ButteryMonkey

@ButteryMonkey@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hope what they mean is clean water.

  It can happen; there’s a paper mill by me that was actually an important part of the river cleanup process when the river was far worse than it is today. It takes water from the river, uses it for their needs, then treats it and returns it to the river far far cleaner than they took it out, which has been a net benefit for the entire downstream river ecosystem.

  Thing is, where are they going to find this not-particularly-clean water to treat and return? Are they going to need all new infrastructure built to accommodate this?

  And why is that cheaper/easier/whatever than just making a closed loop cooling system?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun!!!! :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Entirely true. I wonder what it would take to create a bog..

  I mean people have been filling them for ages right? It’d just be restoration.. but probably nowhere near where I am so probably still expensive ;)

  I know of a swamp that’s kinda sorta nearby, but like people constantly joke about dumping bodies there so it wouldn’t be a good spot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun!!!! :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t get found until humanity gets its shit together and cleans up the place. So at this rate, never. But not a bad idea.

  Nah, now that I’m older, I don’t want to leave anything behind that contributes to the litter. I mean heck I don’t even want to leave my future homestead to be cleared out and have my things dumped.. I’d rather hold the land in trust and pass it, and all the stuff therein, along to whomever I hire to help me when I’m too old to do everything myself.

  Tangent about future plans, because I feel like talking about it. Not terribly important.

  Tap for spoiler
  

  I’m going to get older and more broken eventually, and don’t have offspring to help out. I don’t have a lot of options financially, but I have enough skills to build stuff. Probably. And grow stuff, mostly in greenhouses; that I can do. I plan, ideally sometime in the next year, to get a large property with a super shit house on it that’ll last a couple years until I can build the earth-bermed home I want. I figure if a person can build a cinderblock basement, they can probably build a full earth-bermed home from the same. Cheap to heat, cheap to cool, kinda cheap to build relatively speaking, just a gob of work.

  Don’t worry, I’ll hire an architectural student to make plans as part of an assignment or something, and I’d get it inspected at various points of the build. I’d rather not die to my own hubris.

  Once the first place is built, I can build a second house, probably same U-shape pseudo-duplex design -one living room space, a full bath, and two full-size bedrooms on either side of a kitchen/dining room (so 4 bed 2 bath 2 family room, kitchen, dining), but without the full basement level. The main house will need the basement because my partner and I don’t share living space for a variety of reasons, and part of it can also serve as an emergency/winter shelter for the animals.

  If I do this, I can offer room and board for the family of whomever I hire. Due to this being my retirement plan, and me being rather poor (I have a small remaining mortgage on a house right now and that’s all I have to my name. No inheritance, no savings. I’ll be selling this place to buy the homestead, and using whatever remains for the building, solar, etc.), I probably won’t be able to pay actual wages anyone would want to work for -basically my entire net worth will be in the land itself, I’ll have to earn by selling some of the surplus food, and the structures on it are going to be built over time as I can source/create materials- but room and board for two adults and their kids, plus 2 acres for whatever personal use, and access to any and all tools for the property, sounds like fair compensation for one full time worker; the other adult can have a job if they like, or child-mind and raise their own animals to sell or whatever, I don’t care. Plus contractual inheritance of control of the trust when my partner and I die if they want it, else it’ll be left to some educational organization. I’d fucking hate for some shitty capitalist to buy it, or my sister inherit it, and ruin all my vision and work, but if I’m even remotely successful, the place will be worth a lot more when I’m done with it.. I’d like whomever helps me to reap the benefits of loyalty.
  

  At this point I just want my corpse dumped in the woods to be consumed, probably on my own land. Return to nature, maybe bury the bones if needed afterwards. Though it would be cool to have my skull collected and painted or something. Put on display somewhere on my land so I can stay there forever :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micro-retirement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not clickbait, rage bait.

  It’s just pro-corporate propaganda packaged in a way to drive engagement from both sympathetic corpo middle managers agreeing that nobody wants to work anymore, and burned out workers who kinda don’t want to work anymore under these conditions. Anything less than undying loyalty to our corpo overlords is worth writing a pressure piece about.

  “Journalists” and other writers haven’t seemed to feel a duty to report objective truth in a long time. They have a duty to drive engagement and that attracts a completely different set of people than factual reporting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My boss said, "We aren't renewing your contract."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I get to the point that I have panic attacks hours before my workday starts. Worst alarm clock ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun!!!! :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to want to have my corpse frozen, then loaded into the pilot seat of a fake alien landing shuttle, complete with a computer system and books written in “alien language” that’s really just complicated code version of my will, and pushed off a transport plane to fall somewhere such as Antarctica or Greenland, to be covered with snow and ice for decades before someone randomly found it.

  I no longer have this plan because 1. I can’t afford it and 2. We don’t really get significant new ice anymore. We just lose old ice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "We Tried" Award⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that means a lot to me :) I’ve definitely always viewed it as a participation trophy of sorts, but you’re right; my team was absolutely over the moon for me.

  I always liked wrestling for the same reason, it’s an individual sport with camaraderie. Two chances to feel like a winner! Did it for 6 years, was a good time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "We Tried" Award⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never got a trophy for anything, but I did like the medal I got for my first wrestling win.. it wasn’t, like, any big thing, but we were against a specific school that has a good program, it was my first year, I was the only girl on the team.. and I won by techfall.

  It was definitely a participation trophy of sorts, but it actually felt ok to get. It was engraved to read “for beating your [school] opponent, and first win”

  We, as a team, lost to them. Badly.