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[–] Droggelbecher 207 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Sheltac 22 points 2 years 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)

[–] ghariksforge 102 points 2 years ago
[–] TheLobotomist 80 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Said the fucking influencer wannabe

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Tenthrow 69 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years 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] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or on youtime with our one and true eyebrow: ELECTROBOOM

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Strolleypoley 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years 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] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

/s

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] tox_solid 20 points 2 years ago

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

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

I feel influenced.

[–] dmmeyournudes 17 points 2 years ago

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

[–] PM_STEAM_KEYS 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Go learn a trade then. Be the change.

[–] Doherz 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Let's have no influencers, FTFY

[–] AlaskaMan 9 points 2 years ago

Anti-feminist take.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years 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.

[–] TommySalami 5 points 2 years 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] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] VirulentAura 0 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Be the change you want to see.

[–] UserNotFound 6 points 2 years ago

Electrician here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] JohnnyKatswell 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Doesn't pay enough and the hours are insane

[–] tox_solid 1 points 2 years ago

I think I'll do none of these things.

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

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