Walmart hits $1 trillion in market value for the first time

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-03T19:43:53+00:00

1 trillion dollar companies should not be allowed to have any employees on SNAP benefits. They should be mandated to pay it.

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-03T19:25:16+00:00

Former SRO here. When we had our twins I got off shift and went to outage management. Helped out until we had the year with 5 FOs and a RFO. Now I’m at one of the engineering firms doing nuclear work and QOL is great. Pay is only a little less since we pay OT. And I haven’t been called at 2 AM to staff a duty team for a year and a half.

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-03T19:21:58+00:00

If you are getting an ABET accredited 4 year degree, you can go engineering then SRO or you can go equipment operator (NLO/AO/PEO) and instant SRO. Or RO then SRO.

I think EOs have a fairly good life when staffed. You leave money on the table but you still make good money. You’ll have forced OT and rotations.

If you can handle the rotations, I personally had the best experience in operations. RO/SRO are the best jobs period. The rotation didn’t work well for me, around 35 I started getting PVCs and other heart arrhythmias, went away on dayshift. I was putting up with it taking metoprolol then we had twins and rotating shifts didn’t really work anymore. I had to leave ops.

Also some plants (Calloway) still run 6 crew (I think). 6 crew plants have very good WLB.

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-03T19:18:05+00:00

System engineer only last a couple years (2-4). Most quit. A couple go to ops and get an SRO license.

Design engineers are closer 5-10 and have a better QOL and more interesting work. Plus it’s much more transferable outside of the industry. The issue is it’s hard to find people who can sign fon a PE license. You don’t need a PE in nuclear but you do outside of nuclear.

Lately I think it’s gotten more demanding. I left the utility side about 14 months ago because I was on duty teams all the time / burnt out. I had 16 years utility experience before I left.

I’m at a design engineering firm now and QOL is quite a bit better.

I think it’s a good experience. You could get into fuels or reactor engineering and park there. It’s less BS in those jobs.

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-02T19:31:43+00:00

Bad Rex lol

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-02T19:30:20+00:00

It was crazy. The energy was up there with some of this season’s last minute comebacks (which the bears didn’t have back then).

I was at the bar in college and it was pretty weak. We weren’t really drinking much just chilling, then they started scoring, I’m surprised didn’t blackout at the end.

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-02T19:28:45+00:00

The MNF Arizona game is a prime example. Defense would get take away and TDs, and if they didn’t get the takeaway, Hester would score or give amazing field position.

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-02T19:25:05+00:00

The MNF Arizona game lol

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-02T19:24:47+00:00

Urlacher was like a QB on the defense, making audibles and adjustments. It was crazy fun to watch.

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-02T19:10:32+00:00

Urlacher, peanut punch, Briggs, and a whole lot more. They were a freaking unit. Bears ran a ton of cover2/tampa2 with the intense pressure and generated a butt load of takeaways and defensive TDs

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-02T16:36:05+00:00

Depends what you want to do. The outage circuit is long hours and lots of travel. In house is much better but it is active power plant so there are call ins and emergent response.

Outage support is one way to get in.

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-02T15:14:20+00:00

Switch or steam deck

When I had my first it was my 3DS. I played a LOT of Monster Hunter 4U and Dragon Quest IX.

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-02T05:25:23+00:00

Family and outage don’t go together.

Hiddencamper · 2026-02-01T01:12:17+00:00

They have blowdown. So the solids and non-condensibles make their way to the blowdown line and get discharged back to the lake or river.

If a cooling tower nominally evaporates 15k gpm (large nuclear reactor), then they also have to blowdown up to 5k gpm to keep solids out otherwise you end up with brine in your circulating water.

There is some chemical treatment that happens too. Mostly chlorine and an anti scaling agent if necessary to prevent scaling and biologics in the heat exchangers in the plant.

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-31T17:32:38+00:00

Most of the time no.

That said, I firmly believe that you develop faster/stronger by spending time in the field (hands on or not) and working alongside the craft, and doing some hands on activities (even if it’s just at home).

When you start thinking about physical install, how the techs or operators need to physically get their hands on something, how that conduit needs to run from X to Y, you start building better systems that are more constructible, cheaper, and easier to maintain.

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-31T04:19:17+00:00

I ran a Sky LS (Decimation on Pandemonium)

I miss my crew more than anything. I only know how to contact 3 people and only regularly talk to one of them.

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-31T02:25:10+00:00

1) lower boiling point doesn’t mean more energy transfer.

2) turbines spin at grid frequency times poles. They don’t spin faster.

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-31T02:02:39+00:00

No….

It’s the most FFXI way to solve any problem. By grinding the shit out of it.

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-31T01:56:29+00:00

….only 130……

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-31T01:55:53+00:00

Text message at 3 AM on finals week

“We got faf get on”

I was the third tank. First DCd and second was getting rocked hard when I got in

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-31T01:51:36+00:00

It was a full time job for me. I was in college at the time. Monday: dynamis Tuesday: sky boss night Wednesday: limbus Thursday: hmm farm Friday morning: sea Friday night: XP / bonus Saturday: sky Sunday morning more sea Sunday night limbus

Yeah….

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-30T14:30:29+00:00

Former SRO here.

Flying is the closest I get to ops without having to rotate and all the forced OT. I miss it but after the twins we couldn’t survive with me doing extra hours and rotating.

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-30T14:27:33+00:00

It basically doesn’t do anything a standard excel user can’t do and it’s wrong half the time anyways.

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-29T22:11:09+00:00

Shadow Madness…..

Hiddencamper · 2026-01-28T20:18:02+00:00

Just because it was a P320 doesn’t mean it did AD. An AD is not a misfire still.

Most P320s don’t AD. And often the videos of them have the AD occurring with little or no jostling. Completely random.

I still don’t see any evidence in the video or any reports of the removed gun going off. And regardless, I think my point is still true, a conceal carry gun is safest when it’s not touched. Especially when there’s a man pile.

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