Hikermick

@Hikermick@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I could garbage pick enough furniture to fill that room in a week

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming didnt exist in 1970⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also kids being the first to run into the house and turn on the TV because it had to warm up. You needed to have it up and running before your show came on because if you missed it you weren’t gonna see it until reruns. Now it has occurred to me the term rerun is obsolete

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all SO simple!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coeliac disease? Does your poop float?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was told it would be a cultural experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When WALL DRUG did it, it was cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my first “home computer” in the days of the BBS’s when there was such a thing as a “long distance call”. Internet access was crazy expensive and not for the average geek. Back then it was a bit “underground”. There were professionals and there were passionate hobbyists. Most people didn’t have or need a computer in their lives. Things changed in the late 90’s boom. A cultural shift when suddenly everyone joined in. The geeks were no longer king

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the two party system is just one big party⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck this shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair it’s tough to be proficient in a language you don’t get to use. In some places in the US, there’s plenty of Spanish speaking people. Other than that not so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better be a sex offender registry on those damn space ships⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WMD: weapon of mass distraction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tune a fish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t want to confuse it with a guitar tuna

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What in the Ronco is that? I’m a state gazetteer kinda guy. Also used the county street atlas for local getting around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me trying to keep my sanity in a 100+ year old rental house⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All the way out to the street? How about sewer and gas lines?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me trying to keep my sanity in a 100+ year old rental house⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any frozen pipes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Priorities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a tank

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who would pay for the zoo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨awooga hubba hubba⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read a book on rock climbing years ago that said the reason big cats in captivity were so toned was because they are constantly tensing their muscles. It’s a display of dominance over other cats in the enclosure. The point being that rock climbing even though it doesn’t provide cardiovascular exercise will tone the muscles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Birdwatching. You can buy a book and binoculars if you like. The app Merlin is somewhat free to ID Birdwatching calls. Birdseed can get expensive or just plant sunflowers.

  Wildflower identification. Best in early spring, Phone apps make this a little too easy. Seed collecting and propagation is my next goal. I also pull up invasive plants, mostly garlic mustard.

  Gardening. Seeds are cheap but if want to start indoors you’ll need a light and possibly a heat mat. Start outdoors in a makeshift “greenhouse” using a clear plastic jug. Starter plants are cheap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Choking the chicken? It’s two hobbies in one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah for all of the talk about socialism and communism. We never used those words, just did it out of necessity. It’s not for everyone. Some cities now have laws limiting how many nonrelated people can live in a house. Mostly brought on by immigrants and xenophobia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I graduated in 1984 when unemployment was 10% and minimum wage was $3.35/hr. My friends and I all left the burbs for the inner city and we would live 5-7 of us in a house. Nonskilled jobs were more plentiful and there was public transportation. Sometimes we had a land line phone, never had cable. Plenty of parties and beer though. Don’t know if this helps anybody but it’s how we got by

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could gunpowder be chemically addictive for humans ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hooked on phonics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's neighbors have chickens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the 90’s before backyard chickens was a thing, I lived in the inner city in a neighborhood populated with lots of Puerto Ricans. Don’t know how long it was before I realized I heard roosters on the walk to the bus stop every morning. Now living in the burbs, my neighbors raise chickens, either they get tired of it after a year or their chickens get eaten by the foxes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would i would find another job and forget to give Jenny my two weeks notice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly wtf?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve eaten the seeds, they’re nasty unless dried out. Read the dangers beforehand. It’ll mess with your vision the next day, supposedly there is a chance of going blind. The hallucinations I experienced were pretty convincing, you might want to have a friend keep an eye on you. My buddy overdid things and got picked up by the cops, they put him in the psych ward

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stretch marks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Balls have stretch marks? I’ve been focused on it being the last patch of hair to turn grey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A microscope? That must be a tiny record player. The needle arm looks like it’s made of clay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s that a picture of? Doesn’t like a needle and vinyl to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone know what's inside this building?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Prisoners

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that the types that are ozone generators don’t remove particles from the air, they charge the particles so that they stick to surfaces and aren’t floating in the air

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll shit in your jack-o-lantern

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear neighbor...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right out of school I got a job working in a shitty retail store where we would prank each other. For some reason there was a smoke detector still in the box that had a dying battery and chipped every few minutes. I would hide it in other worker’s aisles in the morning when we would straighten before opening. Fun times