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  • Answering YOUR question:

    This is common with disposables and low-quality cartridges.

    What’s happening: some of the “oil” (which is really more like wax) is getting pulled/dripping into the airflow channel, and when it dries between uses becomes too solid to be cleared easily, blocking airflow

    To prevent it next time: don’t “chain vape”. Take one, maybe two hits tops and let it cool fully before using again

    What to do with this one: You can’t really fix it unfortunately. So when you experience this, do quick, short, hard pulls repeatedly until it clears. You’re trying to activate the coil so it heats up the oil/wax until it’s soft enough that air pressure can clear the blockage temporarily. To save your cheeks, you can also suck on it hard, creating negative pressure, then, without letting go, block the hole with your tongue. This will create suction inside, and if you leave it like that for 10-15 seconds it should clear the clog temporarily.


  • DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.

    This is a nearly impossible to prove in court, unless she was appointed as his caretaker due to being unable to care for himself.

    The major issue is that proving intent is impossible in your scenario and lying isn’t illegal. Nor is failing to set appointments or provide over-the-counter medicine if you haven’t been granted some form of guardianship.

    You need to explain what prevented the husband from seeking his own medical care. If he was capable of seeking care and didn’t, even if she lied about the availability of the care, it will be very hard to prove that her intent was his death. You would need to prove that a) she told HIM that she had set up appointments etc or that they weren’t available, b) she knew that blocking him from getting treatment would likely lead to his death, and c) she actively interfered with his own attempts to seek care

    The best you could hope for would be something like involuntary manslaughter, negligence, reckless disregard, or something like that




  • This type of environment, and OPs reaction to it, is how people develop compulsive behaviors that are unhealthy. You can hear it in how they talk about even simple things, like their extreme disgust towards saliva deposited in a trash can. Revulsion towards saliva in a trash can is not normal. Saliva left on a surface? Or on their person? Sure, gross. But a trash can is an appropriate place for someone to spit. It doesn’t deserve the vehement disgust OP displays.

    I’m not diminishing how unhygienic and disgusting their family is. The photos make it clear that they live in a completely inexcusable level of filth. I just don’t want OP to continue down this path of obsessive, compulsive cleanliness. There’s a happy medium.


  • So, based on your description and the pictures, here’s my take:

    Your family is unhygienic and gross. Water leaking from surfaces can pick up all sorts of gross stuff. Leaving food waste (I see banana peels I think?) out and exposed to open air leads to rotting and mold which can definitely make you sick. Used toilet paper with fecal matter on it left in an open trash can? HELLA gross.

    BUT

    Your reaction to this environment is going too far. Disinfecting your phone constantly? Concerns about people spitting in the trash? Not eating any leftovers or drinking from any container you didn’t open yourself? These are going too far. As others have pointed out, some contact with germs is important to maintain a healthy immune system.

    There’s a middle-ground that both you AND your family are missing.

    Wash your hands after using the bathroom and before eating, sure. Don’t leave things that rot out in the open, of course.

    Putting the garbage can next to the table while clearing it? Totally fine. Eating leftovers that have been refrigerated for a day? Totally fine.

    I understand why you’ve developed hyper-vigilence living in that kind of environment. It makes sense. But I think you’re probably overcompensating.

    You might benefit from learning more about the human immune system, food safety, and other science-based topics. Did you know that urine, for example, is sterile? You can literally safely drink human urine (with some exceptions). Feces, on the other hand, is total opposite of sterile.

    I’m sorry you have to live in such a gross environment. I hope you can find a way to convince your family to meet you in the middle.


  • EDIT: In the US this is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, which is extremely simple when defining what is considered on-the-job work. If it is mandatory, work-related, and for the benefit of the company, then it is on-the-job work and you should be paid for the time. So congratulations; you’ve likely participated in wage theft by onboarding people who aren’t being paid for their time. Obviously it wasn’t knowingly or with intent, but that doesn’t change the fact that, based on your response, your employers have had you or your coworkers participate in failing to pay people what they are owed.


    Except for the other reply that starts “you are right. you cannot onboard a new job before you leave your old one”??? They may go on to say that accepting an offer isn’t onboarding but since I never tried to argue that it was, that’s kind of irrelevant.

    Lots of people don’t know their rights or their obligations. Wage theft is the #1 from of theft in the US by a lot. Coordinating with an IT department for onboarding without getting paid for it is straight up wage theft and being taken advantage of. Doing so while still employed by another company is moonlighting under most contracts.

    People do shit like that all the time. Doesn’t make it right. Doesn’t make it safe.


  • If you’re talking to the IT department about workstation configuration without signing a contract and getting paid for it, you’re being taken advantage of.

    Yes, it’s reasonable, and smart, to ask people during the interview process about their tech stack. But there is no way I’m coordinating with IT on the setup and configuration of my workstation without a contract in place or before my start date.





  • neatchee@piefed.socialtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devNo Microslop for me
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    In the overwhelming majority of situations you cannot begin the onboarding process with IT while still working for a previous employer. Especially at this level of software engineering that would run afoul of moonlighting policies.

    is what your describing technically possible? sure. Is it even remotely probable? Absolutely not.


    EDIT: I am absolutely flabbergasted at how many people don’t know their rights.

    In the US this is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, which is extremely simple when defining what is considered on-the-job work. If it is mandatory, work-related, and for the benefit of the company, then it is on-the-job work and you should be paid for the time.

    Stop perpetuating wage theft, people. It’s the #1 form of theft in the US by a wide margin. Learn your rights and demand pay for your work.


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    haha wow this comment is amazing satire! you really nailed the elitist, dismissive, generally toxic attitude of the people described in the OP!

    Your devotion to playing the part is brilliant. you didn’t even put a /s at the end or anything!

    bravo on your satirical masterpiece!

    EDIT: Comment deleted? my work here is complete