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Cake day: August 12th, 2024

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  • Wasn’t ever in the software part but i still remember being shocked when a company asked me what I wanted for a salary, I said x, and they said they’d get back to me later on that day to confirm if they could do it. Got a call back 20 minutes later offering me 35% more than I asked for.

    They knew I was probably scared to ask for more, and they needed people who weren’t going to want to leave soon as they got a better offer. Turnover in some positions makes it near impossible to ever get a really good staff. Pay them right and you end up with a really good group fairly quickly. It isn’t a constant “oh that guy who set that system up left 3 years ago and left no notes for any of how that was set up.”. If you give them time as well, they create the documentation because they know if they don’t have to touch if for 4 years, when they come back to it it’ll kick cobwebs off.


  • I looked at a few, but the place I rent is about an acre (1.06 or so), and the building on the acre covers like none of it (like 960sqft lol) Toss in the drainage ditches by road and being in a constant flooding warning recently I figure I need to wait. I saw a cool one that said it MAYBE could do the hills if I mowed them short first, then just had it auto keep thrm short all the time. But that thing was about $3000 by the time I set up the solar charging station and what not. Ended up just getting a cheap lawnmower cause I didn’t have the money to chance spending all of that and still not being able to get the lawn mowed. Also I figure I’d not realize it rained last night and the robot would go about it’s schedule straight into the water in the drainage ditch or something.










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    28 days ago

    Beavers built a dam in Alberta (850 meters) that is twice the length of the Hoover Dam. It isn’t the technical marvel as the Hoover Dam, but one would have to be lying to say it’s not impressive.

    Extra info: we know it has existed since at least 1975, as it’s visible in arial photographs. (Many from space).

    So 50+ years for rodents maintaining a project seems pretty neat.









  • Isn’t the chocolate thing often exaggerated though? Like if a 50lb dog eats a full snickers bar, most vets would tell you not to worry about it.

    Like don’t feed them chocolate, or leave a bucket of candy out where they can have it, but if you walk to the bathroom on movie night and he snatched half your chocolate bar off the coffee table; he’s not going to die.

    Grapes on the other hand… Apparently they’re fucking dangerous