shalafi
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- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 6 hours ago:
I cannot believe people are such absolute pussies these days. “GOSH! I touched fiberglass once and I might DIE!” I fucking swam in it when I was a cable guy. Know what I did? Went home midday to shower and change clothes. It was fucking horrible.
Your sense of risk is so fucking skewed it’s pathetic.
- Comment on You know... they have a point 1 day ago:
This whole thing screams Hogfather. First one I read! Now I’m on my 3rd selective read of Discworld.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 days ago:
First one is the Montauk Monster?!
- Comment on I have a shamefully dark question for firefighters. I'm sorry but I'm just too curious to not ask... It's about the smell and how that affects life. 3 days ago:
Never thought of all that, assumed we would indeed smell like cooking pork.
- Comment on I have a shamefully dark question for firefighters. I'm sorry but I'm just too curious to not ask... It's about the smell and how that affects life. 3 days ago:
I barfed the coffee grounds in the hospital and they shit bricks. Thought that was only “fresh blood in the stomach” kinda thing?
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 days ago:
That answer comes up because people are trying to sex a strange animal. Haven’t we all done this?
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 days ago:
Assholes aren’t different, but you can sex many mammals by seeing how close the holes are. Close together = female. More spaced apart = male.
You can use this on juveniles and even babies.
(I’m walking right into it lemmy, don’t let me down!)
- Comment on If you're a broke vampire, just say that 4 days ago:
A count is just a title, nothing to do with royal blood. Anyone nobleman could be made a count, earl, baron, duke, etc. Right?
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 4 days ago:
- Comment on Squint your eyes 👀 6 days ago:
For anyone wanting to play around with this:
- Comment on [Opinion] Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction 6 days ago:
I used to put Linux Lite on old, crappy laptops and sell them to little old ladies. All you have to do is show them how to get on the internet.
- Comment on The crossbow 😭 6 days ago:
- Comment on Anon is a senior citizen 1 week ago:
I’d say OP is full of it with no real experience in construction. Of course there are people who do the mindless grunt work. I’m one of them!
Worked my ass off to move up, take on more responsibility, take on less muscle work, but there are plenty of guys who do nothing but lift and load.
- Comment on Anon is a senior citizen 1 week ago:
You and I are on the same page. We’re talking about hard work, simple, non-stop bullshit. I wouldn’t put tradesmen in the same bucket.
Hell, I thought being a cable guy was fucking rough, but slinging mulch and rocks at Lowe’s has been far worse, even trying to adjust for a 25-year difference in my age. I did insanely hard shit hanging cable, but it wasn’t non-stop. My legs are more solid than they were running across rooftops installing satellite.
- Comment on Anon is a senior citizen 1 week ago:
Watched the soda guy unload today, and you can imagine it’s not much at a Lowe’s. Kinda like what I do, tossing heavy weights around without benefit of a machine or tool. Not that we don’t have forklifts and a myriad of lifting options, but often all you can do is He Man that shit around.
- Comment on Choose one 1 week ago:
Thanks, learned a new word! We call them anchors around these parts. That is indeed a fine use! Wish I knew that when I was a cable guy.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 1 week ago:
The post is mixed up. I’m sure it’s referring to:
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social at 9:37 a.m.
Less than four hours later, Trump announced a 90-day pause on nearly all his tariffs. Stocks soared on the news, closing up 9.5% by the end of trading.
- Comment on You can only use one for the rest of your life, which you choosing? 1 week ago:
Self-tapping points look like little drill bit points.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
I have to disagree with To Say Nothing Of The Dog. Time travel is organized by, and exactly like they would, university historians.
half-drunk and sleep deprived.
I don’t remember that?
But that one and Blackout/All Clear are a great pair. And having looked her up, I see I’ve missed quite a few!
The Domesday Book is pretty tight. Our time-traveling student is trying to get back before the black plague hits her village.
She also has one about the Titanic sinking. Great books, wild rides.
?She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for particular works—more major SF awards than any other writer.
- Comment on Choose one 1 week ago:
How do you use it? I’ve never found an application.
- Comment on Anon is a senior citizen 1 week ago:
OP’s fat and/or has been sitting in a chair his whole life if he can’t hang at labor in his 30s. Fuck me, I’m 54, work my ass of at Lowe’s, after working IT for 20-years, can still hang. Barely.
- Comment on Anon is a senior citizen 1 week ago:
What are you calling manual labor? Methinks you paint with a very small brush.
- Comment on They have to be stopped 1 week ago:
The seam side goes down. The enemy’s gate is always down. You’re welcome.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 1 week ago:
I often forget that while young people aren’t usually too wise to the ways of the world, that doesn’t mean they’re not fucking smart!
Woke to this reading a senior (high school) paper of mine 35-years later. Figured it would be childish. Holy shit! I wrote that at 17?!
Now if I could get the brain plasticity back and tack on the wisdom, I’d be a beast brain. :(
- Comment on Anon owns a fan 1 week ago:
Pro tip: Modern American fans are required to have a voltage limiter chip to dial down the lights. They fail. Lots. If your fan lights don’t work, buzz, hum, whatever, take it down and cut the little fucker out, wire back together with wire nuts.
I’ve replaced two crappy fans with really nice units I found in the trash. 100 how-to’s on YT.
- Comment on I don't mind! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Yep 1 week ago:
Partly! Some women explode out the gate with a little age on them. My ex-gf was pretty in her 30s, but in her late 40s would turn heads when she walked in the room. And then there are the plain Janes in high school that turn out OMFG years later.
- Comment on That about sums it up 1 week ago:
Same, but to be clear, we’re talking about panic attacks, right? That is exactly what the meme is talking about, or should be.
OTOH, there are these people: “Gosh! Sometimes I’m nervous in social situations and don’t know how to act! I have an anxiety disorder!”
No you don’t buttercup, you have “being a typical human disorder”. And most likely, no one even notices your discomfort. One time I was on LSD at a party and talking to a guy, freaking out internally. “Man, I’m sorry, but I’m tripping balls right now.” He had no idea!
- Comment on Companies that list all their products, but don't explain the different product lines suck. 1 week ago:
If I see a comparison matrix, I’m a happy camper. OTOH, you have to be extraordinarily careful with words or lose sales. Because people are stupid.
Case in point; Employee needed a new laptop and we leaned mostly towards Lenovos. Found a sweet deal on one labelled as a gaming rig. Boss wouldn’t sign off because, “A dev doesn’t need a gaming rig with a high-end video card.” Of course not, but still showed him the specs, compared against what we were currently purchasing and paying, no go. We ended up paying more for a laptop with lower specs because it didn’t have a “gaming” label.
What if you call a product line “prosumer”? It may be perfectly acceptable for a small business, but the owner might feel he needs “enterprise”. He looks at the enterprise line, flinches at the price, goes to another brand selling the same damned thing with a label that makes him happy.
Another one I had just posted; Shooting the shit with a customer who was unhappy he couldn’t buy straight grass seed and the label only showed the filler content in small print. What a ripoff! Another customer chimed in that filler is necessary for the seed spreader to work as expected. Oh.
X line prioritizes speed - Nah, not paying extra for speed, don’t need it.
Y line is backwards compatible with legacy gadgets - Sounds like it’ll be outdated soon.
R line is meant for business use - They just slap that on there to sucker people into paying more. (Yes they do!)
F line is experimental form factors - I need a tried and true product, sounds like a clusterfuck.
Having worked in various fields for 40 years, and now at my first retail job, I see that a lot of the fuckery we blame on capitalism is actually sellers trying to navigate ignorant and fickle consumers. Also, sometimes the weird shit we see, or don’t see where we expect it, is due to laws and regulations, but that’s another story.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
