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Canopyflyer

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  • Have any of you ever actually done the cost comparison calculations for cooking vs buying pre-made, including cost of energy?

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  • I'm a cook as a hobby, so typically the cost of making vs buying does not figure into my decision, except when things at the store get absurdly expensive.

    A case in point: Toasted Sliced Salted Salad Almonds from Fresh Gourmet

    My wife and I love these on our dinner salads so we go through a lot of them. The cost of a package of these salad almonds has risen to $7 for a 3.5oz (99g)package.

    I can buy a 16oz (454g) package of raw almonds for almost the same amount of money, as the 3.5oz (99g) Fresh Gourmet package. I have an electric oven that consumes around 5kwh that runs for roughly 30 minutes during preparation and my daytime electric rate is around $0.13/kwh (I think).

    Out of that I get a full pound (16oz, 454g) of salted almonds for ~$7.07 and 30 minutes of my time. I also use about $0.02 worth of salt, bringing the total cost to ~$7.09 for 4.5 times more almonds.

    I also can adjust the amount of salt on them as well, as typically my wife and I like less salt that most people.

    It's also fun to do.

  • All right music fans, what's your favorite band/musician and how many times have you seen them live?

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  • My favorite band that I've actually seen live:

    Duran Duran. Was a closet fan of theirs back in the late 80's and got to see them when my girlfriend at the time got tickets.

    Actual favorite band and unfortunately have never seen live:

    RUSH

    And it's not because I think that Neil Peart is the greatest drummer of all time (that would be Buddy Rich). It's because their music actually talks to my neurodivergent brain. It is also due to that the 3 of them were a confluence of exceptional talent that just happened to come together to make something special.

  • When were you wrong about something?

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  • It's "Revved up like a deuce."

    Not "Wrapped like a dou..." well you know.

    First heard that song in 1981... Learned the correct lyrics in 2020. 39 years of being wrong, but I think I'm in good company.

    Also learned that the version that most people know is actually a cover done by Manfred Mann in 1976. The original artist is Bruce Springsteen and he recorded it in 1973.

  • Any foods you prefer or can't stand depending on whether they are raw, fresh, pickled, cooked etc?

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  • Last August my family went to Maui and on our last day we toured the Maui Pineapple farm.

    OMG... I didn't know that was how pineapple was supposed to taste. It is NOTHING like what we get here in Wisconsin.

  • Any foods you prefer or can't stand depending on whether they are raw, fresh, pickled, cooked etc?

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  • Onions

    Raw: arrgg can't stand them. Maybe if it is a sweet onion and very thinly sliced, but otherwise keep it away from me.

    Sauteed: Mmmmm.... spread them over EVERYTHING!!!!!

    Caramelized: Extremely inappropriate moaning noises...

  • What's an unexpected skill you have?

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  • Landscaping

    My very first job at the age of 15 was working at a Nursery/ Garden Center. I also would work on the landscaping crews and even did some design work.

    When my wife and I bought our house she said she always dreamed of having a big flower garden, but said she didn't know how to do it properly.

    Well... I do. Even my Mother-In-Law, who is an experienced gardener, learned a few things from me. Although, I have to admit, she really does know a lot and I learned a lot from her as well.

    Our flower beds are beautiful throughout the growing season with a huge variety of plants.

  • Ex-MAGA Rep. Joe Walsh announced Tuesday that he is joining the Democratic Party

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  • That's the same mother fucker I shut down on Reddit many years ago when he started popping off about how there is no reason for abortion in an AMA.

    I simply replied to his idiotic statement:

    Ectopic Pregnancy

    1 in 40 chance

    SOURCE

    Sorry, I've since forgotten which article I cited in my original post. The word "SOURCE" was a link to an NIH article that I was citing. I can't find it now and the original post is lost to my deleting my Reddit account.

    But it was enough to cause the jack ass to back pedal and make a public announcement that abortion was OK for ectopic pregnancies specifically.

    It was also my highest rated comment on Reddit ever.

    Fuck Joe Walsh. He's an asshole that should be no where near a public office of any kind.

  • What's the first thing to come to mind if I ask you what you remember learning in high school?

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  • Learning how to type.

    You either had to take typing, or some other class that I can't remember during my junior year. The other class didn't appeal to me at all, obviously as I cannot even remember it now, so I took typing. By happenstance my best friend was in the same class.

    The class taught me a skill that I use till this day, some 38 years later.

  • Who is a celebrity you used to really like, but don't anymore?

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  • My family had "The Best of Bill Cosby" album when I was a kid and we listened to it a lot. Some of the funniest bits on that album and I always had warm memories sitting and listening to them.

    Then it comes out that he's a complete monster. All those family memories tied to that now, it really sucks.

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  • First Used: Tandy Model IV (Learned BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN and COBOL on one.)

    First Owned: Tandy 1000SX (It carried me through my first stint in college)

  • Why do, relatively, so few of you set an avatar for your profile?

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  • There, I added an avatar.

    That's me under my Performance Designs Spectre 150, circa 1997 or 98... Can't remember as I've slept since then.

  • What's your method of enjoying (or at least tolerating) physical exercise?

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  • Audiobooks.

    Music is fine, but I actually find I will make more time to exercise if I'm listening to a good book.

  • What's your hyperfixation song?

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  • I'm a RUSH fan that is neurodivergent...

    You can probably guess.

    NO!

    YYZ you philistine!

  • What discovery or invention do we take for granted?

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  • Transistors.

    The first working transistor was created in 1947. Before then it was just vacuum tubes. Less than 80 years later the modern world relies completely on its existence.

    You use billions of them in your everyday life.

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    What do movies always get wrong about your job/hobby?

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  • Hobby: Skydiving

    1. Free fall is at most 65 seconds on a normal jump. My personal record is jumping from 28,000 feet and I was in free fall for around 85 seconds. That's it, there is no such thing as a 5 minute free fall, unless you are looking to break an altitude record.
    2. If you run up to a skydiver and pull their Pilot Chute (PC) out and throw it into the wind, nothing will happen. The gear is designed to work at free fall speeds. A 10mph wind will not pull the main out. If you pull on the PC bridle hard enough to actually pull the main out of its compartment... You will just have a main parachute in its deployment bag closed by rubber bands, or other method and it will just be laying on the ground. You will also get a well deserved punch in the mouth by more than one jumper. If you pull the reserve handle you will probably get murdered and there will be no witnesses, especially if the hanger was full of jumpers. They will just hide your body and you will have deserved your fate.
    3. BASE jumping and Skydiving are as related as Hockey and Figure Skating. Sure there is some overlap, but one cannot do the other without training. Also BASE is an acronym. Building, Antenna, Span, Earth. Bridges fall under Span BTW. No, I am not a BASE jumper, although I have jumped the Bridge in WV. So yeah, I guess I have my S.
    4. Yes, wing suites are cool. Wish I had more jumps on them.
    5. You cannot talk in free fall. The old movie trope of talking back and forth is simply not possible. How difficult is it to talk in a car with the windows open going down the road at 70mph? Now, remove the windshield and drive the car 120mph...
    6. The "parachute not opening" is not even in the top 10 concerns when jumping. The gear works and we jump with two chutes. There is a whole lot of bullshit that can happen before we get to deployment altitude. Not the least of which is just getting to the DZ in the morning. I always considered my drive to the DZ my most dangerous part of the day. Second most dangerous is being in the airplane. I'm actually relieved to exit the aircraft as at that point I have a better chance of making it to the ground safely than the pilot.

  • What's the scariest experience you've ever had?

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  • 8 way skydive. Two friends were getting married and they wanted to do a formation skydive as part of their wedding ceremony. They were going to get married, then 8 of us would get into the plane and do an 8 way formation dive. Land and eat cake.

    The problem was they were both low time jumpers, with about 70 jumps each. The other 6 jumpers were all highly experienced, so we tried to make it work. The jump in question was a practice jump about a month before the wedding.

    The bride fell out of the formation and went low. Meaning she was below everyone else and was continuing to get even lower. People in a formation will fall more slowly than an individual.

    The formation of 7 other jumpers gets to about 5000ft and she is about 500ft below us and just sitting there. She is making no moves to track out and it is becoming a very dangerous situation. Then she starts waving off, which is what you're supposed to do right before deploying your parachute. We all see it, break the formation turn and burn. The jumper to my right videoed the whole thing. By happenstance I was the closest to her. The video shows me in a full track when she and her deploying main parachute come into frame. I might have missed her by about 20ft. Later she told me I sounded like a jet airplane passing by.

    Everyone needed a change of underwear after that jump. I grounded her except for coached jumps, which I took on myself. I did about 15 jumps with her over the next month with increasing number of people until it clicked with her on how formation skydiving actually works.

    We did not get to do the jump the day of the wedding unfortunately. Just after the nuptials were completed and we were to head to the airplane an intense thunderstorm blew in grounding the planes. We still held the reception in the hanger though and it was a good time. We did the wedding jump a couple of weeks later and sent the video to all the wedding guests.

    But yeah, it was pretty fucking scary.

  • What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

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  • I'm still here.

    I keep reading it, so added for comedic effect..

  • What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

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  • I'm a Gen X'er... Not sure if the Lemmy's word limit on posts would allow me to list it all.

    So here are a few:

    Drank from the garden hose? Check

    Rode in a car without seat belts? As a toddler? As a baby? Check

    Rode my bike all over town with no helmet? Had an accident that put me in a coma for 48hrs because of not wearing a helmet? Check

    Harvested tobacco on my grandparents farm? Check (Anyone who has done this by hand, working with those stakes knows the risks.)

    I started skydiving in the early 90's. My mother was absolutely appalled and constantly berated me about how "dangerous" it is to jump out of an airplane.

    The truth of the matter was I was far safer in free fall than I was during most of my adolescence.

  • Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE

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  • Can confirm.

    Am old.

    Scored a zero.