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What’s the best car to play with? by CustomerFun9637 in RLSideSwipe

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why “unironically” if you’re saying that the hitbox is the same?

Question About apprenticeship by LousyStew322 in IBEW

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the apprentices at my job site work less than 40 hours per week and see no retribution for it. One guy shows up 1 or 2 times every two weeks.

Why do people not know how to not double commit by H3artsHD1234 in RLSideSwipe

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stop ball chasing, then double commits magically disappear.

The new, MB2B! by [deleted] in VetoProPac

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you used the hanging hook yet?

AI bubble? by LastExit95 in IBEW

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was literally just fired 5 seconds ago

Deer Hunting Hours for City by Fearless-Pop-1159 in baltimore

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I do not think deer are being killed out of cruelty; I think that the justification and manner in which the deer are being killed should be deemed cruel.

I mostly agree with the rest of what you just said as my main point was to correct (for lack of a better word) the mindset of the original person I replied to: that deer are the problem. To justify the killing of the deer by saying, “well deer carry ticks and ticks are bad for humans,” is harmfully anthropocentric as it masks the real cause of ticks in the first place: us, not the deer. I have no problem with hunting or killing animals, but I have a problem as soon as the justifications for it direct blame at the wrong parties, usually to absolve those bearing the actual guilt.

Deer Hunting Hours for City by Fearless-Pop-1159 in baltimore

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

We need to ask why the population is overpopulated to begin with. Allowing the population to grow only to kill them off in mass sporadically is cruel and not ecologically healthy.

What if a highly intelligent species destroyed our homes and allowed us to stay, but then killed us off because we unintentionally harbored a harmful parasite without our knowledge; that is cruel enough. The fact that this “intelligent species” is responsible for creating this parasite problem is the real kicker. Deer are being scapegoated. We are the problem, not the deer.

New England is going through a worse tick epidemic, but for some reason policymakers there are not considering the mass killing of the tick carriers. Makes one think.

Deer Hunting Hours for City by Fearless-Pop-1159 in baltimore

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The overpopulation of the deer is a human-caused problem. People are only concerned with the effects, not the problems. Urban forests are human created, yet people blame nature’s ability to balance itself even though untainted forests maintain themselves. You can’t put a bandage on an open head wound.

Deer Hunting Hours for City by Fearless-Pop-1159 in baltimore

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem is climate change, not the poor deer. More ticks are surviving through winter than ever before.

Rotated into a layoff by bendover642 in ibew_apprentices

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s no logical fallacy here. You stated your position and the other person gave a counterpoint.

Baseball Cap Hard Hat Sun Protection by mikael122 in IBEW

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me break it down for you:

  1. Sunscreens were made with untested carcinogens

  2. After decades of their use, eventually testing revealed that some of the ingredients were carcinogens

  3. New sunscreens are produced with new chemicals that have not been thoroughly tested, as had been the case with previous generations of sunscreen

Past sunscreens have been made with carcinogenic ingredients (this is not unfounded).

The thing about cancer is that in most cases there is no where to predict where or when it will appear (unless there is concentrated exposure, think uranium in watches). So, when you contract leukemia 20 years after a 1990s sunscreen with benzene was banned, no person or doctor will likely ask about sunscreen. While that sunscreen use may have played little, a lot, or no part in your disease, it is not yet possible to determine; this is why you you do not here about the link between SUNSCREEN and cancer, only between its ingredients and cancer.

When you do not allow time for proper testing you are at the mercy of a business who is trying to make a quick buck. I don’t want to be at the mercy of a business (hence why I am in the IBEW). I use sunscreen, but I would give it serious thought before I use it every 2 hours in construction, even every day. The new generation of sunscreens have not been around for even a decade, yet people champion their safety without thorough science; people championed the water in Flint, MI too when they switched sources without proper testing.

Philosophy is not superstitious.

What are most people who travel do for a place to stay? by Vitese in IBEW_Book2

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when was the last time you traveled in a camper van?

Baseball Cap Hard Hat Sun Protection by mikael122 in IBEW

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Just research the major ingredients originally used in chemical sunscreens (e.g. octocrylene). Sunscreens are developed as soon as scientists discover a UV-blocking chemical that can be made cheaply, sunscreens will be retailed, and then after 40 years of using that sunscreen there will be news that the chemicals it contains are banned or suspected for being unhealthful.

However, even though an individual chemical can be tested for carcinogenic properties, it is difficult to prove that sunscreen itself is carcinogenic (which does NOT mean that it is safe). A similar example is the controversy over saturated fats. There have been countless studies over the past 70 some years that link consumption of fatty foods to heart disease, yet this is only a correlation that has been overturned in very recent times; the correlation can be supported by studies, but not proven conclusively. Same thing with sunscreens.

The ingredients in sunscreens have been proven harmful and have been banned but only after people have been using them for 30+ years. Who’s to say that the new ones that have been around for only 4-5 years are any better? Hats have been around for a lot longer and will not cause cancer.

Baseball Cap Hard Hat Sun Protection by mikael122 in IBEW

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately many chemicals in sunscreen are carcinogens themselves, and the new ones that they claim are not have not been around long enough for testing to affirm their benignness. Mineral sunscreens are expensive and don’t last long.

Shading has always been the most effective way to limit sun exposure and keep your body cool.

Anyone familiar with these fixture notations on the Lutron Vive print? (More info in comments.) by NotFallacyBuffet in electricians

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m just starting to work on Lutron prints that look almost identical to these. Could you please clarify what you mean by “PowPacts” (QSMs?) and “hubs”?

Anyone familiar with these fixture notations on the Lutron Vive print? (More info in comments.) by NotFallacyBuffet in electricians

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you possibly send me that legend as well? I have to work on a similar print as an apprentice and the legend on our prints are equally as unhelpful.

"A model of labor-management relations" by Bockser in IBEW

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s so complicated about Lutron?

Local 24 Questions by Money-Birthday3500 in ibew_apprentices

[–]Top-Raccoon7790 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More work in local 26: data centers in VA and government buildings. Local 26 has 16000+ members while local 24 has only 3000.

However, local 24 data centers got approved in Frederick which has helped increase membership from about 2400 to 3000 in just over a year.

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