shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 15 hours ago:
Depends on what level you’re at. I had a friend help us install a new septic system. Holy shit was there a lot more to it than I ever guessed. Had no idea surveying gear was required.
At a higher level, same guy drafts plans for military bases and hospitals. Then he goes in the field to troubleshoot issues. Plumbing includes gas if applicable!
Most of us are familiar with, if not doing the work, the principles behind fixing a leak, replacing a sink or toilet, etc. I can do all of the above, but I don’t know the fine points in doing it right. There’s far more to residential plumbing than most see.
- Comment on Is it weird to show your son how to shave his pubes if he asked? 15 hours ago:
My dad took me in the shower when I was young and taught me to bathe properly.
- Comment on suckcess 16 hours ago:
Y’all should employ my “Hawkeye Pierce Theory of Work”. You bust your ass right off the bat, get really good and knowledgeable, get recognized as such. At worst, you get a lateral promotion doing something you would rather be doing, or gain the juice to do what you want to do and leave the lazy people to do the crappy parts of the job. In any case, they dare not get rid of you.
If that doesn’t work you a) are not the top employee you think you are or b) need to get another job. I turned down a job that’s considered pretty good around here by our biggest employer. They made it damned clear I wasn’t going anywhere or doing anything else for at least a year. Nope.
- Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses? 1 day ago:
What?! You need the MAC to identify a router and MACs don’t go over the internet.
it would have been possible to track your ip and what it was accessing online
I’ll let you go ahead and explain that one.
- Comment on Timelapse shows Texas flash floods turn dry river into deadly rapids in 20 minutes 2 days ago:
Having lived Hurricane Ivan, shit like this shakes me to the core. That’s death you’re watching.
- Comment on it's a war out there 2 days ago:
^ Channeling Slaughter House 5
American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few German fighter plans flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.
The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody good as new.
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly so they would never hurt anybody ever again.
- Comment on Protect your inbox from unsolicited adverts with McTruth Email Defense™ 3 days ago:
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 days ago:
I see it this way: If there are enough dumbasses willing to pay, go for it. I choose not to participate. OTOH, idiots paying subscriptions can hurt us all through enshittification.
On Nextdoor.com I brought it up that Trump’s admin was trashing NOAA and the NWS, which we literally live and die by in Florida. One woman was quite proud to pay $15 for her Accuweather app. “And where do you think they get their data?”
- Comment on How can I start getting familiar with the plants, trees and animals around where I live? 3 days ago:
In the US our colleges and universities typically have what they call extension offices that can tell you all about the local environment. Anything like that where you’re at?
From Gemini, but it’s factual:
A local extension office, often called a Cooperative Extension office, is a branch of a land-grant university that provides research-based information and educational programs to the local community. These offices are staffed by experts who offer guidance on various topics, including agriculture, gardening, food safety, natural resources, and 4-H youth development. They act as a bridge between academic research and practical application, helping individuals and communities solve problems and improve their lives.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 days ago:
OK, that seems smart. But why would it need updates? Been in IT 30-years, I get updates, but something that simple should have been hammered out before it left the factory.
- Comment on VC behind ‘996’ work culture debate says 5-day weeks won't build billion-dollar startups 3 days ago:
Yeah, you gotta work like that, if you’re the one starting the business. Talking to a client who owned several businesses one night over drinks. He said you have to work your ass off for a year and-a-half to two years, then it pretty much runs itself.
One might note that he wasn’t talking about his employees working like that.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 3 days ago:
kids these days
I got bullied for not having Nike, Polo, Izod and Vans. That was over 4 decades ago.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 3 days ago:
I got shit on for not having Nike shoes, *in the 70s *.
- Comment on What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot? 4 days ago:
My favorite all-time insult was laid upon me by my soon-to-be ex:
“Well look at you! You ain’t nothin’! You’re scrawny, you’re an alcoholic and if you didn’t have such a big dick you wouldn’t be worth nothin’!”
Never had an insult shut me the fuck up, instantly. I mean, that really hit home.
- Comment on As one does 4 days ago:
Thought so, thanks. Came here to see if I was reading too much into it.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 4 days ago:
Right here. Maybe not full blown blue steel, but I get chubby if a woman’s smell hits me right.
- Comment on Found a 2009 YouTube video about a green, healthy looking fir tree growing inside a man's lung. CNN video shows a surgeon and the patient being interviewed.. was it a hoax? 5 days ago:
I loathe that woman’s goddamned voice. I think she’s trying to channel Barbara Walters. Second I hear it, off she goes because I know bullshit is coming into my ear canal.
- Comment on If people's voices become copyright protected in the future as a response to AI, will any non-commercial uses of voices be affected as well? 5 days ago:
satire or mockery
What about fair use?
- Comment on Nature is wise 5 days ago:
That’s what a rip current looks like. So called because it will rip your soul from your flesh if you fight it.
Guess I should add for those not in the know; If you suddenly get yanked out to sea, roll with it until it stops pulling, swim sideways till you’re past the tip (heh), then swim back to shore.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 5 days ago:
No lie. If anything, this site reminds me that ChatGPT might handle a task for me.
- Comment on Anon is a freedom fighter 5 days ago:
“If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, it’s safe to surf this beach!”
- Comment on Anon describes experience 5 days ago:
Yep, too many icons was a thing in Win95 in 98. Can’t remember if XP cared.
- Comment on Look out its the D*tch 6 days ago:
Stated a fact. Sounds like you the one with the hurt feels. OTOH, seems you’re dumb enough to believe Indonesia has 600 sets of distinct DNA. Did you even reply to the right comment?!
- Comment on Call Before You Dig 6 days ago:
If there’s possible sex in the future, I’d hit the truck stop for a shower.
- Comment on Seriously, you're probably dehydrated 6 days ago:
This kinda thing flabbergasts me. Who the hell needs to be reminded to drink?!
- Comment on How would I repurpose a work laptop? 1 week ago:
If OP got his last paycheck, done deal. Yes, he surely signed for it, but no laptop is worth the legal cost of a lawsuit.
SOURCE: Issued hundreds of laptops, of all varieties and prices, for multiple companies.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 1 week ago:
This is not happening in the wider world, not on any appreciable scale. Here comes lemmy:
“NOAW! People ARE switching in DROVES!”
LOL, the vast majority of people can’t spell Linux.
- Comment on Having booze in your TV is a must 1 week ago:
Used the total power of a modern household, but you could FIX it! Dad and I took a few trips to the grocery store to test and buy new tubes. If dad couldn’t hack it, call the repair guy. Imagine it being cheaper to have a man come to your house a few times than to buy a new TV.
- Comment on Tractor eggs 1 week ago:
Looks like white Wombat poop.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 1 week ago:
He also dated Grace Jones. Prime human indeed.
