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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • That’s forbidden knowledge among the mechanics in my union local, lol. One of the shop mechanics at my training center was teaching some of my peers how to pick locks when we had completed our training and were just killing time helping the shop guys out. Had some downtime and he brought out a couple sets and some locks.
    Apparently it’s sort of an unspoken tool of the mechanic trade when you work around machinery like that. Never know what you’ll have to get access to and you never know if anyone will have the right key. You’d think the ignition key would suffice to open, say, an access panel or storage cabinet, but some of these machines use a different key entirely for such a thing.














  • I assume, considering this is the fediverse, that by “technical” you mean IT-related, Silicon Valley type fields.
    While I grew up on computers and know my way around them, and have a bachelor’s degree in biochem, I’m an Operating Engineer.
    That’s the proper title of “union guy that runs heavy construction equipment.” Mostly, I help build or resurface roads.
    I’m one of the guys y’all get irritated with when your local highway is restricted to one lane by a work enclosure, but are thankful for when your new road rides nice.
    It pays really well though, so there’s that. And it is actually very technical, but in a materials/engineering sense.





  • A post history enables accountability, which is something a lot of people severely lack.
    If you take issue with being held accountable for what you say, then perhaps you need to look at what you’re posting.
    I have only read the comments here and didn’t look at your post history, because I frankly don’t care enough to, but I would imagine people are assuming you do not argue or debate in good faith. That may be an incorrect assumption, for all I know, but you’ll need to make your positions more clear to people that might feel some type of way about what you’re sayin’.