ReluctantMuskrat
@ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Heh heh 1 week ago:
If your septic is working well and you aren’t killing the bacteria in it with excessive soap, you don’t need pump-outs at all, but that still doesn’t explain how pouring grease down the sink could ever help. It won’t even if what you mention about the septic layers is true.
If you pour grease down the sink it’s just going to congeal in your trap under the sink and eventually cause you nothing but grief.
- Comment on Heh heh 1 week ago:
How would pouring it down the sink help anything? It’s going to immediately hit cold water and congeal in the trap under the sink.
- Comment on national anthem 2 weeks ago:
My wife and I were like you… if that episode was representative of what the series was like it wasn’t something we wanted to watch. We stopped after the 1st. Our adult kids kept telling us though the rest weren’t like that one and to watch the rest and we eventually gave it another shot.
Honestly while quite different than the 1st, we both thought the 2nd episode was weak and weren’t too enthused about continuing, but they honestly get soo good that it’s worth it. A couple episodes still stand as some of my favorite moments of any series ever. Very thought-provoking and moving. You should definitely consider giving it another chance.
- Comment on Anon likes a woman 2 weeks ago:
Strange that someone down-voted you for this.
- Comment on Anon likes a woman 2 weeks ago:
Getting to know people better can change your feelings about them… sometimes it makes them more attractive and sometimes less. I don’t know if anyone has found me less attractive after getting to know me but I’ve certainly had that happen with girls I’ve been attracted to.
If it’s a common experience for you it’s probably worth exploring whether or not it’s a you problem, and if so if it’s something you can and should correct. There’s no shortage of crappy, shallow people so maybe not but being introspective and honest with yourself is always good foe you.
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 2 weeks ago:
I agree that carrying about others and showing empathy is vitally important, but I am not the least bit concerned what you think if you’re judging me or others simply based on what we’re wearing, assuming it’s not intentionally offensive or indecent.
People who are more concerned about how they are perceived by others than who they are as a person have a problem and likely don’t know it. Dressing stylish or fancy is not itself evidence of self-respect, and being overly concerned about how strangers perceive you can be the exact opposite.
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 2 weeks ago:
Being concerned about what strangers think of you & your attire is the opposite of self-respect.
- Comment on Something kept poking my leg on my mid-morning flight to Nashville 2 weeks ago:
I find hot coffee readily available and much more effective.
- Comment on When you ask someone a boolean question....... and they return a string 2 weeks ago:
False is true!
- Comment on Spoilers 4 weeks ago:
Protecting people from the far left radical science.
- Comment on Rough date 5 weeks ago:
I mean it’s meant to be funny, but in reality ½ a can of white claw and doing shots for 5 minutes are two very different things. Alcohol in volume is not a good anxiety remedy. Get help if you need to get drunk for social settings to be tolerable because becoming an alcoholic will make your life much, much worse.
- Comment on Alpha AF 1 month ago:
You can’t be fascist and gay though! There lies their problem, and their audience.
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 2 months ago:
Yeah… bleach and ammonia are a very bad combo.
Considering how many times as a kid I mixed any household chemicals I could find in empty pill bottles, I’m really surprised I never killed myself.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 2 months ago:
Yeah well I remember being convinced that racism would go the way of the Dodo when I grew up too. Sadly some 40 years later it seems to be thriving.
- Comment on Test ride 2 months ago:
This really is amazing. I had my motorcycle stolen several years ago and couldn’t get the cops to give a crap. Recovered it a month later, wrecked and abandoned in front of a house and cops couldn’t even be bothered to try and get fingerprints off it. Instead called me at 11:30 at night and said if didn’t get there and pick it up within 30 min, they’d have it towed and I’d be charged for it. About the same experience when I had my car broken into and stuff stole out of it.
Glad they seem to give a crap where you live.
- Comment on What they took from us 2 months ago:
Did TMNT get developed because of toy companies…
TMNT was a comic book series in the 80s, long before the first movie and the cartoons that followed.
- Comment on Always use proper lifting technique 3 months ago:
I have 2 herniated disks from about 15 years ago… between c5 & c6 and c6 & c7. Worst pain of my life and when I first learned the wonder of oxy.
There is hope and believe it or not, if you strengthen your back you’re much less likely to experience pain and issues. I started lifting almost 10 years ago now, and heavy lifting at that. I was worried what squatting with a heavy bar on my back might do though. Learned good form - this is key - and in strengthening my back I’m virtually pain free now. Little things never hurt it.
Talk to a PT or other professional who knows your particular issues about strength training before you start, and as I said learn good lifting form. My ortho has encouraged me to keep it up… my PT too. It’ll change your life for the better.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 4 months ago:
–When-- Before the internet was fun
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Is no place safe for me??
- Comment on Sea Level 6 months ago:
While a novel idea, a leap month would throw the concept seasons and therefore agriculture off significantly. Relatively predictable seasons and being able to track our place in it with calendars was a great help to agrarian communities, helping them know when to plant and harvest most effectively.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 7 months ago:
I’m surprised to see so few of us actually. Thought this was more common.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 8 months ago:
Worse than that… they’re probably researching if they can reverse this and make their neighbors racist
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 8 months ago:
Thankfully no. I think they’re more like 5.5-6% currently. Back in 2020 I managed to get a 2.375%.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 8 months ago:
No, it’s just some exaggeration to make it even more ridiculous. As if 50 years isn’t enough.
What’s really awful is when you see how little the payment lowers between a 30yr and 50yr mortgage with current rates. It’s not nearly as big a difference as you’d think.
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 8 months ago:
This particular model I have in my house. Only ones I’ve ever had that take 2 AA instead of 1 9V battery. And when you open it + and - indicators aren’t easily determined so take note before you remove the old batteries or you’ll be struggling, which is no fun at 3am when you’re barely awake, standing on a short stool and your eyes are full of gunk.
- Comment on mercy merci 8 months ago:
They are not bugs that will eat your food though, which was the point I made.
- Comment on mercy merci 8 months ago:
I had one plop off the ceiling onto my shoulder while I was working a few weeks ago. Took a pic and sent it to my daughters to remind them spiders are our friends and then took him off my shoulder and put him on the ground.
My philosophy… if he’s surviving in my house, he’s eating bugs and providing a service.
- Comment on mercy merci 8 months ago:
Spiders are keeping your house free of bugs that will eat your food if they find it. They’re working hard and get little thanks.
- Comment on Discuss 9 months ago:
Explain… what chocolate is spread on bread? Or do you simply mean hard chocolate sandwiched in the middle?
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 9 months ago:
You won’t go low on vitamins if your carnivore diet incorporates organ meat. Most people don’t want to do this however. Liver isn’t terribly popular, kidneys and other organs even less so.