cogitase

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[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve got a big pile of lumber I had milled that is almost finished drying. I’m buying up the remaining woodworking tools I need to process it into various items. The American made options are out of my price range.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 17 hours ago (9 children)

He can’t get elected again

He's going to start talking about a third term within a month of taking office. At first they're going to write it off as "jokes" and then he's going to push it to the supreme court.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago

There are lots of people out there who think that inflation means how much prices have risen in some recent period of their memory. If something that cost $3 in 2018 is now $6 and you tell them inflation is at 2%, they will be completely bewildered as to how this can be true. There are also tons of people who don’t understand why deflation is bad or undesirable. If you can’t tell who is lying to you because you have no idea how the economy works, you’re just going to choose the one you remember as being better.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I think most didn’t vote because they are apathetic, ill-informed morons with the attention span of a gnat. They don’t understand inflation, tariffs, deflation, international relations, trade, renewable energy, oil production, gas prices, vaccines, healthcare, or much of anything else. They also don’t care to learn about how anything works. It’s not like the last chapter of the history book on the United States is going to blame the pro-democracy candidate for not doing enough to appeal to a public that was too lazy to continue living in a democracy. They have access to more educational resources than any humans in history and they just ignore it.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

I feel like he should attempt to order that to see if anyone is willing to carry it out, for no other reason than to see if they're willing to do the same when Trump orders it.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Lumber is the main reason I miss my small 90s truck. Lumber delivery is $75 to $100 depending on which place you order from. That’s fine for big jobs but I often just need a few boards or a sheet of plywood. Places like Lowe’s have truck rentals but then you have to make two trips back and forth. If I do place a delivery order I have to buy lumber for multiple projects and buy in excess of what I need just to be sure I’ll have enough.

I also don’t have trash pickup here and loading trash into a truck bed is much nicer than putting it into the trunk with potential smell and leakage issues.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lead 204 is entirely primordial and the other isotopes found on earth would be found at roughly the same concentration were all of the lead on earth primordial. It's the excess ratios of the other isotopes of lead that can be attributed to radioactive decay. That is a substantial proportion of the lead on earth, but to say the "existence of lead" is proof of the age of the earth is entirely incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_lead

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 96 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Price tracking systems like Keepa and CamelCamelCamel wouldn't work if they started doing this. I can verify that, when I get alerts, the price on Amazon is the same as the alert price.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

Federal Reserve Economic Data shows debt:GDP holding at 120% since spiking during the pandemic.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

They should trade China all the cigars and rum they want for enough cheap solar and batteries to power the island.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The photo the DPRK released showed a fairly small drone with a triangular shape. It doesn’t look sufficiently large to fly all the way from the ROK to Pyongyang, drop some leaflets and return to the south, meaning they should have been able to recover the crashed drone. Also, if it were a civilian group, they usually take credit for the balloons they send and none have said anything about sending a drone to the north. It really seems like something might be going on internally and the DPRK is trying to blame whatever is happening on outside agitation.

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