The rest of us standing there just looking at them

Investors are like parasitic leeches to any business model. As soon as you add them, the business has to grow in order to satisfy the leeches who provide no benefit to the model other than to be attached to it. If you ignore the leech, they’ll drain all your lifeforce, so your only option is to satisfy them and feed them. Unfortunately, they are also ravenous creatures who are never satisfied. If you feed them a little, they’ll want more next time in an endless cycle.

Once you are infected by investors … eventually they will destroy whatever you created.

Standing around waiting IS THE FAILURE OF THE SYSTEM!!!

#nokings on mastodon

lol … I never noticed … just like the 12 year old who installed Limewire on the family computer

Just don’t let the 12 year old install LimeWire onto that thing

Whatever event or activity that is announced by the government that asks you to register or provide personal information …

DON’T!

We honour free speech … but if you say anything bad about our president, we’re going to investigate you

It’s dangerous to tell people that they have no free will.

Those who do not want to think critically will just convince themselves that the world is falling apart and that they can’t do anything about it because it’s all predetermined any way.

Others take advantage of the idea of a predetermined future as a license to do whatever they please. Any terrible thing they do is not a problem to them because their actions were already predetermined, they couldn’t help it because they were destined to do these things … at least that is what they tell everyone.

I believe there is a middle ground … our biology, our environment, our genetics and the universe as a whole runs like a mechanical clock with predetermined movements … but we are provided with enough options at every movement or critical point to determine our future.

We will never be able to change how our universe works but we can choose how we can exist in that universe.

Are they building an army with troops, tanks, aircraft and naval ships? Are they going to physically and violently take over the social internet?

We can’t go out any more as my wife has a chronic illness and we can’t travel far any more. It’s through no fault of anyone … it was just bad luck that she got sick.

But I would suggest that while you are able and capable to organize at least once a year to take you and your spouse to the highest priced hotel you can or want to pay for and stay there for at least a day or two or more (I would suggest a week).

As long as you have bit of money to move around, I would really encourage you to really plan out and do this no matter how. We never had much of a high budget when we went out for our trips. It’s amazing what you can organize with a bit of money and stretching out a budge as much as possible.

The reason why I say do it … is that age is creeping up on all of us and it is a very sad thing to get to a point in your life when you no longer can do the things you had always wanted to. We got to do lots and we are happy but still we feel like we could have done more if we had been lucky enough to maintain our health.

Go to a hotel and pay extra for a higher end place with great bathroom / shower / tub facilities.

I used to travel a lot overseas for fun … when we were younger, stronger, healthier and had a bit of money. One of the best parts of the trip was in booking a really nice hotel near the airport just before you leave because you know you will be roughing it for the next week or two in budget hotels or apartments.

Then it was also great when you came home … we’d book the same luxury hotel at the end of the trip and there was no better feeling than to come off a long flight, crash into a big huge hotel room, run a hot shower and stand there for an hour … then run a tub and soak there for another hour. The only issue we ever had was that my wife would always want first dibs and we’d take turns lounging in the water, while the other watched TV or fell asleep in a nice cool room with thick fluffy duvets, then at the end of it all, we both fall asleep like babies together… man I miss those trips.

ALWAYS ask questions and never stop.

It’s when we stop asking questions that problems start.

If government and those in power can’t handle questions, then they shouldn’t be in power.

It’s our responsibility to always ask questions … it’s their responsibility to always answer our questions or help make a society good enough that we don’t have to ask that many questions.

Practice, organization and planning.

I installed a parachute hammock at the cottage, jumped in and ended up in the same situation as the comic.

I had to first learn to get in and out safely.

Then I built a small shelf i could place drinks on when reaching from the hammock.

Then I had to remember to bring my book, pillow, blanket, phone, headset and anything else with me for my hammock session.

The only thing that interrupts me now is a toilet visit … but I’m not installing toilet facilities in the hammock.

It’s part of the new Christian ideology that’s evolved up to this point

People like Turnip are the chosen ones and if they do bad things God will judge them … if God does not allow anything to happen to them or nothing comes about in this life for their bad deeds … then it means that God has allowed them to continue because that is part of God’s plan. The absence of justice or punishment in this life is a direct message from God saying that he allows these actions to continue.

Humanity did fine for thousands of years without these dumb apps … I think we’d be fine without them

As a Canadian, I will always find that absolutely unbelievable about American private health care … when someone or a family is at their lowest and during the most terrible times of their lives and health care people go up to them and say … ‘We’re sorry for your suffering and your loss … but here’s the medical bill you owe money on’

When you do get that connection … go the extra step and install a ‘backwater prevention valve’ … it’s a giant one way valve that is attached to the main drain line as it leaves the house.

It allows water to always easily flow out but if it ever happens that water back flows into your house for some reason … the valve will stop any flow from entering your house.

I’ve always planned to get one but my situation is too difficult to install one.

I’m sorry but … what an absolute mess

You mentioned that your main drain is a bit higher than the floor of the basement. I have the same situation, my drain is about two feet off the floor of my concrete basement. The washing machine drain was placed to drain towards the lowest point of the main drain. Everything else in the house with a drain is in upper floors.

I’d rearrange the plumbing to build a drain as close to the four foot level as possible for the washing machine … instead of trying to build a solution 6 or 7 feet up in the air … you’re asking for trouble if you are making your washing machine drain up to a high point.

I remember once renting a place that was an old house with a brand new concrete basement … the main drain was close to ground level that went to a septic tank and field. Their solution was to install the washing machine in the basement, drain down to the floor level, then to a grey water pump unit in a big box that was 3x3x3 feet … and that pushed the water up to the main drain. I don’t think washing machines are meant to push water that high up and you will probably constantly have a bit of grey water backing down to the washing machine.

You get to lead the most powerful nation in the world