The “Super Ticks” have to do battle with the chickens.

I do this with ticks so they don’t go latch onto someone else in the house. Or me.

I had to choose an elective in 9th grade. Nothing looked interesting except for drafting, but I sucked at drawing. I took the drafting class.

Now it’s ~25 years later and I can go around town and point out the buildings I had a hand in designing.

Gardening has been a big one for me these last two years. But there are better gardens than mine, so I’ll tell you about my guilty pleasure instead.

Back in 2023, I dragged a Suzuki Samurai out of the woods. I only had to cut one tree out of the engine compartment. Since then I’ve been tinkering with it, and a year ago I got it to run well enough to take it out on public roads. I haven’t modified it myself (yet) but it came with a 6" lift, 30" tires, crawler transfer case, bedliner paint job, along with lots of other goodies like a couple of partial engines, another set of axles, a transfer case, a transmission, and lots of other bits and bobs. It’s my weekend vehicle. It’s loud and uncomfortable and barely goes 65 mph but it’s just so much fun.

There just aren’t enough people in the military to subjugate 340 million people. Also, they seem to be dependent on machines that use unguarded infrastructure to operate.

Also have several acres behind the house and neighbors that don’t ask too many questions.

What do you think, another 2-3x more for support roles? It’s been a while since I was in the military but I remember that most everyone was some sort of support for the various combat roles.

My kid is somewhat strange in that she doesn’t want sugary stuff. She doesn’t like things that are “too sweet”.

A child who grows up without any sugar might just be an adult who has no sugar cravings.

Hey look, another one!

There is no reason to make it easier for them, is it?

What part of my “driving experience” was degraded? You realize tire pressure gauges exist, right?

I won’t discuss other options for the issues you mentioned, because you’re repeating the same words as some pretty obvious bots.

I didn’t even have to balance the tire. I only broke the bead on one side, and pushed the tire sidewall back enough to get my hand in there and pull the sensors out. They are very lightweight and didn’t throw the balance off that I could notice.

I do have a persistent TPMS warning light, but some work with a screwdriver had the bulb out. My truck was different, it has a warning light and a warning message on the cluster LCD screen, but with Forscan I was able to just disable the TPMS function.

My wife and I have spent this last six or seven tumultuous years working on our diets. As a result, I’ve dropped from 280 pounds to 230, and my wife has dropped from 220 pounds to 130 pounds.

I get treated differently.

My wife, on the other hand, gets hit on, catcalled, random compliments about hair/shoes/clothing/etc, every time she goes somewhere. If she wears a sundress you can hear neck vertebrae popping everywhere around her. I’m positive she caused a car accident a month ago because one of the drivers was looking at her. She was always beautiful to me, now I have this hot milf wandering around my house grabbing me whenever she has a chance.

Yup! 315 mhz, and each one broadcasts a unique identifier, making it easy to see which four sensors are yours.

Definitely my father in law.

It’s hard to decide which screwball thing to post about. My favorites are where he said he never wanted to see his daughter again, and when my other half said “ok” and walked out of his life, he wasted money on lawyers and such to try and sue us for custody of our child, or the time he blamed my wife and I for the 2019 flood in Tulsa. He literally was mad (and threatened to sue, his signature move) that my wife and I caused the flood. Like we went to the spillway and opened the tainter gates ourselves.

Oh no, I wasn’t clear - they said removing the TPM sensors themselves required specialized equipment. Which I suppose is technically true, but it was the work of an hour and a harbor freight manual tire changer. So it “requires” equipment any stoned hillbilly either owns themselves or is owned by someone they know. Or they could just have a tire shop do it.

The car I drive is modern-ish, from the last decade, but it is a really, really basic car. It doesn’t even shift it’s own gears. The instrument cluster and center console don’t even have screens in them. There is certainly not any 5G antenna, as the car predates the commercial 5G rollout.

Late last year a city I have to drive through was bragging they had deployed systems to ID cars based on their TPMS sensors. I made a comment on lemmy some time later mentioning this, and also talked about how I had removed those sensors from my vehicle.

I was immediately inundated with comments that more or less said “That’s too hard to do and requires special tools, also your car will certainly kill you once you take them out due to three tires having 36 psi and one tire having 35 psi, and it won’t work anyway because your car’s 5g connection and your phone so it’s a stupid idea and you should definitely not do it because you’d be a moron for doing so.”

The fact that I was hit by so many comments that basically said the same thing so quickly, tells me I was correct for removing them. I wonder where those “people” are now?

I tried to plant five seed potatoes in 2017. I ended up with maybe two pounds of little potatoes. So the next year I planted more. And kept planting after that, along with a bunch of other veggies.

In 2024 I ended up with several milk crates full of potatoes that I ended up giving away to anyone who asked, tons of tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, onions, lettuce, cabbage… I moved in the middle of the planting season in 2025 and didn’t get much growing, but I’m already working on the garden for 2026…

Just plant something. There are hours of videos and probably thousands of books written over hundreds of years that explain how to make things grow, and learning how to keep stuff alive is half the fun.