CADmonkey

@CADmonkey@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The look...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is an excellent video showing how to defend yourself from a knife attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to guess they are terrified and excited and just yelling random cop noises.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do i need to install a driver?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they had the custom 3D printed joysticks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOOOOOOOOOOOO⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For years I’ve improved frozen pizzas by just adding more mozzarella.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon knows magic⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I lost ten pounds this last week and all I had to do was catch norovirus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Air quality in there isn't too good⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s for the best. You can 100% fall over dead before you know what’s happening in an unventilated manhole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I tried to plant a vegetable garden last year, it was our second try after learning some things the previous year. We got a lot of veggies out of it and had a lot of fun. We weren’t so interested in saving money, we were more worried about bare shelves at the grocery store. We also have a few chickens.

  We are going to make it even better this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Air quality in there isn't too good⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to have to poke around in manholes. Not all of them have the name of the city on them, and not all of them go to a sewer. Some of them have cables in them.

  The one pictured does look like a municipal manhole cover instead of one belonging to AT&T or another communications company, just because of the design on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think food riots are just a few years off, really. Maybe when enough stock is stolen and enough stores trashed they will learn, but I expect they will try to be heavy handed, sending in the local WalMart Defense Team (a.k.a. the police force closest to a given walmart) to handle it, but there are definitely going to be problems with that considering some people go to walmart armed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I have an excuse to drop Prime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way this is spelled out really irks me.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet it’s financed ar 29.9%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way this is spelled out really irks me.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guys like this are fun to bait past a speed trap in a little econobox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4202 g⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask anyone who’s kept chickens, keeping the hawks and foxes and raccoons etc. out of them is a constant and eternal struggle.

  Two things I have learned as a chicken weirdo:

  1.) Get dark colored chickens

  2.) Get a big mean rooster.

  I haven’t lost a chicken so far, but I have seen my bigass stupidly brave rooster take on all comers, he has defeated squirrels, snakes, frogs, mice, and a gopher that was apparently pretty bad at making connections. I’ve watched him chase off a cat and a pretty good sized dog. Foghorn Leghorn is more accurate than I realized.

  But more than his incredible dinosaur kung-fu is that he is smart, and communicates with his hens. He will tell them to shelter in the coop, and they will run and hide. A hawk isn’t going to want to deal with 15 pounds of land-bird standing in a small doorway.

  For the color, a black or gray chicken will be harder to see against the ground than a white one. Also, I think they look cooler than plain white chickens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, I kinda like Pithy Folk Ignorance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fair trade⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two courses locally that are at least partially baskets in the woods. There is another a bit farther away that is completely in the woods, and uses old tires for the baskets.

  None of them have a golf-course style lawn though. At the most, just grass that gets occasionally mowed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fair trade⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disc golf > ball golf. Don’t need a perfectly manicured unnatural lawn for disc golf, in fact that makes it a lot less fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard-up this holiday? Amazon flyer tells workers to ask company mascot for help⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet not one manager’s car is on fire in the parking lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GIS nerds be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I used to take care of her grandmother. I had a simple VR headset and I would show her parts of cities she hadn’t been to in street view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve almost bought DIvinity Original Sin a couple of times, is it any good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to safely and completely erase all data from old laptops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to take the hard drive(s) out and either drill holes in them or beat them to pieces with a big hammer.

  Dear old Dad worked in IT, and he had a clearly marked “hard drive eraser”. It was a 20 pound sledgehammer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While everyone is watching the world stage and some are predicting WWIII, isn't there a good chance that the USA is getting close to some kind of civil war?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I tried it this year, and we ended up with a lot of food from a spot ~110 m^2^ in size. We also have a couple of chickens, they are mostly pets that eat ticks and clear the ground while giving us eggs.

  I say we need more backyard farms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While everyone is watching the world stage and some are predicting WWIII, isn't there a good chance that the USA is getting close to some kind of civil war?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, disclaimer, I’m just a random weirdo on the internet. I don’t have a law degree, I’m not a politician. I’m probably naked and masturbating while writing this.

  Are we going to have a Civil War 2: Now With More F150’s where it’s the north vs the south? No.

  Are we going to reach a point where the US sort of falls apart into separate little countries after a lot of unpleasantness? I’m not as confident in saying “No”.

  I think what will happen first is less “civil war” and more “societal collapse”. There are very few places in the US where someone can rent an apartment by themselves, and have a decent life with nice hobbies, while only having one income. Buying a house by yourself is even farther out of reach.

  But I am noticing something that is a lot closer to everyone than real estate: food is getting expensive. A hamburger at a fast food joint used to be a quick and cheap, although not healthy, way to get lunch, but now a combo meal basically anywhere is $15. For one person. So cook at home, right? Ignoring the difficulties of cooking for oneself after working both jobs, or working all day at one job, that isn’t much cheaper. Making a healthy meal for yourself and your family is a skill that not everyone has, and groceries aren’t cheap either. I think the first thing that is going to happen is going to be mass food theft, followed by food riots. It’s already starting in fact, how many memes have popped up with variations on the saying “If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t”? Stealing food from a large company is acceptable for a lot of people. With rising COL, we will approach a point where a majority of people cannot afford food, and food isn’t a house or a shiny new car. Food isn’t a choice.

  There will be hysterical articles in NYT about how these poor struggling retailers are losing SO MUCH money (but not really) from theft, and you’ll start seeing two squad cars parked outside of every grocery store and walmart - even in “nice” areas.

  And that’s where things will start to escalate. Not everyone likes police now, and seeing a neighbor thrown on the ground and arrested, if not just killed, in walmart because she was trying to get food for her family isn’t going to make them more popular. One or two cops cannot fend off everyone in a walmart. Oh, the cops have guns? That’s adorable, so do some people in a walmart. Political feelings about police won’t matter when it’s your stomach growling, when it’s your children going hungry.

  I expect this would be the point where food would get locked up, only distributed by employees. Which would make it cost more, and more time consuming to acquire. There will be lines. There will also be people who will grow food - but not everyone can do that, and I’m cynical enough to think that some locales will pass laws against “backyard farming” in the name of “food safety”, pushed by grocery stores trying to get that extra .025% profit this quarter.

  What will happen once people can’t get food, will be the local PD being completely unable to enforce anything.

  Remember that it’s bread AND circuses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, the bonus goes to the guy who was playing Factorio when he should have been working?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a classic issue...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But then I can’t have homemade cookies that are so fluffy and flavorful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a classic issue...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even worse for me. I can leave the snacks at the store all I want, but I can’t escape because I can bake. If I get bored I’ll end up making cookies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This toilet paper at my work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work in a warehouse that had toilet paper like this.

  Funny thing was, it was a warehouse full of toilet paper. So there was typically a roll of something better in the bathroom, sitting on top of the dispenser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The barbieheimer debate rages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Instructions unclear, took a girl to see Oppenheimer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wife Material⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have found one like that. 16 years (so far) of happiness, trust, and mental health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's confuse Americans!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It comes in plastic jugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True Story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife has worn makeup maybe twice since we have been married. She naturally has skin that women pay a lot of money to try and emulate. Your ancetotal evidence isnt good for much.