Vengefu1 Tuna

I see what you’re saying, but I disagree. At some point, safety relies on competence and compliance with safety protocols, even by OSHA standards. Driving a vehicle is the same way. If there were required periodic training and higher enforcement of regulations, there would still be accidents (though likely much fewer!) Drivers are still in control of vehicles and people can still make bad decisions. Even good drivers have momentary lapses in judgement. It’s the human element that can’t be 100% accounted for.

These things really depend on the company. I’ve worked on and off at my family’s sheet metal fabrication company for 16 years. Hazardous? Yes, but there’s usually plenty of protections in place to prevent most injuries. Very very few people actually get hurt and it’s usually because someone did something dumb. I only encountered long hours when I worked at another fab company because they were bad at managing headcount and usually had too much work. For hour inconsistency, I’ve never encountered that except the one time I was laid off. Usually temps help fill in the gap if they’re scared they won’t have enough work long term instead of hiring another person full time and sending people home when work runs out. The hours were sustainable, but working the production floor was low pay. Usually $14 per hour for first shift and $21 per hour for graveyard shift IIRC. This is just my experience with two companies though, so mileage may vary.

I’m sorry that happened, days like that are so hard. My wife and I have both been there.

My youngest used to alligator roll as well when we changed his diaper. We started changing him on the carpeted floor with a little towel under him. If he started rolling, I’d gently arch my leg over his chest with the back of my knee centered on him. I’d only put a little bit of the weight of my leg on him, just enough to prevent him from flipping over. It helped a lot and eventually he grew out of it.

It’s fascinating reading your side of this, everything you said tracks with getting paid by insurance carriers as well. I’m a revenue analyst for an insurance agency. There are no established rules or SOPs they follow. They each make up their own thing. For each established rule one carrier follows, there’s another one who does something completely different. Some of their websites are really good and helpful while others are the oldest looking sites I’ve seen in years. We have a team of people who are assigned carriers, and only work with those carriers, so we can keep track of how each one operates and pays us. It’s a mess. I couldn’t imagine trying to navigate all these carriers by myself in order to get paid, on top of managing a practice.

They raised 100 mil in funding and phased out the first game in order to work on the second. They didn’t lose the interest of their audience (source).

It’s also very expensive compared to other finish options like plating or different types of paint. I would be surprised if price wasn’t also a factor.

(source: I used to work in metal fabrication)

My house was one of the ones hit in this storm. Baseball sized hail was blowing in sideways and broke a window. We lost a huge limb from our oak in the front yard. I got a roof inspection yesterday and it’s shot, it needs replacement. This was an expensive storm for me, but it could’ve been much worse. One of my coworkers said her neighbor’s tree fell on her house.

Are the prices coming down at all?

I second Unruffled! Janet is awesome.

Here is the entire article (not kidding):

"A meningitis outbreak has killed 20 students in northern Nigeria, local media reported Wednesday (Feb. 28).

The death toll which remains provisional was announced by the Yobe state Education commissioner.

The outbreak has been recorded in some secondary schools in the state.

Over a hundred cases have allegedly been reported with three patients said to still be in an intensive care unit responding to treatment.

Meningitis is an infection which causes an acute inflammation of the outer layers of the brain and spinal cord. It can be life-threatening unless diagnosed and treated early.

Transmission is through direct person-to-person contact, including droplets from the nose and throat of infected people.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention shared Wednesday (Feb. 28) on its X account (formerly twitter) a meningitis vigilance map.

Indeed, weather conditions can favour prevalence of meningitis.

Most of cases in the country are reported across states in the northern region.

According to the WHO, the west African nation reported 124 deaths from meningitis between 1 October 2022 and 16 April 2023."

It doesn’t even say which version it is, viral or bacterial.

It’s so funny to me that we have to circumvent the site’s paywall in order to read an article about pirating.

That illustration with the hook through the film reel is so clever, I love it.

I work in insurance and it’s wild how many insurance carriers have pulled out of Florida and California due to natural disasters. The market is vastly shifting to smaller carriers in these regions.

I’m not sure if you count RiffTrax (it’s all the same guys), but their commentary for The Last Airbender (2010) and Twilight leave me in tears every time.

Open gently, bees are sleeping.

I miss my Pebble. :( I have yet to find an adequate replacement since it died.

ACAB, assigned crab at birth?

I’m surprised no one has mentioned VaatiVidya yet. His voice is so calm and relaxing, he’s a fantastic narrator. His content is mainly lore about FromSoftware games like Dark Souls and Elden Ring.

This is my experience as well. Noticable slowdown after installing it. But IMO, it’s still worth it.

Dammit, Schmidt.