Tim H.

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• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I knew someone who inadvertently spent $40.00* to electrocute a cockroach, it was exploring the inside of a microwave oven and foolishly climbed the capacitor can. It's charred remains presented a shorter path to ground than the wiring did. The...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I like the idea of a 2 liter bottle having an afterlife of usefulness before it becomes trash. Possibly Cory Doctorow worked those into "Walkaway"?...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  "Non-business class people and their carrion"? Do hope that was "Auto (in) correct, though "Carrion" might be a technically correct description of many meat products....
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  I've read that US radio networks hired midwesterners for voice talent preferentially because their accents were comprehensible to more listeners, such as Walter Cronkite* of CBS. *From Saint Joseph, MO....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  If it helps, Aragorn was described in Fellowship as darker than the Breelanders, Faramir's hair was described as raven in colour in Return of the King. Not simple....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  I read that CBS hired a civilian P-51 to fly the film to Boston. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-coronation-television-broadcasting-battleground/ I was 2 1/2 years in the future, an acceptable excuse for not watching....
• Commented on Place your bets
  “If you’re a car company and you can sell all the EVs you can build, do you build cars/trucks you can sell for $70K to $120K or ones you can sell for $30K to $50K?” I expect them to do...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Judging by Ford's Maverick hybrid, an EV version would be useful, I don't expect it before Ford saturates the market with F-150 TVs. Citroen's Old concept looks like a move in the right direction....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Eternal Combustion?...
• Commented on Place your bets
  As long as it isn't broken for those who believe they matter, those warnings will be ignored. The prospect of spending my declining years waiting for the ruling class to notice a vigorously applied clue stick is not appealing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPogukb8BGg...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Sounds plausible, but also a variation on the contemporary conservative project AIUI, a fear the prosperity of "Lesser people" would dilute the authority of the ruling class. This is real enough to them that they've accepted a reduction in worth...
• Commented on Place your bets
  The video of the deboning machine in the new thread (https://youtu.be/UrVFcqgHSLQ) reminded me of something lower tech from a Chevy Chase movie* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZEgd8GjJc Since it is off-topic and the new thread is a ways from 300 comments, I'll leave it...
• Commented on Place your bets
  If the concept survives contact with the real world, just the thing for the next relamp at the local "Big Box Mart". But the next time you're in one, have they even bothered to raise fan speed on their HVAC...
• Commented on Place your bets
  A sibling has suggested "Grinning Orc Peckers"... I think I'm done with this for a while ;)....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Like it, Grim Oily Perverts might also fit, this would be more fun if there was an "F", but it's an imperfect world....
• Commented on Place your bets
  I think they'd find clueless libertarians delicious, thus raising the average intelligence of the planet....
• Commented on Place your bets
  That's wonderful, what wouldn't they do at the command of Fred's burst prophylactic?...
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  Like it, I can't be bothered with visiting urban dictionary just now, hope it's something terrible, like corrupting the morals of livestock....
• Commented on Place your bets
  I shouldn't assume, the party was once a "Grand Old Party, now different words apply, saying them in front of right wing snowflakes causes more heat than light....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Randy Rainbow has an opinion about a (Formerly) GOP congress critter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ5F7fve4N0 Using not one, but two sixties tunes enjoy....
• Commented on Place your bets
  There's another pain point for Mac users, those of us who habitually bought base spec RAM & storage machines and updated with 3rd party parts, inconvenient the way they build them now, though the speed is a pleasant salve. My...
• Commented on Place your bets
  ...they got a basketball Jones... And no prospect of a cure....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Your #966 reminded me of a bit I read a few days ago at crooked timber: https://crookedtimber.org/2023/03/08/burning-men/ Not quite as delicious a notion as Anne Rice's telepathic killers stalking evildoers, but close....
• Commented on Place your bets
  "Why do U.S. inhabitants hate each other so much?" I would say we have excessive "Type A-ness" (Say it fast). AIUI, it's a difficulty in your neck of the woods also....
• Commented on Place your bets
  https://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/1162113102/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-after-fall First thought "Karma's a bitch" Second thought "I'm sure The Frantics did not intend "Boot to the head" that literally....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Misremembered, getting old. But it makes theft much more exciting, Briefly....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Nor did I say it was always the reason. Bear in mind that damage to working class folk is like oxygen for the usual suspects, whether it's class warfare, hitting waypoints for the bigger bonus, evading environmental/labor standards or even...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Short answer, halfway. Longer answer,likely not possible, I believe a class war masqueraded as a business decision, I suspect you won't....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Given superconductivity for that is at a minimum 3000 psi, theft should be exciting....
• Commented on Place your bets
  That has happened in private industry also, all the production outsourced and makework for the redundant supervisors, because class war, at least until bankruptcy....