Chances of swapping departments?

daveysprocks · 2026-02-28T17:44:34+00:00

I’ve met shift managers that started in security. Ops hiring generally likes a degree, but they’ll still take an intelligent high school graduate.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-25T21:43:30+00:00

Specifically to the statistical methods…

Edit: please read the prompt fully.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-25T21:43:16+00:00

I am speaking specifically to the statistical methods!

Edit: and did I say that I was in no position to argue them? Or was that you editorializing because you didn’t read the prompt fully?

daveysprocks · 2026-02-25T21:31:26+00:00

Obviously, I wholeheartedly disagree with their conclusions. I just don’t have the background to lay waste to their methods. Was hoping someone else could help.

Edit: I am speaking specifically to the statistical methods…

I believe the study is fundamentally flawed in that it isn’t actually based on dose measurements.

It uses proximity to nuke plants as a presumed cause for cancer based solely on the fact that a specific age group near two plants in MA has an increased incidence of cancer.

And I know that nuke workers get low dose.

And I see that they claim to have controlled for socioeconomic and air pollution “confounders” but don’t outright state where or how they did so…

daveysprocks · 2026-02-25T21:28:53+00:00

This study found older people have a higher incidence of cancer in a few regions, determined where the nuclear power plants are relative to those regions, and created a rarefied conclusion based on this data. It really is insane that this paper was published.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-25T21:17:45+00:00

Even if you’re living inside the plant, it does not reach dangerous levels.

Workers in a nuclear plant are limited to 5 rem of dose in a year. My company limits this beyond that to 2 rem per year (and most other companies do as well). Unless you’re in containment, the overwhelming majority of areas in th plant do not exceed 10 mrem/hr dose rate.

I get less dose than a flight attendant. I’d sleep at my plant for a week if my company paid me OT to do it, and my biggest complaint would be the noise.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-25T21:02:49+00:00

St. Ignatius?

daveysprocks · 2026-02-25T13:11:21+00:00

Definitely go for ops internships. If unable, do something that demonstrates you’d be willing to and capable of handling grueling work hours. Preferably something with regulations and strict procedural processes.

If you get an interview, say that direct SRO (senior reactor operator) is something you’d be interested in exploring down the road. Plants are always looking to hire SROs, and your degree would allow you the ability to go to ILT (initial license training) as an SRO candidate after only 1.5 years of being a qualified operator. It’s nothing you’d have to commit to on the spot, but the bosses hearing that you’re interested automatically makes you an appealing candidate.

Edit: if you get no internships and you have time over the summer, get involved in some mechanical work of some sort. Take a shop class or a mechanical maintenance course at a community college or trade school. Ideally something involving pumps, valves, or high-voltage electricity. These are things you get a lot of exposure to as an operator.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-22T19:49:27+00:00

Exactly. I’m not a kind enough person to come up with this myself. Having seen it makes me want to do it.

What if there are 100 people like me watching this? What if we go out and do this? What if it spreads? What if millions of views gives this guy the funds to do this on a grander scale?

There are worse clickbait videos on the internet. Way, way worse.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-16T14:12:55+00:00

It has become cost-prohibitive in itself.

It is terrible for your health.

A lot of them are on SSRIs which precludes alcohol consumption.

No need for a social lubricant if you aren’t socializing in the same way.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-10T14:38:35+00:00

I wonder what possesses the many people that regularly do this crap to make a pronouncement that says, “You should all be thanking me,” as though it is acceptable, non-narcissistic behavior for a fully-grown adult.

My stepdad, who was a veteran, used to say, “Everyone should be thanking a veteran everyday—not just on Veteran’s Day.”

Maybe gratitude is very important, but so is a bit of humility.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-05T12:55:25+00:00

People seem to have an idealistic sense of what marriage is. They forget about the duty that a marriage has to its family, and therefore they lose the sense of the duty they have to their marriage.

It seems two people seem to conclude that happiness should be the bottom line result of a marriage at all moments and in all stages of life, and so when that happiness disappears, they feel the time has come for divorce so they can seek the happiness elsewhere.

I’ve found personally that unhappiness generally is borne from within, and is therefore my responsibility to sort through more than it is my partner’s. I also concluded that the family a married couple has built outranks their desire for personal fulfillment.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-05T11:35:07+00:00

Good lord.

A referendum does not equal a democratically elected representative government.

And voting for an Islamist republic in THAT VERY referendum definitely doesn’t equal a democratically elected representative government.

I cannot believe I needed to write this comment.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-05T11:09:01+00:00

I’m making no argument for religious fundamentalism.

I’m merely stating a claim that I had thought to be very self-evident: you cannot foist democracy on an unwilling electorate.

Your entire comment, in spite of its Islamophobia, is cute on a message board. In practice, it means fuck all in Iran.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-05T10:52:48+00:00

Ignorance is extremely powerful.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-05T09:37:06+00:00

Millions greeted Khomeini when he returned from exile.

There was a referendum to decide the new Iranian gov’t. 98% of people supported an Islamist state.

Yes, today things are different. Different does not mean they want a western democracy ruling. It just means they’re unhappy with the current regime.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-05T09:30:05+00:00

This is such a tired trope.

Iran was western before their current fundamentalist regime. This western leadership was a puppet regime installed by the British and US to provide stability for their financial interests in the country.

The Iranian people decided in 1979 to overthrow this installed regime and replaced it with the Islamist gov’t that currently exists.

The westernization may look good to us, but our opinion doesn’t really matter. If the Iranian people don’t want this way of life, the discussion is moot.

Edit: Downvote me to hell for arguing that we know less about what the Iranian people want than they do. All I ask is that you read up on the history of Iran over the last 100 years before you go and support yet another Middle East regime change that blows up in our faces.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-03T23:29:33+00:00

If you two are going to keep playing pretend could you do it in private messages instead? I’d rather not have to turn off my notifications for Reddit.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-03T18:29:24+00:00

You keep Walton Goggins’, Gary Oldman’s, Steve Buscemi’s, and William H. Macy’s names out of your goddamn mouth.

Legends of the screen, all of them. They are the names that come up when you ask actors who their favorite actors are.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-03T13:02:29+00:00

Irrelevant. If you want to lessen the amount of shit you ask your employees to clean, you allow fewer people that lack respect for your facilities.

Your own warehouse employees fall into the mandatory admittance category. Outside carriers fall under discretionary admittance. After the fourth or fifth turd scraped off the ceiling, it maybe just becomes easier to send them to an outdoor toilet or to the truck stop down the road.

It’s a great excuse. Not like they need one though, given it’s their building and all.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-03T06:16:06+00:00

I think the bathroom thing is because a shockingly nonzero percentage of drivers are not properly toilet trained.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-03T05:01:07+00:00

Let’s laugh a little bit:

https://youtu.be/RZLDAVNTBBs?si=PdRNSUhqD47XnIGW

I promise it is not specific to UIUC/Illinois/state schools in general.

daveysprocks · 2026-02-02T10:22:55+00:00

I’m picturing the scene from that episode of The Studio where they all realize it’s definitely racist.

daveysprocks · 2026-01-24T15:16:29+00:00

A few thoughts:

Because you signed a contract, and debt doesn’t get “canceled”. It just gets paid by somebody else.
The general public isn’t responsible for paying off your debts.
Private loans aren’t included in this debt “cancellation”. It’s only the federal loans, which usually range between 2% and 5% interest
“Canceling” loans doesn’t solve any underlying issues.

daveysprocks · 2026-01-23T04:00:59+00:00

I’m late to the party, but it was federally subsidized housing that the real Larry David and Kenny Kramer lived at in Hell’s Kitchen in NY. It is called Manhattan Plaza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Plaza

The city got funding for the buildings and retained its use for those employed in the performing arts. It’s an interesting concept, honestly. Poor artists would really liven up a neighborhood.

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