Machinist
@Machinist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gelatine 2 hours ago:
That sucks. My wife and I saved and scrimped for years, and put a big chunk of retirement savings into it. We also moved 700mi/1100km buying the place without visiting it to make it happen. Huge leap into the unknown and we got very lucky to make it happen. We realized we needed to get out of the deep south in 2020. Couldn’t afford to leave the country.
Small game should be totally doable for you if you’re allowed to own a shotgun or . 22. (I love squirrel hunting, I harvest deer because we all love venison but find hunting them missrable and boring.) You could even process deer in apartment without your neighbors knowing. Gut in the field. Quarter or at least bisect them at your vehicle. Put parts wrapped in plastic in duffle bags. Carry into apartment. Further processing like skinning/deboning in bathtub/shower. Use cheap coolers with ice to do what is called wet aging the meat(common in the Southern US as it often isn’t cool enough to hang).
- Comment on Oatmeal 2 hours ago:
Jesus fuck. I wasn’t there, but your father abused you, displayed laziness, cowardice, and tortured animals. I find the cowardice of having you do it and then drowning particularly disgusting. Fucking yeller coward. I’m sorry you went through that.
I dispatch groundhogs in the trap with a . 22 revolver to the head using high velocity hollow points. I also know what the fuck I’m doing. They don’t feel it. I’ve put down cats before, but I use buckshot to make sure, they move fast and fucking up with a pet is unacceptable.
My son could, and would, put down pets if I told him to or I wasn’t able. It would fuck him up and it would have to be dire circumstances for it to ever happen. I’d have to be in the hospital or something and my wife would do it before he had to. That shit ain’t right.
Start with fishing, easy to learn to clean from youtube and the emotional impact is a lot less.
- Comment on Enjoying the outdoors 10 hours ago:
You know what they say about camping sex? It’s fucking in tents.
Seriously tho, fucking outdoors is the best. Hammock camping and fucking is awesome, hammocks are basically a sex swing without having to tote all the hardware.
- Comment on Gelatine 11 hours ago:
My ethical views of livestock/game animals, factory farming, slaughter/hunting are pretty much identical to yours. From the Southern US.
Worked on farms as a kid. Chicken houses are a nightmare. The suffering inherent in industrialized meat production is hard to overstate.
I’m rebuilding our little farm. We’re going to have steers, chickens, rabbits. Deer are very overpopulated and I’m going to be taking does to fill our freezer. Trophy hunters are disgusting. (Full disclosure, I’ve taken one trophy, will likely be the only one I ever take, she wouldn’t have made it through the winter.)
Ethically, I think that if you’re going to eat meat, you should have to kill and butcher an animal at least once. We’d have a lot more vegans that way. Factory farming should be abolished.
- Comment on Oatmeal 12 hours ago:
Cats are absolute hell on wildlife, especially ground nesting birds, and should be removed from outdoors. That being said, that’s completely fucked up that it was put on you by your father. It also sounds like you had to use a pellet/bb gun, the wrong tool. Also sounds like you might not have had much experience killing animals, completely understandable, cute housecats is a terrible place to start with that and is fucked up. He shouldn’t have done that to you.
I had a similar experience when I was 15 and working my first job, on a farm. Had to shoot a puppy. Guess my boss thought it would make me tough or something. I managed not to throw up or cry.
My son is 15, I would never put something like that on him. He’s killed rats with rat shot. He’s watched me clean fish and squirrels. I’m hoping to have chickens next spring. My wife and I have talked about it, I’m going to teach him how to kill and clean a chicken.
Killing always makes me a little sad, as it should. I don’t even kill spiders unless it’s a black widow or a brown recluse and it’s inside a house or shed. I take the ethics of it very seriously.
However, I think that if you’re going to eat meat, you should have to kill and butcher at least once. We’d have a lot more vegans and more respect for life.
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 day ago:
That does sound like evil rodents.
I’m currently at war with the groundhogs again. They’re super cute and super destructive. They like to dig under foundations, especially my outbuildings. I got five last year; two, so far, this year.
I live trap them so that I can let any bycatch coons or possums go free. Unfortunately, I have to dispatch the groundhogs. (legally you are required to dispatch and not relocate as they carry rabies and are overpopulated due to lack of predators.)
- Comment on Oatmeal 2 days ago:
What did the bad hamster do to you?
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 3 days ago:
So, I’ve got Samsung appliances that I deeply hate. I didn’t purchase them on purpose, they were in the house when we bought it.
If there is a power outage or brown out the control hangs on the fridge and it stops cooling. It has to be reset. To reset, you have to press two touch screen buttons. You have to hit it just right, the press has to be closely synchronized and then hold for 10sec, my girl is unable to get it.
The Samsung oven is currently sitting in the yard in a junk pile to be disposed of. Replaced that hunk of shit with a 1970s GE mechanically controlled stove. Had to replace the indicator lights and the timer unit due to age. Cooks better than the Samsung ever did.
House also came with a Samsung washer and dryer, I’m just waiting for them to do some stupid shit.
I did buy a Samsung TV, it’s decent but I am fighting a low-level enshittification war on all the ads and shit it keeps installing. It has particular features that means I don’t completely lobotomize it and keep some of the smart TV stuff.
I guess what I’m saying is that Samsung can suck my fucking balls.
- Comment on Viewers like you 4 days ago:
My dream car is a Chevelle with the straight-six, Brazilian turbo manifold, and a mega squirt computer. One day, maybe.
230 straight-six is my favorite engine.
- Comment on Viewers like you 4 days ago:
😁 Those dinky little engines were tough, run forever.
Mine was a chevy pickup with the Straight-6 and three on the tree.
- Comment on Viewers like you 4 days ago:
Yup, and you had to regularly check the water level in it.
The car is probably something like a Chevy II.
- Comment on Viewers like you 4 days ago:
Hidden by the valve cover, intake is on the far side, note the spark plugs on this side. Air cleaner has been removed. It’s a straight-4.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 6 days ago:
I’m celebrating Happy Fireworks Day!
I’ve got new neighbors that are probably about to hear, “Fire in the hole!” unironically for the first time. You can actually see the shockwave from my blackpowder signal cannon. Good chance the cops show up.
I usually use the cannon to vaporize 10oz of kerosene for a nice mushroom cloud of fire, but I’ll have to see how it goes.
I’m a pyro.
Y’all wear safety glasses if having bottle rocket fights or roman candle duels.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 2 weeks ago:
I reckon a friend of theirs was looking for something real hard.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 2 weeks ago:
Hindsight is always 20/20.
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you just love this fucking bullshit dripping from the mouth of a parasite who’s never seen hard times?
I do actually agree with the core of this idea. Most people are not happy in a state of long term indolence. Most of us need ‘work’ to be happy. However, that ‘work’ might be carving sculpture, teaching children, breeding plants, or theoretical physics.
How many Albert Einsteins and George Washington Carvers died of blacklung from the mines this parasite inherited?
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
It’s been a long time since I read the book, but I remeber it being medicore late golden era. Herbert had no understanding of radiation and his characters tended to be good or evil without a lot of nuance.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but I would recommend being fucked up and in the company of others.
Don’t go there alone or you will only find sadness and anger.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, drunk or stoned with a group of SF nerds shit talking it would be a fun party, actually.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
It’s a terrible movie. Verges on so bad it’s good. Uses more dutch angles than a crooked windmill.
Book was mediocre with a Mary Sue main that had Goodboy for a last name.
- Comment on :-) 3 weeks ago:
Fucking Quiverfull. Eugenics bad, but I really hate those fucks.
Hell, line em up, tell them to grab ankles, and I’ll take care of it with a pair of pruning shears.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 3 weeks ago:
Just wait until they start kindergarten.
Hopefully your toilet is close enough to the tub or sink so you can puke out of both ends.
Parenting is just wonderful.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 4 weeks ago:
Very true, and more efficient.
For now, I can mute all that I’ve found, it also looks like the pump has crashed, which is fun.
It quits working, I may adopt your method.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 4 weeks ago:
Eh. Humans are cheating serial monogamists for the most part. I don’t think lifelong monogamy is something we evolved for. Trying to keep it as the standard leads to all the problems we have. The whole patriarchal model that dominates the world is a result of monogamy and inheritance.
It’s pie in the sky utopian stuff, at this point.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 4 weeks ago:
Healthy open relationships at scale will require some pretty big changes in society.
Communication, critical thinking, self-actualization, Maslow’s Hierarchy; all those things will have to be improved both in society-at-large and within the educational system. Most of the world will not function well in polyamory without basically redoing society.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 4 weeks ago:
You sound like one of them Lake Wobegone types. We don’t cotton to that around here, too uplifting.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 4 weeks ago:
So, most pump POS used to have a labeled or unlabeled mute button. That has become rare.
So far, I’ve been able to kick all of them into a diagnostic/trouble menu by pressing pairs of keys on each side of the monitor in sequence from the top.
Some of them have a timeout on this screen, but the counter resets when you hit a key.
Passwords can be entered from the keypad, with ok/enter also working. I bet the passwords are the manufacturer default, probably a 5-7 digit number. I was able to find partial training manuals and setup docs from one of the POS vendors but I didn’t find a default password or deeper technical docs for the one brand I looked into.
Fucking ads in my face fucking piss me off.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 5 weeks ago:
Fucking Bruges.
- Comment on Anon learns happiness is simpler than he thought 5 weeks ago:
IDK, I pissed off the hivemind on another post and all my comments have been downvoted. Which is kind of fun, actually. Feels like Lemmy is becoming a real internet community.
Anyhow, yeah. We’re capable of living without purpose but I do think most of us need that purpose to feel content. It’s a trope, Man’s Search for Meaning and Purpose. This is just my answer to it. My answer is a lazy shortcut, I’m kind of over spirituality and most philosophy. If none of it matters, then I pick what matters to me and makes me happy.
I like some people and the natural world the best, I define my purpose as taking care of them. It’s a conscious decision but it does actually bring me existential peace.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 5 weeks ago:
Well, dawg, I’ve spent most of my life living in a completely different world than most posters on Lemmy.
And yes, I hunt, fish, eat meat, drive a truck, have a beard. I also talk funny. I have castrated calves. Been backup in large deals. Dealt with thieving meth heads. Done amateur surgery.
I don’t live in my mother’s urban basement eating chicken tendies.
But yeah, that’s my white squirrel.
