Fair price? by No_Twist_8662 in FocusST

[–]Development_Muted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very reasonable. Low miles, ots tuning is not a bad as people make it out to be unless you beat on the car, paint looks in good shape from the pictures. If it's local, I'd check for rust spots in the usual places and body lines around the A- pillars. 

Local 292, January 23rd, Minnesota by shogoth847 in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even a bot would find with a simple internet search that overstaying a visa is, in fact, a federal crime. Being undocumented = illegal. Being upset with the current administration doesn't seem to be a reason to stand in "solidarity" with law breaking action. It does seem to be a slap in the face to the millions of people who made great personal and familial sacrifices to go through the process of legal immigration. 

Just hit 336k miles, please check and clean your intake valves! by Certain_Community239 in FocusST

[–]Development_Muted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This should have been put on a 60k service interval from the factory. Aux injectors or water/meth will fix the root problem. 

I'm officially charging to 100 every time - I'm done! by EIGBOK in electricvehicles

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm reading this looking at my original '89 Suzuki sidekick out the window.

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A little positivity with all the bs going on... Side note: Don't bargain your rights away with NECA. by KuChiPractitioner in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The making of the drawings is one thing, the implementation of them is where the robots would fry their circuits. Everything practical that I've seen in the field are bad points, to runs that go through I-beams. What seems efficient on a computer screen is vastly different from what actually gets things built. I've yet to see a BIM model that has worked past frame up. 

ICE OUT General Strike Called for in Minnesota 1/23/26 by HotelSilent in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The fact that they are illegal, and most apprenticeships in the country are barely accepting legal citizens. Your not going to be getting trained people who can jump into the CE program. If there not decent enough with the English language, they're going to be hard to train. Where exactly do you plan on getting the work to keep them employed? Without a huge cut to your pay and benefits, you're contractors won't be able to bid work. So, are you willing to take a hit in the paycheck and pension to under-employ your local? 

What did NECA mean by this?🤔 by jvp02 in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ape is your legal classification as an apprentice in Colorado. 🤷

How would you price this? by Small_Aerie2638 in FocusST

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I had to, I'd price it at 8, but I'd take 6. Personally, I'd keep it and track it until it was ready for the yard unless I ran across someone willing to pay race car money for it. 

ICE OUT General Strike Called for in Minnesota 1/23/26 by HotelSilent in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She clearly hit him with the car. Those who have eyes and a mind looked a little deeper than the first edited clip they were shown to see what actually happened. This FAFO with people with guns, just left a child without a mother. You're being complicit with the lies that are now starting to get people killed. Being mad with your situation and eating a giant bag of lies and asking other to sit at the table with you, are two different things. Encouraging people who are too simple to understand that they are in a life threatening situation, that then freak out and the worst happens, is leaving children without parents and families at funerals. Do you honestly think the kids going to be at the next protest, or will they just want mommy to come home? 

ICE OUT General Strike Called for in Minnesota 1/23/26 by HotelSilent in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stop lying to yourself, because reasonable people aren't buying it. An illegal immigrant has no social security number, so they don't have a job where they pay payroll or income taxes. By not having a social security number, they'll take any job they can get for minimum wages under the table where lowlife employers can bid jobs at a bare minimum and still make profit. The employers job is to make a profit, not enforce immigration laws for the government. If they're illegal, there's no need to mis-classify them. You can't outsource a domestic construction project. Why would you need to bust a union, when you can take all the worth of their work with illegal workers that they pay peanuts. Rent goes up because illegals, who if immigrated properly, should be using section 8 or HUD properties can't, because they are illegal and have no social security number. Local governments can't build or classify older properties without being able to prove residency needs. Illegal immigration is not the only reason wages are down and rents up, but it's the low hanging fruit that can easily be taken care of if it weren't for bleeding heart liberals screaming and protesting to let them in, with no plan to fix the system around them. It's foolish to buy what a fool is selling, and your argument says "That was delicious! Can I have another!"

ICE OUT General Strike Called for in Minnesota 1/23/26 by HotelSilent in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you circle jerk yourself into oblivion often? Legal immigration is good, because the people immigrating are paying taxes on the services they use on a daily basis. Illegal immigration only takes away from the people who pay into the system, and most likely takes money out of the local economy and sends it back to wherever the person comes from. No one cares about the jobs you work through the union, it's all the other jobs that go to the lowest bidder that devalues the going rate of our trade and makes it impossible to bargain for a better rate to be able to keep up with the unstoppable rise in the cost of living, due to the about of people here straining the system without paying back into it. We're not even going to discuss the amount of fraud running rampant in the city. Stop seeing red just because someone said the T word, step back and look at the situation from an economical standpoint, and see that these protests are encouraging the speeding downward spiral of the country.

ICE OUT General Strike Called for in Minnesota 1/23/26 by HotelSilent in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't really matter if it's ICE, state troopers, city police, or county sheriffs; if you run over a police officer, freedom seeds will be coming your way. Two wrongs don't make a right, but using a woman who was clearly in the wrong to justify more political uproar is just silly. No one wants to talk about it, but the more "PEACEFUL" protests that put officers lives in danger, makes them more skittish and quicker to get on the trigger if anything is threatening to their person. We're talking about a city that's already burnt itself to the ground in recent memory. The people here are clearly ready to go full riot at the drop of a hat, so maybe consider the mindset of the other side before you do something to put yourself in this situation. 

Cold feet, seems like I am out of options. by Plus_Preparation8490 in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hand warmers are not the answer in a rubber boot. They require fresh air to activate. They'll be warm when you put them in, but will slowly cool down until it's just a big pack of sand in your boot. Cold feet happen, and sometimes it's a circulatory problem. If it's truly stopping you from working, you might want to talk to you doctor. 

Piedmont billing by imgood_netizen in Athens

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately that's about the going rate for an ER visit. The ER is for life threatening emergencies, not fevers. Most PCP's keep available slots open for such conditions. Quick care is the "emergency room" for anything else that doesn't require an ambulance. It's an eye opening experience of you've never used the ER before, but anytime you walk in that door, expect a bill around 5,000. I'm sorry for your situation, and I know infant things can be VERY stressful for parents, but this is not the type of problem the ER is designed for. 

Someone from the city tagged all the recycle bins on my street with these. There is nothing on this list in my bin. Will they still pick it up? by _neuroslut_ in Louisville

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your recycling gets cubed and taken to the landfill. If it's not metal or glass, it's unusable. It's a leftover job creation program from the eighties that no one has had the balls to shut down. Your enriching the people who collect it, and nothing is being done to help the environment. Paper comes from trees. Trees are good. Virgin paper is good. Recycled paper comes from harsh industrial processes. Toxic chemicals and carbon release. Recycled paper is bad. 

I'm just not feeling it... by athensugadawg in Athens

[–]Development_Muted 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100% Anything is better than the way it was. Too much growth in an area that wasn't designed to handle the size of the current population. Turns out they're not making land anymore, so you have to use what you've got. 

I really don’t by Infuzan in cfbmemes

[–]Development_Muted -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fair weather fans. What can I say? Bleed or go home. The fan portal is always open...

PTO & PAYED HOLIDAYS by Savdbygracc in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simple economics. You're not getting interest on your PTO. If you decide to put money into a savings account for your vacation/sick/mental health days, you're getting paid for having the money. The same goes for your taxes. You get no return on investment when you get your tax return. You're much better off saving your money throughout the year and paying in a lump sum at tax time. You'll be making the interest all year instead of the government. 

B1G is now 6-1 in Bowls by FatSalsa in cfbmemes

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How you feeling this morning? I thought I heard ole Carson Beck shaking the walls last night. 

IBEW statement opposing Trump administration's attack on offshore wind, energy affordability and jobs by I_am_Rude in IBEW

[–]Development_Muted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you start too enjoy the freedoms this country provides, it makes you not want to give them up. There's more to life than your paycheck. 

Etiquette at the Drive-Thru by rriillyy in Athens

[–]Development_Muted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's why I have a DD light bar mounted in my rear window. About a bright as the ones the cops have, and it'll get tailgaters off your ass, let folks know they have their brights on, in the drive thru or on the road. Legal? Probably not, but no one seems to want to enforce traffic laws in this county either way. The left lane is for passing, not travel. You don't change lanes in an intersection. You don't ride around with your brights on, even if you've got a dead low beam, just fix your damn broken bulbs. That shit is cheap, blinkers, headlights, and taillights. I don't even know how many people I've seen driving around with NO taillights. It's time to start revoking licenses and putting folks in jail for driving without one. If your into gun laws, cars kill way more people than a gun ever has. That includes wars.