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Trainguyrom

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  • When my son was about to be born my mother in law caught wind that we didn't plan on circumcising (before researching it I mostly felt it was just strange to do cosmetic surgery on a newborn) but her argument was mostly parroting the 50% reduction in this that and the other disease, missing the fact that it was going from a 0.5% chance to a 0.25% chance, but of course introduced new risks by nature of being a surgery.

    Naturally after looking more into it I learned just how bonkers circumcision is so I was far more cemented in my position

  • Good night, sleep tight...

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  • Bedbugs can't survive heat. 1 hour over 100F or a few seconds at 200F kills them. Depending on what you have available, either throw your clothing in a dryer on high for an hour or use a steamer that goes over 200F to rid them. Alternatively placing them in a black garbage bag in a parked car for a day if it's hot out will also do it. Depending on what is infested, some plastic totes to stage things that haven't been treated yet can greatly limit their ability to re-infest while you're treating stuff, and re-treat within a week if you're not certain (their life cycle is about a week, so treating the same item twice in a week kill get any that survived before they can multiply again)

  • Good night, sleep tight...

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  • I read somewhere that bed bugs actually evolved alongside humans, so they're about as old as bedding and that's it

  • Ain't nobody got time for that crap!

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  • I interpreted it as the resume shows your experience while the cover letter shows you know how to write coherently (plus gives you an opportunity to clarify anything on your resume)

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  • MTG seems to be in the minority of elected Republican representatives in that she actually seems to believe the things she says

  • Disability in Star Trek

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  • Problem is it's showrunner Butch Hartman is a POS. His self insert character was Doctor Rip Studwell if that isn't telling enough.

  • Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze

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  • I think it's more trying to win political favor by spending big with the company owned by a member of the incoming presidential administration.

    Or it's just wanting to market their ads on that platform and as you said, not having the balls to stick to their boycott

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    As a young American, how do I motivate myself to work? It feels like the entire system is a scam and it's pointless to even try.

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  • You know what's better than the bare minimum? Give your work more than they expect, but keep some of your potential to yourself. Only give work 70% and keep that other 30% of yourself for yourself. You get all of the benefits of being an overachiever with none of the drawbacks.

    You know your job is as safe as it can be because you're exceeding expectations, and you can reap the bonuses and pride that brings but you still have remaining capacity to do more in your personal time. Plus if you're not completely applying yourself every day you can hit the grindstone on a really bad day when SHTF and really come out looking like a hero

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    As a young American, how do I motivate myself to work? It feels like the entire system is a scam and it's pointless to even try.

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  • I have personal goals in life I want to reach and I’m going to do whatever it takes to do so. Try laying out your life goals… What do I want to do 5, 10, 20 years in the future?

    As a relatively young person but older than OP myself, this is exactly what I did to get out of the slump of knowing how the system is stacked against us all. I set myself goals, and kept updating my goals. I had a 6 month, 1 year and 3 year plan at any point. Longer than 3 years it's hard to set specific goals because too much can change in that time frame. I always had goals to work towards and make myself a better version of me. If you can continually be a better version of yourself than you were before then you've won the game of life

  • Microsoft Teams is dog shit

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  • I feel similarly. I work in an office that's heavily invested in Microsoft for everything and when you use Microsoft everything Teams fits in really nicely with great outlook integration, Microsoft Loop integration, etc. and the experience on Teams is fine

  • The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting

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  • At least as far as US law is concerned, a federally hosted and administrated social media platform gets interesting with America's unusually strong free speech laws, since there's content which is legal but unethical which they likely would not be allowed to block or moderate, such as bullying, hate speech, misinformation, etc. but also illegal content would be immediately moderated away, which might include content that falls into legal grey areas or ethical but technically illegal content, like someone copy/pasting the contents of a paywalled article, or discussing any kind of DRM or digital security bypass

    Honestly I think there's good reason for governments to host a Mastodon instance for their representatives to use for communications, but inviting the public to use it might get weird for sure

  • Enter the matrix [Safely Endangered]

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  • On the subject of Matrix parodies, I just want to throw this classic out there

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    What are you buying now to avoid upcoming price increases?

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  • Manufacturing jobs actually pay pretty well. Like I said, it's hard to beat the pay and benefits of working in manufacturing if you don't have a degree.

    The reason they struggle to fill these roles is because most people don't want to work in industrial facilities working physically taxing jobs, often at odd hours filling second or third shifts and risking that the facility doesn't sufficiently value safety leading to a serious injury or death

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  • A large percentage of US manufacturing is food processing. Manufacturing has been struggling to fill open roles for years,1 and as a low-skilled job with tons of openings lots of migrants, both citizens and not work in manufacturing since the pay & benefits are hard to beat for not requiring any degrees. Its a similar situation with farm work. If the Trump administration actually performs significant deportations and cancellations of visas like he promised, food availability will be affected as farms and food producers struggle to keep up with demand

    1 Here's the JOLTS data showing as much as 200k unfilled manufacturing jobs. I can't easily directly link my query, but here's a screenshot of the data with enough info to replicate my query

  • Yep, it's pretty normal

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  • This is particularly American sensibility about not drinking alcohol casually around children

    Shockingly this will vary by family. Some families take their kids bar hopping while they drink to excess, some drink casually and not in excess, and some are sober around their kids, and some remain sober all the time. My wife grew up hanging out in bars with her parents biker friends and their kids. She learned to watch some of them and save the good homemade wine when someone was about to topple. I grew up with parents who would have a single drink with dinner one to two times a week and would avoid getting drunk (at least that I know of).

    Personally, as a parent and living in an area with a strong alcohol culture and with alcoholic family members, I drink very rarely (the alcoholic family members really kill my desire to drink), and when I do I make sure we have more than enough adults available to parent and drive if needed. I also am very much a lightweight so there is no drinking without getting noticeably giggly and sloppy. My wife feels and acts similarly but is not a lightweight and can realistically drink one drink and be visibly unaffected.

    I honestly think the OP is less about the presence of alcohol around children but more just calling out a wine mom as such

  • Yep, it's pretty normal

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  • My wife's family will 100% get drunk around their kids, and drunk drive with the kids in the car. Seeing that first hand makes us really reluctant to drink at all.

  • Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.

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  • I've only seen the ocean when visiting family in LA, so I do genuinely wonder if the waves are especially loud and violent there compared to, say the Gulf of Mexico or the US East Coast. But importantly, that is the exact same conditions Hollywood people would be used to too, so they should be very aware of how loud the ocean is (I'd say its comparable to cruising altitude in a standard commercial passenger aircraft)

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  • Hyce, who works at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden (which is a heritage railroad with restored steam locomotives) got to drive on of them while visiting family in Bosnia

    There are uncommon instances of revenue freight being hauled by steam such as during a recent dispute between different agencies in Germany or the Everett railroad in Pennsylvania apparently does have some revenue service despite primarily being a tourist railroad and has on occasion used steam to switch out it's revenue customers

    Or for a similar but entirely different example, the Iowa Traction Railroad uses almost exclusively century old electric locomotives all built in the 1910s and 1920s. You can see here one of their electric locomotives posing with a much newer locomotive:

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  • Don't forget the universally established upward direction so all ships are magically oriented exactly the same when they meet