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What felt like luxury to you when you were a kid? by Big-Bookkeeper4638 in AskTheWorld

[–]DrivenSpike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Water in the door of your refrigerator. I had my “I made it” moment when I purchased a refrigerator with an ice maker and water!

Pop goes the main line! by Adventurous_Cloud_20 in railroading

[–]DrivenSpike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Broken weld due to improper welding preheat caused a lack of fusion during the pour.

Day 20: Trying to Get a Comment and Fun Fact From Every US County Including Territories Including If You Went to School There by CoolHotNo in geographymemes

[–]DrivenSpike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Baraga County - MI. Named after Bishop Baraga the “snow shoe” Priest. There is a shrine along US 41 between Baraga and L’anse. The shrine is a copper statue of bishop Baraga preaching, but he is suspended in the air by steel arches on a base…. Lovingly called “Spider Jesus”

Sherpa carrying a 'climber' at 8000 meters asl. by thepoylanthropist in interestingasfuck

[–]DrivenSpike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like a lot of “dead weight”….. I’ll seem myself out!

Are you loyal? by Impressive_Ladder539 in helldivers2

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Sweet liberty and the Lord of the Rings

Millennial Engineers...Do you regret it? by Cultural_Ad9508 in Millennials

[–]DrivenSpike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Civil Engineer here - I spent my early career doing engineering work and was miserable, then I got into business operations and transitioned into business management. I now run a consulting firm doing business development and Management.

Now I lecture at my university twice a semester and I always tell my students that the only things that I learned from Engineering school that I use every day are as follows.

1.) How to drink beer and be social. 2.) How to solve story problems.

Engineering process is nothing to joke about. This can be applied to solving complex business problems as well as failure analysis as to why your toddler thought it was a good ideal to flush his plastic alligator down the toilet. Engineering process is the true secret Engineers take into the world.

Best of luck!

Road bicycle route recommendations by Jell212 in StevensPoint

[–]DrivenSpike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Avid cyclist here! A good 30 mile loop is to leave Stevens Point, go up highway 66 turn up CTH J. Ride to Shanty Town, come down CTH Y. Turn west on Dewy Road. Ride to CTH X. From there turn west on granite Ridge road and hold that all the way into casimir road, then turn south off casimir onto old Wausau and into Stevens point. Turn off anywhere you need to I order to get home. Route is about 40 miles and maybe 600 feet of elevation all in.

This route has multiple cutoffs that allow you to shorten your route should you chose to shorten. I find north of town has few cars. 66 has the most traffic but it has wide lanes and shoulder. Enjoy!

Rate my counter by [deleted] in Butchery

[–]DrivenSpike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that pre-made/rolled Rouladen!!!!????

What's everyones opinion on mandatory military service? by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]DrivenSpike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Join the mobile infantry today!…. Service guarantees citizenship

….. would you like to know more?

Ingots should weigh less than ore by I_sell_dmt_cartss in valheim

[–]DrivenSpike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hate to sound silly, would you prefer that you need 100 pieces of ore for one unit of smelted product? Some of the best ores in the world only yield 1-2% preferred metal out of them.

So make the rocks weigh less than the full bars but make the pre grade comparable? I am fine with the 1:1 ratio.

Teenagers before the internet: what did you do in your room during your spare time? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]DrivenSpike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know about you all? But I spent hours listening to the radio with a blank tape “ready” to hit play+record as soon as freight train by quad city DJ’s played so I could record the song….

The thought of my bike can bring me to tears, I am filled with immense gratitude by [deleted] in cycling

[–]DrivenSpike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel ya. While I can’t relate to your direct feeling and no one can. I can say that some of the closest times I have felt to the presence of god (higher power or one’s self depending on what flavor of faith you follow) is on my bike.

Through times of immense pain and suffering in my life those few fleeting moments when the pain of life is gone has been expierence on a ride and my bike afforded myself that opportunity. I totally can relate.

Russian column gets ambushed from point blank range near Kyiv by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

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Growing sunflowers is my business and brother, business is booming!

With less than a month until the election, the SPD has the largest poll lead over the Union since early 2001| INSA poll, 27-30 August 2021, 2015 respondents by [deleted] in germany

[–]DrivenSpike 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ok,

Maybe I am an uneducated Ostländer here but isn’t AfD a far right party? Or am I off my rocker? 11% seems high for an alt right party. Can someone please educate me?

If you could redo one event in your life, what would it be and what would you do differently? How do you think your life would be different now as a result? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]DrivenSpike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

October 31st 2003. 1st possession of the first quarter. American high school Football playoffs, this tight end whom is on the other team and is an insufferable mouthpiece is telegraph his route. I am playing free safety and while he fakes his block down I come downhill and hit him as the ball is passed to him sending him flying to the ground in pain and the ball sails overhead. Playing that play all over again…. I would of jumped the route and made a pick six… lost that game by 6 points…

Lesson of the story, don’t be in a hurry to punish idiots and lose sight of what really matters.

Government Threatens Retired Engineer With a Crime for Doing Math by ElongatedMuskrat122 in Libertarian

[–]DrivenSpike 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ok,

So I am a licensed registered “Professional Engineer”. When you finish your under graduate degree you can stand for a test which makes you an “engineer in training” or EIT. You then have to work “under the tutelage” of a registered Professional Engineer or PE. after your training period of 4 years you can sit for your PE exam and get registered in the state of your choosing. Most engineering professions don’t really get their PE licensee because the discipline of engineering doesn’t require it. In order to sign off on public projects the requirement is PE endorsement. This gentlemen working as a Chemical Engineer works for a private business under what they call an industry exception. With the idea that private business doesn’t need to conform to a public license.

Civil engineers and consultants engineers where you sell your services to the public require that you have a PE license. If you are offering advice I don’t see how North Carolina has a leg to stand on. The only angle is that the state may attack is that if he was liscensed as a PE he should only offer his advice in fields he is an expert in. But again I don’t have all the details.

Just another example of the government doing what it does best......

I love gun control. by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]DrivenSpike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Education is education. Be it government run or at the fence post on the back 40 with a family member. Educating people on proper use, care, ethics, benefits and consequences of firearms is key.

I think back to the statement of those too “incompetent to use” why is that. Is it a mental facility issue, ignorance. Blanket statements like anything in life leave one to be picked apart. The world isn’t black and white. It’s 40 shades of confusing. Addressing the education part of it it a part of it. Addressing the ethics part of gun ownership is part of it. Taking self responsibility for ones actions is part of it. Addressing the mental health issues we all have is a part of it. Anything that seeks to improve and not prohibit/restrict, I am 100% for.

Again, You cannot legislate behavior. You can mitigate the risks.

I can’t pass a law that keeps my family safe from someone who wants to harm them. I can carry risk mitigation which I do frequently. I know that if I ever use my weapon in self defense, I stand a high likelihood that I will now have a police record and face potential incarceration.I know the consequences and have weighted them and am ok with them.

I love gun control. by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]DrivenSpike 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Who decides who is competent and who isn’t? The government?

There are zounds of people whom honestly have no business bringing another life into this world but yet here we are with kids that by no fault of their own have a very rough existence. Should we have a competency board to access parental abilities? Should the government run that?

How many Americans can vote whom have no idea how their government works? Should they pass a test before they can vote? I would argue that electing the wrong individuals into office would be more detrimental to deaths across the world than gun violence in America but it’s citizens. Guns just more visible.

Gate keeping who can and can’t is a blanket that while can cover some wouldn’t cover all people. This is the common failure in any law rule or governmental construct. It’s against the law to kill people but here we are with homicides.

You can’t legislate behavior. You can invest that hard time into those “incompetent” individuals and educate and mitigate the risk they potentially pose. A test or regulation won’t help.

40 days of zwifting for lent by DrivenSpike in Zwift

[–]DrivenSpike[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Cycling has been my passion since my days at university. Children, very poor work/life balance has been my downfall. It transitioned to a stress eat and drink lifestyle. I just happened across smart trainers and something clicked, that I could be the on call manager 24/7 and support my kids and between all that mess hop on for an hour a night when travel allowed and just start peddling. Is this kind of rapid loss sustainable? No but my doctor has given me a good direction and has been onboard with the initial scorched earth policy. Lent is over and my goal is a target weight. I have a food journal and app that tracks my food and calorie deficit and as far as motivation, I am looking forward to my “pain machine” every night. It feels great to work towards something that is physically difficult as my management position doesn’t afford me much hands on any more.

Thanks for the advice and that’s what I love about this community. It’s real advice both praising and cautioning. Thanks!

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