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D-LINK: Oct 1, 2007; I was talking to peachy Peach about kissy Kiss. He bought me a soda.

Leperflesh posted:

My wife and I also watched the chapelles last night, goddamn how many of us did that

I though he was pretty good. I was ready to be outraged when he started talking about transgender people but he actually I think was just really honest, and his main point (that it's funny, sorry, but it is funny) was dead on.

I'm still sick. 100.3 today, wife insisted we call kaiser so now I have a phone appointment with a doctor so he can explain I have a virus and then I'm probably getting a prescription for prescription-strength nyquil or whatever the hell that would be. Also I have that raw throat thing where now I can talk like Barry White; the silver lining to being sick.

My traditional NYE night out is going to a comedy club, but my date got the flu or something similar, so I stayed in and watched comedy out of habit lol

# ¿ Jan 1, 2018 21:14

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 11:54

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Happy Noodle Boy posted:

It�s been 2 days give them a loving break. Also who else is going to the parade Saturday?

I want to but I won't be if it's still ARTIC BLAST ZONE

# ¿ Jan 2, 2018 23:03

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Leperflesh posted:

Yes, they do. Specifically, the coolant system has an extension that runs to a small radiator inside the cabin, called the heater core. There is a valve that opens when you turn up the heat control, which permits the hot coolant to run through the heater core, and then air is blown through it into the cabin.

If your heat is gone, there's a few likely possibilities. It could be that that valve is busted and isn't opening, or, the blend doors that switch airflow from the cold-side (direct air from outdoors) to the hot-side (air blown over the heater core) is stuck. Another possibility if there's no airflow at all is the blower motor has died.

Of course there are other possibilities, I have no idea what car you have, but you could have some kind of electronics malfunction or who knows, but a stuck heater control valve or blend door actuator are the ones I've heard of the most.

Also, they tend to plug up with rust and other garbage in older cars

# ¿ Jan 2, 2018 23:29

D-LINK: Oct 1, 2007; I was talking to peachy Peach about kissy Kiss. He bought me a soda.

TIL that gora is a word that that is strikingly similar to gringo

# ¿ Jan 2, 2018 23:52

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SHOAH NUFF posted:

its a common tactic for tea drinkers/lunatics in my office to activate the boil and walk away, i have no guilt in interrupting those for some cold water there's no other water source besides drinking from a bathroom faucet and i always reactivate boil, I thought that was what was happening in this case, most people are waiting for coffee, his thanks also sounded genuine and not sarcastic/angry

If it was me with the faux pas, I'd probably just stop at the coffee shop and show up with a chai latte, and take it to his desk, be like, "Hey man, sorry about yesterday at the water machine." If you go with the chai, it pleases a tea drinker, and most coffee people will still drink a chai latte -- you get to be the office's Stand Up Guy with a simple gesture

# ¿ Jan 3, 2018 05:17

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FizFashizzle posted:

Breaking in to employees homes and sexually assaulting them to cure their madness to own the libs

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/948333996685053954

Lmao wow

# ¿ Jan 3, 2018 17:17

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SundayMoney posted:

Are there any managers in here? I�m wanting to ask something/rant just because of the absurdity of it and see if I am just overreacting.

I have a guy through a staffing agency who is a quick learner and is doing a pretty good job. It�s hard to find good help in the location I am in and the job has a really steep learning curve so when I find someone worth keeping I do what I can to keep them around. However here is my problem, on a personal level, this guy is the complete opposite of myself and the others in the department which means I don�t let things go to far off work topics. He is a huge Trump supporter, he proceeded to tell me one day how Trump is bringing �morals� back to USA and that he is getting things done. He wanted to give me a list of all the great things Trump has accomplished so far and it would take an hour to list them all if he talked about it. The next thing is he is a conspiracy theorist and tries to start in about chemtrails and anti-vaccination which means his youngest kid isn�t vaccinated. I really have a problem with it on a personal level as to me it�s stupid not to vaccinate your kids. He mentioned today about flat Earth theory and asked us what we thought about it, one of my guys asked him what he thought about it since we all expectedhim to say he believed it. Thankfully he said he didn�t but his wife does. At this point I feel like I�m being just weird but have you ever disagreed with someone you employ on a personal level so much that it makes you question if you should keep them?

I don't usually hire, but I do have the authority to fire anyone who is not the general counsel or my brothers, and I'd get sick of that guy within a week if I had to talk to him. If he were highly skilled, I'd just banish him to out-of-town projects. If I had to train him personally, he'd never make it past his probationary 90 based on flat Earth and vaccines. I can ignore political opinions

# ¿ Jan 4, 2018 01:01

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

Yeah basically,

my previous routine was 3x a week, 3 working sets of 5 with 5-warm up sets

This one is 10 sets of 10

That's a lot of volume. What percentage of your 1rm is he saying to base this on? If he said something like 30% of 1rm, I can see it. A couple years back, there was a pretty widely talked about study that said that this kind of volume workout was just as effective at building muscle as lifting heavy. I was always told that high-rep low weight exercises were more for scultping than building strength. I lift mostly for aesthetics, so my basic routine 4-5 sets of 15 reps per exercise at 80% of 1rm which gives me both

# ¿ Jan 4, 2018 04:02

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Neil Armbong posted:

Lol, they're going to force a case that legalizes marijuana for states.

This is my thought as well

# ¿ Jan 4, 2018 16:10

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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

I have a government contractor who has given me a list of 150+ line items. Almost everything without exception is obsolete or grey market.

They want 5 year pricing tiers without giving us a forecast or guarantee to order.

The entire shell game world of the low-bid system exists only as a pretext to rape the government through change orders, carnale

# ¿ Jan 6, 2018 00:22

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3 DONG HORSE posted:

My dad gave a contract out to an old lady for to procure janitorial supplies for the Angeles Forest because she was thousands of dollars cheaper than the next lowest bidder. All she did was go to Costco once a month lol

The biggest flaw in the low-bid system is that unless every aspect of the job is spelled out explicitly (this is called Scope of Work), every single minute thing that comes up that isn't in that scope of work ends up buying the contractor a Ferrari. For example, we once had a contract with the Dept of the Navy to install casework in aircraft carrier, and our contract lawyer caught a gap that didn't explicitly state who carried the cabinets into the ship from the delivery truck, so the contract tripled through change orders. It was a seven figure mistake by the government.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2018 00:47

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No Butt Stuff posted:

And this is how people bilk utilities and drive up rates. All the time.

The low-bid system needs to be abolished.

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

It's weird. The government gets really loving good pricing on almost everything I've seen. There is so much goddamn competition.

Of course if you have the print to a circuit board made in the 1970's that no one else can make....

This only partially true. The bid item pricing is generally great, but anything not covered by the bid is how you end up with a $400 toilet seat

# ¿ Jan 6, 2018 01:12

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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

I sell the proverbial $400 toilet seat. That one was actually one of those submarine 0 noise ones AFAIK.

1) A shitload of the price in almost all cases is the fact that the government is not allowed to store almost anything and it needs to be ordered on a per order basis, so no price breaks.

2) they need mil spec packaging which for something like a UPS can cost from $50-$125 per item to get done. This also extends to things like resistors for circuit boards which need to be individual ESD bagged at like $1 a pop.

3) they are a small part of the overall electronics market (like 5%) and once something is designed it is on an approved list. It doesn't behoove companies to pump out stuff aimed at 5% of the market or even store it so it gets rare and also expensive to manufacture. You can wear your pirate hat in those cases.

I don't know much about selling manufactured goods to the government, but in my industry the fortune is never, ever made in the initial job cost, it's all in change orders because nothing ever goes according to plan, something gets overlooked in architectural drawings, specifications, site conditions etc etc. I can't even fathom how much money could be saved simply by limiting change orders in exchange for simply starting at a fair price

# ¿ Jan 6, 2018 01:36

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I don't mind the way unions work in the building trades. It offers a good way to add skilled labor when you need it without having to carry a full-time employee on permanent payroll, while at the same time permitting you to just send a cancerous individual back to the union hall if they suck.

The optimal way is to keep the best of the best on payroll without ever laying them off, but it sure is nice to have the ability to add and subtract labor that has a baseline set of skills whenever you need to.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2018 17:42

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Amy Pole Her posted:

Plus for us in nuclear, it’s a good way to ensure you’re only allowing certified labor on, which meets all our federal requirements without having to do crazy background checks on everyone who touches our soil. Basically someone to sue.

Yeah, the way trade unions handle certification requirements independently from their signatory employers is really clever and incredibly useful. OHSA 30, lead and heavy metal blood testing, pre-approved background checks for schools, nuke plants, various other secure government sites are enormous hassles that I'm glad are already handled for me.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2018 18:06

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The Puppy Bowl posted:

I'm up for this promotion that would put me on night shift permanently, but give me 4-10s and a 15k promotion. I'm thinking of turning it down because it's non union. Being a union member is the best.

I literally feel proud that I earned Carpenters and Painters cards before my dad ever put me in a managerial position. It feels fundamental to my identity lol

# ¿ Jan 7, 2018 18:09

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Tbf, the unions did a good job of knee-capping themselves between the mafia and Teamsters collusion, their inflexibility during the collapse of the steel industry, their entitled behavior in the auto industry, the air traffic controllers' hubris in defying Reagan at the apex of his p olitical power, and the their continued lovely optics in heavy road construction.

Still not deserving of the loathing they get from conservatives tho

# ¿ Jan 7, 2018 19:01

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Guys I'm starting to get worried about Israel going all-out war on Assad. They've got both Egypt and the Saudis in their pocket , and they're attacking targets in Syria daily

# ¿ Jan 10, 2018 03:21

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Amy Pole Her posted:

I do both speargun and Bahamian sling (can�t use guns over in the Bahamas waters) so if you have any questions!

This sounds manly af and I want to do it immediately

pubic works project posted:

O'DOYLE RULES!!!

I find a way to work this into conversation basically every day

# ¿ Jan 12, 2018 04:07

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Alaois posted:

Fun Fact: nobody in the world has ever actually read Gravity's Rainbow

I've read it twice bc I genuinely enjoy reading Pynchon

Favorite books:

Siddhartha is my very favorite bc its elegance is in its simplicity. It is the perfect "less is more" book imo.

I also really liked:

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
Dead Souls by Gogol
I genuinely enjoyed the black humor of American Pyscho by Bret Easton Ellis. It was laugh out loud funny, to me
Foucault's Pendulum by Ecco by I love semiotics
The Satanic Verses by Rushdie

I know those are some super pretentious favorites but I should say that I also loved a lot of Stephen King books, loved the Shogun series, and also the eternally stupid Song of Ice and Fire and think Gaiman's Sandman is the best thing I've ever read apart from Siddhartha, so I'm gay as hell as any goon. I just love to read.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2018 03:58

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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

Dude. We might actually be related

# ¿ Jan 13, 2018 19:25

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Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Trump be liking the porn ladies

# ¿ Jan 13, 2018 20:35

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I had a fling with a 20 year-old over the Summer, and remember it very fondly for the sex, but I certainly knew it wasn't going anywhere. This is why Tinder is dangerous. That's my story, thanks for reading my post.

Also, I gave my tickets away to my younger brother bc gently caress sitting in Heinz Field in -1 temps for 4+ hours

# ¿ Jan 14, 2018 17:33

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Shimrra Jamaane posted:

How old are you though?

33 at the time. Turned 34 in Dec

# ¿ Jan 14, 2018 17:39

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Relentlessboredomm posted:

I did this about a year ago. Sex was great and tons of fun but yea it was never going anywhere.

There is this 23 yr old that I was seeing for a bit who's sort of the ideal with dating younger women. Really easy to get along with, was looking for something purely casual, never any drama, unbelievable sex. When we're both single sometimes we still hang out.

I'm currently doing this with a 40 year-old divorcee, and it's the best time of my life. Again, I know it's never going anywhere, but holy poo poo is fun time.Honestly, I feel like I'm at the perfect age where I'm attractive to both younger and older women. Being in your 30s is loving awesome

# ¿ Jan 14, 2018 17:55

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Relentlessboredomm posted:

The biggest issue I have dating in my 30s is all the other 30 something women who want to immediately push the relationship towards marriage/kids or breakup. I miss dating women and having a solid relationship be sufficient.

Yeah, seems everyone my around my age is already married too, but that's fine by me

# ¿ Jan 14, 2018 18:32

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Amy Pole Her posted:

It�s truly the best time imo. I think 30-40 is fantastic, and it�s gotten socially acceptable for 40 with 28ish or 32 with 37-38. Gotta love progress.

I�m currently riding the older woman train but i definitely see the more younger but mature girls throwing moves

My dude

# ¿ Jan 14, 2018 20:10

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Master Stur posted:

Homewrecking is the only way past a certain age

Idk, there's plenty of recirculation in the dating pool because everyone gets divorced. There's no need to be the homewrecker

# ¿ Jan 15, 2018 00:42

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The Glumslinger posted:

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/952720622689320962

Jesus loving Christ

It's cool because one is a pit latrine and the other is an outhouse, yet still just as insulting

# ¿ Jan 15, 2018 03:46

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Fellas, I'm waiting around onsite at a water treatment plant for a job meeting, and just peeping at poo poo laying around and found this lol

D-LINK fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Jan 16, 2018

# ¿ Jan 16, 2018 21:23

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You 1st!

# ¿ Jan 16, 2018 21:29

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Amy Pole Her posted:

D Link were bros now. You know this.

Swick is also someone I’d vouch for at a high level.

What I’m saying is you can trust him. Chug it.

Oh, i took the pic bc of how insanely poisonous that poo poo is. Anyway, plant manager says they used to mix that with silver nitrate(!!!) and other extremely toxic poo poo to isolate contaminants in water samples before they came up with better ideas. Interesting af, and also a relief to know it doesn't go into the water supply.

They keep it as a relic

# ¿ Jan 16, 2018 21:37

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a neat cape posted:

Every time I think about Gen X, the theme song from Daria plays in my head

Is it weird that I am a millennial but identify as GenX? Like, I never think of myself as a millennial even though I turned 18 after 2000

# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 01:20

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Neil Armbong posted:

I read articles recently about a microgeneration between gen x and millenials that's late 70s to 85 that I think is apt. A largely offline childhood but had computers at school and home so are fluent digitally. Also, most of our little group got buttfucked by the great recession and their future is grim.

'84, so yeah. This actually makes a lot of sense.

Ehud posted:

Did you have older siblings? I was the youngest of four and I was born in 1985 but I think I ended up with slightly different sensibilities because my brother and sisters were teenagers when I was still just a kid

I'm the 2nd youngest of 6, and truly worshipped my older brothers. My sister is only one younger than me

# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 01:30

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Alaois posted:

do you just roam the land looking for arguments to have the wrong opinion in

no, you're thinking of mcmagic

# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 02:20

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Parris Island ruined sleep for me. It's been 4-6 hours per night for me ever since. If I should get more than 6 hours of sleep, I'll wake up in a panic

# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 22:43

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I wanna be friends with all of your good dogs, people

# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 22:44

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2 of my nieces are competitive cheerleaders, which is 1/3 tumbling, 1/3 acrobatics & 1/3 dance, and they are pretty damned good athletes. They train year-round. Another niece is a gymnast, and her training regimen is basically exactly the same as the cheerleaders. All 3 of them are badasses, and I enjoy watching them compete

# ¿ Jan 19, 2018 22:52

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FizFashizzle posted:

lol gymnastics literally created a sport to compete with competitive cheer

if you're ever playing trivia and they ask which highschool sport kills the most people every year, it's cheerleading.

There's a lot of concussions and torn ACLs involved

Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:

How many of them have you touched inappropriately?

This is gross, even for a Patriots fan

# ¿ Jan 19, 2018 23:06

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 11:54

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Skwirl posted:

Technically cheerleading isn't a sport, it's an activity. I don't say that to denigrate the athleticism of cheerleaders, just to bring up that's the official classification and it means cheerleaders have fewer legal protections against exploitation, abuse and injury than the loving laughable ones we give to other high school athletes.

Yeah, my oldest niece is going to WVU in the Fall, was recruited there to cheer, but they do not offer scholarships for cheer. She also had a chance to go to Louisville and cheer, and at least they have a scholarship that effectively replaces the sports scholarship for their cheerleaders. I think I'm more mad about that fact than she is. They easily devote as much time to cheer as I did for 3 sports in high school

# ¿ Jan 19, 2018 23:25

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