To be prepared with some basic common sense seems like a good path... I'm not about to start building an armored bunker deep in the woods and laying in 10 years' worth of freeze dried rations! The wider

Thanks for the support, I appreciate it very much!

Well done for getting the washing machine to work again! It IS very annoying, because most of the time these are perfectly fine pieces of equipment, and it's just some small 25-cent plastic bit that's

It's very annoying, to be sure. That's quite an odyssey you went through with the blender! Although I don't like to go down that route, I find that the "twitter/YouTube threat" tends to be fairly

Thanks for the support... I appreciate it!

I'm a big supporter of the whole "right to repair" movement, which is just a variation on this experience... I'm also a fan of standardization of many things. Appliances are a sore point with

Thank you @consciouscat, I guess I come from a long line of people who keep things until they are so far beyond "unfixable" that it truly is their time. And I just hate waste...

Hah, indeed! Coming soon, to a movie theatre near you: "The Lost Commandments."

Impressive dialogue and explanations. Whether it's "science" or "woo-woo," bottom line seems to me to be that you're more likely to have a result with something you are paying attention

At times I am very grateful to my otherwise dysfunctional parents for teaching me the value of restraint, and responding to situations rather than reacting to them. I've found myself in a few heated

I know you probably don't ever check this, anymore... but Happy New Year @jaynie, I miss you! Hope you and Jude are happy and doing well. xo

Well, congratulations on owning your house! It always feels good to know that the bank or building society doesn't "own" it anymore. We're very grateful to own ours outright, as well.

Iceland is very beautiful in its desolation... every time I see photos from there, it almost seems like they are from another world; another planet. I guess the lack of trees add to the effect.

It's an important thing to do... I've been "in progress" with it since about September; one more detailed version for my wife with detailed instructions on how to turn it all into a monthly passive

When all else fails, post some pretty pictures!

AI definitely can't do everything, so there will always be some things that require the human touch. I expect AI will generate code in the future (I think it already does) but humans... as you suggest...

Thank you for the support @cccf and @elemarg25, I appreciate it!

Thank you for the support @indiaunited and @steemflow, I appreciate it!

Hey, remove the ads and the censorship/shadowbanning, and it's actually a decent all-in-one venue, and I'd pay them $29.95 a year... which is about the $29.72 I'm "worth" to them.

I suppose it's also the fact that I was raised with the "always do your best" paradigm that keeps me from getting sloppy. Much of the time is spent on photos, and cropping, trimming and reducing