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This post has been fact checked by people who do that stuff and found to be bullshit

I've been in a few around Ohio, one was down in Marietta and I know I've been in at least one around Columbus. I didn't work on it I was just riding to go fix some IT stuff.

Yes they did, I was involved with installing those kiosks and made a good bit per site. $15/hr minimum wage will push companies into automation for a lot more things and push more than most realize into the AI world to get things done. Example being law firms won't hire people to do a lot of the research tasks and burger flipping robots are an actual thing. Works for me though, I have 25yrs of field service skills and I'm on the preferred list of hundreds of solution providers around the world to fix this tech shit. Here's a video of one such robot juts for giggles https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21503892/miso-robotics-flippy-roar-robotic-fry-chef-on-sale-price

Something interesting to add to how the stimulus effects people especially on the low end of life. Since I live at North Myrtle Beach I know a ton of people who work in the restaurants and a lot of the work I do is in restaurants or hotels around here. Last march/april through July most places couldn't get anyone to come to work if they wanted to be open here. They had pissed off employees if they stayed open and really rich ones if they laid them off. This is verified, I literally live in the middle of were the locals live and everyone around me all summer were buying cars, upgrading their properties with above ground pools etc. I don't know how to feel about it though, I know what my brain tells me. The people I'm talking about are lucky to make $200-300/week during the tourist season. Lets add that up real quick, your used to getting say $250/week so now your getting $850/week or $3400/month and you were on it from lockdown to July 31st so you earned $13600 when had your job remained normal you would have earned $4000 during that same time period. My brain says WTF!!! And they got the one time stimulus payment $1200 for an individual I think it was? So about $15000. This number doubles for a married couple who both worked as wait staff, very common here. My facebook is full of my neighbors and the ones that worked through it were pretty annoyed that others got to go out and buy shit like its Christmas every week. I have my own little company so I could have stayed home and claimed unemployment for myself, but I elected to continue working. That worked out fine for me in that I was able to get a lot of work due to the other contractors in the area taking unemployment. This boosted my stats on the platforms big time and I was busy all summer and fall with no one else in the region to take work and I got to make the schedules and get it done.

We don't have WOW stuff here, but I've ran into ObiHai a few times. I do a lot of the Adtrans and my really shitty stuff are from Vonage. I was in a business a while back that had 14 phone lines being switched to Vonage... So what did they do? Why ship to site 14 of those little home Vonage ATA's with power bricks and all. I was way out on the outerbanks at a "home office" for a restaurant supply company, it was literally some rich rednecks giant house out in the middle of a marsh on the cape fear river. I say redneck because it was like visiting one of my relatives places in southern ohio except bigger. Dude had a bridge over a swamp to an island and then another bridge over to his main island to a huge house, very nice with high end cars, hunting truck and his hunting dogs. He loved that I showed up wearing a Remington shotgun belt;-) Sometimes I love the places my job takes me.

Thats a neat trick. Hope its the nice stranded wire. Here I deal with a ton of salt air corrosion I bet the elevator systems are a mess from that. I see 1 or 2 year old wifi access points in the hotels that have the ethernet jacks pins completely rusted out or corroded so badly they are shorting everything out.

Look at the ME/CFS community, those of us with that diagnosis have been watching the residual effects of COVID for a while. Nearly 100% of us can pin point our ME/CFS problems began after infection from mononucleosis, many have been dealing with it for decades with doctors unable to do anything. I contracted it in about 1985 and if you looked up "yuppie flu" you'd find it was a particularly bad time for mono infections. Many are bed bound, myself I spent a ton of time in bed, but I'm a hard ass mother fucker who'd rather die then be held down so I'm fighting on.

That is fascinating stuff to me, sometimes I get to work in those elevator rooms, usually to diagnose the phone connection back to the comm rooms in the hotels here. I got to work side by side some of the elevator guys here for a couple days on a remodel. Very cool. The comm rooms I go in look about like your wiring messes except not as old. Usually there's a mix of equipment I'm working on going back to the `80-90's at the most, I had an old OS2 Warp system I was working on for one of the hotels. I handle outside DMARC all the way to windows server configurations then down to the desktop or end points and everything in between on a daily basis so I never know what I'm gonna be doing or what company I'm gonna be at, keeps it very interesting. Now if I could get rid of all those old US Robotics 56K modems I see being used as a remote connection.

That's been happening for over a decade. Level a character and sell it, rinse and repeat. Very common in the MMORG world. I have an Eve Online account with skills it would take any person 10 years to get. What could that be worth at $15/mo. And in EVE there's no way to power level since it's timer based so older players have the advantage and the game continues to unlock new stuff.

Its worth the price if your a person actually looking at buying or wanting to restore a nearly perfect old school Jeep and don't really have the ability or time to do it. Otherwise its way over priced and as has been said thats an old, uncomfortable thing to have to tolerate driving/riding in. You'd have to know what you want and this is coming from a guy with a military 6x6, I know what I want and enjoy every minute of mine but its not for most.

I think you misunderstood my post of a couple simple sentences... Figures

I think you misunderstood my post of a couple simple sentences... Figures

This entire point you made is basically the democrat view point and there are people who have a 180 degree view and they are called conservative. What do we do from here because both sides are broken?

Insurance can have issues with wood burning stuff in garages but it would depend on stuff like if they even bother to ask or check your assets before writing a policy.

I had a "Mind Blown" experience when I saw that item as well. I've only ever old used rental units my dad picked up and I remember how much we had to turn them on/off, luckly dad had us two boys to use as remotes:-)

I finally got to a point where I can build myself a shop, when its finished it will be a 30x40 all steel with 12ft walls. Once the weather got cool enough this October I started getting the site ready and I did as much of the work myself as I could do. I did hire a crew to pour and finish the concrete after I leveled the ground, built the forms and installed the rebar myself. I also installed several 2" PVC conduits from my electric meter to the slab for network and electricity and also ran a water pipe from the house to the slab as well. I'll likely install at least a spigot for attaching a water hose near the garage. Now I'm just waiting for the concrete to cure and in the next couple weeks the building will be delivered and the installation is included in the price. I'm hoping I'll be doing electrical by the end of the month and have 16 4' LED lights ready to hang.

Since its attached and insulated or you can insulate it then how hard would it be to add a duct to get heat out there from the main system? Also whether its insulated or not a torpedo heater will heat that sucker up easily and then it comes down to how often your gonna be out there to determine if thats good enough. The only downside to torpedo heaters is that they are very powerful and heat comes out a good distance so make sure you have room for it or get a small one. Idk maybe I only ever had really good ones or something but thats been my experience with them.

I need to visit that ship, I drive by it a few times a month. I visited the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk VA and the USS Yorktown in Charlestown SC years ago. I really need to go back to the Yorktown, its an amazing tour, last time I went nearly all the ship was open.

I love visiting those types of sites and I hadn't looked into that place, its in very good condition.

Cool to know that they make braking systems like those you linked. I was thinking the other day how that would be about the only way to do it without huge mods. Still I don't think I'd expect much from it connected to an old Jeep as they didn't have amazing brakes anyway, combine that with oversized tires and any offroading and the brake systems go south pretty easily. A 10yr old car would be a different matter.

Merry Christmas!

True, there's some weird quadtrac models in there and swaps that could have happened in something that old and easy so just put the thought out there incase.

Brakes aren't required for towing under 3,000lbs. There wouldn't be any way to connect the two vehicles brakes anyway that would be easy or reliable and it just isn't done. Thats one reason big rigs use air to control braking. Its a Jeep so there should be tons of options for tow bar kits available. I'm not sure why you'd need to "clamp on the steering arm". Kits usually mount to the front of the frame or a very solid front bumper thats mounted very solid to the frame. Then I'd unlock the steering with the key if the model even does that and the Jeeps wheels will turn to follow the tow vehicle and its pretty easy. Backing up can be done if the wheels don't turn the wrong way LOL. I used to tow my 4x4 to offroad events and I built the system myself, worked fine. I also wired up a cool harness with relays that made the brake lights on the offroad vehicle work off the tow vehicle. I'm sure with a Jeep they make kits for all that though. Another note is try to have the least amount of things turning under the Jeep as well like the front axle/driveshaft. Don't know if you have an automatic in the Jeep some of those require you to disconnect the front and/or rear driveshafts to keep them from turning the transmission parts without the fluid pump running which would burn up gears/bearings and give you a bad day.

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I'm been getting more interested in what CNC machines can do as well.