GreyShuck
@GreyShuck@feddit.uk
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 1 month ago:
By that age, I was into my third long-term job (> 5 years) and had had upwards of 16 short term ones - multiple part time ones at once, or some just for a few weeks or a couple of months here and there between the long-term ones etc.
48 doesn’t seem that unlikely - nor even an indicator that they will not be staying put for any length of time unless your job is a shitty one with a high turnover anyway.
- Comment on [Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 6 months ago:
I’m on holiday for a fortnight now. Away with a group of friends at a chalet that one of them owns. Im overlooking the bay, the sea is beautiful and the weather is fine.
Im quite a bit over 30 - late 50s - and we have been doing this for just over half my life now.
This time, however, one of the friends isn’t here, since he is getting more and more reluctant to leave his house at all and has been since covid. Another isn’t here because he has just been in for an operation to remove a melanoma.
The effects of aging are definitely being quite prominent at the moment.
- Comment on Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks 6 months ago:
That implies that the others have got complete maps - which I find much more surprising. Every time that I have had any dealings with any utility companies - which I do as part of my job - it becomes apparent very early on that they don’t have anything like accurate maps in whatever area I am looking at. And not just for old lines that they inherited - as seems to be the issue here - but for things like fibre optics that I saw them lay myself just 18 months earlier.
- Comment on Men over 30, have you ever been in a legit confrontation with a stranger? 6 months ago:
Since the age of 30? Only when on demos/direct actions - or when patrolling the nature reserves where I have worked. In those cases, since I have had NVDA and de-escalation training etc, I have pretty much relied on that: so remain passive, smile, speak, find common ground, use the drama triangle and all the rest.
To be honest, even before the age of 30 (as an adult), as far as I can remember my only real confrontations as such have been in the same or similar situations.
Obviously, I have ended up being dragged off and arrested a few times at the direct actions, and have been hit a couple of times and also deliberately run down by an offroad motorbike on a reserve. On that occasion, I didn’t get much opportunity to ‘confront’ the guy, really though, beyond diverting his attention from my volunteers.
- Comment on why did the eclipse not darken proportionally? 7 months ago:
Without looking for sources - so I could be totally wrong - I believe that it did darken proportionately and that light meters would register that. However, human eyes are not light meters and adjust to the dimmer light without you knowing.
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- Genetic secrets from 4,000-year-old teeth illuminate the impact of changing human diets over the centuriesphys.org ↗Submitted 7 months ago to archaeology@mander.xyz | 0 comments
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- 1,800-year-old Roman tombs in Bulgaria included medallion featuring an emperor and glass bottles for collecting mourners' tearswww.livescience.com ↗Submitted 8 months ago to archaeology@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- ‘It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health expertswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 8 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
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- Comment on Ancient rock art in Argentinian cave may have transmitted information across 100 generations 8 months ago:
From my point of view, the vast majority of the internet has too many ads, which is why I use an ad blocker. That in turn is why I have no idea how many ads individual sites have: they all have none to me - which leads me to post from here as much as anywhere else.
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- Skull of Neolithic 'bog body' from Denmark was smashed by 8 heavy blows in violent murderwww.livescience.com ↗Submitted 9 months ago to archaeology@mander.xyz | 0 comments
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