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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • That’s forbidden knowledge among the mechanics in my union local, lol. One of the shop mechanics at my training center was teaching some of my peers how to pick locks when we had completed our training and were just killing time helping the shop guys out. Had some downtime and he brought out a couple sets and some locks.
    Apparently it’s sort of an unspoken tool of the mechanic trade when you work around machinery like that. Never know what you’ll have to get access to and you never know if anyone will have the right key. You’d think the ignition key would suffice to open, say, an access panel or storage cabinet, but some of these machines use a different key entirely for such a thing.





  • How dramatic. I don’t think people are generally still scared of this. It’s been part of our lives for a few years now.
    Normal people see this and go “Hmm, I’ll keep some N95s around in case there’s a notable uptick in people gettin’ sick this flu season.” Meanwhile, some people, such as yourself, seem to have a negative knee-jerk reaction to anything in the news related to COVID, and then proceed to get shit upon by the community when you bitch about it; their knee-jerk reaction is to immediately assume you’re a right-winger and call you out on it (they’ve done it to a couple other people in here). While I don’t think that’s a fair assumption off the cuff, I can see how they’d jump to that.













  • I assume, considering this is the fediverse, that by “technical” you mean IT-related, Silicon Valley type fields.
    While I grew up on computers and know my way around them, and have a bachelor’s degree in biochem, I’m an Operating Engineer.
    That’s the proper title of “union guy that runs heavy construction equipment.” Mostly, I help build or resurface roads.
    I’m one of the guys y’all get irritated with when your local highway is restricted to one lane by a work enclosure, but are thankful for when your new road rides nice.
    It pays really well though, so there’s that. And it is actually very technical, but in a materials/engineering sense.