I don’t youtube.

My understanding is most other countries (and our credit card #'s) have …self-identifying? …some spiffy numbers built into them that cryptographically verify that they’re not fakes, whereas the US’s SSN is pretty much just an incremental number assignation and has zero additional info built into it.

Like I know sisters that have sequential SSN’s because there was a snafu and they got assigned them at the same time, rather than when they each were born.

Of course, I’m entirely against the whole fucking idea of giving people a fucking barcode at all, but that’s an idealogical argument for another time

Wasn’t that long ago, but damned if they ain’t making it harder to do. Every cheap plot of land I’ve looked at has such stringent use restrictions it’s basically having an invasive landlord with more steps. Homesteading is dead, at least in places i’d consider it.

Not to romanticize it too much. It sucked so bad my partner’s mom responded to a trip idea with “what? Fuck no! We lived in a tent for a year, why the fuck would I want to go camping?”

We still are never allowed to ‘just go live in the woods’ lol

Removed by mod

I have never had one fail. Never even heard of one snapping.

The one on my stepvan doesn’t pull quite hard enough on its own, but it works.

And …it’s a cable? Like seven cents a foot?

Shit, my panels were still kicking at 95% when covered in a layer of dirt so thick I had to hose them, and wash em twice.

Now they’re back up to 99%, and they’re about ten years old

Well sonofabitch.

That explains why my setup starts cranking early in the morning, but is kinda piddly in the afternoon, when, by my eyes, there’s even more direct light on them.

Had honestly never heard temp mattered at all

Check out how much solar china’s put up this year.

Solar is absolutely the future

Eagerly awaiting my sick-ass radium tattoo

The fucking dictionary is a subscription now?

Ding ding ding

Wow, you’re lame as hell

Absolutely fucking never

It’s still an egg.

And are the nutritional studies you’ve read paying attention to vitamins and micronutrients? Or just calories and fats and protein contents?

Bullshit.

Color, consistency, flavor, fragility in the shell, fragility of the yolk, length of time to begin getting weird, length of time to spoil.

Pasture raised hens lay better eggs, hands down.

We’ll bake with sad eggs, but fried or poached? Has to be the good eggs.

My partner grew up in the mountains, and that’s very much how they ate. Home-grown, canned and cooked basically everything above flour. The kids got taught what they could wild forage themselves, and what to bring back to ask about.

Now, they were so cash poor as to have to rub two pennies together to make three, but that’s a whole different point of conversation

I only ever played the demo, and I really dug it.

Would love to try out the whole game.

Did not hear any hype though

Test toot!