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BoxOfFeet

@ BoxOfFeet @lemmy.world

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Engineer. Retro console modder. Pen and watch enthusiast.

  • Some people really lack civic sense

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  • Not accurate, I swear! I am foot neutral, at best. They're just the hands of your legs. If anything, I think "Box of Feet" comes across more slasher film than sexual. Like, "oh shit, I just found a whole box full of feet!" IDK, I got it from a random username generator. I just wanted a clean break from reddit.

  • How often do people typically get paid where you are? How is the overtime? (Specify location)

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  • Midwest, USA. The last time i was hourly, I was in the UAW. We were paid weekly. Overtime was 1.5x, Sundays were 2x. Holidays were an extra 1x, so a Friday holiday would be 2x. A Saturday holiday would be 2.5x, and a Sunday holiday would be a glorious 3x.

    Since I've been salary. One place has been paid twice a month and the rest have been every two weeks. One place had what they called "bank hours", where anything over 45 hours (our base week) were put into your hours bank. This could be used as additional PTO. The cap for the bank was 60 hours. After that, you were paid out straight time with your overage. Another place paid out straight time over 45 (our base week was 40 hours) that pay period, no bank.

    Where I am at now is just straight salary, but I rarely work over 40. And the pay is still significantly more than anywhere else I have worked. Which makes me wonder if those other companies knew they were over working us, and our base salaries were based on the assumption of how much OT we would be working.

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    When your parents are on the phone, how often did you just start staying stuff for attention (or because you're bored)?

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  • Never, that's rude and disrespectful. Not sure why you'd want to do that to your parents

  • Some people really lack civic sense

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  • It could have been! I seem to remember talking about it on here before. It actually comes up less frequently than I would expect.

  • Some people really lack civic sense

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  • I'm not into feet. The username is deceiving.

  • Some people really lack civic sense

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  • Put your elbow down over the foot, locking it in place. Then, tickle until they surrender. Or perhaps longer. This is unacceptable behavior.

  • Crohn’s disease bowel scarring trigger identified

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  • Ah, sweet. I have Crohn's, and have already lost 10 inches of my terminal illeum.

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  • What can methane gas be used for?

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  • What if we kept them underground. We could build a city above it. It would be a hub for trade, exchanging methane for other goods. We could call it Bartertown.

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  • Now I'm being chased by some irate velociraptors. Well, believe me, this has been one lousy day.

  • Has anyone actually eaten or diped OREO with Milk

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  • Yes, of course! Twist them, eat the filling, then dip the cookie halves in milk until they nearly disintegrate.

  • Do you scrape your tongue?

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  • Sometimes! Most of the time I just use my toothbrush. But either way, I absolutely clean my tongue every day.

  • Trailer - THEC64 Handheld and The Spectrum Handheld

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  • Another perspective, it's ONLY FOUR buttons? It's emulating a computer, surely there are games that require more keyboard support. You could play a C64 emulator on a Nintendo DS, and you would still get the same form factor, the same button layout, the right screen ratio, AND a virtual keyboard on the lower screen.

  • Trailer - THEC64 Handheld and The Spectrum Handheld

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  • Other than the form factor, why is this needed? There are tons of cheap linux handhelds that play these games. And if you like the form factor, there have been C64 and ZX emulators for the Nintendo DS for ages. Emulators that are old enough to drive at this point. I mean, if the price point was closer to $40, I could see it. $60 would be pushing it.

    Plus, it tics one of my pet peeves of having a 16:9 screen for a specifically 4:3 media.

  • What game do you personally have the most hours played in?

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  • New Vegas is around 470 for me. FO4 is a close second at 460. But I probably spent way, way more time in Battlezone 2, possibly MechWarrior 3 as well. Maybe Rollercoaster Tycoon. Those were in my peak gaming era.

  • Bearer of bad news

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  • As it should be.

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  • Yeah, pretty much. Mechanical engineer, but on the tooling side of things and not production. When shit hits the fan, it's typically during office hours. Honestly, I haven't even charged my work phone in probably 6 months because it's so rare anybody needs me when I'm not at my computer.

    But my personal phone is always on silent, too. Not even vibrate. To the irritation of my wife.

  • I need to conduct more research

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  • Ah, now that makes sense.

  • The left is missing out on AI

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  • No thank you.

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  • I just wear a mechanical watch and keep my phone on silent 100% of the time. I'll look at it eventually.