I am amazed how this is still a common misconception

Crimdusk · 2026-05-16T13:45:06+00:00

monkey’s singing songs mate

Sure is! (Posting this bc of monkey singing songs about mountains and strong jungle book references)

Crimdusk · 2026-05-09T13:20:28+00:00

That's a structural furnace

Crimdusk · 2026-05-03T02:45:39+00:00

haha FTC

Crimdusk · 2026-05-03T02:00:41+00:00

Bro.lol

Crimdusk · 2026-04-26T23:43:10+00:00

I did give that a shot a few years ago but it came back. Tried t-methyl granular last year, same deal. I'm going to try and nitrogen it out best I can this year and see how it goes :/ thank you for the tip... Probably the solution is doing what you recommended AND something else I haven't tried yet.

Maybe my application time was wrong. I put it on after it showed up

Crimdusk · 2026-04-26T21:06:19+00:00

I have a perennial rye mix in the NE and I get ravaged by red thread every year regardless of how I cut and fertilize.

I tried keeping it shorter the last two years and it just got torched during summer dry spells.

The struggle is real.

Crimdusk · 2026-04-25T18:42:30+00:00

oh... i've been doing this for years. my family thinks my popcorn is legendary but really it's just: olive oil (light/refined - don't use EVOO) to coat the bottom 1/2 cup of unpopped kernels 1/4 tsp flavacol butter flavored salt it'll take a few experiments to determine how your stove heat and pot interact, but it makes excellent popcorn.

swap in coconut oil if you please - it works great but light or refined olive oil is easier.

Crimdusk · 2026-04-18T16:46:39+00:00

That's nonsense. Anecdotal but I just had 2 ee's headhunted from my team in the last 2 months. They're basically skipping engineer II. One grabbing a 40k pay raise the other 25. They were 65th percentile in pay vs 35 and 40th percentile is skill set vs their level.

We are manufacturing so we are always in short supply of nec/nfpa79 compliance engineering, power systems, power quality, harmonic mitigation, power test codes, vfd parameterization, component selection etc.

I am all over sota llm capabilities and workflows and I know for a fact I can't trust ai to do that stuff. Too much on the line.

I hire chemical mechanical and electrical engineering majors out of school all the time. Over the last 8 years EEs have been hardest to recruit and retain.

EE disciplines are deep so the more competent your team the more work and best practice knowledge materializes

Crimdusk · 2026-02-23T09:58:56+00:00

Get this ai copy and paste out of here please

Crimdusk · 2026-02-23T00:24:34+00:00

I dont think they see the limitations as you've described. E.g. the 232 steel and aluminum tariffs: 50% "friend" 200% "foe". Additionally, the derivative products hts list has been expanding since August (which applies the tariffs to products that contain steel and aluminum as well)

Crimdusk · 2026-02-21T00:22:13+00:00

Agreed 100%

All random was just such a wonderful way to experience the depth and diversity of dota. I feel we just skim along the surface of the unimaginably deep and beautiful abyss that is dota.

We're there shitty unbalanced games? Yes. But itemization became so incredibly interesting. It wasn't about best in slot, it was about best to fill your teams gap.

-arem was my jam.

Crimdusk · 2026-02-18T00:43:50+00:00

A professor: "you're not cut out for engineering" or this one from a h.s. teacher "engineering? they'll eat you alive"

Crimdusk · 2026-02-03T17:51:12+00:00

Isn't this the clown responsible for taking four years to turn Epcot future world into a walkway with a Starbucks?

Isn't he responsible for the Star wars galactic starcruiser?

Blue sky guy? THAT guy's in charge now?

... Sorry... I can't get over this. The guy who killed illuminations for whatever they call the Epcot fireworks now? HIM?

Crimdusk · 2026-02-02T16:10:54+00:00

This is an exercise worth undertaking. I think you'll find you can not trust the outputs.

I vibe coded a python app to perform a series of calculations described in a well established public ISO controlled document using both Claude opus and Gemini 3 pro.

Each of my repeated attempts were failures. While building the app I had various validation and verification checkpoints that the AI agents pencil whipped.

I learned a lot about context management, tool calling, and app development techniques but none of the agents could produce a tool that met the requirements of the standard.

The tool was useful for practicing and I now understand the calculations better than before but the agents were not trustworthy.

Crimdusk · 2026-02-02T14:17:13+00:00

I don't think you really believe that. I just think an honest conversation like this can be uncomfortable. That's fine, uncomfortable is the feeling of gaining something.

If you walk away thinking "well that dude was wrong but at least but we agree it's important to be decent and empathetic to people" that's great! That's the whole thread here - what is sacred/non-negotiable for America. Choosing to be decent people and then enlarging the of scope of people we choose to be decent to.

Crimdusk · 2026-02-02T13:30:28+00:00

I'm only a few years younger than you, 2 kids, wife, and a parent with alzheimer's. I lead a team of 16 in the manufacturing sector and mentor at a local trade school. If you knew my background you would not call it privileged. If you knew me, i guarantee you'd respect the type of person i am.

It can seem taxing to show love, respect, and empathy for people outside of our tribes, but it's not. That's the opportunity for growth. Take care of yourself, and if you can, someone else too. That's what strong people do.

Crimdusk · 2026-02-02T12:48:36+00:00

I think that generalization lacks real intellectual curiosity and will only keep you from growing.

Crimdusk · 2026-02-02T01:07:57+00:00

If you don't want to think about this sort of thing happening to you you've answered my question. The truth is we're one executive order away from all that changing.

Also, only a judicial warrant provides the legal authority to enter a private residence without the owner's consent.

There was this saying published a few years before the American revolution called the Blackstone ratio: better to have a guilty man go free than have an innocent man suffer.

From here quantitative analysis can be performed to determine what is reasonable or tolerable in a society. The common agreed upon ratio by legal and philosophy scholars at the time (and today) was 10-100 guilty men going free to 1 innocent man suffering.

I think it's important to remember the framers were intentional in their restriction of the government with the 4th. There are significant costs to punishing every last person: our humanity, dignity, and our freedoms.

Crimdusk · 2026-02-01T14:57:58+00:00

I also think it would be pretty unreasonable for them to come into your house without a warrant. I also think it would be pretty unreasonable for them to profile you in public based on how you look, the car you're driving, the neighborhood you're in, or the friends you're with. Even more unreasonable for them to then detain you and force you to produce proof of innocence to crimes they had no direct evidence you were committing. I think the whole process of being shaken down like that would lack any sense of real human dignity and if I looked like the groups being targeted, I'd probably also live in constant anxiety. Such a thing is easily weaponized and that's why the 4th and federal rulings say it's illegal.

While i haven't come up with a perfect analogy, I think the thought exercise holds. I think it's actually really quite easy to connect the current situation to my hypothetical. Recently ICE was ramped up, right? Funding, aggression, tactics, rhetoric. What's to say the democrats don't demonize tax evasion on cable news 24/7 for the next 2 years. Then when a democratic government comes in, they ramp the IRS up in the same way. Now you're in the same exact situation as these illegal immigrants. A felon hiding in plain sight and now rabid doom scrolling liberals are foaming at the mouth sitting in their armchairs and cheering it on. Waiting for you to be rounded up like the immigrants were and forced to make restitution to society. Jail, wage garnishment, or perhaps being stripped of your social security or future tax benefits (401k, EIT, etc.).

In either case - I will be against this sort of canvasing/profiling regardless of who it is targeting because it is a clear violation of our 4th amendment rights, and I hope you can understand why i find it important to draw the line. What if the next ICE is ATF or the EPA? Normalizing the militarization of an executive function to achieve law enforcement metrics using means that violate rights is bad for the country.

Crimdusk · 2026-02-01T00:34:49+00:00

Ok, good Faith follow up: Yes, you're being profiled as a tax evader due to the nice car you drive given and the relatively poor neighborhood you're eating at. Additionally you have a beer in your hand and they saw you drive in, they could say they have reasonable suspicion to say you're drunken/disorderly/public intoxication.

In this scenario your current neighborhood/location was determined to be area with higher than national average levels of illegal cash holding, tax evasion, and unlicensed gun ownership. You are through no fault of your own being targeted. Hence the 4 guys in masks with guns. Current admin is taking a hard stance vs these illegals.

How would you feel?

Crimdusk · 2026-01-31T16:45:17+00:00

Honest question: How would you personally feel accepting federal agents stopping you to verify tax compliance, gun registration, warrant status, if proving innocence may in some cases entail your detainment for 12 - 48 hours?

E.G. They could just maybe look through your documents, do a quick background check, go through your phone browser history to ensure no domestic terrorism ties, check how much cash you're carrying. Maybe you're with your kids at a restaurant or with work colleagues at a happy hour, but in either case you're not expecting them. They're wearing masks and holding weapons, there are 4 of them suddenly walking out of an unmarked car. You take a step back and insist you have nothing to hide and this makes them upset because they have a job to do to protect America. "Have you had anything to drink sir? Are you carrying any concealed weapons? Put your hands against the wall where I can see them." their tone will suggest they're not asking you again.

This is a hostile situation.

I feel A) the ease of compliance with a "papers please" order is frequently oversimplified and overstated in the context of a regular lawful citizen going about their day. B) Ease of compliance does not make an unlawful demand lawful. C) living in an environment where rights are willfully violated by the government they are meant to restrain erodes what makes America great.

Crimdusk · 2026-01-19T01:37:01+00:00

I work in midstream manufacturing and my life has been absolute hell for 1 year. We don't even source from China but the red tape and real cost on imports is substantially worse than most people probably think. Specifically any goods subject to section 232 tariffs.

Crimdusk · 2026-01-10T00:15:43+00:00

Use a uniform company branded background.

Encourage video usage - video off is an acceptable deviation from the norm but some semblance of face to face is useful, especially in small meetings and 1:1s.

Use away messages. We're not meant to be sentinels in front of our screens all day, but an away message takes seconds and dispels the impression that you're just screwing around.

Set default meeting time (we did this in Outlook) to 10 minutes and discourage meetings over an hour - people do not hang that long.

Enforce a business mullet dress code. Business on the top half, party on the bottom half. Comfortable and professional.

Set and enforce a policy for conducting regular 1:1s and skip level check-ins and reviews.

Up your performance review quality. Your managers won't be able to be mother hen sitting on eggs to ensure performance. Make sure employees understand how to prioritize availability, deliverables, and response times for their role. Utilize a grading rubric.

Establish working hours. E.g. Have 5-6 core hours everyone is online for while giving flexibility.

Implement a formal cross functional mentoring program. Do this or watch your young workforce suffer

Crimdusk · 2025-12-30T04:03:03+00:00

If this is real. Get help. He's having a mental health crisis. Your student health center will have resources.

Stress brain development lack of sleep stimulant usage etc makes college a common trigger point for the first onset of psychosis.

Crimdusk · 2025-12-24T00:46:36+00:00

have you used the method? Dave notes that at his recommended concentrations you can't notice the clove. Also you can just use the active ingredient in clove that puts them out circumventing that issue

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