HoosierNationalist

In 2020, a small city in Wisconsin told its residents they could stop mowing for a month. 435 households joined in. The bees came back the same spring. Appleton was the first US city to adopt No Mow May. The city council suspended its weed ordinance for the month so residents wouldn't get cited for tall grass. Around 40 acres of lawn across the city went uncut. Researchers from Lawrence University sampled the unmowed lawns and nearby mowed city parks in the same week. The unmowed lawns had 5 times as many bees and 3 times as many bee species as the mowed parks. Wisconsin is home to nearly 500 native bee species. Most people have never seen them because they don't live in honeybee hives. They're solitary bees, ground nesters, small black or metallic green insects that fit on a fingernail. Appleton's unmowed yards gave them food and shelter in the hungry early-spring window when almost nothing else is blooming. The experiment cost the city nothing. It saved residents fuel and labor. It produced measurable ecological results within 30 days. Dozens of US cities have adopted the practice since. Has yours?

@HorrorsGreeley @TwoRulesOfWar

@Hoosier_V @TwoRulesOfWar A woman with BPD?

There’s no trap or any intent to harm at all. It’s just a mailbox, albeit a sturdy one. If they didn’t hit it, they wouldn’t get hurt just like if they don’t stick their hands in a fire they wouldn’t get burned. Should I not lock my door so they don’t get hurt kicking it in?

@TwoRulesOfWar @HorrorsGreeley Bat won't be moving fast enough to set off the tannerite. You would need something far less stable for the desired effect.

@HorrorsGreeley Someone somewhere in this cluster fuck of a discussion mentioned a ‘hitting a mailbox full of tannerite with a bat’ and now I am having intrusive thoughts.

This is why women in politics will always be a liability. The left spent years dogging on this woman, and now she is parroting their talking points. Signalling to the left never works, they will always still hate you. The only women who won't do this, aren't dumb enough to run.

@pleasemilf @Michaelfiore Tires are more important, because they can prevent the situation where seat belts are necessary

@Michaelfiore Having a brand new set of expensive tires saved my families life one time. After seat belts, they are probably the most important safety item on a vehicle.

Some of you (rightfully) pointed out that we shouldn’t have been running a 5-6 year old tire on a super duty truck. My ignorance cost me thankfully only some money. It could have been much worse. I didn’t know to check the date on tires. I always looked for visual cues- tread depth/wear and signs of cracking in sidewalls. Here’s another tire from that same truck. 2020 manufacture date, but the tread depth is still great on it and it has no obvious cracking (to me at least). Previously I would have said this tire is fine. Now I will be swapping this out. The more you know. BTW, there was $4,000 in damage to the truck. Got insurance involved and just paid deductible.

@The_Memeries @philfCAL @ingelramdecoucy @Mark_E_Noonan I bought a phone company polo when I was in highschool, from a thrift shop. It was dangerous, I would get waved through by receptionists, and never questioned when hanging out in alleys behind businesses.

@philfCAL @ingelramdecoucy @Mark_E_Noonan Many companies logo'ed apparel is in online stores. Or at thrift shops. If you want to get like... an elevator repair company's logo for example.

The fact that “I’m from corporate, I need to see inside the vault” came this close to working serves as a reminder that we desperately need to find a way to get Griggs v. Duke Power Co. overturned

@TruthHertz357 @FrankBr05713205 There was a time when GM made the majority of their own bolts, often in the same factory those bolts were installed. Now components are almost always subbed out to suppliers. Not just the manufacturing, but often the design as well.

@FrankBr05713205 Besides the bad cranks, professional rebuilders have torn them apart and found that the oil channels were never properly cleaned of the foundry sand. It wasn't GM doing this but 3 or 4 of their largest vendors. This is what outsourcing your production to save money gets you.

It Took GM More Than 28,000 Failed V8s And Three Internal Investigations Before Recalling Its L87 Engines, the standard engine in Escalades, High Country Silverados, full-size Denalis, the trucks that people spend the big bucks on. Seems these engines have defective crankshafts causing catastrophic engine failure. Over the past six or so years, owners of high-trim half-ton GM trucks and SUVs have reported engines conking out, sometimes at alarmingly low mileage. Glad to hear these engines are finally getting recalled, but its going to take quite a while to get all those engines replaced

@squirrlactual @talledcombs It's all about a zone strategy with staple guns. You put one in every place you might need one, then you don't have to go searching for it.

@talledcombs 5 I think.

HOW MANY STAPLE GUNS DO YOU OWN?

@BlueCollarInvr I think the difference is you are a tree guy, so they trust you to do the job safely and correctly. I am a home/farm owner, so they assume I am going to screw it up and make their lives harder in the end.

@Hoosier_V See I’ve had the opposite. They will come disconnect the power in a heartbeat.

One thing that I do that has gotten me a lot of sales is if a customer calls me on a tree that is close to power lines I always tell them to call the power company. I give them a quote always but I try to save them money if I can. If the power company comes and cuts the tree I always get the stump job. If they don’t the customer usually calls me back and offers me the job because I recommended they try the power company at least. They appreciate the honesty and makes you seem like you aren’t out to get them.

@FenixAmmunition Power move

You will wait patiently until I finish, or you will choose one of the two next to me and admit you're looking at my weiner. Your move boss.

@OkieStotts Time to haunt the auctions

John Deere: replacement rims for the front of that tractor are $1,329 each. My dad:

@snowset We are full, and urbanites wouldnt like it here anyway.

You can move to the rural Midwest today and never lock your doors again for the rest of your life. Never lose an Amazon package off the porch unless the wind takes it.

@flintlockactual Not as fast as the Allis model U race tractors

I have questions, mainly what's the 0-60?

@failurenotfinal @HeritageIndiana @PeterRQuinones did just this. You should listen to it.

@HeritageIndiana Read it through together in podcast format and discuss.

What if one of our campaigns was to get 100 influential Hoosiers to read this book? How could we do that?

@HeritageIndiana @TheWorthyHouse is the only influential media outlet in Indiana that knows what time it is. Every legacy organization is either in on the grift or owned by our enemies. The only other option is to have @PaleoGOP do a presentation with excepts as part of the PB series.

@PaleoGOP @HeritageIndiana But Pete already read CoTS

@HeritageIndiana Produce a Pete Q-style audiobook podcast

@myth20c @AndToddsaid This series does one of the best jobs at explaining these principles and making the concepts easy to understand.

@AndToddsaid There's a whole series of these videos General Motors produced. They're fantastic (and on YouTube.) These were presumably made for shop classes.

I wish they showed me stuff like this in school.

@9mmsmg I do a good amount of marketplace and Craigslist hunting and use cash for that, but for over the counter stuff, it's just a hassle.

I hate the idea of cash free society. The idea where all transactions are digital. A world where I can't just give someone money without a record. I say this, but never use cash. I carry some for emergencies, but it just stays in my wallet. I was thinking recently how I'm personally contributing to the downfall of using cash. I decided I'd put my money where my mouth is, pun intended, and start using cash in my day to day transactions. It's been nearly two weeks, here's what I've experienced. 1. It takes longer. Depending on the cashier, I'm looking at about a 200-300% time increase. I was at a gas station with five people in line behind me, all impatient. The cashier was fumbling with bills, then put the coins on top of bills in my hand, which immediately slid off like they were on a slide, spilling on the counter. 2. It's nasty. Seriously, so many dirty people handled these bills. I can't imagine how many bills I've handled with residual drug residue on them from snorting blow. A few days ago I got change and I was putting it in my wallet, the bill was stuck to my fingers like fly paper from someone spilling something on it. 3. Coins. What am I supposed to do with them? What am I going to do with 36 cents? I'm not going to fill up one of those giant water jugs with my spare change and lug it over to coinstar at a grocery store to take a mini vacation to a Motel 6 and a dinner at Outback. Keep them in my pocket? So they can rattle around and scratch my phone or get stuck in my pocket knife clip? I'm not going to be counting out exact change in line. I've just been throwing all my coins on the sidewalk. I've probably thrown out 15 dollars in these last two weeks. 4. I'm losing a lot of Amex points I could be earning. My conclusion is that using cash sucks and I hate it. I hope you all continue to pay with things in cash so it stays common, but I'm out. If the FBI wants to track my energy drink purchases, I'm fine with it. As long as I never have to deal with loose change again.

@HawaiiCrusader @NEETOCRACY Yeah, but you guys have vintage steel case desks, and that's just classy

@NEETOCRACY Unfortunately the current cage I’m in.

You don't even get a cubicle anymore. You have an "open seating plan" so your co-workers can constantly see what you're doing doing.