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@bluewing@lemm.ee
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 1 day ago:
Because dying from smoking weed isn’t available in all places…
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 4 days ago:
So would I need up upgrade to First Class to get that kind of service?
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 5 days ago:
I don’t know about how much fat it might take, but my 2 knee surgeries and both my deteriorating hip joints, (been searching eBay for a good used hip joint for cheap), tell me that standing for 2 hours is a painful idea.
- Comment on You just want a break sometimes 1 week ago:
That maybe worse to remember and harder to make a habit to do.
- Comment on You just want a break sometimes 1 week ago:
So, did you do the monthly maintenance on the generator? Do you run it for 10 or 15 minutes every month to be sure it starts and runs?
- Comment on Polar bears 2 weeks ago:
This is truer than you know. Well, the killing a polar bear part.
When Eskimos really got modern metallic cartridge firearms post WW2, they for some reason decided that the .223 Remington cartridge, (precursor of the 5.56 NATO round), was the best thing ever to hunt with. And you can be positive more than one polar bear got itself killed by the mommy of the the 5.56 NATO. And a bolt action rifle in .223 remains popular with them to this day.
- Comment on Polar bears 2 weeks ago:
Close enough that we probably bred them out of existence. Neanderthal genetic markers show up with some regularity in certain modern human populations.
- Comment on Polar bears 2 weeks ago:
There are enough of them that I no longer go in certain areas of the forest unless I’m armed. And I always have 2 arms on me at all times.
- Comment on Polar bears 2 weeks ago:
In that kind of cold, body mass matters for keeping warm. You need to be bigger to survive and they aren’t really over powered for their environment.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even work for dissolving rusted pistons or valves!
- Comment on Prices are out of control 3 weeks ago:
Real men drink Old Granddad BiB. As a bonus it will make the best Old Fashioned you will ever have.
- Comment on Anon owns a fan 4 weeks ago:
You know, you only need to be around 5% smarter than the tool you are using to be successful with it. Humanity is right fuckered isn’t it?
- Comment on Philosophy moment 4 weeks ago:
I’m thinking 3/4oz #8 birdshot is the zeroday attack.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 4 weeks ago:
But it does work in an electrically challenged environment when the latency of the internet is infinite. But it can be hacked by 3/4oz #8 birdshot.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 5 weeks ago:
Half the programs I needed to use in Windows 3.1, and 3.11 required a DOS prompt to run. It wasn’t until NT that almost all software caught up enough to not need that DOS prompt so much. Although AutoCAD R9 ran like crap in NT on the 386 with math co-processor. So I needed to reboot into DOS every time I needed CAD.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 5 weeks ago:
So, DOS?
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 5 weeks ago:
How much extra does that cost?
- Comment on Anon describes their dream home 5 weeks ago:
No.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
If you are wondering if others are on the road with you, you’re doing it wrong.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
Turn signals are cool. But let’s ignore the fact I live in a very rural area and there is often no one within miles of me when driving. In that case, who am I going to signal to? That suicidal deer in the ditch? That’s the last SOB I want to have any clue about where I’m going. But anywhere I meet or see traffic I do use them. And definitely the once a month trip I make to a real town.
I do not, as a rule, place any great amount of faith in turn signals. And that paranoia has saved me more than once. Far too often I have seen a driver with a turn signal blinking merrily blow past me either straight ahead or turn in the opposite direction. Had I believed those signals, I would have been tee-boned.
The only thing I believe in is the direction your steer tires are turned. Turns out your vehicle will go in the direction they are pointing. Any of you new drivers, this is an excellent safe driving tip. Pay attention to the steer tires. Those tires will tell you the truth about the real intentions of another driver.
In any case always remember-- it’s just as easy to be dead being dead right as it is being dead wrong. Be safe out there…
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
So many perfectly working older computers are going to be headed to the landfill as e-waste. That’s the horrible part.
What a waste tech dollars just to play some stupid game.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 month ago:
They still taste good. So they got that going for them I guess.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
I grew up a poor farm boy, so we never had a VCR when I was a kid. And they really weren’t a thing anyway when I was young. And according to my Father, us kids were the remote!
Did you ever peer into the back of the TV when a tube would burn out and your Dad would pull the cabinet out, then remove the back and try to see which tube didn’t light up when the set was powered up? It was a marvelous sight! It often took us a few days before we would get to town before we could stop into the local drug store that had a tube tester and had a selection of the common tubes to buy.
- Comment on Clean butt 1 month ago:
That’s what I love about mine. Automatic lid raise and lower as you walk in, heated ring and water, (both adjustable temp), air dry, (again heated), and charcoal filtered air filtration to minimize the stench from that drive through burrito.
It’s the posh life. Very nearly the equal to having your own chamberlain.
- Comment on Clean butt 1 month ago:
You need to use the power washer setting. Takes the paint right off the wall…
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
I was thinking of even older things.
The feel of the keys and staccato sounds of a mechanical typewriter.
The sound of a wringer/washer machine
The muffled sound of my am band 9 transistor pocket radio “hiding” under my pillow late at night for as long as the 9V battery would last (I loved the Mystery Radio Theater show that started at 10pm)
The soft crackling sound of a tube black and white TV as all the tubes warmed up. (And the time it took to do so)
The sound and smell of the percolator coffee pot in the morning
The sound of a wooden screen slamming shut
The smell and sound of a mimeograph machine printing copies in the school/church office (And the slight buzz you could get from copy fluid-- Petroleum aromatics Yum!)
Doing my math homework with a slide rule.
The smell of a fresh fired paper hull shotgun shell on a cold crisp late fall morning
And so much more that no longer exists.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
A perfect zero. I have done all of those things and more that the creator of that list can’t even imagine. Things that were everyday common but have faded beyond memory, (and aren’t missed at all).
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 month ago:
Maybe round it up yo 4 just to be safe…
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Ask your city clerk about it. That person can tell you what the city/county/township meeting format is and how to participate. But basically, you go to the meeting, bring some photos to support your claim, and discuss the matter like a civil human being. It’s not rocket surgery. You don’t need a lawyer either.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
It’s pretty easy to dodge property taxes also.