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@Boiler_Operator

Gen X Licensed Tradesman, Lead Boiler Plant Operator

USA Katılım Nisan 2009
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TheQuartering
TheQuartering@TheQuartering·
If these clowns keep going after my friends and family, just because they don't like me (totally fine) I will in fact take everything they have and never apologize for it. Psycho weirdos are messaging my wife, calling her phone, people are harassing my friends. Roast me, fine.
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sylvester lutchman
sylvester lutchman@sylvesterlutch1·
@Butternuts49842 @dhookstead Go look at burnt out car wreck pics. Thats not a car seat. No springs, no rolled metal frame , the arm rest is wayyy to well engineered. But it does look like paneling on airplanes.. imma go back and see if i see rivets in the pic. If its riveted its a plane for sure.
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David Hookstead
David Hookstead@dhookstead·
The U.S. military setting up an airbase inside Iran to rescue a single person is proof the Iranian regime is ACTUALLY winning the war. My column:
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Shipwreckedcrew
Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew·
Let me deal with this dumb-@$$ comment once and for all. There is a mechanism for transferring prisoners held in state custody over to federal custody. It is set forth in he "Interstate Agreement on Detainers." It is a binding legal agreement between the U.S., all 50 states, and territories. It provides the mechanism by which "lawful custody" over individuals is transferred from one sovereign to another. The way it is normally put into effect is "Executive to Executive" via a "request." The U.S. Attorney is authorized to make the request on behalf of the President. But it is a "cooperative" arrangement -- it is a REQUEST to transfer custody that does not need to be honored under the IAD by the state that has custody. When refused, the state requesting custody must wait for the sentence to end, at which time that state can begin its own process. A federal court can issue a Writ that is an ORDER to transfer custody, but the only authorized Writ is the "Writ ad Prosequendum" where a PROSECUTION is pending . But that writ expires when the prosecution ends. There is no lawless process by which the DOJ just grabs up a prisoner in state custody because they want to. This isn't Canada.
Viva Frei@thevivafrei

Wrong. - Declare Tina Peters a federal whistleblower (due to her actions exposing issues related to the 2020 election integrity in a federal election context OR based on corruption and abuses in the Colorado prison system). - Grant her full federal whistleblower protections under applicable federal law. - Have Federal Marshals immediately extract her from Colorado state prison and take her into federal protected custody (this can be done on the basis of her status as a whistleblower/witness to a federal matter).

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👑 Mr D’Arcy
👑 Mr D’Arcy@The_One1001·
No they’re not, there will be NO ceasefire… UNLESS the Americans give guarantees around Israel not attacking them again, PLUS lift ALL sanctions… Since they’re at it, they should ask for the UK to return their money for the tanks they purchased but didn’t receive in the 70s…. The US will give them EVERYTHING !
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BRICS News
BRICS News@BRICSinfo·
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 United States and Iran discuss terms for a 45-day ceasefire that could lead to a permanent end to the war, Axios reports.
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Boiler_Operator
Boiler_Operator@Boiler_Operator·
@AndyStumpf77 I pre-ordered it the day I first heard about it... Looking forward to it.. Also pre-ordered the audio book. Stoked you read the book for the audio version...
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Bilyamin Yusuf 🦅🇳🇬
Bilyamin Yusuf 🦅🇳🇬@nigerianpapi_ng·
@soggybrocoli “Yeah, but it’s a little different than most. I make about the deposits. About 75ft 3in at a time. You can have this paid off in about 10 minutes.”
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soggy broccoli
soggy broccoli@soggybrocoli·
my husband fixed the sink today and tried to do a “sexy plumber” roleplay bit after with the whole “how are you gonna pay for this?” and i panicked and asked if he had an installment plan
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Boiler_Operator@Boiler_Operator·
@BillAckman @X 💯The right course of action. Personally I would rather spend the money she wants in severance defending against her bogus claims than ever giving in and paying her what she is basically trying to extort from you.
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Bill Ackman
Bill Ackman@BillAckman·
I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to: “unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.” The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE: “In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.” The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?
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Boiler_Operator
Boiler_Operator@Boiler_Operator·
@adamcarolla Confirmat screws, for mdf, particle board, etc... must use the correct drill bit and pre-drill the holes for them...
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Boiler_Operator@Boiler_Operator·
The amount of absolute retardation about the whole positive hair test (obviously a cop who handled the coke with gloves on touched the girl's head one way or another), would be funny if they weren't so deranged about it... They suffer from RDS... Rekieta Derangement Syndrome.
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Muttering John
Muttering John@MutteringJ·
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: FAILED PRETEND RADIO GUY AARON IMHOLTE ASKS COURT TO STOP HIM BEING GOOFED ON AT HACKAMANIA! Failure specialist @AaronImholte - recently CAGED for non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images - wants to stop @RekietaLaw and Melton's freedom of speech!
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gravy
gravy@GravyGG·
@Kronykal Don’t worry, they’ll enter the rocket and then exit it underground to their studio
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Boiler_Operator@Boiler_Operator·
@sagax_stultus @Kronykal Save it you fucking retard I grew up with a girl whose father was Michael Smith the pilot of Challenger. Don't give me this horse shit... You probably believe the Earth is fucking flat too...
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Chad
Chad@sagax_stultus·
@Kronykal You miss those days because your simple mind can’t handle critical thinking. Somewhere deep down you know you’ve been lied to, but you sooo badly want it to be true you start lying to yourself. NASA is nothing more than another money laundry entity.
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Boiler_Operator
Boiler_Operator@Boiler_Operator·
@Kronykal I saw Challenger explode when I was in 5th grade, and Columbia break up on reentry in 2003... I fully understand what you mean. When I was in high school I used to hang out and party with a girl whose father was the pilot of Challenger, Michael Smith.
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Citizens for Ethics
Citizens for Ethics@CREWcrew·
BREAKING: We just filed a complaint asking the Pentagon IG to investigate whether the flyover of Kid Rock's house violated any federal or DOD rules, how much taxpayer money was spent and Pete Hegseth’s decision to reverse Army personnel’s suspension. citizensforethics.org/legal-action/l…
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Boiler_Operator@Boiler_Operator·
@davepl1968 I was in 3rd grade and we WERE watching it live, like we did every shuttle launch…
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Dave W Plummer
Dave W Plummer@davepl1968·
99.9% of people who "experienced" the Challenger disaster saw it on replay and now remember it as live. Almost NO ONE was watching. Everyone thinks they were. It's a fascinating collective false memory.
Jeremy London@SirJeremyLondon

Anyone who experienced the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, like I did, is probably a bit hesitant to get too excited about the Artemis II launch today. I truly hope our children don’t have to experience such tragedy. May the Universe welcome them and return them safely home 🙏

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Habitual Linecrosser
Habitual Linecrosser@HLC_actual·
@GeraldoRivera hey you remember that time 23 years ago today that you drew American battle plans in the sand on global news and they kicked you out of the country because your overwhelming stupidity? We remember.
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