Bluewing
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- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 day ago:
What I find hilariously, self-centered and tone deaf, funny is they announced the engagement on a day when across the NFL players were getting cut and losing their jobs across the league on cut down day.
40 of Kelsy’s team mates lost their jobs on that day. But I suppose overshadowing that got the NFL more clicks and eyeballs.
- Comment on Not stealing 5 days ago:
So the poor others should do the breeding while the wealthy limit their offspring to preserve more wealth for themselves?
- Comment on Not stealing 5 days ago:
Being poor has very little to with having children. The poor across the world have more children than the wealthy.
- Comment on Not stealing 5 days ago:
Yep. My Wife and I raised 4 Daughters. Each one was their own type of terror and mayhem and need to be handled differently. No toddler needs to have a choice in anything. Their minds aren’t ready for that. But by the time they hit 4 or 5, they can handle limited choices pretty well. And they only get better after that.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
Ain’t none of them there wanna be ‘high speed, low drag operators’ would be caught dead with a carry handle on them cheap ARs. They want to festoon them with rails to mount all the bling they think they need. A carry handle would only get in the way.
They have taken what was meant to a lightweight 6 1/2lbs handy little carbine and turned it into a 10lbs+ monstrosity.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
The ones I know spend more on those optics than they spent on the rifle.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 1 week ago:
There is always risk in any medical procedure. Or sexy time fun…
- Comment on Anon is Banished 2 weeks ago:
To quote the great philosopher Tuco, “When you got to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
It ain’t even local news. What we have now, is anybody’s guess.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 3 weeks ago:
Yep, and we thank you for the word soccer too.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 3 weeks ago:
No, but many needed to protect those passengers from bandits and other assorted outlaws.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
This has been known for quite a while now. I’ve seen US Ag short films from the 1930s on the benefits of pasture blends and the increased tonnage of feed it produces and how best to manage it to maximize the feed values for greater profits.
Growing up on a small dairy farm we used a mix of alfalfa, red clover, and timothy or maybe fescue. It’s been few decades. It was pretty much up to providing decent forage even in dry years or on light ground.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
Some people are more versatile than others…
- Comment on Off topic 5 weeks ago:
Well, at least they are reading something…
- Comment on Plant Slurs 1 month ago:
But do make wine from them…
- Comment on Plant Slurs 1 month ago:
Brambles can be valuable plants, providing shelter and food for many small animals and tasty blackberries for people. But, if they become noxious, they can spread quickly and choke out all other plants. They spread by rooting from the plant tips and even if you dig up the root system, any little piece of root can and will re-root and grow a new plant.
Either move the shed to get at it - all of it - or you honestly may need to resort to herbicide to kill it. It sounds like you have fought them mechanically and are losing the war. I would recommend consulting your local garden center for the best herbicide to apply to kill them.
- Comment on we are creators 1 month ago:
Even their technology was driven by war. No human civilization has been immune that. Maybe in story books, but never in the real world.
- Comment on we are creators 1 month ago:
My Great Grandfather lived that change. He went from walking, horses and buggies, steam engines, with no telephones or electricity, to sitting on a couch next to me and watching the first Apollo moon landing. He saw more insane changes to this world than we will ever probably see. But…
It took 2 world wars and millions of dead to drive all that change in that time period of one life. War is the great driver of technological leaps. I’m not sure I feel the need to drive tech advances that fast at the cost of all those lives. Slow and steady might be a better path to travel.
Still, within my lifetime, which much like my Great Grandfather I’m nearing the end of, there have been great changes that everyone just takes for granted. The internet has caused a great disruption in the world. You have access to nearly all the information this world has in an instant. No matter where you are. No more going to a library to look up outdated information in a card catalogue. You can talk to nearly anyone on this planet at any time. When I grew up, we had a party line we shared with 5 other families. And using that phone was expensive. You got billed for each phone call for the duration of that call. You can do business with almost every business on this planet directly. Or Amazon/Walmart/Temu yourself to death if you want. All we had as the Sears or Wards catalogue to mail order from. And then you waited a month to get your order.
You can affordably travel to London, Paris, Tokyo, and nearly everywhere else in a matter of hours. There are re-usable space rockets now. And while the stars might still be just out of reach, there is nowhere in the solar system we can’t go if we really want to. The planets are ours for the taking as soon as we want them. Even true self driving cars are a solid possibility now.
Those are just a few of the things I’ve seen change. And there are many more. But we seldom notice and just take them for granted.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
I do. I almost always cook over indirect heat. But many people don’t. That’s why they prefer gas over charcoal. And when they try, they make the mistake of using briquets instead of real wood charcoal. The sand has never added any flavor to the cooking.
To be truthful, I do have an LP smoker that’s setup for cold smoking. It’s much easier to to control over the 2 or 3 days it might take to cold smoke bacon or ham. And a LOT less work.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
While I agree that real charcoal is superior in every way, a good grill and the person running it needs to be able to control the temperature while cooking. It might be just fine to burn those hot dogs or hamburger patties, but if I want to roast a potato or an onion, I need to be able to control the heat to something less than the surface of the sun.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
I’ve got a bluetooth temp probe set too. I use it in my smoker. I’m not trusting that expensive piece of meat to the whims of the gods. I need to know what the temperature of the meat is and when it hit’s the target temps.
- Comment on All downhill from there 1 month ago:
Oh, you want a classroom lesson. After the kill you have one of two choices. You can either cut up the animal and carry it home in pieces, making multiple trips to do so if alone. Or you can process the animal on the spot. Taking a few days to do so.
If you are persistence hunting, you are almost always hunting in a pack. And everyone can carry something back to the camp. Remember: Not everything is going to be brought back. A moose will dress out maybe at 50% at best. And you leave what you can’t carry or don’t want behind. Modern hunters often do similar today. If I can’t get a pickup or 4 wheeler to the spot, I field dress the deer and cut it into quarters and make a couple of trips to carry the meat out. A 200lbs deer will yield about 90lbs of edible meat-- give or take. Easily carried out by one person in 2 trips.
Or you can process the carcass on the spot. It was a common hunting technique in the North Americas to run a herd of animals like bison off a cliff to kill or cripple them. It might take a day or two to set things up, but as the hunt began and the herd was funneled to the cliff, the rest of the group, those that weren’t able to actively participate in the hunt, would follow at a distance behind the hunters. When the herd was run off the cliff, everyone would set up camp right by the kill area and simply eat and process as much as they wanted for later. Again, leaving behind what they couldn’t process or want.
All this information is available by a simple search if you want to know more. A method I highly encourage everyone to use to gain knowledge.
- Comment on All downhill from there 1 month ago:
Meh, zombie infestations are easily prevented by simply the shoe laces together of the dead. Thus preventing them from even walking.
- Comment on All downhill from there 1 month ago:
Not according to Atlanta’s 39-50 record this season. They ain’t even going to make the wildcard round. Even my pathetic Minnesota Twins are 10 games better than that. And they are still under .500.
- Comment on All downhill from there 1 month ago:
I live where we have plenty of wolves and black bears around. Even a cougar or two now. Ain’t a one of them that like being around a human. Much like crocodiles and hippos, the crocs understand that if you mess with a baby hippo, a much large hippo WILL turn you into a nice pair of shoes, a purse, and a brief case in a heartbeat.
Though to be honest, there are a couple of places I’ve bumped a cougar and seen tracks that when I go there alone, I do carry a pistol for self defense. Cats ain’t smart and it’s always better to have a means to be safe than sorry.
- Comment on All downhill from there 1 month ago:
'Yotes ain’t so proud as to not scavenge a human encampment when no one was looking…
- Comment on All downhill from there 1 month ago:
Moose hunters just shoot them these days. The only time anyone is running any more is when they are headed to a charger for their phone because the charge is down to 10%
- Comment on science 1 month ago:
That ain’t science. It’s engineering doing what marketing asked for.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 month ago:
The truth is people choose to live wasted lives. They could choose to do something fulfilling but don’t. Even cavemen probably wasted their lives being scared something was going to eat them.
I started out choosing work that wasn’t all that fulfilling as a toolmaker/engineer. I didn’t find a lot of satisfaction in needing to hit impossible deadlines. So I ditched that career and became an EMT and finally a medic with a side helping of firefighter/rescue in several small and very rural communities that have shortages of trained responders. And just before I retired I taught some math in my tiny rural school because teachers are hard to get there. I never got rich with money or fame but that wasn’t what mattered.
I feel like my life was not wasted for the most part. That I made a difference for the people and the world around me. In the small handful of years left to me, I can go satisfied I did what I could. You could too if only you would choose.
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 2 months ago:
Then don’t be such an enabler europoor.