it were made up of multinational conglomerates which own the brands you know but which you’ve never heard of, financial firms that make money by investing in other firms, and companies that make a lot of money doing things that are incredibly boring to the average person.
Especially if the CEO is a person of color who came from a middle class background
What? I mean, I don’t know who you are talking about.
- Comment on Degrade me harder daddy 5 days ago:
Next level hornyposting.
- Comment on Im pan so anyone can apply 1 week ago:
I know I am.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As a fellow public urinator - yes
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 2 weeks ago:
Still plenty of indie devs making good games. Really, you could just work through all the good games made up to this point and be fine for the rest of your life.
Otoh, if what you really care about is the social connection you get from playing games and talking about them with other people, you can just take up gardening or community service or pole dancing to get that.
- Comment on Gaysadilla 2 weeks ago:
BBQ - 5 grown men spending hours together, thinking about putting juicy meat in their mouths after the sun sets
- Comment on Gaysadilla 2 weeks ago:
Quiche then: “What are you, some kinda homo? Gaaaaaaaay!”
Quiche now: “Bro, look, I meal prepped my breakfast for the week. Protien bro!”
- Comment on Gaysadilla 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake? 2 weeks ago:
Cakes disintigrate if you try to stab them, and often fall off a fork if you try to balance pieces on it. The socially acceptable answer is fork, but that’s for groupthink-following losers who probably went to college and shave every day.
Intelligent people like myself use a spoon.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 2 weeks ago:
Eeeeh… We don’t need to go back to 1500 to find good urban design. We had good urban design happening all the way up to the second world war. In fact, cities built around streetcar networks in the early 20th century, like Denver and San Francisco, could be considered even more walkable than older cities like Boston, since the efficient streetcar network made more parts of the city easily accessible to people travelling on foot.
Meanwhile, I will note that while reforming sprawling urban areas will take a lot of work, it doesn’t have to take a lot of taxpayer money. Reforming sprawling areas takes a three-pronged approach: reforming zoning laws and building codes; enacting pigouvian taxes and fees to incentivize pro-social spending; and reforming infrastructure and transit services.
Zoning and building code reform, like removing minimum lot size requirements, allowing parcel splitting, removing setback requirements, eliminating R1 zoning and making mixed use zoning universal, streamlining permitting processes, and freely publishing building codes makes it possible to build more densely (especially for individual homeowners and small developers), and to create businesses (like gyms, cafes, and corner stores) near where people live.
Pigouvian taxes and fees, like carbon taxes, vehicle registration fees, highway use and exit tolls, land value taxes, and utility connection maintenance fees, parking fees, incentivize people to stop doing things which harm the public good or hoard public resources. Tolling highway exits into dense urban cores, for example, encourages people to take transit into their downtowns rather than taking up valuable urban space with their cars. And land value taxes encourage people with valuable land (like that in urban downtowns) to do something useful with it, like build a mixed use apartment building - rather than speculating on it by keeping it as a surface parking lot while the land appreciates in value because everyone else around them are building something useful.
Infrastructure and transit services are things likeaiing BRT lines, increasing transit service to run frequently enough that people dont need to plan around it, and creating protected bike lanes.
But importantly, the first two prongs take minimal public funding. Rough implementations could be deployed tomorrow, and then we would just sit back and wait for individuals to make their own worlds better.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 2 weeks ago:
Truly inspirational
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 2 weeks ago:
I thought it was funny, so I upvoted
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
schill
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 3 weeks ago:
He could have had a perfectly successful criminal career and made out like a fucking bandit.
But it was never about the money. It was about his desire to realize his potential and feel like he was in control of his own life.
- Comment on Checkers, not chess. 3 weeks ago:
Unlikely. Lemmy is, like, 50% doomers who think everything in their lives is hanging by a thread at any moment and that everyone else is the same.
The reality is that even the doomers have far more slack in their lives and options for alternatives than they realize. People will tighten their belts, bike or take transit, carpool, start private transit businesses, move closer to work, get jobs closer to home, move in with family/roommates, etc.
- Comment on don't let your memes stay dreams 3 weeks ago:
Gotta say, if this is what you need to be happy, you should probably get used to being unhappy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Best shitposter on lemmy
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 3 weeks ago:
I know this is a shitpost, but… yeah, if those are the calories you are eating…
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to assume we are discussing the US and Canada, as these are the most auto-dependent places in the world. I’ll also divide my response into ideal and realistic scenarios.
The ideal scenario is not that ICE engines are replaced by EVs, but that ICE engines are replaced by walking, cycling, transit, and electric micromobility. This would require:
- Pigouvian taxes - taxing the release of carbon into the atmosphere, taxing the registration of vehicles (more), taxing the use of highways (for road use and wear and tear) or the use of highway exit ramps (imposing the externality of your vehicle on the urban environment). These taxes can be imposed initially at a very low cost, and then increased over time to gradually make the social costs imposed by these activities equal to the actual cost that users bear. Note: while the taxes themselves are functionally regressive, these proposals tend to be paired with a citizens dividend to offset the increased cost of goods and services and to ease the transition to less carbon intensive ways of living. The only people who will be negatively impacted would be those who already have excess wealth and use it in especially carbon-intensive ways.
- Relaxation of zoning and building regulations - aka, let people build things. Peoples need for full sized automobiles is driven largely by the fact that their homes are far from their work which is far from the grocery store which is far from their social spaces. This is not a solution which can be solved with infrastructure, as you geometrically cannot fit all the transportation infrastructure between these places in an efficient manner - you need to put these things closer together so that a person can, say, walk from home to a transit station, transit to work, transit to the grocery store, walk home with their groceries, then walk to their social activity. Part of this is ending single family residential zoning, and instead allowing mixed use in all areas, part is changing building requirements - like parking requirements and overly stringent aesthetic conditions, and part is reforming building codes to be more flexible and understandable (note - not in a slapdash DOGE capacity, but reviewed by multidisciplinary teams of experts, with an eye towards making things understandable enough that a fairly average DIYer could confidently do their own construction within the limits of the building code)
- Intelligent investments in infrastructure and transit. These should prioritize low cost, quick to implement changes in high impact areas - like replacing parking with bike lanes or closing off streets to cars and instead allowing only pedestrians, cyclists, and transit. The most important changes are to rehabilitate old downtowns which were originally pedestrian-friendly, since this will be the highest impact change. Changes should then radiate outwards from urban cores to facilitate movement around the city. In first-ring suburbs, initial big wins are things like implementing BRT lines with frequent schedules along arterials, protected bike lanes on larger neighborhood streets, public protected bike parking and pleasant pedestrian shelters at transit stops, and raised pedestrian crossings, speed bumps, and other traffic calming measures anywhere where cars are driving too fast. Of course, this should also be paired with a mandate to not accept any more sprawling suburban style development into the city’s land portfolio, since these developments are a drain on city resources and would simply need to be rehabilitated later. Also note that these changes to infrastructure and transit do not prioritize things like inter-city high speed rail, since as we have seen with these projects in the past, these rail lines end up underutilized as long as their destinations are not walkable. An inter-city BRT line can achieve 90% of the benefits of high-speed rail using existing busses and some paint on the highway. As a rule, grand, ribbon-cutting-worthy transit projects tend to end up as expensive boondoggles which take decades to complete and which are underutilized. Instead, the vast majority of infrastructure improvements should be driven by walking around in neighborhoods and asking “how can we make this more safe and pleasant for everyone?”
In this case, most gas stations would continue to function more or less as they currently do. Fewer people would make the switch to EVs, and would instead simply drive their cars less as they become less dependent on them. But due to lower demand for gas, some gas stations would slowly become financially non-viable, and would go out of business. This wouldn’t mean all of them would go out of business at once - instead it would mean that at an intersection with a gas station at each corner, 3 would go out of business and the best one would remain. In denser urban areas, many would likely divide the parcel they are on and continue functioning as a convenience store, while the pump and parking areas turned into some other, better use. Near highways, the larger truck stop style gas stations would likely remain largely the same.
The more realistic scenario is that EV tech evolves and everyone replaces their ICE cars with EV cars. In this case, gas stations will try to predict how the market will move and will try to pivot in whatever direction they expect it will take.
One anticipated direction is that gas stations will turn into charging stations. Since charging, even in the best case, takes a while, these charging stations will provide a more pleasant customer experience, integrating restaurants, shopping, and entertainment to keep customers busy while their cars charge. You can already see the stations anticipating these trends with the rise of “luxury” gas stations like Buccees, Wawa, and Maverik.
Another direction it could go is that instead of a charging station, EVs will develop swappable batteries. This process might require human attendants, and provide jobs for a number of years until the process could be automated.
But in either case, demand for charging stations would be severly reduced in urban areas, as it will be cheaper and more convenient for people to charge at home and at work for their daily commutes. Again, we would see 3 gas stations at an intersection go under while the 4 takes all the remaining business. But under these conditions, the 3 that go under would likely sit as vacant husks, blighting the urban landscape, rather than being redeveloped into something that actually serves people.