I do much the same in my head.

Know what’s crazy? We sling bags of mulch, dirt and rocks onto customer vehicles every day. No one, neither coworkers nor customers, will do simple multiplication. Only the most advanced workers do it. No lie.

Customer wants 30 bags of mulch. I look at the given space:

“Let’s do 6 stacks of 5.”

Everyone proceeds to sling shit around in random piles and count as we go. And then someone loses track and has to shift shit around to check the count.

Chemtrails are hardly a political thing, c’mon. Though being uneducated and thinking science is akin to religion is a conservative thing.

You have the correct term, but that’s not exactly how it works. At my last job the CEO told the board that he intended to lose money building our staff, skills and core software products. They applauded him. (Oops, we made a profit on those years anyway, but the point stands.)

Fiduciary responsibility mainly means they have to make a good faith effort to protect and grow company finances. They have no obligation to drive the line up quarterly.

I’m one! Honestly don’t get the hate. There was a comment the other day that made me think the haters are phone users. Shorts work fine on a 47" TV, for me. Hate that you can’t turn the giant captions off on many videos, but the people I follow usually don’t do that.

For me, shorts are a thing I can scroll past once and be done. Is it painful on a phone for some reason?

Meh, agreed and disagreed. A few 50lb. bags of corn and rice go a long way. A 5lb. bag of potatoes can go forever. Well, corn too I guess.

But the main catch is that you have to have land to grow it on. My wife and I are tiny and our yard is pretty big, but I doubt we could feed ourselves off it. We’re fortunate to have a couple of acres of part swamp, put “uplands” in Florida. It would be a daily chore to boil and process water though.

Here’s something survivalists haven’t clued in on. They figure .22 rifle and 20-gauge shotgun can get all the small game they like. Add in an AR-15, or better yet, a real hunting rifle, and game like deer seems abundant.

I spend more time in the wilds than any 20 random lemmings put together. There ain’t that much game to be had folks, and what little there is would be 100% wiped within a week of locals facing food shortages, let alone starvation. Yes, even the coyotes would be food, not a single water moccasin would survive. We’d be straining the swamp water for minnows.

Since I was born we’ve lost 74% of the animals on this planet. I’ve seen it, lived it. The best prepared are going vegan in a fucking hurry.

Ah! Old temporally vs. old culturally. Thoughtful take!

Let me add 12 Angry Men to that list.

Had no desire to watch it, but people on reddit were flipping over it. Put it on late, figured I’d get to bed for work the next day. Nope. Glued to the screen for every second of it. You can feel the heat and physical closeness of the single room it takes place in.

Didn’t think my Filipino wife would like it, maybe wouldn’t get the English. Nope. She was perfectly still absorbing it all.

Only thing that feels out of place is the old-timey, fast-talking 50s feel from some characters. OTOH, you could re-shoot the whole thing, almost word for word, and it would still be a masterpiece. LOL, and make an excuse for a borked AC unit.

One would hope that a restaurant inspector could discern between frost and mold.

I consider The Register to be the gold standard in tech journalism. When asked how I keep up with evolving tech, I told the interview panel that any tech news they see on mainstream media was likely broken by The Register 3 days previous, with original sources and quotes from top corporate officers.

Also told them I had followed several tech subs on reddit in the past, but as the site has devolved into bots talking to one another, I’ve turned to lemmy for tech community interaction and advice.

(No, I’m not using lemmy for that so much, but if I land the network admin job I will!)

What a bizarre method of loading! Had to look when forklifts were invented, turns out there were in common use during WWII. I’m not too hot of a driver, but throw that thing on a pallet and I’d have it in there is a minute flat.

Little virgin blood and bat dung, that thing’s hopping around eating people.

Only recently! For the past 10,000 years a 70-year span would not see a single significant change.

(If I mix this up, someone correct me.)

I think it was at Olduvai, or somewhere in the Great Rift Valley, that hominids spent 600,000 years hammering out the same exact stone tools.

lemmy is unusually respectful of differing opinions

Are we talking about the same lemmy?

limited one season shows

That’s called a “mini series”. :)

And BTW, Shogun was the finest thing I’ve seen in years, maybe ever. My wife and I were drooling for the next episode, week in, week out.

I admit to prejudice. Watched the original mini series many times growing up, read the book three times. My wife’s half Japanese, really seems to dislike Japanese anything (🤷🏻), still loved every second of it.

Potatoes are next level though. Or the most basic level. 🤷🏻

I planted a bunch of red potato chunks in some tilled dirt. BAM! Quintupled what I put in with zero effort. Next time I’ll mound them up properly and get a year’s supply off 4 or 5.

Permabanned for saying evil shit about Russians, a few times. Funny thing is how fast they would be on negative comments about Russia.

And BTW, Russians can die in a fucking fire. Lived under threat of nuclear annihilation for my entire childhood, and now the filthy gangsters are fucking with, and have ruined, American politics.

What till Americans figure out where high quality small arms come from. Glock anyone? Beretta, Heckler & Koch, Benelli, Browning Arms Company (yes, Browning), SIG Sauer, Springfield Armory, Taurus (some), Chiappa, and more. And don’t forget our Filipino friends at Rock Island Armory!

Sadly, this part of the tariff shitshow may actually work since we already have plenty of quality domestic producers. But fuck me, the SIG Sauer is the standard US military sidearm and Glock is standard everywhere else. Have fun cop budgets!

Just mash it through with your finger pads, you about can’t be cut.

SOURCE: Guy who has cut himself on every available surface in his house.

I’ll tell you exactly what can be done.

Sullivan described a tense scene in which ICE agents pounced on Martell-Lebron without identifying themselves, put him into a pickup and sped away.

SHOOT. THEM.

I’m not being a keyboard tough guy here. My wife is a legal immigrant, and damningly brown. This is a thing I’ve thought about quite a bit.

Unidentified men try to snatch her or get in my house? They are getting killed, best I can. And yes, I’ll likely die as well. I’m at peace with that, as much as I can be. Terror has a way of flipping the table on even the best laid plans.

I almost always have a pistol, rifle or shotgun within reach, and only those guns that are rock solid and with which I practice, and I practice one to three times a week. I’m also prepared for night fighting, quick. Rarely carry except in the woods or somewhere strange I’m unsure about, but that’s going to change. (And I fucking hate it.)

And it’s not just ICE. Been saying for years that once MAGA truly gets the idea that the law does not apply to them, they’ll be forming posses. Perhaps we will call them Red Shirts.

FFS, it’s like no one really studied WWII in Europe. This is happening now. Trump dying will probably take the air out of the whole thing, I hope. But if he remains in power long enough, his people will have strengthened their situation. You know they’re planning for what to do if he keels over with a blown heart.

(Sorry for the rant. Just got home from work and “relaxing”.)

They didn’t quote the judge but he is fucking torqued off.