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Kathy Culpepper Richards, PhD, RN; Sheila Cox Sullivan, PhD, RN; Robin L Phillips, MNSc, APN; Cornelia K Beck, PHD, RN, FAAN; Amy Leigh Overton-McCoy, MNSc, RN
This pilot study investigated a program of individualized activities designed to enhance nocturnal sleep in five cognitively impaired veterans residing in a dementia care unit. Actigraphy documented 24-hour sleep-wake patterns of the residents for 3 days. Those meeting the criteria for inclusion then participated in an Individualized Activity Intervention timed to occur during peak napping times for 14 days. During the 10th, 12th, and 14th days of intervention, actigraphy provided a repeat measure of sleep-wake patterns. The results indicated an increase in nocturnal sleep with increased efficiency, as well as a decrease in daytime napping. This pilot study encourages further investigation of this potential method for enhancing nocturnal sleep in cognitively impaired elderly adults.
Nocturnal sleep disturbance is a common and disabling symptom in older adults who are cognitively impaired (Dowling, 1994; Reynolds, Hock, Stack, & Campbell, 1988). Their nocturnal sleep is light and inefficient, and they wake up often during the night (Bliwise, 1994; Schnelle, Ouslander, Simmons, Alessi, & Gravel, 1993). One study found that residents in a nursing home, 60% of whom had dementia, slept only 66% of nocturnal time in bed. When asleep, continuous sleep intervals averaged only 20 minutes (Schnelle, et al, 1993).
In addition to sleeping poorly at night, residents with cognitive impairment sleep more in the daytime than older adults who are healthy. One study found that some nursing home residents had similar activity levels both day and night (AncoliIsrael, Parker, Sinaee, Fell, & Kripke, 1991), and another showed 10% to 20% of their total 24-hour sleep time occurred during the daytime (Prinz et al., 1982). Multiple, short daytime napping episodes interfere with daytime activity and functioning (Ancoli-Israel, Parker, Sinaee, Fell, & Kripke, 1 991 ; Vinello, & Prinz, 1992), and perhaps nocturnal sleep. Furthermore, daytime disruptive behaviors such as pacing, hitting, and cursing, related significantly to sleep disturbance (Cohen-Mansfield, 1990; Rebok, Rovner, & Folstein, 1991).
Current interventions consist of pharmacological agents. Benzodiazepines, or antipsychotic medications, provide minimal efficacy in the presence of serious side effects, such as impairment of memory, cognition, coordination, and balance. Furthermore, tolerance develops and discontinuation may result in severe rebound insomnia (Feikey et al., 1995; Shorr & Robin, 1994; Bliwise, 1994).
Investigation into nonpharma,cologic interventions to improve sleep in this population is sparse. An urgent need exists for feasible, costeffective, nonpharmacologic interventions addressing the precipitating causes of sleep disturbance.
For some institutionalized elderly adults, living in a physically, cognitively, and emotionally understimulating setting may induce excessive napping during the day, disturbing circadian sleep-wake patterns (Ancoli-Israel et al., 1997b; Morewitz, 1988). Structured daytime activity may be an effective intervention for nocturnal sleep disturbance, but it has not been formally tested. Purposive physical, cognitive, and affective activities may help sustain daytime alertness and promote physiologic well-being. Concrete, reality-based activities may counter excessive napping by keeping residents with dementia involved in the world around them and helping them meet important psychological, physical, and social needs (Algose et al., 1997; Levy, 1986).
After baseline measures of sleep-wake patterns, the participants in this study received individualized activities for 14 days during peak napping periods. During the 10th, 12th, and 14th days of the intervention, the staff re-measured sleep-wake patterns. The researchers used actigraphy (Ambulatory Monitoring, Ardsley, NY), a device worn on the participant's wrist, to measure sleep-wake patterns.
The following questions were addressed in this study:
* What are the 24-hour sleep-wake patterns of nursing home residents who are cognitively impaired?
* What is the effect of an Individualized Activity Intervention (IAI) on nocturnal sleep in nursing home residents with cognitive impairment who demonstrate sleep disturbance?
The convenience sample consisted of seven male veterans residing on a locked, long-term dementia care unit in a veterans' affairs hospital. The participants underwent the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), a brief test measuring cognitive manifestations of mental function. This examination is widely used to track severity of dementia. Exclusion criteria follow:
* Physical disabilities severely limiting activity (e.g., bedfast).
* A chart diagnosis of untreated sleep apnea or periodic movements of sleep, because these disorders cause frequent awakenings and decreased sleep efficiency.
* Parkinson 's disease, because tremors interfere with actigraphy, the sleep measure used in this study.
Seven residents, five with vascular dementia and two with Alzheimer's disease, participated m the descriptive portion of the study. All of the residents were ambulatory without assistance, and none required physical restraints. Because of illness, one participant was unable to complete the IAI. Technical difficulties with one actigraph resulted in a loss of data on an additional participant. Thus, the final sample for the pilot was five residents, four with vascular dementia and one with Alzheimer's disease. There was one Black participant and four White participants, and the mean age was 76.2 years (SD = 7.98).
General Procedures
The research team screened for participants by asking the nursing staff to identify residents who had difficulty sleeping at night and napped during the daytime. The team then obtained informed consent from participants* next of kin. Participants wore an actigraph for 3 days during baseline and 3 days during intervention to measure their sleep-wake patterns. An actigraph is a watch-sized device worn on the wrist that senses and stores physical motion.
Based on the assumption that an individual tends to be less physically active asleep than awake, several algorithms have been developed to translate wrist activity measurements into estimates of sleep time (Chambers, 1994). Studies have demonstrated that minute-by-minute agreement between actigraphy and polysomnography, the gold standard for laboratory measurement of sleep, ranges from 85% to 95% (Ancoli-Israel, CIopton, Klauber, Fell, & Mason, 1997a; Sadeh, Sharkey, & Carskadon, 1994). To minimize within-participant variance and to increase sensitivity of the device, each individual wore the same actigraph for each measurement period (Sadeh et al.,1994).
Because the actigraph does not detect respiratory patterns, a trained observer completed a sleep observation checklist to screen participants for obstructive sleep apnea during one 8-hour night. Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when tissue such as the tongue or soft palate blocks the airway during sleep (Waite, 1998). The incidence of sleep apnea increases with advancing age and cognitive impairment and affects between 42% and 53% of elderly adults who are cognitively impaired (Hoch et al., 1 986; Hoch et al., 1 989).
After training, the observer determined the presence of sleep apnea aurally by observing snorting or gasping, and visually by paradoxical chest and abdominal motion. The observers made rounds every 15 minutes and noted apnea. Previous investigations using this technique report high correlation with objective measures (Carroll, Bliwise, & Dement, 1989).
The research team used a standard form to collect data on age, diagnosis, medications, continence, use of supportive or restraining devices, and mobility. Nursing staff provided hourly documentation of participant activities such as meals, games, music, pacing, exercise, and interaction with staff members. Staff also recorded interruptions to sleep for provision of care and recorded residents' bedtime and risetime.
Individualized AcUvHy Intervention
One of the investigators assessed the residents using an investigatordeveloped activity assessment patterned after the Farrington assessment (Buettner & Martin, 1995; Reynolds et al., 1995) and wrote a narrative prescription for IAI. This assessment provided the data for the investigator to individualize the activities to each participant's past interests and current capabilities. The instrument consisted of 113 items divided into domains of current cognitive, physical, communicative, sensory, and emotional status, as well as behavior problems and past interests.
Examples of items under the cognitive domain included the ability to follow a three-step command, identify colors, and recognize numbers (Table 1). The assessment involved interviews with family, nursing staff, and residents; observation of resident behavior; and chart review. In addition to prescribing the activities, the investigators prescribed the time for the project's nursing assistants to conduct the activities. They observed each resident's baseline actigraph data for peak napping intervals and prescribed activities to occur during that time. Each participant received from 1 to 2 hours of activities daily, occurring in 15- to 30-minute sessions.
The project's nursing assistants who were not employed in the setting implemented the prescribed IAI for 14 days. Table 2 is a list of activities prescribed, including those most effective in holding the participants' attention. The activities were derived from five modalities including verbal, visual, physical, tactile, and gustatory and olfactory. The following five areas of content were included:
* Expression of feelings.
* Expression of thoughts.
* Memory and recall.
* Recreation.
* Education.
The research assistants identified favored activities based on level of resident participation, amount of cueing required to maintain interest, and frequency of use.
Variables Measured
Actigraphy provided the objective measure of sleep-wake patterns. The study measured the following sleep variables:
* Bedtime, The time the resident is put to bed for the evening. Residents do not always fall asleep immediately; therefore, the staff kept logs to verify bedtime.
* Risetime. The time the resident got out of bed to begin the day's activities.
* Minutes slept from bedtime to risetime. Tune in minutes the resident was asleep between bedtime and risetime.
* Percent nocturnal time asleep.
Percent nocturnal time asleep is determined by dividing the minutes slept from bedtime to risetime by the total time in bed.
* Minutes of daytime sleep. The amount of time the resident spent sleeping between risetime and bedtime.
The results indicate a positive effect of IAI on the nocturnal sleep patterns of older adults who are cognitively impaired. The overall sleep patterns of the older adults reflected more efficient nocturnal sleep with fewer minutes of daytime sleep.
Description of 24-Hour Sleep-Wake Patterns During Baseline
Staff put residents to bed for the night at times ranging from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., and risetimes ranged from 5:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. The percent nocturnal time asleep ranged from 27% to 91% (mean = 55.96%) and minutes of daytime sleep ranged from 43 to 219 minutes (mean = 75.88). Variability in each participant's sleep pattern occurred during the 3 nights. For example, one resident slept 66% of the first 2 nights and only 0.08% of night 3. Additionally, the findings revealed that sleep was broken into fragments. Wakefulness occurred most often during meals, while napping occurred most often from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. or from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Hourly observations conducted around the clock by the nursing staff revealed that aimless wandering was the most frequent daytime activity of the residents. Residents wandered in the hallways in 163 of 768 observations (21%). Interruptions of nocturnal sleep for care occurred infrequently and most often consisted of toileting or incontinence care. Participants received a variety of medications that affect sleep, but only one routinely received a benzodiazepine at bedtime.
The Effect of Individualized Activity Intervention on Nocturnal Sleep
For each participant, for baseline and intervention, the investigators totaled the number of minutes slept each night and day and calculated two means. Table 3 displays baseline and intervention values for sleep measures and the MMSE scores of tbe sample. Project nursing assistants successfully engaged all participants in activities, and the percent of nocturnal time asleep improved by 6.8% (p < .01, 95% confidence interval = 2.58 to 9.90). Although daytime napping decreased in the entire sample, two of the patients actually had increased napping. Examination of the individual nights of data for these two participants revealed that improved sleep followed days when napping decreased.
Case Study
To provide further insight into the intervention, a case study follows:
Patient A, a 79-year-old male veteran, had vascular dementia and a MMSE score of 18. During baseline, he wandered tbe hallway of the unit, watched some television, and napped in the dayroom. He frequently initiated interaction with the staff by asking for a cigarette. Although he remained in his bed at night, staff noted that he awakened easily. His baseline nocturnal acagraph data showed frequent awakenings and long periods of wakefulness.
The activity assessment detected that Patient A retained a high degree of manual dexterity and the ability to follow multi-step commands. His vision and hearing were within normal limits. He had worked as a dry cleaner, and his wife stated that he liked to play checkers. Based on his baseline actigraphy data, he napped most often after breakfast and lunch.
Based on this information, the investigator provided Patient A with wooden objects to sand and paint, capitalizing on his manual dexterity. He also enjoyed coloring. He categorized pieces of fabric and explained dry cleaning procedures for them. The team encouraged him to play checkers, and he became the unit champion, beating all other residents and several research assistants. The research staff scheduled Patient A's activities after breakfast and lunch, coinciding with peak napping periods noted on his baseline actigraph report. Project assistants provided additional activities as needed to further reduce the occurrence of daytime napping.
The research personnel noted an improvement in Patient A's affect and interaction with staff and a decrease in daytime sleepiness over the 2-week intervention period. Instead of constantly asking for a cigarette, he asked, "Do you have something I can do?" or "What can I do next?" In the morning when the research team arrived on the unit, Patient A waited for them at the door and greeted them with a smile.
Examination of Patient A's actigraph data, bedtimes, and risetimes, revealed that staff put him to bed at approximately 7:30 p.m. each evening, but he rarely fell asleep before midnight. Although his percent of nocturnal time asleep from bedtime to risetime improved by only 4.6%, percent time asleep from sleep onset until risetime improved by 21% (from 46% to 67%) during the activity intervention. These findings reflect a trend for Patient A to consolidate nocturnal sleep during the intervention.
This study supports findings of other investigators that nocturnal sleep is inefficient and frequent daytime napping occurs in nursing home residents who are cognitively impaired (Ancoli-Israel, Parker, Sinaee, Fell, &c Kripke, 1989; Bliwise, Bevier, Bliwise, Edgar, & Dement, 1990; Vitiello & Prinz, 1989). At baseline, nocturnal sleep time ranged from 27% to 81% of time in bed for this sample (mean = 47.5, SD = 22.7) with frequent nocturnal awakenings. Additionally, the mean minutes of daytime sleep for the seven participants in the descriptive group ranged from 38.66 minutes to 108 minutes.
Ancoli-Israel et al. (1989) reported in their observations of nursing home residents that between the hours of midnight and 6:00 a.m., 50% of patients were awake for more than 10 minutes per hour. Furthermore, Jacobs et al. (1989) reported that in 20 nursing home patients who underwent 24-hour sleep recordings, some sleep and some wake cycles occurred during every hour throughout the 24hour period.
When comparing the nocturnal sleep of the present study's participants to healthy elderly adults, the data reveal notable differences. The results reported by Hoch et al. (1994) in their study of 50 community dwelling, mentally-intact older adults differ in nocturnal minutes of sleep and percent of nocturnal sleep time, emphasizing the impact which dementia plays in sleep deterioration. In Hoch's group, the minutes spent asleep averaged 373 for residents younger than age 75 and 349 for residents older than age 75.
The present study's participants, with a mean age of 76.2, averaged only 327 minutes of nocturnal sleep at baseline. Additionally, the average percent of nocturnal sleep for Hoch's two groups were 83% and 78%, respectively. The present study's sample displayed an average percent nocturnal sleep of 47.5% at baseline.
One noteworthy descriptive finding of this study was the early time at which some residents went to bed. Schnelle et al. (1993) reponed their examination of four large long-term care facilities where staff placed residents in bed at approximately 6:00 p.m. and left them there for roughly 12 hours. This early bedtime potentially contributes to the light, poorly consolidated sleep frequently seen in elderly nursing home residents with cognitive impairment. Providing residents with an early evening activity intervention and delaying bedtime until between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. may improve their nocturnal sleep.
The authors' conceptualization that excessive daytime napping interferes with nocturnal sleep and results from lack of meaningful daytime activity contrasts with other models such as the Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold model proposed by Hall and Buckwalter (1987). The authors' larger study may assist in understanding how these models complement one another.
Nursing Implications
Clinicians often use physical and chemical restraints to manage nocturnal wandering and other disruptive behavior in spite of their disadvantages (Hardin et al., 1993) and moderate effectiveness (Burgio, Scilley, Hardin, Hsu, & Yancey, 1996). The descriptive results in this study revealed that the participant receiving the greatest number of sleep-affecting medications (n - 4) had the least percent of nocturnal time asleep. A meta-analysis examining the effect of pharmacological therapy for patients with Alzheimer's disease found that only 20% of patients responded favorably to neuroleptics (Schneider, Pollock, & Lyness, 1990).
The benefits of developing interventions to increase nocturnal sleep may include the following:
* Decreased caregiver and resident stress.
* Increased quality of life for the resident because of a decrease in physical and pharmacological restraints (Allen, Seiler, Stahelin, & Spiegel, 1987; Gugel, 1988).
* Cost savings stemming from decreased injuries, property damage, staff -burnout, absenteeism, and turnover (Casciani, 1988; Christie & Ferguson, 1988; Hu, Huant, OC Cartwright, 1986).
* Decreased incidence of falls (Morgan, 1987)
Prior to the IAI, staff repeatedly noted residents to be wandering aimlessly or napping. The selection of a sample from a locked dementia unit may have contributed to the high prevalence of observed wanderings. This pilot study demonstrated that activities tailored to residents' interests and capitalizing on their remaining abilities improved nocturnal sleep and reduced daytime napping.
Additionally, although the authors did not measure psychological well-being, staff reported improvement in participant's affective states. This finding is of particular interest because nursing interventions that promote the psychological well-being of older adults who are cognitively impaired and support remaining physical abilities are scarce. A potential advantage of IAI is the use of specially trained nursing assistants to conduct the prescribed activities, providing a low-cost personnel source for a high yield program.
This pilot study had some minor limitations. One was the small sample studied. Small sample sizes magnify the effect of a deviate score. Increasing the number of participants would strengthen the findings and provide more support for clinicians to incorporate IAI in their practice. The second limitation was that all participants were men. Currently, the effect of dementia on the sleep of men as opposed to women is undifferentiated. Gender differences in the activity needs of individuals with dementia are unclear as well.
An additional limitation is the limited period of time over which activities occurred. Two of the participants began to sleep more at night in the last 3 days of the intervention period. It seems, therefore, that lengthening the activity intervention might provide an even greater improvement in nocturnal sleep. Finally, regardless of the activities, the additional attention received by the residents could have influenced their behavior.
Potential areas for further investigation include whether improvement in sleep-activity rhythms may decrease disruptive behaviors associated with sleep disturbances in cognitively impaired elderly adults. The comparison of mental status before and after the intervention period may help determine if IAI could be another factor in delaying cognitive deterioration. The authors are currently investigating the effect of a longer intervention period using a control group.
Activities offer a cost-effective, low-risk alternative to the current strategy of pharmacological intervention for sleep disturbance of elderly nursing home residents with cognitive impairment who exhibit excessive daytime sleepiness. The interventions described in this article provide a possible means to improve the quality of nocturnal sleep in this population.
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From the April thread, since *someone* went and closed it before the middle of the month. GOD!
STR posted:
I do. If I die, I want *someone* to be wishing I wouldn't, much less an entire subforum.
STR posted:
I mean, you're not supposed to see oil and refrigerant bubbling out of the back of a compressor, are you?
Just whack some RTV on there. It'll be fine. Or JB Weld if that doesn't work. Guaranteed!
CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:
Your not my supervisor!
I like mine.
I was toying with doing the cam covers and plugs this weekend, but instead I will be dealing with all the destruction of walls and such (necessarily) wrought by my plumbers this week. Saw- and drywall dust will be my life, but I will have functioning drains for the next 50 years. Not that I intend to be in the house for that long. Of course, I didn'te intend to be in the house *this* long (20 years so far.)
Previa_fun posted:
I've noticed a poo poo ton more covid denial popping up on facespace the past day or so. Is this the new right winger talking point?
Well, you see, the massive hoard of sick/dying people didn't show up and overwhelm the hospitals, so obviously it was all a hoax. Never mind that was the intended result of all the social distancing and sequestering. Also, right wingers are uneducated, entitled fuckwits. I have "friends" and friends of friends on FB literally claiming that they would vote for Satan Himself before voting Democrat, because *reasons*. They genuinely, really believe that Democrats are out to take everything they have and give it to... I don't know, black people?
Ferremit posted:
Finally convinced dad that he probably needs to upgrade his 1969 Massey Ferguson 135 tractor on the farm before it loving kills him, so now we're going tractor shopping tomorrow... And hes moaning about having to spend money on not dying. Mum has also told him to buy a new loving tractor before this one kills him too.
It has ROPS? Amazing!
My dad has a pile of older tractors, but normally uses a massive Allis from 1975 or so. At least it has a cab. It's a big boy - I forget the model. 7030 or 7050, I think, looking at pics online. Not a monster like a production farm would use, but big enough. 6' tall rear tires, big 6-pot turbodiesel. He's pretty good about fixing crap that doesn't work, though, so it's in pretty decent shape. And not too many hills. My sister, on the other hand, knowing nothing about mechanics and not wishing to wait on dad to fix things, bought a new Kubota several years ago when she bought her property, also a big boy. It's verra nice. Definitely a far cry from Grandad's Ford 8N I used as a kid.
Rhyno posted:
Not written up!
That is welcome news. Any time reason triumphs over ignorance is.
|# ¿ May 1, 2020 15:03
|# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 19:21
With respect to the thread title, I'm thinking you don't have enough:
(You have no idea how happy it makes me that such a thing actually exists, and sad that I can't get it here in the US, just to have on the shelf.)
rdb posted:
I think the T4 is italy. The local, as in drive it home new holland dealer has a powerstar that might be the right size and a decent deal, but finding actual reliability data is hard. John Deere dealer I haven�t checked out because they are only open 9-5 weekdays and closed weekends. Like a gently caress you to anyone with a job, but I see more people using those than anything else.
Well, yes, but you see a lot of people eating McDonald's, and riding Harleys, too. Ubiquity does not equal quality. Plus the whole proprietary systems thing loving over farmers using the large units rubs me the wrong way intensely (she said.)
|# ¿ May 1, 2020 22:42
I�m not talking about emissions on tractors. I�m talking about the major electronics systems. Look up the Motherboard article on JD vs. Right To Repair.
I really don�t give a poo poo about what sort of farmer they are or what kickbacks they get, requiring factory mechanics only can eat a dick regardless.
Anyway, I�m sitting at home in the dark. About 4-4:30 the power started flickering and then blinked hard a few times, mit spitzen sparken outside. I figured the gusting wind blew the lines into the trees (both just the other side of my fence) or vice versus. Then I noted one of the trees trunks smoking near the top. *Then* I noticed the line dangling from the pole just off the corner of my lot. The other end managed to zap a few more times behind my neighbor to the right�s yard before settling down.
We both called Oncor to report the downed line. It took them until 6 to kill the power. With a notice that it would be expected out until 4:30 am. Nice. I can�t game. I�m can�t sleep, and neither can my wife (we both use CPAPs). And I have yet to see a loving truck out there. Good job, wait until dark you shits. Meanwhile, my neighbor to the left still has power, and is having their semi weekly family noisy party in their back yard with like a 100-bulb string of lights over their deck.
Got some LEDs and a couple hurricane lanterns.
At least the plumbers finished the plumbing. Still some details and closing the walls, but the plumbing is now functional, and I�m happy with the work that was done.
I hope power is back tomorrow. I need to get started on repairs to the bottom of the kitchen cabinets and drywall work everywhere else.
We did at least go have dinner at Chili�s, since Phase 1 of relaxed restrictions started today. Wouldn�t have bothered if the power was not out, but didn�t want to eat in the dark.
|# ¿ May 2, 2020 02:15
slidebite posted:
Oh look, just found out the government is trying to ban a bunch of my hobby because it's scary and use, as typical, with little to no logic at all. Of course today couldn't end on a high note.
Details and location? Sorry, I don�t remember what country you are in for certain, and there are a lot of hobbies that could apply to, to be honest.
|# ¿ May 2, 2020 04:46
Catching up - I apologize for the dump. Didn't have time to shitpost this weekend.
slidebite posted:
Oh, no problem and totally my fault. Canada and firearms.
I'm at a loss to comprehend how more laws would have prevented someone who was unable to purchase and own firearms under the current laws from purchasing the same illegal firearms illegally that were already illegal in Canada regardless of who purchased them. Redundancy intended for effect.
InitialDave posted:
Who says white people have no culture?
Humphreys posted:
That's beautiful! But needs more flames on the mask
jonathan posted:
what's the workflow for getting images into a project thread these days ? gently caress me if im going to manually copy and paste a bunch of imgur ur;'s or whatever I did 10 years ago. What's the easiest way ?
That *is* the easiest way.
Pham Nuwen posted:
I just saw the line of Starlink satellites go across the sky and it's honestly one of the coolest things I've seen. I appreciate that they intend to make them less visible, but for now it's super cool to witness.
Astronomers, both pro and amatuer, are hating on the Starlinks pretty bad. They'll spread out a bit eventually, but there are still concerns.
Personally... eh. We have space telescopes, and rural parts of the world need internet more than we need to discover new galaxies that we can't reach (yet.)
Regarding teens and COVID-19. This is my daughter's senior year as well. In her case, it doesn't affect her mas much, since she's largely apathetic about school, and Aspergers/introvert to boot, so all the social aspects are largely moot. It's hard getting her to do the actual schoolwork, though, so she may actually fail and get to do it all again, which would be just *lovely*. It's maddening - she doesn't even have to do well. They're doing pass/fail on the the work since Shelter In Place, and GPA will be based on work completed prior. All she's got to do is *do* it, and we're having a hard time doing that. I try to keep out of it and just support my wife, because we're too similar and just lock horns to no good effect.
kastein posted:
I honestly hope he sells a billion Teslas because I want more idiots crashing them into things and the hulks flooding copart so I can Tesla-ify every ICE powered jalopy I own. I mean the Justy will likely get Leaf guts instead due to size but a Tesla powered Roadmaster and Honcho sound like a party to me.
I'm with you on this.
Rhyno posted:
Today we bought a paint sprayer and why the gently caress didn't I do this a year ago.
I bought one a few weeks ago, and said the same thing. The answer, of course, was "it's several hundred dollars", but I can deal with that now.
Rhyno posted:
Grayco something or other. I'll post the model when I am home.
I got the Graco Project Painter Plus, their cheapest consumer model ($259 at Home Depot), and it's more than adequate for my needs. I don't plan on spraying 100 gal/year.
|# ¿ May 4, 2020 17:03
STR posted:
Jesus loving Tapdancing Christ.
Playing with fire assuming that someone in Texas doesn't speak Spanish, there, pendejo. We tend to pick up a lot by necessity - especially the insults.
Insulting the residents of the property you're working for ain't terribly smart, neither.
Safety Dance posted:
My wife started playing Animal Crossing, which is awesome because she really seems to get into it. Apr-June was supposed to be her chunk of time to go to medical conferences, etc. and that's not happening any time soon. She's also "on vacation" this week, which is an incredibly meaningless term. A few of my friends from college have been playing since it came out and I need to figure out how to introduce them so they can give each other stuff.
My wife wants to get a Switch, for that and a couple other games, think. I'm not *completely* opposed, but we already have an Xbox One, 360, and PS3 connected to the TV. Minde you, only the One gets used with any regularity. The PS3 can probably come out and jut be connected if I get a wild hair to play Uncharted, Gran Turismo, or God Of War. Or not. I think I still have inputs on the receiver. If she wants to spend the $300, I'd rather spend it on an Xbox One X. Not sure I want to until I see what the Series X will do and cost, though. So I guess she can get a Switch if it's her money and she can find one. I bought all the other consoles.
I want to play Splatoon
Darchangel fucked around with this message at 18:57 on May 4, 2020
|# ¿ May 4, 2020 18:52
Previa_fun posted:
gently caress hail.
Sometimes the planet needs to remind us exactly how much we're in charge.
|# ¿ May 5, 2020 14:17
CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:
I need glasses. Oh dear that was a right ballsup
Can't wait to hear what the problem was.
|# ¿ May 5, 2020 14:18
In Texas, at least North Texas and South Texas, where I have lived, basements on residences are pretty much non-existent. Large buildings have them, but not houses. Only the (very) occasional root/storm cellar, and that's usually only *mostly* underground - usually it's an artificial hillock.
Which is why jonathan's post confused me for a minute. Grand Prairie, TX is a suburb of Dallas.
|# ¿ May 5, 2020 21:47
jonathan posted:
Oh yeah, different spelling. Grande Prairie.
Oooooo, Grawn-day!
CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:
If it starts then I'll say. But goddamn glasses needed with multiple people
I, myself, have never been in a situation where the thing I'm looking for was right in front of my face and failed to notice it
I'm lying like a dog.
LOL, could be awkward.
IOwnCalculus posted:
I'm reminded of how I learned that neither of my brothers have even the slightest bit of mechanical aptitude between the two of them. They're both sharp guys in other ways, which made this all the more amusing. Youngest brother had a 280ZX (that my wife had given him) and the battery died in it. They replaced the battery but afterwards it was still acting stone dead, so I got tasked with figuring it out.
You can't do anything but laugh at that... and remind them of it at every opportunity, if you're anything like my family (and myself, of course.)
Dagen H posted:
Backyard status: fox den
I'm currently playing Red Dead Redemption II (for the first time through) right now, and this is got my finger twitching for the hunter tracking trigger.
STR posted:
Dallas and Ft Worth will always disagree about which gets to claim GP as a suburb. It's half in Dallas county, half in Tarrant.
Huh. I didn't know that. It's also partly in Ellis county, even.
I'm a bit salty about the little strip of "Fort Worth" that exists along 360 near my house, so that FW can claim part of the taxes from DFW airport (ny agreement, when it was built.) There's a club that's taking advantage of it - they're way too loud way too late at night, and the city they're *actually* in, if it weren't for this legal fiction, can't do anything about it, and Fort Worth is 15-20 miles away. They do send cops to patrol every so often, but generally don't give a poo poo, and definitely aren't slapping the club owner anywhere near hard enough. Or weren't. They may have finally stepped up. I haven't seen any bitching about it on Nextdoor lately. I mean, I could hear the club from my house some nights, and I'm several miles away. I can only imagine how loud it was in the same neighborhood.
STR posted:
More of a "if you're really my friend, you'll move in with me into a bigger apartment".
Yeah, gently caress that poo poo with a flaming razordick on fire (TM: kastein).
|# ¿ May 6, 2020 19:13
rdb posted:
I don�t like the concept of a space in my house that I dread going into, either because of what lives there or �what is it this time, and how much is it going to cost?�.
You have just described a house in general.
|# ¿ May 6, 2020 21:03
kastein posted:
Wait what
I don�t have the exact post, but I saved that quote in my quotables file, for emergencies. It appealed to me, sang the song of my people.
Something about the house or one of the cars, probably. Or they stupid way something was designed.
|# ¿ May 6, 2020 21:32
ExplodingSims posted:
I feel like I'm really running out of patience for my current job. Things started out so well there, it seemed like they cared about their employees, advancement was quick, and things seemed nice.
That's frustrating, man, sorry you have to deal with it. Like, why do some people just seem to want to make your job more difficult for no good reason?
meatpimp posted:
It's never been my thing, so I haven't looked into it, but out of curiousity, here's a couple stupid questions --
Not sure on the first point, but it's more weight than physical size. To the second point, you're not supposed to be in the trailer when it's moving. Most of them, you wouldn't want to be, anyway - the slideouts block access when they're closed.
|# ¿ May 8, 2020 14:53
Nidhg00670000 posted:
Usually, they are also about as safe in a crash as a wet paper bag.
That, too.
meatpimp posted:
Which leads to my next question -- when do you decide to get a bus instead of a truck/trailer setup? Are buses / motorhomes that much more expensive?
blindjoe posted:
Motorhomes always seem like a worse idea - when you get to your destination with a truck/trailer, you can unhook the truck and use it like a normal vehicle.
That seems right to me.
I'd think a motorhome might make sense if you were traveling a lot, but a trailer you can park when not traveling and still use the tow vehicle as needed. You can also pick the tow vehicle to meet your style and needs. Probably easier to sell the trailer, too, if one no longer needs/wants to travel.
|# ¿ May 8, 2020 19:42
Motor homes:
I think I would definitely prefer a trailer, given those videos. Second would be a van or cab and chassis conversion, where at least the passenger compartment was designed to offer some protection. Or a motor coach, AKA a bus, but $$$$.
everdave posted:
I just found this on one of my Japanese campers. Dear God where have you been all of my life? Get one of these in 10 too and I can do everything I need on my imports. Is this a thing I was just not aware of?
I think I have an ancient 9/16" version of that. Just the one, somehow, not a set.
stevobob posted:
Shipping containers don't have great structural integrity? Aren't they designed to stack 20 high on rough oceans?
Captain McAllister posted:
Yeah, but he's saying once they're converted into house pieces, they lose their integrity.
They're really only strong on the stacking points, on/near the corners.
meatpimp posted:
The roundy first gen or the angular second gen? I remember Dad shopping back in the early '80s and the original roundy Supra just came out. He was looking at it and decided to wait. I'm glad he did. He ended up getting one of the first second gen cars. That was one of my first "cool car" experiences. The angular design was a huge departure, especially the sport package that he got with the fender flares, chunky wheels and speed. Not fast by today's metrics (in fact, quite slow in comparison), but it was one hell of a car.
I like them both. I almost bought an '81 way back in the late '80s, and now regret not having done so. My wife came equipped with a '78 Celica coupe when I met her, so at least I had that for a while. Wish we'd have kept that, too...
NitroSpazzz posted:
Last weekend doing dishes after meal prep we noticed the sink was draining slow. Tried drano and a snake, cleaned everything we could access under the sink. Got progressively worse during the week. Father-in-law and friend came over today to take a look at it since I'm basically disabled and can't do anything over head. Started at a low point in the plumbing, was clogged near solid. 3ft+ of clog. Cut out most of it, cleaned the rest then fixed the slope issue and put it all back together.
kastein posted:
I'm just glad I haven't had to fix sewer pipes for any family members in over a year. I need to add to mine a bit but digging the trench will be the hardest part.
I don't want to hear about your plumbing issues.
This was mine last week:
|# ¿ May 11, 2020 15:55
McTinkerson posted:
Thermite. You need to treat it like a railroad tie that needs weldin'.
Sooooo, if you watch the whole thing, it looks like the thermite did gently caress-all to the block:
(3:30 if that doesn't jump to it)
Kind of impressive, maybe? More thermite needed?
Ether Frenzy posted:
Only 45k people die every year in US from shootings so this 70+ thousand in 2 months dead from the 'Rona is totally just libs overreacting!
You got stats on that? Not doubting - I want to use it as ammunition should I feel the need to waste my time slapping down CHUDs.
|# ¿ May 12, 2020 15:13
KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:
you can't actually slap down CHUDs because they're too stupid to understand
I realize it's a fool's errand, hence the "should I feel the need to waste my time".
|# ¿ May 12, 2020 17:03
blk posted:
How much is everyone actually driving these days? I think I'm down to 100 miles/month.
I go into the office once a week for hands-on stuff, 12 miles each way, and very occasional trips to the store as needed. So probably around 100 miles/month. And I'm rotating 3 cars so they keep fresh(er). Been a month or more since I bought gas, which is almost a pity, it being so cheap.
Trickly chargers: I had good luck with the $5 Harbor Freight unit, with one caveat: make sure you check the water/acid level regularly if it sits a lot, and has a constant discharge/recharge, like if you have an alarm on the car. I killed the battery in my Cutlass by not checking it. The constant drain from the alarm and recharge by the trickle charger made it dry. It took a couple years, mind you.
|# ¿ May 13, 2020 15:48
KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:
Charitably, they're poor and they need the money because the US is a hosed up place with limited social safety net and employer obligations.
It's this.
A lot of folks *can't* "just stay home" - they'de starve, lose their place to live, etc., because gently caress the poors - we need t maximize shareholder value, and make rich fucks even richer. Guess what happens when you "run the government like a business"?
|# ¿ May 15, 2020 14:59
Rhyno posted:
There's a new leak that Trump and his cohorts downplayed C-19 on purpose to keep from spooking the markets so yeah, definitely gently caress the poors.
poo poo, I believed that from the beginning.
Applebees Appetizer posted:
Tbh, it's one thing to go to work if you feel fine, but if you are clearly showing symptoms like a loving fever and cough you are just making the situation way worse by continuing to work, infecting your co workers and possibly shutting down the place where you work to begin with and now you have no job to go back to.
That goes back to the making poor decisions under stress thing.
Also, we have a culture of selfishness, exacerbated by the current administration glorifying said culture. It's gently caress you Got Mine even when you ain't got poo poo.
Somewhat related, I found these informative infographics following the Twitter posts from Charlize Theron regarding Fury Road someone posted in the Awesome thread:
|# ¿ May 15, 2020 16:11
STR posted:
Mom's coworker and mom both tested positive. Still asymptomatic for mom, her coworker is already on a ventilator.
poo poo, dude, that's rough. Hope for the best.
Also, your mom's boss is a dick, just to catch up.
And your step-dad is an oblivious dick.
Krakkles posted:
Dude. I really hope she�s ok.
Ideally, Trump and Pence will get COVID-19, and put the lie to rest - but of course it will probably be spun as an assassination by the Chinese attempt or something.
Some other popular public figure dying of it might also bring the idiots around to reality. Nobody cares when it's just us plebes and olds dying.
Kazinsal posted:
STR, sorry to hear about all that. Best wishes for you guys.
I completely believe that the latter part is possible, given how the White House is arguing with the CDC, the federal organization created to deal with this kind of poo poo. The are so completely uninterested in protecting public health over protecting the stock market it's criminal.
Rhyno posted:
Holy poo poo the company fired the village idiot. No more cleaning up after someone who shouldn't have been in the department to begin with.
Sometimes miracles do happen!
mariooncrack posted:
I bought a game about a month ago and got really excited to play it. Then I found out it was a 50 gb download.
Welcome to modern gaming. If you want big, pretty games, you get pretty big file sizes.
And Microsoft wanted the XBONE to be digital download only...
Never mind that literally every game I've bought on physical disc for the Xbox One has had a huge zero-day download to install, completely negating the point of buying the physical disk - EXCEPT that you can sell the physical disc, and/or use it on any system instead of just the one you happen to be logged in on, which is not a trivial advantage.
|# ¿ May 18, 2020 16:07
slidebite posted:
That can't be understated. It's like troubleshooting a basic computer problem with a senior. The most basic things need to be explicitly spelled out, and even then assume nothing. I just got off the phone with my 73 year old mother who was having printer problems and program association problems and what would have taken my literally less than 2 minutes in person was an agonizing 2 hours even with the ability of her to text me photos of what she was seeing.
Galler posted:
Don't ever open RDP up to the internet. I haven't computer janitored in a while so I'm not sure what the preferred remote support tool is these days but I would probably go with teamviewer or something like that.
What he said.
Google Remote Desktop should be of help, *however*, I've noted that it does not work well with system preferences - you can see them, but you lose control when any old-school sysprefs or control panels are up in the foreground. Same thing happens with Zoom desktop sharing (which is also an option, BTW.)
everdave posted:
My Mazda Bongo Brawny fire truck ends in 7 hours on BAT and it is criminally low in the bidding department right now. This truck is fantastic, there better be a bid war at the end!
Wish I had the scratch to throw some $$ at it.
|# ¿ May 20, 2020 18:48
Liquid Communism posted:
Back In My Day (TM) we did that poo poo in high school too. Home Economics (cooking/sewing), Shop (metal/wood craft), and Auto Maintenance were on offer.
I loved Metal Shop. Learned to weld, and basics of machine tools.
Elviscat posted:
That grocery store you work for sounds like they treat their employees impressively well, I'd shop there exclusively if I lived in Texas just based on your stories.
I'd shop there myself, but they don't extend this far north in TX - just their high end branch (which is still pretty good for the type of stuff they carry - bulk and healthy/organic stuff)
opengl128 posted:
I was forever salty that I missed shop and auto class at my high school by a couple years. Target shooting/archery too
Got that, too, in PE. Daisy BB guns, and I already had a better one, but still entertaining. I'm left-handed, so only had to share the archery bow with two other guys, so got a fair amount of shooting time in.
|# ¿ May 21, 2020 15:09
CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:
The car is cursed, obviously. It won't matter what engine you put in it - it's the car.
Applebees Appetizer posted:
So twice now, Amazon decided to charge me for a show that was supposedly included in prime video, halfway through the series.
Bajaha posted:
Time to fly the Jolly Roger.
This, And I refuse to feel guilty when they pull that poo poo.
Also, when there *was* just a couple of services I could subscribe to and pay for what I want to watch, but now there's, what, six of them? And ccost more than cable did in the bad old days. gently caress off.
meatpimp posted:
Suburban lawn chat:
I will consider that one when my 20 year old MTD finally dies (if it ever does - old-school side-valve Briggs. It's been a trooper, but I'm getting tired of gas small engines.) My other candidate is Ryobi 40V, and the matching weed whacker.
|# ¿ May 23, 2020 00:38
meltie posted:
expensive phones are expensive.
Seriously. I spent $400 on the new SE, and I'm quite happy with it. I kind of miss the big screen of my 6S+, but kinda don't miss its size in my pocket. I specifically like that the SE is just an iPhone 8 with a newer, faster processor and slightly better camera, and thus still has a physical home button with Touch ID - ne of this facial recognition poo poo (that doesn't work with COVID masks...)
fake edit: saw later posts regarding Aus. pricing, and yeah, you guys get shafted. Sorry about that. Funny thing is that I think Oz is closer to China than the US is. You'd think it would be cheaper.
Ferremit posted:
I got stuck in a perfect storm of a phone thats properly dying, Corona virus and upgrading my cars head unit.
Car head units still generally have headphone-in jacks. So the iPod is still useful, you just have to use the iPod's controls, of course. Also, pretty much every head unit that has USB can play directly from a thumb drive - fewer options with the playlists and such, of course, but perfectly capable.
mariooncrack posted:
I believe it stops getting security patches in October. Say what you will about Apple, there's nobody who supports their phones longer than them.
On the negative side, there's nobody who supports their phones *but* them, for better or worse. Usually better, but there have been a few times...
Completely. Be done with it.
Also, I need to go play in the mud with our Outback, just so it's not a complete poser. Have to turn the VDC off, though, or it won't be entertaining. That poo poo actually worked really well when I went to slide it around a u-turn in the wet. It said "nope" and straightened the car right up.
|# ¿ May 26, 2020 14:50
CommieGIR posted:
I put stickers on my rear Window.
There's a Stark Enterprises and a Yoyodyne Industries on the other side that I do not appear to have taken a photo of.
KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:
nobody gives a gently caress about your lovely opinions so don't put some Deeply Clever Look At How Intelligent I Am sticker on your car
So, you're implying that while you don't care about our lovely opinions, we should care about yours?
|# ¿ May 26, 2020 19:21
BraveUlysses posted:
looking forward to the inevitable "a chud threw a full monster energy can at my car because of my removable passive-aggressive anti-suv sticker"
I won't say that I don't consider exactly that when choosing bumper stickers, signs, and t-shirts.
|# ¿ May 26, 2020 19:24
KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:
where did i imply that, nobody cares about my lovely opinions either, which is why i don't feel the need to advertise them on my cars
Mostly an rear end in a top hat attempt at humor on my part, but posting an opinion sort of implies that you want people to hear it, yeah?
Don't take me too seriously, though. I'm not.
Serious, that is.
CommieGIR posted:
I specifically make sure I don't block my line of vision. Stop hating on my stickers.
CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:
Stickers on cars is dumb except if its race car. Especially on windows. Any more than four on a back window I begin to have deep suspicions on attachment to reality of the owner of said car.
I make no claims about my attachment to reality. Notice that literally all of my stickers reference fictional realities.
CommieGIR posted:
I specifically make sure I don't block my line of vision. Stop hating on my stickers.
And that. That's why mine are all at the edges/corners.
Oh, and I forgot one I have on my AE86:
Two, actually - one on each side window.
Does everyone get the joke? I hope so, I thought it was clever - look how intelligent (and funny) I am.
Tomarse posted:
Today I found that a previous owner has 'repaired' a hole in the floorboards in my house using a flattened out baked bean can. I always thought that tin cans were only for poo poo car repairs.
gently caress no - a tin can lid is perfect for a knothole, for example. If it's a big hole, may have to move up to a quart can. If it's bigger than that, flatten the can and use it rather than the lid. Yes, I've seen all of that, albeit in a barn rather than a house, at least.
taqueso posted:
I was scanning craiglist and apparently there is a challenger Scat Pack.. what is up with that name?
It's a recall to the performance option from the '60s. Scat as in "get the hell out quickly".
BuckyDoneGun posted:
Nothing to do with China. It might matter for import duty depending on trade agreements between countries, but that gets complicated, for example NZ�s Apple products come via Sydney, and we have free trade with Australia. (We have an FTA with China too anyway for that matter)
Oof. I know about GST, but typically forget about it since it's not a thing here. I pay 8.5% sales tax here in TX, so being reminded of how high GST is elsewhere is just eye-watering.
On a different tack, is it taxation and such that is making it seemingly unsavory for local industry there? I mean, GM killed locally-built Holdens, not sure how far behind Ford is.
Y'all need your own local tech giant, eh?
|# ¿ May 26, 2020 22:18
opengl128 posted:
See now that's funny. I'd crack up if I saw that in the wild.
You do have to be familiar with AE86 Corollas to get the joke, so limited audience.
I'd totally do it full size on the sides of the car if my vinyl cutter could cut that large.
BuckyDoneGun posted:
The other thing about tax, is Americans seem to pay a just as much of it as anywhere else but get gently caress all in return. We get functioning government and civic services. The old gag about queueing at the DMV? Totally foreign to us. FTTH to 85% of the population because of govt funding, which just started getting upgraded to 10gbit capability. About NZ$180/mo gets you the current top plan of unlimited 4000/4000. Healthcare and accident cover. A welfare system. We currently have 21 active Covid cases, 1 of which is in hospital. (Don�t say NZ is a remote island miles from anywhere, the place is usually crawling with Chinese tourists).
I just saw a finance article about that. I've got it queued up to read more closely, but the gist of it is you're right. All tolled, taxes plus "mandatory payments", the average US citizen pays as much in "taxes" as the rest of the world, but we get far less out of it. A lot goes to medical insurance companies who flip us the bird in return, and a lot goes to the federal government, who does much the same, insofar as stuff that we actually want.
|# ¿ May 27, 2020 17:52
IOwnCalculus posted:
I've seen "2.5L NO OUTPUT" stickers done up for four-cylinder Jeeps that perfectly mimic the 4.0 stickers.
I had one on my �95 XJ. Mine was actually �Low Output�. Still on it, actually, but no longer my Jeep. And it�s literally no output now, since the friend who bought it blew the engine.
That�s basically what gave me the idea for the AE86 sticker, to give credit where it�s due.
KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:
the medical insurance companies are fuckin raking it in right now
First against the wall when the revolution comes. Maybe second. Fuckers tell us how important it is to plan for accidents and disasters (I�m talking insurance in general now) then keep all our money and tell us to get hosed when something does happen. Assholes who run these companies are the reason I have to believe Hell exists, because they sure aren�t being punished in *this* life.
|# ¿ May 27, 2020 19:51
Not to detract from tractor chat, but I found this interesting:
TL,DR: Republicans fail at critical thinking and believe stupid things. It's funny that they call non-reds "Sheeple", but they're the ones that buy into the dumbass beliefs without the tiniest shred of evidence.
Godammit, I used to call myself Republican, but they ain't what they were then, and I sure ain't what they are now. Still not ready to be a Democrat. Maybe I should just slide right on past into Socialist.
|# ¿ May 28, 2020 01:49
Ether Frenzy posted:
Because under Reagan and continuing onward republicans did everything they could to defund american public education because people who know things are prone to using their own brains to make voting decisions, rather than just doing whatever Hannity said this morning.
That's dark... but believable. It may be a happy accidental side effect (for them) of the Republicans' being cheap bastards (at least in terms of publicly beneficial programs), but I would could see it being intentional, given how obvious some of them are being about their true intentions lately.
Elviscat posted:
Holy poo poo AvE has gone off the 'ol Libertarian rails, bitching about masks and poo poo in his latest videos. I'm unsubscribing, all here does these days it's gently caress with his CNC and try to use flextures to solve every problem (they don't)
God dammit.
Grakkus posted:
Re: Democrats, I just don't understand the mindset. All my US Democrat friends have spent the time since the primaries started making GBS threads on whoever the Democrat frontrunner was for one social infraction or another. Like okay, cool, you're extremely woke or whatever, but you're also self sabotaging your own side? Maybe if there was less internal shitflinging they might get something done?
Well, yeah. I mean, it was basically the Dems who sabotaged themselves and lost the last election by putting up the ONE candidate guaranteed to lose against the orange fuckwit.
Dagen H posted:
2016 Part II: I still don't want to vote for any of these assholes
I would love a "none of the above, try again" selection, but thanks to partisan politics, and the electoral system negating any meaningful independent voing, we get two dismal choices.
Coredump posted:
The thing is, out of ALL of the candidates that were running Biden was my least favorite and the one candidate that Trump could actually beat. Democrats, how did you gently caress up this bad AGAIN?
Issue highlighted.
We kinda need a V (from V for Vendetta) to scare the motherfuckers into doing the right thing, but that has its own slippery slope. Whole "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" thing.
KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:
This is true, and I agree. It's awful how our country's leadership isn't reflective of the actual population. (and of course when someone who is more reflective of population like AOC gets elected, that's a sign of end times) I am focused on "don't give up" part of message rather than "other places bad/worse"
My poly-sci instructor in college (I lucked into his class the first semester - and rearranged my poo poo to take his second semester, I like him so much) use a textbook called "The Irony of Democracy", and i was absolutely correct then, 30 years ago. It's beyond correct now, at least at the level where things actually get done. Pretty sure I kept the book, too.
It's... painful being aware of my privilege (like meatpimp, I'm white, male, older, and a second-gen natural-born citizen.)
|# ¿ May 28, 2020 23:15
Tremek posted:
CSB: Was referencing HK directly due to this and this which TLDR say goodbye to HK as we know it.
A good-sized chunk of the company I work at is Taiwanese. You can bet that poo poo is making them nervous. Not that the situation with mainland China has ever been great, but China cracking down on HK makes them wonder if Taiwan is next. I'm not real savvy on the situation as it regard to Taiwan, but I know they're nervous.
KidDynamite posted:
How do I tell my insurance to gently caress off with a rate increase right now? Especially since I don�t drive my car anywhere but the grocery store, my mother in laws, and race tracks in the northeast. The last two obviously don�t happen anymore. I�m putting like 12 miles a month on the thing.
Isn't that amazing? Our insurance was all like "we're giving everyone a refund, since you're not driving", then a couple months later, raised our rates. You unmitigated bastards. Do you actually ever wonder why people hate you?
|# ¿ May 29, 2020 15:02
Oh, you unmitigated orange gently caress.
This is *not* going to work out the way you think it is.
I really hoped I could get through my life without dealing with this level of bullshit.
|# ¿ May 29, 2020 23:29
|# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 19:21
everdave posted:
I dug up some Lowe�s gift cards and picked up a 10x8 metal shed kit. I�ve been paying $75 a month for storage for over a decade to basically store a giant Christmas tree and kids clothes (I have a workshop but a small house). Plus I am sick of dragging everything from the far back of the yard workshop to the front driveway to work on cars (air compressor, tools, vacuums, Ramps, etc...)
The second you have it finished, your going to wish you had a 10x20.
I built my own shed. It took a couple years, but most of that was pauses due to other things. I laid out the foundation step stones, go them leveled, and then did nothing for like a year, because I couldn�t afford the materials. Once I could, it went up in 6 months or so mostly working weekends. I�m very happy with it, and would have built bigger if I had the space. I�d like to keep some back yard, plus local laws, I guess. It�s pretty much full, but now
drat shed is built better than my house, which is fine.
Raluek posted:
It's no accident. Aren't you from Texas?
I am, and holy poo poo.
Edit: if I wasn�t already disgusted with the ragged festering corpse of the Republican Party, that would do it. That�s a basic fundamental of, well, not being stupid.
|# ¿ May 31, 2020 22:55


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