CADmonkey @ CADmonkey @lemmy.world

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My lovely wife works in the kitchen of a retirement home. She has watched things go down in the elderly care industry for several years now.

And you're not wrong, although I think your estimate of 10 years is too generous. Elderly people who don't have any assets like a home will naturally assume they can just stay with their kids. Except both of their adult children probably need to work. They don't have time or money to take care of Mom or Dad. They can't take them to appointments. They can't help with medication. They may not even have a space for them at home. And they certainly do not have $3,000 a month so they can put mom or dad in a nursing home.

I imagine there are many who would do their best. But then there ard those like my wife's parents, who were and still are abusive, terrible people who have burned every bridge they could, and are now having to cope with the idea that none of the family they gaslit for decades wants to help.

I'd bet a significant chunk of the F150's sold every year go to fleet operators which would skew the saftey numbers.

Technology Connections!

Where is the hand-crank centrifuge?

I've almost bought DIvinity Original Sin a couple of times, is it any good?

It's actually later than the trucks with the 5.4 engines. This one could have had a 3.7 V6, a 3.5 turbocharged V6, or a 5.0 V8. The last year for the 5.4 was 2009.

Edit: I feel I should mention that a 12 year old truck means it's a 2012. I don't understand how 2012 is a dozen years ago, either.

I don't see how much data can be recovered from broken, bent pieces. If you're really concerned, you can use a torch to raise a magnetic platter until it glows, this raises it above it's curie temperature so all the magnetic particles stop being magnetic.

I have a small farm and a battered 12 year old F150 XL. It moves once a week, and I commute by motorcycle. I bought the truck in 2022 and it was bizarre. It had half the miles of the next cheapest truck on the lot, and it was half the price. It's a base model, no option truck and nobody seems to want one of those.

Go out of town for elective procedures, got it.

I had a first gen Rx-7 and for a while the metering pump quit... and I ran premix like a two stroke until I could get a new one.

I like to take the hard drive(s) out and either drill holes in them or beat them to pieces with a big hammer.

Dear old Dad worked in IT, and he had a clearly marked "hard drive eraser". It was a 20 pound sledgehammer.

Lol, he won't have money or time for that fancy paint job if he has to keep that rotary engine alive.

Another vote for the Brother monochrome laser printer. My LH-23200 has needed toner once since 2017, and a four pack of toner from Brother costs about $30.

My wife and I tried it this year, and we ended up with a lot of food from a spot ~110 m² in size. We also have a couple of chickens, they are mostly pets that eat ticks and clear the ground while giving us eggs.

I say we need more backyard farms.

I didn't say we are the only ones, i said we are alwsys expected to throw money and equipment at any of the EU's little scares, while being shit on the rest of the time.

Says literally only you. Relevant username, I see.

You can always tell when they screwed up. If they shot an armed person who was actually threatening them, the footage is released that day. But when they've shot a 12 year old kid in a park, or a woman sleeping in her house, well suddenly we can't release the footage.

I used to have this truck. It was a 1989 C1500. It was a single cab, long bed truck which is the best configuration. Under the hood was a 5.7 liter V8 with very primitive fuel injection, and that was hooked up to a 5-speed manual transmission.

It wasn't the fastest, most powerful truck I've ever had, but it had tons of personality and wouldn't die. It was really fun to drive with the torquey engine and the stick shift which was the exact opposite of a short-throw shifter.

We put water and a tea bag in the MICROWAVE and we heat it up and dump a bit of sugar in it and we leave the MILK in the fridge.

Actually I'm in OK, so we make it by the gallon and put it in the fridge.

My daughter likes the old Looney Tunes cartoons. But there are a lot of things mentioned or shown in those cartoons that don't exist anymore and it's been fun having to explain what certain things are. There was a one cartoon where my daughter asked why there would be a knob on a car's dash that said "choke". I have a very old car that has a carburetor (long story) so thankfully I could show her, but even that old bucket of bolts has an automatic choke.

Another cartoon had a sort of proto-Elmer Fudd that was taking pictures of wildlife, and I had to explain what all this equipment was he had with him. He had a camera that used a squeeze bulb for the shutter and had a hood to cover the operator.

For me, I think it's interesting that in the original Star Trek, there were no screens with text on them. There were screens, but they showed video or images instead of text. That's because back when ol' Bill Shatner was on the camera putting commas in places they don't belong, there was no such thing as a computer screen with text. You entered data into a computer with a teletype, and it gave your answers back on a printout.