I would hope leatherman doesn’t get their metal from ea-nasir.

Dude how

I live right at my means. My food and clothes aren’t expensive, but they’re not trash. I spend enough on food that it’s not just fortified sugar and plastic, and my clothes will take my abuse without looking bad, but i gave up on building a large reserve of funds. The world has tanked us all too many times for a savings to be worth anything. The price of everything has inflated much faster than any of the bullshit indexes report, stocks are rigged and can be wiped out at any point. I’ve had my IRA decimated three times by things completely out of my control. But my posessions are still mine. And they’re value adjusts for inflation. I developed an eye for antique glass, tools, furniture, and art. I learned to refurbish things. I learned to predict decor styles early enough to hunt for valuable closeouts and pricing errors.

Every time a “once in a lifetime” event happens, I sell things I fixed or stocked up on. A rusty handplane at an antique store might run me 12 bucks and look like a knickknack off the wall at an applebees. But since I know what I’m looking for, I can spend 2 hours bringing it back to life and it’s worth $150 to a woodworker. I needed some tile for a bathroom. The stuff I liked is 15$ per foot. Unless I buy a whole pallet, then it’s 2$ per foot, and I had 65 extra boxes to sell on FB for half the price of home depot, and I sold out in 2 days.

An irresponsible idea, but true none the less: If the value of money keeps going down, so does the value of debt. 15 years ago, 5000$ in debt might as well have been a million to me. Now, it’s a few month pay off. And if I didn’t just waste the money on useless trash, the items I gained from the 5k will garner several times that amount if I suddenly lose my job.

Playing that game several times gets you a hell of a credit score, too, so you can ramp up returns. I put myself 70k in credit card debt buying materials and tools to build my house. At 20-30% Apr, that 70k would never be paid off. But houses are valuable, so I had the house appraised (270k, fuck yeah), and took a fixed rate mortgage out to pay off the cards. Now the interest rate is 4%, and 70k is significantly less than the value of the house, so it can’t be taken away from me if I’m suddenly bankrupt.

And a funny thing in this bullshit capitalism game, paying off a shitload of debt AND taking a mortgage shoots a credit rating even higher.

I ranted for so long here I think I missed the initial point of the prompt.

tldr: no.

This is not really an issue.

Nobody would vote for an 18 year old with terminal cancer.

And there’s several magnitudes more 80 year olds that won’t make it to 90 than there are that will, that’s why it’s the average.

Everyone will age. Not everyone will become terminally ill. A hard rule effects everyone equally.

Like the previous person said, complexities breed loopholes.

That’s a fucking rad idea

Rip them APART

I can always hear snakes, they move in short hurts before they run away. If they’re stressed they have an obvious smell as well. Dangerous snakes are rare where I live, so these are not useful skills aside from catching them while hiking.

I’m running openWRT on a nanopi R5S. It’s tiny, robust, cheap, and uses very little power. It came with FriendlyElec, a fork of openWRT designed specifically for the device, but if flashed the standard version onto it so I could get more support from reading forums. I don’t know if that was the right move.

It was a bitch to get set up right, but that’s due to my lack of experience, not the device. It didn’t help that there was a major update to OpenWRT/LuCI right in the middle of my figuring out the program, that drastically changed the GUI. It also didn’t help that I was setting up a NAS, and a proxmox server at the same time, so anytime something broke I had 3 system to troubleshoot.

All that aside, it’s been working great since setup with zero maintenance. It does get hot enough that I don’t set it on any other device, but it never throttles itself or overheats.

I took a retired enterprise switch from my office, and can finally make use of the dual ports on my homelab, downloader, and PC. Holy shit is it nice. It’s like 20x faster than my wifi was. I transferred 2 TB of movies to my server in like 35 minutes.

Fun idea, but to the majority of passersby who won’t look closely, it’s just an ad for Walmart.

Regardless, they were playing Enigma

I’m more okay with China spying on me than US companies. China doesn’t really have a way or motive to effect my life.

This seems like the pinacle of sensationalized bullshit. You’re going to be fine. Flushing the toilet has never killed anyone.

There are people who literally eat shit as a fetish. If you’re afraid of the possibility of errant molecules, you need to go outside.

When we had home games in high school, varsity players could play an intro song over the PA.

I went with the intro to The Salt in Our Wounds- Thulsa Doom Remix by HIM.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvQBU9PMuHY

I was super-heavyweight, so I was always the last match. That was my final-boss theme. I thought I was such a badass.

Edit: my best friend at the time, who was undefeated since 8th grade, went with the choral part of the greatest man who ever lived by Weezer. It was funny every time.

“Robbers steal $2100 in aluminum scrap. Also some beer.”

After writing that out, it occurred to me: isn’t the truck itself worth a shitload more than the beer?

Who the fuck measures beer in pounds?

Lead makes you dumb, plastic makes you gay, asbestos makes you fireproof.

There are some damn fine manufacturers that know that and are working to change the perception. Zen-Wu toolworks makes some of the best chisels available.

One espresso shot is roughly 60 mg per ounce. The mocha has a measurable amount of coffee in it. Theresa no reason for the number to be exact. You’re not doing science, you keeping a rough tally. If you get 430mg instead of 370, it’s not going to make that much of a difference. Just get a good approximation to make sure you’re not getting like 700.

Coffee averages about 12mg per ounce. A quick estimate is better than nothing, so you can assume you should keep it below 36 oz per day, or 4 mugs, size dependant.