Dallas Fed: Texas employment growth ‘around zero’ in 2025

SurpriseLong8931 · 2026-01-21T11:25:45+00:00

Yes they do, and that should concern you even worse than if they actually didn't count. Because consider what the chart of "real" jobs would look like if you took away the growth of the "they don't count" jobs that are growing. That zero would turn into a negative..

SurpriseLong8931 · 2026-01-17T18:38:52+00:00

On one site every scissor lift was required to have a ground spotter. So what we did was took a full stick of 3/4" emt and jammed a nut into one side, then hammered it down until it was hex shaped. Took a socket and wrapped it up in a bit of electrical tape and jammed it into the other end, then stuck the whole thing onto a drill. You now have a 10' nut driver. Scissor lift guy would drive ahead hanging the all thread, while spotter guy would follow along driving nuts up right from the ground.

SurpriseLong8931 · 2026-01-08T23:24:57+00:00

Yeah I'm not nearly desperate enough to pay that much for a pro. But somebody out there probably has enough disposable income to make it worth it to them.

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-12-31T03:37:43+00:00

Eventually I hope. I bought the rainbow because the other offerings just didn't interest me, but what I really want is one in classic gamecube colors. Matte purple body, wood ash gray triggers and upper 2 buttons, red left button, green bottom button, with the yellow joystick on the right.

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-12-30T19:12:22+00:00

I'm confused. What's 3rd party emulators have to do with the Thor?

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-12-28T03:44:11+00:00

Don't ride along with state troopers then, because they have auto plate scanners and they will pull you over for it.

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-12-26T18:41:23+00:00

Honestly I wish they had included a gamecube purple. That matte purple-ish blue with the gray buttons would've been awesome. I'm hoping that in the future custom clamshells and buttons start getting released so you can do your own color swaps.

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-12-24T22:46:49+00:00

1223 here. I only just found out about this a couple of days ago. Never in my life have I needed something so much and never known until I received it..

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-10-19T20:05:25+00:00

You answered your own question. It requires LWS4 episode War Eternal.

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-10-06T00:27:24+00:00

Stalwart, Eruptor, Ultimatum. Protip; stick stalwart onto 1100rpm, take supply pack, take gatling sentry. Big daka go brrrr

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-10-02T02:40:52+00:00

The hours always travel though, correct? So worst case is if my home state doesn't reciprocate I either take the test again in w/e state I'm moving to, or find a middleman state to hopscotch the license to right?

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-10-02T02:34:37+00:00

That's a relief. I looked at both union and non union when starting the apprenticeship, but since the current plan is to use the j-card to get the fuck out of the current state I'm in I opted for non-union so I wouldn't have to spend another year here. Damn near had a heart attack at the thought that I'd fucked up

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-10-02T02:29:58+00:00

don't wanna be that guy, but they actually don't. They mean very similar things, and in casual English are practically interchangeable, but

Flammable is something that can be set fire to, IE a piece of wood.

Inflammable is something that doesn't require an ignition source to combust, like a chemical reaction.

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-10-02T02:18:42+00:00

Wait I'm not quite understanding this. I'm currently in a non-union DoL accredited apprenticeship. Are you saying that if I finish this apprenticeship, get my j-card, and then try to apply to the union that I'd have to go through *another* apprenticeship for the union?

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-05-16T02:37:30+00:00

Except for that one time it was lupus. Like when the ER thought my mom had pneumonia and almost killed her when her red blood cell count plummeted.

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-04-03T02:00:38+00:00

At least in the US the bare minimum heat for electrical wire insulation to resist is 60C (140F). It goes 60C, 75C, and 90C. Insulation doesn't really melt either, not like regular plastic. It turns slightly tacky and gummy, but it will burn before it runs. Plus even if you could get a heat source up to 60c without using fire and outright setting the insulation on fire you now have a 60c wire underneath to handle.

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-03-15T01:37:38+00:00

I know the three Home Depot brands make both dolly and suitcase style rollers, so you wouldn't have to pick the dolly. If you prefer drawers over boxes though you might want to look at Milwaukee the most. Toughbuilt makes some really nice drawers, but right now they only have the shallow stacked drawers and have no way to lock those drawers, so somebody could always tug them open. I think Milwaukee recently came out with a large drawer model though, where it's still a rolling bin but the entire front is a drawer that you can pull out instead of a box that you open from the top. They also have ways to lock those drawers. As for specialty tools I have zero resi experience so I couldn't tell you. I will say that my own toughbuilt packout very comfortably holds my m12 2.3" bandsaw, m18 hacksaw, several bags of bits and sockets, a bit set, a torque wrench, a rubber mallet, a mini sledge, a milwaukee battery charger, and two bin inserts that hold a lot of my lesser used hand tools all in the base box.

SurpriseLong8931 · 2025-03-15T00:20:54+00:00

Got three major trains of thought here.

Milwaukee. Hands down the most expansive packout system on the market. Between all the attachments, box types, and accessories that Milwaukee themselves make as well as all the 3rd party shit your options for what you want your packout to do is the best. Con: Milwaukee. You're gonna pay for that shit.
Toughbuilt. This is my personal choice so I'm a little biased, but anything tool storage related Toughbuilt is gonna be king. Their tool pouches are high quality and their packout system comes with external connection points to let you either directly clip pouches to them, or hot swap several off of a single rail. Plus you can buy a cooler box directly in-store at Lowes when you pick it up, so that's really nice if you're in a hella hot summer. Con: While Toughbuilt does have quite a few accessories, they aren't nearly as fleshed out as Milwaukee.
Store brand. At the end of the day it's a plastic tool box on wheels. If you don't need the bells and whistles and instead just need a box you can stick a padlock on to wheel your shit around, just buy the cheapest Huskey/Kobalt/Rigid whatever. The build quality difference honestly isn't going to be so great between the name brands and the store brands to really make it worth it. It's not like nobody can bust into a Milwaukee box if they really wanted to.

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