ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I hope you like TICKS 1 day ago:
Nope! Had to look that up. The post10 person appears to do work associated more with public works. Similar though. I was monitoring water quality for fisheries and aquaculture. Public health vs public works.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 day ago:
AHhhHhh.
- Comment on I hope you like TICKS 1 day ago:
For a good couple years I got to walk along beaches and take water samples of every culvert, pipe, and natural drainage I came across within specific zones. There were some logs and sticks to climb over, but also deer, elk, eagle, seals, and orca. Also birds if I knew or cared about birds.
It really felt like a nice blend of all of these, quite frankly, and had it not been grant work I’d have kept on doing it most likely.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 3 days ago:
linux class
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 5 days ago:
Two sets of lids were swapped. Those lids can be pretty heavy. Whats inside them usually are valves for plumbing.
So after the 100th set of valves you’ve backflow tested that day and you’re resetting the lids in 100F+ degree heat and you turn around as you’re walking away with your gear that you swapped two lids?
Well, having done this work at two different times in my life: the size of paycheck matters decidedly on whether that’s getting fixed.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
“Mastercard did not communicate with Valve directly, despite our request to do so,"
Well now how did you make that request?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well, if the user that started that community is an alt of who I think it is, that… that would track.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What I find interesting here is that this all self identification and self reporting.
There’s no mechanism in Lemmy to force a user into such identification, so it is all voluntary.
- Comment on Idibiks Oiho 2 weeks ago:
Reading ‘Idibiks’ slammed my brain into a PTKFGS wormhole all of a sudden.
- Comment on oof 3 weeks ago:
Classic Groening.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
Shrunk, even.
- Comment on who up wasting their youth 3 weeks ago:
I used photoshop tutorials on wastedyouth.org when it existed.
I’ve wasted more than my youth now.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 4 weeks ago:
He can definitely be the face of the right. Let Asmongold be what people think of when someone airs those kinds of opinions.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 4 weeks ago:
Is Flayra not pursuing legal action against Krafton over this?
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 4 weeks ago:
A bit, yeah. Same username then as today. I was with NSArmsLab and BAD Clan mostly those days.
Weird to think that was 20+ years ago.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 4 weeks ago:
I remember Flayra from Natural Selection, a half-life mod twenty years ago. I remember him making appeals for investors/donations to keep Unknown Worlds afloat (or maybe just launch it as a company. I recall a video he posted where he showed us his tiny apartment and the milk in his fridge.)
Then Subnautica came out years later and I thought ‘Well I’ll be damned.’
- Comment on we are creators 4 weeks ago:
In 1861 Russia abolished serfdom.
In 1961 Gagarin reached space.
It’s just barely implausible a person born a serf could have seen their descendant explore space.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 5 weeks ago:
Obligatory response to this meme e’er time, “Sigh, if it’s on septic its massively expensive infrastructure the tenant will be held liable for 10/10 times, and will only render one less living space habitable. And if it’s on sewer it’s punishing the public’s wastewater treatment facility.”
Aand resume.
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 5 weeks ago:
‘Do the thing’ is using the tools a user has at their disposal to block other users. Communities can block and ban users too.
Defederation over moderation is not the thing I am suggesting. Especially not as part of a multiyear campaign perpetuating a bad-faith feedback loop.
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 5 weeks ago:
That’s why instances, communities, and users can be blocked and banned. If ‘their conversation’ is not allowed in ‘your space’ then do the thing and move on.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 5 weeks ago:
Now, now it is only a Totenkopf if it is from a distinct region of Germany.
- Comment on Doctor Debates 1 month ago:
- Comment on On Oysters 1 month ago:
They don’t so much ‘change sex’ as they grow reproductive organs in response to conditions and blast sperm and/or eggs everywhere, sometimes both at the same time.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 month ago:
I get what you mean, and it’s a common thought and strategy. It just doesn’t work as well as one might think. Unless there is a union, employees are at a significant disadvantage. Forming a union would be FAR more effective than quoting OSHA regs.
The main thing is regulatory violations aren’t (usually) criminal so there’s a long administrative process to most enforcement actions. Companies overwhelmingly have the resources to litigate beyond their employees means. So if they have the resources to have legal council or a compliance officer, there likely needs to be a well documented paper trail of concealment or otherwise flagrant disregard or denial of improved conditions.
There not being A/C isn’t enough. Refusing requests to install A/C is better. The company removing workers fans to make a point goes further in a case. Then putting out an internal memo requiring zero ventilation and to lie to investigators is a strong case.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 month ago:
The fear of god isn’t enforceable. The main thing you do in referencing OSHA is to demonstrate a level of knowledge, commitment, or at least interest in the issue. And most of the time it is the appearance of concealing a condition that is the enforced violation. This is usually what companies are actually sensitive to.
So while an OSHA violation is a serious thing, the conditions in question here (heat) are not a regulation that can be violated and therefore enforced in the same way.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 month ago:
Yep, and precisely why there is the need to develop an argument in defining ‘reasonable’ instead of just citing the applicable law or regulation. The OSHA recommendation provides a less arbitrary foundation for defining a reasonable temperature.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 month ago:
The OSHA recommendation is 68-76F, which isn’t a direct link to ‘reasonable’ but provides a suitable context to frame workplace conditions.
If people’s body temperatures can be measured exceeding 100F a link to heat stress and increasing risk of injury in the workplace can also be drawn as it’s generally the equivalent of working with a fever.
- Comment on With all the animals that die in the sea, is it possible they get pickled in there? 1 month ago:
There are pockets and layers of water in the ocean that behave very differently from each other. There are areas of high salt concentration that pretty much act as death horizons for many organisms. There are waters completely devoid of oxygen that suffocate organisms that get lost or stuck in it.
So, in a sense: yes. However the degree to which marine life had adapted to these conditions, the more unlikely parameter is a dead organism not being consumed by scavengers.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 month ago:
Absolute parody.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 month ago:
‘HOA Board member’ puts this entire thread of conversation into perfect context.
