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lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Kind of actually :^D I like to keep some MREs on hand as convenient field food, but I've been going above and beyond collecting shelf stable food.
 

pmv

Lifer
May 30, 2008
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Trying to order some memory cards on Amazon and have given up. It's behaving really weirdly, says an expected delivery date of a few days time in the item listing, but if I go to check-out it then declares they won't arrive for over a month. Given up trying to figure out what it's doing - it's only a very small discount in the 'spring sale' anyway, decided not to bother.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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This was sort of a problem yesterday, but it was just a case of me being an idiot. I had saved a couple files in a work folder on nextcloud, and nextcloud kept deleting them. Recover the files, check again later, and they're deleted. I'm thinking "WTF is going on here?!". I wokeup this morning with the answer. That folder originates on my work computer, and it comes from our server that I keep updated with rsync. So I drop a random file in the folder from home, nextcloud syncs it to my work machine, and rsync overwrites it with the server copy. Rinse, repeat. I'm a fucking dumbass sometimes :^D

At least I don't have to track down some weird bug, and can go back to trusting nextcloud again. I started using it more after Mega shit the bed. Mega was doing some crazy stuff with my files, taking random text documents and pdfs, naming them the same name as some of my spreadsheets, and syncing those up. I have no idea how it was doing that. I'm nearly 100% sure it isn't my fault, and I don't know how to fix it, so I'm using nextcloud. Libre software ftw!
 
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lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Not sure if this is a problem, but I was checking out previous amazon orders, and saw that two cases of MREs were $50 cheaper than when I bought them. I was considering ordering them, but I already have 3.5 cases, and they aren't something I eat every day. I just checked, and they're back to full price. I don't know if this has saved me money or cost me money, but I feel vaguely annoyed.
They went back down to $125, so I have two more cases of MREs coming. That's what I was paying in the early 2000s. I'll have more MREs than I really intended on owning, but I can get rid of them. That's only 1 MRE a week for a bit more than a year counting what I already had.
 
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aigomorla

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They went back down to $125, so I have two more cases of MREs coming. That's what I was paying in the early 2000s. I'll have more MREs than I really intended on owning, but I can get rid of them. That's only 1 MRE a week for a bit more than a year counting what I already had.

I think thats one perk in being asian is that you have a 20lb bag of rice, a cabinet full of ramen, and a shelf full of spam you get at bulk from costco. So the thought of hording MRE's even in an emergency doesn't worry me much. Because if were in one to the point where we eat all that bag of rice, spam, and the many qty of shin ramen, then i think your probably better off relocating to a shelter then trying to stay bunkered up.
 
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lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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I think thats one perk in being asian is that you have a 20lb bag of rice, a cabinet full of ramen, and a shelf full of spam you get at bulk from costco. So the thought of hording MRE's even in an emergency doesn't worry me much. Because if were in one to the point where we eat all that bag of rice, spam, and the many qty of shin ramen, then i think your probably better off relocating to a shelter then trying to stay bunkered up.
I have a bunch of normal stuff too. Not so much rice, though I do have about 8# currently. I don't eat a whole bunch that, but I've been on a bit of a kick lately.

Back when Kaido posted his 'food storage' thread, I estimated I could stay on my property for a year without leaving. I've upped that fairly substantially since then. I'm probably at 1.5+ years now.

The MREs are kind of an unusual case. I like them as a treat for out in the field, and we have a long way to go before the shitstorm clears. What got me interested in buying now is prices may go up significantly, since they're the obvious SHTF food, and I don't really want to go without. Though if shit gets real bad, they are good to have. Calorie dense. You could do /ok/ eating one MRE/day. They're about 1250 calories per. That's a little light, but if you aren't engaged in active combat, they'll get you through.

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The reason I have so much food squirreled away(pre shitstorm) is I shop a lot at discount and distressed merchandise stores. They get good stuff cheap, but when it's gone, it may not come back, so I buy a bunch and pack it away. I never did it with the intention of "prepping", but it's become a bit of that.

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Ya know, this is all a bunch of fucking bullshit. Trying to look in the future and guess what happens based on the whims of a moron, and a 100% corrupt, and incompetent government. I was pissed at myself for forgetting to buy a case of canola oil last week at aldi. I use that as bar oil for my saws. You know what "canola" means, right? It's Canada_Oil_Low_Acid. We grow some rapeseed here, but I think the majority is Canadian. I need to try to guess what products are gonna go up in price, and hedge against it for no good reason other than a fucking idiot jerking the gearshift around. I spend half my day pissed off, and wakeup almost every day homicidal...
 
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lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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I was just thinking about this today. Sad that what we consider a deal is someone losing a bit of money and going into hardship. There's no win-win in business, other than for the sharks.
It isn't all bad. Some of the distressed stuff is merely packaging changes, or overstock. The originating company isn't losing much, and a bunch of people benefit, from the stores that deal in that kind of stuff, to the people(many times low income) that shop there. It's a good way to reduce waste in the world.
 
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QueBert

Lifer
Jan 6, 2002
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The other day I went to a food truck to get Asada Fries, but she was out of queso. Her truck's back today, so I went to get them. Now she's out of Asada. I will go back tomorrow, but I expect her to tell me she's out of damn fries.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
69,560
13,227
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www.anyf.ca
Been over a month now and my tax return has still not showed up in my account. Getting kinda annoyed at this point. When you owe money they take it immediately and if you're late you get punished but when you are owned money they drag their feet.
 
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BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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I ordered an Electric Car and it should be here in a little over 2 months. I contacted the electrician that I have used in the past. He moved his business to another county about 150 miles away. I can do some electrical work, but don't feel real comfortable running a 60 amp service to my garage.
Should have bought a new Ford. They're including a free Level 2 charger and free basic installation.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
65,482
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You have to peel a corner up, stick your finger in the groove, then slide your finger along the seam. There's a risk of papercuts, and it doesn't work on some oddball cereals. Aldi stuff from Germany easily goes to shit. Their muesli also has a super annoying plastic bag inside that runs a real risk of ripping straight down the bag rather then removing a corner. Everything got worse when they quit using waxed paper bags.


I wish the cereal companies would put a "tear along this line" bag with a zip-lock type of chingadera on the bag.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
69,560
13,227
126
www.anyf.ca
Been over a month now and my tax return has still not showed up in my account. Getting kinda annoyed at this point. When you owe money they take it immediately and if you're late you get punished but when you are owned money they drag their feet.

The CSIS agent assigned to spy on me must have seen my post and passed my complaint on to the CRA. The tax return just dropped in my bank right now! Government efficiency!
 

Stopsignhank

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Mar 1, 2014
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edit2:
Ya know, this is all a bunch of fucking bullshit. Trying to look in the future and guess what happens based on the whims of a moron, and a 100% corrupt, and incompetent government.
I ordered an electric car two weeks ago (It is a BMW) Well the dipshit just put tariffs on all imported cars so now I will probably not get my new car. I might be able to get a car off the lot, not sure if they are making any deals now, but they don't have exactly what we spec'd. I would hate to drive a car for the next 10 years and think, I wish this car had a feature but I could not get it because of the dipshit. I would rather stay driving what I have now.

Maybe this is not a first world problem, more of a third world problem. You know, my life is affected because the dictator woke up in a bad mood today.
 
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