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    10 days ago

    My brother in law died recently. He is the only member of my family I gave a shit about. He worked for a few years at a place where they made light poles. I visited him once. It was a toxic nightmare. He left that job to work for Terminix. He worked there for nearly a decade. He died last year of cancer after a years long battle at 60.

    I worked in my twenties at chemical plants, power boilers and nuke plants. I didn’t quit even after I noticed how all these people who were twenty to thirty years older than me were dying and how they were dying. I quit when three other men in my age group two of them very healthy and one who was a alcoholic died within months of each other after being doused with chemicals when they cut into a void while wrecking out a storage tank at a 3M plant I had worked at.

    Now thirty years later all of the friends I knew who were boilermakers during that time are gone including one who now that I look back on it was a father figure to me.



  • Thts nice. Reddit has become a blocked at the router experience. I’ve started blocking a lot of this shitty aggregation of tech garbage. I really need to take the time to limit google more. Most will never see the reason for doing so but for me its quite satisfying to click and link and have it throw up a generic block landing page. I stripped my landing page down to the bare essentials if I ever have need of unblocking a link. Reddit, reddit gets no consideration at all.