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Haha this reminded me I was going to see what the local even-toed ungulate was - peccary! “Peccary poop balls” has an excellent ring to it as a pass phrase

Americans love a good nepo-baby come-up story

The only appropriate response to bad faith negotiation is worse faith negotiation 🤷‍♂️ - hope they can hold the line as long as they need to. Or remind “leadership” of the alternative to striking?

Hypothetically- should we make a plan to meet up? Or have a cool handshake so we can recognize each other? This just might be the first opportunity we have to all be in the same place at once!

Fuckin Indiana lol. My father in law has used that same excuse after accidentally taking a knife into Purdue games - twice lol. And the one time he crashed his bike, dropped his gun (which he was carrying presumably for protection in the middle of bumfuck nowhere), and had to go back and search for a few hours before finding it lmao. There’s a reason there’s a billboard that says “Hell is Real” when you enter Indiana.

lol what do you expect them to say? “Golly thanks for destroying the biosphere. Im so glad the ocean is spanned with floating garbage and commercial nets, there used to be pesky fish everywhere!”

I feel like the average American’s perception of line work is Laverne and Shirley lol. Kinda like when my parents would talk about how bagging groceries looked more fun than their office jobs - not wrong, but they perceive it that way because they don’t treat people like shit, most people (management or customers) treat the grocery bagger like shit, so it really takes the shine off. But yeah I think it depends on how separated one is from doing actual labor. Like I really like landscaping and construction, and think we should have those jobs, but my body still hurts from when I had to drag my carcass to them daily. Same with much of my family as we’ve made the shift over generations from farmers>coal miners>mechanics>machinists>engineers. AND THEY WERE ALL EXTREMELY PRO-UNION. People don’t miss manual labor, they maybe miss some romanticized notion of “8-hrs hard days work, for 8-hrs hard days pay”, but guess what fucko, people stopped militantly organizing and now it’s “12-hrs hard days work, for “6-hrs hard days pay- oh and we need you in on Saturday”. Anyway my carpal tunnel is flaring up so I should wrap up this tangent.

They should really own us all and stop worldwide extractive industries - I’d be soooo owned

There’s a reason insulated hand tools exist! If electricians will spend extra money on it, you know it’s worthwhile lol

Yes! Though definitely have shocked myself enough to learn I don’t like it lol.

I always forget which terminal to start with but luckily they’re at the same height so I can set my wrench down on them while I look it up on yt

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