Tundras live: Dumb Dad Jokes, Incorrect Opinions, and Relationship Advice.

Happy Birthday! Another fellow Libra.
I turn 55 on Saturday. Also retired from the third act of my career 1.5 years ago. Glad to be the heck out of there. Worked my ass off to get to this point. And along the way, some risks paid off, some didn’t.

 

Nice, Happy Birthday.

 

I think it already has caught up to us. And we’re so embedded in it, we just think it’s normal. Half of Americans are pre-diabetic. Heart disease everywhere. There is a push to approve ozempic for 12 year olds. We are a nation of low-T, low-nutrient, sedentary people. Most developed nations outlaw the poisons our food is made of.

All of the incentives are wrong.

• Food industry is incentivized to make (not grow) food with hyperpalatable flavor. (And guess which companies that previously marketed a highly addictive product helped create these foods? If you guessed the tobacco industry, you’re onto something…)
• Medical/pharma industry is incentivized by vaccine schedules and prescribing drugs and billing insurance an obnoxious (and unknown to you) amount of money. Think “lifetime subscription”. It’s the Netflix revenue model applied to your human body. They are incentivized to making you feel better but also to leave you with the condition that requires you to keep paying them.

 

You guys are making me feel less old. Thank you.

 

Though I agree with much, THIS is a slippery slope. Look at other things they outlaw, or allow/promote.

 

My biggest concern beyond contaminated food is contaminated drinking water for many of us, due to farming. Most Midwest municipalities can’t handle the issues. We have farmland in Kansas that we lease, it breaks my heart to read about it.

 

The places I go to play detective on current events include:
The Guardian
The Independent
The NY Times

Minimal clutter, pop ups and all of that.

occasionally: AP and Propublica

I’m not on X, but maybe someday. I’m afraid I’ll shit-talk Elon and he’ll send a laser beam down into my bedroom. He’s probably already pissed about the Zima thing.

 

I live in VA, 30 miles S of DC. I’m on city water that’s “safe”. I installed 2 20” big blue filters. 1st is a sediment filter, 2nd is carbon filter, I change them every 6 months. This is what they look like with city water.

 

Yep..
That one slimeball, bankrolls The Guardian

 

I took @nobodyintexas advice and got mine last week

 

....and less experienced. ha

 

Oops, I forgot about that. BRB, going down to the basement to check my cameras and ammo supply; maybe change my tag, I didn’t think about that either.

 

Can't fix stupid. Most of our TP is made here and Canada. Doesn't even go thru ports. SMH

 

That's awesome!

 

Our Sam's was the same way Tuesday night and we heard Costco was worse. I went for my usual once a month run a week early because of well, people.

 

Well, port strike over with a tentative offer.

 

Slummerville will always be a little shady, no matter how much of a revival is underway.

 

Does it rhyme with schmordan schmeterson?

 

I’m looking around for a 9mm and I didn’t know what an SAS was. Flush sights, pretty interesting.

 

You think the panic would be less, after so many people went French with the bidet

 

Weird.. how does that work, integrated red dot?

 

I don’t know if I’m qualified to explain it well, but it’s more like you point towards the target and the dot illuminates when you are aligned. Not aligned, no dot. This article talks about it in depth. https://www.recoilweb.com/sig-sauer-p365-sas-review-162986.html?amp