Bluewing
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- Comment on crazy stuff 1 day ago:
A shoutout to steve1989! For eating US Civil War Hard Tack and Boer War canned Bully Beef! And every WW2 ration he can get.
He sure can wax poetic about the flavors of each one.
- Comment on crazy stuff 1 day ago:
The cost of chicken tendies vs lentils and rice has a lot more influence on whether people stop eating so much meat more than obnoxious vegans.
- Comment on crazy stuff 1 day ago:
There would be some few more, but it would probably be very doubtful of a lot more. People don’t care.
- Comment on IYKYK 3 days ago:
I don’t know what your problem is. You need to sand those fittings bright and shiny before you solder them anyway…
- Comment on Motorcycle parts 4 days ago:
Yes.
- Comment on It Can Always Get Worse 1 week ago:
I worked as a medic to 15 years. There are 2 things I learned and lived by in EMS.
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If you think you know what is going, you haven’t been paying attention.
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There is no situation that is so bad it can’t get worse and probably will.
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- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 1 week ago:
First, yes I’m bloody old. I had a small and cheap transistor radio mid/late the late 1960s. I got it for Christmas and I listened to it at night before I went to sleep. We had a much bigger multi-band transistor radio they kept in the kitchen that was a fancy one that was dual power. Batteries were expensive and often hard to afford as a kid. I do remember trying to make those batteries last as long as possible. Because we only went to town once a week sometimes even only twice a month. But the things I heard and learned about if the air was right and the am skip was good, and I could find those far distant stations was wondrous to a child.
We did have a cassette tape recorder by 1972 at the latest. It wasn’t that me and my sisters each had a recorder, we just had the one for the whole family. And I can remember arguing about who got to use first-- me or my sisters. Kind of like the old RCA black and white tube TV. And most families had one. I can remember my Grandfather using it to record Polka and waltz music that he played and some voice stories of his early life. When he died in 1973 I was given a box of dozens of cassettes he had recorded telling those stories and him playing his banjo. Sadly he tapes have long since been worn out.
Thanks for the memory prompt! Those times were often hard at the moment, but for each one of those there is an equally good memory of family and friends over shadowing them. You made my tea taste better this morning.
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 1 week ago:
Streaming music was available back in the 1970s. It consisted of you and your friends sitting on the floor with an AM radio and a portable cassette recorder and hoping the local station would play your song you wanted to hear and record. And IF your timing was right, you could get the whole song recorded. All so you could play it back on that cheap tinny sounding recorder. Such recordings were often used as a gift to your latest girl/boy friend with “Our Song” on it.
- Comment on My glasses 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure Jonathan was able to provide the exact prescription at a glance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Unless you are making sushi or risotto, why would anyone not cook Jasmine rice? Anything other rice is less than ideal.
- Comment on Start-up idea 5 weeks ago:
Simple hand tools like screwdrivers, pliers, a few small wrenches and sockets are dirt cheap. You don’t need to buy them off the SnapOn or MAC truck. In US, a store like Harbor Freight will have all the cheap tools you need for this. The most expensive tool you would find handy at times is a multimeter. Again, you don’t need a $1000 Fluke either. But, you don’t need one often. Nor do you need to buy all those tools at once either. Particularly if you start building your toolbag BEFORE you need it. It’s very likely you would burn your house down, (unless you are totally incompetent and really try hard), because you replaced a drive belt or pump seal. The control boards are low voltage and you should be smart enough to unplug any electrical device before working on it. And unless you tell the insurance company exactly what you did, they don’t know.
If you had bothered to read, I did straight up say that a refrigerator is impossible to repair due to how they are built. But you are still going to wait a day or two before your get a new one delivered.
Yes it sucks to not have a washer or dryer for a week or two, but while inconvenient perhaps, laundromats do exist. And a couple of trips to one while maybe waiting for parts is still a whole lot less cash money than the cost of a new washer or dryer up front.
I’ve only had one stove that didn’t last 20 years, (they are amazingly reliable and long lasting). I replaced it after 5 years because of a poorly designed circuit board, I replaced 3 of them at $175 each. But if you do, you probably already own some kind counter top cooking device or two. Like an electric frying pan, air fryer, slow cooker, toaster oven. or microwave.
I’m not particularly sorry you got your feelings hurt because you or anyone else got called out, if the shoe fits, wear it. So stop your whinging and trying to find ways to justify your laziness. It IS all on you to make the decision to repair or buy. But, don’t ever say that a lot of what you own can’t be repaired. That’s just not true.
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 month ago:
Most home appliances can be repaired even yet today. They all still work on the same principles that they did 60 years ago. Sure, the mechanical timers, switches and simple single phase motors have been replaced with solid state control boards, touch switches, and 3 phase motors, but those are also simpler to replace, if a bit harder to diagnose. The parts are a mere goggle away and for sale to even to the likes of me. About the only ‘impossible’ to repair at home appliance is your refrigerator. And that’s because of the sealed nature of the cooling system.
The biggest issue isn’t that they can’t be repaired, but rather you can’t be bothered to. You would rather spend $1000+ to get a new washing machine delivered to your house than spend $500 to fix the old one. You might consider fixing the old one if it would only cost $50 total and if the pump wasn’t $300+ labor and a $100 just to get a repairman to knock on your door. Plus the probable wait for a week or two to get the part. And you sure as hell ain’t going to get your fingers dirty or your knuckles skinned to do it yourself.
I’m still shaving with the same Gillette Slim Adjustable razor I learned to shave with as a youngster. It cost me about $10 in the early 1970s. The blades still only cost me about 15 cents per blade. I’ve had that razor for longer than I’ve been married to my wife of 40 years. I doubt few of you here would be able to make that kind of commitment to a simple razor, let alone a dishwasher.
- Comment on Veganuary 1 month ago:
you can’t outrun your fork
Amen to that!
- Comment on Veganuary 1 month ago:
So, let me get this straight. It’s less about your dietary regime and more about getting up off your ass and getting out and burning off the calories you consume?
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 month ago:
We wear shoes/slippers in the house. For 2 reasons
I have never been able to teach any of the dogs I’ve had to take their shoes off when they come in the house. So the floor is getting dirty anyway even as we speak. Sweeping and vacuuming happens more than once a week.
When you live in a place where the temperatures are below freezing for 6 months out of the year, your house cold soaks. So the floor is most likely going to feel uncomfortably cooler than people who live in a more temperate climate experience. And it doesn’t matter how well insulated or sealed your house is, it will cold soak. Slippers/shoes for the win.
- Comment on Naughty birds 1 month ago:
Everyone just wants to get fucked up.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 1 month ago:
There are a few speculative ideas on faster than light travel. Such as worm holes, quantum tunneling, and super fluid vacuum theories.
Are they real in the sense that we can know how they can work today? Nope. But lots of ideas we take for granted today were “impossible” not that long ago. The fact that real physicists are even thinking about those possibilities could lead to something in the future.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 1 month ago:
With asbestos, one has to wonder if there was just no good substitute for some of it’s properties. While it’s very rare to see used these days, there are still some careful applications for it. Lead is the same way. Lead solder and even lead pipes was commonly used up until a relatively short time ago for water supplies.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 1 month ago:
Then they didn’t much care I guess. Which was worse than not knowing.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 1 month ago:
But not lead…
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 month ago:
French cooking is cheap peasant foods with lipstick applied and loads of makeup to try and cover up that fact.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 month ago:
In the very early days of the colonial Americas, indentured servants along the eastern seaboard would sometimes go on strike to protest all the lobster they were fed because it was abundant and very cheap.
So yes, people get tired of the same old, same old foods every day.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 month ago:
Nope. Biscuits and gravy is the very best breakfast. A pair of fresh handmade biscuits hot out of the oven and smothered in a white gravy with bits of spicy pork sausages and loads of black pepper for bite. A meal fit to fight whatever the day throws at you. Although fried chicken and waffles is a fine substitute. And smoked ribs, brisket, or pork butt cooked low and slow and infused with hours of hardwood smoke might be perfection itself. If you have the desire, your patience will be rewarded with meats that are unrivaled in this world.
But, like everything else in this world, cuisines are built upon whatever scraps of food that were handy and flavored with whatever seasonings that could be bought or scrounged. Local cuisines died when the first trader brought home something new to eat. It’s all just a mish-mash of ideas and methods now. And good food is as easy to find as bad food is.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
Because you guys don’t have trees…
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
There is a tremendous amount of inner peace knowing that your environment can reach out and kill you if it chooses to and you are unlucky.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
That’s Wisconsin… FTP! (If you know you know)
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
Yes. It pulls the surface heat out faster. But, the lakes have been frozen over for weeks now, (18" on the lake I live next to-- we are driving pickup trucks on it to go ice fishing).
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
The trees don’t “explode” but young spindly trees can shatter if the conditions are just right, (and they are not right now). It’s very rare to have happen.
Source: I live in northern Minnesota. And I live closer to Winnipeg than the Twin cities.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
At these temperatures, it’s best to keep your ass and your pet’s asses inside and pray the furnace don’t quit.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
It’s not a common thing. And they don’t “explode” as much as shatter. It does require enough sap to be up in the tree trunks too. And our trees are too smart to let that happen for the most part. But it can and does happen sometimes to thin spindly young trees.
It’s been pretty cold up here in far northern Minnesota since last Wednesday. With morning temps at -25F, -30F, -30F and -35F this morning. The high yesterday was -15F and a high of -5F today. It’s not the very low temps that bother anyone up here, it’s the windchill that will kill you. Yesterday, the wind chills were running -35F to -60F. Which can cause frostbite to exposed skin in 5 minutes or less and possibly kill you very quickly.
On the upside, at these temps large amounts of snowfall are almost impossible. So I won’t need to start a tractor and plow the mile and a half to the nearest plowed road.