Hikermick
@Hikermick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Huh. 2 minutes ago:
That’s from all the journalists in DC
- Comment on Does the USA simply have no food safety standard at all? 2 days ago:
Maybe you should make sure this doesn’t happen in other industrial countries before shitting on the US
- Comment on Selling as is. 2 days ago:
Those dents will pull right out
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
That’s drone better be pretty low on the horizon
- Comment on Related to the recent question: A family member has told me that my inheritance after they're gone is for becoming a live-with landlord. Is that ethical? 1 week ago:
Of course, that’s why I said follow your conscience. Social media particularly Lemmy is a terrible place to ask questions like this though. You may as well as if it’s okay to become a cop LOL. The truth is the world does need landlords and cops. When they get demonized good people are less likely to become them and narcissists will take their place.
I was a landlord and had no problem saying so here. No matter what I said, people cut me down. My renters called me the best landlord, one called me the coolest landlord. Their opinions are the ones I care about. I charged $300 less than the house next door. None of this mattered to folks on Lemmy. I don’t take it personal. People talk differently anonymously online than they do in person. That’s their shortcoming not mine.
Good luck with whatever decision you make. I hope you have someone to mentor you in real life. I had several plus friends who are carpenters, plumbers, electricians and HVAC techs. They were invaluable
- Comment on And there was no on line manual 1 week ago:
That’s a catchy tune for sure but it’s odd to hear someone being nostalgic about it. It wasn’t unusual for someone to say “sorry but all I have is am jams” if they gave you a lift and their radio didn’t have FM (AM being pronounced phonetically so it rhymes with jams). AM radio was more known for oldies, pre 60’s music. Also the signal faded when you drove under a bridge. For reference I graduated in '84
- Comment on Ice cream machine is also broken 1 week ago:
Snitches get McStitches?
- Comment on And there was no on line manual 1 week ago:
Back in the day our AM stations had local programming. Mostly call in talk shows that covered issues both local and far. The hosts would describe themselves as conservative but they were way more tame than the shit today. Then Rush Limbaugh went national.
- Comment on Related to the recent question: A family member has told me that my inheritance after they're gone is for becoming a live-with landlord. Is that ethical? 1 week ago:
Why do you GAF what anybody here says? Sounds like you’ve been given a great opportunity. If it improves your life go for it. Let your conscience be your guide
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
As a guy who rented out one house for a very fair price i can tell you I’m the devil.
- Comment on How to get over my reddit ""addiction""? 2 weeks ago:
Best way to beat a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit.
- Comment on Why do bugs drown themselves, what idiocy is this?! 2 weeks ago:
For some insects it’s part of their life cycle. They spend the majority of their life in a larval stage after being born in the water. Then one day they rise from the water as adults, fly around and mate , finally returning to the water surface to lay their eggs and expire. This is the basis for fly fishing. The angler has to present a fly that imitates the insect in the particular life stage that the fish are eating. Mayflies, midges, caddis and stoneflies are the most common insects. Nymphs, pupae, emergers, dun, spinners are the flies imitating the life stages.
- Comment on Thought-provoking 3 weeks ago:
They probably responded by saying Christians aren’t perfect just forgiven
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 3 weeks ago:
Bootstraps
- Comment on Time for a road trip 4 weeks ago:
Here in Ohio you can go from Dayton to Marion in four hours but it’s a commitment
- Comment on Electric Eels 4 weeks ago:
Gar have primitive lungs and will stick their head out of the water to breathe
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my house and clothes every 2 days? 4 weeks ago:
One way to get the hair off of furniture is to use duct tape. Make a band to fit around your fingers with the sticky side out. Your hand is now a hair magnet. I saw auto retailers do this and used it to clean up a rental car after driving around with my buddy’s giant white husky. It worked pretty well.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 4 weeks ago:
Consolation prize: the Gene Wilder documentary on Netflix is pretty good if you haven’t already seen it
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 5 weeks ago:
While working i am occasionally in parking garages which can be dark and creepy. If i see a woman walking alone I’ll try to make some noise like pulling out my keys. People with bad intentions will be stealthy, hopefully they get that I’m not a threat
- Comment on Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks? 5 weeks ago:
The Brookings Institute
- Comment on She must be unhinged 1 month ago:
Don’t knock it
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 1 month ago:
No candy for you!
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 1 month ago:
Maybe meet them half way and sit on the porch and hand out candy? I used to go to my parent’s house to help them hand out candy and I noticed it took a bit of effort for the smaller kids climb the stairs. There’s no railing and knowing how dangerously slick their steps got if they were damp, i started sitting at the bottom to hand out candy.
It seems trick or treating isn’t as popular with the kids as it used to be. Ironically, it seems more popular than ever with adults. Some houses I’ve seen look like they must rent a storage unit to keep all the decorations they put up. We used to fill a set of dad’s old clothes with leaves, splap a plastic punkin on top for a head and call it a day
- Comment on what's a polite way to reject a picture with a very thankful patient who was under your care? 1 month ago:
Maybe meet them half way? Let them take your picture but should they ask for your number politely decline. Tell them if you gave your number out to every patient your phone would never stop ringing or tell them it’s against hospital policy. Either way they will feel better knowing you don’t give your contact info to anybody not just them.
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 1 month ago:
Going down?
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
During the initial mass migration from Reddit I got the impression a lot of people were starting communities on Lemmy that had been successful on Reddit but put no effort into them. I’ll bet there is a statistic yet to be figured out that says you need a million platform members before you can have enough members to sustain a niche community like u/gothcountry.
- Comment on I just need to keep it steady 1 month ago:
Mid 80’s me had a cassette player that plugged into the car’s 8track tape player
- Comment on True love will Daniel 1 month ago:
I want to see the awful movie now that I know there’s a Daniel Johnston song in it
- Comment on Support local bands 1 month ago:
They forgot to say spill beer on their amps
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 1 month ago:
I paid income taxes, property taxes and since I sold the house I will soon pay capital gains taxes