If you put it like that, than I can see how birds are nightcore dinosaurs.

Exactly. You don’t have to “let go”, but rather you have to “process”. You have to give your emotions, memories and experience a proper place so that you can continue on making new emotions, memories and experiences. Good and bad. If you can’t do that, you might want to seek out a proffesional to help you with that.

I do an hour and a half single trip. It’s only twice per week and it’s by train. So I read a book or I bring my steamdeck. I really don’t mind it. I’d be less happy if it was 5 days per week. I’d still be going by train, but also looking for a better job.

I’m sorry for the confusion, I was using the old housewives definition of species.

Some species are contesting that statement very strongly. Take the horseshoecrab, or the tardigrate or even the cockroach. Humans are known for their fast adaptability, so I’d bet my money on us joining that list.

I fell for that

To fail implies there was an attempt

Tariffs are not an option anymore, I think. Subsidies are though.

There’s different types of garbage trucks. Frontloaders,backloaders and sideloaders. I drove a sideloaders, which is typical for collecting house bins. My truck had an arm on the side that i controlled with a joystick. Ideally, I wouldn’t leave the cabin all day. The arm had a grabber that could grab two bins at a time. The arm itself had a weighing mechanism in it to weigh the bin. Some municipalities also required we’d check if the bins were registered and payd for, so the bin had a chip my arm could scan. That was always a hassle, because you had to grab the bin just right, or else you wouldn’t be able to read the chip.

The big container on the back was interchangeable. It had its own weighing system, but it really depends on what you load, how much weight you can take. For instance a full container for a paper route would weigh much less than a full contauner on a greens route. The weighing was only aan indication. I would know by experience when the container would be almost full. When the container was full, I could go to a change point close to my location. The company would drop a trailer with 3 empty co tainers for me and my colleagues. We could change out our co tainer when we’re full and so.eone else woud come pick it up. Usually we’d give them a quick call when the last co tainer was changed, so they wouldn’t have to wait for nothing. In a busy season, we would get 2 or 3 change containers. Driving back to headquarters and changing there happened, but only rarely. That could take an hour or more.

Sometimes we’d have to bring our loads not to headquarters, but to the actual garbage burning facility. Than we’d have to do the classic weigh-in weigh-out.

One strange thing I remember well is when I rode a backloader for a plastic route. I had a colleague who stood on the back and picked up all the bags of plastic trash on the street and throw it in the back. In the meantime he’d carefully rummage through them all ti look for valuables. He often found toys for his grandkids,never anything really valuable, as far as I know. But it was weird enough for me to remember it.

Another one was an incident. The sideloader arm I mentioned previously, has a very big and complicated hydrolics system. One day the hydrolics broke. Its a 1 by 1 meter big chest next to the sideloader arm and it just sprung open and started spraying oil everywhere. I didn’t know what to do, since I’m not a mechanic, so I didn’tdo anything. I couldn’teven drive a tually,because the whoke truck was freaking out. I was parked right in front of someone’s house (was trying to pickup their bin), leaking oild all over their garden. Eventually they had to send in a cleanup crew to dig up the whole garden 2 meter deep to clean out the soil. It was an environmental incident. The occupants of the house didn’t notice anything, because they were on vacation. I can only imagine what their home coming was like.

That’s a great idea, but quarterly bews is a bit too slow for my taste. Right now I’m mostly getting by on the sunday summaries.

I used to be a garbage truck driver.

You drive the same routes week in, week out. You start to remember individual bins. For some bins, I would notice if they weren’t on the street that week. Than I’d get a call from headquarters to pick up that bin and I’d say no, because I know it just wasn’t there when I drove past it this morning. Most times I don’t remember though. I get a call for a bin I don’t remmeber, or maybe its not originaly on my route, and I just have to go pick it up. Its usually not a problem, I just pick it up when I’m in the area, or the end of the day.

Some people were notorious “late binners” and they’d be on the record. But if you just forget your bjn once, you can likely just call it in and blame it on them. Even if you’re honest, they might still come collect it if they’re a good service.

The only other thing we can check is if your bins have an electronic counting of weighing system. Than we can see if the been has been counted or not. That prevents you from trying a double pickup. The weighing system is especially important in summer and spring, when people have too much green garbage and arm of the truck literally can’t lift it up. Than we have quantifyable evidence to deny your bin and you’ll get a notice for it.

There aren’t much niche topics here, sure. But the fewer engagement makes your engagement more valuable. On reddit I felt that all my comments went unheard unless I browsed new. It was actually a bit stressful to make my comments not be completely useless. On lemmy you’re more likely to be heard and to emgage in actual conversation or discussion with an actual person.

That is a good point indeed, but also applies for regular internet use…

That’s not really a fair song to enter in a misheard lyrics thread.

Untill this day, I thought it was lepress too.

Still don’t know why I’d need a vpn. My country doesn’t go after individuals pirating (yet). That’s the only reason, as far as I understand, to have a vpn for pirating. So until they start to take come after individuals, I’m gonna save my money.

Those aren’t typically risky media. When you’re downloading games though, you’re downloading executable programs. You can do some serious damage if you execute the wrong things. You’re not executing a mkv or a pdf, you’re only reading it.

For me the boundary is midnight. Once the clock passes the double twelve, my body starts its shutdown sequence. I get tired and panicky thoughts like “wtf am I doing, the kids will wake me up in 6 hours” start to ruin whatever I’m doing.

Star trek works amazingly well in audio format. If you want to hear an example of that, give a listen to Star Trek: Outpost. An 82 episode production, chronicoling the lives and adventures of Star Base 3

Primer looks fine. Can’t really go wrong with that unless you put some effort in. The key are the edges. I see you’ve taped them off nicely, but it might still leak underneath. It’s hard to get good, straight edges, but a very important skill as a professional imho.