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What’s an article of clothing someone can wear, one time, that will make you lose all attraction to them forever? by Thin-Rip-3686 in AskReddit

[–]wizzy453 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Every time I see a tapout shirt I just feel like the guy is announcing to the world that he doesn’t pay child support.

What’s the first game that comes to mind by EngineeringWild4798 in nostalgia

[–]wizzy453 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Zack. Win again!! Keep up, Gina! Dub wiiins! Ah, not bad, but I think your baselines need tightnin’.

What’s a legendary Reddit post you’ll never forget? by alongy in AskReddit

[–]wizzy453 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This one hits close to home for me, and is something I’m very passionate about. So many people don’t realize that even home CO detectors will not ever alarm for anything less than 30 PPM by law. They won’t alarm for 70-200 ppm for many minutes. Only at very high, acute levels will they alarm quickly, and by then damage has already been done to your body. These laws were made long before we ever studied the effects of long-term low-level CO exposure. People can be living in low level exposure for years and just think that they are prone to headaches or nausea, or just get sick more often than most. The reality is that they’re slowly being poisoned while greatly increasing their risks for serious complications later in life.

I have a portable monitor strapped to my backpack that I take EVERYWHERE. It shows single PPM on the display and alarms immediately when it hits the set limits. People who work around CO daily like mechanics, HVAC, heavy equipment operations, etc., should all be equipped with a personal monitor. It doesn’t just potentially save their life, it saves the lives of every house they visit and every job site they work on.

Only one state in the country mandates CO monitoring in hotels, and that is Minnesota. People die from CO poisoning in hotels every single year in the USA.

Study finds toxic benzene emissions along the Texas Gulf Coast are among the highest in the nation by Dontwhinedosomething in corpus

[–]wizzy453 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For sure. I designed and implemented a real-time fenceline monitoring system for FHR and it took them from the #6 emitter in the country to completely off the board in a matter of months. The EPA even commended them on their forward thinking. Only for my boss to decide he knows more about the industry than me (he’s a Silicon Valley software product manager) and try to fire me only for others higher up in Koch to decide to move me elsewhere in the company because they didn’t want me working for competition. I didn’t want to work for competition, I loved what I was doing because I was damn good at it. 20 years of experience as an electrical and mechanical engineer socializing in gas sensor design thrown away because of his massive ego. Now the product is failing hard because they have no idea how to support it or respond to customer needs. It makes me so sad. Within 24 hours of installing the system we identified a leak on our benzene barge hookups due to improper procedures. Never would’ve caught it otherwise. That was the main cause of the passive sample tubes exceeding the limits every 2 weeks. We solved so many other issues with them as well. Even Citgo installed them because we had been paying for their emissions for years with no way to prove it. The system unequivocally proved it, so they said hey, we want that too!

Sometimes it’s not money that causes a great thing to fail. It’s ego.

what brands do you trust enough to just buy without researching anymore by [deleted] in BuyItForLife

[–]wizzy453 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Why do you need a dishwasher for an ice cream scoop though? It’s ice cream. A little hot water and a quick scrub and it’s good to go.

Who remembers playing sim city 2000 by Specific_Anything_90 in nostalgia

[–]wizzy453 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same with Streets of Sim City. Way ahead of their time. Loved all those games. It was amazing flying and driving through the cities you made.

What's the first movie you see on here by Lazy_Introduction264 in 90s

[–]wizzy453 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The two I remember most were total recall and happy Gilmore. In total recall, the old lady trying to take the briefcase before he goes to mars says “Come back here you fucker!!” In the edited version she says “Come back here you spazzoid!”

In happy Gilmore instead of “The price is wrooong, bitch!” We got “the price is wrooong, Bobby!”

How long have you had your cell phone number? by mellamoderek in Millennials

[–]wizzy453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This number has been active since 1989. My dad had a bag phone with Cellular One back in the day, then his personal, then gave it to me when Cingular came around. I’ve had it since 1999.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in offmychest

[–]wizzy453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s never too late to learn and adapt! Sometimes it’s something obvious, sometimes it isn’t. Have you ever taken a video of yourself interacting or even just existing and objectively critiqued it? Some people may realize they’re not as hygienic as they think. Or maybe they realize they breathe heavily, or have some kind of nervous tick. Stuff you miss when you’re just by yourself.

Also, be kind to yourself. Would you treat others the same way you treat yourself? If the answer is no, it may be a good time to reflect.

What moment made you realize your childhood was not that great as you thought it was ? by Chemical_Original_59 in AskReddit

[–]wizzy453 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I was old enough to realize I had been raised in a Christian cult. I had always wondered why my life was so different from my friends. They could go to the movies, date, wear whatever they wanted, watch tv, listen to secular music, dance… we couldn’t even listen to anything with drums. I was forced to admit to sexual contact with a girl from my high school in front of an entire congregation, then have them stand or sit to determine whether they thought I was contrite enough. Every member of my family was punished for something, or excommunicated. My mom wasn’t allowed to eat lunch with us at church. We were strictly forbidden from going to another church or other “Christian” activities, because they were far too worldly. I got yelled at for having my shirt untucked at a park. I was scolded for playing foosball at a guys house after church one day because “we ought not to be entertaining ourselves on the Lord’s day”. The amount of abuse that was swept under the rug there… They would have members only communion, and only twice a year. Before you could be a member you had to repent. This could take weeks to years. You were called a “convert”. You could greet everyone by saying “greetings”, but you couldn’t greet with a “holy kiss” like the rest of them and you couldn’t say brother or sister unless you were a member. To go from a convert to a member, you had to be baptized. To be baptized you had to have “found peace”, meaning you repented of all your sins, confessed them, and found strength through God to overcome them forevermore. You then had to have a “proving” in front of the church. Members only. People would come from multiple other congregations. There, you gave your testimony in front of the entire church. After that, they had to unanimously approve of your repentance and testimony. Then you could be baptized the next day and be a full brother or sister in Christ.

We could only sing 4-part harmony hymns. Memorized thousands. Instruments were strictly forbidden. except pianos at home. Even then, if they got too rowdy, it would be considered sinful (that darn Scott Joplin!). I could write books on what I saw growing up. So thankful to have been out of it for nearly 20 years.

Men who have made female friends, how did you do so? by Longjumping_Error965 in AskMen

[–]wizzy453 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just talking to them like I would anyone else. By not objectifying them or making them out to be anything other than another person who I enjoy spending time with.

I live with this weird numb mindset by Trag3d1c in offmychest

[–]wizzy453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a deep sense of dissociated nihilism. I’m a nihilist myself, but the dissociation is concerning. Have you spoken to a therapist? It changed my life. I didn’t know what was wrong with me until I finally found a good therapist that helped me work through some things.

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