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Fortunately, woodland creatures don't hire lawyers

  • Boing

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  • Welcome to the 90s - you're lucky you even have pads over the springs

  • Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income

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  • I get what you're saying, and it's pretty much how I view my job. It's not a healthy view though.

  • Millions of Gen Zers are jobless—and unemployment is mainly affecting men

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  • We've seen a real boom-bust over here, on the other side of the pond from you. Part of it has been tied to oil, at least in my neck of the woods.

    Yes, plenty of right wingers here too in the trades, but that's par for the course in my province. Not necessarily toxic work environments like they used to be, or what you are describing, but still rough and tumble

  • Millions of Gen Zers are jobless—and unemployment is mainly affecting men

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  • Man, I've heard the job market is rough, but I didn't know it was this dour.

    I think what will ultimately happen is that we will see an uptick in people being employed in trades, as these are traditionally male roles, well paying* and AI proof.

    With an influx of workers going after skilled labour, the companies may initially cut wages - why pay you a good wage when someone hungrier will take a shittier one - but most trades have unions and if the unions get bigger as a result of the influx of skilled people looking for work, then the wages will come back up through union action.

    It's kind of an economics lesson in a way, and I'm vastly oversimplify the nuances that are interlinked in this cycle I'm describing, but that's what I expect will likely happen over the next decade or two.

    All of this comes at a good time, as trades were big in the 80s, and all those tradesmen are retiring. There was (in the 2010s) a big shortage of people wanting to do tradeswork and now the thing is kind of coming full circle

    *= They are not so well paying right now.

  • Millions of Gen Zers are jobless—and unemployment is mainly affecting men

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  • We work hard, we play hard, Homer.

  • T-Rex Burger

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  • I'm not a stoner, and I am actually really into fitness, but I want to make an exception and be fitten dis burger in my mouff

  • 24 years of nuclear waste from the Maine Yankee powerplant

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  • You're thinking abandoned mines. Closed mines are different, and the difference is big. With closed mines the objective is to return the land to its preexisting land use or one that supports something else equally as valuable.

    To do that, wastes are managed in a variety of ways. Usually the biggest issues are related to water quality and preventing contamination. Landscapes are re-established and reclaimed. It's not just dust your hands and walk away like it used to be.

  • 24 years of nuclear waste from the Maine Yankee powerplant

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  • Very much so. Anything that gets too hot has to be interred.

  • First time posters be like

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  • But how else will I feel superior in my echo-chamber based opinions, now that everyone has a choice? I need to feel like I fit in with the masses but not TOO much...

  • 24 years of nuclear waste from the Maine Yankee powerplant

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  • Welcome to the world of mining. Metal leaching/acid rock drainage (ML/ARD) is a big issue associated with waste rock, and the solution is often an engineered cover that limits oxygen and water ingress (as these react with sulphur, lowering pH and releasing bound metals in the form of leachate). These covers often use geomembranes that have lifespans of 25 years... Yet you have 300 million tons of ML/ARD waste rock entombed by them.

    Look up the Giant Mine - that one will make your head spin.

  • 24 years of nuclear waste from the Maine Yankee powerplant

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  • That's similar to what's done with a lot of mine wastes, which are just as harmful, if not more.

    Millions of tonnes of metal-rich tailings are held back at a given mine by their engineered dams. The only thing stopping a 'tee hee whoops' is routine inspection and maintenance, even in post-closure

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  • Unrelated, but I saw this headline, and could hear both you and squidward swearing from here.

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    I’m due 22 Nov and I’m honestly terrified😭 (humour is great for coping)

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  • I can't speak for the birthing part, but you'll do fine OP. Every mother has gone through this, and they likely all shared the same worries and concerns. When the time comes, you'll have a whole team around you helping you through the process.

    Others touch on the sleep deprivation after, and that's a real thing, especially for moms since they have to feed the baby every time. For our first, I was was up every time with my wife, for moral support. I felt pretty useless, but at least we were in it together. One time she was talking to me while feeding baby shovel (trowel?) and I fell asleep during her sentence for exactly one head nod and loud snore before waking up. It's tough. The first 6-8 months is a grind, but after that things settle down a bit and you really get to enjoy them.

    For our second, we tried doing sleep shifts, so she'd be up with him early on, and I'd be up for 3-4 hours later so she got some consistent sleep - she said that was the better approach

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    I’m due 22 Nov and I’m honestly terrified😭 (humour is great for coping)

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  • This is really true. The sleep deprivation is probably the hardest part. My first kid would fall asleep with his eyes open so if you moved, HE. WOKE. UP.

  • Teen names

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  • Eat more fibre

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  • We had this in my house growing up

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  • We were decidedly middle class. My dad pounded tin for a living. He just liked music I guess.

    I remember dorking around the EQ sliders, though having to reach a bit to get at them. This thing (black eye excluded) is probably why I'm hugely into music to this day. Some core memory forming shit or something

  • We had this in my house growing up

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  • 80s were weird like that. Digital tubes are an oxymoron. Like saying you have a fuel injected carburetor engine or something

  • We had this in my house growing up

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  • A right of passage for geriatric millenials