I don’t even ask for raises anymore. My employer either just gives me regular raises or I just go elsewhere. If I have to ask then even if they do give me a raise it still means that they wanted to rip me off. I don’t work for people that want to rip me off.
My job isn’t to haggle, my job is to fix shit. If they want to make me haggle then I’ll just go work for someone who doesn’t.
Did you skip the part about wearing a heart monitor for a week? That isn’t something I did on my own, that was after I talked to my doc.
Just use an ad blocker.
Not a plumber but I do have some experience with plumbing. This issue tends to happen with older plumbing methods where you run one main trunk pipe that you then branch into every fixture. Basically turning on the hot water farther up that trunk from the shower can cause a large pressure drop in the hot water supply at the shower. Basically the closer a fixture is to the source of the hot water, the more priority it has for the hot water supply. Also undersized piping can also make the issue much worse.
The problem can be mitigated in a few ways. By using low flow aerators on your sinks, you limit the maximum flow rate of water out of the sink and thus cause a smaller pressure drop when you turn the sink on. Having the shower be the first fixture along that plumbing trunk can also ensure that it gets priority for hot water. Also just increasing pipe sizing throught the system can help.
Newer style systems where you have a central manifold that immediately branches off to each room or fixture mitigate the issue because all of the fixtures share the water pressure more evenly. I’ve also seen some more expensive newer houses just have the bathroom fed by a seperate tankless water heater which eliminates the issue entirely because then it has it’s own dedicated hot water supply.
This is kind of related to something that’s been bothering me lately. I’ve lived with unmedicated ADHD for my entire life which was originally incorrectly diagnosed as major depressive disorder. So spent over a decade repeatedly playing pharmacology roulette cycling through various antidepressants none of which worked (because depression wasn’t the root issue). All the while I was just barely holding down a job I could barely stand, alienating myself from everyone I knew, and just barely avoiding giving myself a shotgun slug root canal. Needless to say I was stressed as fuck.
Then I got properly diagnosed with ADHD, put on meds that actually worked amazingly, got a new job I loved with my newfound executive function, and generally got my life into shape. This just so happened to take place at the end of 2024. So, despite the entire fucking world falling apart around me and everyone being stressed, I am relatively stress free for the first time in my life. It’s a weird thing where everything globally is more fucked than I can even fully properly conceive of and yet despite that I personally have never felt better. The two things aren’t related but It still feels weird being happiest I’ve ever been when the world as I knew it is falling apart.
Anyways, that’s a very long way to say that sometimes stress doesn’t coincide with the end of the world.
HVAC-R tech here.
Not sure what you mean about simulating high temps on the thermostat. If you want to trick the thermostat into seeing a higher temp than it is actually at then you would need to find the temp sensor on the thermostat (usually a thermistor) and replace it with something where you can manually control the input like a potentiometer if there was a thermistor there.
If you’re talking about simulating calls from your thermostat to your hvac system, then you can usually do that with just some jumper wires if your hvac system has a built in transformer (almost all new systems do). You just remove the thermostat and jumper the hot wire (R or Rc) to whatever call you want to make.
Edit: I should probably note that if you accidentally jumper anything to ground or to common then you will likely trip the breaker or blow the fuse on your systems transformer. If you do that then you’ll need to find that transformer (usually in the airhandler, assuming a standard residential split system) and reset the breaker or replace that fuse before your system will work again.
Fuck miligrams. Do grams of LSD. Meet god.
As long as you say “no homo”.
His listeners are the kind of people who smoke newports through a hole in their neck.
Why do we even list gender or sex at all? How is it in any way applicable to the person checking the passport?
Don’t worry. A lot of places are also trying to privatize their public transportation.
True. We should we able to run our own personal reactors. I read a few wikipedia articles, I’m sure I could manage it.
For now. I’ll see if I can fix that this weekend. Do you think multiple visits by the same person for the same issue count as one or multiple?
bullshit motherfuckers
You can swear on the internet. Especially on Lemmy. There is no algorithm and there are no advertizers here.
Nah, they know it’s a grift and use actual medicine for themselves. The grift is only for the masses.
Ah, yes. I too enjoy staging my road tripping vehicle like an interplanetary rocket.
Also boomers: “When are you having kids? I want grandchildren.”
Here’s a better idea than blocking ploiticians pay durring a shutdown (bacause that can be used to strong arm poorer politicians). If the government ever shuts down, funding continues as it was and we immediately hold elections for both the senate and house with all current members being barred from ever holding office again.
It’s really easy to tell if a tourist is american. Just get caught while trying to pickpocket them.
You’re over 30?