@sj_zero @BowsacNoodle My last major purchase was a brand new Suzuki SV-650 some years back, before the interest rates climbed up. Promotional 1.99% interest for three years? Sheeeit, that's less than the inflation rate nigguh!!! All my prior purchases were used vehicles but for once I wanted something new. Given how shit the used market is now, it may come to a point that I might as well buy a new vehicle, if I'm not saving that much buying used anymore.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 11:21:50 JST John Rando -
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 10:30:05 JST John Rando @BowsacNoodle @sj_zero I might have to buy another car soon. Not looking forward to it. Used cars aren't nearly as cheap or good as they used to be.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 10:24:23 JST John Rando @BowsacNoodle @sj_zero I had to remove the air filter box, the battery, battery pan, the air intake and throttle body just to replace the starter in my car. It actually went better than I anticipated. Then I found that the transmission fluid fill tube had broken in half at some point. Apparently it's common with my model of car. So I had to order that too. It's only held in place where it attaches to the transmission and about midway up the tube. So half of it just freely vibrates over the years until stress fractures snap it in half.
The big problem is they keep stuffing more and more shit under the hood of the car, until there's no free space left to get your hands on things. When I look at the cavernous engine compartments of old 60s and 70s cars I feel envious.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 23:59:42 JST John Rando @McMongoose @j @djsumdog I know a lot of utility workers. The plant that treats the water needs constant maintenance, lots of electricity and the chemicals needed to clean and decontaminate the water. It's not particularly cheap, especially the salaries of the workers keeping it all running. So say all you want how the water is your right. Someone has to pay for it, and if the workers do not get paid, they will not show up for work and then nobody gets water.
That said, everybody should know how to turn their water on and off. After all, sometimes you need to change out a water heater or maybe a pipe starts leaking and needs repair. You should also know how to turn the gas on and off if you have that too. Had a job done at the house once where the city worker forgot to turn the gas back on afterwards. This was summertime so I didn't notice until winter came and I was wondering why my gas heater didn't work. The valve was locked with this weird device that I did not have the tool for. But I was able to get it open with one of my deep sockets that was just about the right size. They even sell the tools for that too.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 11:47:06 JST John Rando @veff @PraxisOfEvil I think another major factor in the market is the massive importation of foreign scabs via H1B. It doesn't matter that they can't code for shit, (((management))) DGAF.
Another thing going on is when people went into tech, they pretty much went massively for computer/internet based fields. Some of the more niche, hardware rich tech fields, like industrial automation and controls, seem to still be doing OK, at least from my limited experience. I was able to break into it with just my strong background in electronics from another industry.
The best general advice I can give for young guys is stay away from the job paths with a high profile. If everyone knows about it, and everyone is going for it, you're gonna have a hard time. Even if you adopt it early enough you might end up like that old guy with years of experience but can't find a job. Look for the jobs no one talks about, cannot be outsourced and don't require extensive college to get into. Ideally, get a job that develops a skill set that translates well to a diverse set of career paths. That way if you hit a wall you can change paths without having to learn a whole new skill set.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 01:51:23 JST John Rando @sickburnbro The paragraph regarding how quickly these managerial fags will acquiesce to a strong man is what concerns me the most. Who? If I were to bet, it won't be one of "our" guys, it will be whoever is the most brutal against us dirt people who make them feel so icky and unsafe.
These "soft" people have posted on social media, when they let their masks down, about how they want to see our children stolen from us, molested by degenerates and taught to hate us in indoctrination camps. During the holo-cough they tweeted about how people who resisted their decrees should be thrown into camps, denied access to grocery stores and stripped of their livelihoods. They will be more than happy to recruit a brute willing to murder and terrorize us before they would ever consider someone willing to work for the interests of decent people.
However, I do not believe they will succeed at this, and whatever brute they hire will only hasten the demise of this whole rotten system.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 13:50:42 JST John Rando @givenup @WashedOutGundamPilot I'm not sure if it is conscious on the part of the young White men who aren't enlisting, but it's hard to feel much patriotism when your whole society is explicitly anti-White.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 11:09:25 JST John Rando @graf @Humpleupagus @mischievoustomato @PonyPanda @p @LaylaAlexandrovna Some drunk obese old hag tried to get me back when I was 26. I escaped because I had a feeling she'd try something, so I locked the door to the room I was sleeping in before going to bed. Woke up to the hog pounding on my door trying to get in. She eventually gave up.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 10:39:24 JST John Rando @birdulon @Humpleupagus @WashedOutGundamPilot I saw this myself when I told a boomer about my experience with an antenna analyzer kit I bought from an amateur radio club. The guy who developed it used to be an engineer working for siemens. After building the kit I ran into a few issues getting it to work right. The first was an issue with the final amplifier transistor that was having parasitic oscillations due to being a shitty chinese clone of the original product. I tried a few fixes until finally trying his suggestion of making a “gimick” capacitor with a 10 meg resistor, which worked perfectly. The second problem was a firmware issue with the microcontroller that required me to cut a trace and reroute a circuit, as well as load new software to compensate. After that it worked perfectly and I’ve built several homemade antennas with it. But the boomer told me I should ask for a refund.
I mean, it’s a hobbyist kit that allowed me to make a working antenna analyzer at a fraction of the cost of buying something manufactured, I learned a lot and the guy who developed it helped me without giving me trouble, and the boomer told me I should ask for a refund???
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:24:40 JST John Rando @WashedOutGundamPilot @Humpleupagus Only downside of catering to the unsophisticated rubes is if it doesn’t “just werk” they expect you to provide support, even for the most trivial things. That gets old fast.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:07:27 JST John Rando @WashedOutGundamPilot @Humpleupagus A script though? Even if you wanted to sell it, keeping it from just being copied and freely distributed is next to impossible. Now, keeping it a trade secret and using it to gain unsurpassed advantage over your competitors, that could work.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 16:04:13 JST John Rando @givenup @Shadowman311 Thing is, if the US gets involved they’re gonna have to pull troops from somewhere else. The military is already stretched pretty thin, and they aren’t meeting their recruitment numbers. They’d have to give up any pretense of being able to protect Taiwan from China if there were an invasion.
I still can’t quite wrap my head around how the IDF got their shit pushed in by the aloha snackbars. The way they just fled and let their tanks and personnel carriers fall into the hands of their enemies. The experts said they were one of the best militaries in the world. I guess things have changed.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 07:54:33 JST John Rando Well well well, who just followed me here:
You see this faggot follow you, block that bitch. Its a datamining operation run by the usual suspects.
@graf I’m including you on this since I think you should know about this.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 10:31:06 JST John Rando @Spergo1875 I’m disappointed that they didn’t tie her up and roast her like a pig.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 09:46:06 JST John Rando Hey, anyone know a good alternative to Newegg and AmaZOG for buying PC parts? I’m about at the point I want to build a new one.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 00:20:07 JST John Rando @deprecated_ii Taking things seriously is really the only way anyone can become good at anything.
I think a part of it was IT and software programming is seen as a neat and clean profession for high status people. So it naturally attracts the worthless strivers and other faggots who don’t want to get their hands dirty.
The first programmers were often electronics engineers pulling double duty writing the first programs so the fancy new computers they built with their bare hands would actually do something useful. They should have never developed computer language beyond assembly.
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 07:36:23 JST John Rando @deprecated_ii @Binkle ^This
I was taught some math to deal with analyzing circuits but it isn’t calculus. Mostly algebra and maybe some trig every now and then. and for digital circuits it’s even easier.
Still, mechanical circuits may have some utility in harsh environments. JPL said it was working on a concept probe for exploring Venus that is purely mechanical. Though to be honest I think the silicon carbide chips in development hold more promise.
https://gizmodo.com/nasas-latest-venus-probe-concept-looks-like-a-tim-burto-1798501354
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John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 29-Oct-2022 08:05:59 JST John Rando @graf Chemtrails.
Not the conspiracy theory that they are real. The real conspiracy was that bad actors shilled for chemtrails, in order to make the true conspiracy theorists look bad.
They did the saem with area 51. It’s true bro! There’s no aliens there, that’s just a government psyop to distract from teh real stuff they are doing, experiementing on soldiers with radioactive isotopes to see what kind of weird mutations would happen. Dan Crenshaw was a direct result of this effort.
What? Did you think he really lost that eye in the war?