// #eevblog — 2026-04-18
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00:09:21 * xstevia waves from the woods
00:09:50 <xstevia> Im just trying to decipher some decades old carvings in the trees
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00:50:12 <K> hello peeps
00:50:27 <Kuschelpony> hello K
01:14:06 * arch bounces a laser off electrohead, accidentally blows up a nearby graveyard
02:19:48 <arch> fucking tinnitus. my left ear's been stuffy since the morning.
02:20:03 <arch> EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEE
02:28:12 <K> EEII-EEII-OOO
02:52:35 * arch sends K to an old McDonalds
02:53:31 <K> https://maps.app.goo.gl/MR3YfrHhRiriJK8e8
02:53:31 <EEVBot> [url] Google Maps | maps.app.goo.gl
02:53:39 <K> i guess this is the oldest we have
02:59:28 <arch> where are all F150 and Chevy 3500 pickup behemoths on your streets?
03:00:34 <arch> all i see are mr bean cars
03:01:36 <K> we dont have those
03:01:42 <K> blessed!
03:03:10 <arch> i would have liked a Smart Fortwo, but shit is made by mercedez. yuck
03:04:35 <K> heh neat, if a little peculiar
03:05:08 <arch> as a project car of course, for grocery shopping
03:05:49 <K> for driving from porch to your garage with 5 F150s in it
03:06:16 <arch> i think the high gas prices are causing pickup prices to fall actually
03:06:39 <arch> can get a 2010-2015 F150 used for sub 10k
03:06:48 <K> heh
03:06:51 <arch> i paid 16k for my 2016 model
05:12:59 <rust_collector> i have no idea what a ferd is here, but the new lightning thing is really popular
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16:21:40 <Halcyon> Evening all
16:22:07 <Halcyon> Well, afternoon, it feels later than it is.
16:26:57 <steve30> hi
16:45:40 <steve30> bye
16:45:43 Quit: steve30 ([email protected]) Quit: <Baljem> steve30: by the way, I had the most bizarre dream the other day that someone came in here and seriously flipped their shit over your quit message and why aren't the ops /doing/ something about it
16:46:05 <xstevia> Hi
16:48:33 <Halcyon> Hey Steve
16:52:38 <xstevia> Im off to manchester today
16:52:46 <Halcyon> What's happening there?
16:54:38 <xstevia> Far right st george's day parade
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19:00:04 <MrMobodies> Hello
19:00:33 <MrMobodies> Here's this:
19:00:33 <MrMobodies> https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/national/call-for-women-in-lancaster-to-become-next-gen-smart-meter-experts-5599979
19:01:00 <MrMobodies> Calisen Group Contractor
19:01:10 <MrMobodies> Now if they were already electricians FINE.
19:01:16 <MrMobodies> or training to be
19:01:25 <MrMobodies> then there's thing:
19:01:29 <MrMobodies> https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/26011519.glasgow-pensioner-rewire-home-smart-meter-fitting/
19:01:30 <EEVBot> [url] Glasgow pensioner has to rewire home after smart meter fitting | Glasgow Times | www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
19:02:29 <MrMobodies> Better pay a knowing competent and insured electrician to carry out these works as I had been hearing of energy companies and contractors training people who have no idea or experience to replace energy and gas meters.
19:03:17 <MrMobodies> What do you think of that? Training inexperienced and unqualified people just to replace electricity and gas meters?
19:03:31 <MrMobodies> Steve30, would you allow that on your premises?
19:03:44 <MrMobodies> if you knew mean
19:21:21 <xstevia> There is no reason they cannot learn if they want
19:23:15 <xstevia> You have to start somewhere
19:28:10 <MrMobodies> oh yes
19:28:31 <MrMobodies> but my concern is JUST training them to do just that
19:28:56 <MrMobodies> I was at a plumbing college in 2010, where my dad was teaching burglar alarms along with his cousin
19:29:26 <MrMobodies> and I was doing the IT suite on a voluntary basis as the person managing it had bipolar and kept on disappearing
19:29:43 <MrMobodies> now they did electrics, carpentary but the big thing they did was plumbing
19:30:07 <MrMobodies> It was called "Construction Training London" which went in insolvency in 2011
19:30:44 <MrMobodies> Now they'd train the plumbers for a year where they'd be learning to solder pipes, fit plastic piples and they'd have these partitions where they'd be fitting sinks and toilets
19:33:35 <MrMobodies> after a couple of months or so they'd send these people out with experience plumbers to observe and learn on jobs an they'd never train them JUST to do a particiular aspeect and that's it.
19:34:12 <MrMobodies> 6 months they'd send them out under one experience say in a large project and they'd have their worked checked
19:35:04 <MrMobodies> I agree they need to start somewhere but not left alone with no experience especially if things were to go wrong.
19:36:21 <MrMobodies> I wouldn't mind experience one turning up with a few learners starting as long as they are overseen as any mistakes make, such as not tighten the terminals up and the gas and I'd have a lot to loose if there was a fire
19:36:29 <MrMobodies> due to arcing
19:37:11 <MrMobodies> I wouldn't want to be put in that position as a learner without someone over seeing me and checking my work.
19:37:53 <MrMobodies> also I have a supicion they want to save money and don't pay the women as much which would be unfair on them if that was the case.
19:39:44 <MrMobodies> I don't mind if it is a man or lady doing that as long as they are experienced and thorough with what they do.
19:41:48 <MrMobodies> Isn't it funny, when I want to start somewhere and I do perform and wanted with the colleagues at a work places, I get a bunch of excuses from the managers in a different building hundreds of miles away who have never even met me.
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20:09:11 <xstevia> Im in manchester
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23:29:19 <xstevia> I think thats enough running for today
23:38:28 <K> !coffee xstevia
23:38:28 * EEVBot slides a cup of joe to xstevia
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23:51:52 <xstevia> Mmm
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