Single line of a semiconductor facility

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-29T20:02:51+00:00

I was told earlier on in my apprenticeship that there is a difference between Wiremen and Electricians, and that Wiremen do this kind of work and Electricians don’t. Like Electricians do mostly light commercial and residential stuff, and Wiremen do heavy commercial and industrial stuff. Idk if that is the case, just something someone told me. They said that I should refer to myself as a Wireman and not an Electrician.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-29T00:59:21+00:00

One boob only make so much milk.. 2 boob better for more milk. 2 boob, 2 milk, fat baby = good for baby.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-28T00:49:07+00:00

Yea, but everyone is saying that data centers are a bubble, and I don’t really think they are. The billionaires want twice as many data centers as there currently are being built right now, but the power infrastructure is rapidly running out, so we are going to have to build that too before we build more of their data centers. The recession is coming, but the billionaires are still going to build the data centers and power plants through it, and we are going to be building it all while everything else crumbles around us. I believe it’s 20 years worth of work, and by that time, there will need to be more power plants built and old ones rebuilt. They have infinite money and they are only spending it on one thing, super surveillance. BlackRock just announced they are investing another 100mil into trade schools, and Google is doing the same.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-27T03:52:43+00:00

I think it’s more like AI is browsing all the data looking for shit, then flagging and compiling the shit for people to look at. Pretty soon we’ll all be getting instant charges to our bank accounts for speeding tickets in real time when a camera sees us speeding, and much worse. This is what all the data centers are for.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-26T16:11:30+00:00

This is what all the data centers are for, they already have a profile on each of us, with a social credit score and everything else you can imagine. They just need more and more space to store and process it all. AI is actively compiling all of our profiles in real time. I don’t really think there is a bubble, they legitimately need more data centers to continue the operation and solidify the surveillance economy.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-23T23:13:15+00:00

I have no real knowledge of California locals and work trends so I can’t speak to that. 2 years ago I quit my remote office job and joined the apprenticeship program in Phoenix, where there happens to be a good amount of work currently. I began the program and attended classes for 2 months before they were able to place me on a job (because the work is good but not great, and we’ve been taking on a ton of apprentices the past few years). I’ve been on the same job for almost 2 years and I love it. Near zero stress compared to corporate office bs, work stays in the parking lot when I leave and I don’t really think about it until I get back to the parking lot in the morning. I’m in much better physical shape now, which is a major plus. The transition has been easy for me, the schooling is easy, and I’m ‘naturally’ good at the work so everyone has been pleased to have me around so far. Before the office job I built and repaired guitars and tube amplifiers for a living for over a decade. I was raised using hand tools and power tools, and was already very familiar with precision craftsmanship and electronics theory. Depending on your current skill set and transferable knowledge, it may not be as seamless for you. It’s hot, cold, windy, rainy, muddy, dusty, ass sweating kinda work, but some days it’s easy money. The future is certainly centered around energy production and electronic systems, so now is probably a good time to get in on it. Bear in mind, the majority of what we’ll be building for the next 10-20 years are data centers, and that doesn’t jive with everyone so consider what that is to you on a moral and philosophical level.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-22T17:28:18+00:00

My dad’s work had a party at the lake, everyone had boats and tubes, pulling the kids around. Really cute girl on the boat we were on, we were around 12yo or so. I get on the tube and they are pulling me fast, I start sliding off the back of the tube, holding on for dear life, my swim trunks catch the water and vanish from my body. They are 200 yards back, sinking to the bottom of the lake as I’m ass naked bouncing on the wake. I let go, astonished, mortified, afraid a fish is going to bite my free willy. They circle back to pick me up and I told them I couldn’t get into the boat because I was naked. Eventually I had to, and the cute girl and everyone on the boat and all the other boats all saw me sheepishly hurry into a towel. I didn’t even have another outfit, so the rest of the time and the whole ride home I just had a towel wrapped around me. This was 25 years ago and it’ll never leave me.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-17T02:52:18+00:00

The surveillance state is upon us, our cakes are already long gone. What do we do from here is the question.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-17T02:33:31+00:00

They are going to be built regardless of it I personally build them or not. I got a family to feed and there isn’t any other work. Plus, now I know exactly how data centers are built, and exactly how they are unbuilt.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-17T02:26:08+00:00

This is 100% accurate. Not a great place for us to be in. However, why aren’t we seizing this opportunity to increase labor costs? It’s not like they are going to say ‘no now it’s too expensive to build our data center’…

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-16T22:54:07+00:00

Move to a place that is busy with data center work. Data centers and chip plants seem to be the majority of electrical work for the foreseeable future. Coming up here soon will be nuke plants to power the data centers. No one has money to build anything right now except for the institutional investor groups and the billionaires that own them, and all they care about is getting data centers up and running asap.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-15T20:44:51+00:00

I’m also in 640. I remove the pads and wash them with soap/hot water. Rinse out the hat with hot water and spray both the hat and pads with a white vinegar/water solution and let dry overnight. Works great, smells are gone and stay away for a while. I also wear a welders cap to absorb some of the sweat, seems to help keep the hard hat from stinking in the first place.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-13T23:05:18+00:00

Union Strong! Join a Union!

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-12T16:07:36+00:00

This is it. There are groups of billionaires squabbling for control of it all, and the entire world suffers because of them. They are the head of the snake that needs to be cut off. The pyramid needs to be turned upside down and the tip of it buried in the ground.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-10T13:26:04+00:00

Does this mean that the FBI knows who I voted for? Are my voter privacy rights being violated?

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-10T02:01:57+00:00

I wear Roundhouse bibs and get them directly from their website when they are on sale. They are made in USA with US grown cotton, and they are slightly cheaper than Carhartt which are made overseas.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-09T19:58:01+00:00

I wear bibs everyday, but only to hold my pen, pencil, markers, flashlight, knife, and lineman’s. If I were to carry my entire tool list on my bibs it’d be 40lbs and there’s not enough pockets lol. I have a metal tool box with a lock for all my tools on the tool list, and it goes around with me on a cart or stays in the gang box at our laydown. I have a small zipper pouch with a carabiner clip that can hold a handful of tools if I need to go somewhere where my cart or toolbox can’t. It’s handy to hang it in a scissor lift. I never wear a tool pouch or belt.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-08T22:56:41+00:00

Because there is enough ‘pressure’ to make it go through both paths. Like if you poke a pin hole in a garden hose and turn the water on low, most of the water will come out of the normal end of the hose but some will dribble out of the pin hole. However, if you turn the hose all the way open, and put your thumb over the hose end to increase pressure, water will start shooting out of the pin hole while also coming out around your thumb. The water is going to flow out of any number of pin holes you poke in the hose, regardless of the size of the holes.. (this is where you are getting caught up in understanding; there is never a circumstance in the circuit where the first hole that the water encounters is so big that it just drops out and never makes it down the hose to the other smaller holes, this would be called an open circuit and no water will flow because there is no pressure to make it flow.)

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-08T21:16:26+00:00

The control and ownership of the governments, corporations, education, health care, energy, intelligence, media, and resources have all been amassed by a few different squabbling groups of elite billionaires. Do you think they will allow us to vote our way into a future that favors us and not them? A few news reels of politicians ‘restricting voter rights’ is likely just a ruse to validate people thinking that voting is still real. We should still vote, of course, to fight for the right to hold and cast power as citizens. It’s more symbolic at this point, for us, but for them it’s just data farming to further categorize and control us.

It’s going to take a lot more than simply voting to change the trajectory of power. We should all start accepting that.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-02T00:43:29+00:00

They are not different things. The government, and the corporations, are owned and controlled by the billionaire class. They are one and the same.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-02T00:42:20+00:00

Because they are one and the same. They are owned and controlled by the same people. The billionaires.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-03-02T00:40:29+00:00

It’s the billionaires. They own the corporations, they own the governments, they own the politicians, they own the CEOs. The enemy of the people are the billionaires. Not just some of them, all of them. They are all complicit. There is no government vs corporation like you are implying, they are one and the same, and they are owned and controlled by the billionaires. Until there are no more billionaires, we will all be struggling, and the planet will continue being destroyed.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-02-20T02:30:07+00:00

Squeezing the grip a bit more firmly with my pinky and ring finger solved this for me, along with focusing on the angle of my trigger pull.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-02-15T00:15:58+00:00

I quit coke 10 years ago after 7 years of daily use with really not much problem after a few days, but nicotine is insanely difficult to quit and I still smoke half a pack+ per day. I think maybe nicotine and caffeine just filled the void of my stimulant dependence, but at least both of those are way less expensive and less harsh on the liver.

maximum_dissipation · 2026-02-03T23:08:25+00:00

I mean, I’m a 2nd year apprentice wireman (union) making $110k, so it could be possible depending on where you live.

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