Reminds me. I have to do that to my ice maker soon
TYPE LOUDER, I CAN’T HEAR YOU YOUNG MAN!
I will take being an adult with responsibility over being a child any day. All I remember is ennui and a trapped feeling. School sucked so bad, and no control over your own life. I want to know what sort of idyllic childhood the people who write this stuff had? I wasn’t abused or anything, it just sucks being a kid.
“ennui and a trapped feeling … no control over your own life”
That describes adulthood for a lot more people than we’re willing to admit. Adulthood often has the illusion of more choices, but for many those choices have one realistic option.
As a kid, there is at least the feeling of “I’ll grow up and it will be great”, as a working adult it used to be “I’ll retire and it’ll be great”; these days it’s “well, I hope there isn’t teams meetings in the afterlife”.
Nah being a kid sucks ass. I have every control over my life right now. Sure a good chunk of my life is spent working but I like my job. And after work I get to do a whatever I want. And believe me I fucking do whatever I want.
but I like my job
What? But… how?
I’ve finally found a job that I like and the answer is with a lot of courage and a bit of privilege. First and foremost is the privilege part. If you have the privilege of being able to be unemployed for a few months and not die then you can do this, if you’re on the edge of poverty then you can’t afford to. Just another way privilege is a positive feedback cycle. Anyway, with the warning out first, then find the courage to change jobs every few years until you find a place where you say to yourself, “Yeah I can stay here for a long while.”
It’s a lot easier to do when you’re young, but if you have the privilege of being able to go through the unemployment of being between jobs then all you need to do is have the courage to leave your job and look for a better one.
So do I, but not everyone is so lucky!
That depends on your childhood I guess! “Please let is be over with.” was mine.
mine was “HOW THE FUCK DO I GET OUT OF THIS FUCKED UP SHIT”
Seriously, this is by far the worse part about getting older.
It effects health too, cause it’s not dealing with pain that’s annoying, it’s the ever increasing amount of upkeep you have to do to maintain your body.
Descaling? My coffee machine has been running daily for 6 years without that made up mumbo-jumbo!
Well well look at fancy pants over here with the soft water
Hope you don’t have lead pipes and soft water! Cause those two don’t mix. And by don’t mix I mean do mix, which is why it’s bad.
If you don’t put reptiles in your machine, do you still have to descale it?
Doubt it, but what’s even the point then.
You can do that if you have soft water. Hard city water would cake those conduits with calcium in 6 months.
I live with hard water. Got filters on my sink, shower and I use distilled water for coffee.
I use instant coffee, I just need a kettle.
Then you need to descale the kettle. Same difference.
I’m team pour-over coffee maker. It goes in the dishwasher every now and then. All parts are visible, so I know if it looks groddy.
Chemex here and I just hit it with a denture cleaning tablet once in a while.
That can do in a pinch, but I don’t like the taste of the few instant coffees I’ve tried
I dont prefer it but it lasts forever considering the coffee I watched steve1989 drink out of old MREs. I keep one jar as a backup.
life is a daisy chain of problems that need to be solved
For me its more like lots of chains of various lengths all tangled together.
Life is just a nintendo controller tangle.
some are born into wireless
That’s an elegant way to describe the Rube Goldberg machine of bullshit that is life on Earth.
Everything you own is something you need to maintain and service. Scaling back on stuff can give a real sense of freedom.
On the other hand the Dual Fuel Inverter Generator (Propane/Petrol) I got in the basement gives me sense of security.So, did you do the monthly maintenance on the generator? Do you run it for 10 or 15 minutes every month to be sure it starts and runs?
Luckily my tiny 2000W require annual and not monthly maintenance. :)
That maybe worse to remember and harder to make a habit to do.
I only run it on propane, so when I get the BBQ grill out in spring and burn that one I do the generator too. The “clean” parts of the schedule are a lot simpler if you don’t run it on petrol.
Thanks for reminding me to order descaler
White vinegar isn’t enough? How hard is your water?
2 days ago!
…After 6 months of the light blinking.
Damn, I need to descale my machine. It’s been… quite a long time since I last dealt with it.
I have a hard enough time remembering to flush the group head every few weeks.
Thanks for the reminder to flush the group head.
you guys are getting group head?
Living the lifestyle ethically is more work then being monogamous with someone.
But if its what everyone wants who am I to say no? I’ll do my best.
Do what now?
Look, I just want to have a sand pit and be a dinosaur again
Last year. Lucky me I have good water. I should do it again
What a dogshit example
