Canadian, Stone Mason, Ex-Pat living in the UK.

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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • I was within 8 meters of someone dying twice, the second time I was less than 2 meters away.

    The first was a truck driver with a load of cast iron pipes. Truck was on a slight angle, and when he undid the straps the load fell on him.

    Second time was a load of stone going up a scaffold on a hoist, it hadn’t been secured properly and a guy cut through the exclusion zone and this 100kg stone window cill just…yeah. There wasn’t really a lot left of the top third of him.

    I’ve had a lot of therapy about these and I still dream about the second one.









  • Well now I gotta watch the video and be appropriately enraged. BRB.

    Edit: Well. Now I have doubts that he does more than casual web browsing, bit of email and maybe some word processing on his computer, solitaire maybe? Windows is hardly the “I like to Tinker” OS, and the fact that he said it straight faced makes me believe that he doesn’t actually tinker with much of anything.

    I’ve heard that a lot of the Windows based handhelds don’t have all the kinks worked our yet, and that Windows doesn’t like to play nice with that format of device. Maybe that’s what he meant? Steam Deck just works out the box, but he wants to feel like he has to struggle to get the device to play nice?