bloomingeek

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by bloomingeek 15d ago
I worked at the AA maintenance base in Tulsa and retired after thirty years. Although I worked in the power plant and was not an A&P mechanic, over the years I had the pleasure of working around some of the thousands of plane mechanics
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by bloomingeek 1mo ago
< entertainment as opposed to something more heated like war.> As an avid sports fan, I've always thought this. All the emotion and anguish I feel during the seasons for the teams I support is sort of cathartic. But I can't
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by bloomingeek 1mo ago
That must have been one angry beaver, you know, like the TV show. (Sorry)
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by bloomingeek 1mo ago
I've always thought, easily, we humans were our own worst enemy. But that's nothing new, it's been known for many different eras. What gets me is we don't seem to care. Obviously many do, but why not enough? Egomaniacs s
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by bloomingeek 2mo ago
And there it is, we're keeping competition out of the states to protect our auto industry, instead of giving we consumers other options. I've rented cars in Aus/New Zealand, if I lived there I'd own an EV, hands down. Th
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by bloomingeek 2mo ago
So true! My Ram 1500 was purchased to pull our travel trailer. It has the tow package and is factory raised up some. I'm kind of old, so I keep a three-step ladder in the bed so I can easily climb into it. Because of the poor gas milea
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by bloomingeek 2mo ago
You just described the political situation in the States. My homeland is truly stuck in an alternate universe.
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by bloomingeek 2mo ago
True, but the vast amount of buildings don't have this technology.
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by bloomingeek 2mo ago
And let's not forget unscrupulous building owners/renters who will not employ the at least 10% fresh air intake rule on their HVAC system. This fresh air is outside air temperature, so their system has to change it's temp acc
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by bloomingeek 3mo ago
Wait, people trusted a corporation and got screwed?!? Why, that's...unheard of!(My wife, bless her, has "purchased" dozens of movies on amazon. I warned her that when the amazon wind changes, she may regret those purchases. I
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by bloomingeek 3mo ago
<Many people are ego-driven. Their opinions aren’t positions they hold; they are the position. Prove the idea wrong and you haven’t corrected a fact, you’ve attacked a person. So they defend it the way anyone defends themselves: not with
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by bloomingeek 3mo ago
I think most posters are missing the point. They're over thinking the scene. Ai can never feel anything. Info isn't the same as knowledge, knowledge isn't the same as wisdom. We humans are too complex to be answered by the in
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by bloomingeek 3mo ago
I agree with your account, the problem is how many perceive slavery. Here in the south (USA) many still think the slaves before the Civil War were "happy". They obviously weren't slaves. Until ALL mankind looks slavery fully
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by bloomingeek 3mo ago
This!
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by bloomingeek 4mo ago
Well said. For my part: seek beauty and happiness. Don't make others sad. The last part is far more difficult. Why? As someone said, "We have caveman emotions, live under medieval systems and have access to god-like technology.&qu
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by bloomingeek 4mo ago
Your reply is reasonable. I've always thought the biggest problem to almost anything is human. We sometimes make the most thoughtless decisions and justify them with the flimsiest of excuses. We marvel at the stubbornness of two year-o
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by bloomingeek 4mo ago
So, we all go back to land lines for privacy?
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by bloomingeek 4mo ago
Really cool story! It's always been my premise that good maintenance means longevity on vehicles. I keep our vehicles with the idea of "driving the wheels off of them", but always end up giving them to my kids after wanting a
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by bloomingeek 4mo ago
Indeed, since 2016.
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by bloomingeek 4mo ago
Gee, what could go wrong using governmental info to provide personal gain? Surely they wouldn't be tempted to start causing situations to become reality for personal gain! (ala Dick Cheney and Halliburton.) Politician are servants of t
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by bloomingeek 5mo ago
Some teachers, like many of us, have caveman emotions, live under near medieval systems and have access to god-like tech. (My version of a quote I read earlier this year.) What could go wrong?
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by bloomingeek 5mo ago
Absolutely, rotary phones sucked! Always in the way, slow as a sloth and a mis-dial was the worst. Having said all that, these "cell" phones look pretty cool.
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by bloomingeek 5mo ago
You are to be commended for an apology, it shows class and decency. As for the militarization of Silicon Valley, it's been said we have god-like tech, but not the emotional discipline for such responsibilities. Aside from the fact that
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by bloomingeek 5mo ago
I like/love your statement. The problem is, to their detriment, most users don't have the chops to switch to Linux/Apple.(Or the patience.) Since I couldn't afford Apple at the time, I jumped into Red Hat years age. What
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by bloomingeek 5mo ago
Perhaps they just want to steal the parts out of the laptops. If they swindled 5K rubes out of their machines, that's a lot of resale money, no?
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by bloomingeek 6mo ago
It does. I have a sizeable ball cap collection, all in labeled shoe boxes. I'll be changing them for plastic bins on my next Ikea Swedish meatball run.
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by bloomingeek 6mo ago
And AI is coming or has already arrived, so everybody better have a plan B.
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by bloomingeek 6mo ago
I'm retired from working in the trades. My bosses only cared if I could do the job, period. Put up or shut up and go home. The only slight exception was when I went to work for an airline, for obvious reasons. Although I once worked at
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by bloomingeek 6mo ago
This is really a good deed. As a side note, FWIW, we only let our cats outside when we are there to watch them. This is because we don't want our neighbors to dislike our cats for whatever reason. A lot of neighbors use Roundup on thei
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by bloomingeek 6mo ago
Before our first trip to New Zealand, March of 2001, we did a lot of research because the plan was to drive up the South Island from the southern tip to the northern, then ferry across to the North Island. We consulted three different Trave

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