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Lightly brain damaged 6ft 2in white trash polymath
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I've heard all these stories about people with twitter connections meeting IRL and forming beautiful friendships and relationships. I would like that. I'm a mid 40's handyman with a strange bio and a young son in Western MA. Interested in schizo bros and cute single mothers.
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My rooster died in glorious single combat at the door of the coop, protecting the flock from a red tailed hawk. He was a noisy pain in the ass, but his did us all proud in the end.
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Watching this kind frenetically edited, low-information high-stimulation stuff irritates me to no end. Compare to old PBS cooking shows, which were edited with long slow shots to teach rather than dazzle. This guy isn't a food artist, he's a maker of strobing algorithm bait.
There are some truly talent artists walking around. For all the negatives of social media, at least we get to see these.
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I don't name my chickens, because I have a bunch and they tend to die in all sorts of ridiculous chicken situations, but this guy was informally known as Big Red, because he was big and red.
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The nuts n bolts section of any good hardware store is a profound testament to the honesty and decency of America's blue collar and diy types. Really makes me happy to go spend 30 mins rummaging around in one of these. A humble little corner of life that remains high trust.
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Rooster was all messed up and matted with blood, and died shortly after. I took the picture of the doorway because I thought it was quite a poignant little scene of the feather explosion right on the threshold, but nothing inside.
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Since people are asking for more details: I was alerted that some serious shit's happening by squawking crows and chicken noises. Looking out the window, I saw a big flopping tangle of wings indicating a big fight was going down. I got boots + jacket on and grabbed a shovel.
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Opened the basement door and unexpectedly saw this fine example of rabid attention to detail and workman's pride. I rather doubt anyone has ever appreciated this outside of a few random trades guys. Not enough room in the cramped space to take a better picture.
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About halfway out to the barn the hawk took off and flew away, and the noble rooster was making distress noises and flopping around. The fight lasted at least a minute, and by the feathers you could see that the hawk had attacked a hen, but then the rooster took over.
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By monitoring the dating apps, I can detect the holidays by the the surge of big city dwelling single wimmin returning to their ancestral lands to sneer at their relatives. This results in a peek into what such types are up to in the city. This year, app trends in that demo are:.
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@NigelBest5 Yeah this guy was a handsome Rhode Island Red that tractor supply sold me as a sexed hen of a different breed. He ate a lot, and crowed a lot, but he did his rooster-y job in the end. I'll pour one out for my brave homie, Mr Red.
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Without any irony or snark, this is a horrible tragedy. A strange thing about dating in middle age is how you have to repeatedly talk of and delicately skirt around life's worst tragedies. You are dating because your spouse DIED, or because your family was DESTROYED. Not fun.
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Social media has unmoored people from all sense of what art and learning actually are. This is not art. This is a commercial transaction where you are the product. Your attention is being farmed with hyperstimulating videos and re-sold in tiny increments to the highest bidder.
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What do you learn from this exactly? Nothing. It doesn't explain WHY he's doing stuff. It doesn't communicate HOW to do things yourself. It contains no recipe, no narrative, no explanation. It's pure spectacle. Don't waste your life staring at this kind of empty spectacle.
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- Plain statements of NO COPS rather than ACAB. A slight softening in sentiment. - New boutique gender stuff, especially notable is "Beyond Binary" as a new, superhero-esque version of non-binary. - Lots of solo, pan, poly, unpartnered. A more complicated way to be single.
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Generally, the childless 35-45 fur baby havers working in marketing/media/fintech seem to reflect the national democratic trend of a fracture between reality-accepters and double-downers. Recent events seems to have shifted what they view as the palatable centrist identity.
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A small but growing fraction of the liberal ladies seem to have backed away from some of the crazier lib signalling. More profiles say liberal but are stripped of pronouns, overt anti-trump statements, and pro-palestine stuff.
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Ten years ago this guy rode his fixie to the coffee shop. Now he drives his Japanese toy truck to the Home Depot. The eternal hipster, always eager to pay more for less utility to avoid the horrible fate of being mistaken for a normal person.
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Growing up poor I learned that NOBODY ever has to feed you, and if they do you should damn well be grateful and show it. When I work 12 hours now, I have to cook my own food. I would cry manly tears of joy if someone handed me a plate of home cooked food when I came home.
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@B4252Jones It depends on predators, how many birds you have, and luck to a certain extent. I had a fox tear the chicken wire off a window, squeeze inside, and kill 10 chickens in one night. I've had chickens drop dead from disease, drown, get themselves stuck in wire fencing and die, etc. .
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@OldHollowTree The one I helped build when I was in elementary school back in the day degraded in about 30 years and needed to be torn down. It started to rot, ends got splintery, etc. I'm guessing just short lifespan did them in. Metal playground stuff from the 60's is still usable.
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@purplcabbage Probably some of both, and a lot of just letting the apps run all the time to ameliorate boredom/keep hope alive.
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@Dcednz As an amateur naturalist, I'm much more interested in rhythms of migration and season.
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Gosh, I wonder why the structure of this house is sagging by 8" through the middle of the house? There's this big huge beam supporting things, and the beam's in good shape, what could possibly be going on here? Let's tear off the plaster and lath, maybe we'll get some clues.
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@B4252Jones I also have hens totally ignore all good sense, hop the fence and go wandering off into the bushes where foxes/coyotes/bobcats/hawks kill them.
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@B4252Jones Chickens will also start to die of more or less natural causes at 3-4 years. I have too many to pen in a small area, so they free range in a large fenced enclosure with rooster guards, sleep in a secure coop at night. Every year I lose 10% ish of my laying hens to predation.
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@Redbarn318 Totally. I don't know how people can watch this stuff. I find it quite irritating after like 10 seconds.
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@scratchyjohnson The apps stay on, broadcasting at all times, unless shut off. You pick them up if they come within a defined mileage.
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This is a hilarious encapsulation of the online RW "aristocrat" mind. The understanding of aristocracy as some kind of shallow, classics-obsessed hipster aesthetic. The total disconnection from real-world utility (this is a shitty and non-functional weight room). RW Paris Hilton.
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@nealjclark1 @MichaelTG09 I knew this many of this type, but I knew this exact girl, and she became an HR girlboss.
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@bog_beef Totally. On the low culture end this was ren faires, trailer park guys with Celtic knot tattoos, and the book Mists of Avalon. On the fancy side it was intersectional feminist pagan chicks lighting candles and connecting with their ancestral Brigid energy. It was ok to be white.
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Little boys don't make sense to women because boys are naturally inclined towards war and killing, BARELY tempered by love for family. Why do boys constantly talk about violent and gruesome things? Because they are designed to be ready to kill enemies with a rock to defend you.
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It couldn't be that someone cut through the main post supporting the middle of the house, stuck a window in the middle, and then nailed the severed post section to the sheathing as a spacer!!! That would be totally stupid, there's no way someone would do all that!.
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Most wild edibles are garbage-tier novelty foods. Knowing how to forage bitter greens isn't any kind of meaningful buffer against food shortages, and your ancestors knew this, that's why they had gardens and farms. Berries, nuts, and mushrooms are kinda exceptions.
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It fascinates me the way a tweet can escape the normal limits and attract these totally bonkers takes. The mind of somebody who thinks liking local hardware store nuts and bolts sections= "profound racism" is incredible, like a parody of leftist paranoia. Looking glass Red Scare.
the not-so-subtle profound racism of your local hardware store shopper.
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The way people at my local Aldi refuse to lock the carts up like obedient and orderly Germans, and instead leave them parked with the quarter inserted, makes me proud to be an American.
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@foragervoyager @MichaelTG09 @nealjclark1 Best part about these stories is I can't tell which are really real, and which are partial fiction😅.
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Look, I'm a small town guy and I'd like to see them all not turn to shit, but this take is a typical based-but-totally-ignorant-city-person take. This treats the symptoms, not the disease and WILL NOT WORK. Small towns fail for economic reasons first, then social rot follows.
Very simple to take back a dying small town in middle America. Note: Simple is different from easy. 1. Outlaw hiring of illegal aliens. 2. Replace public schools with classical charters and give parents oversight of curriculum. 3. Close all weed shops. 4. Zero tolerance for.
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I absolutely do not believe any man who says he's too cool for this Appalachian naiad. Stop even pretending bro, if this sweet young lady swam up to you, with or without the catfish, and smiled a sweet smile you'd melt like a sugar cube in the rain.
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Yesterday's maple syrup yield was 2.7 gallons. Very pleased with myself and considering doing more taps next year and selling syrup in a roadside stand. Probably a dumb idea, but optimism and sugar go well together.
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@CaseyBHead Ace are cool, but this is the local champ Carr Hardware. Been in the same building for like 100 years, I remember going in with my dad when I was a kid.
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@DHFabian1 Yeah my dad was a plumber so I spent a lot of quality time in my youth handing him tools and listening to him curse at the hack job somebody else did that he now had to fix.
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Fascinating that the lifter bro statue posters are so fixated on this idea of warbands, conquering, and exploring. On one hand, yes this is a necessary part of the male psyche that needs healthy expression. On the other hand, our civilization has peaked and you're not Pizarro.
The most dangerous part of Bronze Age Mindset remains, by far, the message that small groups of men, bound together by shared bonds of loyalty, can topple empires and change history. This is the message for a new age of exploration, excitement and conquest.
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An interesting thing about low status men's jobs is that little boys think they're AWESOME, and women don't. Women on dating apps are either unimpressed or disappointed that I use chainsaws and nail guns, whereas their sons think I'm amazing.
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This may not look like much, but this homebrew RO system is pulling about 5 gallons of water/hr out of my maple sap. With this I'm going to halve the amount of boiling and firewood I need to use. I just got half of my weekends back for the next month.
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Amusing how few people understand how non-office businesses work. Many are mystified about why all arborists charge so much. They seem unable to comprehend the capital and overhead expenses involved in removing entire trees. Or above all, that risk is very, very expensive.
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@BariYawar This is an incredibly cynical fantasy based on absolutely zero information. Says a lot about you, nothing about her.
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This is an ash tree that was looking great two years ago, but has been brought down by the ash borer. I'm pointing at the line between dead and alive tree. As you can see this one was hanging in there at perhaps 20% alive, but by the end of this year would have been dead, and an
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Schizo cow post:. One of my favorite examples of material changes leading to social changes is the agricultural revolution in the 1800s. Scientific breeding of plants and animals led to a massive gain in available calories, leading to booming populations, leading to an increase.
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The upstairs floor is funnel shaped, with an 8" drop from edge to center.
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@snowset @Bug_Hall There's a very good book about this. How it's the people with the dismissive "I've done this thousands of times and I didn't die" attitude who are the most dangerous to themselves. Skirt death a thousand times, don't realize how close you are to the edge, until one day you die.
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@konahead Huh. In my experience crawling around in basements troubleshooting, this level of precision and tidiness is rare.
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Man, this window doesn't slide right. I wonder what's up with that.
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Have a date with a nice lady who calls herself a liberal. Preparing to answer any questions about politics thus:."To understand my politics, first let's establish some historical context. What do you know about the lifecycle of empires, and where the US is in this cycle?".
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@myth_pilot I did this and it was awesome. Also amazing with slices of honeydew melon in the summer. I saved the skin/fat chunks and when the ham was done I rendered the fat, and made pork rinds from the skin. It was amazing.
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@scratchyjohnson Could totally be part Hallmark fantasies. Also probably part not giving much thought to app management. They just sort of run in the background of your life.
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I'm working on my theory that without actual pressing needs for things on the lower end of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, everything above becomes deranged by bizarre substitute behaviors as the primitive parts of our brain chimp out. It's unnatural and destabilizing.
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@extradeadjcb If this somehow disappoints you, you are extremely out of touch with who the employees at a waffle house are. She seems pretty cool, and would definitely be WAY better to have at your side in a fight than whatever your weird fantasy girl is.
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@ericraum There are two tools available, they cost roughly the same. One is 4x as capable as the other. Which is a better tool for general use?.
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My ex-wife is at my house moving her stuff out today, and she is so crazy and vengeful that I can't leave anything there. So I'm driving around town with all of my cash, computers, and guns in my truck. I feel like a character in a Hunter s Thompson book, ready to go to Mexico.
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This prescription to "take back" a small town will, at most, succeed at turning it into a red-flavored yuppie bedroom community AKA a suburb, NOT an actual small town. A thriving small town IS ALWAYS based on some primary productive industry that supports blue collar families.
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Check out the monster, mortared in hinge pins on this building. What the hell were they hanging on those, bulletproof plates? This is the back of an old 3 story main st retail building in New England. All the windows all the way up have these, so it's not just ground lvl security
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"Waaahhhhhh there's no more adventure or manly danger for men, waaaaahhhhh!!! I wanna be in a warrrrbaaaannnnd!!!!". I'm sorry I couldn't hear you over the sound of trees falling and chainsaws running and wood under tension snapping and flying past my head.
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City dwelling yuppies fail to understand this, and believe that they can just parachute into a quaint but dying place, take over the school boards, and BOOM , small town. Community is not proximity, community is mutual need. Community is genuine interdependence.
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A cute woman who I have a thing for heard I'm sick and just brought me chicken soup. Is this a motherly or a wifely or a friendly thing? Big differences between the three. I have no ability to objectively evaluate the situation.
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Probably one of the best disaster prep skills you can have is being a good enough cook to improv tasty food with basics in sub-optimal conditions. Forget being navy seal tough guy, can you make good goulash for 20 with a turkey fryer and no recipe? I know who I want on my team.
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@StevePender Crack pipe take. You need to be able to get hands on. Thread things together, try out different orders and setups, scratch your head a bit, mull things over.
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If a critical mass of people don't genuinely NEED that exact and particular place to stay the same, with it's industries intact and productive, the town will disintegrate. The social rot that follows will be lamented by based commentators who don't understanding what creates it.
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Let me explain Why Wood Stoves? to all the people who don't get why New England has lots of people burning wood, or who like to imply that chuds with wood stoves are too poor and/or stupid to use other heat sources.
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Also, what exactly are we taking them back FROM? This is never explained. Framing small town rescue as a culture war issue where you need to just be righteous and smash da libs and then you get to live in Mayberry is the most infuriatingly stupid shit.
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A collection of people living in a place while deriving their income from activities unrelated to their place of residence is not a small town, and will not result in the tightly woven community and resistance to social decay that are the hallmarks of a healthy small town.
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The constant returning to "we are soooooo dangerous bros" looks to me like a weird compensation behavior, or as the kids say, a cope. Men leading lives distinctly not full of conquering and exploring muttering soothing things to themselves about what stupendous badasses they are.
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Nobody remembers this, my dude this was my girlfriend and her entire friend group, including Kyrsten Sinema. Those ladies all had multiple NPR tote bags and so many Celtic accessories, candles, and crystals. 2000's white women were all about their oppressed Celtic roots.
Literally nobody remembers this, but in the 1990s and early 2000s, NPR used to run alot of white nationalist content for women. Europe was talked about like Wakanda, this place of spiritual wholeness. Before Tiny Desk, it was all stuff like "Celtic Revival" or monk chanting, etc.
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Found traces of an older civilization inside the walls. They seem to have made sacrificial offerings of sacred beverages to their building gods to ward off fires, plague, and other disasters.
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Carpentry may be the last American profession where the pencil is a critical tool.
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Primary productive industry is an economically sustainable activity that extracts raw materials and/or processes them. Mining, farming, ranching, logging. Manufacturing, processing, etc. This is the BASE of a local economy, and then everything else is built on top of it.
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You want to "take back" small towns? Nurture, grow, and restore productive primary industry. The remote worker, better fiber optic internet, knowledge economy bullshit is just the continuation of the policies that destroyed small towns in the first place.
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I'm mulling doubling my # of maple taps from 15 to 30. Last year I made 5 gal of syrup, if I doubled that I could sell excess and make around $500. If I priced in my labor I'd be making around $15/hr. The economics of small scale syrup making are. not very favorable.
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@legitleavitt It's that kind of attention to detail that sets the real craftsmen apart from the rabble.
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