spicytuna62

spicytuna62, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Once again pointing out that Trump never won the popular vote. Yes, we need to abolish the Electoral College. It favors the right wing unjustly and undermines the will of the people when it does not align with the popular vote.

Lots of people voted for him, yes. I’ll make the argument that things will actually get better as the folks whose cognitive abilities are negatively impacted by a century of burning leaded gasoline start to die off. I believe it’s something like >95% of people born between 1945 and 1965 that have enough lead in their bodies to be cause for concern.Can’t remember exactly where I read this, but you can do your own Google-Fu.

Striking those last couple sentences and just outright saying that over 90% of the entire population born between 1956 and 1976 were exposed to enough lead to raise medical concern in early childhood, according to the table below.

I’m also back to throw in the table/material I’m referencing. If I’m going to make assertions, I should back them up.

https://i.imgur.com/7V5Q0QE.png

And the source: Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood

If you want some idea of how little we cared about lead exposure, just look up the Tar Creek Superfund Site., which turned three nearby populated areas into ghost towns. It’s been reported that children would play on the enormous mounds around Picher, Oklahoma, and those things were covered in lead dust.

And try not to live downwind of small airports.

spicytuna62, 9 months ago

All while never looking up from the phone.

spicytuna62, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I used to own an HR-V. They’re good cars, but slow as stink. They took something with the wind profile of the CR-V and put the same engine in it as the '06 Civic. Still did like high 30s/low 40s on gas most of the time. So that was cool. Plus, it’s pretty spacious. It just needed like 40 more hp. Or a manual. Or both.

It was built on the same platform as the Fit so it’s got the neat rear seats that flip up. Seriously useful small car. I once hauled a whole ass 60" countertop halfway across the state in it. I guess they just decided the American market wants to go upsize. The Fit is probably one of the best suburban cars ever.

At least we can still buy the VW Golf.

spicytuna62, 9 months ago

No problem with that. I think the meme is referring to people who spent 100k on outlandishly large and glitzy trucks to spend 100% of their lives on paved suburban streets.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

Mythbusters may have been one of the single greatest programs ever.

I miss Modern Marvels and How It’s Made.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

My wife says her mom used to do that and now she can’t hear Santana’s “Smooth” without thinking of The Weather Channel.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

I lived for Local on the 8’s

spicytuna62, 9 months ago

It’s missing Tornado Seasons 1-6, but I’ll allow it.

spicytuna62, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

As an Okie, I’ll admit that our “cold” isn’t truly cold. Our coldest nights on average are like -3°C. In fact, the coldest it’s ever been in my neck of the woods is -25°C, and that was that freak polar vortex that knocked out power in Texas for several days in Feb '21. The coldest verified recorded temperature in Oklahoma happened in Nowata in Feb 2011, where it dipped to -35°C. And that was also a freak occurrence, and it was 24°C again within a few days. In my part of the state, it gets above freezing point about 355 days of the year. Rarely do we ever spend a full 24 hours below freezing, though it happens once or twice a year. We also get a decent snow or two most years, but it never sticks around for long. New snow is beautiful. But once it’s a day or two old, it’s disgusting. It’s nice that it all melts away within a few days.

And yes, I am a white man, and I wear shorts all year and in any weather.

Don’t ask me about the hot, humid hell we become over summer.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

My in-laws live on a private road. They’re the fourth lot down from the main road (for the uninitiated, if your property would block access to another property, then there exists an access easement across your property, and you must allow people - principally the owners - to traverse your property so they can get to theirs). Everyone is responsible for (but not obligated to) maintaining the stretch of road in front of their houses. The first couple houses are owned by folks with a good chunk of change and the road is as nice as it gets. The third house down has never done a thing to their stretch of road and it’s a piece of shit for that little bit. You’re cranking the steering wheel from lock to lock to lock again to avoid holes 6 inches deep. Their house is in a sorry state so there’s not a chance in the world they have the money to fix the road up. My in-laws throw some gravel in the holes from time to time to make things a little easier on themselves.

The municipality can’t/won’t do a thing. They don’t own the road and it’s not like the neighbors are blocking people in or out. The road is only nigh (not completely) impassable.

spicytuna62, 9 months ago

Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung?

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

Your wish is my command

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1b5e8d5f-8d52-49a5-a9d7-e7001e1ca874.jpeg

But that’s it. Not gonna overstay my welcome on this lol

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

Personally I just like the lack of difficulty in air cooling. And air cooling can also be very quiet. I have a case with soundproofing inside, and my PSU and GPU fans only spin up when they get hot enough to justify it. The noise level is so low as to be imperceptible. My dog breathes louder.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

It’s the windowless version of the Fractal Design Define R5. The panels are all lined with padding to reduce noise. I have a single Noctua NF-F12 moving air through it. It’s capable of spinning to 2,000 RPM if needed, but it never gets hot enough inside to ever spin faster than 1,200. Even at full speed, the fan is still very tolerably quiet. I only bought the ippc version because it wasn’t brown and brown.

Also, the CPU is a 4790K cooled by a Noctua NH-U9B SE2. It’s a 92mm cooler that fit nicely in my old “Optimus Prime we have at home” case. It has two fans on it that run at a constant 900 RPM. It does a great job keeping heat in check at stock clock, but I wouldn’t trust it in an overclock situation on this CPU.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bc73611f-ed1a-4109-a99a-8c62825eec1d.jpeg

• His name is Sherlock.
• He’s a year old.
• He weighs about 70 pounds/~32 kg.
• He’s a mix adopted from a local shelter. Google Lens calls him a Dutch Shepherd. Might have a little pit in him. Gonna get a DNA kit for him.
• He has XXXL ears. Everyone comments on how oversized his ears are.
• He gives the softest, sweetest kisses.
• He does not like walks or new people or new places.
• He loves other dogs.
• He doesn’t understand the cat. Or his boundaries.
• He pooped in the car once.
• If left to his own devices, he will eat all the grass in the yard. The concept of not eating too much fiber at once is one he can’t digest.
• Despite not loving new people, he does warm up to you fairly quick. It took 20 minutes of my in-laws being around before he got lovey dovey on them.
• He doesn’t like bones that much. He’d rather have a cloth toy he can pull apart thread by thread.
• His two favorite places in the world are 1) Daycare, and 2) Wherever mom is sitting. I’m the spare lol
• I wanted to name him Rye Bread because of the color of his coat. My sister in law has a dog named Tater and my brother’s dog is named Biscuit so I thought going with the theme of carbs would be cute. But he responds to Sherlock and that just makes handling him a million times easier so we stuck with that.

Here he is peeping out the window with the aforementioned cat:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/26a4481c-e2c5-4959-86e8-8b6dc9f03062.jpeg

spicytuna62, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Don’t forget In a Snowbound Land from Donkey Kong Country 2

Arguably the best track in the game. They only used it a couple times, and it only shows up in some of the last levels.

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.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I did fuck up the plumbing. Like I said, got in over my head. All the old pipes were cemented in and the disposal didn’t match up to the existing plumbing. I should have thrown in the towel sooner, but “too late” was when I, the dumbass with a sawzall, chose to admit defeat. He was here a solid 2 hours cleaning up my mess. I can fix most stuff, but sometimes, it just goes the wrong amount of sideways.

As for the disposal, if we were gonna replace it, we were gonna get a GOOD one. It’s a 1 horse and it’s probably overkill, but I’d rather spend the extra on a higher quality machine. We both spent way too much time living with shit tier appliances in cheap apartments.

Fortunately, the plumber was a total bro and replaced all the cemented fittings with compression fittings. So if the next one doesn’t perfectly fit, it’ll be as simple as loosening everything up and adjusting it all.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Be me, 10 years old

Wake up on top bunk

Rub eyes, sit up

Get wacked a in the head a half dozen times by the ceiling fan

3/10 experience, great views, not worth the brain damage

spicytuna62, 9 months ago

I wanted to watch the original run of Fullmetal Alchemist again. It basically doesn’t exist anymore.

Lots of people say Brotherhood is better. I get it. But it’s just not the same to me

spicytuna62, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I walk and talk like a field hand, but the boots I’m wearing cost three grand.

I write songs about riding tractors from the comfort of a private jet

spicytuna62, 9 months ago

Not having a rooster is generally sound advice too.

spicytuna62, 9 months ago

Fall and winter are the best in Oklahoma. I fucking LOVE the end of the year. We get one or two good snows most years, but it never snows enough to need to salt the roads all the time. It’s 40-60 degrees throughout the entire season. It’s one of our dry seasons so most days are sunny. You can spend basically the entire season outdoors in normal clothes.

I’d move to Seattle or Portland or Denver for the weather, but there’s no way my line of work could afford the cost of living there. Also, my wife’s family is all here and she’s not keen to move 2,000 miles away. Can’t blame her for that.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

I don’t know who is worse: nighttime drivers who don’t turn off their brights; or nighttime drivers who don’t turn on their lights.

spicytuna62, 8 months ago

So this is what Hermione was using the time turner for.