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A.A.Ron
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Alaskan. Electrical enginerd. Hunter, fisherman, gardener. Ham radio operator.

But how do you know whether or not they actually believe the sticker or just installed it to deter psychos from starting their car on fire?

It could be like the little old lady that leaves size 12 steel toed boots on her front porch to deter burglars.

It's way better than dinner for breakfast.

That's interesting. I have always done prepaid.

Anybody else still instinctively shaking burnt out light bulbs and listening for the broken filament to rattle only to remember that light bulbs don't have filaments anymore?

Apparently tweakers are stealing boots now. They are going to have half the merchandise locked up before too long.

Replying to Avatar Jack Spirko

https://blossom.primal.net/a518bb1a8218646be6b66116e50e3cf57720e7096cfca8ec81252913d5a40710.mp4

Statist jiu jitsu takes many forms. I like this one and the guys delivery a LOT. 😂

There are no residential building codes around here. There are three boat homes that I know of. One is successful vrbo.

https://www.vrbo.com/440650

Ryan Routh's public defender recently asked a judge to drop his charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number arguing: "The Second Amendment doesn't just apply to law abiding citizens." and "The absence of a serial number doesn't remove a firearm from the Second Amendment text."

Based.

Replying to Avatar Brunswick

Is that like Euler's identity in 3 dimensional space?

Not to be confused with:

Gaff, noun

A large iron hook attached to a pole or handle and used to land large fish.

Maybe damaged the cable during pulling? Remember that half the wires are redundant. You only need good wires on pins 1, 2, 3, 6.

Cherry, apple, pear and raspberry. We also have some grapes in the back. They're 20+ years old, came with the place.

I just finished up planting the green house. I am about week behind schedule due to cleaning up from a burst pipe in my basement, but it's looking pretty good.

I put down new typar and increased the spacing between tomato plants to 24". I burned the holes with a plumbers torch and a plywood template, much neater result than cutting x's. 18" spacing was a bit tight, I bet the yield will remain the same even with less plants. I grow mostly moskvich and sweetie with a few tanana early, alaska fancy and sub arctic plenty.

I put in one less row of tomatoes to make room for extra cukes in wicking beds. They are mostly mini munchers. My kids like those so much that they don't even make it into the house.

My wife decided to plant some sweet corn. That hasn't done well here in the past, but maybe we'll get lucky this time.

Next task is to plant potatoes, cabbage and broccoli outside.

#gardening #homesteading #Alaska

HF packet radio is usually run at 300 bits per second. It would take more than 29 hours transmit a 4mb block, with no dropped packets. Even using UHF packet at 9600 baud, it's over 45 minutes to transmit a block.

I go like once every three years. Just brush your teeth, they'll be fine.

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I ChatGPTed a list of scams. This list is quite impressive and depressing at the same time. Humanity is full of scams.

1. Holiday gift cards

2. “Breakfast is the most important meal”

3. Diamonds

4. Black friday engineerd hysteria

5. Pink/ blue colors to sell more clothes to parents

6. 8 glasses of water a day - water bottle company backed campaign

7. Recycling - shifting of responsiblity from producers to consumers

8. Low fat driven by sugar industry

9. Mattress companies

10. Fashion seasons

11. Beauty standards

12. Loyalty programs to harvest data

13. College rankings

14. College - added by me

15. Sunscreen inflated skin cancer claims

16. Flouride as means of waste disposal - aluminum industry

17. Plant-based foods - owned by meat conglomorates to hedge bets

18. Streaming services rotating content with “expiring”

19. Psychology of pricing - price anchoring etc…

20. Artificial delays between streaming services show seasons, split seasons etc to draw out subscriptions

21. Manufactured drama - in hollywood, between artists etc…

22. Manufactured news drama

23. Detox products - pseudoscience

24. Supplements

25. Essential oils

26. anti-aging creams

27. Shampoo cycles - overwashing

28. Gendered products - pink tax

29. “Natural” label - legally meaningless

30. Sugar-free / fat-free

31. Bottled water

32. auto dealer addons, already pre-applied highest margins

33. Extended warranties

34. Apple Care

35. Planned obsolescence

36. Credit scores

37. 401k fees

38. Buy now pay later

39. Home staging

40. Smart home add-ons

41. Greenwashing certifications

42. “eco-friendly”

43. Printer ink pricing

44. Phone planned obsolescence

45. Texbook revisions to kill resale market

46. For-profit colleges (I’d say most colleges actually)

47. Carbon offsets

48. Compostable plastics - rarely composted

49. Recycling - rarely done due to costs

50. Evergreen patents on pharma products

51. The entire healthcare system “sick system”

52. Sales tax (I’d say ALL taxes)

53. Paint industry - same paint, different labels

54. Eyewear monopoly and markups

55. Funeral industry one giant scam

56. Fake MSRP in mattress industry

57. Hotel resort fees

58. “Limited runs” in brands to create artificial shortages

59. Pretty much all online marketing manipulation (1 left, 5 other people bought etc….)

60. Charity donations

61. airline fuel surchage

62. academic publishing industry - Elsevier etc, taxpayer funded research paywalled

What else?

Does bitcoin fix these?

Purchasing extended warranties.

Social security.

You have to go to the dentist every 6 months.

Aluminum car wheels.