To me the best satire is no exit. People are all like “uhh, what about critique of dialectical reason” and that’s fine I guess.

E: the thing I’m trying to say is that satire is best when he’s just making shit up for fun, not trying to be serious.

It would be cool to drive some kind of classic style Chinese sports car around a bunch of cities and country roads on vacation.

I’m not gonna watch it, but the first like 80 issues are killer. I didn’t like the ending.

The first step is to take it inside, even if that’s inside a shed.

Then you wanna either replace or soak the chain in something called “chain brite”.

Once the pedals spin and the chain transmits that spin to the rear wheel, see if the brakes work. If the cables are stuck you can drip some kind of penetrating oil into them to help get things moving again. Sometimes I give up and replace the cables.

Once you can make the bike go and stop, pump up the tires and see how it rides.

Theres a lot of similarities between boat and horse ownership. You need a truck, it’s all hidden costs, there’s a bunch of safety problems.

People don’t buy boats because it’s what beautiful middle class people do, they buy boats because you can’t fish in some places/get wasted on the lake without em.

I mean, you can rent from the marina, but go out five times a year two years in a row and it makes more sense to buy the boat yourself.

Freshwater boating makes more sense when you’re in the area the tva went around making reservoirs in. When you pass that turn off for blacktown lake (named for the community of color that they flooded to create it) ten times a week on the way to and from work there’s a real draw to that kind of leasure.

I have a steel johnboat with a trolling motor and a tiny sailboat that both fell into my lap for free when friends needed to make space. They’re a lot of upkeep but it’s also real nice to drink a beer while floating around. I run into people my own income level mostly. Every once in a while there’s rich jerks but it’s not often.

They got their own lake lol.

There’s plenty of old barns and split up farms for sale. Usually the lot with the barn on it goes for less because unless you’re gonna use it a barn is a huge cost sink waiting to open up when it falls down and you gotta pay a crew to haul it off and replace all your crushed shit.

But if you wanna get a cheap/rescue horse, that three acre lot with a barn and a new construction 3/2 on it is looking good.

There’s also generational wealth, though not in the way we usually imagine it. What used to be a family farm that’s been split up and frittered away with an old tobacco barn in the corner of one plot.

Now the great grand nephew of that farmer can spend half his income from the state road crew keeping a couple of horses that would otherwise be on the train to Canada.

Plenty of old tobacco land is now pasture, hay or cattle if it’s not being developed.

E: you’re not putting me out. It’s hard to know what’s going on out in the countryside if you’re not in it. China had a whole cultural revolution about this stuff, the least I can do is engage with some questions about horses and boats.

One of my coworkers was a municipal hvac tech when he had horses. At first he said he quit riding after his kids were born and the danger of getting fucked up in fall was too much, recently he said he gained too much weight around the same time and that it wasn’t safe for the animals.

A regular I always run into at the hardware store has three big workhorses and works in construction. Every once in a while on a Sunday we’ll see him riding on a backroad.

My partner and I used to have two or three depending on if someone else’s was passing through, but recently we put down the last one. They don’t ride anymore after a fall and we’re both in the service industry.

One of their high school friends is a teacher with an old nag and a bunch of goats. Idk why she stopped riding but she doesn’t.

Of course, there are lots of examples of rich people with horses in the area but only one around us, a large animal vet with a bunch of quarterhorses. That person still rides.

I don’t use the term herd to refer to a big galloping stampede, but the handful that a person with their own facilities (pasture, barn, etc) would have to keep the animals themselves from going nuts from isolation and loneliness.

The brutal part is that horsemanship isn’t just a rich people hobby.

There are so many working class people who pour massive amounts of time and money into their horses (it’s bad to keep just one, they need a herd) and don’t even ride.

Horse people have to have massive cleared land and some kind of shelter for them. They’re always worried about if they have enough hay for the winter and watching the weather for big temperature changes that cause colic.

To get enough hay to last any amount of time, a horse persons gotta own, rent or pay someone with a big truck and trailer and have somewhere to put it. They can’t use legume hay (cow hay) or fermented hay (also for cows). New hay has to be bought weeks in advance so it can be slowly mixed in to prevent colic.

Horse people gotta use special vets who almost always have to make house calls.

If a horse person wants to take their horse somewhere like a better vet office a couple of counties over they gotta have a special trailer, the truck to pull it, the time to get the horse comfortable with it and the psychic energy to fend off a whole new category of final destination thought.

Horses can live 30 years easily. There are limited horse rescues and they have spotty histories because the animals themselves are so expensive to care for and the adoption rate is so low.

Imagine if all the people who adopted heelers or pits when they rented their first house with a fenced yard also couldn’t give their pets up for adoption when they got evicted or had to move for a job or just when the dog became too much for them.

Horses are incredibly smart and sensitive. I’m glad to have known the ones I have and still sad to have seen the ones go that I have.

if youre in oregon, the bend craigslist has a $1200 volvo s70. it’s clean and runs and drives (they claim).

do not

ever

let me reiterate that last point

ever

buy a used car with an all wheel drive system. you do not need all wheel drive and it’s just gonna break. guaranteed the last person who owned it didn’t know how to drive and let the awd compensate for more shitty situations than they needed to be in, causing it to wear prematurely.

with that said that’s a $500 project car, not a $2000 anything. a car that has sat idle for even one year will need new tires and will need all new fluids, so expect at the very least to have to do a brake flush, coolant flush, replacement oil and filter, pump out the gas tank and put new gas in before you start trying to figure out if the engine’s seized, where youre gonna get a new battery, if it’ll turn over once the engine’s unstuck, if the brake lines are rotted out, if the gaskets are rotted out, if the fuel lines are rotted out, what the water that leaked in past the bad gaskets got to, mold, animal piss and shit and weird smells.

get a different car to rely on.

E: Christ, i clicked on the picture and it’s even worse than i thought, the tires are flat, you can see gaskets peeling apart/panels pulled up and its covered in at the very least lichens if not mold.

given that the license plate looks oregon and it sat outside, multiply my concerns by ten. sitting out in rainy, humid weather is a million times worse than sitting outside in the desert.

It’s brutal reading through those comments.

If you have an ssd run spinrite level 2 scan.

This is bullshit. I eat five pounds of bridge mix a week and my tickers never been healthier!

That’s a little on the high side but not far off. If you had like a Subaru or something that’s a pain in the ass to work on then I’d understand.

Shop around a little, but more important than price is quality. A head gasket is the part that allows the two halves of the engine to seal up and contain explosions as well as correctly conduct oil and coolant to where they each need to be. It’s an important part and replacing it will have at the very least the whole ass engine took apart.

So make sure you trust the people doing the work and keep an eye on your coolant while you’re going around getting quotes.

Long term? You gotta have a car, and if you can only have one it needs to be newer and in better shape. If you have to have old cars, you gotta have two so you can not be fucked when one goes down.

You know if you can have a second 20 year old car. If you can’t, try to climb the years ladder a little once this one’s repair is paid off.

Can you just call it when federation hits 69?

Your vote is a frowny that means defederation but your text seems to mean you’re not in favor of defederation…

Not what I said but let’s break down the differences between db0 and 4chan:

We’re already both part of the same federated system as db0 and we’re currently federated with them. We’re not an image board like 4chan and have a substantially different system.

Hexbear users are posting on and viewing db0. Hexbear users are not posting on or viewing 4chan (at least using their hexbear credentials).

As many posters in this thread have pointed out, the interactions with db0 users are generally not like the interactions with the two mods/admins that are the topic of the thread.

Let’s not exclude ourselves from a space we already occupy because fascists are around.

Don’t let fascists make us exclude ourselves from spaces they occupy. That’s stupid.

Almost every top level comment is some variation of fuck no lol

Sticking out your gyatt for the royalzller

No.