spicytuna62

spicytuna62, 7 months ago (edited 8 days 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, 7 months ago (edited 24 days ago)

Fax machines are still everywhere in the medical field.

spicytuna62, 7 months ago (edited 22 days ago)

Myanmar and Liberia.

Liberia exists because of Americans who didn’t love the idea of freed former slaves in northern states having the right to vote (or rights in general). So they shipped these former slaves back to Africa so they could have their own country. Liberia is the second oldest black republic (Haiti came first). They just kinda kept using US customary units once they got there.

No idea why Myanmar uses US units.

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

Something like 14 hands tall is what seperates horses from ponies.

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

What about non-stick non-cooking non-spray? What am I supposed to do now? Nothing?

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

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

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

Red40shire

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

Why would I need to show you when you already spy on me?

Checkmate.

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

Thanks. I love it.

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

And steakhouses in Texas also love this trick!

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

I propose we pronounce the izz in blizzard similarly to pizza.

/ˈbli.d͡zɑɹd/

For consistency. And definitely not so that we can lead into it with a mamma mia.

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

Meanwhile, people named Mat:

https://www.nationsonline.org/maps/USA/Massachusetts_map-S.jpg

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

Death by a thousand orgasms.

I see this as an absolute win.

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I hope this helps.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1731c133-101e-4093-aa8f-ea601c432e98.jpeg

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

I see your pfp. I just came home from a road trip to Galveston, and I think I’ve had my fill of Buc-ees for a while. The brisket sandwiches and jerky are worth it, though.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 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, 8 months ago

Missing the splats of water all over the entire floor.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Actually, many houses are built this way. My house has 15A receptacles on 20A circuits. I don’t agree with it. The breaker should always be the weakest point. But the NEC (section 210.21) allows you to put 15A receptacles on 20A circuits as long as you use a duplex receptacle OR there are multiple simplex receptacles on the circuit.

This kind of thing is why code requires washing machines to have their own dedicated circuits, but you always find a duplex receptacle where the washing machine goes. It’s not for your convenience. It’s the most cost-effective way to pass code.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

I’m calling fake now.

Christmas lights, if made correctly, should have a fuse. These cords aren’t made to handle the full 20A the breaker can. They usually cap somewhere around 3A. Nothing is stopping you from plugging a two prong 12A vacuum cleaner into them. So if you actually tried that, you’d blow the fuse in your lights before you tripped the breaker.

This is how 16 gauge extension cords should be made, too. Unfortunately, they aren’t, and people light those up all the time.

Either that, or here goes Amazon, once again not vetting the shit they sell, and selling average intelligence people fire hazards.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 7 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, 8 months ago (edited 7 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, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

My wife and I bought a house with two GIANT trees in the backyard. At least sixty feet tall, four feet across. They were probably planted when the house was built in '72.

One month in, one of them dies. It cost $2,700 to remove it and leave the stump.

Then in March this year the OTHER ONE FUCKING DIES TOO. We went ahead and had the stumps ground this time. $4,400.

I spent $7,100 to have a backyard with 0 trees and 2 mounds where I would rather have trees. Fucking NOTHING to show for all that money. Those trees were gorgeous. I was pretty devastated when we had to have the second one cut down.

Apart from the trees, we have had:

• A 50 year old toilet flush valve break ($35 plus the time it took me to repair the toilet because I do not want to figure out how to get rid of an old toilet);
• The garbage disposal fail ($300 for a new disposal; $450 for the plumber because I got in over my head);
• The gas valve on the heater break ($840 plus a weekend of it being 45° in my house before anyone in town could come with the part)
• A garage door that hangs up as it closes. I’m gonna ignore that one for as long as I can and just pull it down while it closes for now. Maybe I’ll get the hardware to convert it to a manual door while I’m young enough to pull it up and down.

I’d still rather own, but man, the cons go hard.