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"That's why my grandparents had feral cats on the farm."

"Correct. My farm cat is lethal. I got him to control the rodent population but the little asshole has expanded his killing to a surprising amount of small animals. This is why house cats should be kept inside — some are insane hunters.

Anyway, I'm taking the little shit to get a rabies shot tomorrow."

"I used to do nursing home regulatory inspections for the state health department, and when I was assigned to the food service section, I'd make a BEELINE to those ice machines. They're so gross."

"In most states, all you need is a driver's license for the massive RVs themselves. They can have air brakes, weigh as much as a building and be 40 feet long, but your 80 year old grandpa can legally hop in and take it just about anywhere... give them plenty of space."

"Yea I figured helicopters and planes are way simpler and flimsier than people realize.

One time a pilot told me: 'Pretty much every time we fly a plane long distance, something breaks, gets unscrewed or loose, gets cracks in it, etc. Just 99% of the time, it's not a big enough deal to warrant stopping and correcting everything every time.'"

"I don't know about UPS or FedEx, but USPS mail carriers get worn down almost as quickly. When I was a sub, all of the regular carriers had at least one major shoulder, knee or back injury, and all but two had already had carpal tunnel surgery on at least one forearm."

"If a car salesman or service advisor told me the sky was blue, I'd go outside and check for myself. Every single person at a car dealership exists to fuck you out of as much money as possible. Dishonesty and cheating is how they make their profits."

A lot of what we know/how we use medications comes from research that has historically been focused on people with European ancestry. Though they've been trying to fix them, the datasets are still heavily Eurocentric.

Our genetics can affect how we respond to drugs. For example, variants in CYP2C19 can make someone process certain medications faster or slower. If we don't include diverse populations in research, we could be missing genetic differences that matter for making medications safer and more effective for everyone.

By cutting budgets for research, important discoveries in diverse populations can go undiscovered…"

Someone once explained to me that it should be portrayed the same as physical therapy.

Everyone knows physical therapy sucks. Improvement depends, often, on pushing yourself to the limit. It will be painful. It can require things of you which you don't think you can do, but have to reach for anyway. But you can't half ass it, if you want to make progress.

But so often, mental health is treated as something you just have to show up to and that means you’re trying your best. It’s a vital step, sure, but you still have to work to get better."

"When I worked in retail and I encountered a rude customer who demanded that I look in the back for a specific product that wasn't on the shelves, I would go out back, find the product they were looking for, stare at it for a few moments, then go back out front and tell the customer that it was out of stock."

"Amen, don't do it. The inspection videos that go viral nowadays are actually laughable, but it makes me hold my head in my hands knowing how much land and money is being wasted on that trash."

"In those mid 2000s the market was peaking. They were building like crazy. Custom home builders were eating up all of the skilled labor, leaving an abundance of untrained or low skilled labourers doing skilled trades in more traditional homes. That problem got worse and worse from 2003 to 2008. It crossed a threshold around 2006.

Market buckled in 2008. Everyone struggled.

One way municipalities encouraged construction to resume, was they decreased inspections. Removed many items off of third party inspection lists and let the county do it. County hold zero liability along side their inspections and too many county inspectors don't do their job (that said, there are still some good ones).

Since there were more workers than there was work, pay scales dropped. Thus, quality of work dropped. As work resumed, immigration spiked keeping the market flooded with workers with low experience. Even though the building market recovered and costs went up, builders kept wages low and pocketed that increase."

"I used to work for a geotechnical engineering firm that had a landscaping department. When we got in trouble, they'd send us to landfill for a few days as punishment.

I got sent once, arrived Monday morning. Sat in my truck watching garbage trucks and recycling trucks dump. In the same parking lot. And it all got pushed to the same spot by loaders.

I asked a manager why the landfill and recycling stuff is mixed together. He said they have a weekly limit of how much they can recycle, once they hit that limit, the rest goes in the landfill. That made sense. But wait a minute...It's Monday morning. I asked him when they usually hit that limit. He said about 8:30 a.m. (trucks can't arrive until 8 a.m.).

My trash/recycling pick up was Thursday."

"Agreed. Reading judgments is an enlightening experience."

"Also, the amount of books libraries get rid of every year would shock a lot of people. Every so often, we go through the shelves and get rid of things that are old, out of date, or just plain people don't want to read them, and they get sent to a reseller, go to our bookstore, get recycled, or sometimes just thrown away. We aren't repositories. We don't have room to keep everything forever."

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