I only have experience with one of them - sea lions. I was working on a survey ship, and we had these buoys in the water that we serviced from time to time. One of these buoys, uppon approaching, turned out to have a sea lion chilling on top.
He fucked off when we started getting really close, but when we got the buoy onboard he had left a massive turd on top of this cable connector that I needed to unplug. Very unfriendly. 0/10, would not recommend this friendship.
Seeing as he was banned from Lemmygrad he might be a “normal” commie, and not a tankie. I don’t agree with communists, but I can understand the viewpoint and even get on board with some of the ideology (hell, if you’re starving and someone promises you all the potatoes you can drink, communism must sound pretty great), but if you spend all day hanging out with tankies, some echo-chamber induced brain rot is bound to happen.
Edit/Clarification: OP is a tankie, maybe just not tankie enough for lemmygrad.
It doesn’t take a right-winger to be anti communist. Could you link some examples? This might be a simple case of your standpoint not being as neutral as the title might imply. Not claiming that you’re wrong, I just think context matters a lot, especially when ascribing a specific political viewpoint to a general impression.
EDIT: Your comment history is… to put it in a diplomatic manner, problematic in this context. Congrats on getting banned from lemmygrad, tho.
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That’s because of the democrats’ shared platform of not being obstructionist disruptive morons.
That one of the key people who knows how our technology works, how to improve it, and how much of a failure the current “upgrade” really is (engineering forced this “upgrade” without talking to those of us who know) will be handing in their resignation to join the competition in a matter of days.
I’ve already drafted the resignation letter.
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Both true, depending on how you define them. Viruses tend to jump to humans from animals when living in close proximity. The wet market origin is the most likely theory regarding the origin, which makes it both man made and natural, along with so many other diseases affecting humans throughout history.
Sure, the wet market origin hasn’t (and cannot) be 100% proven, but using this to speculate that this means that a biolab origin is just as plausible is both dangerous and dumb.
a universal basic income won’t stop people from working
A bit offtopic, but I came to the same conclusion during a somewhat philosophical discussion with a friend who expressed skepticism with the increased automation aspect of the world, and we extrapolated this into a hypothetical world where almost everything was automated.
His concern was that one day humanity could find themselves dependent on an automated system over which they had no control.
My response, being a bit of a techno-optimist, was that:
I’m the kind of guy who makes the little gears spin so that the cog can turn, and I derive entertainment from reviving broken complex systems, and I wouldn’t want it any other way
I don’t remember any sources, but I remember in the late 90’s there was some online chatter about “biological computers” being the Next Big Thing. In short, cells forming a computational neural net. No idea what, if anything, came of it, or if it was even seriously researched or implemented.
Offshore seismic survey. The positions vary in title, but technician, observer, seabed logger, etc are, quite honestly, easy as fuck. If you’re able to display reasonably good troubleshooting skills and adaptability to a “different” kind of job, you’re golden. Pays quite well too. Your background certainly plays a role, but it’s more about being the right kind of well-rounded personality.
Pros: Computers, heavy machinery, robotics, nice people, loads of travel, nice ships (most of them, at least), five weeks at home to do whatever you want, well paid.
Cons: Five weeks offshore gets tiring, you sometimes find yourself in the shittiest shitholes in the world, the work can be really repetitive and boring, and if you’re unlucky you will find yourself on a ship with shitty food.
Source: I used to be one. Now I hold a more specialized supporting role instead. Been in the industry since 2008, and before that I had no fucking clue what I wanted to do with my life. It didn’t take me long after to figure out “what I want to be when I grow up”. I’m now 41, not quite a grownup, but I definitely am happy with my career.
That’s one of the perks, yes
I was saddened at first, thinking you had a pet lemming with dietary/digestion issues.
Seeing heads explode because of USD and StableCoins both being pegged to EACH OTHER… yeah, I can get behind that. I’ll bring popcorn for you too.
I’m not denying anything
Not really that cheap, but when I have the household to myself during WFH, a typical lunch consists of a wedge of blue cheese with some added apricot marmelade. I can finally stink up the house with my eclectic taste without anyone complaining.
This is my take as well… if you get a hundred hugs and one slap, you’re gonna remember the slap. And selling out the rail workers was one huge fucking slap.
Business owner or not, always salt your pasta water.