The Off Topic Topic

[HVC]

I am getting spammed hard about logistics jobs. Christ.

I AM ON BREAK

Those fuckers only come around when you don't need a job.

[Ed Anger]

I'd need to print out more certs. " arch magus six sigma lean super intercontinental champion gold belt"

[CountDeMoney]

Make your own.

"I have a Lean Sigma Shareholder Value Fuckover Belt with Yi Cumstains Device."
"Sure, but do you have your Anger Series Sevens?  No? Good day, sir."
"What is that?"
"I SAID GOOD DAY."

[Ed Anger]

Some fucking ex supply sergeant with his veteran points will get the job anyways.

[grumbler]

Make your own.

"I have a Lean Sigma Shareholder Value Fuckover Belt with Yi Cumstains Device."
"Sure, but do you have your Anger Series Sevens?  No? Good day, sir."
"What is that?"
"I SAID GOOD DAY."

  Made my day.

[sbr]

Make your own.

"I have a Lean Sigma Shareholder Value Fuckover Belt with Yi Cumstains Device."
"Sure, but do you have your Anger Series Sevens?  No? Good day, sir."
"What is that?"
"I SAID GOOD DAY."

You got the Sizzlers' Management Degree?

[Savonarola]

We're still in the process of transitioning from GE's processes to Alstom's.  There's been some surprises along the way.  The time reporting at GE was done on a program called P6.  Alstom's equivalent is called ETemptation .

[Ed Anger]

Make your own.

"I have a Lean Sigma Shareholder Value Fuckover Belt with Yi Cumstains Device."
"Sure, but do you have your Anger Series Sevens?  No? Good day, sir."
"What is that?"
"I SAID GOOD DAY."

You got the Sizzlers' Management Degree?

Katmai has the Sizzler eating degree.

[CountDeMoney]

You got the Sizzlers' Management Degree?

I once had a certificate from the Society of Automotive Engineers stating that I met the minimum training standards to "do stuff on cars" at Jiffy Lube.

[jimmy olsen]

I am saddened beyond belief that we don't actually have a dedicated naked mole rat thread to put this in:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/naked-mole-rat-oxygen-take-my-breath-awaaaaaaaay/523515/

Oxygen makes up around 20 percent of the air around you. If it fell to 5 percent, you'd pass out after 3 minutes or so. Then, your brain would start to die. To fuel itself, this gas-guzzling organ requires a constant supply of sugar and oxygen—even when you're not doing anything. Without the vital gas, ions flood across the barriers of neurons, causing internal havoc, and forcing them to self-destruct. "There's probably more than a hundred things that will kill brain cells if you turn off the oxygen," says Thomas Park, from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Within minutes, you'd be dead. And hours after that, a naked mole-rat in the exact same conditions would be happily walking around—the picture of health. Imagine a disembodied index finger that's been soaking in the bath for too long, and has teeth at the end. That's a naked mole-rat. These weird rodents live in large underground colonies with nesting chambers the size of footballs. In these cramped subterranean quarters, oxygen levels often fall as low as 6 percent. And yet, these animals cope with this hypoxia.


Park knows this because he and his colleague Jane Reznick once put captive naked mole-rats into a chamber with just 5 percent oxygen—conditions that would kill mice in 15 minutes. "We were ready to pull them out at a moment's notice if they started to look bad. And they looked fine," Park says. "At five hours, we quit because I had to go home."

And the article goes on to discuss their overall very odd biology.

The most interesting thing about them is that they are extremely resistant to cancer.

[Tamas]

That can't be that unusual when you are a living blind tube eating dirt. IT's not like its a complicated organism, or in an environment heavy on external effects.

[jimmy olsen]

That can't be that unusual when you are a living blind tube eating dirt. IT's not like its a complicated organism, or in an environment heavy on external effects.

This bullshit of the highest order. Even a bacterium is an incredibly complicated living machine, let a lone a mammal that lives in a hostile environment.

[jimmy olsen]

If CdM was a basketball star.

[Savonarola]

We're still in the process of transitioning from GE's processes to Alstom's.  There's been some surprises along the way.  The time reporting at GE was done on a program called P6.  Alstom's equivalent is called ETemptation .

GE's corporate phone plan was broad.  They had deals with every major carrier in the United States and offered a large number of phones to choose from.  Alstom is a much smaller company and cannot do that.  This past week corporate's IT told us that the only phones that are allowed are Samsung.  I'm not sure, but I think Alstom just announced a reduction in force. 

[CountDeMoney]

If CdM was a basketball star.

Those appetizers could pile up, man.  Shit was no joke.