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Video of New York prisoner beaten to death by prison guards

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sh ... rcna185537

I thought this shit only happened in Shawshank Redemption

Next one to fall off the third floor platform will be the retard guard who accidentally left his body cam running.

What about the inmate who killed a guard on Christmas?

Is this the brave new world of AI?

I'd kick their ass after the second time they did that to me

I have this mindset where I am impervious to sickness, people in my household have the flu, but I feel ok, therefore I don't have to take precautions because I won't get sick.

Well for the 3rd day in a row I now have a 101 fever, everything hurts including my eyes and I am totally worthless. Last night I had the wood burning stove going wide open, the room was easily 85 degrees and I was under a blanket shivering. The kicker is I was sick 2 weeks ago and got over it. I rolled out of bed about 20 minutes ago and I am going to do the dishes, laundry and then back to bed

Unfortunately my daughter has the same affliction I do, as she has not got sick yet, and I told her at dinner while I was still feeling good a few night ago that she was the only one who hasn't been sick and she was all arrogant about it. Makes me want to go blow snot on her door handle

Feel better

85 degrees?? Even my dad would turn that down...

its not thermostat controlled, just load that thing up wide open and let the wood burn - it has a blower motor on it to distribute the heat. so it can get the den hot as hell.

since I last posted now I've gone 180 - I'm sweating and just wearing a t-shirt around the house. Still don't have an appetite back yet though.

One of the best things I did was put that fireplace insert in - its made life in the winter much more enjoyable. Highly recommend it to anyone that can do it

During the 80's, when wood heaters were popular, my dad put one in our house when he built it. When my paternal grandmother stopped by one afternoon she asked why he had a wood heater in the living room. My father explained how popular wood heaters were, said he was looking forward to having wood heat and told my grandmother "I'll put one in your living room if you want it, and you can have a wood heater like the good old days again"

My grandmother just looked at him and said "No. I lived through the good old days. I'm glad the good old days are over. I'll take my gas and electric heat thank you very much." then carried on with whatever else she was doing.

Happy New Year

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 4:30 pm During the 80's, when wood heaters were popular, my dad put one in our house when he built it. When my paternal grandmother stopped by one afternoon she asked why he had a wood heater in the living room. My father explained how popular wood heaters were, said he was looking forward to having wood heat and told my grandmother "I'll put one in your living room if you want it, and you can have a wood heater like the good old days again"

My grandmother just looked at him and said "No. I lived through the good old days. I'm glad the good old days are over. I'll take my gas and electric heat thank you very much." then carried on with whatever else she was doing.

Largely agree with your grammie DS. She was smart. And she was right.

That said if:

• you are in your 20s or 30s
• you have a pick up truck
• you have a tiny piece of swamp land somewhere nearby with lot of trees on it (most of which are dead)
• you are physically strong enough to lift a chain saw and not lop off your own arm
• you live in an old, small, 2 story house with grates in the floor that you can see up them and right clear into the bedrooms upstairs
• you are not that bothered by dust
• and you have an unfinished basement with nothing in it except dirt and cobwebs, with plenty of space for wood

then having a wood stove on the first floor of your old house, not too bad. And you will have a lot of people who will want to come by and hang out because a wood stove in January is very warm, cozy, and inviting. In your specific circumstances, 6 or 7 trips each summer to your not too distant piece of worthless swampland and you can heat your whole tiny house for pretty much nothing. But that is a very tiny, specific, set of unique circumstances.

Growing up wood heat was our primary heat source. Late September thru October we cut wood. Then we have one part of the house 80 degrees and the rest was 40. I slept in the back room and woke up plenty of times to ice on the inside of the room. The old man would get up 2-3 times a night to keep the fire going . That self sufficiency was a source of pride for him but it convinced me I was going to never live like that.

This is my first winter living full-time up in the mountains. The house was mostly built to be only a summer home so my heat is a hodgepodge of baseboard heaters and a couple of splitters. Needless to say the house doesn’t get 100% heated, but I have a fireplace in the living room and a Franklin stove up in the master bedroom for weeks like this. This past few days have been burning them nonstop and will continue through January because of the cold spell forecast. Never realized how much wood you go through in a day when it’s nonstop. My truckload of wood I bought in November may only last a month instead of the whole winter.

eCat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:39 pm Growing up wood heat was our primary heat source. Late September thru October we cut wood. Then we have one part of the house 80 degrees and the rest was 40. I slept in the back room and woke up plenty of times to ice on the inside of the room. The old man would get up 2-3 times a night to keep the fire going . That self sufficiency was a source of pride for him but it convinced me I was going to never live like that.

My grandfather mastered the Blade Runner "the fire that burns twice as bright, burns half as long" philosophy with his wood stove. Only he made sure the fire burned twice as dull. The house is already warm for the stove burning hot but he would load the stove with wood at like 1030 PM, wind the oxygen supply to the stove down real low. Stove surface temp would go down to about 300 degrees (there-abouts) and the wood would burn pretty much all night, real slow, with a very low heat, amber colored fire. And the heat stayed pretty steady, kept the house above 70 degrees until about 3 am. About 5 am, house is down to 60 degrees, fuel in stove would be gone and he would open the oxygen a bit more, get the fire going again with more wood. It was very comforting. And he slept all night.

sardis wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 6:58 pm This is my first winter living full-time up in the mountains. The house was mostly built to be only a summer home so my heat is a hodgepodge of baseboard heaters and a couple of splitters. Needless to say the house doesn’t get 100% heated, but I have a fireplace in the living room and a Franklin stove up in the master bedroom for weeks like this. This past few days have been burning them nonstop and will continue through January because of the cold spell forecast. Never realized how much wood you go through in a day when it’s nonstop. My truckload of wood I bought in November may only last a month instead of the whole winter.

Three full dead trees. That was what my grandfather would burn each winter. He had some land filled with trees, half of which were long dead. He and I would chop down three, and he and I would saw them up into a couple cord of wood. That was just about enough wood to heat his split level ranch (900 square feet, each floor, on two floors) from October to April 1st, in Boston Massachusetts. But yes, it goes fast if you get blazing fires. He wouldn't. Slow....

1 whole long dead tree = (basically) 6 weeks of heat

I keep my thermostat at 73 thank you very much.

The new stoves are all catalytic and will burn much longer than my “slammer” stove from the 80’s. But my stove is low maintenance. I can burn anything with it

Would IB burn in it?

anyone

there ya go