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1 day agoShe’s absolutely stunning
Like if your vegan anarchist grandma and vegan anarchist dad were the same person.
I am an engineer (closer to toot toot then clicky clacky) cosplaying as a farmer in unceded aninstanabe territory in eastern ontario.
- canada plant hardiness zone: 5a
- extreme minimum temperature zones: 4b
Maybe the real vegan theory club were the friends we made along the way ✨
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I love these weirdos 😍
I sometimes get them in my driveway. It’s so fun how tall they get.
You have discovered why “proplifting” is a thing 🤣
May your discovery yield you an abundance of free plants.
Wait, doesn’t everybody follow a very long list of specific rules for how to behave in a variety of social situations???
1·9 days agoDoug Ford is a really stubborn man… he deserves to go to jail… he’s probably thinking about Timbits right now. And I’m telling him he is a Timbit himself.
1·12 days agoFirst off, I’m a chemical engineer - the shift from civil first was happening well before I started working ( cough 15 years ago cough)
Things are more and less of a shit show depending on where you are in this country and don’t underestimate how closely we collaborate with US companies/individuals especially in the industry orgs lol.
I won’t dig in more because I will dox myself. The industr(ies) are tiny. I suppose I need an account just for engineering stuff.
That’s an interesting point. At first I thought it might be incorrect because I see stations named for industry (i.e. Dow) but they appear to be operated by TransAlta.
What is def not shown is on site generation that may or may not feed the grid but does offset usage. Some of that is tracked: I know of a facility that is charged by the utility when they aren’t using their on-site capacity. The utility counts it as part of the system capacity (to offset new transmission requirements). On a (very) good day, this facility generates 60% of it’s own power.
There is some data out there, somewhere! It would be interesting to see what all these little bits add up to.
I really like this one because it shows the source of the imports. Very cool!
I’m in the “biosystems” side of infrastructure engineering
…lol same
Remember that this is before solar gets going and that there are near drought conditions in some places! The IESO website has more info about overall generation trends.
3·14 days agoVery much agree with this. Why does such a community exist? To talk shit instead of choosing to ignore others or working on addressing the conflict if you feel you can’t let go.
Communities like this drive harassment because when there is a popular post against someone, some people assume it must be accurate or valid and pile on. It’s incredibly unwelcoming.
There is a difference between “gotcha, I am very smart” and “this is harmful content/a person that harms the community - be wary”.
Edit: LMAO exactly this kind of shit: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50173159
People are still talking about vtc for whatever reason, it makes sense Hamid’s going to hear about it (people have community outside of lemmy??? Weird right?). I’d probably try and rile them up too. It’s really wild.
2·14 days agoReally lovely!
Lol, I wondered if I needed to be more specific in my original reply.
I was in engineering school the entire time I worked in catering. I did like it, and often wondered if I should drop out of eng school and pursue formal culinary or hospitality schooling. I looked at the older people in the field, and how there weren’t that many and how they all had major physical challenges. Substance abuse is rampant (I’m not excluding myself).I had worked in customer facing jobs in high school and realized I wouldn’t be able to survive that long term. I thought catering was similarly steering me away.
Infrastructure engineering is a purposefully vague category, but I love systems, GIANT FUCKING THINGS, and hate capitalism. So that’s where I landed. Lots of weirdos here so I fit in.
I was def speaking with a north american bias, canada specifically. I don’t know much about hiring practices in the UK.
I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess you are a civil engineer interested in transportation. Using this guess, I searched for some groups you might be interested in. I just mean this to demonstrate that there are tonnes of weird and wacky associations out there 😊
Are you asking for advice? If so:
spoiler
And apparently chef’s work is a black mark on your CV and a lot of employers will write you off based on that anyway?
I’m sorry to hear that. It wasn’t the case about 15 years ago when I made the change from catering to infrastructure engineering. Especially for recent grads I’ve found that any job experience is viewed as better than none but your particular industry/location appears to view that differently?
people say “networking is more important than qualifications”. Well, that’s great, but as someone who comes from a working class family, I have no idea how to do that, and never knew it was necessary until after the period I was apparently given the greatest opportunity to do it (university). and now it’s like, what, am I just supposed to message people on LinkedIn out of the blue begging for work? with no experience? Where do I even begin with that?
I was in the same position. I joined an industry association. I started volunteering at events or on committees and started to get call backs for interviews. I’m still involved and I still get head hunting calls. My industry is small though, so your mileage may vary.
Even if you don’t benefit directly from the networking, you might learn something about the industry that helps you. For example, you might be missing out on applying for a certain job title because you don’t think it applies to you. In my case I didn’t realize I could take a certain role to gain experience (including for the various licences I needed). I ended up applying for and getting a job in that role and it turned out great.
I would love to work on the railways or in local government or something but I don’t hear anything back from those roles.
Both are typically unionized so it can take a super long time to get in. They typically have to interview and exclude all internal candidates before even being shown the external candidates package, even if they post internal and external at the same time. I work in a similarly unionized field and it took me 13 months after graduating to get a full time job in the field. If I am correct about these being unionized positions you might want to get a hold of the collective agreement for the unions and see if there is benefit to applying to jobs you wouldn’t otherwise consider.
She’s beautiful! I love the shape you’ve given her.
It’s my favorite.
Aw yeah that’s the good stuff
12·23 days agoThis is wild af. I imagine it’s deeply unhappy people who fulfill their need to feel powerful by calling bylaw on each other.
Oh cool, this means people are no longer patronizing establishments that have tip prompts as a way to show that they don’t support companies that reply on them to pay staff, right?
Right?