There you go. I had a generator when I had an enclosed trailer it served as a mobile warehouse in the early days of my vending business. The generator ran all day to keep the AC going and it kept the product in the trailer nice and cool.

 

If you're just entering your 20s in age and suffering from consequences of operating equipment just to earn a living, may I suggest a different career? Do it now before you have a wife and kids to pay for and interrupting the cash flow becomes a lot more problematic. Or before you just simply cannot pick up a weed eater any more no matter how badly you need to.

 

Too late. He's already got a gravity well for cash that he very well might have crossed the event horizon already.

 

You've lost that lovin' feeling
Now it's gone... gone... gone... whoa uh oa oo oh.

(Tristan, the above Elvis song has NOTHING to do with you. In about a week or so, this will be made more clear.)

 

@Hyakkimaru

Well, as predicted, it was exactly about a week (six days).

The extra 5 days was me forgetting to check back to see if the poster proved to be a spammer.

The poster did, hence we've lost that lovin' feeling, and now that poster is gone... gone... gone... whoa uh oa oo oh.

Hopefully now it's made more clear.

 

Thank you so much for all of your hard work! We really all appreciate everything you do! You keep our forums safe!

 

Do you think a human wrote that??

Or (puts on tinfoil hat) was it the dreaded AI????

 

I think a human. It is still relatively cumbersome to join FTE and jump through the "I'm a human" captcha and email response hoops to create an account here.

Besides, this kind of spam has been going on at FTE for years prior to ChatGPT being released. Six years ago, there was a brutal tidal wave of spam that washed over FTE, which I still find remnants of to this day.

While the 99-03 sub-forum is remarkably spam free, in the past week, I found and deleted five fresh spammers in the Excursion sub-forum.

Other sub-forums on FTE have been inundated in various waves of bad actors from overseas over the years, and while there are a lot of instances of spam, there are comparatively few persons responsible for creating it.

One particularly prolific overseas source of bad actors is found in India, which as a country is quite fluent in the English language, from over 400 years of British financial influence (the British East India Trading Company was formed in 1599) that imperialistically morphed over the following two centuries to India's abject and total rule under the British Empire in 1858... where that formally recognized rule was sustained until 1947. English was taught in India's schools then, and now.

Yet, wages in India remain pitifully low compared to wages in Europe and the United States. So here we have an English speaking, highly educated populace, earning a pittance for the same intellectual work that would command a king's salary elsewhere.

It is no surprise then, that the CEO's of Google and Microsoft are from India... great examples of Darwinistic survival of the fittest. There is smart, and there is very smart. And very smart isn't necessarily just book smart. The cream of the crop rises to the top.

Anyway, in addition to the H1-B visa program that Silicon Valley high tech companies have been leveraging for decades to bring engineers from India who are more than happy for a higher paid opportunity to do the same work that they would otherwise be doing for a lot less locally, there are thousands upon thousands of companies in India who function as labor in the world wide web sphere. Professional spam farms are among those companies.

These spam farms are subcontractors to marketing companies in the US who promote themselves to businesses large and small as being able to optimize search engine page ranking. This is done by back linking that business on a website that maintains high domain authority, like FTE does. Such a back link must also be associated with topic centric keywords to make the search relevant. That is why older threads are dredged up by spammers, because these threads already contain the relevant (and organic, since they were supplied by you, not them) keywords to make the website of the business they are wanting to promote appear relevant to Google search spiders.

In any given moment, there can be as many as 200 search spiders crawling through every post of FTE. In the middle of the night, there can be more spiders on FTE than registered members. The spiders are bots.

But in a foreign country where rote labor is still cheaper than the authoring of software and the machine to run it, humans still seem to be doing a lot of the dirty work that I find myself cleaning up.

Formal, flawless English is well within the wheelhouse of spam farms in India.

That the English used is almost too formal is one of the clues I use to detect spammers... even though the irony is, my own English should be regarded with equal suspicion, as I am in the habit of formal thinking and writing that I cannot break. My English professor literally wrote the Random House Handbook (the standard of style, grammar, composition, etc of the English language), and with that background, I usually cringe at the drivel I scrawl out now, several decades removed from his influence.

Spammers today have to be pretty good at what they do if they want to put one past FTE.

 

I'm a stickler for grammar, and often write up my posts in LibreOffice Writer and dote on that for style.....

my 8th or 9th grade English teacher put the love of grammar and style into me, and it never left.

I do Beta Reading for book authors on occasion:
Matt Lincoln
Don Rich
Bill Brown
KJ Kalis
and others whom I can't pull out of my skull...


why LO office writer?
I use Linux, divorced Redmond, WA many years ago.

on my m/c forum that have been the Admin of since 2006,
we have the same issues that you speak of.....
Perfect English and Grammar perk my interest, because most folks are using cellphones and type in Run On sentences, that really twists me up.
just can't handle that crap.

 

Thank you for that beautiful explanation. I remember in the early days of e-mail and possibly even snail mail, getting offers for things like a relative you didn’t know about in Europe passed away and left you money....... These were riddled with poor English, grammar and punctuation. Someone once explained that helped weed out the smarter people.

I apologize for makin’ you read my redneck forum-grammar and punctuation!

I admire your writing style and always appreciate your wit - when it doesn’t go over my head!

 

In my first class in engineering, the prof asked if any of us had a copy of Strunk and White. He made it clear that sloppy writing would not be tolerated. He had arranged for the first 10 mechanical engineering students to get a free copy. He pointed out the Random House Handbook was an acceptable alternative, but insisted on S&W because of its compact size. He didn't want another large book to be an excuse why we didn't have one "within reach" at all times.

 

I just bought in the Kindle eReader format for the horrible price, of $0.99

love my Kindle membership.