Notices by John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)

@samjayganges @KarlDahl @CliffSecord @Humpleupagus @BattleDwarfGimli @GoyGirl @LatigoMorgan @pepsi_man Agree. Being a military brat screwed me up pretty badly. I still remember my first real friend from childhood. Then my Dad got a new assignment and we moved away. Then I had to start all over. It got to the point where I stopped bothering with making friends. I still have a hard time with that.

@sickburnbro @JedKron1248 I think they pulled the amount out of their ass. Cut off all gibs, and make it so that any person or company that hires them has all assets seized and the people involved get long prison sentences and they will eventually self deport.

@wertimer @IAMAL_PHARIUS @deprecated_ii @professionalbigot69 Do you really want to be eating people? I mean, there's so many drugs and medications people are on. You wouldn't want to be eatin' on some dude using statins. Or some chick on anti-psychotics.

@deprecated_ii @professionalbigot69 @synapsid To be honest sometimes we have issues understanding the motivations of our rulers.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @bladerunner What dignity is there in struggling alone without any meaningful result?

@coolboymew @Shadowman311 That's weird, I thought employers allowed for the use of sick time for necessary medical/dental appointments? At least that's mine's policy. No fucking way am I using my vacation time for a dentist appointment.

Seriously, at least when an employer allows it then you can let them know ahead of time you'll be out so they can plan for it.

@sickburnbro This is why when I am submitting resume's I always do my best to use as many words from the job posting as possible. I figure if they're automating the process they will be looking for words in the resume that match up with the posting. The strategy has served me well so far.

Though it won't help with stupidity like we see in the OP.

@sickburnbro @nugger Banning auto transmissions would do wonders for all the retards who like to text and drive.

@deprecated_ii @RustyCrab Just like online dating.

@sickburnbro @SK1ZM @nugger @Monsignor_DickFace @NitroDubs @deprecated_ii Probably desperate foreigners living 20 to a three bedroom house. The only reason they post this shit is so they can say they need more H1B visa scaboids since nobody in the country already will do the work.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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???

@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.