...and how many times did your frozen fingers drop a screw or connector requiring a 40 foot up and down to retrieve it?
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I always carried a pocketful of spares. You also learned how to use a pair of lineman's pliers to do just about anything. If you dropped them, you were heading down to get them, or if you were lucky, you had a buddy on the ground to throw them back up. Sucked when they fell in several feet of snow and you had to search for them. We always found a few screwdrivers etc. below the frequently worked on poles in the spring. After I left they gave them a pulley and a bucket on a rope so you could leave stuff in it, and if you dropped something you could lower it down and your buddy would put it in for you.
Mad Mike
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While in high school I ran a little gas station in Unionville. It was one of the last full-serve stations, sold gas cheap, and only took cash. On a normal day there were 4 cars at a time being fueled, never a moment with no cars in line for fuel. No mitts or gloves because we were constantly handling gas caps and cash -- hands were frozen and red most of the time.
Really bad days were the worst -- people really loved full-serve on ****** days.
Really bad days were the worst -- people really loved full-serve on ****** days.
Seems like a simpler solution would be to just have lanyards on tools / items so they wouldn't drop. Obviously it depends on the size of the tools and such, but I know our last job site had a rule and it was more to do with safety of items not falling on people nearby (technically no one could walk under the lifts...but...people).
Simpler times before. I suspect they will be dealing with the annoyance of tethered tools now.
TK4
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Me too, but it was the Econo station in Richvale. Fill it up, clean the windows and ask if they wanted their oil and tire pressures checked. It could be brutal.
Yeah, they probably do. I'll ask my buddy next time I'm in contact. He stayed there until retirement a few years ago.
You always needed to watch what you asked for with management. Just when I was leaving, one guy got something in his eye and complained that CN should have given us safety glasses so that it wouldn't have happened. Management agreed and issued everyone two pairs, one clear and the other tinted. Then they made it an almost fireable offense to not be wearing them outside of the truck.
While I agree, safety should always be a priority for crew members. My last job was with a Mining company and safety was literally a 'first boat out' offence...if you were an idiot. If you weren't, there was always some leeway.
I've heard about BHP and if you don't have safety glasses, go to your camp room and stay there. Second offence? You're no longer allowed on a BHP site anywhere around the world. They spend millions in PPE and they'll be damned if you don't wear it.
I've also seen 2 guys now with a cutting disc in their cheek because they refuse to wear guards/face shields.
While safety is part of my work, I understand the 'safety is #1 until it impedes production'...but the KPI can't be ignored. The more incidents, the higher the insurance rate, the higher the premium, the lower the chance of getting the next bid. It's all related.
Large points in bidding for your safety record...
A cousin worked on a big smokestack up north and the project manager wasn't very well liked. It was amazing the number of bricks that accidentally fell when he was near the stack.
Not a funny one. Sometimes life sucks.
My cousin's daughter was a single mom dying of leukemia and with a 5 year old son. It was just before Christmas and when Santa asked him what he wanted for Christmas he said he just wanted his mommy to live. "I'm a good boy. I help her take her medicine"
What could he say? Here's a candy cane?
That was ten years ago and he was adopted by his uncle and family. He's doing great. Santa probably quit.
My cousin's daughter was a single mom dying of leukemia and with a 5 year old son. It was just before Christmas and when Santa asked him what he wanted for Christmas he said he just wanted his mommy to live. "I'm a good boy. I help her take her medicine"
What could he say? Here's a candy cane?
That was ten years ago and he was adopted by his uncle and family. He's doing great. Santa probably quit.
TK4
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My eyes are leaking....
Ugh. I never want to think of that. Ours kids are signed up (unofficially) to my sister, and vice versa if the worst happens.
But…poo happens.
But…poo happens.
MIT predicted society would collapse by 2040. New data tells how we’re doing
A close look at the controversial Limits to Growth model.
thehill.com
Apparently we're all gonna have a bad day soon.
Seems more like idealogical fluff than reality. They want you to invest in sustainable technologies and equitable human development. Noble goals and not a bad idea. The flipside is the collapse will have winners and losers and if you are one of the ones in the position to make decisions about paths today, you are probably going to be a winner. Those that don't have a choice now will probably be on the losing team.MIT predicted society would collapse by 2040. New data tells how we’re doing
A close look at the controversial Limits to Growth model.
Apparently we're all gonna have a bad day soon.
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule. – VICE
A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we’re unfortunately right on schedule.
www.vice.com
I hope you're right lol
Personally I agree with this. We might stop growing population wise (due to virtual waifus), but unless we bring third world countries out of poverty so they stop popping babies and need two incomes as well........yeah we're not doing that in 18 years lol. We'd more likely nuke ourselves than that <_<
Certain factors that line up to this:
* Net neutral stuff's deadline is around that time.
* Boomers and gen X retiring and this is a common "problem" you'll hear about in university/college because nobody wants to pay for their pension
* Fermi Paradox and it's relation to a technological singularity (the point at which technology advancements cannot be stopped and accelerate ridiculously fast)
* The current movement for "artificial food" (I haven't paid attention much to this, but I'm pretty sure we're doing this for reasons outside profit)
I think this is interesting ****; hope nobody has a heart attack if they google these things lol
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Turning someone else's bad day around.
I was talking to a friend, a retired high school teacher, and he mentioned a kid coming to class late. Instead of reaming him he said "It looks like your day isn't starting off well. If you need to talk, I'm around" The kid came back later and said he was late because his mother had tried to stab his father who was dying of cancer and he had to get his younger siblings off to school. After a chat the kid was set up with appropriate counciling.
The teacher ran into the kid a few years later and he was doing OK.
Some people make their bad days. Others have them thrust upon them.
I was talking to a friend, a retired high school teacher, and he mentioned a kid coming to class late. Instead of reaming him he said "It looks like your day isn't starting off well. If you need to talk, I'm around" The kid came back later and said he was late because his mother had tried to stab his father who was dying of cancer and he had to get his younger siblings off to school. After a chat the kid was set up with appropriate counciling.
The teacher ran into the kid a few years later and he was doing OK.
Some people make their bad days. Others have them thrust upon them.
That image while interesting seems to have a lot of misses in the first decade. Obviously, I cant say much about the accuracy further in the future.MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule. – VICE
A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we’re unfortunately right on schedule.
I hope you're right lol
Personally I agree with this. We might stop growing population wise (due to virtual waifus), but unless we bring third world countries out of poverty so they stop popping babies and need two incomes as well........yeah we're not doing that in 18 years lol. We'd more likely nuke ourselves than that <_<
Certain factors that line up to this:
* Net neutral stuff's deadline is around that time.
* Boomers and gen X retiring and this is a common "problem" you'll hear about in university/college because nobody wants to pay for their pension
* Fermi Paradox and it's relation to a technological singularity (the point at which technology advancements cannot be stopped and accelerate ridiculously fast)
* The current movement for "artificial food" (I haven't paid attention much to this, but I'm pretty sure we're doing this for reasons outside profit)
I think this is interesting ****; hope nobody has a heart attack if they google these things lol
LOL
Hold up, it is?
I'm the only person I know that reads physical books anymore. Many others have an e-reader or something.
Computers really are everywhere: in my room alone there are at least 12 (Google Home, consoles, routers, etc. all count.) Most elevators have at least 3 computers now.
I used Google translate to talk to strippers in Asian countries; it worked extremely well lol
Between 2019 to 2029, there are still 6 years for a bunch of that **** to become reality. I don't think creative AI making complex art or humans developing relationships with AI will be in this time though. Also no clue wtf nanotube lattices are.
Nanotubes-no idea
Paper books obsolete- reasonably accurate in first world. Not complete takeover but way over 51%
AI art/music - probably not. I've heard/seen some. Maybe other AI likes it but most humans aren't on board
Autonomous vehicles dominate the roads - hell no. I will be really surprised if we have any autonomous vehicles on roads by 2029. The 20 km/h one funded by gov't and metrolinx that follows a defined route crashed in whitby and the company folded up.
Computer power - I have no idea
Computers embedded everywhere (furniture, jewellery, walls, etc) - up for interpretation. Sure we have lots of computing devices but I would argue most are not embedded as defined in the statement. They are substantially still stand alone devices (but lots of them throughout the environment which is a big step up from a mainframe sitting at big blue).
Deep relationships with AI - I don't think so. We aren't even at passable conversation trees at this point yet alone a conversation that can trigger a meaningful relationship (other than F you Emily, connect to a person you useless pos).
Language translation routinely used - getting there, still far from routine. Maybe by 2029? That's where something in an earpiece probably makes more sense than a screen. Auto-translate whatever it hears on the outside to your chosen language in your ear would be awesome.
So by my count I got Yes/No/Maybe of 1/3/4.
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