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Cake day: June 7th, 2025

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  • Are you talking about noise canceling headphones or earmuffs with audio pass through? I have both and they’re very different things. Noise canceling headphones are not rated for hearing protection (most of the time) and do use active noise canceling. But that can’t fight the pressure of a gunshot. Earmuffs with audio pass through are pretty simple. They’re just regular ear muffs that are rated for hearing protection and just have a mic that plays what it picks up to a certain level.










  • I had to do install drawings/instructions at my last job. The number of times I just wanted to put “install according to all local codes”. I’m looking at 15 year old architectural drawings, never seen the building, don’t know shit about where anything actually is. They’re big boys and will figure it out. I was in aerospace before that and was like we did less documentation. I hate MEP.






  • I’ll go ahead and explain this for anyone who doesn’t understand. This is what’s called a velvet ant or a cow killer. They’re generally ranked in the top 10 most painful stings that aren’t guaranteed to kill you. They’re wingless wasps. Getting stung on your arm or leg will give you a core memory but probably not kill you. The reason they kill cows is because the cows eat them and get stung in the throat. They’re very docile though so I pick them up.