Kurt

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a good question, Rotting Cum. The only crimes I'm planning on right now are saving some money doing diy maintenance on the family car while finding an interesting little project for myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh man, how do I account for anti-seize lube?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thank you, I hadn't considered that style. All the YouTube videos use the mechanical click type, but you've got me thinking that the simpler beam style might be better for my situation.

 

cross-posted from: https://jorts.horse/users/fathermcgruder/statuses/110789232582943740

What's a good torque wrench to get?

I want to replace the spark plugs in my car and I'm apparently going to have to torque them to 30Nm. #diy #tools

@tools

 

cross-posted from: https://jorts.horse/users/fathermcgruder/statuses/110789232582943740

What's a good torque wrench to get?

I want to replace the spark plugs in my car and I'm apparently going to have to torque them to 30Nm. #diy #tools

@tools

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm running a Pixelfed instance off of an old PC in my house. Eventually I 'd like to set up a personal Lemmy instance as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Venus flytraps are great plants to keep, but they're not effective for pest control, especially against tiny gnats. The gnats you have are probably fungus gnats and your houseplants' soil is infested with their larvae. To get them under control you have to innoculate the soil with nematodes that eat the larvae. The particular brand I got on Amazon aren't available anymore, but the species was s. feltiae and they worked really well. There might be other good or better nematodes, but that's how you get rid of the gnats.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Where? I'm not a fan of her, but Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax proposal is just a way to capture some more revenue (to do the things I mentioned) on a more progressive basis. There aren't really any claims here about fixing inequality.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Take another shower. Taxes aren't used to fix inequality. They're used to fund infrastructure and services that we all need. They're also used sometimes to redistribute income, but the idea isn't to solve inequality. The idea is to get some income, in one form or another, to people who cannot or should not work, like the sick, children, the elderly, and anyone else excluded from the workforce. This non-working population needs income as much as the working population does and it doesn't make sense to force them to get it in inefficient and harmful ways. Taxation to solve inequality is a myth that isn't happening.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is great!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol I had that one on cassette.

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[OC] Hey. (pixelfed.crimedad.work)
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[OC] Hey. (pixelfed.crimedad.work)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

AntennaPod is pretty great. Apparently it's compatible with a synchronizing service called gpodder, which I believe you can run yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Ugh I've never encountered a black widow, but I just felt that sentence.

 

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/586372528275207158

[OC] A little jumping spider.

I remember when I was trying to take this photo the spider jumped on the lens and I might have screamed.

#spider #jumpingspider #arachnid #macro #fediphoto365 #pixelfed365

@[email protected]

 

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/586372528275207158

[OC] A little jumping spider.

I remember when I was trying to take this photo the spider jumped on the lens and I might have screamed.

#spider #jumpingspider #arachnid #macro #fediphoto365 #pixelfed365

@[email protected]

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/974261

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/584798333443805438

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Macro shot of a honey bee crawling on the petal of a purple crocus. The bee is loaded with grains of pollen.

[OC] Honey bee on a crocus.
This shot is from the spring.
#bees #spring #crocus #pollen #pollinator #newjersey #macro #fediphoto365 #pixelfed365
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cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/584798333443805438

Alt text:

Macro shot of a honey bee crawling on the petal of a purple crocus. The bee is loaded with grains of pollen.

[OC] Honey bee on a crocus.
This shot is from the spring.
#bees #spring #crocus #pollen #pollinator #newjersey #macro #fediphoto365 #pixelfed365
@[email protected]

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Laphria thoracica (pixelfed.crimedad.work)
 

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/584538944785166417

A bumblebee mimicking robber fly, laphria thoracica slurping on the liquefied guts of an unfortunate honey or ground bee.

 

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/583823734820089872

A fawn waiting for its mother, curled up in a garden bed under a bush, behind a fence. You can see the mother out of focus in the background.

#deer #newjersey #fawn

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Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a symbolic move, because we all hate Meta? Or is the idea to just maintain a barrier (albeit a porous one) between us and the part of the Internet inhabited by our chuddy relatives?

(For my part, I'm working on setting up my own Lemmy and/or Pixelfed instance(s) and I do not currently intend to defederate.)

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