occasional wheel of cheese

I’m not even mad, that’s amazing

“…because I’m the main character and these ‘globalists’ know me by name”

Yeah well Elmo is a real chatty Cathy and a little douchebag.

In no home outside of fringe uses are any lights 12vdc, with the exception of maybe led strip lights for undercabs. They’re all designed for 120vac. That lightbulb in the diagram is an e37/medium base for 120vac.

I dunno if legally selling blow to the public is the right idea, but I also know a possession ticket/jail stint hasn’t deterred many coke heads either.

Sounds like you’re an ideal candidate for reeducation a tax payer funded visit to a summer camp.

I’d be leery about posting anything on any platform, especially one that has even your email or other personal info attached to it. Even on a random day that I go browse ahem the other place, I don’t really comment anymore. I don’t even have my email tied to that account, but I don’t trust spez’s greedy little pig boy ass, and I’m doing my damn best to fly under the radar while they build their databases. Nor would I trust MS, Google, or even Apple to not be tracking every thought and action online for resistance monitoring.

Some people don’t have the option, and end up relying on these services. It’s similar to the payday loan trap. Being poor is expensive.

Not exactly. Card benefits come directly from fees charged to merchants, which is why processing fees vary wildly from card to card and the merchant has no clue what their fees are going to be per transaction (though this is starting to change with services like Stripe charging a flat percentage+ transaction fee). Interest and the like are pure profit for CC companies. You as the cardholder receive the benefits even if you carry a balance.

You’re talking out of your ass. Trans folk, and gender reassignment, have been a thing for decades. It’s only recently become a social topic in the wider push for inclusive LGQT+ rights and has been gained mainstream attention, which has conservative undies in a twist. It just used to be that trans people kept themselves to themselves out of fear of social rejection, which is what the wider push has been about.

Uh, that varies wildly state to state and person to person here in the US. California even has division among acceptance, there are significant portions of people on LA and SF who’d love to see all these things repealed. Social media is a helluva drug.

Easily. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure they could be useful in certain cases, especially once the technology matures. But it will be many years before then, and it’ll be an uphill battle for them as construction workers don’t take kindly to their jobs being threatened.

I’ll believe it when I see it, and gleefully watch it fuck up all over the place to where it’s thrown in a dumpster by a GC that doesn’t have time for its shit.

A lot of of them I’ve talked to are burying their heads in the sand while all of those “blows over.” They’re convinced everything is fake news anyway.

Pride and ego

Electrician here as well, running a shop comes with its own set of shenanigans that I sometimes daydream about just working for someone. But then I remember the flexibility I have that wouldn’t be a thing otherwise.

My guy and I do 4 10s when we have the workload, and yeah, same deal. 3 day weekends are rad, but like hell if I have energy for anything after work on those other 4 days.

Some days I miss being a one-man show and being able to work just enough jobs to keep my bills paid and food on the table, but I wouldn’t be able to take on the more fun jobs by myself.

I believe it is mandatory for an aspiring officer to serve a certain length of time as a CO in a prison before they’re given a job interacting with the public on the street. This would explain why the most of them are all so neurotic, I would be too if I had to deal with violent offenders all day.

And money. They absolutely protect people with money.

They’ve been doing this since early March. My electrical supply costs just keep climbing.