quicklime

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

He's not worth the fuel cost :\

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I can't afford fast food anymore. This article must be about the vanishing middle class and above.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

pretty sure the other replies missed the satire

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

and that's just the psych side. It's blatantly obvious that in terms of physical health he has one and a half feet in the grave.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know how chainmail-specific your wish is, but there are plenty of weighted blankets for sale. Most of them have thousands of tiny heavy beads sewn into a quilted fabric that keeps them from moving around or bunching up too much. The one I have weighs about 8 lbs in Queen size and it feels, weight-wise, similar to the feeling of having four or five extra blankets on the bed but without all the heat/insulation of doing that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now is that better or worse than being raccooned by up to 100 hounds?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The trick is learning not to hate what you live, but to live what you hate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No, I get what you mean. It just depends on what we mean by "breaks everything". I'm not saying we're looking at human extinction in ten years, or the complete loss of advanced industrial civilization in ten years. But I do expect in that time span massive and permanent decreases in the average standard of living and the availability of goods, services, and information.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't understand who's downvoting this article, except for maybe those who didn't read it and are only downvoting the headline.

If anyone's downvoting it after actually reading the whole piece, I wonder what they found objectionable about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Fuck it. YOLO. Only got 10 or 20 years until the water wars or WW3 or climate change breaks everything anyway.

psst.... don't look now, but it's less than ten years.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

All of those numbers are teeny tiny in comparison to the number of Americans killed by America.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Remember, though, that it is currently profitable to reform hydrogen out of methane, at the same time as it's not profitable to contain and sell 'byproduct' hydrogen. There are sure to be reasons why, and they might be fairly durable reasons that don't change much even as the demand for hydrogen increases. I'm no expert on this so I won't speculate too much on what those reasons might be -- maybe factors related to scale and logistics?

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