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bird food bathtub posted:We would all be better off if we had not spent decades building everything with the implicit assumption that everything needs to be car traffic turning in to the explicit requirement of everyone to have a car and use it to get everywhere. That would take decades to fix, and every step of the way it would be fighting against the entrenched interests that profit off of that arrangement so welp enjoy Thunderdome-ing every aspect of the rest of our lives I guess. I don't think I'll ever take another position that requires significant commutes for the rest of my life, and I cuss at CEOs and venture capitalist pukes on twitter whenever I get the chance so Im #doingmypart
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Since reddit has basically become one of the only places you can search for information now that all the search engines have been taken over by AI content and ad bots, I've been paying attention to some interesting drama that's come up. The company is following Twitter in instituting extreme API access pricing designed to make all 3rd party apps fold (intended to drive people to their native ad-supported apps), and their CEO was caught on tape slandering the author of one of the most popular iOS apps (Apollo). All 3rd party apps I know of are shutting down at the end of this month, which really sucks because Reddit's own apps are insanely under-supported and truly miserable to use. If this is something you're interested in reading about here's a good summary from the Apollo dev: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/...tent=t1_jnfd3pv
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Yeah it's pretty crazy. I am close to friends with a bunch of mods from one of the flagship subreddits that gets showcased as one of the "good" parts of Reddit. They've been in close contact with the major parties involved with this. Without violating anything I've been told in confidence, let me just say the new API policy rollout is going about as well as Apartheid Karen's acquisition of Twitter.
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So I had a dream last night that I was in Starship Troopers and we were going to do an orbital drop. The way this was done was with something like a force field below us as we were falling from space. While falling, another trooper floated over to me and was a girl with short white hair that apparently knew me. Flashback to being on a surfboard in the ocean (Note: I have never surfed) where she surfs up to me while my surfboard is playing Christmas music, embarrassing me. Smash cut back to the jump and she goes over the edge of the force field and is vaporized. Then I see the stats of the 55k jumpers like 10k died during the jump. We land and I make my way to like some interior ruins with another trooper who I think I was calling Dizzy, can't confirm it was her though. Now instead of bugs we are fighting big headed wizards for some reason and they move around like in the OG Doom and Wolfenstein games. A little leading of the rifle and they were easy pickings. We fight our way to a computer room where we learn that SHODAN is attempting to mechanize these wizards and we decide that humanity needs to know this so we start to leave and that's when I woke up and went to a much more boring work day. Melatonin's a hell of drug.
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Jun 9, 2023 23:07
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Nicotine patch sleep made me gave my dreams real hardcore Edge Of Tomorrow timelines for sure, but doing mundane army poo poo.
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Slapping a nicotine patch on before bedtime is like dreaming in 4k UHD technicolor for the first time.
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Wrong Theory posted:So I had a dream last night that I was in Starship Troopers and we were going to do an orbital drop. The way this was done was with something like a force field below us as we were falling from space. While falling, another trooper floated over to me and was a girl with short white hair that apparently knew me. Flashback to being on a surfboard in the ocean (Note: I have never surfed) where she surfs up to me while my surfboard is playing Christmas music, embarrassing me. Smash cut back to the jump and she goes over the edge of the force field and is vaporized. Then I see the stats of the 55k jumpers like 10k died during the jump. you earned that drop badge soldier
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Serjeant Buzfuz posted:Slapping a nicotine patch on before bedtime is like dreaming in 4k UHD technicolor for the first time. yuuuuuuuup
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Wrong Theory posted:So I had a dream last night that I was in Starship Troopers and we were going to do an orbital drop. The way this was done was with something like a force field below us as we were falling from space. While falling, another trooper floated over to me and was a girl with short white hair that apparently knew me. Flashback to being on a surfboard in the ocean (Note: I have never surfed) where she surfs up to me while my surfboard is playing Christmas music, embarrassing me. Smash cut back to the jump and she goes over the edge of the force field and is vaporized. Then I see the stats of the 55k jumpers like 10k died during the jump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3n-DUPjUq8
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I don't remember where we were having the conversation or when, but I remember there was a long conversation on shipping pallets. Did we ever come to a consensus on what the best pallet was among the logistics goons?
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Jun 23, 2023 14:02
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M_Gargantua posted:I don't remember where we were having the conversation or when, but I remember there was a long conversation on shipping pallets. The answer is like an adult diaper. It depends.
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A.o.D. posted:The answer is like an adult diaper. I thought the industry had decided that the blue ones were best because they were lift-able from all sides making loading / unloaded faster / easier because they didn't have to maneuver the pallet jacks as much. But this is half remembered from a planet money podcast close to 5 years ago.
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Jun 23, 2023 16:39
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CHEP supremacy
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Nystral posted:I thought the industry had decided that the blue ones were best because they were lift-able from all sides making loading / unloaded faster / easier because they didn't have to maneuver the pallet jacks as much. But this is half remembered from a planet money podcast close to 5 years ago. Oh sure, those are great. For that application. There are a ton of different pallets for different purposes. I'm about to show you some voodoo poo poo that is probably illegal in Russia. http://www.generalcontainer.com/liquid-totes.html Bam, look at that strange beast. Whatever could it be for? I'm sure you could solve whatever problem that's addressing with a pencil.
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USAA left me stranded today and I canceled my roadside towing and assistance with them as a result. I'm not going to pay them $10/mo for a service that won't do anything for me. I was in the middle of nowhere georgia when my alternator died today en route to Atlanta. I had to stop in Sylvester, GA at an auto parts store to diagnose. They did not have my alternator in stock and neither did any other auto parts store within an hour. I could order one from any of them that would have been delivered tomorrow (likely from Atlanta), but that did me no good in the moment. USAA roadside assistance would only tow me to a nearby shop or 50 miles away for free. Towing to a shop that is closed and doesn't have the part anyways is not helpful, and I had no place to stay in Sylvester so I would have been out of pocket a hotel room. My house was 94 miles from where we were and they wanted $400 to tow my car home. This situation forced us to cancel my birthday trip, so I'm a little bit irritated about that on top of getting stranded. Anyone got a good recommendation for roadside assistance in the future? Are any other insurance companies actually decent or do I need to get a AAA membership or something?
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Mr. Nice! posted:USAA left me stranded today and I canceled my roadside towing and assistance with them as a result. I'm not going to pay them $10/mo for a service that won't do anything for me. I always had good luck with AAA. I think I posted my USAA roadside assistance nightmare a few years ago, not too dissimilar, same states and everything. Sorry your birthday is off to a hosed up start man.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I always had good luck with AAA. Eh, yesterday was my actual day and it was good. I appreciate it, regardless. I have to order my alternator regardless, as nowhere in town has it in stock. I'm just grateful I have an extra vehicle.
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I wish I'd seen this sooner I would've been glad to come rescue you with a U-Haul trailer as I'm in Southeast Atlanta
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Lol s’all good I was home before i posted.
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M_Gargantua posted:I don't remember where we were having the conversation or when, but I remember there was a long conversation on shipping pallets. You rang? If you choose to ship international, you must use plastic. Every country has import rules and wood complicates this. Wood can harbor insects. There are nine square injection pallets that accommodate this. CHEP. Those blue painted pallets you see in the stacks are CHEP. They are the loving MLM of logistics. They run a shithouse of a plant staffed with overworked folks in dangerous conditions. How do I know? They wanted to hire me and gave me a guided tour. Warehouse. 42 x 42. They hold stuff, give you breathing room in elevated racks. Drawback is they skew your ti and hi from the containers. Shipping. Standard is 40 x 48 with stringer cutouts for forks. The fuckery of this is, in a warehouse you can't rack two of these pallets back-to-back. The overhang is dangerous, and if you rack a cutout, you have tilt. 20 feet in the air, tilt is bad. If you are ground level loading a container, known as a TSC (twenty foot shipping container, currently being repurposed into homes) you can pinwheel the pallets and gain an extra space. I am currently an IT nerd but I belong in a warehouse, they just don't pay enough. Also, managing a large staff is hard.
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forklifting was the most fun ive had working and i would do it again if it paid
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I've had AAA for ten years, great for roadside. I've gotten jumps, flat repairs and spare replacements and tows. Also good for discounts on car rentals.
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usaa roadside sucks balls, their garage network is bullshit compared to aaa and garages in my area pass on the calls or something i had a flat tire. i was home and figured it was a good test of it since i paid for it and had nothing to do anyways and was pretty zooted tbh, so i spent the day couchlocked and laughing at how hard they kept loving it up. It got passed around to 5-6 different garages and kept getting marked as complete or declined. i called usaa like 10 times and all the people were horrified at the call history. i was laughing the entire time at them asking wtf was going on with someone coming to change a flat tire. last garage that showed up 10 hours later only showed up because they saw the call history and were curious as to what the gently caress was going on. Please also note that I live a mile from Groton Sub Base front gate and 5 minutes from the US Coast Guard Academy. It is a fully military area. i got like 3 callbacks the week after from various managers and laughed at them all. I work call center IT so I didnt mess with anyones stats or anything and made sure to tell them that. It wasnt their fault at all and messing with working people is the lowest of the low to me. use em for good insurance rates and find another support for that.
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Almost had a tornado. That was fun.
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Booger Presley posted:You rang? Great writeup overall, but those nine square injection pallets almost never fit onto a regular pallet jack, so I just wanted to add that note #pallet prattle
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US Berder Patrol posted:Great writeup overall, but those nine square injection pallets almost never fit onto a regular pallet jack, so I just wanted to add that note Why not? It seems like by the time that kind of pallet had come along the existing pallet size had been in place forever, so what would drive them to not have an exact match in size? But then I’m a computer toucher not a warehouse worker.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:forklifting was the most fun ive had working and i would do it again if it paid I almost got written up for sharing this meme at my old job.  Why? Cause my old boss and my job sucked poo poo. Anyways, my friends almost paid for me to take a forklift certification course at a local community college for the fun of it. Hell we almost made it into someone's birthday thing before we realized the timing wouldn't work out for the birthday boy. Still wanna do it at some point though.
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its just fun as hell zooming around and picking poo poo up and putting it down
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Nystral posted:Why not? It seems like by the time that kind of pallet had come along the existing pallet size had been in place forever, so what would drive them to not have an exact match in size? Because on the fork pockets of the shipping pallets, there's an upright board on either outboard side and one right in the middle, so pallet jacks typically run on the wider dimension of that size range to make the load a little more stable. This means the forks are usually just a bit too wide set for the pockets between the nine squares (which don't have the wiggle room of the shipping pallets' fork pockets). Of course there are pallet jacks that are made with this in mind, and on forklifts you can generally adjust the spacing between forks, but I have had to move plenty of stuff off of the plastic pallets because of this problem.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:its just fun as hell zooming around and picking poo poo up and putting it down p much, you also feel like a goddamn wizard when you manage to right a fallen pallet several racks up
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GET HYPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89dEEKEzglw
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Maybe 10 minutes after I rolled into work, I hear about a smoking shipping container out in the yard. Seems bad, so I went to check it out. What I was greeted with:  Turns out, if you pack a bunch of Kardashian-size rolls of toilet paper together, fail to brace them in any way, then let them rub/vibrate against each other for however many thousand miles of railroad, it'll eventually do the same thing as rubbing two sticks together! Fun times for all, except the forklift driver that almost got his face melted before I yelled at him. Happy Monday!
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Hekk posted:You all are gonna make me go upstairs so I can start handing out 6ers for insulting my home state. And yet you left. Maybe that says more about Ohio than it does about you.
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M_Gargantua posted:And yet you left. I come from a long line of poor trailer trash and all the drama associated with that lifestyle. Being the one person with my last name to climb my way into the upper middle class means that Ohio is best spectated from afar. edit - and by "climb my way" I mostly mean using the military, the associated education benefits, healthcare, and pension system to make sure my immediate family are taken care of Hekk fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jun 27, 2023 |
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The second bolt on the front of my alternator is behind the tensioner pulley... e: I have to remove the tensioner pulley to get the alternator out. The best way to access this is by removing the front passenger tire. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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Departing for a bachelor party with a giant Rainbow unicorn balloon. We're going rafting. It was an honor and a privilege to post with y'all
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Departing for a bachelor party with a giant Rainbow unicorn balloon. Congratulations 🎉
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I got a tentative job offer for a position I've had my eye on for a couple of years. Now to keep my fingers crossed while I settle in for the wait thru govt HR processes
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