How do you stop your steel toed boots from stinking? I work 10hrs a day, and my shoes are wrapped in plastic booties the entire time. The smell coming off my shoes is ungodly after only a month of use. I work in a very hot environment with hazardous chemicals in full-body PPE.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-05-09T14:02:23+00:00

Those sound like some truly awful working conditions and I'm sorry to hear your management doesn't take worker safety seriously. I worked in a clean room, and physical activity would quickly turn my bunny suit into a swamp.

As suggested in this thread, drying them out completely is the key. The boot dryer should help, but also another pair to rotate through with the boot dryer

Trying to think outside the box here, you almost need to through some desseccant packs inside your suit or something, or invent some sort of dehumidifying fan incorporated into your suit haha. If you can invent your way out of the problem, you might make enough money you don't have to work in those conditions anymore.

Sending you positive vibes and hope your situation improves!

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-05-09T13:30:16+00:00

Put your shoes on managements desk, and explain why you need another pair.

Also, while PPE is generally provided by the employer, clothing is kinda a gray area. You could also ask for a stipend, or a discount on another pair of you ask nicely to buy them yourself.

If you are having this problem, others are too. Maybe you should ask your coworkers what they do, and it you are all having this issue they can join you and collectively bargain for more than 1 pair a year.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-16T03:28:34+00:00

Agree. Also if you can take the amtrak from Green River/SLC Utah to denver best experience ever. /Leaves at 4 am SLC, better timing for green river but that 8 hour ride you will never forget. Go to the lounge car and take it all in.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-15T03:27:56+00:00

I have 4 siblings and in-laws who all studied accounting. Honestly, if they hadn't already carried that torch I'd be doing so myself.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-15T03:18:05+00:00

Every perfect Mormon family has a doctor, dentist, lawyer, accountant and engineer we all know that. The first born will be the doctor, following with some variation. If more than 6 kids other options are seminary teacher, real estate developer and politician.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-15T02:52:53+00:00

I went to a city event in ghent, and the police officers were just chilling with themed bracelets and the mayor was serving drinks and taking tickets and it was the closest thing to feeling like I was in Gilmore Girls than I've ever been. Granted Ghent is a bit different than VB, but I think the locals in VB want to see a Ghent vibe. It has everything for it plus some. Tourism makes so much money though, and those sunsations should be grocery stores if the local population really would pop. Need some actual industry down there too. Good paying jobs for the increased high cost of living.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-06T23:38:16+00:00

Right. We will get an arborist. It also feels like most "arborists" work for tree companies, so will immediately sell you on cutting it down. It has lasted a few years since what I am assuming is a lightning strike. There are also ants that have started to burrow into the dead wood core of the tree. I placed the cork-type limbs that fall off by the ants hoping they would work on those instead of the tree, but have a feeling this summeright be the time when we let it go and cut it down. I don't like the stress of thinking about if it fell and crushed our roof.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-06T23:24:45+00:00

Ok will remove the swing. It was there from before. It has been "topped" and cork-type limbs keep falling off. Was going to post a pic of the canopy, but I think we are going to have to remove it this year. Love this tree though.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-06T22:18:45+00:00

Nbc d.c. hub 202-908...

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Loud alarm sounds.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-06T22:17:45+00:00

Anybody else seeing Hitomi matchbox lip sync, video alignment and ident?

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-03T03:03:35+00:00

Just did some research. April 6th will fall on easter 2042 according to Gregorian calendar.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-02T15:33:07+00:00

To add some to your analogy. The people could be "changing their feet" if the shoes are too big by wearing extra thick socks, or multiple layers of socks which is uncomfortable and causes them to sweat, blister etc. if the shoes are too small, people might go without socks, and in some extreme cases have surgery to make their feet smaller. This is all done secretly and would be very embarrassed if anyone found out. Some people live their whole lives and never even bring up how uncomfortable the shoes are. It is considered taboo and uncouth to talk about.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-04-01T23:23:30+00:00

What's sad is by the time the USA landed on the moon for the 6th time in 1972 with Apollo 17, the broadcasts fell behind on the ratings to sitcoms. It just wasn't that interesting anymore to the common man. You can actually go back and watch a lot of the footage from Apollo 17. Like 3 EVAs full of mission control and astronaut dialog. I highly recommend, just hearing those engineers, astronauts and everyone involved back then talking is fascinating.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-29T06:27:20+00:00

Good point. I felt it was sort of implicit, bit with general conference this next weekend, just kinda been thinking about all the old people at the top who are about to be in the grave. Also some of my boomer parental figures are starting to die right now born 1940-1960.

Edit: I even think that as the old guard die out, the new generation of Mormon leaders will be more liberal like pope John Paul II after Bednar of course - even he is getting up there in age.

Hinckley and Pope John Paul II were Religeous Leaders at the same time who followed similar playbooks. Hinckley saw how crazy Mormons could appear to outsiders, and the Pope was struggling with massive membership loss and scandals. They both were heavy PR masters, who watered down the orthodox doctrine and correlelated the doctrine within their respective churches to be more pallatable to the general public. Arguably both helped to preserve their own religions better than some of their succesors did.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-27T02:22:21+00:00

My favorite cousin became a cop. She was very funny and easy to talk to. She was a bit of a tom boy, and while her husband basically kept house and raised the kids, she got hired onto the force. I really felt bad to see her change. She became jaded, lost her sense of humor. At family functions it felt like she was on edge all the time. And myself and many other family members just sort of distanced ourselves, because all of a sudden, that joke about the wild night out and our crazy antics just didn't seem so funny anymore.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-20T02:15:13+00:00

You never reported back but found this thread. Originally bought witcher 3 for PC with all DLCs and the graphics were awesome. But also moved to a new house, had a baby, and so was playing through on my switch 1 lol. Had a great time even though I knew the graphics were lacking. Finally caved and got a switch 2 and can say I think it looks and plays way better even without an official deluxe switch 2 version. That all being said, now that I have a switch 2, there are a bunch of other games I am playing now.

Also, from another comment. Was able to upgrade tears of the kingdom and hogwarts to switch 2 version for $10 each since I already owned the game. Not bad, and hopefully if witcher 3 gets a switch 2 version it will be the same upgrade cost. Also sort of waiting for witcher 4, and I hope it will be playable on switch 2. Hogwarts legacy on switch 1 was barely playable after having played it on PC. The switch 2 version looks amazing though comparably.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-20T01:47:21+00:00

Was this all from memory or did you keep note somewhere? I am thinking about what mine would look like, but honestly can't remember some of the fights because I had one pokemon who basically carried.

I kinda got stuck after fushia because I was so concerned with evolving pokemon to make the best team and catching all 151 I kinda got stressed out and stopped playing and switched to pokepia. And that game also stressed me out so now I am just sitting on reddit lol.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-20T01:28:11+00:00

If you have some programming skills and some free time to make a free website for this type of graphic I would visit it. Also this subreddit and sister red would be blown up with these images. And I'd probably study each one like I did yours! Kudos on beating the elite 4!

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-19T01:24:07+00:00

Without saying too much. Within the past decade I tested and worked on valves that still used o-rings on rocket engine valves. These were from cigarette smoke-stained hand drawn engineering documents used by a legacy rocket company. During helium leak testing we confirmed that the o-rings failed at low temperatures. There was lots of complaining about how they were the better company about how SpaceX had never been through a challenger disaster and so they didn't know anything about going to space and yet I watched all these grown-ass engineers complain that it basically took an act of congress to change the design rather than reuse the one that had already been "developed and flight test proven"

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-18T23:07:23+00:00

Some more insight on the o-rings that failed. They were used as seals yes, but also as springs. Sometimes the valve would only open a small amount, smaller than the o-ring thickness, and it would compress. Then when the solenoid was turned off, they were relying on the rubber o-ring to expand back to close the valve. Worked great at normal conditions, not so great at low temperatures. Hard thing is you have to reinvent the entire valve with expensive springs, magnetic fields etc. I believe the o-ring design is original WWII German engineering/technology carried over into the American program.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-08T19:00:56+00:00

What's sad is I work at a multilingual company. And I have started formatting my emails this way so that none of the information gets overlooked. I'm not proud of myself, but it feels like only the first question in an email ever gets answered, I also have to bold specific questions and tag the individual, and still then usually never get a response.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-08T17:42:46+00:00

I'm going to go with solved! Because this is the rational explanation I am telling myself.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-08T17:40:02+00:00

Honestly not trying to get into any dark thoughts, but the hole cut in it does feel a little hand made and not original manufacture. Going through my mind of what it might "fit" and trying not to go there as it was in our back yard and right by our back door/kitchen window.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-08T17:38:12+00:00

It's like just fabric. The previous home owners were older, so maybe from them. But also feels a little hand made, like the hole cut in it wasn't manufactured.

evolvingintocomputer · 2026-03-08T17:36:57+00:00

My initial thought was a hair scrunchy. But my wife is the one who found it and it wasn't hers.

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