I think this is a case where trying to actually research a product may be more trouble than it’s worth, and you’d probably be better served by just walking into your local sporting goods store and grabbing the cheapest game camera they have on the shelf is.

I imagine there’s not going to be a ton of ambient light available in a nest box, so you’re probably going to be relying on night vision, so picture quality is probably going to be kind of shit no matter what, and since it sounds like you pretty much just need to see when a chicken goes into the box, no sense spending money for higher quality cameras.

These cameras are meant to be left outside exposed to the elements strapped to a tree or whatever, inside a nest box is more protected so IP rating and such isn’t going to be much of a concern.

I think whatever you can grab off the shelf will do the job fine.

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Apparently being fascist these days.

Distilling is different from just boiling, in the sort of context we’'re talking about you’re just getting water up to boiling in a container to kill pathogens, not collecting the steam that evaporates off of it to condense back into water to drink.

And in a lot of survival situations you’d be lucky to have something to boil water with, let alone construct a still.

To their credit, yes, theoretically boiling water will concentrate things like heavy metals. You’re just not going to be able to get it hot enough to evaporate stuff like lead or mercury, all of the water will boil off and your pot will melt long before that if you can even reach the sorts of temperatures needed (you probably wouldn’t be able to, at least not without constructing some additional infrastructure, and if you’re capable of that odds are you’re pretty much set for this kind of situation and not need to be reading anything in this thread for advice)

In practice, you’re just not going to be boiling water hot or long enough for that to really matter. You really only need to get it up to boiling for an instant then you can take it off the heat (and arguably it’s probably safe at some point before it reaches boiling, but unless you have a thermometer, stopwatch, and some tables to consult about pasteurization, it’s a lot easier to just watch for a boil.) Go put a few cups of water in a pot on the stove and get it up to boiling, how much did the water level change? Probably not all that much, you’re not doing much to concentrate whatever’s in there.

You have maybe a week you can go without water under absolutely ideal conditions, more realistically you probably have about 3-5 days, or even a few hours if it’s hot and you’re exerting yourself. Most toxins you’re going to find in water aren’t going to kill you in that sort of time frame, they’re more likely to be something that will add to your lifetime exposure and bioaccumulation and cause issues for you sometime down the road, maybe years or decades later.

And if the concentration of whatever you’re concerned about is high enough to cause more immediate issues, odds are that you’re kind of fucked either way, and the tiny bit of concentration that happens from boiling isn’t going to be a major factor. You’d probably get sick regardless, you’re just trading one issue for another- dying of dehydration in a couple days, or dying of poison in a couple days.

And some more volatile chemicals might evaporate off in the boiling process, let’s say that for some reason there’s a bunch of acetone in the water (picked that for no other reason than because I happen to be looking at a can of it on a shelf in my basement while I’m writing this) acetone boils at 132.8°f (56c) so by the time the water reaches boiling all or most of that acetone has already evaporated.

No one is arming

This is anecdotal, but I’m basically what passes for being the “gun guy” among my mostly very liberal friends

Basically my qualifications are that I went shooting when I was in boy scouts, have a few friends who own guns and have gone shooting with them, and have a lot of outdoorsy hobbies that have overlap with hunters and such (my own attempts at hunting have been with a bow, and I wasn’t very successful,) and generally have a casual interest in guns, but don’t really have money to throw at them, I have plenty of other hobbies and things I’m worried about and guns are near the bottom of my priority list.

Which isn’t all that much, but it’s a lot more firearms experience than most of them have. And they also know I’m someone who will do some research and not just make stupid recommendations.

But a good handful of those people have been asking me about guns because they’ve been thinking about buying one themselves. And some of these same people were, at one point, fervently anti-gun.

And those who already have guns have been going to the range more, trying to stockpile a little extra ammo, maybe acquiring some new guns, getting a carry permit when they never felt the need to and we’re content to leave their guns at home in a safe before, etc.

They’re not out there talking about it, spreading it all over social media, posting pictures of their guns or at the range. Some of them, I think, are a little ashamed of it, others just (probably justifiably) think it’s not wise to spread that knowledge that they have them.

So there is arming happening, I don’t think it’s on a massive scale but I do think it’s happening, but you probably won’t hear much about it unless you’re someone those people have already decided that you’re a safe person to discuss guns with.

And I don’t think it’s specifically building up to any sort of an armed revolution or anything. I think it’s mostly people wanting to be prepared to defend themselves if/when things get bad. I think we’re a long way off from liberals wanting to take to the streets, pull a Jan 6, or even show up to protests armed in any significant numbers. The overwhelming sentiment I’ve gotten from most of my liberal gun owner friends is that they really don’t want to be the ones who take the first shot.

2007 Toyota 4runner

It’s a fine compromise vehicle for me.

If I’m being practical, ideally I’d like to have 2 vehicles

First would some little electric thing, it only needs room to carry me, the wife and the dog or some groceries. It only needs to max out at about 50mph and have maybe 100 miles of range, heat, ac, and a Bluetooth connection to stream music and gps directions from my phone. I do not need any other bells or whistles, and that will pretty much cover all of my chores, commuting, etc. for a week on one charge.

And small 4wd pickup truck, with long bed, single or extended cab (don’t need a full crew cab) something like the old rangers/Tacoma/etc (the current Gen is too big) for camping, picking up lumber, commuting in the snow (with some weight in the bed) etc. preferably as some sort of plug-in hybrid. Can’t imagine ever needing or wanting a towing capacity over 5000lbs.

Ignoring practicality, I’d really like to have a big ol’ Cadillac. Not too picky on the specifics, but it should be a full-sized sedan, or maybe a convertible, from no later than the early 90s, it should be black or maybe red, and I want whitewall tires.

I also have a special soft spot for Land Rover defenders, and old broncos (or k5 blazers, international scouts, etc.)

I also think the Subaru Brat was really damn cool

Would love to have a VW microbus (I think the new EV thing is also really cool)

Getting more into the realm of the ridiculous, '64 Aston Martin DB5, a DeLorean, any batmobile, the ecto-1, a Jurassic Park jeep, the bluesmobile, or Mad Max’s pursuit special

It’s a bit complicated

With no further qualification, dogs. I’ve had dogs for most of my life and home just doesn’t feel homey without a dog to me.

But my wife and I have a bit of a thing for frogs, they’re sort of our unofficial mascot.

I also thought narwhals were cool long before reddit had them baconing at midnight. I think they were kind of when I realized that kids can be smarter than/know things that grownups don’t. I don’t remember what exactly the context was, but I remember once bringing them up, my mom didn’t believe they were real, so I marched my way upstairs to grab the book I read about them in to show her.

I also always liked Coatimundis (Coatis) because they were probably the weirdest animal the fairly small zoo I grew up near had.

And if I had to pick sort of a “spirit animal” for myself, it’s probably a raccoon.

I don’t know if this particular iteration of this is good, but I can see at least the start of a good idea here

I don’t know exactly what’s in their wing rub, but I’ll bet it’s probably along the lines of salt, pepper, chili powder of some kind (probably cayenne,) garlic & onion powder

Coffee has a fairly similar flavor profile to dark chocolate

Chocolate and chili peppers is a pretty classic combination, think along the lines of a Mexican hot chocolate

And salt also goes well with chocolate, and a tiny pinch of salt is a common hack to cut the bitterness of coffee.

The garlic/onion powder and any other herbs/spices in there are kind of the oddballs, they’re definitely going to pull things more towards the savory end of the spectrum, but things like coffee-rubbed steaks are a thing, and sweet & savory combinations are a thing, so I’m not immediately horrified by that concept.

Again, don’t know if this particular version is good, but I think someone somewhere out there could probably make a good version of this idea.

Not affiliated with them, but if anyone has money to throw at interesting fruit, I got a box of assorted fruit from the Miami Fruit Company for Christmas and it was pretty cool to have weird fruits to munch on for a few days.

There may be other companies doing the same thing maybe with a better assortment or cheaper, but that’s the one I know off the top of my head.

Yep.

Also not sure how they work it where you are, but as far as payroll goes we basically just pretend it doesn’t happen since the way our shift rotation works, if you work it in the spring you’ll work it again in the fall.

Fuck that, give me my hour of overtime for turning my 12 hour shift into a 13.

Given that I do laundry roughly once a week, often pushing it past that a bit to maybe a week and a half or so

And I don’t wear jeans much during the summer, and generally prefer other styles of pants

Probably around 30 times a year.

I normally only wear them once before washing. Sometimes twice if the weather’s cool and I haven’t done much to get sweaty/dirty or if they were only worn for part of the day. There’s some extenuating circumstances where I might push it beyond that, like if I’m camping it’s possible that I might wear the same jeans for a long weekend (but with fresh undies every day)

I don’t buy nice jeans, pretty much just whatever Walmart or target has in stock in my size. I get a few years out of a pair as day-to-day jeans, once they start showing too much wear they might get downgraded to work pants for when I’m doing yard work, painting, etc. at which point they get washed when that job at hand is done, usually one day but for a particularly big job I may wear them for a few days.

Purely anecdotal, but I work in 911 dispatch

And for a few days after the clocks change it always feels like we get a bunch of calls from/about people acting strangely.

My pet theory is that a lot of people with mental health issues are either really dependent on taking their meds at certain times, or just really need a steady routine to keep them stable, and in either case shifting things by an hour throws that all off.

And not for nothing, I work nights, and when I work the clock change, it’s nice when I get to work 1 hour less, but it absolutely does not make up for when I have to work an extra hour.

I had the odd sip of my dad’s beer, little bit of wine with dinner here or there, some champagne at new Year’s or weddings, etc. but nothing that could seriously be called “drinking”

I had a shot of some fruity flavored vodka with my girlfriend when I was about 18/19 because she wanted to have a drink with me, and that was pretty much my experience with alcohol until just before I turned 21. Didn’t really feel much need to rush things.

When I turned 21 I was actually going to be away on an almost 2 week canoe trip during my birthday. I went to my friend’s beach house shortly before I left for that for a couple days. We got ourselves a case of corona a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black label, and some cigars and sat out on the deck having a couple drinks, nothing too wild.

Then after I got back I went out to a bar with a couple coworkers after work. Again, pretty low-key, wouldn’t be until a month or two later for me to really get properly drunk camping out at a music festival.

I think it’s probably safe to assume that it’s a spider on the inside too

It’s a weird case, but I know there’s one company working on it to regrow foreskins for guys who wish they hadn’t been circumcised.

They’re making progress, but still probably a few years out, and I feel like that kind of says a lot why you haven’t seen news about it- it’s just not there yet. I’m pretty sure a liver is lot more complex than a foreskin, so if we can’t even manage that yet a liver is still a long way off.

The way this kind of research goes kind of tends to have a lot of plateaus, lots of researchers working on it and not making much progress until someone has a major breakthrough, then it plateaus again until the next big thing. Sometimes those breakthroughs lead to something actually deliverable as a treatment/procedure/product, other times it’s just a stepping stone to get to the next one.

A lot of Asian markets, at least around me, carry kind of a lot of spam and spam-like products (often called something like “luncheon meat”)

I think a lot of it has to do with the US military having a big presence in Asia during WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc. and still having sizable bases in Japan and Korea. They brought spam with them and it made its way into the local diet from there.

It’s big in a lot of Pacific islands for basically that same reason.

I’m up voting because that’s exactly what this thread is for

But man, do I think that’s a stupid take.

I’m not gonna say you need to become a good swimmer and do it regularly with great form, or even enjoy doing it at all.

But I think everyone should learn at least how to do an acceptable doggy paddle, tread water, and float. Swimming should really be regarded as a basic life skill like basic first aid or knowing that you should get the hell out of a burning building.

Do you ever find yourself near any lakes or rivers, the ocean, swimming pools, etc? Walking along them, riding over them on a bridge in a car or train, etc. Then there’s a chance you could end up in that water, and if you can’t swim you stand a very real chance of dying, and possibly of dragging someone down with you if they jump in to help.

Hell, even if you don’t live anywhere near a body of water, flash floods can happen in some pretty unlikely places, including in the middle of a desert.

Unless you have some physical disabilities that genuinely prevent you from swimming, you can probably get the basics down in less than an hour, then you can get out of the pool and hopefully never need to use those skills again if you really don’t like it.

I think a lot of Linux people really do more harm than good when they try to sell people on Linux. Some of it is because they wildly overestimate how much the average person knows about computers, and some of it is just over sharing.

I’ve been using Linux for about half a year now. I’m a slightly above-average computer user, but not some kind of programming prodigy. I’ve had one significant hiccup when I was first installing it, which you probably won’t have because that was a weird quirk of my specific 10+ year old motherboard.

After that everything has pretty much been smooth sailing. 99% of my general computer use is exactly the same as on Windows (though to be fair, I’ve been big on free software for a long time so I was using stuff like libre office and gimp instead of Microsoft office and Photoshop already)

I haven’t yet run into a steam game that won’t run for me. One or two of them I had to add a launch option or choose a different proton version, and I figured that out by basically just googling “steam Linux game name” and a couple keywords about the problem I was having like “audio stuttering,” and the first search result had the fix.

Some games even run better for me now (mostly they’re about the same, some are very slightly worse)

If you use a lot of mods, they can be a bit of a pain in the ass to figure out how to get them running, but it’s usually doable, and once you do it’s done and you don’t have to do it again.

If you rely on specific windows-only software, usually you can get it running with WINE. That does take some figuring-out. But again, once it’s done, it’s done.

And overall my computer runs better and boots up faster without all the windows bloat.

It also breathed new life into my parents computer, and they’re tech-illiterate, retired, old people. They’ve had no issues with it so far.

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In case that convinced anyone to give it a try, here’s my recommendations.

1. Think about what software on your computer you use. See if there’s a Linux compatible alternative. Try that out, see if you can live with it. Do this before you ever even think about making a Linux USB.

2. Pick a Distro - here’s where a lot of guides fall apart I think. I’ll make it easy. If you’re primarily a gamer, go ahead and choose bazzite. If you’re looking for a general computer to browse the web, do your homework, etc. choose whichever flavor of Ubuntu (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.) or Linux Mint (which is ubuntu-based) looks prettiest to you. Don’t think too hard about it, don’t do too much research about the pros and cons of different desktop environments, don’t listen to the people who have some moral and philosophical bones to pick about Ubuntu. Just go by vibes. It’s stable, it works, it’s about as well-supported and documented as it gets, and if you do have a problem, you’ll find the answers in the Ubuntu forums without too much searching.

3. Put that on a flash drive, and just run off of that for a week or two. See if you can live with it. Bear in mind it will probably be a bit slower running off the flash drive than it will be once it’s actually installed. Play around with it, you can’t really break anything unless you purposely go rooting around in your windows hard drive and start deleting shit willi-nilly. If you absolutely hate it, just pull the flash drive out and forget about it.

4. If you decide you like it, take a deep breath and go ahead and install it.

I’ve always felt like the wrong sports are popular (both to participate in and to watch)

Since the Olympics were on recently, I found myself watching a lot of luge, skeleton, etc. That looks like a fucking blast.

A well put-together marching band or drum corps show is something to behold.

Once in a while you can find a lumberjack competition - log rolling, 2 person crosscut saws, climbing trees with an axe, etc.

But instead of cool stuff like that, we want to watch people fight over a ball.

“Libertarian” is a pretty broad category that gets used in a few different ways. Most anarchists could be considered some sort of left-libertarian if you’re working off of sort of a “political compass” model where the two axes are left/right, and libertarian/authoritarian. The people and organizations (in the US at least, can’t really say much about the rest of the world personally) who call themselves libertarians tend to skew more towards the right end of the spectrum (and often aren’t actually all that libertarian and skew more authoritarian)

Because of that, most anarchists probably aren’t too keen to label themselves as libertarian (barring some outliers like anarcho-capitalists, InB4 “those aren’t real anarchists”)