Man, I once woke up and couldn’t figure out why my coffee was total shit one morning.

Turns out, the clearly stated HALF AND HALF I bought the day before was the fat-free version.

The label was exactly as different as the pic. Same color, same logo, fine print in a color that made it look like a bullshit swirly design along the edge of the color box below the title of the product saying fat free

HALF AND HALF HAS TO HAVE FAT OR IT ISNT FUCKING HALF AND HALF. You gonna fuckin whip non-fat half and half? Hell no you’re not, the shit that makes it whip ain’t in there

The company is counting on you mistaking the garbage product that is most likely some form of repurposed industrial waste and nearly free for them to produce, for the thing you’re actually looking for. I mean Christ, invert the colors. Grab a different clipart. Any fucking goon with an iphone could edit those labels enough to be easily distinguishable in 15 seconds, counting the time the thing takes to ‘airdrop’ it

Went on a spontaneous trip very recently.

Spent a little more money than I’m comfy with.

Truck sprung some issues.

Saw some things I would never have seen otherwise. Some beautiful things, creatures, happenings, and places.

I’ll fix the damn truck. Make the money back (or so)

Is it risk, or are you just being a pussy? Yeah, the human world sucks, but you don’t need all the garbage they sell you, and there’s worthwhile experiences you won’t get with your nose stuck down to the grindstone.

I bet you risk your life, limbs, and liberty every single day driving into work.

I’ve had multiple friends die driving. They never thought THAT was a risk.

Go somewhere you don’t plan to. It aint gonna last forever

National currencies ARE fiat currencies.

Like the Chinese have been fixing the value of their currency to the dollar, and the federal reserve does exactly that thing where they inflate it at will. Or keep it at zero, and the rest of the corporations inflate it nowadays. Whichever.

Either way, it’s a scam. And I’m not saying the gold standard was a great idea either. It worked at the time, i guess? I don’t know, I wasn’t there. This fiat currency situation seems possibly workable, but I haven’t seen it doing so. At least not for anyone who isn’t already in the club.

The value of money is all made up bullshit anyway, can we at least get some healthcare out of it? Maybe some roofs? Food?

I like my friends not starving or freezing to death.

Hi! Made an account over on some other lemmy server, and apparently the guy running it was old, had health problems, and (rightly so) stopped giving two shits about an internet forum.

Reddit sucks enough I’ve tried again. It’s going okay. I don’t give enough of a shit to really figure how the whole lemmy/fediverse works, but at least it aint corpo garbage

I’m never using biometrics on any device. Fuck that

Eh, I’ll say it.

National currencies are a scam. No pyramid needes

Ugh. Jesus christ.

And yet, people living in vehicles are ‘homeless’ and looked down upon. They’ve left no room for anything else to be realistic

Hey, BRT is great! I’ll happily support that rather than building regular car infrastructure.

I also still vastly prefer the train. Or a ferry, if that’s an option.

Point not brought up by the other person: Bicycles. I am primarily a bike commuter, and have had one good experience with a bike and bus:

Last bus out of the city, like 2:30am. Driver has no time for our shit, tells us to bring them inside and hang on, to hell with the front rack. We didn’t even pay.

I’ve also had my bike half pop out of said front rack, get taco’d, and got absolutely nothing out of it. Totally fucked. No restitution.

Best case with bikes on a bus is you get lucky and get a spot, usually you’re better off just riding the whole way.

Trains, have room. Never not made a train with my bike.

Lol

Huh.

So in my ‘frequently visited’ list, very recently a link to chatGPT has populated.

I’ve poked at a few of the generative ai things, but only the actual chatgpt once, months ago, and have wondered if there’s enough bullshit from reddit to give it enough dings to make the list.

Apparently so

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

I’ve been homeless, and staying the fuck away from the shelters is how you stay safe.

I spent one night in one once, and promptly went back to looking for hidden little spots where no one would be able to see me.

Unless you are the crustiest of old homebums, shelters are where your shit gets stolen and you get stabbed if you make a fuss. Or raped.

The memory of the medics explaining it to me is a little hazy, due to the heat injury. Something about potassium ion channels?

I’m a mechanic, not a medic, so I haven’t the knowledge base to know what that means, I just recall them saying things like sour patch kids are basically magic, because they do a thing the vast majority of electrolyte stuffs don’t

So I have a solar setup-older panels, like 15 years old. They can be 3/4 obscured by a building or whatever, and still make 85% of what they’re rated to.

Which is fucking awesome. Right now, they’re covered in so much dust I can see the ‘clean’ spots where the morning dew condensed on them, and they’re still kicking 20 amps, about 15 more than I actually need.

Daily cleaning? Way excessive. Monthly? Maybe, probably less. Not a whole lot going on in between rails.

I’d be way more worried about tweakers trying to steal the wiring

The cleanliness of the panels isn’t actually as big a deal as it’s made out to be. Like yeah, they can’t be completely obscured, but you’d be surprised at how fucking filthy they can be and still make juice. Or half-or more- covered with trees, or other shade.

Right now, my panels are covered in enough crap I really should hose them off, and they’re still kicking 20 amps. So ahhh… fuck it. Maybe it’ll rain and I won’t have to.

Same with cloudy days-sometimes I get more power on cloudy days because the panels don’t get at hot. Hell, some streetlights put out enough light to harvest energy from-but they’re largely getting replaced with LED’s. Sad face?

I expect with the type of traffic going on between rails, these will need vanishingly little maintenance. I hope it goes well

You may not be an old dude, but it sure seems like you already hit the wall.

Friend of mine’s father, who was seventy at the time, got hit on by an older lady at the grocery store.

Lamenting that he didn’t follow it up with her, “she was eighty, but a young eighty, if you know what I mean”

Wall? Gtfo, dumbass

Gatorade isn’t actually a good source of electrolytes though.

It’s sugar and pinch of salt.

However! There’s totally good electrolyte powders that are packed with the goods, and they’re not much pricier.

Also, sour patch kids have a weird ingredient in the coating that most electrolyte stuff doesn’t have. Potassiumsomething something, irrc?

If you’re super dehydrated while drinking a fuckload of water, stick some of them under your tongue

Eagerly awaiting my sick-ass radium tattoo

Nobody is coming to the US to be homeless. That’s not a thing.

We’re shitty enough to our own citizens to make plenty of our own folk homeless.

You are closer to living on the street than you realize.

Ding ding ding

Wow, you’re lame as hell