To be able to talk to animals. Really just so I can talk to my dog who is losing the ability to walk, so me and her vet can help her; where it hurts, are the drugs helping. So I know exactly what she needs and where she wants to go when she’s barking at me for help getting up and walking.
So I can explain to my boy dog why we don’t go on walks as often or as far, why he can’t rough house with her anymore.
I’m a helicopter mechanic. I started a turbine helicopter engine to prove an entire shift of mechanics, quality assurance (“subject matter experts”) and managers they’re dumb. Then wrote a mean pass down insulting all of them, highlighting how many man hours, our time they’ve wasted, and how they made us all look stupid in front of the customer (US Marines.)
At the time I was the night shift QA. I got to work and they told me we’d be replacing an engine that was bad, it wouldn’t start (they left the ignition circuit breaker in, so no spark) but worse it was now leaking out of the thermocouples.
I says, you flooded the engine; there’s not supposed to be liquid fuel in that section. If you followed the procedures in our manuals you’d know how to blow the engine out to dry it then it would start.
They’d already called the higher level engine maintenance squadron to confirm the engine was bad. I was talking to the site lead, Dave, I bet him a dollar I could start that engine. At the time I was the only person on the site with an engine turn certification. He says alright, try it.
The Marines were already there. They determined nothing was wrong with the engine. I said, since you’re here want to watch me light it off. They said yeah. I went through the flooded engine start and it started and ran up perfect.
Next day I come in and Dave tells me I’ve been fired. There was one sentence in our rules that said only pilots could start engines. BUT Dave went to bat for me, explained the situation including that they certified me to run engines. He got it turned into two week suspension and a demotion, but I had so much PTO saved up he was going to pay me during it.
I came back and was now just a mechanic. Which was alright since I never liked the rest of the QA department. I got less responsibility, got to listen to audio books and ding wrenches together. Every now and then the other QA inspectors and managers would come to me with questions and I’d get to say, “I’m sorry, I’m not paid enough to know that.”
Read the article. The second sentence. That’s what they’re doing.
Mostly weird cartoon porn.
Powerful local families and armed gangs – including some anti-Hamas factions backed by Israel – stepped into the void. Many are accused of hijacking humanitarian aid and selling it for profit, contributing to Gaza’s starvation crisis.
Nahed Sheheiber, head of Gaza’s private truckers union, said Hamas was acting against gangs that had terrorised people in areas controlled by Israel.
“Those gangs looted aid and killed people under the protection of the [Israeli] occupation,” he told The Associated Press, saying they operated in so-called red zones where Israel had ordered people to evacuate. The Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment.
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Residents of the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns, said the gang, led by Hussam Doghmush, was known to loot aid convoys and rob abandoned homes in areas controlled by the Israeli military. They said Doghmush was among some two dozen people killed in the clashes with Hamas, including a local journalist and a son of a senior Hamas official based outside Gaza.
Hamas-linked Telegram channels said Hamas had targeted “collaborators and traitors” working with Israel. The Hamas-run Sahm security force, which says it targets looters and other criminals, shared footage that appeared to show its forces killing eight people execution-style in the streets as people cheered. It said the detainees were gangsters.
That won’t matter because that kid didn’t shoot Charlie. He’s just the fall guy. The FBI’s narrative makes no sense, especially their claim he was shot by a .30-06.
I’d argue those are only burgers if they have a hamburger base, ground beef. Otherwise they’re sandwiches; egg sandwich or a turd sandwich.
Only if someone melted lead in it. I can do that in a new iron pan too.
People that can’t handle cast iron are the same that can’t get their car’s oil changed on time.
After breakfast this morning I washed my skillets with the other dishes. The only difference is I put it on the stove to dry.
You should research the fallout from US & CIA interventions. It’s not always an improvement for the local population.
The whole comment is make believe. I don’t see an asterisk denoting edits. OP fell for it.
Or cheese and other dairy.
Because unions stopped shooting back and bombing. Because when cops and Pinkertons shoot strikers the state turns a blind eye.
This is false. You cannot be fired without reason, you can be fired for any legal reason which will vary from state to state, which may be more strict (for employers) than federal law.
Yep. While negotiating our last CBA I brought this up as an option. The union told me we’re not even allowed to voluntarily wave our lunch break.
The new Prius is surprisingly good looking in person. Though, if I was going EV and had the money, I like those Lucids.
The previous administration didn’t use the release of the files as a cornerstone of their campaign.
Not exactly. We all saw how the recent votes went.
But I like Waterworld.
Add it to the list.