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Cake day: September 2nd, 2024

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  • Thank you for what you do, it’s absolutely necessary and we need people like you. I wouldn’t for a moment say it’s not worth doing.

    I don’t blame them for not wanting to do construction. I ran fiber optic cable on poles, underground, into buildings for a long time. Not quite construction, but also not easy work. Pay was terrible, I was young, and they took advantage of me. for almost 10 years. I’ve roofed, I’ve framed, I’ve been a programmer, I’ve been a network engineer. ALL of those jobs were basically the same in that regard, decent pay sure… But the hours required, the recovery I had to go through. Nothing is worth that. I’m sad that I took this long to figure that out, I missed a lot of good times with my kiddo. I can never get that back.

    That’s the same thing that’s happening to all of us at this point. There’s NO reason there isn’t enough money in the pipeline to get things built that need to be built, paying people a wage that they can live on, and without eating nearly all of their time ‘off’ work. If you have to take so much time to recover that you feel like it eats into your personal job, your work life balance is way out of wack.

    I don’t want to sound like I think your career isn’t valid, or isn’t important. Every single person that’s a part of making our lives work deserves to get paid well. No matter their job. There are so many resources available to the world we could all have better lives, but then a small group of slime would have fewer 0’s in their bank account. Otherwise, they wouldn’t even notice.

    To speak to the other side, there are a number of people that thrive in that environment. My dad was one of them. He’s at the end of his life, dying of Parkinson’s and now seeing the relationship I have with my kiddo. I can see the pain in his face. He wants to have had that with me, but decided that money was more important. He’s going to die a multi millionaire, I hope those dollars comfort him.

    That took a turn, I’m sorry. But it feels good to get out so I’m leaving it.


  • You see that none of that is a good thing right?

    I don’t want to work a job that destroys my work life balance for any pay. Doesn’t matter how much. Nobody should have to give up their life for money.

    Young people are more likely to want to take care of themselves and not have the toxic mindset you and I were brought up with. They aren’t just taking it on the chin, or putting in their time, or whatever bullshit platitudes my generation and older like to sling at young workers or those not willing to eat shit for peanuts.

    You are just perpetuating that toxic mindset, in servitude of the moneyed class.














  • Not all of it is great, Honda is currently being investigated by the NHTSA for it’s collision mitigation system being dangerous.

    Personally ours tried to kill us by panic breaking in a gentle left hand corner, with no cars ahead of us, from 40-0 with a fully loaded semi behind us. This is a 2021 MY.

    Turns out if you floor it, it will override that but I didn’t know, and also think that’s a fucking horrible way to have to respond to a car malfunctioning. Have had the dealer check it out, it’s working within their normal parameters.

    I used to laugh at the dumb things it did, because I’m an idiot. It took nearly being killed to see those other events as frightening failures and not just quirks of a new technology.

    Their offer to me on how to fix it… Just remember to turn it off every time.

    Nah, don’t think so. My partner drives it once in a while but not enough to remember every time, and my kiddo would be getting this soon when they start driving but I don’t trust it enough to put them in it.

    They also don’t expose can signals at the OBD2 port, hiding it behind a can gateway so I’m tapping a module behind my mirror to see if I can find a way to confuse it permanently so it stops trying to kill us, or just turn it off entirely.

    Edit to add NHTSA link : https://www.nhtsa.gov/?nhtsaId=EA24002