Aldi and Trader Joes will gladly take over all their locations. Those Germans don’t care about Red and Blue.

That’s even worse.

Wayfair. $72. 4.8 stars. They have other similar items that are cheaper.

It’s a DRYING rack, it isn’t meant to be permanent storage. You wash the dishes after dinner, and place them in the rack. The next morning, after they’ve dried, the first thing you do is put them all back in the cabinets.

However, I acknowledge that a LOT of people won’t bother with the second step.

I get that, but Leatherman tools aren’t expensive because of their quality, which is excellent, they are expensive because of their brand. There are plenty of equally high quality tools that aren’t nearly as expensive. The Wetools knife that I have is a good example. Excellent design and high quality construction for a fraction of the cost.

I appreciate high quality in all things, but I have also learned in life that quality and cost often have little or no correlation. With a little research, I can usually find a tool, or guitar, or audio gear, etc. that is just as good, or even better, than the well-known gourmet brands, at a far cheaper price. Multitools are an excellent example of that.

Leatherman tools tend to be extremely expensive. Amazon has a lot of multitool options for far less. I have the one made by Wetools, which used to be about $20, which was a serious bargain, considering how well it was made. Now they are around $35, probably due to tariffs, but they are still a bargain.

If you carry one, you’ll discover all sorts of uses for it.

I’m just hoping to get through the next 6 months, and then the next 3 years, without the government harassing me or my family.

I just bought some cheap sunglass readers! $5 at Dollar Tree.

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot.

Dumbest movie title ever, but the best thing I’ve ever seen Sam Elliott do.

“What’s for dinner?”

“Peanut Butter.”

“Of course.”

Tart

I came to Lemmy after being permabanned on Reddit, and I didn’t have any problem signing up, logging in, or using it.

I also miss the smaller crowds, but I don’t miss the pages of puns, shitposts, trolls, 4Chan refugees, contrarians, novelty accounts, bots, Russian Propaganda Farmers, etc. I do miss the active forums for some of my favorite subjects, like guitars. The few forums that exist are very quiet, with posts every few days, weeks or even months, instead of constantly, like Reddit.

I find it much better for politics, if for no other reason that we can talk openly without getting suspended or banned.

This was the movie I immediately thought of.

It’s a terrific LOOKING movie, but the two leads had absolutely no chemistry. At first I couldn’t figure out if they were partners, spouses, dating, brother & sister, etc.

The production design was spectacular, though.

Gochujang paste - Korean fermented red pepper paste. It has a really tasty, slightly spicy flavor, that tastes great in soup/ ramen or coating noddles/pasta.

Set List:

Incel Mania

Submit to My Power

Behold My Magnum Dong

All Praise to the Great Leader

Lefty Cunt

Suck Up, Punch Down

I’m Not a Creep, You’re a Creep

You’re too Ugly to Fuck, Anyway

My Canadian Girlfriend (You Wouldn’t Know Her)

Only Fans Love

Deportation Vacation

My Misspelled Face Tattoo

Education is Overrrated (We Don’t Need No Critical Thinking)

I used to live in a 3rd floor walk-up, and when my TV blew out, I had the money to buy a really big one. It didn’t occur to me that I would have to drag that boat anchor up 3 flights. It took a while, with rests on the landings, but I finally got it up there.

100% correct answer.

I think it helped shape me into a an adventurous, curious person, because that was what motivated me as a kid. Other Free Range kids might have gone out to play sports, or to look for trouble, etc., but i was just exploring.

There was another direct influence on my life: Once, i headed to a nearby “woods,” to watch animals, and bumped into some friends. One jumped over a small creek to greet me, and stepped right onto an underground bee hive. They all poured out of that hive like water, and came directly for me. The first stung my lip, then neary eye. They got in my hair, up my t-shirt, stuck in my socks etc.

I jumped on my bike and started racing toward home, hoping to outrun them, but they were the kind of bees that don’t lose their stingers, so the ones stuck in my clothes kept stinging me. By the time i got home i had at least 30 stings.

I’m okay now, but i was really afraid of bees for many years. Gardening helped me learn to lose my fear.

Overall, i think it made me a person who isn’t afraid of the world, and i know i can navigate any situation that comes up.

Back in the 60s, i was a Free-Range kid. On on a nice non-school day, I would go out after breakfast on my bike, and be gone all day, without any money, a watch, ID, cell phone (didn’t exist back then), anything, and I’d be gone all day. The only rule was to be home by 5 pm.

Nobody knew where I was, who I was speaking to, or anything. If i bumped into friends, I’d hang out for a while, but if I needed to know the time, I’d ask some stranger. If I was thirsty, I’d knock on a random door and ask for a glass of water. Once, I stopped at the end of a driveway to watch some guy doing woodworking in his open garage. He saw me watching and this stranger invited me into garage, and showed me his tools, and what he was building. Turned out he was a decent guy, and I probably reminded him of his grandson, but what if he wasn’t? My primary fear was running into the Robolotto boys, but as long as I didn’t see one of them, I was happy.

This was routine for years, and it was the same for my friends. I started doing this when I was about 7 years old.