Super cool!

I grind my own, which I always thought was a big deal. But roasting it as well, wow, that's impressive!

My tiny contribution here is to look things aimed at commercial use, not consumer grade. For example, next time you need to buy a can opener, buy it from a restaurant supply shop instead of Amazon or Walmart.

I love cars. I also love this planet. Cars are bad for the planet.

Man, I remember when this meme was new. Mainly because I also bought a brand new bugeye WRX about that time. So jeez, this meme is just shy of 25 years old. Wow.

Owning a car you actually love is pretty great. After a shitty day at work, there's something awesome about walking out to the parking lot and seeing my WRX waiting for me. I'll be the first to bitch about how America is too car-centric, but we really knock it out of the park when we get it right.

And yes, I'm aware it's a Japanese car, I'm more referring to the owning/operating experience as an American. Which sadly seems to be going away. Modern cars feel more like an app that just happens to have wheels. But that's a topic for another thread.

"Dogmeat has died".

Oh no he fucking has not. Reload.

A lot of it is due to the dealership model. The dealership doesn't have room for infinite inventory, so they only order vehicles that will appeal to a wide audience. Some buyers will not take a yellow car or a blue one, but very few people will reject a grey car that otherwise meets all their requirements. So we end up with: white, white-grey, off-grey, grey, dark grey, bold grey, charcoal, and black.

Interesting to note, if you go look at the 'build your own' options on a manufacture's website, they do still offer colors. But it can be surprisingly difficult to get, as you ultimately have to order through the dealership. The dealership is much more motivated to sell you what's on the lot today, rather than let you order a car that will arrive in 6 months.

Also, my mother calls this year's grey "mud grey", which I find very funny for some reason.

Biggest difference was at the doctor's office:

Fat me: Doctor, I've been shot!
Doctor: Have you tried losing weight? That's clearly the problem.

Thin me: Doctor, I've been shot!
Doctor: Well your bloodwork looks great, nothing to do here.

I would LOVE to believe this will force automakers to return to using buttons instead of touchscreen.

Yeah, I know. But I'd sure love to believe it.

At the risk of sounding silly - Instead of focusing on burning the solids, boil the water. Water boils at 100C, at which point the water vapor should separate and leave all the solids behind. Then capture the vapors and condense it back down into clean water. Now, if you later want to incinerate the leftover solids, sure, go for it, fire's always cool in my book.

I'll add, simply boiling water is energy intensive. What you are proposing probably won't work at any scale.

I'm a bit surprised I've never heard of LONGTIME. Seems like they're doing exactly what I've wanted - searching out products designed to last.

https://longtimelabel.com/en/

That said, not sure I need a Buy It For Life cable. Far more interested in BIFL appliances.

"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."

I attribute the quote wrong all the time, but today the internet says it's from Julius Nyerere, who was a prime minister in Africa back in the 1960s.

I was blown away when my die-hard Republican boomer dad said he thinks climate change is real. There's a pond behind our house, and he can remember how big it used to get in the rainy season and how small it used to get in the dry season. Now, during the rainy season it comes up to the backdoor, and during the dry season it's not there at all. If he can still trust his own eyes over what the TV tells him to think, maybe there's still some hope for the world.

I was just thinking this morning that it's kinda odd that there's no cell phone that also doubles as a multi-meter for measuring electronic current. I guess it's because in theory you'd need to also carry around a set of probes with you?

This is one of those points that's been really bothering me lately. Seriously, pick an industry, and then think about who actually does the work. Farmers, Teachers, Nurses, Construction workers, Musicians, Machinists... The folks doing the work are poorer than they've ever been, and yet somehow those services cost more than ever. Where is the money going?

Obviously we don't learn about unions at all. But the one that strikes me the most is the omission of the Battle of Blair Mountain, where the US government sent the army after the coal miners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

The Wilmington 1989 coup: After the Civil War, Wilmington North Carolina had a mostly black government. That didn't sit right with the whites, so they staged and successfully completed a Coup & overthrew the government. Only officially successful Coup to occur in the USA. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/when-white-supremacists-overthrew-government/

9/11 - The much lesser known 9/11 occurs in Chili in on 9/11/1973. During a US sponsored coup, the revolutionaries smash an airplane into the capitol building. My not-so-conspiracy theory is there's a reason the US event happened on 9/11 as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

There's this scene at the start of War of the Worlds where the hero races his classic muscle car up this tiny neighborhood street at full tilt, exhaust notes at full blast, and I think he even screeches the tires by slamming the brakes pulling into the driveway. Then he walks up to his neighbor and they're all chill with him. In any other world, the neighbors would have him in handcuffs.

I had my house renovated to make it more like what I want. The cost was mind boggling. But holy hell, I really like my house now.

Dragons fucking cars, obviously.

Kept the left over floor tiles. Nearly 30 years later I needed to replace one, had a box ready to go.

Capitalism.

Also, if I work hard I will be rewarded.