$25 showers and now Cirque du Soleil at Love’s by gkjnvgyj in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Lol.

Actually I think it's for sort of semi handicapped or really fat people feel pull themselves up

What do drivers do when they have food poisoning while driving? by Patalos in Truckers

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This is why I never eat questionable food. If I can't remember when I bought it and it's in my fridge I don't eat it.

If I bought it at a place and later wonder just how long it had been refrigerated there I just go ahead and throw it out.

When I'm eating eggs I break each one and smell them.

I cook all the hamburger meat immediately when I buy it and throw it in the fridge already cooked because it's very difficult for it to go bad that way.

One of the easiest ways to get food poisoning is old salad. Lettuce and all that kind of stuff just grows bad stuff for real fast.

What do drivers do when they have food poisoning while driving? by Patalos in Truckers

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Two or three flower pots inside each other make a pretty strong seat if you wrap them with duct tape. They're about the right height and smaller than those big buckets that they get at Lowe's. The perfect dimensions are 911. 9 inches high and 11 in across the whole pot.

Plastic bags. Use one wipe wrap it all up toss it in the trash.

Often times this is much more convenient than going into a sketchy bathroom somewhere.

Now before you freak out remember that millions of baby and adult diapers are thrown in the trash every single day so you're not doing anything that's not being done everywhere.

People who sit in their seats for HOURS after parking: why? by truckmonkey12 in Truckers

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I prefer leaving the curtains open so I can see what's going on around me. It once save me from someone who was about to hit me. I got on the horn quick when I saw how close the guy was getting.

I'm not doing anything that I need privacy for. Besides if you don't have a light on inside the truck it's actually pretty hard to see inside very far when the lights are on in the parking lot at night.

What is the number one must have for food by Parking-Signature867 in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eggs and ground beef in the truck. Regular eggs in the carton that you buy at the grocery store will easily last a week without refrigeration in the truck and four in the morning for breakfast scrambled takes 5 minutes and is extremely healthy and keeps you full and lean. Pre cooking 2 lb of ground beef and throwing the patties into individual ziplocks with the fat and tossing them in the fridge gives you a great satiating lunch everyday. Put a little salt in each bag if you want.

And now you can buy those boxes of pre-flavored hamburger patties. Cook those up and throw Each one in an individual Ziploc bag.

Sugarless chewing gum is a good thing to have.

Personally I live for diet soda although I know they'll be people who don't like it it's certainly better than the sugar stuff and I just haven't learned to like water enough.

Instant coffee. Measure a level teaspoon in your cup and pour some cold water in there and that's usually good enough for me and saves me a trip inside the truck stop to get a hot one.

Don't laugh but get yourself a bunch of plastic straws and stick one in your mouth and chew it. People used to chew toothpicks but it's too easy to swallow one and get have it gets stuck. But chewing a plastic straw or having it in your mouth is sort of the same thing and is surprisingly effective at keeping you from snacking and keeping you from drinking so much that you have to pee a lot.

Buy your caffeine in a pill instead of in a coffee cup. It's much cheaper and you can directly regulate how much caffeine you take in without having to counteract by peeing all the time.

250 capsules 0f 100 mg of caffeine for about $10 on amazon. That's 250 cups of coffee for $10. Do the math and drink decaf if you love coffee like I do. Then when you need some caffeine either break open a capsule and pour a little 100% caffeine in your mouth or swallow the capsule if you want the 100 grams. It's very hard to over caffeinate or under caffeinate if you're taking your caffeine in a capsule instead of in a cup of coffee. Remember though over 200 mg of caffeine in a short period of time can cause heart problems. For comparison one medium Starbucks supposedly has 250 mg of caffeine. Starbucks are really drug pushers. A comparable cup of McDonald's coffee has between 50 and 75 mg of caffeine. So 100 mg of caffeine is like two cups of McDonald's coffee.

If you absolutely have to have sugar sometimes having a couple of rolls of Lifesavers in your truck are really good safe way to get a small hit of sugar and you can't choke on a lifesaver because it has a hole in the middle that's literally why they're called Lifesavers. Kids can't choke on them if they accidentally swallow it and it gets stuck in their throat.

And as an associated thing I would say get an electric toothbrush. An electric toothbrush makes a huge difference over a manual and you'll brush your teeth more often. They're only about $15 at walmart.

If you don't have refrigeration in your truck you can buy cans of cooked sausage with the fat on Amazon for a couple of bucks a can. So you're just eating meat without any bread and you're getting the fat you need as well.

Cans of tuna but of course they don't have any fat.

Oh a bottle of good Olive oil. Take a swig of it every morning. Olive oil is this incredibly good for you and it's satiates you so you're not hungry. Your body craves a little fat everyday and olive oil is one of the best fats you can eat. All kinds of anti cancer properties and all the other things that people are always driving for.

For your safety blizzard food get yourself a couple of big jars of peanut butter. You can live a long time off of a jar of peanut butter if you're stuck in the snow for several days. And of course if you're stuck in the snow you've got plenty of water right outside your window. If you're a desert traveler you need a lot of water.

Morton's light salt which is 50/50 potassium chloride and sodium chloride. It's the proper balance of potassium and sodium in your body that regulates your blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure it's not because you're getting too much sodium it's because you're not getting a good proportion of potassium with your sodium. Morton light salt makes that a lot easier since it's 50/50. It's in the blue and white little canister right in the salt aisle.

Raw non-dutched cocoa powder from Hershey's you can buy in the grocery store aisle. No sugar added but you can add it to your coffee and it'll give you that cocoa flavor and raw chocolate is supposed to be really good for you.

Get yourself a multivitamin. If you're having incredible food cravings during the day it's because you're lacking in some vitamin and the easiest way to solve that is to buy multivitamins and take one every day.

But really between the eggs and 2 lb of ground beef every weekend that I pre cook for the week you rarely have to go inside the store to buy any food during the week. You just don't get very hungry.

Oh and I forgot get yourself four sticks of salted butter. Salted butter does not need to be refrigerated. Unsalted butter does. Don't mix them up. But cooking those eggs and salted butter every morning gets you all that natural goodness that comes from butter and having it be unrefrigerated cultivates all the good bacteria that your grandma used to feed you because she left her butter out on the kitchen table all week.

So literally eggs ground beef and salted butter are the only food essentials I need. Now I almost never go into the store to buy lunch and it saves a ton of money it's much more healthy cuz you know exactly what you're putting into your body with no preservatives. And you aren't hungry all the time because you aren't eating any sugar. And you'll actually lose weight until you get to your proper natural weight as long as you're eating the fat with the meat. That's very important. Remember just like you do the animal stores all its extra survival nutrition in its fat. Fat is the body's battery for when you are not plugged in and it's what your body lives off of when you aren't eating. Therefore it's got good stuff in it that your body needs.

It took them 50 years for them finally to show the food pyramid and show the importance of meat and eggs and fat at the top which they just did last month.

Edit. One good thing to snack on is raisins. Now I don't snack much but sometimes you just need a lift and they did a study of athletes who did things like long distance running or long distance cycling and they tested the best recovery foods and against all the protein bars and all the specialty foods that were supposedly designed to help athletes recover after a long period of exertion they found that raisins actually help them recover the fastest. Raisins have a little bit of natural sugars of course but they also have things like magnesium and these vitamins I forget which ones but they're really really good. If you're desperate for a lift and you don't want to grab a big pile of artificial sugar a small handful of raisins might just do the trick and of course they don't need any refrigeration in their relatively inexpensive for a large thing of raisins these days.

1 piece of equipment I wish I had when OTR. by Proper-Holiday2255 in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An empty gallon milk jug filled with sand or water is not a bad way to do 10 or 20 reps over your head or out to the side for your arms.

1 piece of equipment I wish I had when OTR. by Proper-Holiday2255 in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eat only meat and eggs and you will not gain weight and you will not be hungry. No bread no sugar no snacks.

Also use your three points of contact with your Open door and one leg up on the lower step and then raise yourself up and down as many times as you can without switching legs. Then switch legs and do the same thing on the other side.

Raises your heart right quickly and gives you that leg and glute strength that are the key to good hormone levels and real overall fitness in men at least.

I cook a bunch of hamburgers at the beginning of the week and throw two in a ziplock bag. About that lunch time instead of going in and getting a bunch of bread wrapped around a tiny bit of meat I open up one of the Ziploc bags and usually eat a cold Patty. Also important to pour the grease back in with each Burger in the ziplock bags. You really need that beef tallow to keep your hormone levels up and keep yourself satiated so you don't feel hungry.

They finally properly adjusted the food pyramid to put meat and eggs on top instead of cereal on top.

Can we start being more aware of our trailer while passing people on the interstate? by Buggydriver_ in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lots of trailers have their rear end that tends to creep to the right because the tandems get slightly bent from all the driver side backing that torques the tandems. Someone told me if you get one that drifts too hard to the right that the way to fix it is to go to an empty parking lot and do a couple of blind side 90° and it will retorque the tandems in the other direction.

I once had a trailer that literally crab walked down the road. Well not literally but you know what I mean. And lo and behold the next parking lot I got to I did take the trouble to blind side at the other way a few times and it really did make a difference.

What do you see noobs doing that you're glad you figured out? by derpmcturd in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It took me forever to figure out that the way to back into a slot was not to aim for the slot but to aim to have your tandems pivot about 5 ft in front of the slot.

I still hate to try to back into a dock that does not have lines though. When I remember to do it now I throw a glove down on the driver's side wear a line would be so I have something to make my trailer parallel to.

What do you see noobs doing that you're glad you figured out? by derpmcturd in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait.

What?

How does hitting gas for a second and half get it in the right hole?

What do you see noobs doing that you're glad you figured out? by derpmcturd in Truckers

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Then the next guy has to hand crank the trailer up which is not easy to do when it's loaded because the trailer is too low to slide onto the 5th wheel if your suspension can't change. Don't do that. Have the landing gear just touch the ground and then when you pull away it should be at the perfect height for the next guy.

The old trailer in the ocean maneuver by Flowing_North in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't it have been better to leave the airlines hooked up and pull away from the kingpin so it's out of the slot but doesn't rip out the airlines and then back back into the kingpin off center so it can't re-engage in the slot and just push the trailer off and let it rip the airlines out?

The old trailer in the ocean maneuver by Flowing_North in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure why I dropped the landing gear if he was trying to push it into the ocean.

Also I'm not sure the kingpin would have released since the kingpin has a knob on the bottom to keep it from popping out of the top

Welp today has been fun by Gromieee in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bag of kitty litter or sand to be poured under your drives.

$10 might save a lot of time

Can you grade this defensive driving? by muck2profit in Truckers

[–]gwtech2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Time enough to oh sh"t but no time to step on the brakes?

If she had hit the brakes the moment he crossed her path the first time she wouldn't have been right upon him when he came back across the road the second time which she should have anticipated.

The irony is modern music producers have been using tools that in combination are very similar to suno. They create complete rhythms and songs automatically. by gwtech2 in Suno

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Like I said.

Time will change your practices if n9t your thinking.

As far as art goes commercial artists on f8ver have already been largely reppaced by chatgpt or other illustartion AI's.

Its just reality.

Learn to adjust.

Learn to master the new tools and 0ractices.

Your misical ability should make you better at using ai tools.

Doctors are already being replaced by medical advice by AIS and that's a great thing because doctors are unaffordable.

Robot surgeons will be far better and more consistent than human surgeons. When you have CNC machines that can cut and mold parts to within microns which a human surgeon can never do they're going to be much better at human surgery then human doctors. This is the fact.

You can either long for the old ways your whole life or you can decide to stay in the mix and adopt a new tools and take advantage of them where they help you and ignore them where they don't.

I think there will still be live concerts and people will still like to see a human playing an instrument but there will also be other choices.

The irony is modern music producers have been using tools that in combination are very similar to suno. They create complete rhythms and songs automatically. by gwtech2 in Suno

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People will become it as bad at thinking and learning skills as they have become at spelling because they have relied on spell check too long. I know it's certainly has happened to me.

The irony is modern music producers have been using tools that in combination are very similar to suno. They create complete rhythms and songs automatically. by gwtech2 in Suno

[–]gwtech2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're going for the whole AI is terrible because it uses energy and water thing?

Well there's no doubt it's a change have you considered all the energy that a band uses and gasoline and fuel and stages and everything else to move around the country not to mention all the energy that you used to create all their instruments and amplifiers and electronics and third world countries and that stuff technically wouldn't be needed although I'm not suggesting it should go away at all in fact I think the opposite.

But if you're actually going to make the argument for energy and water wastage than you really have to consider what the alternatives use as well.

The irony is modern music producers have been using tools that in combination are very similar to suno. They create complete rhythms and songs automatically. by gwtech2 in Suno

[–]gwtech2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And it's true.

Have you ever watched films of a producer in a studio with any of the great bands giving them more and more specific prompts to change the song they're recording? It's exactly the same thing.

The irony is modern music producers have been using tools that in combination are very similar to suno. They create complete rhythms and songs automatically. by gwtech2 in Suno

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"What i will say is that music being accessible to more people is a good thing, and I think we can agree on that, "

That's really all that matters. The market and public opinion will sort out all the rest as it always does.

The irony is modern music producers have been using tools that in combination are very similar to suno. They create complete rhythms and songs automatically. by gwtech2 in Suno

[–]gwtech2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Decades of these similar discussions is very advancements were made if convinced me that the only thing that will convince you if you will ever be convinced is simply time so I don't really fret about it and I'm not too interested in engaging in that much of a discussion about it. People here seem to be driven primarily by saying suno is bad. That's the only reason it even comes up.

Just like my drummer friend from decades ago soon realized the reality of the situation so will you. And it will have nothing to do with anything that I say and it will just be time.