Bluewing
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- Comment on Brand new bag 2 days ago:
As it was told to me when I was young, “The more things you need to carry everyday, the less important you are. The less you need to carry everyday, the more important you are.”
Sadly, there is a kernel of truth there.
- Comment on What a great idea 6 days ago:
I’m not sure. It’s a method of cooking meat in it’s own juices. So he might be trying to refer to the meatballs?
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
Milk and butter is placed in the back of the store to increase the chances you will buy something as you walk by. Every grocery store does this.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
It’s a cooking method
- Comment on Heave-ho! 1 week ago:
They used to make 'torpedo" style bras back in the 1960’s. They so pointy they could poke and eye out…
- Comment on Heave-ho! 1 week ago:
It’s all just an engineering problem. It takes a lot more to support a heavy load than a light load…
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 1 week ago:
Combines ain’t that complex. But they are fussy to run. Growing up on a farm you learn to fix them at a pretty young age. I’ve even owned one myself, a well used Case I bought from an Uncle. I can close my eyes and "see’ every stinking moving part on any of the combines we owned. And I can still remember how access the parts and fix them.
Personally, I hate balers far more.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 1 week ago:
More like a failure as a sun. We should all point and laugh at Jupiter.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 1 week ago:
Every voice vote I’ve ever had the honor of participating in, Aye is the word we used. As in “All in favor say Aye. All against say Nay”
Yea, I can’t say that “yea” or “yeah” is a hill worth dying on these days. So yeah…That’s how I see it. (Anybody see my Oxford comma? I had it here somewhere)
- Comment on The shrinkflation 2 weeks ago:
Good. Smaller portions are what many need these days. And the high price of fast food is a great incentive to eat at home.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 2 weeks ago:
All you gotta do is add a shot of whisky or brandy alongside the espresso that’s all. It will calm you right down…
- Comment on The infantry will advance 3 weeks ago:
Armed revolution has less to do with tactics and more to do with a willingness to die for something you believe in. In 2025, very, very, very few are willing to die period. After all, you just got that new Playstation/Gaming PC/3D printer for Christmas. Let alone “Pledge their honor, fortunes, and lives” for the greater good.
In 1775, that child piccolo player might not have had a fortune, but they had honor and a life to pledge. And he quite possibly did give his life.
- Comment on Choose your Nope Rope 3 weeks ago:
As an old and now retired medic, once again EMS gets left out. Our caudecus is twin snakes with a pair of wings attached to the rod.
Some say the snakes tell you we are real, honest to god, professionally trained medical personnel. And not just an overpriced taxi service.
The wings indicate we will fly to your medical emergency as fast as we can. Because the louder you scream, the faster we come.
And the rod is the gear shift lever that tells how fast we can shift from ‘This ain’t nothin’ to ‘Oh shit we gotta go. We gotta go NOW’ And ‘Inject ALL the diesel’ modes.
And finally our motto: “I’m always willing to bet your life I can keep you alive long enough so you can die on some doctor and not me”
- Comment on bumper sticker 4 weeks ago:
Light speed? No! Engage Ludicrous speed!
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 4 weeks ago:
There is no life without The Trinity! (onion, garlic, peppers)
But there are people that just can’t eat some foods without digestive repercussions. And food tolerances can even change as we age. I used to love eating peanuts and other tree nuts. But as I have aged, my digestive tract can no longer tolerate eating them except in small amounts. But I now pile on the herbs and spices when I cook. I want strong bold flavors in my food as I have aged.
Life, it seems is weird and changing.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 4 weeks ago:
Yes I do. Learn to write better if you wish to be understood.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 4 weeks ago:
So, get off your ass and get elected to public office and start making those changes. They will not happen otherwise.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 4 weeks ago:
Every non-violent revolution succeeded because of the violent revolution behind it. The peaceful leaders like Gandhi or MLK make the history books because they make for better propaganda. MLK was seen as easier for government and society to deal with rather than the gun toten’ Black Panthers. And Gandhi had bunches of armed and violent small revolutionary groups in the background.
History shows that unless enough people are actually willing to fight and die for social and political change, peaceful marches don’t change much.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
“Heros” seldom are.
And real heros are getting very scarce.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 month ago:
Reading the comments, it would seem most everyone here thinks that the usefulness of the steam is done when it gets used to turn a turbine at high pressure.
The steam can be used for much more than once. In the 1800’s and early 1900s when steam ran trains and ships, they built double and triple expansion engines that took the energy of the steam two and three times before it was done. It doesn’t need to be one and done. And when the energy is done being harvested for power generation, it can used for other things. Engineers today aren’t dumber than the ones in the 1800s.
I can remember a small rural Minnesota town that had their own coal fired electric plant. (Built back before the REA was a thing). They took the left over steam from power generation and then piped it to around 200 homes in the town and heated them with the leftover steam. While a bit costly to install, it was dirt cheap to run. Those homes lost all that when the power plant was shut down and they had to switch to either natural gas, fuel oil, LP, or electricity.
So don’t get hung up on just the power generation. Think what could be beyond that point.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 month ago:
They want your sweater back…
- Comment on Shitposting as public pedagogy 1 month ago:
Shitposting is the new Standup Philosopher from the Greek and Roman times.
(Huzzahs! for Mel Brooks!)
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 month ago:
No, it’s better to count 1,2,3,4 - 1,2,3 to keep the beat. (I’ve preformed Take 5 with a Jazz band).
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 month ago:
It’s 4:30am and thanks to this thread I’m listening to Dave Brubeck on vinyl…
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 month ago:
You probably don’t want to eat horse meat these days due to the drugs that are often given to horses, (mostly wormers). They tend to not flush out of the horses system no matter how long you wait.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 2 months ago:
They are public property and designed and built by the municipalities in many places. The cities and towns just prefer to offload the cleaning part to who every lives in front of a section of sidewalk.
Let’s call it “Civic Duty” and your chance to do something nice and beneficial for your neighborhood.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 months ago:
It ain’t like pharma ain’t been trying to make male birth control pills. Lord knows they’d love the extra money.
But it turns out to be damn difficult to get right.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
Why is it that the Dutch press operators that Caxton hired to run his printing presses, seldom catch any blame for the spelling changes they made to English? The one I always remember is Ghost. Those Dutch press operators decided that Gost should look more like the the Dutch word Gheest. So Ghost got it’s “h”. As did ghoul because you wouldn’t that to be too different…And other words got the same treatments. Thankfully many of the changes didn’t stick but enough have.
If only the printing press hadn’t been introduced to English until after the Great Vowel Shift was over, spelling and spoken would be much closer aligned.
- Comment on Fight me 2 months ago:
Pfftt. Splitting wood is peak heat thermodynamics. And I can attest it keeps you warm down to -40F.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 months ago:
So starfish are closer to a doughnut than humans.