SoleInvictus @ SoleInvictus @lemmy.world

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Elden Ring had a soundtrack?! Now I need to play it again. I think I had the music volume off.

I think a lot of the Internet is going to end up shitted up with this kind of nonsense. While leaving Reddit certainly tackles one issue, having a way to filter out the rest of this shit would be useful.

China Mieville novels are great but be prepared for some weird, weird content.

Apparently he has crippling anxiety. I get it and, out of everyone I've listed, I'm very okay with him and Sanderson. I'm just wary of getting invested in unfinished series. Lynch only has the Gentleman Bastards series, which I fell in love with. Sanderson has so many literary irons in the fire that he's going to have gobs of unfinished business if something happens to him or he pulls a GRRM and just fucks off one day.

No no, you really weren't off base. Even if they were owned by Walmart, I doubt they could do worse.

Well I was thinking more along some kind of governmental website with a search ability

I wish! There's no registration required for industrial use, so there's no registry to search.

Lead paint doesn't contain enough lead to significantly control radiation of any type. You need a sizable amount to block x-ray radiation: think about the thickness and weight of the vests radiation techs use as protection.

The lead is used as a pigment and helps to decrease dry time and to increase its durability, corrosion resistance, and fungicidal properties. Lead paint is quite cheap and is still used on outdoor structures like bridges, road markings, storage tanks, building exteriors, etc. Lead-free alternatives exist but aren't always as durable or are comparably durable but often more expensive. There are no applications of which I am aware that require lead paint. It's 100% a cost and convenience issue.

Only Nepal and the Philippines have enacted any meaningful control of industrial lead paint. The US reduced the allowed lead content about 15 years ago but lead based paint is still actively used.

P.s. I'm not just a crazy paint fanatic, I'm a paid, crazy paint fanatic - it's part of my job. Welcome to the EPA in the United States - better than nothing, but still industry's bitch.

There's an easy, not very legal way. Head to the Home Depot and buy some lead test strips, then take them and a pocketknife for some DIY paint sampling at the facility in question.

If the police find you, make sure you're white and aren't near any oak trees.

Here's something wild: it was only banned for residential use. As long as the paint is labeled 'for industrial use only', manufacturers can go crazy with the lead. Despite the common misconception of lead exposure via paint being primarily due to "eating paint chips", it's mostly due to the inhalation and ingestion of the dust formed by friction and the gradual breakdown of lead paint. To get to the point, living downwind of any business that still utilizes legal lead paint means you may be exposed to lead.

That's great, I'm glad you got some deals!

The thing about them is their low wages and reluctance to train their employees meant high-end goods were often priced very low. Levi's jeans were $10-15 a pair while designer jeans were priced at $5. I recall someone donating a batch of Hermés scarves. None of the pricers knew the brand, so they put them out for $1 each. I bought them all for 50% off (employee discount!) and hit eBay. This kind of thing happened weekly so the employees were always looking for things we could resell. We made less than $20k/year, that's how we scraped by!

I'm not sure how other stores are, but mine was a great example of being a penny wise and a pound foolish.

So, I'm not trying to be the "ackshually" guy.

Value Village isn't owned by Walmart.

Buuuut, you're still right. They're absolutely a shit company. I was an assistant supervisor at Value Village a couple of decades ago. First, they're 100% for profit but advertise in such a way that consumers believe they're a charity. What they do is buy donations from charities by the pound. Any donations accepted at the store on behalf of a charity are paid at a drastically reduced rate, so of course they push HARD for customers to bring donations directly to the store.

The shit cherry on top was the stores lying to charities about the quality of received goods to avoid paying. If clothes, for example, were soiled, they'd refuse to pay for the entire batch. Stores would find a few dirty shirts, claim the entire cart was crap, claw the money back, and sell the rest of the cart.

The company makes a HUGE profit but pays their employees peanuts. Our head cashier had worked for the company for eight years and capped out at $7.25/hour in 2003, about $14 today. One year, they announced no raises, no reason given. My then girlfriend and I discovered the owners had purchased a cabin in Northern California for use by the c-suite douches. The store manager was pulling in $60k a year, plus bonus, in a very low cost of living area. Me? $8.25 per hour.

What else? They incentivize under staffing by making a supervisor's paltry bonuses tied to their staffing budget. Staying at budget meant no bonus. They had to come in under budget for any bonus, and the more "savings" the higher the bonus. I got chewed out when I first started scheduling because I used all the hours allotted in the budget. The store went from a shit hole to being fairly respectable but it would eat into my boss's bonus. Her maximum annual bonus? $2.5k.

So they may not be owned by Walmart, but they're the Walmart of thrift stores. Fuck those guys.

I'd settle for where my parents were 30 years ago. One middling income, no higher education, and a 2500 square foot house purchased for $350k dollars (in today dollars adjusted for inflation) that's 'worth' $750k now.

Adjusting for inflation, my wife and I combined make as much as my dad did.

It's about the frequency of Stormlight Archives releases. Last I checked, he stated he had over a dozen Cosmere novels to release before the next one drops. If he gets hit by a truck, that's the end of it.

I had the same reaction. George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, and Brandon Sanderson have me spooked.

The religious aren't renowned for their critical thinking skills.

For the same reason the world is trying to pull 1920s fascism round 2. People don't learn from history.

That's what causes the aforementioned giga cancer.

Eighties and nineties peeps will remember:

Do you or someone you know have mesothelioma?!

🎶 Toxic marine threatened turtles, toxic marine threatened turtles, toxic marine threatened turtles. Revenge in a half shell, turtle chowder!🎶

I've met quite a few attorneys lately and it has really changed my opinion to something other than the American public default of "scum sucking lawyers". In fact, the only attorney I've met that actually is a scum sucking piece of shit is a city manager. The other private attorneys are all awesome and do a fair bit of pro bono work.

Good one, it is indeed.