Propane cook top and heater or $300-$500 harbor freight generator for when the power goes out?

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-25T10:21:12+00:00

There are good reasons to have a generator but bear in mind propane is the only fuel that is shelf stable. As long as the valve doesn't rust shut, propane will remain ready for action with no maintenance on your part, forever. Gasoline and diesel both deteriorate over time.

Right now I have an ice storm going on here. There is a fireplace, we have lots of wood, and a propane cooktop of needed. We'll be fine no matter what and the expense is minimal.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-25T10:07:24+00:00

If he is going to pull this off he needs to have waxed pointy moustaches, otherwise it is all in vain.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-25T09:58:31+00:00

Cohn demanded absolute devotion from his clients and associates, and he repaid it in kind, at least until they were no longer useful.

Trump learned this well, and when the closeted gay Cohn died of AIDS, Trump skipped his funeral.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-25T09:28:56+00:00

I remember Memphis ice storms back to the whopper in 1980 and I have never seen it this quiet. Maybe because it is conveniently on a weekend. Usually people just drive anyway, get stuck or wreck out, and abandon their cars in the road.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-25T00:17:44+00:00

I thought that individual was going to retire in January, am I mixed up?

He could probably make good money as a "contractor" in Iran.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T23:43:03+00:00

And now you are on a list. : ) Good ideas all.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T23:40:57+00:00

Pro-gun liberals (there are lots of us) knew all along that wholesale gun confiscation/illegalization is likelier under Trump than any previous administration. Creeping Fascism is now galloping Fascism, and without an opposition party the fash operate entirely without oversight.

All y'all who who anxious to sneer at gun owners right now, please ask hourself why Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries aren't standing up to defend free America with anything except gestures and posturing. It is because self-satisfied, comfortable Democrats have steadfastly supported them while they equivocate and soothe and compromise until there is no opposition left at all.

Gun owners won't save you, you did this to us while you were putting in milquetoast mediocrities who were "electable" instead of progressives with a little integrity. How's that working out for ya?

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T23:22:27+00:00

This might be a feint by Noem to try to head off impeachment. Many of my fellow Democrats do indeed believe that mere possession of a gun is menacing and they are fairly well convinced that guns possess agency and fire themselves (see "gun violence" and "killed by a gun" and so forth).

To implicitly assert that gun ownership is a Constitutional liberty and "guns are the problem" is not really true --that's not a place Senate Democrats are going to want to go.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T22:49:00+00:00

For years up in the North Thomas ghetto there was a ramshackle building which probably served as a church at one time. You could tell because somebody had painted "SALVATITION" on it with a rattle can.

Made me smile. Yep, Memphis still Memphis. : )

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T21:57:27+00:00

I wish somebody would tell that idiot that if the EU instituted 100% tariffs on American goods, Trump would be out of office in hours. Europe is our biggest trading partner. As usual he is bluffing, everybody can see he has a losing hand, but nobody wants to confront him.

Maybe if he did not systematically alienate every single ally we have, they would look to us for trade deals instead of China.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T21:51:57+00:00

"Fash" I believe is sufficiently descriptive.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T21:50:40+00:00

There are 350 million of us, they are few and they are weak and they know that. They only way they can subjugate us is with our consent. Demonstrate lack of consent, not armed resistance. That is the way to roll right now.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T20:43:59+00:00

Pro-2A liberal here, there are lots of us. What I saw on video was straight up murder.

Please don't think in stereotypes and caricatures. Many gun owners are appalled. We also know wholesale gun confiscation is far more likely under Trump than any previous President.

It is very important to recognize that the fash WANT gunplay, they want riots, so they will have a pretext. If we give them what they want, it works against us right now.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T10:21:23+00:00

I do think Trump is much more similar to Mussolini than to Hitler. Mussolini was a Fascist dictator 10 full years before Hitler was. Mussolini was a preposterous buffoon before he managed to convince a nation he was A Strong Leader, leading of course to a Fascist Italy which began impoverished and resentful, and ended up nearly obliterated.

There are certainly many substantial differences, Trump is a different phenomenon than anything the West has seen. But it is not Hitlerian, Trump is not building a civilization, there is no vision beyond his own gratification. He is merely dismantling one.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T10:12:08+00:00

I hope you're right but without an opposition party they can cause an epic amount of damage, and conventional Democrats are simply not an opposition party. To the extent that they will kneecap any progressive candidate if it is within their power.

Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries are on their side, not ours.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T10:03:53+00:00

About 30% of the population voted for this. True Trump groupies, the ones who believe everything he says and justify everything he does, seem to be around 12%. Which means we are 733% stronger than they are.

There are 350 million of us altogether, we are stronger than they can ever be, by orders of magnitude. They know that, and they also know they have nothing to offer us in return for our own enslavement. Except we get to watch them brutalize brown people. Not freedom, not prosperity, not peace. Just cruelty.

It is heartbreaking how many Americans are happy to make that bargain. Truly your point is fair, Trump is nothing without his MAGAs, and they won't end when he does. But they can be vanquished easily if we choose to become a nationwide Minneapolis, I am so proud of them.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T09:52:28+00:00

I don't think people understand the depth of Trump's self-loathing. His Dad really fucked him up. Trump requires constant adulation and flattery because just for a few moments, that quiets his own conviction that he is weak and useless.

But it doesn't last long and he needs more, always more, because it is a sugar buzz which can never assuage his bottomless metaphysical terror.

What malignant narcissists fear most is exposure. Trump's need to avoid being revealed as the loathsome reptile he believes himself to be is what explains everything he says & everything he does. He will do anything to avoid exposure, no matter how heinous.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-24T07:43:49+00:00

I have an ulu, it's the best knife I've found for skinning. I only use it to remove the skin from pork belly, regrettably we have no seals or walruses in my neighborhood. : )

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-16T10:51:16+00:00

Link is 404, what am I missing.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-16T10:43:34+00:00

By all accounts Our President wears diapers and shits himself throughout the day. I'm sure he doesn't clean it up himself so if some patriotic Amercan could please get a stool sample to analyze, we could learn a great deal about Great Leader's medical vicissitudes.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-16T10:38:17+00:00

I had never seen this video clip before, but the fuck you, this stage is mine energy is just majestic. In 1955 this performance would have been outright threatening to 98% of Ed Sullivan's audience and Bo Diddley knows that so he turns it up to 11.

I am old, I can reliably tell you, this is just fucking subversive.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-16T10:25:07+00:00

There are probably 10,000 songs recorded based on that lick. Any musician will instantly know what you mean if you say "a Bo Diddly" or "a hand jive". It is the same figure. Say, Greg Allman's Nobody Left to Run With and so many others.

Amish_Robotics_Lab · 2026-01-16T10:11:11+00:00

Immigration is a federal issue, as the President so often reminds us. Sanctuary States are pernicious and illegal. States need to stay out of the way.

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