The developing perception of the US, thanks to a cruel minority

Zapped · 2022-06-26T21:38:50+00:00

Oh, socks!

Zapped · 2022-06-26T20:48:29+00:00

To which minority are you referring?

Zapped · 2022-06-26T20:31:58+00:00

You do get more power from propane than natural gas. If you look at Generac generators, for example, a 24KW is rated for propane but drops to 21KW for NG. I haven't heard of problems with NG and generator power signatures.

Solar is still an expensive investment for the return. I remember when microwave ovens were over $2000.

Zapped · 2022-06-26T16:42:50+00:00

Have you not seen the influx from the TiA crowd alone? I think there are more than 5 users unless your using a lot of alts to larp.

Zapped · 2022-06-26T12:58:13+00:00

Is this perception the result from what they are being fed by the media?

Zapped · 2022-06-26T12:50:23+00:00

If I had NG available, that's what I'd get. I don't want to mess with propane. I have started looking into solar panels feeding into a Tesla Powerwall.

Zapped · 2022-06-26T03:24:31+00:00

If they have a room akin to a sunroom or bonus room, they can install a mini-split. Those run on less than 5 amps/240 volts and provide both heat and AC.

Zapped · 2022-06-25T11:59:55+00:00

That cat is standing, not sitting.

Zapped · 2022-06-24T10:58:47+00:00

The lake trout are predatory and invasive, not native to the area. Other methods have not been able to remove them. This method blankets the bottom of the lake with a film that keeps oxygen away from the eggs before they mature.

Zapped · 2022-06-24T01:28:20+00:00

This reminds me of a similar story from a few years ago. The sister said he didn't deserve to be shot because he just wanted money to buy new clothes and shoes to keep up with the latest fashion.

There seems to be a rationalization in a certain sub-culture where bad deeds, activities, and actions doesn't mean that the person is bad.

Zapped · 2022-06-24T01:15:51+00:00

I wonder what the order was. Usually, there's something oddly specific they order that lets them know they want the drugs.

Zapped · 2022-06-23T10:48:46+00:00

Look away, son. Look away.

Zapped · 2022-06-21T21:50:09+00:00

What do you mean, "you guys"?

https://imgur.com/gallery/Xy7KP

Zapped · 2022-06-20T01:11:46+00:00

Why, Gary? Why?

Zapped · 2022-06-17T16:00:44+00:00

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/ray-epps-conspiracy-january-6-committee-hearings/

Zapped · 2022-06-17T15:59:09+00:00

Usually, animals from testing facilities never leave the facilities alive. If they don't die from testing, they euthanize them.

Zapped · 2022-06-17T15:48:22+00:00

I wonder what the Covid vaccine is doing that shortcuts our immune system in a way to make it less or non effective than traditionally vaccines. We don't even know everything that goes on in a human cell. What we don't know seems to make a difference with this vaccine.

Zapped · 2022-06-16T23:30:29+00:00

That's why I always say "ta-da!" when entering a room.

Zapped · 2022-06-16T14:45:10+00:00

It's the modern day Beanie Baby.

Zapped · 2022-06-16T11:45:36+00:00

Not necessarily.

Zapped · 2022-06-15T11:30:52+00:00

Escorting is legal, as long as there's no sex-for-pay involved. (wink, wink). Getting busted for tax evasion can be worse than prostitution.

Zapped · 2022-06-13T19:17:29+00:00

This meditation exercise works for me to bring down blood pressure. It may take a few times to get used to it. I like lying down in a dark room while listening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhky5SNylk

Zapped · 2022-06-13T10:23:29+00:00

And learn to forgive yourself. This was a big one for me.

Zapped · 2022-06-12T22:32:07+00:00

Weather was nice. Upper 80's, low 90's during the day. We had a brief shower Saturday afternoon while we were on the lake. It got a little muggy in the tent last night, but not too bad. We had neighbors Friday night who got a little loud. My son was asking why the guy was crying (we didn't know there was a female companion until later). We told him maybe the guy was having a bad dream. It didn't last more than 2 minutes, though, and they left Saturday morning.

Zapped · 2022-06-12T20:48:10+00:00

Did you get any warnings? Our HOA for my wife's condo puts a sticker on the windshield 3 days before towing. I think each state has laws on how towing is handled.

If management makes a rule exception for one person, it can open itself up to lawsuits for those whom it enforced.

Zapped · 2022-06-12T20:40:34+00:00

I was inspired by u/AmericanMuskrat. I decided last Sunday that I was going to go rain or shine. First time this year and a place where I hadn't been. We brought chicken sausage and sauerkraut, but went the easy way and cooked some frozen personal pan pizzas. Beer would have made it better, but we were in a state park. No hiking this weekend, but we did some canoeing.

Zapped · 2022-06-10T18:53:01+00:00

Oh, no. I knew a friend who was visiting their in-laws and decided to wash dishes the next morning before anyone woke up. They de-seasoned the cast iron cookware, but no one had the heart to tell them at the time.

Zapped · 2022-06-10T16:31:49+00:00

Sorry it sounded like I was insinuating anything. I was using the parenting saying as an example to say that we will never be perfect at anything. As humans, we can be perfect enough. We just have to always be pushing that way.

Zapped · 2022-06-10T15:30:07+00:00

I had not heard of Wittgenstein before this. He seemed like an interesting guy to have a conversation with. I can't remember where I heard this idea about the 3 selves, but maybe it was from one of his quotes. I imagine it's been brought up through the centuries or millennia.

Zapped · 2022-06-10T15:19:03+00:00

I have heard that there are three sides to each of us: how we view our self, how others view us, and how we really are.

Zapped · 2022-06-10T15:17:33+00:00

Yes. Nobody's perfect, but we can be perfect enough. I used to listen to a radio psychologist named Dr. Toni Grant way back in the 1990's or early 2000's. She had a saying about parenting. We don't have to be perfect parents. We only have to be perfect enough.

People are good at rationalization. Some of us can rationalize behavior in a way to avoid accountability. "Well, it's not hurting anyone." "Well, just this once. I'm always doing the right thing every other time." "Well, someone else would do it if I didn't." "Well, I'll take care of that tomorrow or next time." Then there are those few of us who abuse the trust of the rest to deceive. It's not a good investment to waste energy on them. Move on. I'm not saying people can't change, but in my experience, you or I can't change them.

Zapped · 2022-06-10T13:37:11+00:00

I was told that if you grow watermelon, plow it under, and then grow corn, that the corn will be super sweet.

Zapped · 2022-06-10T11:12:05+00:00

What's the difference between Texas corn and street corn?

Zapped · 2022-06-08T22:12:35+00:00

They know something.

Zapped · 2022-06-08T10:29:17+00:00

The US Army is developing or has developed a large solid state battery.

Zapped · 2022-06-08T01:45:57+00:00

This is the way until batteries get better or they start installing wireless charging under the highways.

Zapped · 2022-06-07T11:58:39+00:00

Chickamauga had a Chatanooga area mass shooting involving, almost exclusively, white people.

Zapped · 2022-06-07T11:53:37+00:00

How did you keep the seeds? In a dark dry space or in the refrigerator?

Zapped · 2022-06-07T11:49:55+00:00

Look up "The White Underbelly" on Youtube. This photographer/filmmaker, Mark Laita, has a huge series on people he's met over the years. The Whitaker family is the most famous of his studies, but there are lots of other interesting stories. Laita started taking pictures of "street people" and found that they all had stories that led to their current situations. He pays them for their time and has even set up fundraisers for some, like the Whitaker family.

Zapped · 2022-06-07T11:32:45+00:00

Wife took it with her phone and send it to me.

Zapped · 2022-06-06T12:05:00+00:00

I disagree. Most of the people with heavy student loan debt are not rich or elite. Those people paid for college outright. This is vote-buying that will lead to increased government spending and taxes.

Zapped · 2022-06-06T11:58:13+00:00

I guess I was thinking of power in terms of control, instead of output.

Zapped · 2022-06-06T11:50:21+00:00

I am removing this because it is off topic. There is no question here. This sub is to ask the users a question.

Zapped · 2022-06-06T11:48:28+00:00

Isn't that power, though?

Zapped · 2022-06-06T11:26:44+00:00

One side of the blade or wing on an aircraft is flat and one side is curved. This forces the air across the curved side to speed up so that both sides reach the trailing edge at the same time (curved side has farther to travel to get there). This causes lower pressure and "pulls" the wing, propeller, rotor in the direction of the lower pressure (think vacuum). You can look up Bernoulli's Principle for more on how this works.

Zapped · 2022-06-06T01:21:47+00:00

A fan blade is not necessarily an airfoil. Propeller and rotor blades are designed for lift. They have a distinct shape to their profile.

Wind turbines generally work in places with maintained wind. If you live in a place with intermittent wind, there are wind turbines with a cylindrical shape that work better for that application.

Zapped · 2022-06-06T01:15:46+00:00

My jalapeños, bell peppers, and tomatoes didn't do well in full afternoon sun last year. Only when I moved them to afternoon shade did they take off. The banana peppers went crazy, though.

Zapped · 2022-06-05T23:18:59+00:00

I'll be coming for some sauce recipes in a month or two, u/AmericanMuskrat.

Zapped · 2022-06-05T21:38:55+00:00

I think it was Fort Worth, Texas.

Zapped · 2022-06-05T21:35:55+00:00

This is a classic.

Zapped · 2022-06-05T21:35:15+00:00

The day the Slurpee machines went down.

Zapped · 2022-06-05T12:21:58+00:00

Supernatural beings could just mean they live in higher dimensions than we can comprehend.

Zapped · 2022-06-05T12:12:47+00:00

If linking watermelon with black culture is racist, then linking Juneteenth with black culture is racist.

Zapped · 2022-06-05T12:05:05+00:00

if you're bored then you're boring - Harvey Danger.

Zapped · 2022-06-05T11:58:32+00:00

Those without high morale will have it beaten into them.

Zapped · 2022-06-05T00:13:39+00:00

True, but why, then, have they not arrested Mark Meadows?

Zapped · 2022-06-05T00:03:08+00:00

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/taliban-raked-in-470m-us-from-opium-trade-in-2008-un-report-1.745850

I respect your opinion, but I have to disagree.

Zapped · 2022-06-04T11:49:21+00:00

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/8/16/opium-afghanistans-illicit-drug-trade-that-helped-fuel-taliban

The UN and Washington contend that the Taliban are involved in all facets, from poppy planting, opium extraction, and trafficking to exacting “taxes” from cultivators and drug labs to charging smugglers fees for shipments bound for Africa, Europe, Canada, Russia, the Middle East, and other parts of Asia.

Zapped · 2022-06-02T11:46:23+00:00

It was explained to me that the faster you move, the "heavier" things get. The mass of the bullet, like you said, would get harder to propel as you get to light speed.

Zapped · 2022-05-30T16:37:27+00:00

Maybe he thinks it helped you build character? Especially if you've done well since leaving home.

Zapped · 2022-05-29T23:55:39+00:00

You have just realized your prophecy. The radiation would turn the ants into giants.

Zapped · 2022-05-29T18:45:49+00:00

Have you seen what ants do to anything with electricity? They love to nest in protected spaces with warmth and short out electrical circuitry. We would be back in the stone age in no time. If they start with the power grid leading to the chemical plants, we would be defenseless.

Zapped · 2022-05-29T18:33:39+00:00

This is hard-wired into us. In the past, social rejection meant death, as humans have evolved to be communal. Of course people can live alone, but that's only because we can learn survival skills from others before stepping into isolation.

Zapped · 2022-05-29T18:28:31+00:00

Oh, no. You have it backwards. This documentary shows how man gave it to apes and then they passed on to monkeys. It has come full cirlce.

Zapped · 2022-05-29T18:24:01+00:00

If the ants were to start on the young and infirm, they could easily increase that ratio.

Zapped · 2022-05-29T16:00:19+00:00

There are an estimated 1.5 million ants for every human.

Zapped · 2022-05-29T14:49:19+00:00

This is why plumbers can charge whatever they want and people will pay.

Zapped · 2022-05-29T13:03:43+00:00

Sorry, man. I've never been around that kind of stuff. How do you move forward so that it doesn't bother you?

Zapped · 2022-05-29T12:47:23+00:00

These people are some of the worst because they do this for an income, not to get money for a quick fix, at the result of taking others' life savings.

Zapped · 2022-05-28T12:08:39+00:00

They should have called the parents first and told them had one hour to come get their kid. The public schools have turned into a baby-sitting service for some with no expulsion for lost causes. That said, they were wrong to drag this kid through the school by his ankles.

Zapped · 2022-05-28T12:01:46+00:00

Wutschke was booked into Ramsey County jail on suspicion of indecent exposure and obscene materials and performance, both gross misdemeanors.

Will those charges stick? Also, who at the police station had to remove the device from his insides?

Zapped · 2022-05-27T23:57:36+00:00

Grass lawns are a product of the wealthy showing that they don't need to grow food. In days past, yards were used for produce and livestock.

Zapped · 2022-05-27T23:45:13+00:00

My purpose now is to leave a legacy for my son so he can accomplish even more than I have, and he can do the same for his children. Community comes next.

Zapped · 2022-05-27T23:41:10+00:00

Yes, and the easier it is to "survive" without challenge, the less meaningful life can feel. Would you want to be immortal? What would the challenge/meaning in life be then? Would procrastination take over as there was no expiration date on achievements?

Zapped · 2022-05-27T23:37:43+00:00

Maybe the smartest one knows not to show it on this forum.

Zapped · 2022-05-27T23:35:47+00:00

I've heard that the pre-colonial eastern U.S. had oak savannahs for as the far as the eye could see.

Zapped · 2022-05-27T23:28:03+00:00

Look for the sauerkraut in a jar in the chilled produce section of the grocery store.

Zapped · 2022-05-27T23:25:41+00:00

I second everything said here. This seemed to work for me after taking antibiotics for diverticulitis. They do make probiotics that have a tough "shell" that's supposed to pass through the stomach.

Zapped · 2022-05-27T23:22:36+00:00

Nice. Sitting around the fire playing your flute for entertainment. No need for electronics.

Zapped · 2022-05-25T11:58:10+00:00

Simi Valley, CA.

Zapped · 2022-05-25T11:50:38+00:00

I feel like there's something you're trying to tell us.

Zapped · 2022-05-25T11:43:52+00:00

Internet forums can be a place to (fairly) anonymously joke around without the worry of someone getting so offended that they come after you in real life. u/AmericanMuskrat is pretty smart, friendly and has opinions like everyone, and seems like a good guy and family man. He keeps the ball rolling here sometimes when needed. I suggest taking banter here with a grain of salt.

Zapped · 2022-05-25T00:54:41+00:00

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I liked the Paradice Lost series, but then found out how much the film makers purposely left out the films after I read up on the case.

Zapped · 2022-05-24T00:54:16+00:00

Yuengling Black & Tan. I like your taste.

Zapped · 2022-05-23T16:44:36+00:00

I've noticed your posting numbers are down. What happened?

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