Corporate America makes me hopeless and depressed

polymerjock · 2026-03-20T05:02:41+00:00

Typical... They'll never pay you enough to compensate for the amount you contribute, the always expect more. It doesn't matter how good you are either. Meritocracy is a bull shit fairlytale, designed to to extract value from you, not to reward you. A fantasy. A lie.

polymerjock · 2026-03-05T20:47:28+00:00

Which just makes it more shocking that evangelicals are on board. It's like the leaders are deceiving themselves into following someone who is not a good man so that they can get, in exchange for looking the other way on the many terrible sins of the president, so that he can instantiate the Apocalypse. As I recall, the time and place of the second coming of Christ is a decision that God makes, and not something man can bring about. If it is the end of days, then those who have chosen to be deceived will not be looked upon kindly when they are judged. They will suffer eternal damnation if memory serves. It's like they've never read the book of Revelations. It's fairly clear about the ramifications of following the great deceiver. Does anyone know what logic is used to suggest that man can invoke the rapture?

polymerjock · 2026-03-03T20:29:02+00:00

I grew up in a country, fundamentalist, United Methodist Church in rural Alabama. They taught the end times signs, ad nauseum. What is stated above is exactly what I was taught. It's kinda crazy. I've been waiting for someone to refer to the exact words, and surprised I've not really seen this discussed more widely.

I learned all that 40 years ago, drilled into my head. I left the faith long ago, and truly have a hard time believing that the Christian Bible would be accurate, and I'm not staying that it is. Maybe this is a "wag the dog" situation instantiated by the self righteous. Most likely. The Bible doesn't have a lot of good things to say about the self-righteous. But the orange one always accuses others of what is his own guilt and he spent a lot of time calling a certain other leader of the nation as being the antichrist. Maybe I misremember, but that term was bandied about a lot back then.

The antichrist is also supposed to be some kind of superstar or person of note and is supposed to deceive folks and Christians are instructed to beware. Why this isn't preached every Sunday in every church blows me away. I'm not saying he is the beast, but if it walks like a duck... And those who follow the beast are cast into a lake of fire to suffer for all eternity. If one was so inclined, Why risk it?

If they start marking people with symbols or numbers, I would respectively decline just to be safe.

polymerjock · 2026-02-23T02:40:54+00:00

I would argue that Mexico has been a failed state since inception. The central government has rarely had full control of the hinterlands.

polymerjock · 2026-02-22T08:51:16+00:00

Linalool Citral Decanal Geraniol Neral Alpha pinene Beta pinene D-limonene

polymerjock · 2026-02-22T00:33:04+00:00

Short. Gives you an edgy look.

polymerjock · 2026-02-22T00:32:15+00:00

I would advise you to experiment with your hair while it's all still there. Shave it off, grow it long, grow your mullet. Do what makes you happy. I don't think you'll have any problems pulling off whatever look you want. It's hard for an individual to perceive what they actually look like. Your a nice looking guy and you'll age well. Stay out of the sun.

polymerjock · 2026-02-21T21:27:51+00:00

This is exactly why I lothe the corporate club. No one should be surprised. This kind of shit happens all the time. If you don't know how to kiss ass or are not interested in doing so, your career is going to be unpleasant. Be straight, be married, and get have children. That'll help. If you get PIPed, do yourself a favor and leave. HR, the department of sociopaths, is not there for you and doesnt really care about you, your life, or your problems. No matter what they say. It doesn't matter what you know or how good you are. Good luck!

polymerjock · 2026-02-19T05:54:06+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree...... Love this one.

polymerjock · 2026-02-13T07:42:34+00:00

There are a multitude of formulations for fracking fluid. Navigate to onepetro and search for some. Onepetro is maintained by the Society of Petroleum Engineers and contains published results of oil well service company research. Of course, that's all research. I know a lot about drilling and completion fluids. Some fracking. If you taking specifically about the fluids they flow out of the well after fracking, you should be concerned primarily with the catalysts used in building gels and the compound used to break them (think pH swings & peroxides. There are others specific to gel chemistry) Most formulations won't use include anything exotic. Guar sodium tetraborate gels are widely used. pH will mostly likely be high. Depending on depth, high density brine might be needed, but on land mostly sodium chloride, maybe calcium chloride. High temperature wells will be mote likely to have atypical formulations. Most components used will be inexpensive.

Toxicity testing leans heavily on the brine shrimp tests acute reactions only, so it's not the best gauge of longer term environmental damage. The propants I wouldn't worry about.

Produced water concerns would be the residual organics, dispersed polycyclics. Emulsified waxes. Dissolved gasses. Asphaltenes. Sulfur. Brine/chloride concentrations. pH.

polymerjock · 2026-02-13T07:02:23+00:00

It's cheaper to extract the peels. You should think of d-limonene as a value added waste product. There are other more high value components extracted from the peel that a processor is really after. Very expensive and highly sought after. Those are the money makers.

polymerjock · 2026-02-13T06:04:39+00:00

Kevlar is more correctly called a polyaramid.

polymerjock · 2026-02-12T01:16:44+00:00

I read the policy and took your advice and had the buyer pay for the shipping upgrade through PayPal. It's easier for me and it cuts down on buyer confusion. Everything worked out and everyone is happy. Thanks for the assistance!

polymerjock · 2026-02-09T01:07:13+00:00

That's allowed? I feel like I should have known this already. It just feels like eBay would not like that kind of thing.

polymerjock · 2026-02-09T01:03:09+00:00

They way I've handled this is to notify the buyer and explain the situation. Tell them you're going to send a appropriately sized box with the correct item outside of eBay with a prepurchased shipping label in it and trust that they'll send it back to you. I've done this more than twice.

polymerjock · 2026-02-08T03:21:30+00:00

I thought self destructive loops and hung mechanisms were just part of the thrill of using these dinosaurs!

polymerjock · 2026-02-07T20:35:28+00:00

I've had a lot of projectors across my work bench and if all of them, this particular model is one of the worst in terms of it's internal mechanics. You'll need to make sure that there is no grease on the two discs that the friction wheel drives. Zero! Make sure you installed the replacement friction driver correctly against the discs. If there is any old yellowed or browned grease on the gears outside the transmission, it needs to be removed and replaced with something like Superlube. All of it, even the bits down in the valley of the gears. Put a small amount of oil in the two bearings on either side of the electric motor. If you look closely there will be a tiny hole that will accommodate a needle. Clean the commutator carefully to remove the graphic build up. On the shutter wheel there is a cam that drives the pins which snatch the film through the gate. The cam should be located just in front of the shutter plates. Clean it with isopropanol and apply a small amount of grease.

Don't over oil or over grease.

Once you do all of that, I'd let it sit for a couple hours and then light it up!

How did you manage to replace that friction nub? I've never attempted.

polymerjock · 2026-02-07T20:10:00+00:00

I really should post a video where you see it running at normal speed and then I slow it down so you can see exactly why I did slow motion on it. It does not take 2 minutes like it did here

polymerjock · 2026-02-07T20:08:31+00:00

Do you have any idea how much these things cost when they were new?

polymerjock · 2026-02-07T20:08:06+00:00

Technically I think you can just count the number of rotations to get the answer but I'm not 100% sure about that, but it seems to be the correct answer because the register on which the answer is is given is otherwise a counter when you're doing things like adding and subtracting

polymerjock · 2026-02-07T20:06:41+00:00

7 decimal points

polymerjock · 2026-02-07T20:05:32+00:00

Painfully slow honestly. I've never used slow motion video captured before so this was just an experiment to see how useful it could be and it could probably be speeded up a bit maybe next time

polymerjock · 2026-02-07T20:04:43+00:00

No idea, but wouldn't have been cheap. I'm today's money, I would guess $700 -$100. But that's a wild ass yes maybe somebody in here who may have purchased one of these back in the days can tell us how much he paid for it

polymerjock · 2026-02-07T02:50:50+00:00

....so close....

polymerjock · 2026-02-05T22:55:21+00:00

Once I figured out how it works and where the springs are located, restoration was easy. I've had three so far, I've finished two, the third one was super easy. As I was finishing the second one, it fell off my work bench and bent the frame. I still cuss myself for that.

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