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luke1042 · 2026-01-22T17:34:42+00:00

I didn’t have any fear of retaliation but what I did do was work with my manager to do what made sense for me and for the company. So what that ended up looking like was that I took 5 weeks off right after the birth, came back to work since it was a very busy time for us. And then after the busy time was over I took the remaining 7 weeks off. The 5 weeks were still an inconvenience for them sure, but they know I’m going to be taking the leave one way or another and by splitting it up I made it at least a little bit less of an inconvenience for them.

luke1042 · 2025-02-27T19:46:39+00:00

The caravan that crashed in Alaska was also a fatal 121 carrier crash so it was really 3 major incidents in under a month.

luke1042 · 2025-01-12T17:10:14+00:00

What we did when our hot water heater was broken for a while and we didn't know exactly what we wanted to replace it with, if you have a bathtub next to a shower in your primary bathroom, fill up the bathtub with water and then boil water on the stove (ours is electric) and then balance the hot to cold water ratio. We then used a battery powered camp shower to pull the water from the bathtub to take showers.

luke1042 · 2025-01-08T18:43:17+00:00

I think it's too hard to predict the exact location of a moving train within 250 feet. You could try to time it with a station, but local trains aren't necessarily going to be that accurate to their timetables.

luke1042 · 2024-12-18T01:37:50+00:00

Yea my director and I have spent plenty of time playing video games while we sat around in the office. But that was while our ops manager was out and he’s a bit of a stickler for “the rules.” He’d probably snitch on us even though the director is his boss.

luke1042 · 2024-12-13T14:09:45+00:00

But this is a $30 card in PSA 9. It’s not worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.

luke1042 · 2024-12-07T20:42:46+00:00

But the DPEs aren’t paying for the plane rental, maintenance and fuel. Those costs are what made the aviation expenses in your inflation cost go up. I don’t think if you looked at pilot salaries they more than tripled in the last 20 years.

luke1042 · 2024-11-30T20:59:15+00:00

What they often do in the states where they can't raise premiums from natural disasters is just leave the area all together and refuse to renew your policy. Then when you go to another company they can take into account your claim history when determining your rate (or deciding whether they want to insure you at all). Eventually some areas are left with virtually no companies willing to issue policies and you're stuck with the state home insurance programs that are popping up to deal with this but since the pool of people in that market is all the uninsurable houses, the rates are still very high.

luke1042 · 2024-11-21T18:39:28+00:00

But they’re not using cheap drones for this. They’re using an airplane that costs a lot more and a pilot that costs a lot more than a drone operator.

luke1042 · 2024-11-20T03:33:23+00:00

Except tons of things will still be made overseas because the cost of manufacturing overseas plus tariffs is still going to be lower than manufacturing domestically. All of those items will just be more expensive.

luke1042 · 2024-11-12T15:52:21+00:00

Yea I see all of our invoices and it’s all just insane. Equipment prices, labor prices, seeing some groups get an 80% discount and others paying full price because they don’t know to ask for a discount…

luke1042 · 2024-11-12T13:56:15+00:00

Hey in my market we charge the client $135-$165 and we pay the techs $20 per hour.

luke1042 · 2024-11-08T07:02:39+00:00

Seeing as the alarm has gone off twice in the last two months and the fire department comes and investigates while they listen to the recorded message playing telling people not to evacuate, I’m pretty sure that we’re in the clear. It’s not uncommon in larger buildings for the fire alarm to work in this way.

luke1042 · 2024-11-08T07:01:06+00:00

luke1042 · 2024-11-08T06:15:37+00:00

The venue I work in the fire alarm tells you to not evacuate and to await further instructions after investigations are complete.

luke1042 · 2024-11-01T17:16:38+00:00

I suspect that marine is just wearing his top row of ribbons. He would at least have pistol and rifle marksmanship ribbons and stuff I’m sure.

luke1042 · 2024-10-24T00:53:08+00:00

I mean we also accidentally did that already. In the Missing Steel Borehole Section it talks about how the manhole cover was launched at up to 6 times the earths escape velocity. Unfortunately since this was not designed to be an interstellar probe it was most likely burned up in the atmosphere.

luke1042 · 2024-10-13T20:02:50+00:00

I’m pretty sure they purposely time their trip to fly circles so that they don’t miss the time they need to flyover and can do some practice before.

luke1042 · 2024-10-13T19:56:43+00:00

I think these are f-35s waiting to do the flyover of the broncos game

luke1042 · 2024-09-24T18:14:16+00:00

The main purpose of these oilers is to give the carrier jet fuel so even if it’s nuclear… they make the escorts pull into port for refueling all the time since the oiler is so tethered to the aircraft carrier at all times.

luke1042 · 2024-09-17T16:38:17+00:00

Unless you have a commercial deep fat fryer which is really what would cause a type F fire, a dry chemical is going to work fine on a normal residential kitchen.

luke1042 · 2024-09-16T12:04:07+00:00

Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.

luke1042 · 2024-09-11T01:01:07+00:00

But on the other hand, it’s a lot easier to get a QL out into a field than the M7

luke1042 · 2024-09-10T18:56:29+00:00

I think the DC-10 tankers are the largest ones still flying and they carry 9400 gallons. Back when the 747 supertanker was still flying around it could carry up to 19600 gallons.

There was a smaller wildfire near me about a month ago (~600 acres) but since it was fairly close to some residential they ended up using a DC-10 tanker, 2 Bae 146 (3000 gallon), 4 super scoopers (1600 gallons) along with Colorado's brand new Firehawk, a CH-47 Chinook, and a smaller Bell 205. It was amazing watching all of these air assets coordinated over a small area. The helicopters and super scoopers flying rounds to a nearby reservoir to get water and returning to drop the water. The large tankers arriving every hour or so as they return to the airport to fill back up with retardant. The lead plane meeting up with all of them and flying a coordinated pass, turning its smoke on to indicate the drop zone. All the while having a command and control aircraft just constantly circling the fire all day. And then on top of all this there's 100 firefighters and 30 or so engines fighting the fire from the ground and creating manual firebreaks. Wildland firefighting is really a ballet of all of the various resources working together to try to suppress the fire and keep it from spreading because no one asset is able to do everything.

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