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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Don’t you know that women can’t be electricians? It messes with the ovaries.

(Very big /S just in case someone isn’t paying attention)

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

I would love for everyone to stop wanting to be influencers.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Said the fucking influencer wannabe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm going to influence the next election and no one will stop me

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Can women please stop trying to be OnlyFans models we need mothers and emotional support I'm begging you

Also +1 for those who pointed out how weirdly gendered this post was

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

false dilemma, you can be an electrician influencer.

that's like all I get on tiktok now is people showing off their finishing touches.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or on youtime with our one and true eyebrow: ELECTROBOOM

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine having your home's electics done by Electroboom. I think I'd rather try my luck by doing the electronics myself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Solution: promise a nice tool if nothing breaks. I am sure then he is very careful

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what are you doing as an electrician influencer? Influence the meaty-chlorians to charge your devices?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

here is a video about electrobooms holidays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFrMcYX6IV4
i think it is funny

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh nice, ragebait. That surely brings back the authentic Reddit feeling.

/s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And my axe! I also choose this guy's dead wife!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This! Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know it's a joke but these comments gave me a visceral reaction

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? Lots of women work in trades. I actually thought pointlessly gendered had come to Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Being an influencer today, is the modern day equivalent to going to Hollywood wanting to be a star in the 80s

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Mechanics get no bitches tho, influencers are swimming in orbiter pussy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Let's have no influencers, FTFY

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go learn a trade then. Be the change.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Ain't no rule stating ladies can't pick up a wrench.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Anti-feminist take.

[–] Abrslam 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a man who mildy electrocuted himself working on his own house yesterday I must say I'd rather be an influencer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm going to be annoying and tell you that you were mildly shocked, not electrocuted. "Electrocute" specifically refers to lethal exposure to electricity, as a portmanteau of "electric" and "execute".

Though I think the word is starting to go the way of "literally".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If electrocution is lethal, mild electrocution would be sub-lethal and just make you with you were dead, yes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Am an electrician, we say electrocuted, shocked, or zapped depending on severity. I can tell you none of my coworkers who have been electrocuted died. Why be pendantic, when its rarely used in that sense.

Also a lethal amount of voltage can be damn near any voltage, dc, or ac. So still technically correct. Being hit by 240, or 120, can most certainly kill you. It just rarely does so unless something goes very wrong.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Also incorrect. It's to be injured or killed by electric shock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

But are you also a mechanic? Cuz we need both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel influenced.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Electrician here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Doesn't pay enough and the hours are insane

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even when they enter the trades, some of them are still dreaming of becoming influencers. We had a builder at our house who popped up when I was scrolling through TIk Tok. We were talking one day about how he was going off on his own as a builder and all of a sudden we were talking about what was clearly his real dream of becoming some kind of car influencer.

[–] Abrslam 1 points 1 year ago

Of course I know that. And I did die. Just mildly. WooooooOOOOOOOooooooo!

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