Not on reddit any longer, but I’ve got weird problems here. Suddenly I can no longer edit my own posts, not even in another browser, and as of today I can not longer save posts. For whatever reason, lemmy.nsfw no longer loads pics. No idea WTF is going on, but odd technical issues will turn away the masses. I’m fine with that.

Love seeing young people outraged by littering! LOL my god you ain’t seen shit. The highways all looked like this in 1970s America.

I haul shitloads of trash out of the woods and creeks, but it’s nothing like it was in the day. I’m thankful that crying Indian ad turned us around!

Outlook and Gmail do the same. Ass saver!

The Space Force is perfectly logical. Combine all our miltary’s space activity, intelligence, satellites, all of it, into one dedicated branch. No clue how that’s working out IRL.

Don’t think it hasn’t crossed my mind. No joke.

Hah! Yeah, everything behind it is a spatula.

I’m not funny either. Got beat up for this post. Thought these people were nerds!

Running a 1U work gave me! Haven’t messed with it much, just works.

Uh, a vaccine is a preventative, not a cure. That idea is contained in the definition of “vaccine”.

I’ve had sex with 50 randos, no AIDS. Just not my time?

I like gunsmithing. Hear me out! Got loads of guns, mostly pieces of shit I got off guns.com by sorting low > high. Got a new one last night, please don’t tell my wife. Only $200, tax, tag and title, but I really shouldn’t be blowing money ATM.

1950s bolt-action, 12-gague. (That’s a type of shotgun for my European friends.) Already had both an antique 12 and 20 bolt-action, screwed one way or another, haven’t figured out how to fix 'em.

Thing I love is that gunsmithing both fits and stretches my skill sets. I suck at woodworking, but I’ve done some really cool shit none the less. Metalworking? Good lord no, I can barely get anything done. SUPER proud of successfully sawing off (legally) a shotgun. Mechanically speaking? I’m flat out retarded, and I mean that. Only part of the primary school tests I did poorly on was, “rotate these shapes to fit together”. It’s embarrassing! Sometimes I gotta get my young friend across the street. “Yeah, took it apart quick enough, can’t figure this bit out.” Couldn’t instinctively tell my left from right until my late 40s. Sometimes I still have to skip a beat, think on it.

Gunsmithing takes every skill I got, and I often fail, springs everywhere! But I can push through to the win often enough to get that satisfaction. Easily can take a week of evenings to get an old gun setup. Perfect hobby to fart around with while watching a movie.

Tried that for awhile at home, just didn’t seem as robust. Also, you can get Netgate hardware if the company doesn’t want a 10-yo Dell running the edge.

Still not wearing that, guaranteed fight around here. Either MAGA will mistake me for one of them: fight. Decent people will hate me: Bummer.

Not a new one, but I’ve learned more recently:

Water does not last forever, is not all dinosaur pee. Natural processes create and destroy it, nonstop, since forever.

Got any plants nearby? Those fuckers are busily cracking water into glucose and oxygen so that you can breathe and eat. Have you said thank you once?!

6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy → C6H12O6 + 6O2

Take a shot of baking soda for your heartburn, oh boy will you create water!

NaHCO3 + 2HCl → NaCl + H2O + CO2

CAVEAT: The gas comes up your pipes, the water goes down your pipes. Violently. Probably a gravity thing. Not for the faint of heart, but hey, no heartburn!

Vonnegut didn’t get famous until Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). He had already written a load of what are now classics but still had to have a day job.

Player Piano (1952) The Sirens of Titan (1959) Cat’s Cradle (1960)
Mother Night (1961) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

I’m sure there were also loads of short stories in that time frame.

And for anyone who hasn’t read Vonnegut, I think it’s important that you try.

I’m afraid to ask, but hwat in the magikal weird shit is this?

I don’t get it either. If Russia were that militarily strong, why wouldn’t they splat Ukraine and be done? Materiel aside, they’ve been facing depopulation for decades and are actively grinding up their men, young and old.

So my question to concerned European leaders is this: What do you know that us plebs don’t know?!

Remember the pediatrician in England who got a mob on her case? The English spelling didn’t help: paediatrician

I thought this was a trick question or something.

As bad as Louis, Louis.

Generally it’s a 2-door car, specifically a 1932 Ford.