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shalafi ,

I’ve read that people in Colorado have far more blood carrying capacity from the high altitude. Seems something one can develop.

shalafi ,

Read what turned out to be a fairly racist article back in the day, about the differences in blacks and whites.

One thing that rang true was hair types. When wet, kinky hair sheds heat more easily and flat hair is insulating. Anyone know if this is true?

shalafi ,

Yes, it’s a waste, but the whole thing was blown way the hell out of proportion.

I hike, kayak, canoe, whatever, all over the place. Every plastic bottle I pick up contains, what, 5 times the plastic? I pick up a LOT. And nobody thinks twice or raises a fuss.

We use a Keurig, but either with plastic refill cups or paper bags my wife brings home from the hotel.

shalafi ,

And so is every Coke bottle with 5 times the plastic. And so is every store-bought coffee. Yet… silence. 🦗🦗🦗

What about bottles? Far more energy requires to melt and pour glass. No one says a word about single use.

Never found a K-cup on the beach or trail, but I pack plastic bags to haul trash and sometimes load 2 or 3.

shalafi ,

the EPA hadn’t killed them with poorly written standards

Thank you! I see so many people blaming the manufacturers for greed. No, the EPA killed the small truck. Perfect example of well-meaning laws paving the road to hell.

shalafi ,

I’ve got that version that shoots 410. Because of the rifling on it comes out in a pinwheel. If you shot me at 10-15", I doubt a single pellet would land.

shalafi ,

One of those saved my ass on a solo, overnight kayaking trip. I mostly brought beer, ice and food in my tow-behind cooler because I had a Life Straw.

The trip was hell, most difficult thing I’ve ever done, wasn’t sure I’d make it out. Was good on water until the next day when I finally broke out onto the main creek.

Cut the top off a can and sucked down 7 refills of creek water. Tasted exactly like warm, flat, tap water.

shalafi ,

I didn’t truly understand how much energy incandescent were burning. Grew up with nothing but those.

One night my AC crapped out in my tiny apartment so I killed the lights except one in a far corner. The air was so still I could reach my hand out and sense the heat from a 60W bulb.

shalafi ,

No lie. I asked a financial advisor when I was in my late 20s, almost 30-years ago.

“You’re getting your Social Security or there will be riots in the streets. Plan accordingly.”

In 1989 we high school seniors said we wouldn’t get Social Security. We will, no matter what.

shalafi ,

Western Left: Terrified of guns, won’t touch one, thinks we can vote our way out.

Me: Ready for when Red Shirts come.

“NO! It won’t work like that!!”

Women, LGBT and minorities are the largest gun buying demographic:

“NO! Not like that!!”

The Ukrainians got a clue. Do you?

shalafi ,

He (or she) could actually be attractive with some simple changes.

  • Ditch the nerdy glasses, not working for their face. Contacts are cheap enough and switching back and forth with glasses changes your look, very cute.
  • Get a decent hair cut that suits them. Find a stylist people like and go to them. Gay dude at Walmart used to cut me, damn I looked good. If you’re a man, find a gay stylist, best ever. (He moved. Stylists are like gypsies, gotta get their personal card and follow 'em around.)
  • Dress nicely. And dressing nice costs almost zero money. Stunning what you can find at the thrift once you land on a style that’s attractive on you. I make plenty, but I still mostly dress out of thrift stores. Got a nice collection of watches for example. Got a sack of cool ones for $1 at a roadside thrift. A couple of $.75 batteries and some polish, nice.

Probably lots of others easy/cheap things. My dentist made mouth molds for tooth whitener. $80 for molds that last forever, buy the cheap refills on Amazon. Done. And what a dramatic difference two treatments makes.

The nose is a little much, but work with it. I started parting my bowl-cut hair in 8th grade. Read that dudes with a big snoz shouldn’t do that, part on the side. Stuff like that.

They’re not fat, so there’s not that to overcome. Nice chin and hands, smile and mouth. Take his/her ass outside and move around. A little color and muscle tone is easy with quick results.

You look good (to yourself), you feel good, confidence comes out. Had a roommate in college put on a shirt and tie, for an algebra test. The hell? “I look good, I feel good, I do better on the test.” That stuck with me.

tl;dr: Frustrating hearing people call themselves ugly. I’ve rarely seen a truly ugly person. Almost everyone can be at least modestly attractive, easily and cheaply.

shalafi ,

The vegemite sandwiches are enough to keep me away.

shalafi ,

I live up here. Water’s as flat as it gets once past the tiny breakers. I’m certain these are cases of people panicking and trying to swim back to shore.

No idea how to educate visitors. LOL, I’m sure municipalities don’t want giant billboards with a death tally, but that would get attention.

shalafi ,

Fighting is exactly why they die. There’s about no one that is strong enough to swim back.

shalafi ,

$3,000 was $7,209 in 2024 money (from 1990). $21/hr. would be $50 in 2024 money.

shalafi ,

Such as falling whales?

shalafi ,

Tough on the couple involved, and even though the decision tastes foul, I think I agree.

While a citizen “certainly has a fundamental right to marriage” Barrett said, “it is a fallacy to leap from that premise to the conclusion that United States citizens [do not] have a fundamental right that can limit how Congress exercises the nation’s sovereign power to admit or exclude foreigners.” [Emphasis mine]

Else we could all flood Texas and marry immigrants into the country, bypassing the government’s decisions and responsibility.

tl;dr: Getting a marriage license doesn’t usurp Congress’ power.

Marriage and immigration is such a clusterfuck. Only reason my wife is here, free and clear, is that she was married to her American ex for 2+ years. Done deal. She’s not a citizen and never needs to be to stay here forever. I’m fine with that. Without that previous marriage, who knows? She’d either be going through immigration hell or already be deported back to the Philippines.

Going through immigration hell right now, trying to get her youngest over here.

shalafi ,

Y’all liberals one the only ones listening to this man. Seriously. Nobody calls his hypocrisy but the left. And should such a call reach his followers, it’s simply tuned out. His worshipers, much like Christians, just cut and paste the bits they like into memory, rest is just noise.

None of these people give two shits about Trump the man, and all his heinous behavior, past and present. He’s merely a symbol, a brick thrown through the window of woke.

Apologies for the ramble, it’s just that these stories are so very old after 8-years, pointless. When Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue without repercussion, it was true. Those of that know, know. No one else is listening.

shalafi ,

I’ve got a 486SX industrial PC that I refurbed. Much fun!

But you can hardly expand this thing at all. And there’s a hella dividing line between a 386 and any given 486. I got mine loaded with 128MB, USB floppy emulator (a MUST have) and an SSD (through adapters). You just can’t do that with this animal, can’t even add a math coprocessor.

I’d give $20 to have one to play with, that’s it.

shalafi ,

Industrial applications might be a thing!

shalafi ,

Yeah, but they should have gone with a 486DX, or SX at least. HUGE difference. The 386 was just too damned frustrating, but it was the first work PC I ever laid hands on. For a personal computer, I upgraded from a 286 to a Pentium 200.

shalafi , (edited )

No, we’re not banning guns because that requires a Constitutional amendment, not going to happen. We couldn’t pass an amendment making 06/21 Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.

But to those of you with this facile “BAN” argument, I have a couple of questions. Why wasn’t this shit happening when I was a kid? EDIT: By “this shit”, I meant mass shootings.

You could order whatever the hell you liked from the Sears catalog. LOL, I have a pump shotgun that was sold in Western Auto stores. You could ride around with long guns mounted in your truck window. And yes, you could get an AR-15 in the 70s.

Only way I’ve seen laws become more permissive is regarding conceal carry. (I can argue both for and against this.) On every other front, more restrictions.

So what’s up? Not an easy question, I know. It would take a shelf full of books. We don’t know what happened here, but does it really matter to attack this issue case-by-case? It’s happening. It didn’t used to happen.

I’ll say it 100 times more, America doesn’t have a gun problem, America has a culture problem.

shalafi ,

Got some backing on that? What I really meant to address was mass shootings, but I’d look at evidence either way.

shalafi ,

We are agreed! I stick to liberal or unbiased gun content, and that’s not hard to do. But I’m well aware of all the macho, kill 'em all, Punisher logo type bullshit out there.

Maybe that’s partly what I’m getting at? Just seems like guns were a tool when I was a kid. Nothing to puff one’s chest about.

As to mass media, yeah, shit really seems to have gone off the rails after Columbine. Maybe that’s my age and life experience talking, but I don’t remember much of anything before that.

Sure, there was Charles Whitman unloading from the Austin clock tower, but that was news precisely because it was so unheard of.

shalafi ,

Reminds me of Code of the Lifemaker, where mechanical life evolves on Titan. Seemed oddly plausible when I read it, but it’s been 20+ years. LOL, maybe it was stupid.

shalafi ,

Love my Jellyfin server, but I have 2 gripes over just using VLC.

  • Can’t use the scroll wheel for volume. It’s a pain aiming for the volume from across the room on the couch.
  • JF won’t boost volume past 100% like VLC.

Know of any fixes?

shalafi ,

Windows PC. I’m wired from my 50" TV monitor to a 55" on the wall.

shalafi ,

I am streaming to my TV. 50" TV on my desktop for a daily driver, 55" (wired) on the wall for media.

shalafi ,

I’m using a wall-mounted TV as a 2nd monitor.

shalafi ,

“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”

― Peter Watts, Echopraxia

shalafi ,

I only have two ideas:

They’re seeing what they can get away with. Or, and more likely, normalizing more and more aggression in pursuit of seeing what they can get away with.

shalafi ,

Unsweet tea. Wife has made green tea for the last few batches, liking that even more.

If I’m outdoors, kayaking or hiking or whatever, I carry frozen water.

shalafi ,

Used to mean hygienic care. “Performing your toilet” in the morning used to encompass washing your face, brushing your teeth, whatever it is that a given person does to clean up. Makes a good generic term for all that, without including particular acts.

shalafi ,

That particular thing is not a big deal, at all. If you’re a man, you must register for Selective Service at 18. Been that way since I did it 35-years ago, had to go figure out how to do it manually. Not like you could formerly opt out and just not get drafted. “Well, damn. He’s not on the list, guess we can’t draft him! Clever bastard.”

This change merely automates the process. One less thing for a young man to worry about or get in trouble for.

shalafi ,

Good job! Not as big as I had thought, perfectly tasteful size.

shalafi ,

I can’t imagine there’s much to cover on the topic. Plus, it leaves the cop no way to claim ignorance if he fucks up.

shalafi ,

A coworker just bought a 1.5 bath, 2 car garage, 3 bed for $500,000+ in Portland, basically no yard/outdoor area.

shalafi ,

So why can’t Israel support itself after decades of the US pumping weapons and money?

I’m 100% done with Israel, and that’s coming from a middle-aged guy who was always a supporter. At this point, I honestly don’t care if the Arab world stomps them flat. Who could I possibly give a shit any longer?!

So thanks for bringing the plight of the Palestinians into my worldview and trashing the country’s reputation. I get it now. Clearly.

shalafi ,

LiberalGunNut™ here! This is interesting in a few ways.

Don’t often carry, mainly in the boondocks and unfamiliar places/situations. I’ve often said that simply the act of carrying a deadly weapon heightens your situational awareness. You’re looking for trouble to avoid. It truly changes the way you perceive your surroundings and the people in them. (The primary reason I carry is for 4-legged threats.)

I’ve also often stated that guns are not as great for self-defense as gun nuts would have us believe. (Lots to unpack there, not getting into that ATM.) Still, better than a sharp stick.

And here we are. A Secret Service agent, though not on duty, got mugged. And not any old agent, one attached to the Presidential detail! You would think such an agent would be the acme of situational awareness. And yet a gunman got the drop on them.

Very strange story, but of course we weren’t there and will never get all of it.

shalafi ,

The Industrial Revolution absolutely exploded the world, good call.

shalafi ,

In the Discworld books witches are much like local doctors. There’s a young witch that can’t convince a family to move the privy away from the garden, which is making them sick. She tries to explain there are tiny, tiny animals that are coming from the poop and that’s what’s making them ill. They smile politely and don’t change anything.

The old witch comes along and it explains that the problem is the goblins in the outhouse and to move it far away from the garden. They happily do so.

shalafi ,

This shit didn’t happen when I was a kid, and we had far fewer regulations. LOL, you could mail order a gun from Sears and carry it in the rear-window gun rack.

But I’m sure a man would unload on a park is exactly the sort who would obey regulations.

shalafi ,

Registration is already required,and has been for decades. This only automates the thing so people aren’t breaking the law. Super simple stuff.

So I’m not sure what your point is?

shalafi ,

It should be automatic, and it is now. Why did I have to worry about it 40-years ago? Now? Now worries, done deal. Nothing has changed.

Of course lemmy thinks that serving means you’re on the front lines as a grunt with an M4.

shalafi ,

Bravo!

shalafi ,

New rules recently came into effect in the US which mean that brokers working from home must be inspected every three years.

A spokeswoman for the firm said: “Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behaviour.”

If I had my druthers, Wells Fargo would have been parted out years ago. But I can’t blame them for firing unethical employees.

shalafi ,

Flip it. It’s not a fair thing since we read left to right.

shalafi ,

We are solidly on the same page.

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