Machinist
@Machinist@lemmy.world
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 6 days ago:
I started working in shops around 2000. I’m so fucken over it.
Learn a trade, may not always pay great but you can always find something.
Live below your means, assume you could be laid off at any time. If you’re able to buy a house, don’t buy too much house.
- Comment on kingdom come 1 week ago:
and slathering it on a well done steak
Burn the heretic!
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 week ago:
Not IT support directly but I’ve had that same experience with plenty of boomer men in machine shops. They’re fucking proud that they suck at computer yet CNC has been around since the '80s in a big way.
Ran a shop for a while and still have the terminating document from when I fired one of those fuckers.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 week ago:
I’ve known several men that were proud that they didn’t read books. (Not that they read manga or anything, either.)
One of them, in particuular, was a grown up version of a stereotypical highschool bully. Willfully ignorant doesn’t begin to describe him. I ever meet him in a dark alley, I’d fucking gut him.
Anyhow, this behavour (pride in ignorance) among women is rare enough that I’ve never seen it. When I was doing online dating, I had great success asking what they’re reading and using decent grammar and vocabulary.
Anti-intellectualism and willfull ignorance have a lot to do with the situation here in the US. I think it’s mostly a male problem as well.
- Comment on Jell-OH MY GOD! 2 weeks ago:
Be a good toy and bite the pillow. You know we have to check your bad place.
- Comment on Gelatine 2 weeks ago:
By extremely poor, I’m talking physically disabled/mentally unwell/severely addicted. My viewpoint is from a rural southern us perspective. You see someone walking or biking, the assumption is that there is something very wrong with them and that they are probably homeless or nearly so. The only time you don’t assume that with bicyclists, is if they’re wearing spandex on a touring bike or are a kid.
I’m a total redneck so I’ve had plenty of friends and acquaintances that dealt. One former friend, only man I’ve ever called brother, I rode shotgun for a few times when he was making big moves. (he fell down the rabbithole with conspiracy stuff, we don’t really talk anymore, the brother I loved is gone)
I’m still adjusting to seeing so many people walking in my new home. Other than gas station/general stores, I’m used to stores being 30mi/48km away.
Anyhow, anybody moving product had to have a vehicle as a basic part of their trade. Like a shitbox civic and a Hipoint 9mm were a part of the starter kit or something.
You can get fresh fish, but, you usually pay a premium. Fresh farmed catfish and tilapia are common. Now that I think about it, that’s a type of factory farming I’m actually pretty okay with. As far as I know, their suffering is minimal and the environmental impact can be minimal or even positive when they are used to clean wastewater or fed byproducts. But most freshwater fish simply cannot be purchased, you have to catch them due to the laws. I now live within 300mi/482km of the coast, which is close by my definitions.
So buffalo vs bison is a funny thing. The american buffalo and bison are the same animal. However, buffalo refers to the wild ones and bison is farmed. Market hunters gunned them all down on the plains and that extirpation largely led to regulated hunting. Rinella drew a tag for one of the last populations of actual wild buffalo up in Alaska. (This stuff is closely regulated and actually backed by population science, one of the areas of law I actially agree with) So, he had to hike up a partially frozen river and stalk a buffalo, process it, and then pack and raft it out. He did this solo. He wrote the book while he was living in Manhattan, IIRC.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 weeks ago:
What about invasive vs naturalized?
- Comment on Anon is damned 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I bet we’re going to find that it increases dementia rates by a lot.
I wonder what the effects are on brain development as well. I could see it doing something similar to children raised in warzones, fucking up adrenals and stress responses.
- Comment on Gelatine 2 weeks ago:
Got me. Totally made that assumption. I now live within an hour of downtown of a large metropolitan area, there’s even bus service here. However, even here, life without a vehicle would be full of hardship.
I’m used to only the extremely poor not having a vehicle. I don’t know the percentage, but a large chunk of our homeless live in their vehicle and have jobs. Which sounds like pure hell.
Another assumption I made is game not being available unless you hunt it yourself. I’ve read about butchers in Europe selling game but I have no experience with it. The only wild meat you can purchase in a store is saltwater fish, pretty much everything else must be farmed. I understand, and agree, with the original intent. Market hunting was a terrible thing, effectively wiped out the buffalo for instance. It now needs to be brought back, and closely managed, for whitetail deer.
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella is a fascinating book. Rinella is one of the few modern hunters that I respect. He also has a show, MeatEater, that’s pretty great. He’s a thinking man’s hunter.
- Comment on Gelatine 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
What did the bad hamster do to you?
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
I reckon a friend of theirs was looking for something real hard.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 4 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 5 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! 5 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! 5 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! 5 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! 5 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 :-) 1 month 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.
