octobob

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[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I'm obviously with you on this issue, but the US will skirt around any labor laws that are the norm globally that it can.

It's also one thing that SpaceX engineers are working 20 hours at their desks or occasionally going on site, etc. compared to the work I do which is more physically exhausting manual labor and sometimes outside in 100 degree heat all day. Both obviously shouldn't be happening.

The longest I've worked is about 17-18 hours in steel mills or back in the day on industrial solar farms for grid power. The solar work also played real loose with things when it got up to 120+ degree heat and we weren't able to work so they'd send us back to the hotel to come back later for night shift. So imagine working like 6am to 12 or 1 pm, going back to the hotel to "sleep", coming back after the sun set at like 8 pm, working until 2 or 3 pm the next day. That happened all the time.

This is more of a problem with heavy industry in the US than it is a SpaceX specific issue however.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Very rarely, but I have a few times.

C'mon C'mon starring Joaquin Phoenix and a 12 year old kid made my ball my eyes out.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm working 7 days / 12 hours down here which is just about my absolute limit. Thankfully just for a few weeks but there's a few more of these trips planned

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm working at SpaceX right now as a contractor for a few weeks. The engineers work 20 hour shifts, and typically live on site. I saw someone say he was up working until 330 AM and someone was giving him shit for not answering something at 6 AM.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (13 children)

I promise you it is 100% their genocidal actions I take issue with and not their religion.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

The organization's website says it was founded by Israelis. They carry Israeli flags. It is a pro-israel protest.

The reality of the situation is that those hostages do not fucking matter when Israel's response is to carpet bomb the most densely populated region of the world, starve them, and trap them from ever leaving.

It is incredibly tone deaf to protest for the Israeli hostages. I can guarantee you they do not care about Palestinian lives if this is what their focus is on and they don't mention Palestine.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (19 children)

This group doesn't see Palestinian lives as worth as much as Israeli ones, clearly.

I'm sorry but 21 hostages don't hold a candle to over 50k dead, including women and children and 1.8 million classified as "extremely critical" levels of hunger. There's a famine in Gaza right now, they've been scorch earth bombed to hell resulting in widespread homelessness. Israel just gunned down and murdered 30 innocent people today and injured hundreds more who were there for food from an aid truck simply for crossing a line slightly before 6 AM.

Fuck out of here. Sudan and Haiti are not part of this conversation for a reason and it's because Haiti is in the Caribbean for fucks sake so that's a stretch to "you don't care about hostages". It's a genocide orchestrated by the Israeli government. The hostages are a flimsy excuse at best.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I could not get fable 2 to launch at all on xenia on Arch. I didn'tolk further into it yet though, honestly I'm not sure if I can get any game to launch

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Two gay men can't make a da baby, and the gays can be very into their looks and physical attraction.

Speaking from experience as a gay man

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago

Saw some very loud bands and DJs in venues way too small a few years ago right after covid. I've had tinnitus ever since. It sucks, but I only really hear it late at night when I'm going to bed and there's no noise. Factory life means I'm working around loud noises all day, but this current shop I'm working at is miles better than the one I worked at for 7 years.

What's odd is I never got it pre-covid and I definitely used to push my luck even more back then. Maybe getting covid a few times changed something, my friend's brother just permanently has tinnitus from getting covid.

There was one night in particular though that I still remember, my ears were ringing the day after. Usually they'd tone down by the 12 hour mark. The second day, I was like oh shit this is probably permanent. It was, that was in 2021. I definitely sulked in my feelings a bit after that, and now I wear ear protection to every concert. It's just not worth it to damage my ears further.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

This may not be the answer you're looking for but Plex finally added the feature to set subtitles to be on if the audio is not in English. Previously you had to turn subtitles on for every episode individually, couldn't even do it per show.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Are you sure you set your qbittorrent up correctly? You need to bind your network interface so it only works when connected to your VPN. It's possible it started using your regular network if your VPN went down or maybe even if it was a higher speed, I'm not sure.

I know for mine, I noticed a couple times that all my torrents stopped seeding. I pay for mullvad annually so sometimes I forget when I need to resubscribe. But it's a good piece of mind that if my VPN isn't active, qbittorrent won't seed or leech a single thing.

Try disabling your VPN on that device and see if you can still download Linux ISOs.

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