we won’t and we will

I live in New England and AC is only needed when it’s hotter than 90F for days.  We close up the house during the day and draw the blinds on the south side and open everything at night.  It keeps the house mostly around 72 and that’s fine. I run a window unit in the bedroom when it’s hot and just fans for the rest of…

The price is pretty important. Guessing mid to high 40's.

everyone is “doom and gloom” because every media outlet everywhere preaches the gospel of “how fucked we are”.  Why?? because that generates clicks and that is the metric for “good” content.  Stop. Looking. at. the. news.  Endlessly stressing about shit you can’t do a damn thing about only hurts you.  Then, you go see…

absolutely!  In the wild you can awaken to the sound of the bears opening the tent to access the yummy insides of you.  

Sound won’t matter to me.  Sort of like inflation is not a problem if you can’t afford anything.

Lived in Massachusetts all of my long life and I have never encountered this.  I’ve eaten take out chinese in most regions of the state.  I submit it’s far more localized than outlined here.  

it seems to be working for “them”

when i took a “retirement” job, I needed a commuter car. Across the street, in my neighbors yard sat a 2004 Civic with a lot of miles, a little rust and crank windows and a manual. I knocked and asked why no one drove it and the elderly lady said she couldn’t push in the clutch anymore and would I like to buy it. I…

just stay in the car.  Jeeez

We had a camp on a lake in Vermont.  We’d sit on the dock with our feet in the water and the minnows would do this.  Stupid lawbreaking minnows.

He made 10 million.  Pays two and a half mil in fines. Six months of home confinement, and another 150K on top.   He’s still 8 mil ahead. THIS is why things are the way they are.  Steal a “billion”, pay a pittance of a fine, Rinse and repeat, and repeat.  Make these guys destitute, take the house, car, food on the…

^^This!  Cars are so expensive to own, only a subscription model will ever work for the people who used to compact (cheap) cars and are increasingly out of luck.

5 grand is all the money for this floating fuel tanker.

My quarter acre lot is pretty hilly.  Definitely need 4 batteries (extra expense)  Dunno where you live but hereabouts if you look, you can find non runners for free on the side of the road.  Watch Mustie1 on youtube for an hour or so and you’ll get the know how to fix mowers.  I did and I have made a long career of…

700 bucks for a mower is kinda pricey for a lot of us.  A yard sale mower for 50 bucks and an hours worth of tinkering can mow your lawn for years.  I buy just about 50 dollars worth of gasoline to mow ( at today’s prices) and less to blow the snow in winter. Ten years on, you still have not spent 700 bucks for yard…

it is unattainable for the VAST majority of people who drive.

Good Effing luck getting any duck to hold still while you frost it.  Pics or it didn’t happen.

I find it hard to believe that vegetation averse children take one taste of the ambrosial squash (squash!) soup and are transformed.   If that raw squash tastes like doritos then, yeah, kids would go for it.  Otherwise, I remain a bit skeptical.  Take it to your local county fair, prepare it and offer it to four year…

This is furthering the desire of the auto industry to get us to a “subscriber” type of auto use. If you have them on a subscription, you can raise the price of said subscription whenever you wish. Late Stage capitalism is not working for the VAST majority of the workforce.