Hey,
I'm currently half way done my apprenticeship in Toronto through local 675. Currently it's booming here for commerical but even with that, the cost of buying a house here is insane. I was curious those of you that are working unionized in the rest of the country, if you have any suggestions of places to look at to eventually move? I'm literally open to any suggestions I love Alberta but clac has taken over there and UBC doesn't have as much work from my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong, I would love to be wrong for that). Also I wouldn't mind Halifax but I have no idea how the industry is going there currently.
Thanks
I have 9 years experience in commercial and civil construction. I spent the majority of that time as a rodbuster on the highways. My most recent work has been in commercial interiors and steel framing. I usually don't have a problem finding work, but its slower than usual out there right now.
"Whatever I lost, I lost a long time ago," - Barbara, Survivor, 2nd Terran Reanimation War, Resource War Era
The Executor Fifth Most High of Operational Security stared at the muzzle of the Terran Confederate Armed Forces magac pistol with wild eyes. His rear and side eyes were squeezed shut, his forward eyes wide, his feeding tendrils curled defensively. He could feel the roughness of the ferrocrete alleyway against his knees. His hands were behind his back, all four folded over one another as he looked up at the gigantic hole at the end of the barrel of the compact and ugly warsteel framed pistol.
It looks so much bigger than 10mm, the Executor thought.
Behind the pistol was the featureless black visage that the Executor had sent on more than a few missions in the hundred years he had held his position. The Lanaktallan had no name, no number, no rank.
He was just referred to as The Expediter.
"You thought I would not come for you after your pathetic attempt to assign assassins to eliminate the Terran Diplomatic Envoy Team," the Expediter rumbled. He pressed the barrel of the pistol against the Executor's forehead.
The Expediter paused for a moment, his hand going to his wrap-around datalink.
"You are indeed fortunate," the Expediter said. "I have a pressing appointment."
The Executor opened his mouth to thank the Expediter for his mercy.
The pistol coughed and the Executor's body dropped to the ground.
Ru'udamo'o trotted away quickly, heading for his vehicle. An ad had popped up on Kriegslist and he needed to answer it.
Speaks threw a em-flash grenade over the rapidly dissolving dumpster and rolled out from behind the dumpster, skittering forward as soon as his front legs hit the ground, at a full out run by the time his rear legs caught up.
The fweep fweep fweep of the rounds going by encouraged him to keep his head down.
They're using subsonic rounds, Speaks thought to himself. The door ahead was a hard light hologram that flickered to tell him that the physical component was now turned off.
He looked back as he slid behind another dumpster.
Four sets of red eyes, tall, bipedal.
The shoulders, neck, head shape, and arm/leg to torso
... keep reading on reddit ➡I’ll be honest, I’m intimidated by the technical skills required for a lot of these renovations. I can and will devote plenty of labor to renovating a bus, but I don’t know shit about electrical/plumbing/drywall installation, etc. so I’m wondering, is it worth it to clean a bus out and then hire contractors, or at that point would it make more financial sense to just buy something pre-made?
The Beginning | Wiki Page | Tenth Part
“Hello, Chivos? … Hey, some crazy shit went down and I want to go over it with you. Can I come down there, urgently? … Great, when’s the next inward tele-pulse? … Yeah I can kill some time until you’re open. Probably visit a friend or something. I’ll give you a call when I know more. … Oh yeah, good reminder, I’ll be sure to wear it. Thanks, love ya, hun.”
I hung up the stones with a snicker, then rolled over in bed to scritch Varia. “Hey girl, you wanna join me for a little day trip back home?”
She bounced her little ferret body up and down excitedly, which was honestly so cute. The scheduled tele-pulse was in a bit over an hour, so I had some time to kill… kinda. After a nice shave, I went into the front hall where Pokle had kindly stacked a few deliveries while I was gone. I picked out the one most likely to be what I wanted and opened it up. There was a white, opera-ish full-face mask, two gloves, and a choker necklace. I put the whole ensemble on and felt the enchantment kick in as I went to feed Grif.
He was happy in his nest of blankets and shredded paper (emulating nest #1). I fed him some frozen-thawed mice from the icebox and topped his water off before giving him some pets. He didn’t even notice the mask or gloves, which meant it was working. I made sure to talk lots in the process, letting him and the kit learn my voice. Then I vacated the room and removed the set. I then placed it in the air and it created a hologram of myself, complete with voice and mannerisms. A caretaker’s visage, they call it.
I used to have a set for Varia, but—silly me—I sold it because I didn’t think I would be adopting anything else. So much for that; score one for loot hoarding. With that done, it was time to make another call.
……
“Hey, Jerr, it’s Dennis, how ya doin’? … Oh? That’s great! Why didn’t you call me for that offer? … Ah, yeah, I can see that. Listen, I’m gonna be in the area for business but the scheduling doesn’t line up and I don’t want to loiter outside. Mind if I drop by and socialize? … Yeah, next tele-pulse, you open? … Fantastic, what’s the address? Oh hold on, let me get a quill.”
……
I strolled through the market square, looking for some particular things. It was a sunny day
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
- Men and boys have been underachieving in education for decades, with major harms caused
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/09/how-to-make-school-better-for-boys/279635/
> This gap in education engagement has dire economic consequences for boys. A 2011 Brookings Institution report quantifies the economic decline of the median male: For men ages 25 to 64 with no high school diploma, median annual earnings have declined 66 percent since 1969; for men with only a high school diploma, wages declined by 47 percent. Millions of male workers, say the Brookings authors, have been “unhitched from the engine of growth.” The College Board delivered this disturbing message in a 2011 report about Hispanic and African-American boys and young adults: “Nearly half of young men of color age 15 to 24 who graduate from high school will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead.” Working-class white boys are faring only slightly better. When economist Andrew Sum and his colleagues at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University examined gender disparities in the Boston Public Schools, they found that for the class of 2007, among blacks and Hispanics, there were 186 females for every 100 males attending a four-year college or university. For white students: 153 females to every 100 males.
- Disparities in education in favour of women and girls are largely caused by teacher bias, and can be removed by objective methods of evaluation
http://empathygap.uk/?p=121
> Gender bias in favour of girls by primary school teachers has already been reported in the USA, Ref.[3]. To appreciate the Abstract of Ref.[3], quoted below, you need to understand what is meant by the term “non-cognitive development”. This is defined as attentiveness, task persistence, eagerness to learn, learning independence, flexibility and organization. To be more blunt, these phrases mean “well behaved”. To be even more blunt, they mean “behave like girls”. Ref.[3] concludes,
> > We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test scores and (subjective) teacher assessments. Using data from the 1998-99 ECLS-K cohort, we show that the grades awarded by teachers are not aligned with test scores, with the disparities in grading exceeding those in testing outcomes and uniformly favouring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non-cognitive
... keep reading on reddit ➡Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
The other day I posted about Kelly Roofing installing my 28KW Tesla Solar Roof in Manatee County Florida and using some drywall screws on the job.
I have put two videos on YouTube so far and more will be following:
Video 1 Link : https://youtu.be/DP4kpAMnOOw Video 2 Link: https://youtu.be/Bz4VxYw1Yqk
There have been so many great people commenting and asking questions and I am grateful. One recurring comment I have seen regarding my installation problem is that Tesla quality is low and common. The quality problem I am experiencing is not a Tesla quality problem.
THE TESLA SOLAR ROOF PRODUCT I SEE ARRIVING HERE IS AMAZING. The installation of the product by a Tesla Certified third party installer (Kelly Roofing owned by Ken Kelly) is the biggest problem I see.
To help understand situation I think about it this way. I purchase a motorcycle part or something like it that needs assembly and hire a mechanic who is certified to do the work. When it's being assembled the instructions ARE NOT followed and the person assembling TAKES SHORTCUTS to speed the process. Once assembled/installed it is nothing like I purchased, there are now pending/latent defects, and doesn't look or work properly and I am disappointed. I am not disappointed with the parts and pieces because they were all perfect...before the person assembling them started handling them and reimagining how they should be installed. The problem is not the parts or pieces, it is the assembler of those parts and pieces that has resulted in this outcome.
Thank you again for commenting. Please share my video with others to help inform them. I will be making another video in the next few days to further demonstrate the issues with the assembler (Kelly Roofing)...you will continue to be surprised by the care of handling and installation you see.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
Happy new year! I recently purchased a two story log home built c. 1990 with a 3-side walkout basement. 4/5ths of the basement is open, and roughy 1/5th (~150 sqft) is an enclosed mechanical/utility room. This room is in one of the non-walkout corners.
The room contains:
- A well pump with a valve to a hose
- An electric hot water heater
- A panel box
- A ceiling-mounted space heater that is sometimes on
- A floor drain that (I believe) goes directly outside/not to septic
- Ceiling is naked pink board insulation, two walls are concrete foundation (no water leakage) and two walls are relatively new drywall (unpainted).
I really only go in here to flip the breakers/hose the dog/drain the water lines when I'm leaving, but I would like to turn it into a shop. The issue is, whenever I am in this room (and specifically when I use the hose) I get a coughing fit and get a tiny bit lightheaded.
I can think of a handful of things it could be, and am hoping someone with a similar experience can either hazard a guess or tell me where to look next.
- Given that this is the room with the least outside exposure, is radon a possibility?
- Could sewer gasses be backing up in the drain and venting into the room when I use the hose?
- The room is not particularly airtight, but could the electric appliances be emitting carbon monoxide/dioxide?
- Mold seems unlikely given the dryness of the room, but it would be stupid to rule it out
- Could the uncovered insulation be giving me a case of the bronchial scratchies?
- Ghouls??? LMK if you have had any similar experience and if I am already dead but don't know it yet.
Edited formatting for clarity.
Pilot on me!!
A play on words.
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
I won't be doing that today!
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Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
