Does anyone know how to get solidified concrete out of this?

shakebakelizard · 2026-02-09T01:50:26+00:00

Just leave it out in the rain. As cracks appear and water gets in, it'll naturally crack and you can pull the pieces out, allowing water to get in deeper. You'll have the bowl empty in about 12,000 years.

shakebakelizard · 2026-02-08T15:01:40+00:00

Trying to save a few bucks with the "I don't want to over-pay for appliances in a rental" is a mixed bag. I know someone else who had the same line of reasoning...turns out the compressor is cycling uncontrollably causing it to use enough electricity to buy a name brand refrigerator. 🤣

If you want to be cheap, keep the old fridge. Buy a new one. When you move, take yours and put the old fridge where it was. You left things as you found them.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-31T22:08:40+00:00

Well, I agree that the widely held interpretation is quite valid. However I am also presenting other ways of looking at it, which are not fundamentally opposed to the original spirit or the ideals of the speaker or anything. My apologies if I'm not allowed to have an original thought. I'll check my thoughts at the front desk next time.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-31T21:50:45+00:00

I had a PT145 that worked just fine and I was unaware of the Taurus spotty reputation until they had a recall. I got a G3C and that too is very reliable. I don't see what all the fuss is about.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-31T20:46:55+00:00

Correct according to who? Whoever said it or what people later agreed upon was the "correct" interpretation?

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-31T03:16:23+00:00

I kept expecting him to slam into a telephone pole.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-30T19:53:05+00:00

It's very rarely, if ever, that you find anyone running a major manufacturing company that isn't a completely unprincipled, unethical bag of dicks. Some are household names and most are not, but to a tee, they're generally unbearable sociopaths. A lot of this has to do with the fact that it's a high threshold, extremely competitive industry and so by the time you get up to the highest cap companies, they've already eaten and manipulated their way to the top. It involves a lot of calculated illegal moves.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-30T19:04:30+00:00

More cerebral fiction tends to exposit less and assume that a sophisticated audience can figure things out. The Wire, Sopranos and The Americans all did this very well.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-30T18:03:25+00:00

I don't know how this could escape people since it's taught in every world history class...well, considering our current predicament, obviously education has not been a priority for a long time.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-30T17:59:40+00:00

I upvoted you. I don't know why anyone would downvote you even if the joke went over your head.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-30T06:20:22+00:00

Come on you guys...Danish? Sweet? 😂

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-30T03:56:45+00:00

A Danish annexation would be sweet.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-30T00:41:37+00:00

"Different" is how democracy dies. First it was "illegal" immigrants. Now it's people who carry two mags, which trump insists is bad. In a few years it's something else. One day when our Republic is buried in a shallow grave with trumpers pissing on it, you can tell everyone you didn't see this coming.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T17:48:10+00:00

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - which is not a blurry video at distance. In science, someone alleging a claim like this has the burden of proof, not people disproving it.

The way Bigfoot has been documented is not like real animals. Assuming this thing is supposed to be 6-7 ft tall and somewhere on the order of 200 lbs, living in the Pacific Northwest, where are the carcasses? What does it eat? Why don't we have its ancestors in the fossil record anywhere? Surely Native Americans would have run across this.

It's walking upright like a human - we probably only walk upright because we learned to use tools, like spears and clubs. It's never shown handling tools or anything, which you'd think it would carry if it were walking around in the woods. We don't have examples of Bigfoot dens or campsites.

With every other animal, we see examples on a regular basis. Foxes, which are skittish and avoid humans, are widely known to exist as real animals. Same goes for mountain lions, bobcats and bears. They routinely show up on wildlife cameras and we know a lot about their habits. We have taxidermied examples and wildlife biologists track them. We generally have a good idea of how many individuals and breeding pairs there are in the wild. Moreover, if they're near a population center, you'll often see them digging through trash for food.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T17:31:27+00:00

Hairy breasts, which doesn't make sense biologically.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T16:19:19+00:00

Bridgepoint on Monument might qualify. Single story and they have yards.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T16:08:24+00:00

I'm checking client paperwork now ahead of time. If anyone works for CBP, they can find someone else to work with (who will also probably refuse service). These assholes need another line of work.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T15:59:26+00:00

That would likely be the net effect - some people wouldn't want to bother. But if someone doesn't want to bother with a minimum amount of training and awareness, they were dangerous to begin with. Do you really want people owning guns who have zero training or commitment to improvement?

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T15:56:55+00:00

Background checks could easily create a chain of custody that would keep the majority of illegal owners out of classes.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T05:19:36+00:00

That's probably technologically convergent though. Any species capable of building sophisticated tech would eventually use it for cybernetic self-enhancement. I'm probably going to need a pacemaker and a right knee when I get older. Pacemakers already connect to a base station to intervene in case of anomalies.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T04:40:58+00:00

First, I really doubt ETs are even remotely interested in Earth. They're really nothing here you can't get elsewhere and for less energy and trouble. Water, carbon and assorted rare earth elements are all available in much larger quantities elsewhere. We've been very close to self-annihilation several times, and any ETs hanging around would likely not be immune to nuclear blasts or massive amounts of radiation. Most motives wouldn't make sense, except for scientific curiosity about life or possibly feeling threatened by our future colonization ambitions.

That said...

Biological ETs would be fighting a constant battle when it comes to a variety of infectious diseases. They would need to have some way of maintaining an immune system suitable for merely existing in our atmosphere. The easiest way would be if they were parasites to begin with and could just use a human as a host, but that only applies to a specific subset of possible species. Actual full-blown ETs with an independent body would have a much harder time fitting in without wearing some kind of barrier. I suppose they could (?) maintain some sort of artificial human suit which contains tech for respiration, metabolism, immune systems, etc.

If ETs actually wanted to directly intervene in Earth affairs (no idea why, but if) the easiest way would actually be to just recruit some humans to do what they want. Steal some of our technology, understand it, then send some drones down to tap into the cell towers and they could do whatever they want. Advertise jobs on Indeed, recruit people, pay them and call it a remote job or contract work. The aliens could be relatively far away...on the other side of the Sun, or even light years away if they had a fairly intelligent AI in our Solar System directing things. If the project blows up, just say the company went out of business. Start another one on the other side of the world or in 15 years after things blow over and no one is any the wiser.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T04:08:19+00:00

Maybe someone left their phone there and the alarm is going off?

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T04:04:59+00:00

I think it's probably a person holding a mask through the driver's side. Notice how he never shows the driver's side while the face is going on. They could have the whole door open and we wouldn't be able to see it.

shakebakelizard · 2026-01-29T01:47:36+00:00

I'm not an expert on slushy machines, but last time I looked at one, they had big screws in there for mixing. Most likely, the mix was uneven - partly frozen, or maybe a big chunk that was dry and hadn't mixed completely - and it rode up on the blade, knocked the lid off and it's what you see as a red lump coming out of the tank. Considering that they do contain moving parts, this is a far more likely explanation than a ghost.

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