jubilationtcornpone

joined 1 year ago

To Russia With Love

GE, the conglomerate, no longer exists. They sold off most of the divisions and spun off the three remaining into their own business. GE Aerospace is the "corporate successor" but as of 2024, the old General Electric is no more.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Ok, now this is just showing off. Patch cables all the exact required length and everything all nice and neat. I bet you check your backups regularly and do a monthly DR fail over test too.

...Kidding aside, your setup looks really good.

One of the cornerstones of a good "romantic" relationship is friendship. I personally don't believe a relationship can survive without it. My wife is many things to me, one of which is my best friend.

Building friendships is a process that takes time and can't be forced. So don't put too much pressure on one evening. Don't worry about where you're going to be with this person in a week or a month. You have no way of knowing that. Dates are just opportunities for you both to get to know each other, share experiences that you enjoy and just have fun in general.

Even "normal" people don't feel physical attraction constantly. My wife still loves me even when I'm not particularly sexy and vice versa. Besides, real beauty is more than skin deep.

You'll need to have an open, honest discussion about expectations if you ultimately want to keep seeing each other but that's a conversation for another day. This time, just try to relax and have fun.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

aging population

Must be the German equivalent of "nObOdY wAnTs To WoRk AnYmOrE"

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Vlad yearns for the days of the Russian Empire. Apparently he doesn't know how things ultimately panned out for the tsar.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anyone still on Shitter is just asking for whatever they get at this point.

"It's not a lie, if you believe it."

Definitely easier if you can plan it in advance.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What do you do if you have a horse that dies or has to be put down? You call your neighbor down the road who has an excavator and ask him to dig you a horse sized hole. Then you bury it. If you don't, you won't want to leave your house for at least a week.

 
 
 
 
 

I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult although I've demonstrated clear symptoms since early childhood. I manage pretty well with medication.

I tend to "fidget" a lot throughout the day with involuntary movements that tend to vary periodically for reasons that I've never understand. Sometimes it's popping my ears or clenching my jaw. Sometimes it's "popping" my toes, bouncing my leg, or snapping my fingers, etc.

Recently, my wife told me something that I did not know. Apparently I do the same sort of involuntary movements at night to the point that it wakes me up. She said it's been going on for years. I honestly had no idea. It kind of fits the description of "Periodic Limb Movement Disorder." There are some theories that "PLMD" can be a comorbidity with ADHD although the research on this is pretty sparse.

Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing and are there any viable treatment options?

 
 

I had to show off my newest acquisition. Picked up an old Rockwell 22-650 planer from a guy on Craigslist. I replaced the knives, greased it, and dialed it in. It works great! If I ever have to move it again, I'll get someone with a tractor to help. Still not sure how I managed to muscle all 400+ lbs of it into the basement by myself. I was dumb enough to try that once but not enough to do it twice.

 
 

I've seen several big chains, mostly gas stations and fast food, advertising "daily pay". If you are worried about how you're going to make it until your next paycheck, whether it's tomorrow or next month, or you have no savings to cover any sort of emergency, then you live paycheck-to-paycheck.

Don't be fooled. "Daily Pay" is just a shitty attempt at avoiding paying better wages by giving you your shitty wages faster. It's designed to benefit the company, not you.

Edit: If you don't get to hold on to your pay check long enough to earn interest on any of it, then getting paid daily is not benefiting you.

 
 

Recently had a new standing seam metal roof installed. Roofers could talk the talk but I was not impressed with the quality of work overall. My main complaint is that they installed the roof so that most of the sewer vents go right through the middle of a seam. The boots are clearly not designed to accommodate this and they've succeeded in creating more work for me in the future; which is what I was trying to to avoid by spending the extra money to upgrade to metal. The boots are going to leak. In fact, they already have.

I was pretty pissed about this initially and told the owner of the roofing company that if they had bothered to tell me this was going to happen, I would have moved the damned vent pipes myself if they weren't going to. The right fix would be to replace the panels and move the vent pipes but I have a feeling getting them to do that is going to be difficult if not impossible.

Is there a boot that's designed for this kind of install or a better way of sealing these? Or, am I going to be stuck checking and resealing them every couple of years?

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