Trainguyrom

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 8 points 7 hours ago

If you've not seen the Blues Brothers go watch it right now. Order the DVD if you have to. Its absolutely worthwhile. Its an SNL spinoff film with a Legendary soundtrack featuring the biggest names in the Blues and Jazz scene. Great soundtrack, brilliant gags, incredible car chases and just a ton of rediculous chaos.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

So normal that this knowledge became part of the sentencing process. I knew a guy who was in prison for some drug related charges. (Basically he grew up with no money in a bad part of town, while on some kind of a drug binge he killed a guy who was also on a drug binge and trying to kill him, so from his perspective he kinda woke up one day in prison and had no clue what happened during his binge and just had to take everyone else's word for what had gone down)

Anyways he was sentenced to something like 30 years for murder back in the 90s with the expectation that he'd be out in 10-15 years, but instead he spent years 20-23 of his sentence fighting tooth and nail to get parole, and in that process actually got the original judge to write a letter of recommendation where the judge specified he sentenced to 30 with the intention and expectation of him going on parole long before that point.

His life was truly a tragedy though, he ended up passing away from an undiagnosed heart condition less than a year after going on parole, and his wife was dying of something at the same time so his estranged brother had to handle the estate and ultimately he only got to live his best life for about 6 months.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 11 points 1 day ago

Its a dogwhistle. That's what racists do is they'll have some dogwhistle to signal to other racists that they're also in the in group. In this case it's intentionally listing out the owners full name so they can see his name initializes to K.K.K. (which i pointed out in another comment that most businesses in small towns don't specify a first name, it's just "lastname's type of business" so in this case "Kistlers Engine Repair" since you don't know if it'll be Kermit or Emmit or Kermit's grandson John Kistler serving you but you at least know it'll be a Kistler running the place)

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

the proprietor’s full name on the big sign out front. His name was Kermit K. Kistler.

That's a very intentional choice. Most small businesses in small towns get named "[lastname]'s [type of business]" and I can't think of any small businesses around me the specify the first name of who it is, even when its a family with lots of entrepreneurs and you see that family name on like 4 different businesses in town. Like your family name is a source of reputation in these small towns so when you're starting out it's better to use just the family name because everyone knows a [lastname] and sure the business is actually owned by their cousin but at least you know someone related to it so you know they'll do good work

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago

A couple of years ago I got my wife to finally play Portal and Portal 2 for the first time. Its been long enough she was entirely unaware of any of the memes about the game so she immediately fell in love with the companion cube and cried when she realized she had no choice but to incinerate it, even going so far as trying to find a bug to exploit to bring it with her

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 5 days ago

When they do you can still play 2009scape! Has up to 5x XP modes in case you want a less grindy experience, a single player mode and a brilliant community

Worth noting that OSRS is really just a fork of RuneScape from around the mid RS2 days, (if I remember correctly it's based on a full backup someone found of their codebase, so it started as "hey look we found this old version of the game in a box in one of our offices, wanna play?") and now it contains more new content than original content. Heck way back in the day the idea of a sailing skill was always a silly joke that nobody took seriously, and I'm talking back when Hunter and slayer were being added. Yet here we are.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 9 points 6 days ago

I see lots of people suggesting non-work things, but that gets old fast and depending on your work environment can be stressful as you might get caught "not working"

I'd be trying to take on new projects. Start by getting to know your coworkers. If you have other people in your department, talk to them about what they're working on, things they'd like to see done. If you're the lone person in your area of work you could alternatively walk the floor and start talking to anyone who could be the stakeholder for a future project. Learn what their pain points are, where the current practices have blindspots.

You mentioned being a safety admin, I'm guessing that's industrial safety right? Start looking into whatever the current buzzwords are in the industrial safety field and make it a project you take to your boss and try to get funding. Find ways to improve the current processes and data tracking. If you don't already use a fancy incident tracking system outside of Excel, start doing some research and getting some numbers from vendors and have a chat with your boss about how using an actual purpose built database can improve compliance (that's about 70% of my duties right now is managing and configuring my organization's SAAS risk management database, but we also have ~10k workers in the field so it's highlighting useful data points in the data we've already collected primarily)

Unless your position is stuck below a manager with zero flexibility for process improvement, there's always new projects to be discovered and started to improve existing processes

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

I know there’s already too much content on the Web

No such thing!

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've had good luck sharing my own interests instead. A few years ago I got super into watching SpaceX's rocket launches because it's honestly spectacular and they know how to do a really good livestream, plus watching the booster come back from orbit and softly touchdown is pretty incredible (I've had a hard time enjoying the live streams since Musk's involvement with Trump of course)

But popping over to a coworker and going "hey there's a rocket launch in 2 minutes, wanna take 8 minutes and watch it with me?" is a brilliant ice breaker

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago

Banning advertisements to kids is the correct approach. I've observed with my own kids, they genuinely don't yet have the mental faculties to be critical of advertisements. They see something advertised, they want it, simple as that. Their brains aren't developed enough for content with advertising nor product placement.

Maybe there's a sweet spot in limiting it to toy ads and ads for other content on the same platform that they're watching. I'm not sure, I'm not a child psychologist, but kids should not be presented ads for energy drinks/drink supplements (I wish I was kidding but I've specifically had to have a conversation with my daughter about why we're not buying the drink band owned by a certain YouTube celebrity who got himself banned from returning to Japan) nor for restaurants (especially not fast food!) nor for sketchy paid mod launchers for games (fuck you to the like only YouTuber who focuses entirely on Wobbly Life and is constantly advertising that!), nor most of the other things I've seen advertised to the kids recently

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The way I see it, if my kids start finding ways to circumvent parental controls we should be able to have some frank discussions about what the parental controls would be setup for

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