LOL, my friend had the 400. We all hated it.

This is not that discussion, even remotely. Try to stay on topic.

While we’re throwing around our favorite TED talks, here’s the meat of my favorite in animated form.

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Looking back over my jobs, hobbies, life in general, yeah, this hits hard. And yes, they found some surprising results.

EDIT: I was wrong. Not a TED talk. Watch it anyway and learn!

By virtue of you actually knowing what a firewall is, and participating in the conversation, on this platform, you are ahead of 99 out of 100 people.

Y’all missing the whole point here.

If an area requires covering, it might as well produce some power. And cells on the ground aren’t as bad as they’re made out.

I have one laying flat in the yard powering a 12V water pump. Been there for 6-months, covered in pollen and dust, weeds growing over one side, grass cuttings on top, never cleaned, works fine. I have another on my shed roof at our camp. Same deal with the pollen and dust, works fine. But guess which one is easier to clean?

Cells don’t have to be pristine to produce power. And if you do want to clean them? The installation pictured looks easy to work with a garden hose and squeegee, couldn’t take 30 minutes. Use concrete instead? OK, now you have to power wash it. What a pain.

Something funny I noticed at my last two jobs. The people who had their financial act together always brought their lunch. The broke people, like me, almost always ate out. Go figure.

When ever I hear how expensive it is to cook I know I’m dealing with a young person who’s clueless. Have parents not been teaching their kids to cook?!

Reminds me of visiting my niece and her husband for dinner. They never cooked but made a nice meal that night. But they said it just wasn’t economical when they totaled the price vs. portions. They did the math and proudly claimed it was cheaper to eat out. My wife and I were stunned.

Well, duh? Now you have leftover ingredients. Add to those and plan another meal. FFS, they had to buy salt and figured that into the total meal price. They literally started with nothing. Yes, it’s expensive to spin up a fridge and pantry, but once you’re rolling it’s cheap to eat.

The ingredients spoil?! Either you don’t have a fridge or don’t have a clue how to cook. Or maybe turn your fridge temp down?

Lunch meat lasts a month, easy. Cheese? Multiple months. Bread? Depends. 1-day to 2-weeks, forever if frozen.

I get ham slices every trip. Any idea how many things you can do with those?! Fry them for eggs benedict, with melted cheese on a bagel, chop into an omelette, ham and cheese melt, part of a charcuterie board, 20 different kinds of sandwiches, and more.

All of that only talking about one of the ingredients you have bought. Learn to cook or pay someone a premium to do it for you. That’s how it works.

I feel like the solution is given in the meme.

Funny story! My kids were appalled that we were on a 1-mile hike to the creek last summer.

“ONE MILE!?”

Little shits were sore as hell walking out. Guess what? By the end of summer, a 2-mile round trip in the sand was nothing to them. Guess what else? We used to jog a mile, at the start of gym class in the 70s.

In some ways I feel sorry for them and in other ways I’m envious. Envious because of the mind blowing amount of content, but mostly feeling sorry for them missing out on huge, cultural, shared experiences.

We used to, basically, be on the same page. Now anyone can read from any page they like. BTW, got any unpasteurized milk?

Damned close! Cut off the Florida panhandle and include it with AL and GA and you’re golden down South!

The women are the finest I’ve ever met. Feminine as you please, can strap on a pistol or shot gun with ease. Never dated a dumb MS woman.

CAVEAT: All my experience is with women who left MS. May not be applicable in state.

And the lack of water.

Spoken as someone who doesn’t travel those 3 states. Alabama is head and shoulders above the other 2.

How do you feel about lye? Seems to clean the organic crap better. For metal I use sulfuric. ?

I’ve got a 4D Mag but just can’t justify the expense of the conversion kit. Got one for an old gf’s light and they are DOPE! But for the $70 price tag I can get a couple of super nice handhelds that weigh nothing.

Far left, third down.

My parents were ahead of the over-protection curve on this one. Me and one other kid had to sit in the library when DARE was going on. They thought the class would make me want to do drugs.

Did shitloads of drugs anyway, but still, they were right in principle.

There are only two reasons any post-pubescent human isn’t having sex:

• They can’t find anyone to fuck them.

• They’re legitimately asexual. (A rare thing. And no lemmy, just because you’re not getting laid doesn’t make you “asexual”.)

Abortion as birth control is a lie they’ve been harping on for decades. No one does that. No one says, “Aw crap! Preggers again, off to the abortionplex!”

I’ve impregnated two women that had abortions. I won’t go into the details, but we talked about it, decided to do it, and they were both emotionally crushed. The second woman lost her ability to ever have children from the procedure.

Abortion is not a thing to be taken lightly, and no one does.

And thanks for sticking your neck out and asking around here. Surprised you weren’t excoriated.