GET me OUTTA HERE

This is *exactly* what I was talking about in my previous reblog of this post. Lifechanging medicine being used as a Hot New Trend for The Perfect Beach Body is deeply disturbing. It's like when people started doing adderall as a party drug, and just like how folks with ADHD get looked at as drug addicts, now people taking glp-1s get looked at as trying to be better than everyone else.

Because difference in heat intensity and welding patterns create something entirely and beautifully unique with each scar, none are ever so alike between different bots or cons.

LIKE!!! LOOK AT ALL OF THESE????

I FULLY believe each medic has a unique welding "tell" due to blend of learning different techniques and preferred materials to the point that an experienced bot can identify the medic who fix you up based on the welds/patch jobs you received

If you’re welding for what is medical reasons you gotta have one hell of an eye for it and steady as hell hand because one slip could be potentially hours of grinding. Along with that slag is generated with each pass, so not only are they being welded, they’re all being brushed against to knock off the slag which is intimate as hell, but also potentially frustrating if the slag gets stuck, cleaner passes like those above will have very easy to knock off slag, but those with less experience and are doing more grungy less skilled passes might have to spend longer trying to force off slag.

You can’t just weld over slag, trapped slag causes structural issues, creating holes and corrosion. Potentially worth the risk if it’s an immediate emergency of life or death, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it resulted in some kind of chronic pain, especially since to get it fixed, they’re basically going to have to spend hours grinding away and removing the weld.

A lot of the above welds are definitely gorgeous, but they can definitely take a lot longer and be riskier then more basic passes. Which could also be a show of status/seriousness of injury, and while you could 100% have rainbow and colorful scar welds in your story and have them fully fine all the time, it’s a story after all, but rainbow welds irl are also a sign of oxidization and brittleness so they’d likely be more of a cosmetic choice, like a kind of tattoo more then a scar. It’s not always inherently weaker depending on how deeply oxidized it is, but it’s definitely a risk.

Also the idea of in the vein of stick and poke, dumb robots trying to weld designs onto each other that they will regret within two months because of how poor the quality is makes me laugh.

Especially in more fast rushed life or death stakes, defects are probably not unlikely, which can range from “frustrating but not detrimental” to “needs to be removed and reapplied in better safe conditions as soon as viable”

First thing the sales guy did after I laid down the rules was turn to Sean and go, "What's your number?" And Sean said. "Oh, no, you negotiate with Gayle."

So, strike one for the sales guy. Could not divide and conquer us by implying THE MAN would not surprised at what I laid down.

Sales guy then had to confer with his manager and left us at his desk for several minutes. I have a vague recollection (this was 16 years ago) of Sean and I amusing ourselves doing bits about the other people there to look at cars. I am sure we did not give off the stressed or nervous energy they were hoping for.

Guy comes back. His first offer is fifty dollars a month more than I told him we could pay. I looked at him and said "I gave you our upper limit."

"Well, but what's another 50 bucks a month?"

"Something I can't afford."

He didn't know what to do with my open and unashamed admittal that I had a budget because my money was finite.

He went back to talk to the manager again.

It took two more rounds of "I told you what I can afford" before he finally came back 20 bucks under what I'd stated as my max.

You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts

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