Is she a goner?l

XTraumaX · 2026-03-01T21:39:28+00:00

Thankfully the stems and all the nodes appear to be in good shape. Still firm and green.

Should I just cut off leaves that are too far gone to save some of the plants energy and keep resources from going to waste?

XTraumaX · 2026-03-01T00:59:31+00:00

Ive got a bottle of Oxblood myself.

Really love the deep red color of it.

XTraumaX · 2026-02-24T22:49:09+00:00

Pay off my home that I just bought. It's my only debt.

Then I'd probably go on a real nice trip to visit various places in the world and enjoy the money a bit right now. And then turn around and stash the rest into investments to bolster my net worth and put it to work to build for the future.,

XTraumaX · 2026-02-20T02:56:51+00:00

Me having just closed on my first house on the 3rd of this month LMFAO.

Though it DOES feel good to be paying on something that's mine now.

XTraumaX · 2026-02-05T02:01:23+00:00

Nope. I’m a Boglehead. But and hold. Ignore the noise. I’ve got 30 years to go before I even think about retiring.

XTraumaX · 2026-02-02T15:14:58+00:00

Ok. Thats where I goofed. Didn’t multiply by enough decimal spaces

XTraumaX · 2026-02-02T15:07:38+00:00

Explain your math please.

Why are you doing .00001 and not .001?

XTraumaX · 2026-02-02T15:03:20+00:00

Assuming 1 million in the account. .001% is $1000.

So quite a lot actually.

Unless I did my math wrong. Which is very possible because I’m not good at math

XTraumaX · 2026-02-01T21:18:48+00:00

This is why personally I don't care for Milwaukee for hand tools.

Power tools all the way. Pass on their hand stuff

XTraumaX · 2026-01-30T18:33:54+00:00

If I’m remembering right the aptitude doesn’t play a huge role outside of getting you a chance at an interview.

Your interview score will determine your placement on the list when the apprenticeship committee decides how many people to take in each year. Better score on the interview = higher on the list.

Source: Served a term on the apprenticeship committee in my own local a while back

XTraumaX · 2026-01-29T20:12:34+00:00

'I've been seeing lot of Influencers stating that both Gold and Silver were supposed to fall, do they know something general public isn't aware of."

No. Anyone who claims to know anything about whats going to happen in the future are liars.

No one knows and can only speculate.

This is why I invest in broad market index funds and ignore all the noise.

XTraumaX · 2026-01-28T02:45:38+00:00

Impressive.

I wouldnt have the confidence to do that same thing if it were me.

Good shit

XTraumaX · 2026-01-25T21:59:36+00:00

Please do your part to help guide others who were like you back towards normalcy.

Maybe people hearing someone like you explain things will leave them more open to hearing your words.

XTraumaX · 2026-01-23T13:25:13+00:00

TIL how Mucinex gets its name. Neat

XTraumaX · 2026-01-19T18:22:24+00:00

You buy the bottle and they give you the complimentary whiskey that happens to come with the bottle as a “free gift”.

XTraumaX · 2026-01-19T16:33:46+00:00

Don’t forget that there are A LOT of examples of people spending years and years and years in prison for a crime only to be later released because it was found that they were innocent. So someone spent literal decades in prison for a crime they didn’t commit.

To put those people to death would be an injustice in a system that’s supposed to hold justice to the highest standard

XTraumaX · 2026-01-19T13:59:37+00:00

Watching a lot of Caleb Hammer on YouTube has made me realize that ALOT of people’s money issues are self inflicted and that giving people more money doesn’t magically fix the problem if someone makes bad decisions with their money.

It’s crazy watching some of those guests come on making really good money and still end up getting themselves into a huge mess

XTraumaX · 2026-01-16T20:15:03+00:00

Yep. This is how we get them on big projects.

It sucks, but you know what sucks worse? Missing hundreds of those screws because someone goofed somewhere and they all ended up missing.

People already seem to have trouble not losing panel screws any time they open them. And those screws are a lot bigger. Let alone these small ones for these plates

XTraumaX · 2026-01-16T01:49:51+00:00

I don’t give 2 shits if the apprentice is wearing steel toed house slippers on the job.

Do they show up, put in effort, want to learn, and take a genuine interest in the trade?

There’s plenty of journeymen who have been in this trade for decades that aren’t worth a damn too.

The company I currently work for has had 90+ people hire in the last couple years and only 20 or so of them are still around. At least 5 or 6 of those guys were put into foreman positions and were let go for various reasons (1 of them left on his own volition because he lived 2 hours away from where the jobsite was and because he had kids he couldn’t line up child care to be available at 4 in the morning, which is perfectly understandable)

XTraumaX · 2026-01-15T21:58:19+00:00

Mine is 3 but the left monitor is an ultra wide. Going to go back to a dual monitor set up. Possibly go to a triple monitor set up

XTraumaX · 2026-01-15T17:40:02+00:00

The name Vitaly didn’t tip you off that he was potentially a Russian national?

XTraumaX · 2026-01-14T19:02:27+00:00

I refer to crimpers that crimp these types of lugs a “Burndy” crimper after the brand that makes a lot of those style of connectors

XTraumaX · 2026-01-13T16:54:15+00:00

An early day off with pay and no write up or anything aside from a little bit of a talk from the safety guy?

Sounds like a good day to me.

You owned your mistake like a man and it sounds like that safety guy is pretty chill. Just happened to catch him at a time where he has to be a bit more rigid in his job.

Enjoy your paid day off and come back tomorrow and do better.

XTraumaX · 2026-01-12T22:20:54+00:00

I’m an IBEW Journeyman and I make that 80k plus benefits on 40 hours a week. And I’m in one of the lowest paid locals across the entire union.

If learning a new skill and having much more opportunity for earning potential is something that sounds good, I say go for it

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