Who has to be reminded to DRINK WATER?! If you can’t be bothered, Darwin would like a word with you.

Nice to climb into! I cannot believe OP would rather not take 30-seconds to pull everything straight than crawl into a clusterfuck.

Tempting to try this and diff it. My most complex PowerShell scripts aren’t testable as they were company/task specific. Plus, I killed my X account long ago. :(

Depends on what level you’re at. I had a friend help us install a new septic system. Holy shit was there a lot more to it than I ever guessed. Had no idea surveying gear was required.

At a higher level, same guy drafts plans for military bases and hospitals. Then he goes in the field to troubleshoot issues. Plumbing includes gas if applicable!

Most of us are familiar with, if not doing the work, the principles behind fixing a leak, replacing a sink or toilet, etc. I can do all of the above, but I don’t know the fine points in doing it right. There’s far more to residential plumbing than most see.

My dad took me in the shower when I was young and taught me to bathe properly.

What?! You need the MAC to identify a router and MACs don’t go over the internet.

it would have been possible to track your ip and what it was accessing online

I’ll let you go ahead and explain that one.

It’s hard to overstate what these guys see. If you’ve ever experienced this magnitude of disaster, you know damned well that all the pictures and video in the world doesn’t do justice to the actual destruction and suffering on the ground.

Ex-FIL was in the Mississippi Guard. Earned 2 Bronze Stars on two (three?) tours of Iraq. Humanitarian aid, not combat, a detail relevant to the story below. He was just fine.

Came home and fought his way through Katrina on the tip of the spear. Those men chainsawed houses in half and pushed them off the road to get in. After all that he suffered PTSD, hooked up with another Guard member, left his wife of 32-years and stopped talking to his only child. He was not fine.

New Orleans got the news coverage, but the Mississippi Gulf Coast was fucking wrecked. We went to see the man in Gulfport, then headed north. The last of the damage we saw was past Hattiesburg, 80 miles of destruction. And that was going straight away, the blast radius closer to the Gulf was wide.

Some of these people are digging for corpses, some are little corpses, with their hands. Many, most?, of these people are facing serious PTSD in the near future.

Anyway, after living Ivan, I cried my eyes out over Katrina. I still tear up when I think about it, still cry thinking about what I saw the next morning. Cried when the Florida Guard rolled in to save our asses, thought I was on my own.

Taking the kids swimming in the creek now. I’m out.

https://old.lemmy.world/c/chadmctruthstruth

I see it this way: If there are enough dumbasses willing to pay, go for it. I choose not to participate. OTOH, idiots paying subscriptions can hurt us all through enshittification.

On Nextdoor.com I brought it up that Trump’s admin was trashing NOAA and the NWS, which we literally live and die by in Florida. One woman was quite proud to pay $15 for her Accuweather app. “And where do you think they get their data?”

In the US our colleges and universities typically have what they call extension offices that can tell you all about the local environment. Anything like that where you’re at?

From Gemini, but it’s factual:

A local extension office, often called a Cooperative Extension office, is a branch of a land-grant university that provides research-based information and educational programs to the local community. These offices are staffed by experts who offer guidance on various topics, including agriculture, gardening, food safety, natural resources, and 4-H youth development. They act as a bridge between academic research and practical application, helping individuals and communities solve problems and improve their lives.

Lots of great advice here! I’ve learned the most just by getting out in the woods and swamps and looking. Still so much I’m ignorant of! A great project for you, that I’ve been slacking on, is putting events into a calendar or tracking app. “May 15th, dragonflies are back.” “June 1st, banana spiders back.” Stuff like that.

OK, that seems smart. But why would it need updates? Been in IT 30-years, I get updates, but something that simple should have been hammered out before it left the factory.

Let me rant a little on the TSA. There are strict rules for flying with guns and ammo, clearly spelled out on the TSA site. Great! As it should be!

Pensacola didn’t give two fucks, just made sure I had dual locks and asked if my ammo was boxed. Yep!

I get to Tulsa and the agent wouldn’t check my ammo because it wasn’t in this exact box. It was loose in the fucking box it came in.

Small arms ammunition (up to .75 caliber and shotgun shells of any gauge) must be packaged in a fiber (such as cardboard), wood, plastic, or metal box specifically designed to carry ammunition and declared to your airline.

(And no, your magazine or clip does not count as packaging. Don’t play like that.)

I said fine, throw it out, I gotta go. Nope. “Sheriff has to take possession.” Fine! Give it to the cops when they get here. Bye!

Now here’s the rub: You cannot argue with a TSA agent. They have total authority to make any call they like. Orders conflict with what’s on the TSA site? Too fucking bad, their call. I get the rule giving them discretion on the ground, but fuck me it turns some of them into little Nazis.

I’m particularly salty because this was during COVID, which mom died of while I was waiting at DFW, and ammo was unavailable at any price.

If you had to deal with the public all day long, particularly a stressed out public, you’d look at people at idiots as well. Just look how customer service and tech support views their fellow man. :)

kids these days

I got bullied for not having Nike, Polo, Izod and Vans. That was over 4 decades ago.

I got shit on for not having Nike shoes, in the 70s.

My favorite all-time insult was laid upon me by my soon-to-be ex:

“Well look at you! You ain’t nothin’! You’re scrawny, you’re an alcoholic and if you didn’t have such a big dick you wouldn’t be worth nothin’!”

Never had an insult shut me the fuck up, instantly. I mean, that really hit home.

I loathe that woman’s goddamned voice. I think she’s trying to channel Barbara Walters. Second I hear it, off she goes because I know bullshit is coming into my ear canal.

satire or mockery

What about fair use?

That’s what a rip current looks like. So called because it will rip your soul from your flesh if you fight it.

Guess I should add for those not in the know; If you suddenly get yanked out to sea, roll with it until it stops pulling, swim sideways till you’re past the tip (heh), then swim back to shore.

No lie. If anything, this site reminds me that ChatGPT might handle a task for me.