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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I already wear a smart watch and use the vibrate reminders. It’s not particularly effective. After a lifetime in the harsh sun, there ain’t a lot of feeling left. Maybe once out of three times I might notice the vibration if I’m not distracted doing life things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a boomer with tinnitus, (I’ve had since maybe 4 years old), and now hearing loss, I can’t hear shit on my cell phone at 50% volume. And I have alarms set to remind me to take certain inhalers at set times during the day, (Thanks Long Covid!). So, yeah, I have the volume up enough to probably piss you off. It pisses me off too-- I hate those things and having to live like this. But it’s not like turning the volume off or down is really an option for me.

  But chances are I probably forgot the damn thing at home anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibes based cooking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is soon a great winnowing of craft distilleries coming also. There is a glut of barrels growing in rick houses are we speak and production is dropping. MGP, (probably the largest producer of custom/aged spirits for “craft” whisk(e)y brands in the US), has announced large cut backs in their production. The market share for spirits is declining in the US as the younger customers are swinging away from spirits to other types of intoxicants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibes based cooking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly because they can’t be good at all of them. And there were/are a lot of bad brewers out there that don’t care about mastering the craft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibes based cooking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The “craft” part got killed in the commercialization of the genre. So it’s become the modern version of Pabst. And there is a contraction of micro breweries at the moment as beer drinkers are slowly learning to pass on all the crap out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibes based cooking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that I hate IPAs, I don’t per se. I’ve home brewed IPAs for myself even though I prefer ales. The problem started with micro breweries trying to out do each other in seeing just how much hopps could be jackhammered into a beer. And it’s turned beer drinkers in pretentious snobs because they have no clue in what the reason is for IPAs to even exist in the first place or even how it’s supposed to originally taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibes based cooking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost always follow a new recipe the first time around to understand what the dish is generally supposed to be. After that, I start riffing off of it to make it what I want it to be. But you gotta know which general direction the dish was originally headed before you can successfully play with it if you’re a Home Gamer in the kitchen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While it’s possible to special order Imperial thread standard spanners, it’s unlikely you are buying those. US Customary screw specifications are a separate thing, (have been so for over 100 years now), and have nothing to do with Imperial anything. There are some sizes that will fit, much as some metric wrench sizes will also fit US Customary and vice versa. But there are bunches of Imperial sizes that have no correlation to US Customary standards for machine screws.

  Source: Old, cranky, retired toolmaker that has had to custom make screws for everything from laboratory equipment, cameras, to antique cars and tractors to 200 year old firearms. I’m familiar with more screw standards than you even know exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t use “Imperial kingdom units.” We use US Customary units which are different. Just like your “metric” system is different from SI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's PC works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My $90US AWOW mini with Celeron J4125, 8 gigs of shared memory, 128gig SSD seems to run FreeDoom as good as any of the other potatos them GamerBoi fancy water cooled custom boxes have…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feel the Joy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She made a great career out of playing “everyone’s mom” .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feel the Joy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Piss jugs are a thing for truckers. Ain’t got time to stop to pee, you guys all expect your ordered shit to be across country in minutes after the order is placed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for answers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Violence is always a valid answer. It’s just not always the best answer. The problem with violence is it’s been proven time and time again to be impossible to control and hold to a limited use since there are no cool heads at that point. Nor do specific targets exist-- just collateral damage.

  And no successful revolutionary has ever had a sound plan for after the victory beyond “I want the power now.” And they can either hold the power or not. But the idea of “for the good of the people” gets put to the side pretty quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My money is on fusion before proper socialism.

  There is always someone willing to twist the rules and game the system to get more money and power than everyone else. The 1% have always existed and so have the worker class. It will always shake out to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wash my hands for nearly a minute. But most of that time is spent trying to get those stupid no touch faucets to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They often are partially recycled material. But recycled paper isn’t like recycling aluminum or steel. There are limits to how often and how much of the cycled material you can add back to make useful paper products.

  But paper towels can and does make great compost as most gardeners know. And a properly run landfill is a compost pile. But you need to keep the nasty garbage out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes you can assume all people don’t wash their hands correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1+1=⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If they did, they wouldn’t need engineers.

  But it’s more of a division of labor I think.

  It is the job of the scientist to discover a new idea. It is the job of an engineer to kill enough people to make the idea just safe enough to turn loose on the public.

  Remember kiddies, scientific principles are written in ink. Engineering principles are very often written in blood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No need to boil the ocean⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So pasteurization does nothing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intruder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not so sure. Children have a lot of desire and drive to monopolize an adult’s attention and resources. This I think gives any one child a leg up on getting the best resources to survive better. And you can see it when you work with a group of children. They will group around you jostling for the best position to be first and get the best from you. They do of course, get better with age and as they learn patience, but there is still a lack of empathy to be found in their base behavior.

  After all, if you grew up with siblings, I’m quite sure your parents at some point in your early childhood told you “Be nice to your siblings! You love them!” more than once. Or some variation on that theme. And if you are a parent yourself, you have used that phrase at some point also. Because who has better reason to want to “kill” each other than brothers and sisters? They want to get as much of mommy and daddy as possible. Those resources are scarce and your natural drive is to fight to get them.

  And hopefully, as children age they learn to get and show empathy to those around them. Most do, but some never quite manage it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it probably would. They would be interested in just how and why you got a bloody face. And even US cops carry basic medical supplies like a band-aid.

  US cops aren’t the best, but they can and do help with such things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intruder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t actually kill the intruder so that’s something he can probably look forward to either after joining the military or law enforcement.

  But joking aside, children by in large, don’t seem to have much empathy about such things. You can see this in the bullying they do in schools and on the playgrounds. And it doesn’t seem to bother them much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intruder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got no proof other than my personal experiences growing up and observing kids while teaching them in groups at a school.

  Children by in large seem to have little empathy for others. Children have little to no problem with bullying others without any emotional issues. Even to the point of pushing other kids to suicide. They have little regard for others and even less control over maturity.

  I think empathy is something that you develop as you grow older. It’s more a mark of adulthood than childhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazilian's impression on the united states(i have never been there and this is based on nothing)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Indiana’s main advantage is it’s quick to drive through. It doesn’t take long to get from Illinois to Ohio.

  Though I can’t see a reason to drive through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or anywhere on the east coast as a trucker actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re gonna need a bigger oven…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There was panic about raw milk looonnnggg before Covid. And I if you had read what I wrote, I did say pasteurization IS a good thing and I’m all for it. But it’s just not the evil most think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have owned a dairy herd?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You do understand that ALL dairy farms that sell milk are regularly tested for safety of the milk they sell. This is federally mandated. You miss the thresholds for bacteria counts, you will be dumping all your milk produced until it tests clean again. So those cows can’t be held in very dirty and vile conditions because your milk won’t pass those mandated tests. Slackers go broke and are out of business in short order.

  Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for selling pasteurized milk in stores. The milk you buy in the store can be a week old before you see it on the shelf. But the unreasoning fear of raw milk is just plain ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I certainly don’t miss milking cows, I too miss the insanely rich texture and flavor of that fresh from the cow milk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up on a dairy farm and we drank raw milk every day. I can remember my sisters bringing the milk pitcher to the barn and dipping into the bulk tank of raw milk every morning or so. No one got sick and no one died. We even made butter at home from it after separating the cream. But pasteurization is a good thing for all you urbane urbanites out there. It increases the shelf life and safety for consumption. Plus it reduces number of small dairies near population centers that used to exist. Dairies can be 100+ miles away now. After all, you wouldn’t want to be exposed to the smell of cow shit right?

  Raw milk does taste very different from store bought pasteurized milk, (whole milk ain’t whole). And like shelf stable milk, I doubt anyone of you would like drinking it.