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 21 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

Meanwhile, people named Mat:

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

spicytuna62, 7 months ago

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

Checkmate.

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

Missing the splats of water all over the entire floor.

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 (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 was trying to avoid “cool item give big money” because that’s exactly what I did when I posted the idea on Reddit. It was a set of dice that would give the winning lottery numbers and then scatter like the Dragon Balls. And then guess what half of everyone chose. At least the penny can be used for things other than gambling. Idk maybe something like that should be a single use item to balance things out.

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 (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

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

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, 9 months ago

All while never looking up from the phone.

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

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

The prolescaryat shall rise!

spicytuna62, 9 months ago

If you’re gonna have to pick between two shitty situations (pun intended) then you might as well choose the less harmful one.

Who knows? Maybe you have an undiscovered kink.

spicytuna62, 9 months ago

OP, I hate to break it to you but…

tacobell.jp/locations

There appear to actually be Taco Bells in Japan. So let’s just say Ferrari, meet Nurburgring.

spicytuna62, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I can see how I insinuated that taco bell is Mexican food, but I don’t actually think taco bell is Mexican food. Far from it. But it’s been memed for like 15+ years that taco bell gives you life-altering shits.

https://external-preview.redd.it/6idndRgzQ3fo-hXZBO_feJkqiHaTjicu0DaM0jT6V9E.jpg?auto=webp&s=08a7b7c8564dd0ca55c50b33918a4cea751c430a

I seriously remember seeing this in high school as early as '07, but I’m sure it was probably going around before then.

I live in the OKC metro and if you’re looking for real Mexican food here, you’re pretty spoiled for choice. I won’t suggest we have the drop on Mexican food, but you can find some really great places here without having to look hard. Taco Bell is great because the food actually tastes pretty good and there are like four within a five minute drive of my house.

spicytuna62, 10 months ago

Nine in the Afternoon

Specifically at 54 seconds in.

spicytuna62, 10 months ago

I don’t use self checkout anymore. Here’s why

• The scales. I bring my own bags and you have to tare the scale against your bags before you can start scanning and it only works right about ⅓ of the time. So someone has to come set it for me.
• If I don’t bring my own bags inside, my only option at self checkout is plastic. Paper bags are offered by cashiers. I like to know my bags can actually be recycled.
• Self checkout is constantly populated by old folks who would have had IE jam packed with garbage toolbars 15 years ago. They can’t work self checkout any faster than they could have waited in line.
• There is a 25 item limit. I see people with 40+ items in self checkout all the time. It just bogs down what used to be a fast thing.
• Finally, the biggest reason I stopped using it is because part of the cost of my groceries is to have a worker to ring me up and another to bag my stuff. By using self checkout, I’m saving the store owner money. I am being the customer and the worker. This is my way of fighting back. If the cost of my groceries is going up, I’m going to make sure that someone else has that little bit of extra job security. If we all stop using self checkout, they have to keep more cashiers on hand. I don’t think I have to explain how more people having more available hours to work is a better societal alternative.