spicytuna62

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I kinda fell off the bandwagon after the “salary discussions are frowned upon” WAN show ep. Said screw that guy when the Billet Labs prototype was auctioned off. And I quit watching entirely after learning what happened to Madison. She was a huge breath of fresh air and way too funny for her own good, and I choose to believe her because I just don’t know what she would have to gain.

To anyone who felt strongly enough to downvote this, which part(s) of my statement do you disagree with?

Do you believe:

• It is acceptable to suppress employee discussions with regard to compensation;
• It was okay when LTT’s inventory management allowed a trade secret prototype to end up in the wild; or
• Madison should have kept quiet about being sexually harassed by her colleagues and disregarded by HR, which was run by the CEO/owner’s wife?

Do you also believe it was okay for Linus to trash GN or HW Unboxed? Or that the Billet Labs prototype review was conducted correctly and/or scientifically? Do you believe LTT’s initial response to Billet Labs was apropos?

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

I can. Don’t mean the tip is at the top, though.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

Still tap water is better than sparkling water, and I will die on this hill.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

I feel like that number is slowly creeping toward 0%. Maybe it’ll take a billion years, but I bet it’ll get there.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

If I go more than a few days without it, I will literally die.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

Sun tea is fantastic.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

Good black coffee is a low S or high A tier drink. Sure, it makes me poop, but it tastes great and makes me productive.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

I’ll give you that caveat. My brother lives in the rural town where we grew up in the butthole of Oklahoma, and his water is so hard that they justified spending thousands of dollars on a whole home water softening system. My in laws pump their own water and it’s foul. I think they need to be filtering it. I think there’s something in their groundwater.

As for the water in the urban and suburban parts of Oklahoma City, it’s pretty hard to find truly bad tap water.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Actually did this for O Green World by Gorillaz when I was 13 in '05. When the bill came in, my dad beat me senseless with those old jumper cables. Man, I loved that funky little ringtone.

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

My mother seriously recommended I hire cleaners if I wasn’t able to always keep my place clean at a time in my life where I was super busy.

I made like $30k in 2014. I wasn’t poor by any stretch, but suggesting I hire cleaners was a clear indicator of how out of touch she was with the lower half of the middle class.

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I graduated college in ‘14 and got my first professional job that August. I made $17.09 an hour and I was an 85% FTE. I was still in grad school at the time (never finished, whoops). That inflates to right about $22 today, if the BLS’ inflation numbers are to be trusted. Or about $39k at 85% FTE

My rent was $800 in uptown Oklahoma City.

Again, I was doing alright for a single guy with a bachelor’s degree at 22 with little work experience. I kept my bills and rent paid. I got to buy a PC component every once in a while. Sure, I wasn’t going on vacation every year, but I wasn’t starving.

But I was a long way away from hiring cleaners. I couldn’t really afford a therapist back then. Which I desperately needed more than I realized.

Oklahoma’s minimum wage still follows federal, but most places do start at $9 or $10 anymore. Still not nearly enough. And that’s really in the city. Out in the sticks, you’re making $7.25.

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

Bologna sandwich

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

I’m not unhappy about being circumcised, but I’ll never know what it’s like to be uncircumcised, and I’m not not unhappy about that.

spicytuna62 OP , 5 months ago

I get that. My Civic has been through the wringer lately.

Here it is in 2020 getting some minor flood damage.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/37149295-fccc-4589-86da-79c8d71c36b2.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/18223e2e-d181-43a2-a70e-567ae00bb208.jpeg

It got high enough to mess with the computer, but the car still worked fine after. The odometer would just disappear sometimes. That has since resolved itself. But I’m sure that some electrical gremlins will crawl out of the woodwork in the next few years. The water brought out a lot of odors hiding in the upholstery. It stank bad for a few months after, but it smells ok now. It does get a little fresh on hot humid days.

Here’s the poor Mustang parked across from me. I’m sure they weren’t having a good day after that.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7ed76243-c5b5-4e0c-91c1-5cec7d3fa7bb.jpeg

Here it is not six months later after a major hailstorm passed through.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f3d1e9a6-802b-4023-b80a-f9aa3df75367.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/23af8f94-8f29-4fb0-9d43-eddd9594c8ef.jpeg

I got on Safelite’s website immediately because I knew glass was going to be in short supply very soon. They came out a week later and threw a new one on. That was just over 300 bucks. Another great part of owning an old shitbox is how inexpensive parts are.

Aside from this, my wife got into an accident in it in 2015 and then I got rear ended twice in 2019. We still have the car. It keeps on trucking along. I do want to replace it with an Accord of the same vintage, but that’s because I want a cheap manual I can daily.

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

I want a Speed Queen. They’re way more expensive than your standard machines, but there’s a reason you find them in laundromats everywhere. They’re built to be abused.

What do people even do with their wifi appliances? Throw the load in and say Alexa start the washer? How is that easier than setting it yourself?

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

And if it does slow down, I’m downloading the whole video before watching it.

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

Next January, I’m gonna figure out gaming on Ubuntu so I can get ahead of support ending for Windows 10.

I’ll probably run that copy of Windows in a VM JUST so I can use Excel. I use Excel at home for lots of stuff, particularly my personal budget, which has this really big macro I wrote from scratch that I really don’t want to give up. I’ve had the same copy of Office 2010 for >10 years now. It’s where Office peaked.

I’m choosing Ubuntu because of familiarity. I’ve been using it on old laptops since 12.10.

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

Holy moly you lucked out. My guy Thorin looks like this in >90% of the pictures I take of him. Little crap head won’t be still for more than 1/8000 of a second.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2ecadbf8-7ea2-4e74-be48-1a523ba63f97.jpeg

I love him but I wish I could get an actually good picture of him more often.

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

I did finally manage to get one stunner last year. My wife told me it could be his LinkedIn picture.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e0b725e9-4637-4df4-aeaa-307a95f3d41f.jpeg

But these couple I got back in 2016 are the ones that never fail to make me laugh.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9d5ac285-7f3e-4b8f-ab55-df2a098d4b63.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6eb01b3d-2775-43be-b5b1-6d6cdea02fee.jpeg

He’s a funny dude. An orange through and through.

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

Thanks. I love it.

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

Where I live (Oklahoma City), I wouldn’t want to bike for at least 5 months of the year. Between mid April and late October, we are stupid hot and humid. We had lots of days this past summer that either got uncomfortably close to or passed 40°C. Dew points in the mid 20s all summer long. You’ll break a sweat just standing outside for more than about a minute or two.

Can’t imagine what it’s like for those sorry saps in Houston or Florida.

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

And steakhouses in Texas also love this trick!

spicytuna62 , 5 months ago

Gonna have to actually use this one next time I lock myself out of my computer.

spicytuna62 , 6 months ago

My brother works for a school with 200 kids PreK-12. He’s a teacher, but he also does IT. He gets a $500/yr stipend, and he calls me at least twice a week with basic questions that are solved 95% of the time by rebooting the computer.

I’ve told him a number of times the district owes me that stipend lol

spicytuna62 , 6 months ago

I watch porn from time to time, and I’m tired of the faux incest trend because:

1. I don’t believe having sex with a step sibling is incest (note the difference between a step sibling and a half sibling);
2. This kind of thing caters toward a crowd who actually does want to fuck their mom or their sister, because that’s what they actually call each other, despite the title; and
3. It’s every video everywhere. It’s done to death. Can I please watch an average size dude kiss on, slowly undress, and adequately eat out his slightly chubby girl before giving her a perfectly cromulent weinering? It doesn’t have to be exaggerated to be hot.

spicytuna62 , 6 months ago

F=1.8C+32 but for anyone else too lazy to do the math since the Americans are awake:

I did the math:

Room temperature is often defined as 68 degrees Fahrenheit (although I remember it being 73.4 in some old textbooks).

68+29.9 is 97.9 which is the normal temperature of a human body.

68+33.5 is 101.5 which is above normal temperature, i.e. fever.

AFAIK ~107.6 degrees is lethal.

spicytuna62 , 6 months ago

I do.

I sleep at 60. House is 65 all day between November and April. We don’t get true winter here so the heat hardly has to run. In May/June when we need to start running the AC, everything goes up 10-12 degrees.

I can’t cope much over about 78. 80 degrees indoors and I’ve got no fewer than three fans aimed at myself. Gas bills in winter are relatively low. I’d like to get a little unit just for the bedroom and the computer room, then I don’t have to cool the whole house to stay comfortable. Leave the house at 82 during the day and keep the rooms I’m in at 72.

I’m the kind of guy to wear shorts when it’s below freezing outside.

spicytuna62 , 6 months ago

This was pretty much how I operated when I was single, but my wife won’t tolerate below 55 at night. I had a 600 ft² apartment, and my power bills were $150 in summer and $25 in winter. But now my wife and I have a 1,500 ft² house so that’s just not feasible. In summer, I take a cold shower before bed, the thermostat gets left at 71, we put up a box fan on medium, and we sleep with no blanket. That makes things tolerable when the overnight lows are 80 degrees. It’s also what kept the power bills below $250 this summer. We fucking roasted this year. 10 to 15 degrees above average all summer. 90-95 is very tolerable, even when it’s humid. Just drink lots of water and you’ll do alright. But 105-110? Count me the fuck out.

spicytuna62 , 6 months ago

Whoa little buddy. Red flags going up. Something’s telling me we should walk through it, not over it.

spicytuna62 OP , 6 months ago

I honestly hate the vast majority of Christmas music. And I’ve never worked retail. God I feel awful for anyone who has to work that sector between November and January.

Last Christmas gets a pass though. I kinda love Wham

spicytuna62 OP , 6 months ago

Playing the music and being subjected to it are totally different. I played guitar and trumpet in my youth and doing Christmas music for the school and the town parade were always a blast. But now that I’m a jaded adult…lol

Getting my guitar out and figuring out new songs is still a lot of fun, even if I’m kind of terrible at it.

spicytuna62 OP , 6 months ago

I played bass with a little four piece band in college. I’d listen to a lot of music with the bass turned up so I could learn basslines, practice them, and then build off of them and do my own thing. And it was a pretty easy transition since a bass is strung just like a guitar without a B or high E string. I haven’t played regularly in a long time, but I do find time to get the guitar out and kill time when I’m at home alone here and there. Most of the music I listen to is one of like four different chord progressions, each made up of three or four chords lol

spicytuna62 OP , 6 months ago

He was the kind of guy who would tell you exactly what he was going to do to score on you, then execute. Again and again. Can you imagine how demoralizing that’d be? This guy tells you how he’s going to beat you, and you’re powerless to stop him. You have to stand there and watch the man toss it in.

spicytuna62 , 6 months ago

Unfortunately, it was removed a couple years ago.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dd074e5b-f720-48bc-a05b-bee2b2993fcb.jpeg

But the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery is coming down. So that’s nice.

spicytuna62 , 6 months ago

I remember his video about people burning wood with microwave transformers. 2-3kV is some lethal shit. Some lady, one of the lucky survivors of an accident, had her hand mutilated as a result of messing with that kind of voltage.

spicytuna62 , 6 months ago

She wasn’t too far off. The whole industry crashed in North America the following year. iirc, basically anyone could make a 2600 game. So you got hot garbage like Custer’s Revenge and ET. This opinion was published before the crash and before Nintendo entered North America and essentially saved the industry here by implementing quality standards.

It probably would have eventually picked back up, but not for several years.

Damn, I remember when Nintendo used to be cool.

spicytuna62 OP , 6 months ago

Gotta distinguish it from any old penny in the change jar.