porksnort
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Porksnort enjoys laying in the sunshine. Porksnort will not refuse any offer of a snack.
- Comment on the humble and disguised crow: 11 hours ago:
The whole thing reminds me of a sketch one of the Groundlings did as a live performance. “VCR into Ca$h” was the bit and he would just meet you in a parking lot. Same vibe
- Comment on the humble and disguised crow: 14 hours ago:
Brilliant! It’s like a pawn shop without the overhead of a physical storefront.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
People are bagging on your comment because it could seem really smug out of context, but …
I have lately finally learned the lesson that when I feel the urge to give advice, it is my brains fucked up way of telling me what I need to be doing too.
This new realization means I now leave many more things unsaid, and it seems to be working as a better social strategy.
- Comment on Ferns 6 days ago:
Not a lot. Just compulsively before coitus
- Comment on Ferns 6 days ago:
I am in this image and I resent the implication.
- Comment on California Shuts Down Its Solar Thermal Plant 13 Years Early 6 days ago:
That part surprises me too. Molten salt has hella heat capacity and insulation is cheap as can be. I don’t understand all the engineering ins and outs, so I may be off base. I can see the need to pre-heat the conduits that are needed for heat transfer, but the bulk of the thermal mass could molten for a long time.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Extruded aluminum of that type is insanely stable and easy enough to build for a reasonably handy person.
You only need a cheap cutoff saw and a drill, or you can order pre-cut and ore-drilled pieces to order.
There are a number of makers of extruded aluminum building systems, basically tinkertoys for adults. I have personal experience using 80/20 and the Tslots brands. They are functionally identical.
I have used it to build stands for heavy equipment like ultra-cold freezers for labs. It is more than sufficient for any server racking.
- Comment on You might be proud but she is disgusted 1 week ago:
None of the women I discuss ‘making it’ with want these sorts of pictures.
All of the men do, badly.
Dick pics are for dudes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A web TV would suffice for this, given the current state of what remains of the ‘Web’.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There used to be a thing called ‘mutual insurance’ as in ‘Mutual of Omaha’. (They did a nature show called Wild Kingdom back in the before-time)
It’s basically an insurance run like a co-op, not as an arm of some other money-laundering corporate giant.
Some mutual insurances would balance their books periodically and refund a portion of premiums if the claims paid was less than what premiums brought in.
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
Peyton used the length of hose he normally uses to steal gas for his three-wheeler ATV as an extension to fill the tub on the ground.
Peyton reads well below grade level but he is not stupid.
- Comment on Harsh 1 week ago:
Plot twist, it’s elliptical.
- Comment on Harsh 1 week ago:
Hold me and never let me go, you insatiable nerd.
- Comment on Harsh 1 week ago:
That’s it. I am going as a gravity well this year.
I will wear plain clothes and go up to the person in my social circle most likely to ‘get it’.
I will hug them, not let go while I explain the idea in their ear. We have to go everywhere together that evening with the explicit purpose of recruiting others in that mission. There is no leader of a gravity well, except the center of mass. Which means things might get goofy.
If I can’t convince anyone to play, I will take that big tiddy goth girl and her friends up on their offer to play xbox.
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 1 week ago:
Unequivocally yes, but not always. You need a coordinated media campaign, a potent symbol, a dedicated core of supporters and the right combo of circumstances.
The Indian Independence movement depended in large part on boycotts. Ghandi’s followers wove their own cloth and wore traditional dhoti, both as a boycott of British cloth and as a public symbol of solidarity.
My favorite was the Salt March, wherein Ghandi used the general unfocused bitchiness around new salt taxes to make a media spectacle and demonstrate that Indians didn’t need British salt. Or anything British at all.
He marched down to the beach over a period of days gathering followers and media attention. Then he stood in the water and made salt in his bare hands using seawater and the bright hot sunshine.
18 years later they won their independence in a relatively bloodless way.
As an example Salt March
- Comment on Smoothie stealer 1 week ago:
<yoink>
I stole your smoothie while you were showing genuine interest in another persons perspective. Classic mistake.
- Comment on Why aren't those into bondage and S/M called "leatherosexuals"? 1 week ago:
Vegans who are into bondage are hard core. Without silk and leather, they have to use hemp rope. That stuff is scratchy! (This is assuming said vegan is also concerned about using petroleum derived products)
- Comment on [serious] when was the last time Donald Trump went swimming, has he ever swam? 1 week ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Spam is just too many pebbles. It only takes one pebble every few days to convey affection. More and perhaps you are spamming.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
People frequently conflate capitalism with enterprise, not seeing the distinctions.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 1 week ago:
Don’t feed the bears. I usually fade into the background when my non tech circle brings up a tech issue they are having. I know them well, they have the wherewithal to figure it out.
Why? They have also demonstrated a learned helplessness about tech that is insatiable. It’s better for them and me both to let them flop about until they find the resolve to solve it for themselves. After all, that’s how I became an ‘expert’.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 2 weeks ago:
‘Squids’ is a good daily-driver descriptor. I prefer to go straight to ‘organ donors’ usually.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 2 weeks ago:
They are not bad if they never forget it is about family.
Naw, jk, they are terrible. Those douchebags hucked bottles at us when we walked up to just watch. Buncha wankers.
- Comment on Oklo breaks ground on its first nuclear ‘powerhouse’ at INL (Idaho National Laboratory) 2 weeks ago:
The INL itself is still an active nuclear research facility. The SL-1 building is just a big sheet metal shed, mostly empty now and far away from any current activity, except sheep grazing.
INL was founded as a peacetime ’sister’ to Hanford, where weapons-grade material is made. For instance, there is a surgical suite with an active reactor for born-neutron capture therapy of certain cancers. In one form of that therapy, they remove the top of the skull and expose the brain directly to the neutron source.
Yeah, it’s a wild place.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 2 weeks ago:
Once the shock value of a simple ‘cunt’ has worn off, ‘thundercunt’ is my next escalation.
- Comment on Oklo breaks ground on its first nuclear ‘powerhouse’ at INL (Idaho National Laboratory) 2 weeks ago:
The article is about EBR-1. The steam explosion was at SL-1
- Comment on Oklo breaks ground on its first nuclear ‘powerhouse’ at INL (Idaho National Laboratory) 2 weeks ago:
I got to peek inside the decommissioned building where this happened. They still scoop up bits of fuel from ant mounds in the vicinity because the fuel pellets happen to be the size of particles ants prefer in their mounds. Did a few seasons of ecological surveys on the INL and it is a wacky place.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
Get the fuck drunk enough and it will suck itself.
- Comment on Helium-3 mining on Moon: A new frontier for science and geopolitics 3 weeks ago:
I loved it too. And also had the same thought. It is atmospheric, a slow burn, captivating. In the end not much actually happened. So I am not compelled to see it again.
Sam R is one of several GOAT actors however.
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, gonna add garlic salt next time I make a milksteak