sighs and speeds it up sure whatever vp,

Yeah I don’t hire tradesfolk thinking I’m getting something cheap. I hire tradesfolk thinking I’m getting something that’s gonna fucking work when I need it to for as long as it can be expected to. That weld ain’t the cheapest part of the bridge by any means but it cannot unexpected fail without catastrophe, so if trained and reputable welders are expensive then welds on that bridge is expensive.

I can run my own wires when the wife lets me. But I won’t because that expensive electrician will do it safely and in a way that doesn’t cause even more expensive problems in the future

Good labor isn’t cheap and cheap labor is rarely good.

The speed of the conveyor belt does not impact the cycle time. No you cannot fucking slow down the conveyor belt to make it so you can work slower. You can’t speed it up to make people work faster. The speed of the fucking conveyor belt determines how long the things stay on the fucking conveyor belt. If it’s too slow things just stack up on it

Sorry, fucking line workers, managers, and executives in a factory…

That’s how mine is. I’m just so used to it I can tune it out. It also helps that it’s a symptom of something far more frustrating in my case: my hearing loss

She’s too young. Like by law. Next election she’ll be old enough to run

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Yeah in retrospect I wish I’d gone civil. It wasn’t offered at my school but I went industrial because I loved both engineering and psychology. Civil would’ve meant I did more good and got less poisoned by my career

I think it’s about lines of social taboo. Coming out as gay means you’ve already done something socially difficult, and it means you’re closer to social fringes. It’s what I’ve always suspected for why queer people, polyamorous people, and people into bdsm wind up overlapping more than expected.

Yeah I’ve been having to remind myself of this as I (diagnosed with ptsd) have been hanging out a lot with someone whose life is an unyielding horror show. It’s important to be sensitive and acknowledge the differences with her, but it’s also important to understand that my life has been pretty fucking rough in its own right.

And both of us manage to complain about a bad day at work. Sure her night terrors aren’t about her bad day at work, and none of her shifts have resulted in one of her traumatically originated mental illnesses, but I still get a text bitching about it from her when it happens.

Wastewater isn’t rocket science. It’s just harder and significantly more important. Every engineering discipline makes fun of the civils, but the fact is none of us are half as critical to modern life as them. Every benefit any of us claim rests on their backs. The flow of electricity is a civil engineering feat, the flow of water to and from our homes, businesses, and farms is a civil engineering feat (and critical to health), as is our transportation networks, our entire constructed environment, and even crazy and weird shit like controlling the location of critical rivers.

Me too, it’s not easy of a trait as an extrovert

Or get a bicycle. Nobody has an ass like a cyclist

Oh I’d just ask for a warrant. There’s a process the constitution lays out for the government invading your privacy

That’s actually a chunk of the population. They don’t really care about politics but people they know who do are republicans and tell them what they think.

Wait the American cop knew why he pulled you over? That is exceptionally good. Usually they don’t even know and have the gall to ask you. And they’re just looming with a hand on their gun while they ask

As far as I’m aware the recent accidents weren’t Amtrak

I cannot imagine a scenario in which it comprehends my problem that I can’t just solve on their website

No the problem as it manifests isn’t reduced regulation but basically zero service outside the northeastern corridor

They’re federally mandated to run a profit. It’s actually a problem just not the one you think

We don’t have any other intercity public rail. It’s all Amtrak