SoleInvictus @ SoleInvictus @lemmy.world

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The group of "it wasn't a problem until it happened to me".

I don't think it's a good idea for an idiot with effectively unlimited money to make ANY decisions. He's divorced from reality.

I feel like my comments here have received more thoughtful responses than Reddit. I'm guessing it's pretty community dependent and I've just lucked out so far.

They're referring to communists. Originally the term was a slur for communists who approve of one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism.

Since the Reddit diaspora, I've seen it applied to communists, socialists, anyone who has expressed any criticism of capitalism, and users that others dislike. I think it's turning into how Americans use "communist" as a pejorative: they don't know what the word actually means, it's now just a word for things they don't like.

Yeah, you're right. They're right, but they're not right about why they're right.

No fatbergs, but it's absolutely terrible for the environment in liquid form. If you need to dispose of resin, pour it into a pie tin or something and leave it out in sun for a day or two. After it's solid, chuck it in the garbage.

They mean sensitization. It's where you react more strongly to exposure the more you're exposed. It's a problem for a couple of reasons. The scary one is some people move along the reaction continuum from "mildly annoying" to "oh shit call an ambulance" pretty fast. It's not common but it happens. I actually have a condition that predisposes me to that so I always carry an epi-pen. Good times.

The more mundane one is, even with controls to remove fumes and PPE to avoid them, it's not uncommon to still be exposed to a small degree, especially in a hobbyist setting. Let's imagine you're lax on avoiding exposure and become sensitized due to prolonged and/or heavy exposure, so you set up proper controls to try to avoid it. Now the small amount of remaining exposure which may have never been a problem with proper controls may actually become a problem. Now you can't work with that material at all without having some sort of reaction.

Yep, but he's rich. I fully expect nothing to happen.

Great! I cut my father out a few years back. He was emotionally abusive, narcissistic, and a compulsive liar. I briefly tried letting him back in, trying to set real firm boundaries, but it was just the same old shit - him throwing a giant temper tantrum whenever he didn't get what he wanted. I cut him out, again. I'd get the occasional nasty voicemail or email from a a new number or email address, whining about how I was an ungrateful child and "his counselor said adult children should do what their parents tell them" (riiiiight) but mostly didn't hear from him.

Then he died of COVID, being an idiot antivaxxer, and life has never been better. Honestly, I wish he had died years ago. It's fucked up but he's been a cancer on our family all along and we're all doing better now that he's dead.

This is so cool! Finally, a use for all those squirrels.

That's how I got started. I took the few hundred dollars I saved on my first project and bought a ratchet set, a hydraulic jack, and jack stands. The second repair I bought an air compressor and impact driver set because fuck, working on cars is hard! All that allows me to fix about 95% of my car's issues and I can borrow tools for free from the parts store for the odd 5%.

Goddammit, now he'll NEVER eat the eggs.

I can't imagine many men or women would want to put that inside of them.