shalafi

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[–] shalafi 1 points 5 hours ago

Aside from the usual stuff, my phone has a 22000mAh battery I can use to charge devices while in the boondocks. The speaker is no slouch either, so it's my main BT speaker. It's also as tough as a tank.

[–] shalafi 4 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Do not use a window for sunlight?! How else am I to obtain sunlight?

I'll add a very, very important thing. Use an app to kill the blue light coming off your screen(s). Notice how when you see a TV screen from the street or behind curtains it's always blue?

Notice how the dawn starts out bluish and dusk goes red? The blue light is energizing you, telling you to be awake.

[–] shalafi 1 points 5 hours ago

Lord. They just got through a typhoon. After that was gone my wife showed me pics of her hometown (Manila) airport flooded out. And now this.

[–] shalafi 1 points 5 hours ago

Saved my own life because I had learned to swim and float at 5.

[–] shalafi 4 points 5 hours ago

Don't have a dog ATM, but when I did, and had scummy friends and neighbors, I noticed that thieves are always afraid of dogs.

[–] shalafi 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You sound a lot like me is what I'm saying.

[–] shalafi 2 points 5 hours ago

Been hunting a trashed projection TV to swipe one from. Saw a dude on YouTube melt a rock with one.

[–] shalafi 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I have a pet pig living in far better conditions.

[–] shalafi 4 points 5 hours ago

LOL, while you're dreaming up evil ideas, some simple brown camouflage would help as well.

White on the bottom so it's hard to see from underneath, brown on top so it blends with the ground from above. Like a fish,

[–] shalafi 4 points 7 hours ago

I pack out trash every time I hike or kayak. Sometimes I don't have enough garbage bags.

[–] shalafi 3 points 7 hours ago

From Radio Shack?!

 

Where do I begin to even see if I'm interested?

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submitted 4 months ago by shalafi to c/micromobility
 

I'm wanting something to run around the hood and offroad, mostly in deep sand. An electric version of this: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/coleman-mini-bike-bt200x-g

What else do I need to be concerned about?

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submitted 5 months ago by shalafi to c/dune
 

Got a couple of acres in a NW Florida swamp. Been hearing Barred Owls for years.

How do I spot one? And tricks other than sitting still and being quiet? They seem to come pretty close. Can I "bait" them somehow with a box or something they would like to visit?

Funny story: First night I camped, three were doing their call/response thing. Every time they called, closer, and closer. Freaky sounding, one of the calls sounds almost like a child crying out.

For some reason, my idiot self thought coyotes were closing in. (Yes, I know well what coyotes sound like.)

Got a little freaked, grabbed my .410 (tiny shotgun) and decided to take the fight to them, scare 'em off (didn't want them rooting around my site). Again, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, promptly got lost.

Got home, "Hey Google! What do coyotes sound like?" Oh FFS. I am not a clever man.

Saw a Pileated Woodpecker the other day though! Super cool and way bigger than I thought.

 

Probably just not feasible, but I have many pistols and the 1911 is what I'm best at. I carry an LCP MAX and some other .380s, but I'm not so hot with those. Also have a slightly larger Ruger 9MM that works great. Just about can't miss with the Colt Government Model.

I suppose the answer is to practice, practice, practice with the smaller guns?

 

Saw this on the table. Been waiting all year for the prism to start working well!

 

It stands to reason he must have been doing something right to have stayed so close to the halls of power.

I was a toddler when he was carpet bombing Cambodia, never knew him as anything but "an important person" that was sometimes on the TV. Only learned of his crimes in the past decade.

How did an in-your-face war criminal retain such influence for so long?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by shalafi to c/[email protected]
 

I'm an old (GenX), straight, white, American guy, but I'm right with you all.

I might say things that are offensive, because I can't pretend to be in your shoes and might get something wrong. I'm often just trying to understand. Hell, I didn't figure out that gay rights are civil rights, my rights, our rights, until 10+ years ago.

It's 100% OK if you want to keep this a non-cis space. I get that and won't be butthurt.

(If shotguns are your jam, I got many more to post! Weirdly, of all the antique and vintage shotguns I have, this cheap-ass Turkish thing runs like a dream.)

 

Just what it says on the tin.

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