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Slavvy posted:I am now two days weed free and the constant state of existential dread and stressed out worry are threatening to make me change my mind about this whole clean living thing. The question here is whether the "existential dread and stressed out worry" (aka anxiety) is a result of weed tolerance/aftereffects, or the result of your brain not being properly equipped to deal with modern society It's hard to tell without help from mental health professionals (or spending at least a couple weeks weed-free) This is the case with a lot of mind-altering substances though (prescription or no) - I was on SSRIs for a while and if I didn't get the timing right or I missed a day i felt like complete and utter shite.
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nm posted:Also that old dude needs to stop calling himself a socialist because he's just not, and it is sad. Given the degrees of socialism (From screaming left wing idiots to moderate centre right) he's correct in his description of being "Democratic Socialist" or a moderate centreish platform. Frankly the USA just wouldnt know what socialism is if it bit it on the rear end, it's been turned into the bogeyman for too long. Hell Australia is a centre right country but it has some very distinctive socialist leanings.
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Dang, this is a magic morning. The president of our college got let go at a closed session board meeting last night and the director of our building was named interim president so my boss moved up to director and I moved into my bosses position. Hello 6 months of 50% pay raise!
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Raluek posted:Can you get a lacrosse in a manual? I didn't think so, and wikipedia doesn't think so. You could for a year or two. Definitely could on the 2014 model, with both the 4 and 6 cylinder.
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keykey posted:Dang, this is a magic morning. The president of our college got let go at a closed session board meeting last night and the director of our building was named interim president so my boss moved up to director and I moved into my bosses position. Hello 6 months of 50% pay raise! I just got word that my boss quit today. He represents 70% of all core knowledge about our rather narrow niche. This leads me to believe that my company is not very smart, as the smart thing to do would have been to keep him happy as a pig in poo poo.
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bolind posted:I just got word that my boss quit today. He represents 70% of all core knowledge about our rather narrow niche. This leads me to believe that my company is not very smart, as the smart thing to do would have been to keep him happy as a pig in poo poo.  ABORT
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Enourmo posted:oh goody, zero hot water pressure this morning Give it 0.4mg of flomax
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Oh my god these loving cats have to be up my rear end 24/7 when I'm working from home, which is always.Rhyno posted:Ugh. Trying to book a hotel in Chicago for late next month and the quotes for parking are reminding me why I hate that city so much. Where are you staying? Just find a residential street nearby that doesn't require a parking permit and cram your car there. Move it on street-cleaning day. Let me know if you want sneaky recommendations.
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Slavvy posted:I am now two days weed free and the constant state of existential dread and stressed out worry are threatening to make me change my mind about this whole clean living thing. Weed is cool and good for a lot of reasons and a lot of people but for me it turns me into a lazy slug with a bottomless stomach. It fuzzes up my brain and I stop worrying about how Im a fatty who hasn't had a date in 6 years and I just play video games and eat food and remain antisocial. Its something that would be cool a few weekends a year, but for my personality I cant really function with it every day. You can do it man. Don't know what your situation is but if you really want to quit I hope you stick to it.
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Slavvy posted:I thought the whole 'continuous rampant war crimes' thing might be impacted by which president you have. See bush and obama.
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The fuzziness is part of why I've been smoking weed for drat near 20 years - my brain is way too active otherwise. It also helps with Tourette's, so that's a bonus for me. Even with toking around once a day, I only have to buy it every few months, since I use very little (and use a small battery powered vape).
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Cage posted:I dont even want to imagine all the money I threw away on it, and time wasted being unproductive as hell. I used to live with someone who had a $600 a month weed habit. She was perma-stoned pretty much which was how she was when we met so I knew no different. As for time wasting, she spent a lot of time baking whilst stoned which wasn't a bad thing.
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Feb 2, 2016 16:34
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This would significantly improve my commute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--MeKE_OUNU Anyone know where I can buy one?
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So I guess Subaru is buying into the dogs stereotype - just saw an ad for an Outback that prominently featured a dog, including said dog being in a pool. Didn't have a lesbian though.Super Aggro Crag posted:Rookies. Bah, when I was your age I smoked like money was no object.  That made me too drat lazy. And broke. And made it difficult to get a job.
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Feb 2, 2016 16:42
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Should I start lying when talking to potential employers? You run into a lot of staffing agencies looking for work and they always seem to change their mind when they ask how much I was making at my last job. Look dude, I need a job I'll work for $12/hr IDGAF just hire me.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Should I start lying when talking to potential employers? You run into a lot of staffing agencies looking for work and they always seem to change their mind when they ask how much I was making at my last job. Look dude, I need a job I'll work for $12/hr IDGAF just hire me. It's fine, but it's kinda like shooting yourself in the foot. You're not lying about your abilities, education or work history, which I think are the most important parts of a resume.
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Am I too old to get a student loan? Looking at the CAD program at my local CC.
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Getting penalized for not having health insurance is loving bullshit, god damnit I hate america
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Am I too old to get a student loan? Looking at the CAD program at my local CC. You probably can, but you shouldn't take out a loan for a community college.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:The dealership quoted $500 to replace my front brake pads today. literally a fish posted:E: Even one of the vacuum powered ones is like $75
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bolind posted:I just got word that my boss quit today. He represents 70% of all core knowledge about our rather narrow niche. This leads me to believe that my company is not very smart, as the smart thing to do would have been to keep him happy as a pig in poo poo. My wife describes my boss as Milton from Office Space. Needless to say in a state ran environment, people tend to fail upwards. I already have 1/2 a foot out the door of this place anyway, so I suspect this is their way of trying to keep me? I don't really know their end game since inmates run the asylum. I'm expecting an offer in the next week or two for another job, so I'll have to play this one by ear since the job I'm waiting on the offer from initially pays more, but after 5 years doesn't and my work history thus far is staying at an organization for at least 6 years.
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NitroSpazzz posted:I have the much older version of this and it works great https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TO61KIC I have the old version of that, too. And I hate it. From piss-poor sealing, to hoses getting pin holes and spraying brake fluid everywhere, to having to have multiple caps to fit different vehicles... just more pain than it's worth. I've been putting off fluid change in all 3 cars to avoid using that loving thing. I think I'll try one of the hand vacuum bleeders and keep an eye on the reservoir... seems like a lot less hassle.
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meatpimp posted:I have the old version of that, too. And I hate it. From piss-poor sealing, to hoses getting pin holes and spraying brake fluid everywhere, to having to have multiple caps to fit different vehicles... just more pain than it's worth. Sorry for your loss  Boxers are really great dogsAccording to my coworker I might be able to get my home insurance to cover some or all of the replacement HVAC cost since it was a sudden electrical failure. Didn't even think to call them about it but that would be really nice, that thing wasn't cheap.
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NitroSpazzz posted:This one is just a hose no caps, are you thinking of a pressure bleeder type? Those can be a pain. My only complaint about my vacuum oil/bleeder is if you put too much of a vacuum the sides cave in...my brother isn't allowed to use this anymore. Yep, I saw "Motiv" and red-misted. I'll go back and take a look at what you actually linked... but yeah, Motiv pressure bleeders suck rear end. Sorry, Tide, that also sucks. 
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mariooncrack posted:That sounds like a lot of fun. I would love to be able to get a job like that. My actual work isnt that exciting - I just seem to end up doing loads of entire network migrations, and often get a network dumped in my lap with no support staff left or admin credentials handed over. If I have physical server access - within 5-10 minutes I can get admin credentials on a windows domain and get into the standard UK educational MIS/HR and finance systems. quote:It's probably easier than you think. Yeah it is. So many things have default passwords. 88h88 posted:I used to live with someone who had a $600 a month weed habit. She was perma-stoned pretty much which was how she was when we met so I knew no different. As for time wasting, she spent a lot of time baking whilst stoned which wasn't a bad thing. Surely the correct description is 'baking whilst baked'
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kastein posted:This would significantly improve my commute. This and other mods make me wish I had a decently-beefy PC to play the Windows version, rather than the XBONE I have. Last night, I spent like 3 hours not advancing the story in GTA V. I hopped in a Chevy Volt clone (which is weird driving - no engine noise, so just the crunch of the tires on whatever surface, and a little whining) and drove it down the train tracks (I wanted to see where they went, and there was a cool tunnel where the train dipped below street level, in the middle of the street) all the way out into the desert, where I found a hippie community and, er, borrowed a VW bus, then found an open pit mine with a giant dump truck in the bottom, so I drove that out an on to the highway. I accidentally ran over a truck at a stop sign, which pissed the cops off, but they couldn't really do anything because giant dump truck. They kept trying to block and PIT me, and I kept just running over their cars, until I managed to find myself on a pile of 4 burning cop cars, which caught my left side tires on fire. The front one blew, then the rear one went, which somehow killed me. Revived at a podunk medical center, I stole a work pickup until I found a Baja Beetle, which I then spent the next hour bouncing around the mountains. When I finally got back to a town, I switched to a sweet '70s station wagon, and headed back to Los Santos, where I finally hooked up with the other player character and made a little progress in the story. It's so relaxing to just go wander around the gamespace. There was even a nice rain storm while I was out in the desert. I've got to make some dough and buy a garage so I can keep these nifty cars... Tide posted:Cross posting, kinda, a day late from the POST DOGGES TIA thread in GiP, which if you like or love dogs you should read and post dogges, but... Dude. My condolences. I used to think it was stupid to be so attached to a pet, but now we have a great Spaniel mix, and I know I'm going to be a mess for a while when he goes. Hopefully not for a fair number of years, though. On a related note, I was reading recently that researchers have confirmed that apparently dogs love us back. They like us even more than they like other dogs, even. They were able to get dogs to stay still in a CT scanner and their brains just light up when they smell friendly humans. I mean, we kind of knew that from a gut instinct level, but it's cool to have it confirmed by SCIENCE! 
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Darchangel posted:This and other mods make me wish I had a decently-beefy PC to play the Windows version, rather than the XBONE I have.
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This job is becoming like the one I quit to come here. Demonstrate competence and efficiency and watch everyone go out of their way to pile more of their work on you. Four guys doing plate inspection in lathe department and now most of their poo poo (which is easy as hell to check with a micro hite) comes to me. Meanwhile they grabass and gently caress around with the FARO arm and generally accomplish nothing. I've had 6 jobs piled on today, none of which I have a CMM program for. On top of that I'm meant to program the website and also learn solidworks and program a 2D optical comparator 'because he knows computers'. No poo poo Sherlock, I have a CS degree, that doesn't mean I know every loving niche piece of horrible poo poo software you can throw at me within 10 seconds. I have another guy in the CMM lab with me, but he generally makes a career out of every part he gets, and I don't know how to run those machines yet. (PC-DMIS vs Calypso). Watch them lay his rear end off and just throw a new CMM software at me and expect everything to 'just work'.  Feels like it's time to leave.
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Tide posted:Cross posting, kinda, a day late from the POST DOGGES TIA thread in GiP, which if you like or love dogs you should read and post dogges, but... I'll be sure to make my dog uncomfortable with a long and tight hug. Sorry for your loss! Losing a pet is always really hard, but for me losing dogs has been the worst. I get so much closer to them than the others. My dog is 11 and acts like she is still a puppy when we go for walks/hikes (a puppy that wants to murder anything that is less than 15 pounds). Her favorite place is when I take my wife to work. Lots of open desert next to the building so there is usually cottontails to mercilessly hunt down and then lose due to her leash just not being long enough. 
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Is there a way to lock this type of Uhaul hitch, or do they want you to spend $50 for a proprietary deal? Friend is moving cross-country and asked me - his plan is to swap the S-hooks for padlocks in a better-than-nothing effort.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Is there a way to lock this type of Uhaul hitch, or do they want you to spend $50 for a proprietary deal? Friend is moving cross-country and asked me - his plan is to swap the S-hooks for padlocks in a better-than-nothing effort. You can't secure it that way anyway. They can be pulled apart with the quick link on the left too. He can get a tongue lock which goes under your drawbar and over the tongue of the trailer though. If someone wants to get that off, they'll need HUGE bolt cutters or a whizz wheel. http://www.amazon.com/Trimax-TCP100...ds=trailer+lock Gingerbread House Music fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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Nodoze posted:Getting penalized for not having health insurance is loving bullshit, god damnit I hate america Its not a punishment, its a tax! Also, you shouldn't be revealing your salary history to recruiters or potential employers. They're only doing this so they can lowball you.
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Cage posted:Make sure you play the game around christmas/new years next year. Dont know if you missed it but in the online version they covered the entire city in snow, and it was a blast to drive around in. I just got it, so I guess I need to wait for next year. BloodBag posted:This job is becoming like the one I quit to come here. Demonstrate competence and efficiency and watch everyone go out of their way to pile more of their work on you. Four guys doing plate inspection in lathe department and now most of their poo poo (which is easy as hell to check with a micro hite) comes to me. Meanwhile they grabass and gently caress around with the FARO arm and generally accomplish nothing. I've had 6 jobs piled on today, none of which I have a CMM program for. On top of that I'm meant to program the website and also learn solidworks and program a 2D optical comparator 'because he knows computers'. No poo poo Sherlock, I have a CS degree, that doesn't mean I know every loving niche piece of horrible poo poo software you can throw at me within 10 seconds. I guess expressing your concerns to management results in no action? Hell, point all this out and ask for a raise. That'll let you know where you stand, I guess. The Royal Nonesuch posted:Is there a way to lock this type of Uhaul hitch, or do they want you to spend $50 for a proprietary deal? Friend is moving cross-country and asked me - his plan is to swap the S-hooks for padlocks in a better-than-nothing effort. That's what I do. The trailer I use (a friend's) has the lever-type ball latch with a hole for a lock, so there's one there. Then you need the locking pin in the ball mount. Would have been nice if Haul had used that time of hitch - with that quick-link that kastein pointed out, locking the chain is more a keep honest people honest thing. Ozmiander posted:You can't secure it that way anyway. They can be pulled apart with the quick link on the left too. He can get a tongue lock which goes under your drawbar and over the tongue of the trailer though. If someone wants to get that off, they'll need HUGE bolt cutters or a whizz wheel. I'm not seeing any way to use that while the trailer is connected to the vehicle, though, so you'd have to unhitch any time you left it. That does have the locks for the tongue latch I mentioned, and the locking ball mount pin.
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