How many fucking letters can I use? I’m sick of editing this shit, just fucking accept the bio, damn.

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Cake day: October 14th, 2023

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  • I do everything myself, and it’s led to being able to handyman if I need some cash. Contractor pricing is insane for something that’s never as difficult as it seems. Hell last night I installed a side door on my garage because I had an extra door I ripped out of the house last year. It took three boards, a nailgun, a shim, and an hour.

    The job you listed? A wrench, Teflon tape, some valves, putty, and a diamond hole saw. So like 70$ assuming you don’t already have those things.

    Most maintenance, installs, or upgrades are the same way, and the next time you do it, you already have the tools. Get a rolling toolbox, a belt, a basic battery tool set, and pick up all the specialty tools as you need them, and you’re a handyman.




  • Amother organism or person needs to be predictable to be trusted.someone or something acting in an unpredictable manner means it may suddenly decide you’re a threat. We evolved in a world before science and medicine, where any injury could mean death. Even the most unstoppable animals, bears, elephants, moose, will bluff charge a threat rather than immediately attack, because fighting risks injury, regardless of how unbalanced the fight is. I can’t win a fight against any of those animals, but I can bite it while it’s killing me. A full thickness bite wound is all but guaranteed to cause an infection, which may kill or disable.

    Humans are also social creatures, and we run on cultural norms that make it easier to trust that the person next to you in a restaurant won’t suddenly stab you, even though he is holding a knife.

    A major cultural difference can make others seem dangerous in a primal way. We know through interaction that other cultures are not more dangerous, but that primal unease of being surrounded by people from a different tribe is still in there somewhere.

    In my opinion, this is why racism is so hard to root out. A lot of it is taught by others, but it’s not a negligible amount tied to fear of anything different.



  • The infantilization worked, and certainly not just on the people who grew up with it. My profession has me dealing with patients from all walks of life, and the majority of people I work with everyday are painfully dumb. Whether they’re 18 or 80, I’m impressed that half of the people I meet managed to make it so far in life without falling out of their car.

    They fall for every ad, they believe clickbait articles on facebook, they can’t figure out how to check in on a tablet, with directions on the screen, that works identically to the phone they live through. They don’t know anything going on in the world, or even the town around them, but they certainly know that new Burger at McDonalds, and they’re the only ones that really KNOW what’s going on with the country’s politics. They know seven tiktok dances, but can’t name the continents. They take 15 medications, can’t name them, and don’t even know what they’re for, just that the doctor said they need them. They know the backstory of every minor character in every marvel movie, but couldn’t make it through a novel if their life depended on it.

    I regularly see people with uncontrolled diabetes that can’t even tell me which type they have.

    It worked. We’re all consumers too dumb to know what we’re consuming or why we wanted it in the first place .













  • You know, as I was typing that out, I was thinking “why would anyone believe me”.

    The complete events that unfolded sound like a story where everyone clapped for me, so instead of sounding like a kid making shit up, I’ll just say, it smelled like bananas, I told someone the bees thing, and a week later the place shut down for a few days while a massive honeycomb/hive was removed from the ceiling.

    I read about the smell on cracked in like 2008 and just parroted the info later, which turned out to be true, at least in this case.