shalafi @ shalafi @lemmy.world

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No longer working for me on Firefox, Win11. Now what?

It's for draining your boat. Lacking it will sink your boat.

LOL, read my story below. Tried exactly that, and it worked well enough to get beached. Shenanigans followed.

They ALL do! I have 5 kayaks, 1 giant canoe and a 10' flat bottom. They all have a drain plug of some sort.

Within seconds of shoving off into the swamp last spring when I noticed the missing plug. Trick here is, the canoe takes a minute to flood and I would have been well away from shore before noticing. Also, the monster LIPO4 battery and trolling motor would have took us to Dave Jone's locker with the quickness. Can't imagine how I could have got that gear back, but at least the water's clear!

Story time!

Drunk dad takes me and my Boxer pup on the lake in our crappy little boat. Great times! Until we stopped for a minute to rescue dog overboard. Then we start sinking, plug's laying on the deck, and the motor won't start. Then dad falls out trying to get the dog. At this point we're up to the fucking gunwales with water. Never saw dad panic before or since, guess he couldn't swim, but he was flooding the boat trying to scramble back in.

Forgot how I managed, but got it beached on the closest shore. Dad bails of the boat with his cookie tin full of pot, terrified it got wet. It wasn't, so he rolled a joint.

Boat won't start because the battery was underwater too long, dead as a sack of hammers. I take his keys and start on the 12-mile walk back to the car. 10-miles of dragging that fucking dog down that country road. Why dragging? Because it got dark and I had trained her to not move when she saw headlights coming. Fuck me. Why 2-miles short? Because dad came driving up!

So many lessons learned that day. #1 was probably: Just walk to the nearest house and ask for help. Fuck me.

(This was in the early 90s, no cell. Dad actually had a car phone, for all the good it did.)

Next time I'll tell y'all about me and the boys sinking my canoe. That was a great camping trip.

I'm thinking you don't understand how many acres it takes to feed a few people. I'd be scared shitless trying to feed my skinny family of 4 on a single acre, and that's assuming a constant water supply.

OK, looked around a bit, yeah, we'd starve on 1 acre.

Biblically accurate version.

Bit of a strange post, but hey, OP learned a cool thing today. I use my Android when my home internet shits the bed. Super slow, but it works well enough.

Windows has (had?) the ability to share internet through Ethernet a couple of decades ago. I think it required a crossover cable? Anyone remember what I'm talking about?

EDIT: ChatGPT found it by inputting the above text. Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)! Gods it's been a long time since I did that.

If you're a Mexican politician who has, in any way, crossed the cartel(s), you have to know there's a target on your back.

My question is this: Do they not have access to government protection? Hell, even private protection?

I'm barely above average IQ, not a great shot, no formal combat training, yet I feel I could have fended with them off with my AR and a like-armed buddy. Again, I'm certainly no badass, but an AR with a mid-tier red-dot sight is literally a point-and-click interface. Some kind of panic lock and strong door would likely have gone a long way as well.

In May, the mayor of Santiago Amoltepec was shot dead in an ambush along with two other people who were in the car with him at the time of the attack.

THAT is different situation altogether, requiring professional security. But they couldn't have a couple of armed men to guard a building? Just standing inside looking out the window? What am I not seeing here?

Police corruption will certainly come up, but I feel they have to keep that on the down-low, not, "Oh! It's you guys! Come on in!"

We Americans have little past by which to define ourselves, so we fall to "We're the best!". There's a joke to be made about white supremacists doing the same.

Love us or hate us, you gotta admit we've had one hell of a run in a very short time frame.

OP's being a smart ass, but I recently learned that their statement is true, for a certain value of "read".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

There is much literature (heh) that quotes the same numbers, or near enough. So yeah, I'm going to say most Americans can't read. And BTW, this is one of the most shocking truths I've learned in life.

As to your second point, I have a personal hypothesis that cancer is the reason for the middle-aged gut. Hell, guess it could be disease in general. Anyway, with a few extra pounds you have more time to fight.

Similar to my ex-wife who grew up on well water with loads of minerals. She found tap water to be disgusting and said it tasted of chemicals. And everywhere I've lived in America, the tap water is indeed loaded with chemicals.

For anyone wanting a cool experiment to try: Turn your tap water on full blast and fill a cup. Immediately hover your nose directly above the water and take a deep smell. Now set that glass in the sun for an hour or three, or just leave it on the counter for a day, smell again.

For a longer term experiment: Water identical plants with a) only tap water, b) only rainwater. I catch rainwater and have found a profound improvement in my house plants and terrariums.

Darwin ate every damned thing he came across.

Don't feel dumb. Just figured out a couple of years back that hats are useful, often necessary, in the sun. I'm 54.

Young men come up fighting as well. My ex-wife worked in surgery and got punched a few times. Don't know what I'd be like now, but as a young men, back the hell up from the bed.

That makes zero sense on the face of it. Why the hell would a murderer call in witnesses?!

Anyway, like conspiracy theories, the best coverups are in plain sight. But I bet we get some good ones in response to this!

The guys with Glocks? Agreed.

I will be there. I will be armed. I will carry a gas mask. I will carry water and medical for my compatriots. I will not start shit. I will fight back if it comes to it.