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  • That really depends on the humidity. I can take a desert 90F or even 100F all day without AC without issue but 80F temps with a 70F dew point absolutely kills me. I lived in my area without AC for years. I never got used to it, I just stopped functioning when it got hot and muggy.

  • Mine is programmable. In winter it's set to 65F at night and 68F durring the day. When unoccupied it also goes to 65F. I'd love to be able to set it lower because I love the cold but my pet snake probably wouldn't appreciate it even with their hot rock and heat lamp. Durring the summer I have it set to 68F while sleeping 72F durring the day and 78F while unoccupied. I don't shut the AC off while unoccupied because in my area humidity is a much bigger issue in the summer than temperature and removing latent heat takes a long time if you let it build up all day. Currently working on refitting my system for better on demand latent heat removal.

  • I'm a refrigeration service tech so the closest thing I have to an office is my work van so the view is constantly changing. But, so far, I have actually wound up attending most of my zoom meetings from customer rooftops so if you count that as my office then my office has some pretty stunning views fairly frequently.

  • That's how it's supposed to work in the US too. Maybe it depends on the state but in MN at least it's illegal to fail to pull over for emergency vehicles. If you see any emergency vehicle on the road running with lights on then you are supposed to stop and pull off to the side so that they can have the whole road.

    The video in the OP looks nuts to me too. I've never seen people fail to pull over for an emergency vehicle in my area.

  • These cops a shitheel attempted murderers for shooting someone who wasn't a threat to anyone through a fence. They should both be sent to prison and permanently barred from posessing firearms.

    But their form in committing that attempted murder isn't the issue here. As far as mag dumping goes, that's pretty standard practice when it comes to handguns. With hand guns it's assumed that you're going to be using them in a high stress situation where you aren't going to have a whole lot of time to aim carefully and your adrenaline will be interfering with your aim. Plus handguns are harder to aim accurately and just plain more inaccurate than long guns. In addition, in a high stress situation someone can be shot and not even realize they got shot until the adrenaline wears off or they drop dead. It takes a pretty immediately critical wound to actually stop a human running on adrenaline and, while gunshot wounds are easily lethal given a little bit of time, there are shockingly few areas on the body where a gunshot wound is immediately lethal or immediately crippling. All this means that training for using handguns is to aim center of mass and keep pulling the trigger until your target actually drops or otherwise completely stops being a threat. They are really only meant to be last resort weapons even for cops. If you are planning on shooting someone then you get out a long gun.

    The thing to criticize here is that these two subhuman skidmarks decided to immediately gun down someone who was no immediate threat to them or anyone else. Criticizing their form durring that attempted murder just gives you less credibility around those who have firearms training and is irrelevant to the fact that they just decided on murder as plan A. Bringing up their form just deflects from the fact that their reason for shooting the victim could only be that they just wanted to.

  • Insulation fucking sucks. If your do a lot of work with it though then it's worth it to just fork over the dough for a proper full face respirator. That makes things so much more comfortable. Even with full gear though you'll still wind up itching somewhere.

    As far as the trades go though, honestly switching to a blue collar job is the most rewarding thing I've ever done. I went from IT to being a refrigeration mechanic and I love it. I might not be saving lives all that often but it is nice to be able to know that I am helping real people. Like a call I had recently getting a fridge fixed in time for a small town bar to still have cold beer for St. Pattys day. I spent hours laying on a filthy bar floor with an acetylene torch swapping out a compressor old enough to have seen the collapse of the soviet union. But when I got that thing going again the cheer from the farmers sitting at the bar made my day. Sure I didn't change any lives, but I left knowing I made people happy.

    Of course the bigger emergency jobs can be very high stress. If I get an emergency 1AM callout with a down grocery store rack system and a million dollars of produce spoiling, then I'm definitely sweating a bit. But even then, it's a good stress. It's a stress that pushes me into action and my brain into gear. There's no dread in it. There's only the knowledge that people are relying on me to solve the problem and there is no one else comming to the rescue. It's a chance to prove that you can fix anything no matter how creative you need to get with that fix.

    The job is often backbreaking. The job is often filthy. The job is often even dangerous. Most days I come home covered in various substances with new scratches, bruises, and/or burns in various locations only to sit down and just ache for a while. But most days I also go to bed happy and content.

  • Ask Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
    Canonical_Warlock @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    How do I shrink heatshrink in an explosion proof room?

    So I'm not sure what the right community for this is but I'm hoping yall can help. I'm a refrigeration service tech and recently I was tasked with replacing a sensor in a room used to store ethanol drums. Due to the nature of the room every device in it had to be rated explosion proof and I couldn't use any tools that could pose any risk of ignition (no heat gun, basically nothing with an electric motor, and definitely no open flames) while working in there. Normally when I splice wires I use heatshrink to cover the splice simply because it looks far more professional than electrical tape and it holds up better over time. However in this case I could not figure out any way of shrinking said heatshrink without posing a potential ignition hazard so I was stuck just wrapping the splice in tape. We do a lot of work for this company so I'm hoping to find a better solution for the next time I am in a similar situation.

    So do any of you know any way to shrink heatshrink without posing an ign

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Canonical_Warlock @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water?

    So when I drink water I always like cold water even if I'm in a cold environment. But that makes sense because I'm a warm blooded creature.

    On the other hand snakes are cold blooded and they require external warmth so I could see them prefering warm drinking water. At the same time though, in a natural environment any water they drank would be cooler than the air so maybe cooler water would feel more normal. Also in a properly setup terarium a snake has ample access to warmth from other sources so they don't really need the additional heat from warm drinking water so maybe having cool water would be a nice change and allow better temp regulation. But warm water also has the side benefit of helping boost humidity.

    Anyways, this is just what I decided to overthink today. I'm also not talking actually hot or cold, just lukewarm or cool. What do you all think? Would my pet snake prefer to have their water dish topped up with cool or warm water?

    Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    Canonical_Warlock @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    401k loan for catching up and preparing for new job

    Location: USA

    My last job was barely paying me enough to get by and when I had a health issue last year I fell several months behind on my mortgage and other bills. That medical issue has since been resolved so I am no longer falling further behind but I am also not catching up.

    Things are starting to look better though because I have recently gotten a new job which should pay slightly more (starting hourly rate is barely higher but overtime is more likely) and it should vastly reduce my expenses (cheaper and better insurance along with a company provided vehicle and gas). In addition it is going to be a far more secure job in the comming economic crisis. Honestly, it's also looking like my dream job. However this new job requires me to purchase many of my own tools. There is a tool stipend but it accumulates hourly and only pays out quarterly so I will need to front my own tool costs to start with. The problem here is that even the cheap tools are going to cost me about $1000 and i

    Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
    Canonical_Warlock @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    I hate fabric softner.

    My old washer just let the smoke out of the control board in the middle of a load of laundry the other day but luckily I had my moms old washing machine (still newer than mine was) laying around to hook up instead. Except now I realized that my mom aparently loves fabric softner and every compartment on the thing needed a waxy fabric softner buildup scrubbed out of it.

    I can't exactly complain about a free appliance but damn do I hate fabric softner. It makes my fabrics water repelant and it gums up washers. Awful stuff.

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Canonical_Warlock @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Will getting my drivers liscense renewed mess with my employer checking my driving record?

    Title pretty much says it all. I just got accepted for a new job at a new employer and they're going to be running a check on my driving record. However my liscense is expiring shortly so I want to get it renewed. Ideally I want to get it renewed before I actually start the new job because once I start I will be working durring DMV hours. But I don't want to delay things with my new employer or iritate them by messing up the MVR check.

    So can I safely get my drivers liscense renewed now or should I wait until after I start at the new job and the MVR check is done?

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Canonical_Warlock @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Cronch rule