Craig Moore
Mandu 🥟can't tell me this isn't skilled labor 🥑💨
Shantell Powell@yurnidiot mad skills.
YOGA~ZEN 🙏@yurnidiot
But, it would be going to die in a proxy war...
But, it would be going to die in a proxy war...
mirabilos
Jan 'Maub' Kap. 🦄🥔
Deer Witch@yurnidiot when this blows up if everyone could follow @ufwupdates I’d be so hyped.
Idk if this is a UFW worker, but the United farm workers are USA’s first and largest agricultural union & deserve so much more fedi love.
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦At least as skilled as running around with a ball getting your brain mushed to the consistency of soft cheese by other skilled people.
MaybeMyMonkeys@yurnidiot you don’t want to know what it would cost to buy and program (even with AI) a robot that could do all that. Pay them more money.
Calum@MaybeMyMonkeys @yurnidiot I'm all for paying skilled labourers more money, but machines that can grade and pack fruit and veg have also been around for decades.
@scottishwildcat @yurnidiot true but scale is a factor
Wayne Werner@yurnidiot if #UndercoverBoss has taught me anything, it's that all "unskilled labor" is harder than any CEO's can do
Texty the Bard@ketmorco @yurnidiot I used to do call center stuff. One place I was at hired a manager that had zero call center experience. We were utterly swamped one day, and could have used his help on the lines, but he had no idea whatsoever what we actually did. So he just sat there at his desk, staring at us and otherwise being completely useless.
Bet that fucker also couldn't have talked down some of the screaming clients we had to deal with, either. Customer service is its own set of special skills.
Ricki Yasha Tarr@yurnidiot That is mesmerizing.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIEScontext:
harvesting #durian in the #philippines or #thailand
someone up high is cutting off the fruit and dropping it down
it's a heavy hard fruit, a hit to the noggin is definitely life threatening, and durian has killed
it also has lots of big sharp spikes, that's how it catches in the burlap
i'd be dead within the first hour of work
the view of the #durian harvesting process from the guy or gal up in the tree:
GoodNewsGreyShoes🔞(on hiatus)@benroyce @yurnidiot 👀‼️
Good LORD - the SPEED on those fuckers... 😳
It would be SO flippin' easy to just *slightly* misjudge your catch & take a Bowser nut to the knee/shin 😬🦴
Or if it drops before someone's ready? 🫣
Note: apparently durian trees grow over *FORTY METERS* tall in the wild, but are typically kept to 20 m in orchards.
v = √(2gd) = √(2*9.81 m/s²*20 m)
v = √(392.4 m²/s²) = 19.8 m/s
19.8 m/s = 71.3 km/h = 44.3 mph
...yeah that fruit could end you.👀💀
#durian kills a surprisingly high number of people
this is an article from 2013, somebody just taking a brief media survey and finding 8 deaths
people are scared of sharks
they need to be scared of murderous fruit
also in the article: death by consuming durian. it's high in potassium. if you have a heart condition, probably like the middle aged men mentioned who died, or kidney issues, you should not overconsume durian
https://www.yearofthedurian.com/2013/01/durian-obituaries-of-2012.html
Death By Fruit | When Durian Really Does Kill People - Year of the Durian
Durian has a bad reputation – and not only for it’s smell. At first we believed rumors of people dying from durian to be a myth, but sadly, yes, our beloved fruit is a bit of a murderer. While Rob and I romped around Asia sampling durian, the media reported on six individuals who met […]
Glenn Bone@GoodNewsGreyShoes ”Bowser nut" is inspiring me to draw for reasons...
"This Bowser nut could end you" does have some WILDLY different interpretations!😏
(Also: because I'm a massive nerd, I did more maths on the fruitfall:
The most powerful 9 mm bullet weighs 3.9 g & travels at 610 m/s (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%C3%9719mm_Parabellum )
Kinetic energy of a 9 mm bullet = ½*m*v² = 0.5*0.0039kg*(610m/s)² = 729 J
Avg. durian weighs ~4 kg
Ek of a falling durian = 0.5*4kg*(19.8m/s)² = 784 J
I.e. an average Bowser nut is more forceful than the fastest 9 mm bullet. 😂)
@GoodNewsGreyShoes lmao my mind went to very different places. Mostly to doing drawings of Bowsette. But I very much appreciate the maths. 😸
@glennbone Oh don't you worry, I'm right with you there! ♥️😏🍆
John Lusk@benroyce @yurnidiot @Shanmonster
And that's the one closest to the trunk? Hard pass. Way too reminiscent of last night's nightmare.
Jacob@benroyce @yurnidiot Jeepers! 😳 These are spiked stink grenades!
Julie@benroyce @yurnidiot That is terrifying
Sir Toootenstein@benroyce @yurnidiot Durian is also something I’ve got to try (eat, not harvest) some day
@benroyce @yurnidiot I doubt I can get it at anything resembling the right ripeness level in Europe though.
But, mmmmh garlic 🧄😻
@mirabilos @yurnidiot get it frozen. any asian grocery store probably has it. also small package/ a lot cheaper and if you don't like it you aren't stuck with a whole damn stinking durian. won't be the same but at least it will be what it's supposed to be rather than underripe/ overripe
glasspshr@yurnidiot this guy should be turning double plays
Pauxlll Kruczynski@glasspusher @yurnidiot that may actually be a gal. Either way, they’re great
Julescelt@yurnidiot All labor is skilled labor...especially in today's technologically driven society.
I'm always in awe of people who can do their jobs with this level of skill.
@julescelt01 @yurnidiot I generally agree, but have had one exception. I was once a seat-filler for an awards show. That is genuinely unskilled labour. I was paid to sit in a chair.
Deus@yurnidiot "Our environmental friendly e-robotic arm can do that." - some TechBro
zilla@yurnidiot beautiful to behold. Those who call this unskilled and low wage can jump in a lake.
LongJohnSilver
C.S.StrowbridgeI couldn't find the exact quote, but it was something like, "Labour only seems unskilled if you've never seen someone with skill do it well."
Marcos Dione@csstrowbridge @yurnidiot in this case the skill is impressive, but sometimes the skill is subtle. Take a lumberjack. Almost anyone can take an ax and throw a few hacks at a trunk. Some might be able to chop down one tree. But few will be able to do it 8h a day 5 days a week¹ for years. If you don't learn the skill, you hurt yourself and end up not being able to do your job anymore.
¹ I'm assuming a 9to5 work schedule; I have no idea what a real lumberjack schedule is.
Yep. Poor training and poor fitness can lead to more injuries.
Dec [{(
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The ax is mostly used for knocking wedges into the back cut, just after you removed some of the front of the trunk with a big enough chainsaw. The wedges adjust the tree's centre of gravity above the remaining hinge wood. You are fully aware of each tree's centre of gravity because you looked up (and maybe walked around) before you started cutting. The gentle creak of a hinge failing should be audible because you switched your chainsaw off before using wedges.
The ax is mostly used for knocking wedges into the back cut, just after you removed some of the front of the trunk with a big enough chainsaw. The wedges adjust the tree's centre of gravity above the remaining hinge wood. You are fully aware of each tree's centre of gravity because you looked up (and maybe walked around) before you started cutting. The gentle creak of a hinge failing should be audible because you switched your chainsaw off before using wedges.
@dec23k @csstrowbridge @yurnidiot there, you see? one thinks it's just a matter of hacking but in fact it's a whole science.
@mdione @csstrowbridge @yurnidiot
I tried to keep that reply to one toot, so the tree-work skills described are limited to on-the-ground felling, the kind of work that a lumberjack in a managed forest (where all the trees are perfectly vertical) would be doing all day.
There's also climbing work, and arborist work, where you are closer to buildings and roads and buried utility lines and untrained humans (none of which should ever be in the path of a falling tree if you can help it).
I tried to keep that reply to one toot, so the tree-work skills described are limited to on-the-ground felling, the kind of work that a lumberjack in a managed forest (where all the trees are perfectly vertical) would be doing all day.
There's also climbing work, and arborist work, where you are closer to buildings and roads and buried utility lines and untrained humans (none of which should ever be in the path of a falling tree if you can help it).
@mdione @csstrowbridge @yurnidiot
I am in no way any kind of a tree worker.
All of what I wrote above, I learned from watching videos online.
All of the tree work that I have ever done, was done using hand tools that I could carry. Anything more serious than that and I'm going to call in a trained and licensed professional.
I'm sure there are people around the world who can fell a tree with just an axe, but anyone who is getting paid to do it every day has at least a chainsaw.
Ángela Stella MatutinaI fell in love.
@angelastella @yurnidiot I would rather live next to this person than a lot of the people in my neighborhood.
Absolutely!
Mast0b1t
Erwin Rossen 🔸@yurnidiot Impressive indeed! Too bad that the video editor tampered with the video speed, so you can't see their real speed.
@erwinrossen @yurnidiot Unless they also changed the angle of her head, how fast she does it doesn't really matter.
@Belafon @yurnidiot Don't get me wrong, I am still impressed!
spmatich vk3spm 
@yurnidiot like watching a juggler
Samhain Night@yurnidiot There's no such thing as unskilled labor, there's only undervalued labor.
Mrs Raven
Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦@cassandracorvid @yurnidiot "I'm from headquarters and I'm here to help". Sure.
CurroFaiter@yurnidiot Mola :)
Putos aguacates >:(
Sonja Lemke@yurnidiot unskilled labor is myth created by the capitalist for exploiting the working class.
Mélani (Melanie) Bjornsdottir (she, ŝi)@yurnidiot not at all. just dramatically underpaid. this is avocado packing raised to an art form and it should get the recognition (by which I mean big bucks that even artists aren’t normally given) it deserves
Collette@yurnidiot if this is why avocadoes are 1.50 each I would be okay. Sadly it's not
Ms Ngo@yurnidiot Honestly, *all labor* is skilled. Calling some labor “unskilled” is just class warfare.
Josh@yurnidiot Where can I get a carton of hand grenades? 🤔
Marcus@yurnidiot transformer un homme en machine à remplir des caisses de fruits n’a rien de valorisant. On admire sa dextérité, on oublie qu’elle est le résultat de son asservissement.