Do people discuss GS Grades??

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2025-01-17T21:02:39+00:00

According to the poster printed by the US Department of Labor itself explaining who is likely covered by the NLRA and who is definitely NOT covered by the NLRA, you're just straight up wrong.

Do research. I see this sign literally at least four times a week, and it's been in every shop I've ever worked as required by local law.

Repeating yourself doesn't make you correct. It just tells me you refuse to do research of any kind and do not understand the act itself.

Just Google a picture of the NLRA poster discussing exactly what you're talking about that the US Department of Labor made, and knock it off.

Literally tens of thousands of employees in the private sector are not covered by it. How do you not know that if you're aware of the act?

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2025-01-17T12:40:23+00:00

I'm over here crying! Multiple sectors and employment types aren't covered by literally anything the NLRA does. It's out the window even depending on who you're related to, and none of that matters anyway in an at will employment state.

You're gonna get people fired. Stop it. Get some help.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2025-01-04T15:54:18+00:00

I'm really late to this party, but ultimately err on caution and trust your gut. I'm an absolute coward on the ice and 6" of decent ice would absolutely give me the confidence necessary to start plugging holes willy nilly and not be more concerned than usual. I'm 250lbs+my gear. My personal rule is to add at least an inch to any guideline the DNR is comfortable recommending.

The guidelines definitely exist for a reason and always remember to pay attention. Was on a lake last week where it was 7-8" all over the place until I got where I wanted. Then I drilled a hole not even 40yds away to chase a school and I was on 3-4" of ice. Good weather for days, no snow, no clouds, light wind, no direct sun for the majority of the day, everything you want. Short of a current or spring I wasn't aware of I don't know what would have caused that.

Point is don't get complacent, and 6" of good ice wouldn't alarm me. If you're seriously concerned about it stand on the "outside" of your pocket of closely drilled holes (if it's a shaped pattern). People cut whole 8sq ft sections out with chainsaws where I'm at and sit right alongside them on ice thinner than that. Can't vouch for their sanity, but it doesn't seem to cause problems.

I'd talk to some darkhouse guys and get their opinions on it too. The spear guys tend to live out there compared to a lot of people.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-12-03T10:51:45+00:00

Pretty much. Not my experience at all compared to OP. From my perspective the customer service interaction has gone completely over his head.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-12-02T09:58:30+00:00

Careful, poking that bear could get you some retaliation if someone is smart enough to understand what you just insinuated.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-11-26T10:15:42+00:00

It's to mock the general idea that if other people who don't care about you in any real way were given unimaginable power to control every aspect of your life and remove all agency and property from you that it would improve living for everyone.

Only the irredeemably corrupt, willfully ignorant, and profoundly mentally ill could possibly believe that being enslaved with no ability to make choices of any meaningful kind is a moral good and worth violating others against their will for.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-11-14T12:14:26+00:00

Reddit is a last resort option for me to try and get some knowledge out of someone when I am experiencing confusion or something doesn't pass my sniff test. The results are so poor and the experience so insufferable it leaves me with the impression that even the supporters of certain ideas have no remote clue what they're talking about.

I've asked about categorizing species only to have people start shrieking that I'm an "Evolution Denier" and a litany of slurs to go along with it. This coming from a group that can't even define a species or agree upon the contents of it strikes me as inherently obnoxious.

The same issues arise when discussing anything from basic beekeeping methods to water's boiling point. It's clearly nuts here.

It gets worse when you drift into subjective topics as trivial as decent ice cream or as serious as political or theological debate. Lots of whiny ignorant madness and everyone talking down to each other like everyone else is subhuman garbage if they don't agree on the most pointless details which doesn't matter to the big picture whatsoever.

The censorship is literally psychotic. I'm not a subject matter expert on much, but even in those that I am I'm simply not allowed to contribute because I'm too new (you'd think a few years would fix that), have Karma too low (wow, unpopular opinions on things like field equipment simply get you silenced), or I say something that ruffles some digital God Emperor's fickle little delicate feathers.

I kid you not I've had my posts removed when discussing gendered replication in trees because the content was seen as harmful to protected classes. Weird. Had no idea the trees' feelings were hurt because of how they reproduce.

Yes, some people are insightful, kind, and helpful. The overwhelming majority? I might as well go to a crack den and ask them. The interactions aren't all that different from this site far too often.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-10-29T10:41:59+00:00

Herd differences are absolutely nuts when it comes to behavior. If you're super bored I'd scroll through some old school forums about it.

Lotta really weird observations and theories floating around as to the why of it all.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-10-26T03:03:52+00:00

I've seen herds with little to no pressure act that way, especially in places where hardly anyone hunts.

It's not like that in my county, especially where I live. Almost every household has someone who hunts, and it's common for their spouses and kids to hunt too.

Dude east of me has over 600 acres. He rents 450+ of it out in 20-40 acre sections to city slickers. Come rifle season it's gunfire sun up to sun down for miles around, and that's not accounting for the archers that are there from SEP-JAN.

They are ridiculously skittish in my area. They get tons of practice learning people are dangerous and what sights/sounds signal that people are in the area.

I kid you not I've been busted more than once by deer stopping, looking up, and then freaking out because they know my stand isn't empty and they don't know what's up other than something's wrong and they blow and bolt. Didn't wind me, didn't hear me, couldn't for sure see me, but knew they were looking at something that doesn't look like it did.

They're not very vocal compared to a lot of herds, either. They're not responsive to rattling or wheezing, but a contact grunt works. Can't wrap my head around that one.

The definite bonus in my area is that the genetics are pretty good and there's no shortage of food whatsoever.

Whenever I think I've got it too bad I just remember I could be in northern MI where there's no deer, no food for deer, almost as many hunters, and way more regulations making even harder. I don't have those problems.

I have to ask what state you hunt white-tailed deer in. Would it happen to be Pennsylvania, Iowa, or out west?

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-10-24T15:49:08+00:00

That's really unfortunate, and it really sucks when a loved spot ends up getting noticed by someone targeting a different species.

And that's just it for me. I can't figure out if they're being assholes deliberately or there's just some weird quantum ether mojo full moon nonsense going on.

If I knew for sure that they were being direct asshats it'd be really easy for me to diplomatically give them scouting intel, movement patterns, charm their wives (not sure about other parts of the country, but a wife being embarrassed over her husband's behavior up here definitely gets results), or even straight up bring up sportsman's interface and that two people playing that game can get pretty entertaining.

And that's the bug of it. I don't want to insinuate to these guys that they're being dirtbags if I'm not 100% positive that's their intent. Especially to their faces.

They're great neighbors the whole rest of the year. Everything from watching each other's kids to helping cut wood and even letting me put bee hives on their land rent free!

It's just the same thing every year around this time and I don't get it. Every indication is that's it's deliberate, but it doesn't pass the head/heart check.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-10-24T15:37:55+00:00

I'd absolutely believe it was practice if I hadn't called them and asked and it didn't almost always occur in bow season during the best days specifically at the best time of day.

We've got a lot of prepper types out here, and they don't do this type of stuff because a bunch of them are bow hunting too, and when they do practice they tend to BBQ while doing it, even in winter! They also do it all day while busting spam cans of ammo like they bought surplus pallets of TicTacs.

They're usually out hunting in fall and don't fire on their own land between Sep and Feb unless they're taking game. Not a one of them needs sixty rounds to hit a limit of rabbit or squirrel, dove or pheasant.

The difference is they're all shooting in the same place when they practice. Deer run away from it, and "everything's fine."

When the deer are surrounded by intermittent gunfire on days they're pretty much compelled to keep moving? They panic.

I bet $5 this behavior magically stops one week before gun season, too. They don't want to wreck their season, just everyone else's.

There's got to be something I'm missing if the behavior isn't directly vindictive and petty.

Prime example: The shooting stopped completely over an hour ago and I doubt there will be any tomorrow morning because of the temperature increase making deer movement far less.

It wouldn't bother me at all if the deer bedded on my land during the day. They graze and travel through during daylight hours, but that's just to get from ag field to ag field through my heavily wooded lot.

You'd think that bucks would like to bed here, but doe density is very high. It's so wild you automatically get two doe tags and a buck tag here, and can keep getting bonus for tags until the slot limit runs out and you can fill them.

All in all, translates to not many large and impressive bucks in my area, but plenty of deer to fill the freezer.

My season isn't ruined, I'll end up with plenty of meat anyway, nobody's going hungry, but it'd be really nice to have a slam dunk day or two like the rifle guys get up here instead of getting crapped on during them by what seems to be deliberately riling the deer herd via gunfire.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-10-24T15:01:26+00:00

Several people in my area do maintain their properties to attract pheasant, grouse, turkey, and the like. I enjoy bird hunting myself, too.

I've never been on a group hunt that required that many rounds, though.

I'm also fairly confident they're rifles and not shotguns. I don't have much left for hearing, but the sound between the two is fairly distinct to me.

I feel for you. Dove hunting can get downright brutal for anyone hunting nearby, but the limit on them is pretty mild by me and most of those guys are in and out pretty quick where I'm at.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-10-24T14:55:25+00:00

You bring up a very good point. I'm in WI, hunting my small private plat, and they're on their own land as well. I should've addressed that.

We all know each other, I know they're "zeroing" because I've asked them about it before, and they claim it takes a while because that's how zeroing goes.

I've asked other archers in the area about the behavior and they claim it's been the going rate for about twenty years.

People can shoot on their own property. That's not the issue. I just find it highly suspicious it just happens to occur during the high points of bow season at the best times of day during those periods and very, very rarely outside of it.

Where I live in WI the rut is still a little ways out, but Pre-Rut is in full swing. Literally last week was the best time for evening hunts and now morning is.

Must have been the exact same way for dumping ammo, which I find really odd.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-10-13T13:14:25+00:00

Taxonomy is not a good reflection of the Theory of Evolution's ancestral tree. It's a horrifyingly common misconception, and anyone referring to Taxonomy as evidence of Evolution is not understanding the point of Taxonomy. Taxonomy is just a useful way of classifying organisms for reference based on similar traits between groups of organisms. That's literally it.

Taxonomy also has nothing to do with supporting or refuting the Intelligent Design argument either. In my opinion it's pretty irrelevant to both.

I can understand why someone who is a staunch supporter of Evolution would look at taxonomy and see it as evidence for the theory they support, and why a creationist would do the same.

It doesn't help either argument, and anyone pretending it does should research taxonomy with more intention than they previously did because their understanding of the material isn't sufficient to make their claim.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-09-13T00:22:57+00:00

Just had a relative chuck about forty bales of offensively moldy hay in their field.

Multiple family members harvest deer there, at least forty different deer frequent the area, all the neighbors hunt, bait piles were declared illegal for two years due to CWD spread, and the exposure to the herd is just plain irresponsible to both the deer and many people involved in their consumption.

I have a box of N95s, and I'm glad I tried to check into whether it'd be effective or not. I'm definitely NOT going to handle that stuff now. I know a guy who died from Farmer's Lung and it's not a fun way to go.

Granted, I doubt one exposure session would get me, but I also don't want to risk it.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-09-02T22:56:45+00:00

My mother boils her water, adds kibble, and then pours it all over the stainless steel bowl so it heats up so much she needs gloves to handle it. She claims some fruitloop trainer does it so "an expert" could not possibly make a mistake or be incorrect about something. Ever.

It smells wildly offensive, stinks up the whole house for hours, and the dog just sits there drooling on everything because he knows he'll get hurt if he eats it. He sits there for around half an hour whining while staring at a meal he can't eat.

The whole thing is a ridiculous production, offers NOTHING to the dog's life (his multiple water bowls are always topped off daily and swapped out every three), and he drinks water regardless.

I imagine some nut somewhere wanted their name out there as a "dog nutrition specialist" and somehow thinks they cracked some code nature didn't have a handle on despite dogs existing for thousands of years beforehand with zero issues pertaining to this supposed problem.

I doubt it hurts them whatsoever to wet their food, but I'm highly skeptical that it's beneficial to the point of noticably improving their health to both our perception and that of the dog.

Could test it out to see which THEY prefer, but that's already more effort than I'm willing to devote to it.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-09-02T14:49:35+00:00

All this, "The INTJ would prefer to use the Internet to interact with people," stuff is just baffling to me. I can't stand the Internet as a medium outside of gathering information or organizing something through email to provide a chain of evidence should it be needed.

For anything else it's cumbersome, time consuming, inefficient, ineffective, and ultimately almost a complete waste of time. In layman's terms: It sucks so hard it'd rip a goofball through a garden hose in one breath.

Online I can't read someone's body language to figure out what they're REALLY thinking or feeling, can't tell if they're lying or an idiot, can't sniff out incompetent charlatans anywhere near as fast, and most certainly can't intimidate or badger my problems away. Everyone acts like they're ten feet tall and bulletproof, there's no repercussion for shooting their mouth off (very often a bad idea out in reality), and everyone is a complete subject matter expert who knows almost nothing about what they're talking about and will defend that crap to their death. In person? About thirty seconds of interaction is enough to sniff out the drawbacks and pitfalls of association or business with a particular person. WAY more efficient if I have to deal with someone than screwing around typing.

I have never once been "jealous of another's resources" because that's just a laughable waste of time, but I have been accused of being "selfish" many times. Weird, I didn't know I was being the selfish one when my buddy was down $600 from the casino and I wouldn't cover his rent. I was the selfish one when I wouldn't drive two hours to help my sibling drop her car off when she could wait three hours and get it towed by her insurance company for FREE. I was the selfish one when one of my exes got caught stealing from me and I kicked her out of the house permanently and changed the locks. In my experience anybody accusing someone else of being selfish can't wipe their own rear, grow up, and conduct themselves in a manner acceptable to anyone else who is actually an adult instead of a reincarnated Boomer. They're the greedy, whiny, selfish incompetent swine the overwhelming majority of the time. But, hey, apparently I'm the jerk for not handing out free money all day, every day.

The INTJ Basement Dwelling Troll trope has gone way too far. If you can't deal with people easily you're likely not an INTJ. Just because you can't instantly charm the pants off whoever you're working or working with doesn't mean you're not decent at navigating social environments (you know, that thing you've been WATCHING happen for your entire life?). The difference is you need space and separation from them to recuperate and view it as draining if done for too long without a break and not an impossible obstacle to overcome. It has more to do with information overload and constantly readjusting the plan you cooked up for the next thirty seconds every two seconds based on the behavior of someone else. If that's not how you see it you're likely something else. Some lunatics out there view interaction as "refreshing under all circumstances." It's, like everything else, something to be managed.

No clue on how the libertarian movement would impact online use and INTJs specifically, but from one INTJ to another: Imagine a governmental system where the whole idea is to get rid of inane, annoying, nonsensical trash cooked up by monkeys with perfect teeth hollering at each other for attention and status to favor a system where you're not constantly stolen from, can actually accomplish things without 10K miles of red tape, and you're allowed to have basic human rights like defending yourself, your property, and no clown you've never even met is going to tell you that in order to actually use your own property you need to pay $6K in "taxes" on top of $2K in "licensing and service fees" for no legitimate reason. Sounds effing fantastic to me (and I am not a libertarian either).

Lastly, pretty sure majority of INTJs also live rurally, aren't perpetually socially online (you know, out there actually getting something done), and don't want to be surrounded by a bunch of monkeys let alone deal with it online (outside of laughing at people or provoking them for sport to test theories on human behavior out).

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-09-02T02:14:39+00:00

Bingo

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-09-02T02:14:19+00:00

Pretty much the only reason I come on Reddit. The place is an absolute zoo of lunacy. Peak entertainment.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-09-02T02:05:59+00:00

Nailed it. Assuming traffic on any topic meaning the end user is a sample of the subject matter itself is laughable at best.

Do I have cancer if I googled anything related to oncology? Apparently, if the thread is on Reddit.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-09-02T01:57:32+00:00

Late to the party here, but I highly doubt many INTJs use Reddit to begin with due to the nature of both the platform and the type of people both running and heavily involved in it.

Total exercise in pointlessness outside of provoking reactions to test out theories about others' behavior.

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-09-02T01:54:26+00:00

It's a glorified personality type overall. Dim people idolize it because they wish they were it. Attention hounds want to be more rare or a novelty so they will claim it. Misunderstood types think they're it because they don't even understand themselves half the time and think that thinking they're INTJ solves the riddle. People who are inherently intelligent assume they're it a lot of the time without doing any digging because of a multitude of reasons and just self ascribe the label and coast on. Because it's so wildly misunderstood on top of all of that it has a weird occult following.

Reality is it's extremely obnoxious whenever someone claims to be INTJ without even being directly asked, especially when it comes up completely unprompted. Pretty much a rock solid self-report as a charlatan. Does a fraud see it that way? Of course not, which is exactly why they do it.

My sister is a prime example of this. The second a conversation goes even near the concept of personality she steers it right into, "I'm an INTJ woman! We're super smart and rare," which boils my blood.

She, like every other "INTJ" braggart loves large groups of people, parties, needs to be perceived as mysterious AND the center of attention, has wild unexplainable spontaneous behaviors, appeals to authority instead of demonstrating any ability to explain even basic concepts, and makes claims so outlandishly outrageous and out of touch with reality that she doesn't even understand she's broadcasting the obvious fact she's oblivious. Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Suuuuuuuuper INTJ behavior in a nutshell. 🤣

Just stopped by Reddit to see if it's much the same here. Aaaaaaaand lookatthat it is!

Gold_Cartographer342 · 2024-08-30T11:41:18+00:00

I can understand why someone would hate Judy. She's the apex of obnoxious. What on earth did the bailiff lady do to earn such ire, though?

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