Oh fuck, just to add… The pine boards I just bought from Home Depot said “product of Sweden” and it was the cheapest boards they had that were suitable for my project.

How come I’m paying a nickel a foot for your lumber but you’re paying an arm and a leg for your own raw timber? That’s some bullshit, man. The world is weird.

Yes, here too if you get creative. One season, I paid a local tree service company $100 bucks and they dumped their logs in my yard. They were 8 foot long sections, anywhere from 10-inch diameter to 3 feet diameter (Pacific Northwest). I bucked it all down with a 16" inch gas chainsaw and split it with a maul. Took forever. My hands and back ached at bedtime every night. But when I was done, i had three-plus cord stacked and drying all for $100 bucks.

Nothing beats the forest permits tho. A lot of work, but the price is worth it.

You’re right. I have no idea about that. How would I?

Last time I bought a cord of wood, split, ready for the fire, and delivered, i think it was in the ballpark of $300 USD. But that was a long while ago in the pacific northwest.

Seriously, I do my best to live by Stasi rules when it comes to my political opinions: Never say it in public, never say it over technology, never say it to a group of people, and never write it down.

Pellets are a scam, man. Wood fuel for a standard wood stove is all around us. In the states, I can pull a forest permit for like $40 and go harvest enough firewood for the winter. It requires effort and sweat equity, but all good things require that.

Somehow, they created pellets (made from sawdust – the byproduct/waste of the mill industry) and sold this generation on the convenience, but now a necessity for life is a commodity and they can fuck with the cost as much as they want. Eg temps drop to single digits so price of pellets go up equals maximum profits. It’s the bottled water equivalent of wood heating.

Ditch the pellet stove for wood stoves.

Plus it makes you look like a fucking douchebag tool. Fuck a tie.

Dude, it was him against Dr. Oz. At the time, anything was better than a celeb snake oil salesman who lives in New Jersey. I still think Fetterman is a better pick than Oz or McCormick, but I am disappointed by his voting record.

Maybe… I guess Id rather see a law that makes it illegal to stop someone from gathering or donating discarded food. I dont want a restaurant or grocery store to have to fuck around with record keeping and shit. I just want them to have to allow someone to do the right thing if it’s not going to be them doing the right thing.

Or puce?

The old kenwood car cd players had an “att” button that instantly dropped the volume to background noise. It was fucking awesome and I used it all the time. I want that button on everything that makes noise.

Did scientists learn that by watching giraffes?

deez are the days of our lives.

On the surface it seems like you’re being encouraging. Too bad i’ve skimmed a history book at least once in my life.

Oh fuck. We need that law in the states.

A good Xfiles episode is a lot like a good TOS episode – campy and fucking ridiculous, but man is it a good time.

Dont worry… Scully will reason/explain/pseudoscience it away with the voiceover at the end.

Yeah, but Dude, fuck automatic One Drive.

I mean, it’s just common sense.

“The Queen of the Harpies!”

“No i’m not!”

“Here’s your crown, my queen!”

I tend to think that – for myself for sure but probably most other people – after a decade plus on Reddit, you’ve likely said and posted enough stuff that somebody could follow the breadcrumbs back to you. Theyd have to really want to and it would take a lot of reading your posts, but it could probably be done. Anonymity doesn’t exist without a vpn, and even then you’re probably still identifiable. Don’t say, post or do anything on the internet that youre not willing to defend/pay for in real life.