ButteryMonkey

@ButteryMonkey@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car community shenanigans dump (open post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you come across a bunch of power tools where the cord screws in to the base, so it’s real easy to replace?

  Like the tools come full apart, that’s insane! They also probably had guides with them to fix them!

  Like I can probably still use those shock factories! I certainly do not -want- to use them, even though they almost certainly still work (other than maybe corrosion), but the documentation to repair them probably still exists and that’s amazing!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car community shenanigans dump (open post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet, mine is proper. TIL my basement is also a proper garage.

  My grandpa was a high school shop teacher after serving in WWII, so I have an absolute gob of early power tools and, more importantly, a ton of manual tools. I love using the manual tools. They take for-fucking-ever, but they don’t intimidate me the way power tools do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car community shenanigans dump (open post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve got the showroom floor; it’s just for show.

  The tools always look completely unused, like the antique kitchen tools my mom hung on the wall for decoration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t speak the language but I’m pretty sure the biggest one is to measure a horse dick since it says “good for a mare” or some such.

  That’s gotta be accurate, right? With that kind of benchmark?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The music of the universe is a symphony, damnit. That’s inherently complex!

  It’s a genuine shame the vibrating strings of reality sound like tinnitus to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debatable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really want to know what it looks like when it’s not all done up.. like at least a Karen cut with a band goes to being an ok style when it’s down.. I imagine this looks fucking horrible after a shower..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Byeeeeeee⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried jumping? Sounds like that may be the ticket!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In fairness, some of the weapons they have been strapping to their drones are also pretty heavy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t all of his kids IVF because his dick doesn’t work?

  Or is that nonsense? So hard to know these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The night water⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an episode of red dwarf that centers on that. They accidentally save him from being shot and the entire country falls apart because all his business comes out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun!!!! :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Entirely true. I wonder what it would take to create a bog..

  I mean people have been filling them for ages right? It’d just be restoration.. but probably nowhere near where I am so probably still expensive ;)

  I know of a swamp that’s kinda sorta nearby, but like people constantly joke about dumping bodies there so it wouldn’t be a good spot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun!!!! :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t get found until humanity gets its shit together and cleans up the place. So at this rate, never. But not a bad idea.

  Nah, now that I’m older, I don’t want to leave anything behind that contributes to the litter. I mean heck I don’t even want to leave my future homestead to be cleared out and have my things dumped.. I’d rather hold the land in trust and pass it, and all the stuff therein, along to whomever I hire to help me when I’m too old to do everything myself.

  Tangent about future plans, because I feel like talking about it. Not terribly important.

  Tap for spoiler
  

  I’m going to get older and more broken eventually, and don’t have offspring to help out. I don’t have a lot of options financially, but I have enough skills to build stuff. Probably. And grow stuff, mostly in greenhouses; that I can do. I plan, ideally sometime in the next year, to get a large property with a super shit house on it that’ll last a couple years until I can build the earth-bermed home I want. I figure if a person can build a cinderblock basement, they can probably build a full earth-bermed home from the same. Cheap to heat, cheap to cool, kinda cheap to build relatively speaking, just a gob of work.

  Don’t worry, I’ll hire an architectural student to make plans as part of an assignment or something, and I’d get it inspected at various points of the build. I’d rather not die to my own hubris.

  Once the first place is built, I can build a second house, probably same U-shape pseudo-duplex design -one living room space, a full bath, and two full-size bedrooms on either side of a kitchen/dining room (so 4 bed 2 bath 2 family room, kitchen, dining), but without the full basement level. The main house will need the basement because my partner and I don’t share living space for a variety of reasons, and part of it can also serve as an emergency/winter shelter for the animals.

  If I do this, I can offer room and board for the family of whomever I hire. Due to this being my retirement plan, and me being rather poor (I have a small remaining mortgage on a house right now and that’s all I have to my name. No inheritance, no savings. I’ll be selling this place to buy the homestead, and using whatever remains for the building, solar, etc.), I probably won’t be able to pay actual wages anyone would want to work for -basically my entire net worth will be in the land itself, I’ll have to earn by selling some of the surplus food, and the structures on it are going to be built over time as I can source/create materials- but room and board for two adults and their kids, plus 2 acres for whatever personal use, and access to any and all tools for the property, sounds like fair compensation for one full time worker; the other adult can have a job if they like, or child-mind and raise their own animals to sell or whatever, I don’t care. Plus contractual inheritance of control of the trust when my partner and I die if they want it, else it’ll be left to some educational organization. I’d fucking hate for some shitty capitalist to buy it, or my sister inherit it, and ruin all my vision and work, but if I’m even remotely successful, the place will be worth a lot more when I’m done with it.. I’d like whomever helps me to reap the benefits of loyalty.
  

  At this point I just want my corpse dumped in the woods to be consumed, probably on my own land. Return to nature, maybe bury the bones if needed afterwards. Though it would be cool to have my skull collected and painted or something. Put on display somewhere on my land so I can stay there forever :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't Americans use electric kettles?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I bought the kettle for tea but I’m not really big on tea. I’ve used it to make big batches for beer brewing, but not a lot for individual cups of tea. Now I have the French press and use it daily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My boss said, "We aren't renewing your contract."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I get to the point that I have panic attacks hours before my workday starts. Worst alarm clock ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun!!!! :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to want to have my corpse frozen, then loaded into the pilot seat of a fake alien landing shuttle, complete with a computer system and books written in “alien language” that’s really just complicated code version of my will, and pushed off a transport plane to fall somewhere such as Antarctica or Greenland, to be covered with snow and ice for decades before someone randomly found it.

  I no longer have this plan because 1. I can’t afford it and 2. We don’t really get significant new ice anymore. We just lose old ice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "We Tried" Award⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that means a lot to me :) I’ve definitely always viewed it as a participation trophy of sorts, but you’re right; my team was absolutely over the moon for me.

  I always liked wrestling for the same reason, it’s an individual sport with camaraderie. Two chances to feel like a winner! Did it for 6 years, was a good time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "We Tried" Award⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never got a trophy for anything, but I did like the medal I got for my first wrestling win.. it wasn’t, like, any big thing, but we were against a specific school that has a good program, it was my first year, I was the only girl on the team.. and I won by techfall.

  It was definitely a participation trophy of sorts, but it actually felt ok to get. It was engraved to read “for beating your [school] opponent, and first win”

  We, as a team, lost to them. Badly.