mrmcd posted:

ATVs are fun as hell though, if you live somewhere with trails.

(They're like 20-25k new but you can get good condition used ones for significantly cheaper because they are BWM toys that get resold without much use).

Residency Evil posted:

Wife and I have done Turkey via wet brine, dry brine, sous vide, fried, and some way I can’t remember. Dry brine was the best imho.

tater_salad posted:

Free* Hot tub coworker also owns an ATV, has no land (he was hoping the neighbor across the road would let him ride on their land, they wont). It's some fun thing that had been modified by the PO (always a good thing to buy right) that has snorkels and a top mounted radiator. He drives it on his lawn sometimes to post pictures of it next to his overpriced FORCE customs Jeep (I think) that they also drive only on the lawn because they dont want to go offroad and scratch the paint. Also they drive their wife's car everywehre because tires and fuel, so mostly a 60k lawn ornament.

He does go on a yearly trip with the ATV.
one year his plastic dipstick broke and is now somewhere
last year his battery died and he had to take it to the shop because getting the battery out requires a lot of work and he didn't have the skill to get it out
this year he had an electrical issue which overloaded his lamp so it melted the housing which will need replacing, and also his electric power steering light is now on and his battery light is on.
Every ATV trip ends up with him dropping 100's at the shop the following spring so he can take it out again on his annual outing, drive it through some puddles / water and pay for it to get fixed.
He has a 200+ foot driveway in snow country and wont get a plow for the ATV because it's a pain to get in and out of the garage/shed he stores it in, and wear and tear.

rufius posted:

My preferred is dry brine, spatchcock, on a smoker.

mrmcd posted:

ATVs are fun as hell though, if you live somewhere with trails.

(They're like 20-25k new but you can get good condition used ones for significantly cheaper because they are BWM toys that get resold without much use).

Armacham posted:

Never stop being friends with this guy.

tater_salad posted:

Lemme tell you another story. So these ppl are replacing their old beautiful (yes they look great) stained glass windows, and giving them away for free*. Heck they're even signed by the artist they may be collectable!

tater_salad posted:

They were done by a local stained glass company nothing too amazing. It's not like they were 1800s stained glass. Like 1970s or so.

lostleaf posted:

Bird With Marinade

Try this recipe for turkey. Comes out amazing every single time. Extremely easy except you need large amounts of refrigerator space to defrost(2-3 days) and marinade the turkey(1 day).

https://thewoksoflife.com/grandpas-perfect-thanksgiving-turkey/

PittTheElder posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/145...ingawful.com%2F

lol I love that this guy obviously has no loving clue what he's doing either, just riding the train of a $350k salary and an out of control housing market

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He’s also learned some expensive lessons along the way. Mehta purchased a duplex in January 2020 and planned to flip it into a single-family home, but local housing ordinances prohibited that. He estimates he lost tens of thousands of dollars before renting out that property on Airbnb, and now makes sure to do his research before buying.

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Bitcoin Mining Noise Drives Neighbors Nuts—a Giant Dentist Drill That Won’t Stop

The city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, 100 miles east of Montreal, got a big revenue lift when it welcomed Bitfarms, a company that makes cryptocurrencies.

The 500 people who neighbor the company’s computer center got something else: an inescapable drone that is driving many of them crazy.

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“It’s comparable to torture,” said Paul Gingues, a Sherbrooke city councilor who has heard the noise and received complaints from constituents.

Toronto-based Bitfarms makes money by using high-powered computers to generate bitcoins, a digital currency. Miners compete to add transactions to bitcoin’s ledger by finding numbers that satisfy a formula; the first to do so are rewarded with new coins. There’s no shortcut, so miners with fast computers—and lots of them—to sift though the possibilities have an edge.

The powerful computers must be cooled by an array of fans. Their whirring noise has left residents who live near cryptocurrency operations in Quebec, Georgia, Montana and other places agitated and frazzled. Some compare it to a giant dentist’s drill, others to a fleet of helicopters taking off in their backyards.

“I wear earplugs inside my own house,” said Annette Tiveron, 74, after a facility owned by Canadian bitcoin company Blockstream opened in her town of Adel, Ga. She can no longer sit on her porch. The noise sounds like 1,000 hair dryers blowing in unison, she said.

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In Georgia, Ms. Tiveron can see the Blockstream facility from her house. She has measured the sound levels with a sound meter at more than 70 decibels from her front porch, as loud as a vacuum cleaner.

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“I was sleeping in the farthest room from the noise and it woke me up,” she said. The noise has persisted despite the layers of insulation, including sheet rock, soundproof boards and batting, that she and her husband, Roland, have put up at a cost of $7,000.

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Blockstream, which is based in Victoria, British Columbia, is complying with a memorandum of understanding it signed with the city of Adel in 2019, said Chris Cook, the company’s head of mining. Under the deal, Blockstream must keep the sound levels 500 feet from the facility’s property line at 60 decibels or below, he said. Trouble is, Ms. Tiveron’s house is closer than that distance, which puts her in a gray area, he said.

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“There are times when I am on a lawn mower with earplugs in and I can hear the roar of that thing over that other noise,” said Dr. Meredith, who is collecting signatures from the local community to document complaints about Blockstream’s mine.

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As the price and popularity of cryptocurrencies increases, more mines are popping up in the U.S. and Canada. The operations are being scrutinized for the amount of energy they use. They are also increasingly being met by noise restrictions and lawsuits.

Local officials in Missoula County, Mont., passed new zoning rules that would restrict how much noise and vibration businesses can create after residents complained about a bitcoin mine that has since gone out of business.

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The city of Plattsburgh, N.Y., just south of the U.S.-Canada border, passed a noise ordinance in 2019 to deal with bitcoin mines. The rule came after the city lifted an 18-month ban on approving new cryptocurrency miners.

Joe McMahon, building inspector for the city, said the issue isn’t just the level of sound, measured in decibels, but the frequency, measured by its ability to irritate. He compared the sound of the bitcoin mines to the whine of an airplane engine revving up on the tarmac.

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As Plattsburgh’s building inspector and chief zoning officer, Mr. McMahon said he has the power to force companies to make changes to their operations if he feels the noise they emit is “objectionable.” He has used that power to encourage cryptocurrency companies to turn down their fans, even though that means they run fewer mining machines and make less money.

“I say, ‘You’re bothering the hell out of these people. Don’t you want to be good neighbors?’ ” he said.

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Geoff Morphy, the President of Bitfarms, says they have already made too many sacrifices for the community and have significantly reduced the sound produced by the building.

“In the past, it sounded like fans blowing loudly. Now, it sounds like fans blowing mildly,” he said.

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In Sherbrooke, Bitfarms’ facility is located in an abandoned hockey stick factory on the south shore of the Magog River. The sound of the fans bounces off the wall of a city-bus garage next to the bitcoin mine and is amplified and carried around the neighborhood by the nearby waterway, said Marc Denault, a Sherbrooke city council member.

The racket has forced some people to cover their windows with plywood to keep the sound at bay, he said. “People cannot go outside because there is so much noise,” he said.

Bitfarms in September reached an agreement with Sherbrooke to close its facility by February 2023.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Cyrano4747 posted:

I do something similar, but I stick that marinade between the skin and the meat. You can work your hand in-between the skin and the breast especially and just slather that poo poo in there. Comes out insanely juicy and flavorful.

Space Kablooey posted:

Better With Marinade

"some dude posted:

It feels like im alone on this. Im working three jobs, trying to save and afford a place to live. I'm scared to get into a relationship or have any friends because going out is so expensive. I'm currently living with three other people in a condo. I eat two meals a day, sometimes one big meal. I'm having a break down and I can't take this any longer. I see my roommates partying every weekend and having uber meals delivered to them. I can't see how they are doing it. Im so tired.

"top response posted:

From your post history, it seems like you might be spending a bit too much on escorts.

Try jerking it alone like the rest of us, then using some of those savings to invest in a relationship.

Guest2553 posted:

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[–]IntellijIDE 15 points 17 hours ago
240-350 an hour if my Google search is right. Prices are openly listed.

https://www.escortsxo.com/models/amelie

https://www.cupidsescorts.ca/new-rates/

It is shockingly open.

knox_harrington posted:

Answering the key question:

https://old.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada/comments/quj09l/anyone_here_working_three_jobs/hkr79c7/

Cyrano4747 posted:

Watching NFT people who don't realize that they didn't buy the distribution rights or whatever they think they have will never, ever get old to me.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

njsykora posted:

It gets even better when they're actually minting copyrighted artwork to stick it to the right clickers and find out.
https://twitter.com/workingdog_/status/1460403801446305803

Residency Evil posted:

Please don't give me false hope that these are real.