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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • The issue is, it means you may not be putting the best person for a position, in that position. Affirmative action stuff all sounds great until you see someone with better performance, more experience, and qualifications get passed by on a promotion because of their gender, race, or sexual orientation.

    Where I work does unbiased testing based out of standard books that questions are pulled from so there’s no bias. Unfortunately not every field can do such a thing.



  • For career fire departments, smoking ciggarettes doesn’t seem more pervasive than other places. Many departments haven’t allowed smoking while on duty for quite a long time, and we work 24 to 48 hours per shift.

    As to the pfas and cancer, you’re right about a lot of what we end up breathing in and smoke we get on our skin from firefighting, but you don’t actually need that study done to already know that pfa’s cause cancer. That’s been covered by other studies outside of firefighting equipment to know that pfas are cancer causing. Further, it’s been proving that pfas can be absorbed through the skin, and finally, it’s been proven that firefighters have had higher levels of pfas in their bloodstream.

    So it’s not that firefighters have more cancer and they’re just claiming it’s because of the pfas. It’s that they know pfas cause cancer and that our bunker gear is leeching pfas into our body’s.



  • Notice that your phone is 6 years old, and not one year old. There’s your hiccup.

    Also, I’d rather replace a battery in a 6 year old phone, than put up with it only being at half capacity and being underclocked so it runs like shit.

    Further also, you aren’t quite understanding the issue with the phones. Most phones manufacturers leave some “wiggle room” for their power demand and don’t need a full 3.6v for stability (lithium batts are 3.7v nominal). Apple screwed up their power draw and screwed up their battery manufacturing.


  • Yeah, I’ve read it before. And bayer gave aids to foreign countries, and nestle has done deplorable things, and the banana people have hired mercenaries to kill natives for banana control, and our US government let tons of black people die and spread syphilis because they just wanted to see how it went instead of giving them the cure, cable companies stole billions and never delivered on promised infrastructure…if it’s a big entity, they’re usually pieces of shit. I’m still getting my tape from 3M.




  • If you’re much of a tech person, you must have been living under a rock if you think all apple products are good. Several of their laptops and desktops have been large misses, some have had critical flaws that burn them out after a few years, one of their iPhones had a battery/processor combo flaw that had the batteries not deliver enough voltage after like a year and instead of doing a recall, they put out an update that undercooked the apu so the phone ran shittier but wouldn’t rando restart anymore. Then there was the iPhone that lost reception if “you were holding it wrong”.

    Also, there’s a reason they were about to go bankrupt in the mid 90’s. They got saved by Bill Gates and got lucky with the Ipod, that saved their company.




  • For like 75% of all home purchases, screw realtors. They’re fairly useless for what they charge, and any inspectors they recommend are bullshit inspections you wouldn’t want to trust.

    I bought my house 15 years ago and did it without any realtors involved. Both parties saved thousands in exchange for doing like an hours worth of paperwork.

    If it’s a simple straight up purchase of a home that you’re able to go look at first, skip the realtors. Get your own inspection done after negotiating price without going through a middlemen that try to keep the buyer and seller from speaking to each other, and if you aren’t comfortable doing up the paperwork, have a lawyer do it for less than a grand.