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Panfilo posted:I never understood why it couldn't just be melted back down, even if it's not suitable for whatever parts it could still be used in something like insulation, packing foam, etc. There’s more kinds of plastic than you can imagine, and the ones which can be treated like this need to be kept uncontaminated by other kinds of plastic for the process to work. There aren’t that many kinds which can, though. And, yeah, it’s more expensive than new plastic.
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the_steve posted:Also, with the slow cooker, buy slow cooker liners. They are your friend. Because of plastic chat I went to see if reusable slow cooker liners are a thing, and apparently they are! I wonder how well they work?
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A lot of the reactionaries that Musk follows seem to sincerely believe any effort to address climate change is simply a front to control the population for nefarious means. You saw this with Covid, and it'll inevitably come up on the next major disaster that happens.
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Panfilo posted:A lot of the reactionaries that Musk follows seem to sincerely believe any effort to address climate change is simply a front to control the population for nefarious means. You saw this with Covid, and it'll inevitably come up on the next major disaster that happens. And in so doing, necessitates the control of said population to address climate change
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Capitalism can't stop and is a major enabler of climate change soooo......
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Panfilo posted:A lot of the reactionaries that Musk follows seem to sincerely believe any effort to address climate change is simply a front to control the population for nefarious means. You saw this with Covid, and it'll inevitably come up on the next major disaster that happens. every conversation is a chess game and they need to win. and the do that by chafing the conversation. "we need to address climate change" *burst of chafe* "so you hate babies?"  they win. that's all it is. to attribute what they're doing to a higher strategy, or a sincere belief, is giving them far too much credit. it's dull, insecure people using trickery to "win"
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Dameius posted:Capitalism can't stop and is a major enabler of climate change soooo...... Yeah but it's not like China/Russia or anyone is really doing that much better on the climate change front.
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socialsecurity posted:Yeah but it's not like China/Russia or anyone is really doing that much better on the climate change front. Both of those are capitalist though, so you'd have to look to the environmental record of more Maoist China or the Soviet Union and....oh. Oh. Yikes. It's almost like long-term environmental stewardship isn't particularly baked into or even incentivized by either of the popular 19th century economic philosophies, and CEOs, vanguard parties, and worker collectives are all equally happy to put their short to medium-term material concerns ahead of distant global abstractions.
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richest and smartest man on earth can't figure out how to get in on the green scam that's so obvious twitter randos know all about it? oh wait...he's making green cars...wait...while taking tons of government money...wait... sometimes i feel like the world is a dot to dot picture of a jackson pollock painting
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Going back to food talk, had some friends over last night and decided to grill instead of getting pizza. Because of this thread I decided to make some home made potato wedges and they came out so good my friends refused to believe I made them. It really does feel good when you get some praise for home cooked stuff 
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InsertPotPun posted:there's no "sincerity" it's just a way to keep from talking about the real issues while making themselves feel smart and important. I think you meant chaff here but chafe is low-key funny too
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Medullah posted:Going back to food talk, had some friends over last night and decided to grill instead of getting pizza. Because of this thread I decided to make some home made potato wedges and they came out so good my friends refused to believe I made them. It really does feel good when you get some praise for home cooked stuff
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 Love the double H misspelling. "How do you confuse this generation? Place them in a barn with no butter so they have to churn their own..."
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1) do rotary phones even work with modern telecom systems anymore? 2) im wearing an analog clock wrist watch, never mind that some people do digital analog clocks on their phones 3) dont get the no remote thing, rabbit ears also dont work because modern over the air signals have some sort of digital encryption and tuner. 4) again i dont think this standard even exists anymore 6)oddly enough videogames have a lot of hand written notes for lore items, its nice that devs have both the hand writing and the print text function. (or fonts that look like penmenship)
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I like how they think this is a huge own when half of that poo poo doesn't even work anymore because the technology is so obsolete the services that used them shut down decades ago.
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I've heard "kids these days can't read the wall clock any more because of the digital casio watches" since the 80s. Teach them then? They're kids, reading a Renaissance adaptation of a Babylonian time system isn't innate. Show them how it works.
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PhazonLink posted:1) do rotary phones even work with modern telecom systems anymore? 1. they don't. 3. kids are too stupid to understand dials and buttons. 4. There are still ISPs serving dial up I think, at least as of a few years ago, but they were for rural and/remote locations that already had the cables run.
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I convinced an old friend to learn how to hand make dough for big soft pretzels and cheese sauce for dipping and it got him a girlfriend within less than two weeks. I mean, I think other things about him helped but she really went after him after he cooked for the DnD group.
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LonsomeSon posted:DnD group. LonsomeSon posted:girlfriend Nice try, nerd! kidding of course
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Jagged Jim posted:I like how they think this is a huge own when half of that poo poo doesn't even work anymore because the technology is so obsolete the services that used them shut down decades ago. And of course that poo poo goes both ways, even if they'll never acknowledge that being unable to open a pdf is a shortcoming on their part.
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Medullah posted:Going back to food talk, had some friends over last night and decided to grill instead of getting pizza. Because of this thread I decided to make some home made potato wedges and they came out so good my friends refused to believe I made them. It really does feel good when you get some praise for home cooked stuff Well, what was the recipe?
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Electric_Mud posted:Well, what was the recipe? Oh there was no recipe other than "toss them in some olive oil, bread crumbs and various spices/seasonings I had sitting around and air fry for 10 minutes at 400."
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I’m amazed that potato wedges are cooked through in 19 mins, I gotta try this.
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Subjunctive posted:I’m amazed that potato wedges are cooked through in 19 mins, I gotta try this. Might have been a couple minutes extra in it, I was drinking by that point. But definitely was closer to 10 than 19.
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Also plenty of young people love to drive manual transmission cars. While some young people prefer not to learn to drive, plenty still do and have no problem driving a stick shift. I think when a lot of what you know and feel confidence in becomes obsolete and irrelevant, there's this cope in acting like you knew some arcane skill that others are too dumb to understand.
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My daughter just turned 16 and learning to drive stick is the only part of getting her license that she’s looking forward to. (We don’t own a manual.)
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The industry went automatic in part chasing boomer buying habits, so it is just yet another thing where the boomers created the difference and holds it against other people.
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Subjunctive posted:My daughter just turned 16 and learning to drive stick is the only part of getting her license that she’s looking forward to. (We don’t own a manual.) but what about the other parts of the list?
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PhazonLink posted:but what about the other parts of the list? I think she’d do fine, depending on how manual the dial-up part was. She’s never had to learn a Hayes command string, but I don’t think she would find it challenging if needed. Mostly that list is “stuff we didn’t teach our kids dot txt”, really. Similar to the participation trophy stuff; I never knew how to use a slide rule or read a punch card (though my kid and I learned both at a museum this spring!).
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Nah if you read a punch card it will assume you’re a computer and never respect you, you have to immediately punch them.
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I bet none of you youngsters never rode a penny-farthing, or chiseled a love letter into a clay tablet. You loving idiot babies.
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InsertPotPun posted:there's no "sincerity" it's just a way to keep from talking about the real issues while making themselves feel smart and important.
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Medullah posted:
The most extremely paradoxical thinking is that these people then want government services but then also never want to pay for them.
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Mooseontheloose posted:The most extremely paradoxical thinking is that these people then want government services but then also never want to pay for them. Oh no they will tell you repeatedly they paid more than their fair share while they were working, millions of dollars worth into Social Security that the DEMONRATS are trying to take away.
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