• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Life pro tip for those nocturnal. Even those nocturnal folks need to mow their lawns. For modestly sized lawns, a scythe can be a great option! It’s also perfectly legal to mow your lawn with a scythe at three in the morning, dressed in a long black hooded robe.

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      23 days ago

      To have some visibility, you can use one or two of these head strap lights. But make sure they are red, to not lose night vision

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        23 days ago

        In many cities, nighttime noise level is limited by decibel level. But even low-level noise is allowed if below some level. So you could have some extremely quiet speakers gently wafting spooky sounds while you do this. Or if that’s a bridge too far, whose to say you don’t personally just like listening to Gregorian chants and quiet levels while you work?

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    I worked 3rds for ages. Everything the meme says is true. But aside from health issues that could potentially popup… Folks don’t understand that it’s 4pm and in the middle of your “night”

    I had to remove everyone from my permitted list when my phone was on DnD. My mother, for example, would call at 2pm and ask what I was doing… She never could understand that I was asleep.

    I was always the DD for when people wanted to go out… because “you’re awake normally” which is fine. But maybe I want a beer or two at the bar as well.

    It’s the small things that weigh on you… and if you’re in a relationship… You’ll never see your partner except when they are sliding into the bed and you’re getting up.

    Glad I did it for so long… but I’d never do it again.

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      23 days ago

      I would do 12 x 12 nights on a mine. Saw some cool shit. Light pillars, and northern lights like you wouldn’t believe. A few lynx.

      Wouldn’t do it again unless you at least tripled my salary. Nightshift gut is awful. feeling like you’ve got a sandbox in your eyes also sucks. Nothing like changing a tire on a pickup in -50C with no one around… Two nights in a row to support day shift.

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        23 days ago

        Dude that “support day shift” shit is real. Like mofos you couldn’t even work if wasn’t here. Have some mfing gratitude. Lol

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      23 days ago

      My mother, for example, would call at 2pm and ask what I was doing… She never could understand that I was asleep.

      This problem is easily solved by following the golden rule

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    23 days ago

    “The day is ok and the sun can be fun, but I live to see those rays slip away”

    From “I Love the Night” - Blue Oyster Cult

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    By the Authority of Night Shift Gremlins HQ thatericalper is hereby stripped of their Night Shift Membership for sharing classified information with Day Walkers. They are also expelled from all Nocturnal Activities under pain of Pain. Should they be seen engaging in nocturnal activity outside of their personal domicile all Night Shift Gremlins in witness are obligated under article 13 subsection Scarlet-7-Mentos-19 to use all necessary force to cease the offending nocturnal activity and return the offender to a NSG approved Class-3 holding cell where they will be held until daybreak when an automated system will release them into the light of day where they rightfully belong. Repeated violations will incur severe non-life threatening yet highly inconvenient punishments.

    Thus is our way.

    Fuck the Sun. Shun the Day Walkers.

    /signed, Thadious Methweazel. Adjunct Arch-Gremlin.

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      23 days ago

      Night owls are also an oppressive class. Drag lives somewhere with thin walls and can’t get to sleep until the night owls are ready too. The parties are the worst.

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          No, the problem could easily be solved by builders putting in proper insulation. They’re not assholes for preferring a different schedule to drag. But the decisions of the political class to permit bad insulation have forced them into conflict with drag in which drag is oppressed. Politicians have transformed drag’s neighbours into oppressors.

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      No, in some areas it is still very much real. I’ve had several friends who needed to dip around 17:00 or 18:00 because the latency of the online games we played got too variable. This is in Western countries.