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111-year-old British man born the same year the Titanic sank is now world’s oldest man
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    octobob
    7mo ago 68%

    He said “If you drink too much or you eat too much or you walk too much; if you do too much of anything, you’re going to suffer eventually.”

    Sounds like a boring 111 years

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  • You can certainly change it. But should you?
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    octobob
    7mo ago 75%

    "documenting the change" is a pipe dream.

    If you've ever worked in maintenance, active production, etc, you'll be lucky to even have schematics. And trust me, there are a lot of hacks of people fucking with controls for 30+ years straight that soooo much of it is full of "fixes" like this, whether it's something pushing a button in, or pieces of metal instead of fuses, or wires jumping over what's "in the way" like whole safety systems and e-stops, contactors forced to run, etc etc etc.

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  • You can certainly change it. But should you?
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    octobob
    7mo ago 100%

    Drills and taps two holes, adds a metal strap, and sacrifices a tool to save a 5 minute fix of jumping over the contact with a 2" piece of wire lmfao

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  • You can certainly change it. But should you?
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    octobob
    7mo ago 100%

    I work on industrial controls. Very likely that the switch is momentary, meaning it'll go back when released.

    Sometimes there's a little piece of plastic in them to remove the momentary setting, but this works too lol. Fuck it, it's maintenance.

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  • White House Agrees To Ban Pride Flags At US Embassies In Spending Bill Deal
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    octobob
    7mo ago 89%

    I've been hearing this excuse for like a decade now.

    Shutting down the government to refuse weapon sales to Israel would be a good thing, goddammit. I'd feel that maybe there's a shred of humanity left in those ghouls if they had.

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  • U.S. fully bans asbestos, which kills 40,000 a year
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    octobob
    7mo ago 66%

    Even drilling a few holes is pretty whatever. Just wear a respirator. Continued prolonged exposure is what will give you cancer. A couple random holes and single exposures aren't gonna be a death sentence.

    I have an asbestos siding home and low-key love it. It's a great insulator, super durable, holds paint forever. Nobody should install it ever again, however. Once it's there, it's there for good. If it's damaged and needs replaced, then you've got problems. Remediation and removel is ungodly expensive.

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  • If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?
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    octobob
    7mo ago 100%

    Hell no

    I test and design massive industrial electrical systems used in steel mills, power grid distribution, space equipment, coal mines, oil & gas, etc etc etc.

    They didn't even figure out electricity at the time

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  • Switch 2 is crunch time for Nintendo and backward compatibility
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    octobob
    7mo ago 100%

    I played through MGS4 recently on Arch Linux. Lots of community patches, and tinkering with settings. But it was mostly playable. Textures on any kind of screen in-game (like when a character is video chatting you), some of the flashback sequences, and a few random times the NV mode in south America went completely out of whack. But it was enough to look past the issues and enjoy the story and gameplay after playing MGS1-3

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  • Silly Gimli.
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    octobob
    7mo ago 100%

    I thought this up until a few years ago. When I text these friends, they text back.

    Also you can browse FB marketplace without an account. I have my roommate do the deed if I really need something, like a car this year, but most of the time I don't bother.

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    octobob
    8mo ago 100%

    I don't get why people think I'm out at work or everyone supports me being gay or something based on my comment.

    I've heard vile homophobia at work. They're still gonna be homophobes no matter what in November

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    octobob
    8mo ago 90%

    You're saying this to a gay guy who works around trumpers in a factory.

    Trump being president doesn't mean the gays will be rounded up into camps or something. I hate when people play this card that we're all gonna get fucking murdered and it's my fault for not voting blue, like what? It's apparent that it's playing on emotions to use LGBT people as some weird guilt trip and it's honestly pretty gross. I can take care of myself and my partner and our home just fine thanks. And I feel no differently safety wise whether it's a Republican or Democrat in office.

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    octobob
    8mo ago 69%

    God what the fuck is this comment. Donezo? Can you not make a genocide into tryin to be cute or whatever tf this is

    Fuck Biden. Committed leftists / socialists / communists are not gonna hand wring about one president over another. I haven't voted since Obama 2012, no plans to start anytime soon. Electoralism will not save us and I'm tired of hearing the lesser of two evils is the solution for the last, idunno 50 years? Unless a candidate were to stop all weapon sales to Israel (never gonna happen), it's not worth all this song and dance bullshit

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    A 15-year-old plunged 50 feet to his death on his first day on the job at an Alabama roofing company, federal officials say.
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    octobob
    8mo ago 100%

    Most roofers don't tie off.

    When I got my chimney repaired, the guy walked across the peak of the roof, not even holding onto anything, like he was walking down the street.

    Not trying to deflect blame on the workers, and I'm not sure what else the company is responsible for, but occupational safety is often an afterthought to folks who work a trade. You should see some of the shit people pull working on live power in maintenance departments at big industrial sites like steel mills.

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  • How cheap is the cheapest home for sale in your city/region?
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    octobob
    8mo ago 100%

    Hyup. I was born and raised here, and love the city to death.

    Wilkinsburg is a bit of a strange part of town. It's one of a few neighborhoods that have resisted annexation for a century plus. Just look at a map of Pittsburgh and you'll see big empty holes (literally mount Oliver is completely surrounded by the city). This results in some weird circumstances, wilkinsburg has really high taxes, shit schools, and is one of the rougher parts of town.

    On the other hand, I love where I'm at in the city, I got a beautiful 1800 sq ft 4BR home built in 1890 along the river. I can see the water from my front stoop. $160k, and I have a few roommates. Currently slowly renovating the place.

    It is a bit ironic opening Instagram or something and seeing posts like "omg! Pittsburgh is so affordable, my rent is under $2k!!!" For those shitty "luxury" apartments going in all over the country. Meanwhile, my mortgage is $830 because I bought during covid.

    I feel the creep and know the city isn't gonna be affordable forever. Wages are still a bit shit around here.

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  • How cheap is the cheapest home for sale in your city/region?
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    octobob
    8mo ago 100%

    The OP said "house". Interpret that however you'd like I guess. If you bought this place for $10k in cash, I don't know who exactly would stop you from clearing out a room and living in it while working on it.

    You can get a loan for just about anything from the bank. You don't even have to be very specific about what you're using it for. All they care about is credit history, what interest rates they're giving you, length of loan, blahblahblah

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  • I'm out of the loop on modding Bethesda games like Fallout and Elder Scrolls but I've seen some posts here and there about using Nexus games. Assuming Starfield is using the same engine, system, structure, etc, how possible do you think it would be to install mods? I'm going to be purchasing on Steam and running the game through Proton on Arch. Thanks.

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