Blocked from posting on lopsided posts. The system wants to demonize half the population and infantilize the other. I’ll post when it draws a crowd. Why waste the forums I’m not blocked from. Uncomfortable truths are free.

  • 0 Posts
  • 9 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 30th, 2024

help-circle



  • Dead serious, focus on one issue at a time, go through every possible cause, and make life changes until something you do fixes the issue. I had a severely deviated septum from having my face beat in as a child. As an adult in my 30’s I couldn’t sleep enough, 12-16hrs and I finally felt rested, but I needed that damn near every day. I got surgery to fix my deviated septum in my late 30’s and it changed my life, I still have sinus issues, the damage was so severe I need additional surgeries to get it near where a septum should be, I probably still snore -only my dogs know, but I get quality sleep when I go to bed, 6-9hrs depending on how hard I pushed myself the day before and I’m bright eyed and bushy tailed. Additionally the migraines I was having was from needing glasses from cataracts. Those 2 life changes were the difference between me actually doing things with my life, and just sleeping/wasting away literally my whole life. Don’t just let your problems sit around on your shoulder because everyone else does it, life can be easier. Tho it might require good health insurance, or the ability to cover your annual deductible. That being said, there are few things I would ever say to go into debt for, 1- health, 2- long term food storage, 3- anything that pays for itself long before it breaks


  • Modern vehicles suck. There is literally time bombs in every single one in the shape of a required part that is plastic, rubber, cheap alloy cast, or a mix of all three that WILL fall apart in your car in the next 10yrs, it WILL cost close to $2000 to repair, and if you can’t the car loses a massive portion of it’s value for resale. Right to repair is a far cry from fixing the siphoning of resources from the average person, but it is definitely a step in the right direction. No surprise corporations would be against lower repair bills when they literally set their budget against the repairs they know you will need. Here is an example: Mini Coopers, the water pump is cooled by radiator fluid, if the fluid gets low enough for the car to overheat the water pump dies immediately because it sits below the level where the engine starts to over heat. There is no dummy light, there is no gauge to tell you your coolant is low. You yourself could fix this with an aftermarket temperature sensor that you position connected to the water pump so if the water pump itself starts to overheat you get an alarm from the sensor, but Mini Cooper will never allow their engineers to put a temp sensor there, or even a low fluid sensor, because when that pump goes out a mini service center is getting around $1500-$2k. Literally the only warning you may get prior to the water pump dying is the faint smell of radiator fluid. Right to repair is not where this fight should be at, we should be passing laws forcing corporations to use quality engineering.



  • I have a 3 yr old border collie. He is THE sweetest boy, born into a poor home where they didn’t have enough money to keep feeding him and no one was interested in buying him when he was still tiny, I got him at 5-6 mo’s old, I’ve had to learn the meaning of patience with this extremely sweet boy. But now, he is a very well developed adult dog, and has made it clear he doesn’t care if he dislocates my shoulder with repeated lunges at things he just wants to smell. I tell this story right now in relation to the picture, because sometimes, that damn little asshole finally deserves to have their ass beat, and you know they was acting up more than usual because they thought they could get away with that shit in public!