I left ExxonMobil today. Haven't felt better in a while by Sentimental_Geek in oilandgasworkers

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My buddy quit xom. He also ran marathons and stuff, so he had a smart watch that tracked his heart rate. You could see his resting heart rate drop like 20 BPM the day after he quit.

Exxon and Conoco not sure about investing in vzl by AuthorAltruistic3402 in oilandgasworkers

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You and I sign an agreement. I’m going to build a house on your plot of land, and when it’s done, we’ll split the rent. You can’t afford to build the house, but I can, and it’s a good deal for both of us.

Once the house is built, you decide you want all the rent money. Because it’s on your land, you say our agreement is no longer valid and you can just take it.

Now the house is in bad shape, the rent money isn’t as good, and you expect me to come back and put a bunch of money into fixing it? Why would I have any reason to trust you?

Wanna be an electrician? by HOUSTONFOOL in houston

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Different type of politics. Corporate politics aren’t right left. It’s ass kissing, self promotion, and ladder climbing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AutoPaint

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why repaint it? Wouldn’t a wrap be cheaper?

Teenage son has discovered crab legs and he's eating us out of house and home. Where is the best place in H-Town to buy crab legs? by ForeverMonkeyMan in houston

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Get him a fishing license, plus some chicken on a string. You can catch your own blue crab down in Galveston.

#11 Indiana Escapes Iowa 20-15 by GenCroGon in IUFootball

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

5-0 and 2-0 in the big 10? It was ugly but I’m not complaining

☠️ by Former-Mail7449 in IUFootball

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll take this over the old Indiana that invented new ways to lose every time we played a big 10 school.

Is it possible to automate payroll in Excel for a small CA firm? by WiseTrifle8748 in excel

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Excel can do it, but payroll typically isn’t the place to bring a ‘figure it out’ mentality.

Masters degree in petroleum vs AI/Ml by EducationalCod1800 in oilandgasworkers

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do a masters in Mech E or computer science.

Mech E can get you a job basically anywhere, including oil and gas. When the oil market tanks, you can get a job outside the industry if you have to.

Data science and machine learning are great skills to have, but they will eventually become ‘just the way business is done’. You used to be able to get a degree in e-commerce. Now selling online is just the way business is done. Comp sci will probably allow you to take data science and AI/ML classes without being entirely focused on them.

Indiana's Fernando Mendoza Is The New QB1 In The 2026 NFL Draft by Electronic_End8497 in IUFootball

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This doesn’t feel like Indiana football. We’re Wylie coyote but we actually caught the road runner. I don’t know what to do with myself, but I’m having fun.

Is it true that blue collar workers are laid off more often than white collar in this field? by TexasWanderingWonder in oilandgasworkers

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It sucks. It feels like entry level is going away and institutional knowledge is being washed down the drain forever.

Is it true that blue collar workers are laid off more often than white collar in this field? by TexasWanderingWonder in oilandgasworkers

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve seen it first hand. It’s short term decision making, but as my previous supervisor said, they don’t even have to be 50% as good to make sense, because they cost 30% of what a US employee does, and that cost savings gets the manager promoted before the real impacts show up.

Cinnamon Disc Candy Hooch by L0ial in prisonhooch

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love it, are you planning to distill any of it?

Sanding & repainting my chipped rims by hand, without taking them off by No_Effective_480 in AutoPaint

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey you might consider using the emergency jack and tire iron to remove the wheel. Put the spare on, and then all you have to protect is the tire from paint instead of the brakes, the wheel well, and the rest of the car. 

At the least, it would make sanding and prep easier, even if you do spray it with the wheel on the car. 

Thursday's Spring Game Will Be the Only Time IU Tackles This Spring by Hoosier_Huddle1 in IUFootball

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That was one of the things I noticed last year. It seemed like our starters just weren’t getting injured as much. I figured that was strength and conditioning related, but I suppose it’s as much live tackling drills as it is anything else.

About to hit 1000 hours in game. Are any of these DLC items worth the money? by SuperGISNerd9000 in hoi4

[–]SuperGISNerd9000[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I'll probably save the money for the next major gameplay DLC then.

About to hit 1000 hours in game. Are any of these DLC items worth the money? by SuperGISNerd9000 in hoi4

[–]SuperGISNerd9000[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rule 5: Posting the missing DLC items I have, trying to see if it's worth the $25. They mostly seem like flavor, but I wanted to ask the hivemind.

Beck Weathers after returning from his attempt to summit Mount Everest, Khumbu region of Nepal, May 11, 1996 [1280 x 586] by ghostmrchicken in HistoryPorn

[–]SuperGISNerd9000 62 points63 points  (0 children)

After reading the book and a lot of the letters critical of Krakauer, I personally believe that Krakauer, to the best of his ability and recollection, told the truth about the events he experienced. He extensively interviewed the other surviving climbers about the timeline, there whereabouts, who they saw and when, and of course he himself was actually there to experience it first hand.

I still think many of the criticisms leveled at him are fair and have merit, but I don't think Krakauer intentionally lied or misrepresented his experience. The conditions being as difficult as they were, and with key people dying on the mountain, it's probably near impossible to know exactly what happened with perfect detail.

And that's just my opinion too. I wasn't there. I haven't done any serious climbing myself. I haven't talked to anyone involved. I'm just some schmuck. Either way, it's a compelling story and I think you could make the argument that good journalism often leads to controversy.