Machinist
@Machinist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Oatmeal 9 hours ago:
That does sound like evil rodents.
I’m currently at war with the groundhogs again. They’re super cute and super destructive. They like to dig under foundations, especially my outbuildings. I got five last year; two, so far, this year.
I live trap them so that I can let any bycatch coons or possums go free. Unfortunately, I have to dispatch the groundhogs. (legally you are required to dispatch and not relocate as they carry rabies and are overpopulated due to lack of predators.)
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 day ago:
What did the bad hamster do to you?
- Comment on Viewers like you 2 days ago:
My dream car is a Chevelle with the straight-six, Brazilian turbo manifold, and a mega squirt computer. One day, maybe.
230 straight-six is my favorite engine.
- Comment on Viewers like you 3 days ago:
😁 Those dinky little engines were tough, run forever.
Mine was a chevy pickup with the Straight-6 and three on the tree.
- Comment on Viewers like you 3 days ago:
Yup, and you had to regularly check the water level in it.
The car is probably something like a Chevy II.
- Comment on Viewers like you 3 days ago:
Hidden by the valve cover, intake is on the far side, note the spark plugs on this side. Air cleaner has been removed. It’s a straight-4.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 5 days ago:
I’m celebrating Happy Fireworks Day!
I’ve got new neighbors that are probably about to hear, “Fire in the hole!” unironically for the first time. You can actually see the shockwave from my blackpowder signal cannon. Good chance the cops show up.
I usually use the cannon to vaporize 10oz of kerosene for a nice mushroom cloud of fire, but I’ll have to see how it goes.
I’m a pyro.
Y’all wear safety glasses if having bottle rocket fights or roman candle duels.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 1 week ago:
I reckon a friend of theirs was looking for something real hard.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 1 week ago:
Hindsight is always 20/20.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
It’s been a long time since I read the book, but I remeber it being medicore late golden era. Herbert had no understanding of radiation and his characters tended to be good or evil without a lot of nuance.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but I would recommend being fucked up and in the company of others.
Don’t go there alone or you will only find sadness and anger.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, drunk or stoned with a group of SF nerds shit talking it would be a fun party, actually.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
It’s a terrible movie. Verges on so bad it’s good. Uses more dutch angles than a crooked windmill.
Book was mediocre with a Mary Sue main that had Goodboy for a last name.
- Comment on :-) 2 weeks ago:
Fucking Quiverfull. Eugenics bad, but I really hate those fucks.
Hell, line em up, tell them to grab ankles, and I’ll take care of it with a pair of pruning shears.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
The whole Tankie thing. Just like MAGAts but on the other side. They’re authoritarian left with lots of Chinese and possibly Russian influence. Far left most of us support are on the opposite end of the authoritarian/individualistic axis from both Tankies and MAGAts.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 3 weeks ago:
Just wait until they start kindergarten.
Hopefully your toilet is close enough to the tub or sink so you can puke out of both ends.
Parenting is just wonderful.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
Was looking up tracks in a field guide the other day and ran across this super cute rodent, The Mountain Beaver.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
Jerboa has served well as the replacement for me.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 4 weeks ago:
It’s wincest.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 4 weeks ago:
Whoa. I haven’t heard of Pervertube. I have specific tastes involving a dirty mattress with no sheet or at least one overflowing ashtray.
NEW PORN!!!1!!!1!!!
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 4 weeks ago:
Fucking Bruges.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 4 weeks ago:
Well, dawg, I’ve spent most of my life living in a completely different world than most posters on Lemmy.
And yes, I hunt, fish, eat meat, drive a truck, have a beard. I also talk funny. I have castrated calves. Been backup in large deals. Dealt with thieving meth heads. Done amateur surgery.
I don’t live in my mother’s urban basement eating chicken tendies.
But yeah, that’s my white squirrel.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. It’s cruel, but if you pushed him far enough, he would be committed. Op hasn’t been able to get effective help from the government/social system.
Sounds like he’s older and there are physically stronger people in OPs house so if it escalated, they can defend without much trouble.
Cancer mom beats schizophrenic neighbor. If causing the neighbor to decompensate gets her peace, so be it. This is not a difficult ethical problem, the expedient solution is just illegal.
I’ve done and will do a whole lot to take care of my loved ones. Society sure isn’t.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 4 weeks ago:
I’m being downvoted to hell for it, but I’ve done similar things in the past. I’m used to corrupt ineffective cops, sometimes you just have fix shit and be done with it.
IDK, it’s redneck but a quick frame up would at least end the noise.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 5 weeks ago:
It’s your mama with cancer really being hurt here. Ethically, that gives you options. Sucks for your neighbor, he can’t help it.
Fastest solution is to wait for him to leave the house and post a lookout. Make entry and destroy every speaker you can find. Decorate broken items with something that is a feature of his behavior such as a common phrase or food item.
When he gets home and throws a fit, call the cops on him and deny everything and act frustrated and put out. Talk about your sick mother. This may fix it, it not, at least make it much better.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 5 weeks ago:
Holy shit! Are you really unironically defending the North Korean government? Like, are you trolling?
Woah. That’s pretty wild. If you’re not trolling, what country are you from and how would you describe yourself politically? Where do you get your news?
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 5 weeks ago:
I’ve only got 32tb in the family Raid 5 (actually 24TB since I lose a drive to parity), but my girl really loves her trash TV while she works so we’re on like 90% full.
And I’m just a podunk machinist.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a mostly untestable premise unless somebody manages to crack into the system or find a smoking gun.
So, it’s slightly less improbable than some sort of god.
It sure is a neat idea that feels right. So, yeah religion.
I tell my girl all the time that she can have as many ponies and unicorns as she wants when we all go live in the computer someday.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 5 weeks ago:
I’m on my second marriage, 10 years in this one and 13 in the first.
My relationship is easy. We don’t argue, we have the same goals, she’s my best friend, sex is a science where we know the other’s responses and are creative. We face hard things together. I could go on. It’s easy to love her.
Nothing like my first marriage, it was hell.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 5 weeks ago:
They’re great for breakfast!
