Felis_Catus_Domesticus

microwave ovens…

in fact, make that all kitchen appliances.

Put a little vaseline on the lens…

From your lips to Milton Friedman’s ears…

China tends to take a 1000 year perspective on things…

In the west we can hardly think 3 months ahead of the present moment.

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And still no jobs…

ditto. fuck that app shit.

Mandate that all boot loaders can be unlocked by consumers/device owners!

That single change alone would open the floodgates of development.

Manufacturer locked boot loaders was the single biggest mistake made in the phone world. Now just consider all the work it’ll take to reverse that simple misstep made years ago that nobody gave a single thought to.

just one pigeon could wreck the place of it got inside.

all of those things were beautiful. all long gone now.

No

anyone who starts sentence with “bro” can f-off

logical fallacy…

not touching it (until you replace it) is a good game plan.

that eliminates breakage and just leaves rats as the unpredictable variable.

check out “knob and tube” wiring if you really don’t want to sleep well at night.

that stuff’s a horror show by today’s standards.

simple solutions are the best solutions.

keep it far enough from the house so that you don’t have tree trimming issues when the tree gets big or when a storm hits…

to not create a sealed environment since the homes that did have good insulation and a good seal generally had more ‘mysterious’ deaths that were attributed to ‘stale air’ and even brought back the term ‘miasma’ for a while.

use (ceiling) fans & turn the AC down. way down. heat rises. make the high ceilings work for you not against you. just like they did in the 1920’s.

plant shade trees to the south and wait a few years for them to grow?

old wiring is sketchy. materials degrade over time. plastic polymer technology used in insulators before the late 70’s was not what it is today. insulation on new wires will last 80++ years. The old stuff, not so much…