SteveAgain
7d ago
Can you take some pics next time you're there?
That's the worst part of this. I volunteered at our library as a kid. I found my dead mom's old newspaper column in the archives and spent days reading them all.
Then they stole it, murdered it, and wore its skin as a suit. And they used our money to do it.
SteveAgain
7d ago
What's the atmosphere like over there? I see all this weird culty phrasing like "return to country", but do people IRL just smile and nod at it all?
Last time I went in my local library they had a David Horsey exhibition. They'd thrown out all the books I wanted to read in an "equity-based weeding" process, as well as destroying their local history archive, including the only copies of our local newspaper. (I only found that out because the museum called asking if my mom's copies still existed. They were pissed, because they'd always used the library copies for research until this outsider with a library science masters came and took over the place)
In 2020 the head librarian decided the volunteer staff were too white, so she got a grant for replacing them with no-show equity hires. The old man who took care of the expensive computer system (also grant and tax funded) got the boot, and now the public wifi, meeting room projector, and several of the computers have been non-functional for several years.
All the new books are five copies of whatever schlock her Tumblr feed and the kirkus Diversity & Inclusion Digital Catalog tell her to buy.
They recently had an expensive rebuilding that more than doubled the size of the library, but have fewer books than before. Only half of one of the wings is now dedicated to the stacks, the same area as their DVD collection.
Now they're lobbying for a higher property tax levy so they can hire more librarians.
Pick out any decent books they haven't already destroyed, herd the board inside, bar the door, and torch the place. Guilt-tripping people to protect the guilty isn't going to work any more. I'm so fucking sick of everything I ever loved being murdered and turned into a skin suit for leftist brain parasites it's unreal.
Thanks for linking. Not sure if it's the same thing, but irregular machine noises make it impossible for me to sleep. If a fridge-freezer or mini split hits a defrost cycle, or a car engine starts nearby, I'm up and not going back to sleep for at least 20 min.
Tell your husband it's not a mental disorder to dislike the Big Bang Theory actors. Now watching the show on the other hand...
We have a farmworker visa system already. Most of the shepherds in the US are from Peru for example; their mountain grazing season is the opposite of ours.
Trucking used to be a well-paying job with excellent safety standards, and now it's been destroyed in the US and Canada by illegal immigration. How many parts of the American economy are we going to sacrifice to squeeze an extra few cents of labor costs while the costs get shifted onto society in general?
What's the net gain when we have truckers blasting past construction signs into oncoming traffic because you're allowed to bring an interpreter to the commercial license test now?
Oh Jesus Christ, this is ridiculous. They did everything through executive order that the legislation would have made permanent.
I've been reading this argument for days without chiming in because it just looks like trolling and gaslighting.
Looking back at the old arguments makes me even angrier because all the claims about how Biden needed this bill to "do something about the border" were obviously gross partisan lies, and nobody ever apologized for them. Just moved on to spewing new lies as if nobody would remember.
SteveAgain
8d ago
They did this. What did you think the mass asylum and cbp one app were?
SteveAgain
9d ago
Making a very large fine an alternative to deportation works. Basically what the IRS does in most cases.
SteveAgain
9d ago
Come on, it's hard not to have a little sympathy for her at least
I'm 90% sure that's a myth made up for the usual "did you know you have refugees to thank for everything?" propaganda. (I'm not kidding, they literally had a pro-refugee ad with a talking plate of fish and chips lecturing someone about the jews)
Historically if you lived in Derbyshire you probably weren't eating much fish, but anyone on the coast had it as a major part of their diet. Herring, sole, mackerel, river eel, etc. usually smoked, salted, or jellied unless you were getting it right off the boat.
Shellfish weren't as popular among the rich as in France, iirc, but steamed mussels and cockles were very common.
Portuguese traders spread fried fish and fried foods generally to most of the world at the same time, and my suspicion is that the explosion of trade just coincided with oils and fats becoming cheap enough to cook food in (and the growth of restaurants where it's more practical)
SteveAgain
12d ago
Oh, and to be fair we had a store called Bon Marché for years, so there's a good chance they just googled "french advertising stuff"
I've often wondered if that's the point, much like being given a death sentence for twitter posts by a man in a dress and silly wig. Making the justice process deliberately absurd demonstrates power because the message is "you don't dare laugh at this"
Oh no, it's all on Wikipedia.
SteveAgain
13d ago
Yeah, with the price of imported feed plus processing costs I can't imagine making a profit at it. Esp when half the market is satisfied by cheap imports from the US and Canada.
SteveAgain
13d ago
Wasn't that the era when they had to close down the high school congressional page program because everyone in congress was doing coke and fucking them?
I only remember because one of my friends was in the last batch.
I'll never laugh harder than when I found out what Baa-mon-to kare with apples was meant to be. So many layers of bastardization it becomes original again.
SteveAgain
13d ago
Thanks for the reply. I didn't realize botulism care had gotten so much better, and grew up terrified of tetanus because one of my teachers got it.
It just struck me as odd that we have cheap(ish) 8-in-1 clostridial vaccines for livestock but never bothered with one for people. I guess it's also rarer for people to catch than I thought, with only a few cases in the US.
SteveAgain
14d ago
I mean, he has literally committed crimes at a college where using "reactionary language" is enough to get you investigated and expelled. At some point you have to go beyond exposing the double standard to enforcing a fair one, and handing out appropriate punishment.
SteveAgain
14d ago
And his results are very different than theirs, you'll notice.
Isn't he Canadian. Which means the whole thing's retarded because she was legal the whole time, and he was just a coward to give up on Best Girl.
Heat recovery ventilation, baby. Being able to do it easily is the biggest advantage of a ducted air conditioning system imo.
TL;Dr the incoming and outgoing air passes through a crossflow heat exchanger that cools down the hot air and warms up the cold air (it works both ways, naturally).
The good size ones can recover/reject 80% of the heat.
Downsides: grease and moisture suspended in warm air will condense inside the core as the air cools. Smog and such from outside will do the same in summer when the heat flow swaps. Good pre-filtering is essential, which means high capacity ducting and fans correctly specced for the load. A surprisingly complicated design challenge for a custom job.
Ducting is needed to get the intake and exhaust airflow to come together at the heat exchanger. This can be simple if you get creative (aka use an attic or crawlspace).
They're not very good for small heat gradients, obviously. If it's usually 45 outside and 65 inside, the system cost will be higher than just heating cold fresh air with a gas boiler or heat pump.
Worse, if your house has a lot of solar heat gain in summer, and your inside air is hotter than outside, the heat exchanger will actively make your AC's job harder by keeping the heat in! This can be a big deal in sunny but mild coastal climates, where even hot days cool down in the evenings.
You can probably tell I've been designing a diy one for a cabin build lol. But I'm probably better off with vented air and a radiant heating system instead.
SteveAgain
14d ago
Just think, if you'd only put $1000 into Intel in 2000, you'd have almost $300 now!
At least when something drops like this you get to say things like "Intel's up 16% this week!"
That reddit thread is fucking insane. It doesn't sound like human speech any more, just some sort of 40k corpse-robot with a speaker in its skull droning prayers.
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