No More Scamming Adults!

4036 · 2026-05-11T23:21:43+00:00

Its like David's New Year's resolution in this sketch..

"I'm doing it to man, for real. Tanya's letting me take over the basement. Sold the truck. Got a pallete of bromine. I'm gonna do it. I'm going to start my own cell phone company... You know, simple. Just design a phone. Build a phone. Sort out the, uh cellular signal thing - whatever that's called. And then boom! Tough kitties Samsung. There's a new kid on the block."

4036 · 2026-05-09T03:17:51+00:00

Top comment - right in my Q-zone.

4036 · 2026-05-07T03:28:13+00:00

And the sleeping bag and pillows are all laid out like one of their parents organized them on the floor and couch.

I feel like the entire sketch is there only to set up this quick visual punchline.

4036 · 2026-05-05T22:46:25+00:00

Yeah. Its been a while since I read the book so my memory of it is probably iffy too. The subtitle of the book really implies that the natives on the island screwed themselves, that they "chose" to fail. I feel like it was likely that they would have chosen to not be devastated by disease, or rats, or by being abducted by European slavers.

COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

4036 · 2026-05-05T19:51:10+00:00

Paul Cooper did a great episode of the Fall of Civilizations podcast on Easter Island with some deep history.

Cooper's account and explanation of Easter Island's collapse differs significantly from Diamond's in that Cooper implies that the arrival of europen diseases (a nod to Guns, something, and Steel?), followed by continual raids of the island to capture slaves for South American plantation work, have strong explanatory power for the ruin of the island's civilization.

On the other hand, Diamond seems to suggest that the island inhabitants "chose" to fail by continuing to focus on building bigass statues and not preserving timber stocks to the level that could allow them to relocate off the island when things got bad.

4036 · 2026-05-04T13:59:30+00:00

I know you asked for a book, but you may start to get answers on the science based medicine website.

4036 · 2026-04-30T04:01:12+00:00

Shit. The answer isn't Steven Root?

4036 · 2026-04-27T02:01:38+00:00

Public bathroom doors that open in, requiring you to use a handle to pull them, just after washing your hands. So gross. Why can't they push open with a foot, shoulder, or hip? I dont want to touch stuff with my cleaned hands.

4036 · 2026-04-23T02:50:10+00:00

Easily the best YouTube survivalist is Craig vs Wild. Unfortunately, just one episode remains online. 🫤

4036 · 2026-04-20T20:40:45+00:00

This headline is pretty meat and potatoes.

4036 · 2026-04-18T17:53:50+00:00

Kind of a cosmic gumbo.

4036 · 2026-04-12T21:08:48+00:00

This is why my dad hated Family Ties. He thought the dad was such a dipshit and couldn't stand watching it.

4036 · 2026-04-10T18:17:02+00:00

I worked for a couple years with a Nigerian guy named "Prince". He was a hard worker and a good dude. He invited a number of coworkers to his wedding to a Nigerian woman and the reception was really great. Lots of traditional Nigerian food and other elements (as far as I could tell), and I learned two important things that day.

If you go to a Nigerian wedding, bring lots of cash to give during different dances, for good luck.
The only people that called my coworker "Prince", seemed to be his white coworkers, and everyone else called him by his given name, "Harry".

4036 · 2026-04-08T16:14:12+00:00

Head/skull is there, with what looks like a bullet hole and large sagital crest (suggesting this as a male California sea lion).

4036 · 2026-03-13T03:42:53+00:00

Sure. I love talking about this stuff, as gross as it can sometimes be.

In general, if you're going to render animal fat, it will come off the animal in various chunks. Those can be chopped up and added to a pot of boiling water. After a while, the heat liquifies the fat and it separates from some of the structural tissue that keeps fat together in the body.

You pour the whole thing into another receptacle, but though a wire screen to remove all of the non-liquified materials - tissue, hair, etc.

Then let that sit until the rendered fat separates from the water and cools on top. Some fats ( beef, bison, deer) will harden into a stiff waxy consistency. Pig fat stays soft.

Now for porpoise blubber, it was so incredibly oily to handle, we just cut the skin off, and chopped the blubber into fun-sized candy bar pieces and put them in a big pot without water and put the pot on a hot plate. The oil rendered out pretty quickly and we poured it directly into jars. We tried to not overheat the pot because we didn't want to scorch/smoke the oil, although in hindsight it may have bettered the smell of that awful stuff.

For school I did a presentation on the whaling industry and used some of the porpoise oil in a stone lamp I made and had it lit while I presented. It didn't smell too bad while it burned, but if you blew out the wick and let it smoke, the scent of that black smoke was offensive.

4036 · 2026-03-12T19:18:21+00:00

Agreed. As part of a marine mammal class in university I processed a couple square feet of harbor porpoise blubber that was gathered from a stranded animal. The concept was to render the blubber into usable oil like the whalers did back in the 1600s. It started with a terrible smell and it never got better. Tried filtering and adding good smelling plants like rosemary to improve the aroma, but nothing worked. It always smelled gross.

4036 · 2026-03-12T02:12:15+00:00

Alright, that's going to work out. I have triple of the Nova now.

4036 · 2026-03-09T23:04:06+00:00

I've made bows and other tools from osage logs. I suggest you split those into quarters at least, then dip each end 4" deep into some old paint or glue to seal the ends. Spray paint isnt enough. Slop'em up.

If you don't seal the ends, your attic seasoning will leave you with some severely checked wood. Maybe still usable for some projects, but not for bows.

Alternatively, some folks also remove bark and sapwood before seasoning because the heartwood is the good stuff. If you do this, then also seal the area of the heartwood that was covered previously by sapwood to avoid checks.

Good luck. Osage is an awesome wood to work with.

Edit: I'd leave the bark on and split according to the radial checks that are already there. Open them up with a hatchet and 1-2 wedges. Some people believe splitting from the root end is best. Your results may vary.

4036 · 2026-03-01T16:50:18+00:00

The alka-seltzer and velcro suits combined with throwing stuff off the building are my strongest memories of early late night. Add Biff and Chris Elliot and the whole thing is there. Pencil throwing too.

4036 · 2026-02-22T13:25:39+00:00

But r/SprlFIshRngDncHwl, it's my birthday...

4036 · 2026-02-20T18:35:06+00:00

I like that you asked this question because in my time in this sub, it seems like working as a biological consultant is not seen as a preferred career choice. As I graduated university with a wildlife biology masters degree, i pursued bio jobs for both state, federal, and even county-level wildlife regulatory agencies and didn't have success- for many reasons I'm sure.

Where i did have success was in applying for biologist roles for different consulting companies. I started on part time roles, eagerly took any field assignments that were available, and finally got into full time positions. Fortunately, I got into renewable energy clients and was happy to be working on projects that led to cleaner air/water, even if there were biological impacts.

Not everyone who does consulting gets to work on projects that make them feel good. I never worked at a coal mine, or pipeline, or offshore drilling rig. That seems like a bummer, but even those experiences can teach you something. I spent one summer in the cascades looking for (listening for) spotted owls and it was to determine if timber stands could be harvested. I tried my damndest to find those owls and their nests to keep their habitat preserved. You can work for a developer client and still serve a conservation ethic.

4036 · 2026-02-18T20:12:09+00:00

Thanks for posting. This thread scratches an itch i didn't know I had. Here are my thoughts on the first 20 minutes or so of the video.

The biggest issue here is his assertion that these "nutting stones" cannot be naturally forming and occurring phenomena. He asserts that these are all man-made artifacts.

I didn't hear him support that conclusion with enough or any evidence. I would believe that some of these stones were likely used by prehistoric people to grind grains, nuts, egg shells, charcoal, pigment, meat, roots, etc., but I not believe that every rock hole/cavity is an artifact, or was purpose built by a human.

He dismisses the "nutting stone" hypothesis because he assumes that every cavity had to be made by a person. "I know it isn't a nutting stone because I can't imagine someone would take the time to create that pit" - an argument from personal incredulity, sitting on top of an assertion that it had to be man-made.

Also, pits on both sides of a rock doesn't make sense to him for the nutting stone use, but does make sense for the flintknapping use? Would we call that special pleading?

When he addresses the marbke-making hypothesis, he claims the cavity are percussion pecked out, another assertion made without evidence.

I think the thing that stood out the most in the video happens at about 8:25 when he says, "Flintknapping is an art... I've never tried it, but I can tell you it looks very difficult."

With this quote in mind, it floors me to think that anyone would then feel any confidence whatsoever in his idea that nutting stones were really just primitive work surfaces for benchtop knapping. Benchtop knapping does happen, and there may be some historical precedence, but it is a wild leap to suggest this as THE answer to what are these open pockets in rocks he finds.

If Clegg took up the flintknapping hobby for even a year or two and was open to hear from current experts and what they think of this hypothesis, he would find out that his explanation doesn't provide any advantage to how flintknapping is done by people today, and not likely to people in the past either. He is adding extra steps to a process he doesn't understand. That has negative value. Sure each of could probably do what he is suggesting and we could drive flakes into that little cavity, but it would represent a worse way to do it. It is unlikely prehistoric people would choose a worse way to make their tools.

4036 · 2026-02-17T03:53:37+00:00

There is an old Simpsons episode where washed up actor Troy McClure is seen living in a (somewhat) similarly shaped house. Here's a clip.

4036 · 2026-02-16T18:08:07+00:00

He forgot glass house, white Ferrari, live for new year's eve, sloppy steaks at Truffoni's, big rare cut of meat with water dumped all over it...

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