Machinist @ Machinist @lemmy.world

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Sounds like your risk assessment is similar to ours on bird flu.

As for prepping, I think it comes down to being realistic about actual threats. I'm a lot more worried about Lyme disease and other tick carried disease than I am being bit by a water moccasin so I treat my clothing with permethrin. I'm a lot more worried about a house fire than a home invasion so I have CO and smoke detectors. Just added an emergency fire ladder to our second floor. Real life isn't a Mad Max movie.

My girl keeps a well stocked pantry and deep freezers. She's experienced food insecurity before, and she manages our food. We stock up on things we already eat when they go on sale. She's read some alarming things about the coffee harvest this year so we now have a year supply of coffee. It will all get used and we are insulated from a big price hike.

Longer term, we hope to raise or hunt all our own meat. Our "prepping" isn't really anything we wouldn't do anyhow. We love venison, rabbit, and now have land to raise a couple of steers.

We have soaps and sanitizers. Keep a good supply on hand, super long shelf life.

With COVID, I got us all half face respirators. I spoke with my girl, I think I'm going to look at getting a couple of full face. Our house is old and has a lot of asbestos in the walls and shingles, so I use the respirator when cutting into a wall along with a HEPA shop vac. Also use my respirator when dealing with moldy hay or bad allergans. So, it's not like I'm wasting money. Thanks for getting me thinking about it. P100 is great for peace of mind.

As far as guns and such, you can't eat ammo or rifles. We have farm and hunting firearms. Thinking a bunch of weapons will be what makes a difference if things got really bad is foolish.

Mostly, we just try and pay attention and anticipate big price changes. We are slowly working towards having less dependance on supply chain disruption. True supply chain independence is a pipe dream and would be a brutal existence.

What does your gut say on the likelihood of it jumping and, if so, when? What would the timeline look like for spread after the jump? Likely CFR?

Sorry to blast you with questions. My level of concern is rising.

I don't have a source, but I've been hearing for a while now that there is a lot of pseudo science in matching barrels to bullets.

Polygraphs ended up being pretty much complete bullshit and roadside drug tests are real bad about false positives.

IDK, it's basically a tool mark. I've looked at those under microscopes. They vary a whole lot when things are running well. I would think you could only really match something if there was a distinctive abnormal feature.

Nah. Callous disregard for masking and basic safety precautions in the face of a relatively well understood virus.

Chump and him being too vain to wear a mask. The corporations that fell right in line with relaxed masking. All the fuckers that got angry with me for wearing a mask in public. I'm talking red in the face, pissed off at me. Willfull ignorance is the greatest sin and I hope they all suffer profoundly before they die shitting their kidneys out of their eyes.

I'm hoping we get a vaccine that confers really good immunity to bird flu and its 50% mortality rate.

A good vaccine means the whole thing will just sort itself out.

These fuckers tried to kill my immunocompromised family member with COVID. Fuck em.

I seem to remember a string of copycat attacks where lighter fluid or gas was sprayed inside a kiosk that contained a cashier or person taking tickets. Think there were several deaths.

Expect that an accelerant like gas or lighter fluid was used in this case. Doesn't take much.

Monstrous thing to do.

I'm drinking my coffee, about to get ready and take the kid to a museum. I'll look at it later.

WTF does Israel have to do with it?

You can do it! We saved for years and spent as little as we could. It's hard, but not impossible.

I take a gummy and a variable amount of ibuprofen every night with dinner. Helps some with sleep and pain.

My hangover crutch was modafanil. However, I may just have to be done drinking. Sucks, but it was destroying my life. I'm much healthier. I miss bourbon and the brain numbing fog like great sex with a crazy lover.

Excellent post.

I would add:

Make a plan to run if you have to. Cash reserve, good backpack, identification and other paperwork, a couple of changes of clothes.

Make a plan to move. Save as much money as you can and set a date. We began planning our move in 2020 and our deadline was last summer.

We successfully completed our move to a better state and are much happier. Like a weight has been lifted off us. It was difficult but very much wotth it.

It's a really unpleasant feeling, isn't it? Being Cassandra is the suck.

It's astonishing and demoralizing how many people I respected don't know history. A good chunk of them tell you there is no train even though they have to shout to be heard over the horn.

I managed to quit drinking this summer after a hospital detox. Now I'm stuck raw dogging reality.

Working in machine shops; I often had cycle time to read. Drops killed most of them. I had a few mysteriously die. When I would open them up, there was board and frame corrosion. Metal working fluids and fine metal chips are hell on electronics.

Dropped a few in the bathtub. Current kindle has been dropped in the bath, but survived. It may die due to corrosion. Battery is getting weak anyhow.

For years, I didn't use a cover. I now have one of the official Amazon covers and have gotten better longevity on my former and current kindles. My case has a crack in it due to a drop.

I consider them a consumable, they're cheap compared to the knowledge and pleasure they give me.

I'm on my seventh e-ink kindle. I still prefer paper for reference books, but e-ink for everything else.

I mean, I still totally probably would.

Back in my drinking days, I definitely would have taken her home at last call.

I didn't comment about her body in that comment.

Anyhow, with caveats, I would totally make that comment in front of the right crowd. I've been to a lot of kink parties and drag shows. Cis-het peeps don't have a monopoly on catty coments.

If someone wears a shirt with a sexual statement on it, then others will make sexual statements about them.

I didn't even think about the Luigi/Italian thing until I read it in a comment. To me, that shirt said that she has sex better than people who aren't Italian.

I did make a deleted comment referring to her Botox or plastic surgery and that I considered it a red flag. I find uncanny valley plastic surgery profoundly unattractive. I don't remember exactly what I said. It was flippant and arguably objectification.

So, I misread the room and my joke was poorly received. I haven't read the rules for shitposting or whatever and would not be surprised if I violated a rule.

From my view, the shirt with a funny sexual statement invites other sexual statements. I think that anyone that denies that the slogan is a double entendre is naive at best. The level of outrage amusing.

You don't know me or the women and NBs I associate with. Thanks for playing.

This format of tagline has been around since like the 70s. The IT is inherently sexual. Usually something like, "Diamond Cutters Do It Harder."

It's a double entendre and isn't funny without the sexual subtext.

So, unless there was a convention to redifine this joke that I didn't hear about; yeah, it's sexual. Anything else is just trying to contort common social mores to fit an agenda.

If it was a big hairy guy wearing a shirt that said "Bears Do It Better" I would also expect sexual jokes.

Oh hey, I'm in this screenshot making an off-color comment. We can debate misogyny and such, probably won't be very productive.

The thing I find interesting in this: "Italians Do It Better" is an inherently sexual statement. Everyone knows that IT is sex and maybe some other reference with this style of bumper sticker meme. That's what makes it funny. So then, is it wrong to make a sexual joke about someone who is wearing a funny sexual statement? I don't think so.

If she were wearing a plain tee or some other logo, I wouldn't make a sexual joke. This feels like white knight silliness to me.

Holy fuck, that article was dark.