I see lots of people suggesting non-work things, but that gets old fast and depending on your work environment can be stressful as you might get caught “not working”

I’d be trying to take on new projects. Start by getting to know your coworkers. If you have other people in your department, talk to them about what they’re working on, things they’d like to see done. If you’re the lone person in your area of work you could alternatively walk the floor and start talking to anyone who could be the stakeholder for a future project. Learn what their pain points are, where the current practices have blindspots.

You mentioned being a safety admin, I’m guessing that’s industrial safety right? Start looking into whatever the current buzzwords are in the industrial safety field and make it a project you take to your boss and try to get funding. Find ways to improve the current processes and data tracking. If you don’t already use a fancy incident tracking system outside of Excel, start doing some research and getting some numbers from vendors and have a chat with your boss about how using an actual purpose built database can improve compliance (that’s about 70% of my duties right now is managing and configuring my organization’s SAAS risk management database, but we also have ~10k workers in the field so it’s highlighting useful data points in the data we’ve already collected primarily)

Unless your position is stuck below a manager with zero flexibility for process improvement, there’s always new projects to be discovered and started to improve existing processes

I know there’s already too much content on the Web

No such thing!

I’ve had good luck sharing my own interests instead. A few years ago I got super into watching SpaceX’s rocket launches because it’s honestly spectacular and they know how to do a really good livestream, plus watching the booster come back from orbit and softly touchdown is pretty incredible (I’ve had a hard time enjoying the live streams since Musk’s involvement with Trump of course)

But popping over to a coworker and going “hey there’s a rocket launch in 2 minutes, wanna take 8 minutes and watch it with me?” is a brilliant ice breaker

Banning advertisements to kids is the correct approach. I’ve observed with my own kids, they genuinely don’t yet have the mental faculties to be critical of advertisements. They see something advertised, they want it, simple as that. Their brains aren’t developed enough for content with advertising nor product placement.

Maybe there’s a sweet spot in limiting it to toy ads and ads for other content on the same platform that they’re watching. I’m not sure, I’m not a child psychologist, but kids should not be presented ads for energy drinks/drink supplements (I wish I was kidding but I’ve specifically had to have a conversation with my daughter about why we’re not buying the drink band owned by a certain YouTube celebrity who got himself banned from returning to Japan) nor for restaurants (especially not fast food!) nor for sketchy paid mod launchers for games (fuck you to the like only YouTuber who focuses entirely on Wobbly Life and is constantly advertising that!), nor most of the other things I’ve seen advertised to the kids recently

The way I see it, if my kids start finding ways to circumvent parental controls we should be able to have some frank discussions about what the parental controls would be setup for

I setup my wife’s old Android phone to be super locked down via parental controls. Only approved apps, no installing apps, time limited etc. set it up so my kids can use it on days when we need them to zombify for a bit in the afternoons

Its kinda mind blowing how YouTube Kids is their go to and they don’t move to any other apps until they’ve run out of time on it (family had already let the cat out of the bag about the existence of YouTube so I had to limit rather than block) and we still have had to block a number of concerning channels they kept watching. Its crazy how they’ll just zombify staring at YouTube but then for the age appropriate games they’re so much more engaged and actually seem to have a healthier interaction. Its also sad how some of the content I see the kids watching on YouTube Kids has writing and direction about on par with Disney’s current crop of age appropriate shoes for 3-6 year olds (and from what I’ve seen Nickelodeon isn’t much better right now). My kids primarily watch PBS Kids and a handful of shows we carefully selected on DVD because we want to minimize the brain rot (as well as minimize annoyance for us)

When my wife and I first moved in together she was an avid Markiplier watcher, and we watched all of his first? 24 hour stream. At like 3am he opened up probably way more than he wanted to and talked about how he struggles with interpersonal relationships, and how he always ends up pushing people away, as well as his incredibly unhealthy work ethic and I honestly can’t remember the rest but he basically described how he always tries to portray himself very differently from how he is in reality, even in private with friends. Ever since then I can see it where he really does seem to always be playing a character of some sort (and the character definitely does change at times), plus people he’s collabed with and referred to as friends seem to eventually disappear (except for Ethan, he seems to be the one who’s always stuck through it all)

Basically he’s got some demons that I really hope he’s been able to find healthier ways to cope with

Big Clive might fill that gap for you. He does teardowns of dodgey electronics, and remains extremely down to earth, making good commentary about cost effectiveness and energy efficiency. For a while recently he was on a kick of trying to reverse engineer every single LED light bulb design and show how to modify them to run the LEDs less hard making them last much longer and run more efficiently (with reduced light output of course)

He also uploaded a video without warning describing his experience caring for his mother as she passed from Alzheimers. That video with his down to earth way of describing things really helped me to better understand dementia not long before I had family members start declining from dementia

I still don’t understand why he closed his AirBNB mountain bike retreat.

He described in his move out video feeling it was morally dubious to have perfectly good housing stock as an AirBnB when someone could be living there.

Like I get it, I’m at the point where I’m starting to look at long term investments and long term financial planning and having a small ADU or second home starts looking real smart really quick especially if you can cover the costs by renting it out or putting it on AirBnB, but you also have to consider the moral aspects.

Dude when they first launched Channel Super Fun it was like frat bro style activities they were engaging in that you’d be hard pressed to get HR to sign off on. I remember they basically kept dogging on one of their first work permit holders who was working on immigrating. I think his name was Dennis? Like yeah he clearly was straight out of college and lacked life skills but holy shit they took it way past playful teasing, and that’s just what happened on camera that they felt fine to post.

I knew a family growing up who’d check out movies from the library instead of Blockbuster usually, and as DVDs became more relevant they kept going for VHS tapes because they were less likely to be scratched to unreadability. I can’t remember how much my family went for VHS tapes vs DVDs but it may have been purely based on availability. I do however remember my dad had a strong preference for widescreen despite our setup letterboxing widescreen films (like most home theaters of the day) and quite a few times being sent back to swap the full screen release I grabbed for the wide screen one

For any young’uns reading, in the early 2000s with broadcasters shifting from transmitting a 4:3 image to a 16:9 image, home media soon followed but since many people didn’t yet have hardware supporting widescreen, fullscreen releases typically had the edges chopped off to fit in a 4:3 aspect ratio while widescreen saw less cropping compared to the version seen in theatres, but then for older home theatre hardware that only knows 4:3 video formats it would have black bars on the top and bottom whereas fullscreen would of course fill a 4:3 screen

We have ways of making you pronounce the letter O

Would a safety deposit box at a bank be an appropriate option for your off-site backups?

I mean, the Climax was a pretty sweet geared locomotive for usecases where you just need to haul a ton of stuff over rough track with one very light engine. Now they just use trucks and call it a day

Hey you can recreate the experience by simply going to your local library, except most libraries have eliminated late fees and there’s of course no checkout fees either

an end to the looming threat of nuclear annihilation and before the start of the “war on terror”

There’s an underappreciated film that came out during this period called Canadian Bacon, one of John Candy’s last films. Basically the president of the United States is trying to improve his approval rating as the military industrial complex is imploding and sending the nation into a recession, so he drums up a cold war with Canada instead. Its honestly a brilliant time capsule of geopolitical sentiments at the time, as well as funny as hell

So I’ve started really enjoying theatres post-pandemic. It comes down to going to the right theatre and not going to a super packed premier night showing. I’ll usually attend a weekend matinee or a weeknight showing of something that’s about to drop from the theatre cycle when it’s not very busy and you don’t have to fight for seats. Going rate is like $18 per ticket for a nicer theatre which if you only go 2-4 times a year like I do is perfectly agreeable

Now I could see someone who goes weekly or biweekly really not liking the theatre experience these days but that’s not me

Lol I never went to a movie theater in my entire life. Am I missing out on anything?

Honestly going to the movie theatre is an experience best had with friends/family/dates. I regularly check the schedules at a few local and not so local theatres and make plans with friends if there’s something we want to see. Usually it ends up being one of the times they replay some older films (for example many of the Studio Ghibli films get theatre time at least once a year and it’s a wonderful way to see those beautiful films) because there just aren’t many new movies I want to see coming out.

For an rail network that runs 24/7 they’re going to have crews specifically to wake up should there be a problem on the busiest sections of mainline as this hoax indicated there were. That’s a significant amount of dollars burned if they close the line due to a citizen reporting heavy damage to the bridge, and just waiting until 8am on the next business day to actually look at anything.

I strongly suspect what happened was they woke up their on-call inspectors (or scrambled an inspector who worked nights, which a rail network may very well have) informed them of photos circulating showing significant structural damage to this 150 year old viaduct, so they roll up and see the exact same viaduct in the exact same shape it’s been in for their entire life and call up their boss and say “oy you wakin me up for this shiv? The bridge is bloody fine! Check your sauces mate!” (And after reporting that it was a hoax probably went and did a more thorough inspection to make sure their bases were covered)

This is the real consideration, depending on your career so far, such a role might be easier just left off the resume. But they did say it was an internship so they likely have no good career experience to speak for. Personally, I’d aim for purely talking about the experience and just say that “the internship ended”