MoonMelon @ MoonMelon @lemmy.ml

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This episode also has the most poorly acted sneeze ever put to film.

I know someone who went to highschool with him. We talked about it when we were talking about what a pile of horseshit his book is (I'm also from the area). Not surprised he is a floor cookie enjoyer.

Sorry let me put that in his book's terms: "I'm YALE not surprised YALE he is a (from the holler) floor cookie enjoyer YALE."

If you want a good book about the area, btw, I really recommend Dreamland by Sam Quinones.

I've "rolled" a couple 401ks into a Vanguard account. Just set up a Vanguard traditional IRA (or Fidelity is good too) and follow their instructions. In both my cases my old 401k admin sent me a check and I forwarded it to Vanguard within a certain time frame. If you don't know what fund to choose just pick "Vanguard Target Retirement XX" for whatever year you turn retirement age (Fidelity has equivalents).

The reason I say Vanguard or Fidelity is because they have rock bottom fees and also they are huge so they've worked this out with basically everyone.

DisneyToon, BlueSky, Circle 7, Imagemovers Digital... could be a lot more doors.

I've taken the Cardinal four times and the only upsides were no TSA inspection (which they're talking about changing) and no size limits on luggage. Other than that everything was a fucking nightmare. Like, overflowing toilets with turds sliding around on the floor of the bathroom, 8 hour delays, departure time at 3am... bad. The first time I took it for the experience, the second time I took it because, "well shit happens right? Maybe it was a fluke." It wasn't a fluke. The only way it would be worth it would be if tickets were like $30.

Nationalize the rails.

Or I click a link to story about a cat stuck in a tree and it takes me to small, local newspaper I've never heard of called "The Sawfly Gazette - serving South Western Maine since 1975!", then it immediately tells me I've hit my "article limit" and must subscribe for $14.95.

I worked at a couple "AAA" studios and I learned long ago to never read the fan spaces. It sucks because there are some thoughtful and extremely insightful comments, sometimes, but they are bobbing in an ocean of garbage.

It extra sucks because social media policies prevent you from messaging that really insightful person and saying," you're right and everybody here loves your post." Even though you really, really want to.

Repair forum version:

• Here are the exact bolts you need to loosen:

  <dead photobucket link>

• After that make sure you note this gasket:

  <another dead photobucket link>

• The replacement part is very hard to find but they carry it here: <404>
• You'll find the torque spec here:

  <domain sold to online casino advertiser>

Bonus points if the only schematic you can find is a 256 resolution jpg on pinterest that leads to a wordpress site were a bot only posts random schematics to farm pinterest engagement.

This isn't quite right. The cops tear-gassed Lafayette square, not the church. My spouse was there. Glad this gets acknowledged now because they were trying to claim no gas was used at first.

Also, as mentioned in your link, Trump wanted to shoot everybody because he was butthurt about being called "bunker boy". The gas was actually a compromise.

Oh also, notice how that link mentions deploying Bureau of Prisons police? It's because those fuckers are sadistic. And that's compared to regular cops. They can't wait to be Brown shirts.

Check your regional Craigslist, mine's full of them. This is also why the fair exists (besides funnel cake).

Anecdotal, but I grew up in the heyday of malls and my local mall was one of the largest, and is now one of the most famous dead malls. The mall was in decline when Amazon was still in its infancy, mostly still selling books. Buying clothes online was considered lunacy at the time because there was no fitting rooms to try things on. Still, vacancy was on the rise in the mall and once a few violent crimes started happening inside that was all she wrote. "Big Box" stores like Walmart became more of a draw than driving all the way to the mall.

I think the reasons for the death of the mall are more complex, just like the death of the department store. There were lots of weird tax incentives, both for developers, and for (mostly white) residents fleeing the urban core during the 90s. Those were not sustainable. Malls themselves were a bit of a private equity shell game which couldn't last. The story of dead malls is more about capitalism and land use policy than just Amazon.

I'll never forget Forest Fair Mall in those first years though. It's 1.5 MILLION square feet, and it was absolutely packed, especially during Christmas. Humongous fountains, sand sculptures, live music... every single spot of its airfield-like parking lot was full. The only thing today that I think comes close, if younger people want the experience, is the main concourse of a top ten airport.

That sucks to hear, at one point I was really hoping it would become a viable yt alternative. Not that I ever expected their cryptocurrency to "moon" but it was at least an interesting idea to compensate people for seeding video.

I guess I can go to Rural King but honestly I doubt they're better, but least-harm I suppose. When you live where I do you pretty much can't avoid patronizing businesses like this, unless you can hear through the grapevine about some guy who's selling whatever and is a fan of John Brown. We're out here but we're outnumbered and underground.

When I was a child in the 90s I somehow scored a voice role in a hotdog commercial for the radio. I was paid a king's ransom for this, half of which my parents made me put in savings (wise), and half of which I spent on a brand new Sega CD (not wise).

The magic of postage stamp-sized full motion video took about three days to wear off, at which point all that was left was basically pure shit. They jacked me. At least I learned that lesson early.

The article doesn't really do Tim justice. He's a bodger who is basically a genius for what I can only describe as Goblin technology. His projects are as much about fun and experimenting as having a result. In the first windmill video he acknowledged that he could just buy a small electric windmill, but that's not the point.

I mean, this is the dude who made a narrow gauge railroad and a compressed air locomotive to transport wood to his terrifying biochar chopper and crucible.

Yep, old shirts came out of the wash looking like a fucking Calabi-Yau manifold, even casual wear.

Every time I've gone to a beautiful place, (Kauai/Virgin Islands/Moab etc) I've run into former insurance salesman types who just said fuck it, and stayed, and now live in an old school bus and fix outboards or whatever. Often it was precipitated by a big life event like a divorce or a child leaving the nest but sometimes they just bounced. I get it.

Wait, it's all just Arthurian legend? 🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

It'll be a common law marriage when it comes to sharing debt and calculating income for denying SNAP, single when it comes to hospital visitation rights and bereavement.

Thank you. It's a new construction and the builder seems to generally pick really good subs, and I'm pretty sure whoever installed it did the entire house, so they should be familiar with it. I'll give them a call.

Edit: Update to this. I cut the circuit breaker and opened the unit and something was clearly wrong with the blower motor. Mountings and bushings etc all looked fine, but rotating the blower manually was rocky. It seems like a bad bearing or something but I'm no expert. The tech came out and confirmed in about 15 minutes the blower motor needs warranty replacement. Unit is less than 8 months old, he said it's rare but he's seen it before. I kind of want to do a teardown but not enough to buy it. Tech said it was OK to run, and I did that up until yesterday when it sounded so bad I was afraid it was going to grenade the whole box and stopped using AC. Temps close to 100F so hopefully he gets to it soon. I'll be sure to have him run it before he leaves. Thanks again.