1. Crash the economy and make people desperate to put food on the table.

2. Betray the American people who hold top secret information.

3. Mass fire everyone without warning and without consideration of their well-being.

4. People with top secret information sell it to foreign governments to put food on the table.

5. Government has shocked picachu face.

Skilled hands would be welcome, let’s hope it happens.

We’ll see, I guess. It would be nice to move away from the craziness. I’m still an apprentice, but I know my craft and could teach it.

I started when I was around 40, I kid you not. Born 1982, I’m currently in my forth and final year of apprenticeship. I’ve got all of my qualifications done almoat a year early.

Before, I was leaping from crummy job to crummy job when I got a fire watch gig. The job was dumb, but I worked with welders. One even encouraged me to become a welder. He also taught me a few basics.

Best advice I can give for becomig a welder is to really committ to it. Dedicate your heart, mind, body, and soul to it. Master your craft, and don’t settle for “good enough” work. Don’t worry about the money, it will come in abundance.

When instructors and employers see your passion and dedication to the trade, they’ll respect & hire you.

Also, your reputation as a welder is crucial to maintain. It follows you everywhere you go. So build up a good reputation. When you make a mistake as all welders do, own up to it and try to make it right. If you build up a reputation for honesty, integrity, and reliability, even if you’re just a mediocre welder, it will still supercharge your career.

It is definitely hard work, but it’s rewarding work. Some welders specialize in one specific thing with one specific process, but I believe this is a career mistake. A well-rounded welder should have some experience and training in every process.

There’s SMAW (often called stick), GMAW, TIG, flux core, brazing, plasma cutting, oxy/acetalyne cutting & welding, carbon arc’ing, etc.

My shipyard job almost exclusively does stick welding. Occasionally we’ll do TIG, but I can count on one hand how many times I’ve TIG welded last year.

The shipyard trained me, but I had to go on my free time and money to learn the other processes. I think it was worth it, IMO. I’m not great at the other processes, but I can do them well enough to pass workmanship inspections.

Plus if I ever lose my job (in the US it’s looking more and more likely), I still have a robust skillset to find another job. It’s a good trade to have, it’s extremely difficult for a company to hire someone overseas to do it. In a sane world, the job security from welding is great.

I’m a shipyard welder in the US and I would love love love to move to Canada right now. With Canada shifting trade away from the US and towards other countries, the need for trade ship building and maintenance will skyrocket. Ships are always in need of repairs, and being a welder means a guarenteed job.

If you get kicked out of the military for being trans, run for political office. Any political office, high and low. Primary Republicans and Democrats alike. They’re both a parasite on America.

Maybe instead of blaming Google, Reddit should stop pandering to Nazis and condoning zionists committing genocide.

Slightly smaller than downloading Wikipedia (minus the videos).

They made up an email address, claimed it was OPM, then spent an afternoon pretending to be official between that and the fork in the road email.

Isn’t that a crime? Pretending to be a federal agency when you’re not?

As it turns out, having an account on a social media platform full of Nazis, violent racists, and child diddlers is not good for business.

The fakest man alive turns out to be a fake gamer? I’m shocked! Shocked I say!

Is this game… fun? Everything I’ve seen and heard about it doesn’t seem fun at all.

They’re basically announcing “We’re a business, but we’re not all that interested in making money.”

It’s not an RPG, but I always recommend PowerWash Simulator. It’s one of those games where you don’t have to pay too much attention to the game and can watch stuff on your phone.

Aside from that, maybe World of Warcraft private server like ChromieCraft.

There’s also Starbound, Terraria, Fallout 3 & New Vegas, the Portal and Borderlands games, Half-Life 2 just received an update.

I have 3,400 hours in Space Engineers.

About 1,500 hours in FFXIV, 1,400 hours in DayZ, and 1,300 hours in 7 Days To Die.

Then 900 hours in Empyrion Galactic Survival, 500 hours in Baldurs Gate 3, and 300 hours in Fallout 4.

The rest are well below 200.

Sort of like every business and corporation that has a booth at Pridefest. Many of them are hostile to the LGBTQ+ community, yet they’re at Pridefest just for the PR.

Never forget, Steam allowed Alex Jones to publish his “anti-woke” video game there. And it was as disgusting as you can imagine.

I have a suspicion it’ll be a lot like EvE Online and their EvE Echoes mobile version. The mobile version is significantly watered down in size and functionality, yet is still playable. I think we’ll see something similar.

We’ll still see the core gameplay, but parts of the game might be removed or retooled. Crafting and gathering will likely be simplified, minions will be gone, jobs will have less abilities, graphics significantly reduced, and so on.

It’s doable, but don’t expect it to be the same game.

If the devs screw this up, the modding community will fix it.

I have a rechargeable mouse from a no-name Chinese company, and they put the port at the nose of the mouse. It works like a wired mouse when plugged in and charging.

How has Apple not figured this out?