retroafroman
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Comment · 4 years ago
Just want to agree, the film Crumb is a wild documentary,and totally worth watching for adults who have any interest in counter culture.
Comment · 7 years ago
The buckets in the Brat were strictly to get around the "Chicken Tax": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
A protectionist law that favored small trucks built in America. Australia has a long history of loving "utes", the car/truck hybrid: https://www.core77.com/posts/88821/The-Australian-Designer-W...
Comment · 7 years ago
I remember they pitched Mongolia as a place this would be used, but I fail to see how it actually would be. I haven't been back to Mongolia since this came out, but I would bet good money that no one (besides whatever government entity signed onto (bribed/schmoozed) the project) would use this. English isn't that common among nomads that it would make any sense. Everyone knows the Latin alphabet, but reading and writing is all in Mongolian Cyrillic, so it doesn't even make sense that way.
In the cities (where the large majority of the population lives) in the organized ger districts, there are street names and numbers, so this is really a solution in search of a problem.
Comment · 8 years ago
So you're saying it's "'Nextdoor' for work"?
Comment · 8 years ago
"Desus and Mero" on Viceland.com. Infectious level laughter from commentary.
Comment · 8 years ago
If you're in the USA, Home Depot also rents them by the hour/day if you don't want to spend the whole amount for something you won't use too often.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm definitely an amateur at understanding biology, but having studied engineering; the inputs and outputs of the human body vary so widely that I have a hard time narrowing down one input to corresponding to one result.
When you think about the air you breathe, to the variety of things you ate (plus the additional microbiomes that inhabit the food, your skin, your gut, etc) it seems like we are just barely really understanding what the intakes to the body are.
Edit: here's a great point to start to think about it: https://youtu.be/bYOIhmZ0Osg?t=41m49s -watch for 10m
Comment · 9 years ago
A hammer drill (even a Harbor Freight one will do fine for a one time project) and masonry bit will drill through brick just fine. Put the line through, use raintight fittings, and then seal the hole with caulk. It's definitely not beyond DIY.
Comment · 9 years ago
Roadkill did it with both multiple leaf blowers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U81_0waqEWA) and a full small block Chevy engine on a trailer supercharging another one in the car (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPMBR-imqUk).
Comment · 9 years ago
https://soundcloud.com/bodega-sushi/
Only podcast I listen to, the Bodega Boys, to guys from the Bronx that started out as amateur comedians on Twitter and ended up with a TV show: https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/thursday-august-10-2017...
Comment · 9 years ago
50 Cent is another guy who himself has made lots of money [0], and been technically bankrupt [1], but somehow did fine [2].
[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-tweeting-about-hnhi-2... [1] http://nypost.com/2015/09/05/heres-how-50-cent-went-broke/ [2] http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/50-cent-to-end-bankru...
Comment · 9 years ago
The subreddit[0] for this is not even remotely veiled cannabis farmers. Every once in a while someone posts tomatoes.
Comment · 10 years ago
Chuck Yeager is surprisingly active on Twitter, answers lots of questions. His replies can be pretty funny, too. https://twitter.com/GenChuckYeager
Comment · 10 years ago
They're cheaper than that, if you're willing to deal with shady(ish) companies: lowendbox.com
Comment · 10 years ago
You're talking about the 'Mansfield bar'[0], or 'underride bumper' named after a famous case of a celebrity killed by rear-ending a truck.
[0] http://www.sparebumper.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=...