Kids broke the laser pointer, makes it really hard to use. But the SATISFACTION. :)

I try not to kill anything but flies (overwhelming in the summer), cockroaches inside, and fire ants (invasive and destructive). I refuse to use poisons or herbicides, only fire ant bait.

Keep on! I’ve seen our insect populations crash since I was a child and the upstream ecosystem is suffering. Young people would be fucking appalled if they emotionally knew what I knew, seen what I’ve seen.

But good news! Our yard is the only reason we have frogs and dragonflies back on the block! More to come.

I’ve got one! Annoyed my wife leaving salt all over the kitchen window sill.

People like her aren’t stupid enough to take public government roles. The truly powerful rule behind the throne. I think the reason we’re all raging about billionaires, particularly in tech, is that their manipulations are shamelessly public now days.

Struggled a bit because my grandparents raised me and they’re dead. Not sure all that has to be prefect though. Divorce dates for example, how are they gonna check, call all 50 states and request records? If I can’t readily determine where my grandparents were born, how would the federal government know?

Anyway, this isn’t new, and certainly not a Trump thing because I applied before Biden was out.

The US is not only quit populous, our huge footprint and lack of government centralization causes a lot of stupid shit like using bills for proof of residence. Imagine tying 100s of thousands of databases together so the federal government can pull all info on a citizen.

BTW, this is exactly what Palantir is accomplishing and we should be screaming about it.

My wife had to sent utility bills with her name and our address on it to immigration to prove she didn’t marry for the green card and we’re actually living together. And don’t start me on our immigration system, totally and purposefully broken.

I take a few tablespoons, stir it up in a coffee cup and chug it every night. Even if I miss a day, I’m generally OK, but miss 2 or 3 days, it’s a 2-3 day thing to get back to normal.

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This is part of what Forrest Gump was about. Think Forrest and Bubba would have made it to boot in the first place?

Wait till you hear where ice cream truck music comes from.

Alaska ain’t much about rules. :)

I’m surprised the glue has held this long for such a cheapo product!

So, what’s the scope? I got a couple of cheapies off Amazon and eBay, thought my cheapness was the problem. Posted on lemmy asking about options and it seems no matter the price, the FOV is going to suck, even for the $50,000 military models.

Got some 9V-battery powered infrared strobes for cheap, to be used as trail markers. Super neat and super cheap! But I have to point directly at them to pick them up. All I want is a monocular I can walk around with.

Anyone notice many, if not most, of male injuries are preventable?

Solid tools to have in any case. I wouldn’t buy a kit as I already have all that from other projects.

Just now got the USB port covers! Have a crappy light on my little .22, lost the cover immediately. Put on of those on and have hiked for miles, banged in around, wiped it off during general cleaning several times, still perfectly stuck. Little finicky getting it seated, well worth it for the perfect seal. $.86/ea. on eBay.

I’m stomping around the backwoods of NW Florida, occasionally crawling under bushes, no issues. Pixels suck at getting wet though, never again.

Yeah, you won’t see the poop emoji in Linux or LibreOffice! 🤦🏻‍♂️

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🙄 I just listed loads of chemicals that sound “chemically”, “unpronounceable”, all natural.

And I’ll fight you on “GMO’d”. Dare you to go to your local produce section and find anything to eat that wasn’t engineered by humans. Dare you to go into the woods and forests around your home and find anything to eat, untouched by human modification, outside of mushrooms and acorns and twigs.

Even our rice and potatoes and corn and wheat have been drastically modded. The modern use of speeding up those mods via fucking about with DNA is in it’s infancy, not much to see here.

Not familiar with the nomenclature on the last two, came from the Wiki on “water”. Point being, a lot of “unpronounceable” ingredients are perfectly normal chemicals.

The contents of an apple are less jokey and more to my point:

Important volatile compounds in apples that contribute to their scent and flavour include acetaldehyde, ethyl acetate, 1-butanal, ethanol, 2-methylbutanal, 3-methylbutanal, ethyl propionate, ethyl 2-methylpropionate, ethyl butyrate, ethyl 2-methyl butyrate, hexanal, 1-butanol, 3-methylbutyl acetate, 2-methylbutyl acetate, 1-propyl butyrate, ethyl pentanoate, amyl acetate, 2-methyl-1-butanol, trans-2-hexenal, ethyl hexanoate, hexanol.

Lack of exercise can certainly exacerbate those first two issues.

How about:

Hydrogen oxide

Hydrogen hydroxide

Hydroxylic acid

Dihydrogen monoxide

Dihydrogen oxide

Hydric acid

Hydrohydroxic acid

Hydroxic acid

Hydroxoic acid

Hydrol

μ-Oxidodihydrogen

κ1-Hydroxylhydrogen(0)