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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Yeah, looks like fun.

    Would probably be better to just grab the wires out the back and give them a good yank. The cameras are built to withstand hail and high winds. A few slaps with the world’s smallest hammer isn’t going to bother them much.

    Personally, I’d go with a drone rigged with a spraypaint can.

    Also, unrelated, but you can use a plastic water bottle to easily fill water balloons with stuff that isn’t water, like a paint/sand mixture.









  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBirds rule
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    13 days ago

    As I’ve gotten older, I appreciate the birds more. I’ll be downstairs working and my partner will whisper down the stairwell “Come up stairssss!” And there will be a nuthatch or some shit on the tree outside the kitchen window. We keep a set of binoculars by the back door so we can spot some birds during our breaks. It’s not like we’re some Audubon bird wackos… It’s just pleasant to get a glimpse of an animal that could go almost anywhere choosing to be right here, right now.




  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldUsed to consume not produce
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    14 days ago

    Let’s not make the inevitable mistake of assuming what was an essential skill for one generation is going to matter fuck all for most of the next generation.

    Old people still think it’s outageous if you can’t write a check, read an analog clock, read/write cursive… All things that most millennials might “need” to do less than once a year.


  • Yeah. Calling bullshit on this.

    I’m the 2nd oldest of 7 kids. That house was never clean. We had all kinds of pets. I would play in the woods, make mud pies, catch weird bugs, eat wild berries and onion grass. I pretty much had the “go outside and play in the dirt to build character” childhood. I’ve got a couple of food allergies and pet dander allergies. My oldest sibling has an auto-immune issue, the ones just after me are pretty healthy, just some minor lactose intolerance, and the two youngest (from my step dad) have a bunch of weird allergies, like potatoes and milk.

    It’s a genetic roll of the dice. The reason why allergies seem more common is because more kids are able to survive anaphylaxis at a young age thanks to modern medicine and quick emergency response times… Like I went through when I spontaneosly developed a severe fish allergy at 4 years old.