Hikermick
@Hikermick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tigers 🐅 🐯 2 days ago:
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- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 4 days ago:
I can’t speak for NY but that is the situation in Cleveland. I have a customer downtown on city steam. I watch hot water discharge to a drain at the rate of about 3 gallons a minute and there’s 1440 minutes in a day. When it was built I’m sure they reclaimed most of it (80% return is considered good) but over time the pipe corrodes and you have leaks.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 5 days ago:
It’s terribly inefficient. The efficiency is lost when the steam that condenses back into hot water is lost and none of it is returned to the boiler to be reheated. Rather than reheating this returning water which normally is at 120-160 degrees Fahrenheit, fresh water is used which in the winter here is around 56 degrees. Aside from this the cold water taken in contains impurities such as dissolved gasses which cause corrosion and dissolved minerals which can cause scaling that acts as an insulator raising the amount of energy needed to heat the water.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 5 days ago:
If it were that simple everyone would have done it by now. This method of heating your building is very expensive. Long story short, I’m in the HVAC business and two of my customers have made themselves independent. One was a private property management company that gutted an empty building and was successful, the other is a federal building that hired a private company to convert over and got screwed.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 5 days ago:
Some big cities originally heated their buildings by producing steam in one one centralized building and delivering it to large buildings thru pipes underground. The steam you see is from leaking pipes in this antiquated infrastructure. It’s a very inefficient method if you ask me. Cities should offer these buildings low interest loans so they can update and be independent but they never take my advice
- Comment on Anon knows an artist 6 days ago:
I’ve known anyone few artists and have long held the belief that the art being produced is secondary to the artist themselves.
- Comment on How do I turn my tv on? 1 week ago:
Turn of the lamps, light a few candles and whisper sweet nothings in it’s ear
- Comment on Dick Proenneke. Alone in the Winderness 1 week ago:
If i recall correctly you are correct, he did this at 50
- Comment on Dick Proenneke. Alone in the Winderness 1 week ago:
I love this film, Richard Proenneke is the real deal
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
Hey looks like i got one point!
- Comment on Singer Rick Astley dead at age 59 1 week ago:
Not with that attitude you ain’t
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
I lived through all that too except for very early Sunday mornings our local station would show Felix the Cat and Popeye cartoons followed by Davey and Goliath. I think they got away with t because it was before church started and Davey was somewhat religious
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
Zero (born in '66). Can we add some more to the list?
21: had to wait for the television to warm up
- Comment on Singer Rick Astley dead at age 59 1 week ago:
Thunder stole my thunder
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- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 2 weeks ago:
You are gullible
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Full time fast food worker wages
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 2 weeks ago:
Do people on Lemmy think that there was a time when one could afford a house on fast food worker wages?
- Comment on When old people tell you about "the good old days" and how great things used to be 2 weeks ago:
Those were the days
- Comment on Anon is lacking something metaphysical 2 weeks ago:
They should start wearing juggalo makeup
- Comment on Anon is a specific type of prepper 3 weeks ago:
You do realize States have their own laws?
- Comment on Not today 3 weeks ago:
In my town the CVS has a self checkout unless you hunt someone down. So maybe OP was talking to themselves
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If I knew how I’d already have a cult of my own. I hear being charismatic is a prerequisite
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Start a cult
- Comment on We exist to pay rent, wage slave, and to generate new wage slaves for exploitation. 4 weeks ago:
When you think about it we’re kinda like worms. Stuff goes in the front end and shit goes out the back end. Day in and day out
- Comment on Anon judges books by their covers 4 weeks ago:
We judge, it’s what we do. Anyone who says otherwise is lying
- Comment on The landlord special 5 weeks ago:
Could be the agreement stated the painters weren’t responsible for masking anything not to be painted
- Comment on The landlord special 5 weeks ago:
The landlord wouldn’t have done that because they know it’ll have to be replaced. That’s a low skilled idiot’s work, the same thing happens to me at work. It is possible that the agreement between the landlord and the painters stated they weren’t responsible for masking anything that wasn’t to be painted
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 1 month ago:
I’m curious, have your interactions with Americans been with those that have traveled to Europe? The reason I ask is because I was able to visit years ago and wondered if maybe European’s view of Americans is skewed because they mostly see those of us that come from well off backgrounds (upper income). I met young Americans that had been there multiple times because their parents paid their way while they were on summer break from school. In contrast, I was the exact opposite. You’re not likely to see many low income folks visiting so you may have a skewed viewpoint.
- Comment on Anon tries to impress a woman at the gym 1 month ago:
That reminds me April Fools Day is approaching. When I was young I worked in a haunted house where we made blood capsules using Karo syrup, red food dye and put it into empty capsules. I deal with two guys at work that like to get stupid stoned at lunch time