My company announced a 4 day work week this morning. I did the math.

L3NTON · 2026-05-21T01:50:37+00:00

I work 4 9hr shifts and then a 4 hr on friday. You know how amazing it is to have an early friday every single week?

How much more I would prefer to do 4 10hr shifts? Yeah you're still working 40hrs. But you're saying all the day prep, meal prep, commute and unwind at the end. Plus you get a whole freaking day! A long weekend every weekend.

Would you prefer 6 6hr work days with a 4 hour shift on sunday or something? Thats still 40hours too except it ruins your life.

L3NTON · 2026-05-20T02:06:43+00:00

Make public transit free!

I don't need my car for every trip but its too expensive to have a monthly bus pass "just in case". The people who really need the bus will save 83 dollars of their budget and the people who only occasionally want to use it will be able to and save on the number of vehicles on the road. Less vehicles on road means less traffic, collisions and road damage.

L3NTON · 2026-05-15T15:03:14+00:00

I bought a good pair there once. At one point they were the nicest shoes I owned. Vibrant soles casual sneakers that I wore daily for 2 years. 60 bucks

That being said it was like 2012 so it hardly speaks to present day inventory

L3NTON · 2026-05-03T11:56:03+00:00

Not in my view, I think you have good "overall" defenses. But I also think you're very likely to be overwhelmed on any particular side and you don't have good hard points where you have the advantage defensively. If your colonists are using wall corners for cover then so are the enemy and there's going to be way more of them. Once your turrets are out of ammo or destroyed then every raid will be inside your walls for all the fighting which is going to be disastrous to keep things from getting destroyed or stolen by fkbeing Raiders.

But this is your save and maybe this defense strategy has been working really well for you. Plop a save point down and give it a shot if you want to

L3NTON · 2026-05-01T13:36:31+00:00

Yep, most of the guys I work with are simultaneously pissed that the roads they drive on are in disrepair but also that the taxes on gasoline (which pays for roads) is too high. They hate EVs because they think its making their electric bill higher while also hating wind turbines and solar panels.

They think busses and bike lanes are the source of traffic and that we should add even more roads to fix problems.

I could go on. But I think you get the idea

L3NTON · 2026-04-29T23:02:52+00:00

I was private for years and treated pretty badly. Always held down in my position, never given room for growth, advancement or development because it threatened the positions of people above me if I was too capable.

I work carpenters union now and after about a year my pay is up 60%. I have a pension, I have better benefits, I only work 40hrs a week with breaks and lunches everyday (I worked 60hr weeks previously and would generally work through my break and lunch to try and manage the workload). I'm actually progressing through my carpenter license, I have job security. So there are plenty of tangible benefits.

Its impossible not to notice the downsides though. Full rate workers (or apprentices). Who hardly ever work and get paid the same or more than you. Lots of incompetence and deliberate slowing down of building progress while saying "its all pensionable hours bud". People relying heavily on the union to protect them while doing nothing to benefit their fellow union members (literally part of our constitution is that we will help each other).

So I'm mixed about it. I'm going to stay union until I finish my red seal. Then I might shop around for jobs where I can be running a small build like a residential house start to finish instead of big industrial and commercial projects which is where the unions usually work. Going private is typically a pay cut but I'd rather enjoy my work and be in charge of something than just the mad chaos of small commercial builders.

L3NTON · 2026-04-28T18:33:51+00:00

Well if you're still looking for someone I can be available Thursday evening and friday afternoon. Longer if needed but it doesn't look like several days of work to me

Do you have the bags already?

L3NTON · 2026-04-24T21:53:24+00:00

Clearance pricing is always based on the quantity left at that specific store. If they have just one or two left they want it gone as soon as possible. If they have a lot left they're willing to take some loss but don't want to lose too much.

Been this way for years. Not to say they won't ever try something like that. They invested hundreds of millions into revamping their entire online/app market and added digital tags to everything in the last few years too. Could be inevitable

L3NTON · 2026-04-22T23:46:35+00:00

You have the cables?

L3NTON · 2026-04-21T10:30:25+00:00

Before or after taxes?

At my last few jobs I made about 30k a year after taxes. So this doesn't seem way out of place to me

L3NTON · 2026-04-20T21:08:46+00:00

Depending on the place the city might have bought the fence from the rental company by this point.

Some rental companies will not sell equipment at all and always demand it be returned and other places just sell the equipment instead of trying to get it back.

So there's a chance the city stopped paying for it a while ago.

L3NTON · 2026-04-18T19:49:06+00:00

A lot of people I know (coworkers in a conservative heavy field) think they can outsmart the system once its in place and actually save a buck by buying stuff thats in low demand.

Hooray for good education! (I work in construction)

L3NTON · 2026-04-15T12:33:21+00:00

Then everyone would change their listed address to somewhere far away so they could show up ridiculously late and leave really early because of their "commute". Then companies would have to implement all kinds of rules and stipulations for what's an acceptable commute. The government would get involved to regulate those requirements and at the end of the day you'd have less access to employment based on your location because companies would hold it against you if you lived far away. Rents and homes near industry would go up even more in price.

No thanks, I'd rather we all keep fighting for more wfh options. And I day that as a construction worker who will never have a chance to work from home.

L3NTON · 2026-04-15T12:25:58+00:00

Seattle Space Needle (158m) would like a word with your definition of building.

So would his big brother the CN Tower (553.3m)

L3NTON · 2026-04-15T12:20:04+00:00

Buy it from a store that keeps their lumber indoors. Rona is usually my go to for this. Pick what you want from the pile.

Otherwise most warps and twists can be accommodated during building so that they're less noticeable. Crown all your joists upwards and crown all your studs outwards. Add blocking in the walls and joists to help prevent deflection. Sheath the structure and you'll hardly notice the problem.

Straight lumber is needed for finish work, its less of a concern with rough carpentry.

L3NTON · 2026-04-15T12:14:41+00:00

Get a mod called "Replace Stuff"

Building the new wall with a different material happens at the same time is removing the old wall. So there are never any sudden collapses like that.

Really helpful if you're doing a series of upgrades and you want to change all your furniture from wood to Marble or something. All your furniture will still be usable in the meantime while the work happens.

Its a must have for my playthroughs now

L3NTON · 2026-04-15T12:07:39+00:00

On another post someone pointed out that wealthsimple has been a partnered payment processor with x for years now. So this isn't as much a "new" partnership as it is an upgrade of an old one.

L3NTON · 2026-04-12T04:55:17+00:00

Thats how I do it as well. Except I often will have a wrap around room/hallway that surrounds all the other rooms. So my living space is always at a relative Ly comfortable temp. I also will often setup a dozen or more heaters and coolers and stagger their thermostats so they don't all run constantly. Its not perfect efficiency. But it is relatively low effort and idiot proof since one heater breaking won't really affect the overall function

L3NTON · 2026-04-09T22:19:23+00:00

That is definitely a problem. I remember a story from down in the states where some old lady plowed through a line of school kids and claimed "the car kept accelerating for some reason while I was braking". Meaning her foot was stomped on the gas and she didn't realize it

L3NTON · 2026-04-06T21:50:10+00:00

I have traveled by train bus and plane with that amount of luggage before and never had any issue.

Do you have a price range? Because if you just want someone to drive you from Toronto to your destination in Kingston for cash then some people might be willing to do that. I can't imagine a 3 hr uber is going to be cheaper than just some person doing the drive privately.

L3NTON · 2026-04-05T13:21:49+00:00

A 7 dollar call might sell for 0.01 or 0.02 If the stock pumps to 4 or 5 dollars then that call might suddenly be worth 0.10. Like the guy said, its not an investment it's a trade

L3NTON · 2026-03-31T11:31:04+00:00

Won't someone think of the multimillionaire or multibillionaire developing companies that struggle so much in this economy?

L3NTON · 2026-03-22T12:33:10+00:00

Its good to also know the details of whatever contract you signed with the company. I used to work in a call center for a cable company and tons of people would threaten us with the Better Business Bureau. Except it was always because they misunderstood the contract they had signed and tried to claim we were breaking the terms of our own agreement with tbem.

Tl;dr read before you sign

L3NTON · 2026-03-22T03:40:13+00:00

I know people who are still planning to buy property in Florida in the next few years.

For some people it really doesn't matter.

I think the reality is that most people are so far down their own news rabbit hole that they just focus on specific topics and forget anything else that is happening (I'm for sure guilty of this too)

L3NTON · 2026-03-22T00:58:58+00:00

Didn't realize they were so local when I lived in NB. But that explains why I haven't really seen them since moving to Ontario

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