ChristinaM
(Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))
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An investigation by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee finds Prime Day sales event, happening this week, is “major cause” of worker injuries.
“The Senate review also found that warehouse workers sustained “recordable” injuries at more than twice the warehouse industry average during the week of Prime Day in 2019. Employers are required to report recordable injuries that require medical attention beyond basic first aid and other heightened care to the federal government.”
I’ve been delaying any Amazon purchases for a while (ie the furthest shipping date they offer) bec there’s very little I need that fast, especially at the cost of worker health.
I know it’s a much more bigger complicated issue than that, and it’s an ongoing effort to cut back consumption as the main goal, but it’s helpful to be reminded of the cost of hyper convenience.
I have also started methodically delaying my purchases to think them through and limit the number of separate orders. Now I have to figure out how to still get HO some love when I hit "place your order!
I would not, of course, have ever bought a crossbow. Why would I?
BUT
My late brother had it sitting in his storage unit (along with a surfboard only suitable for advanced trick surfers (he did not know how to surf), several stunt kites, a newfangled slot car racing set and various disassembled cheap guitars). We found it last year cleaning it out. FREE crossbow? Well, if you insist. I got it restrung and tightened up. It’s an apparently a very basic, likely Chinese knockoff of an older Barrett model. Draw weight is somewhere around 125-150 lbs.
Now I have to find a place that will let me safely operate it without risk to my neighbors or the local wildlife. Local archery clubs usually do not allow for crossbows.
I suspect I’ll have to buy my own target (a specialty item, these things shoot 200-300 ft/sec and can easily penetrate 3/4 inch plywood at 15m. A standard archery target is NOT enough to stop a crossbow bolt). We have some friends with a small ranch out in Placerville. Maybe take it out there.
But even so…. Crossbow!! Whee!!
My partner has said she’d rather me have a crossbow than a deli slicer. Less chance of serious injury.
I think every child in existence has done so, to the immediate reprobation of a parent “You’ll put your eye out!”
I, like many middle class Midwestern kids, did summer camp, and that inevitably involved archery. Just simple recurve bows. I wasn’t too bad. Came in 2nd in the camp tourney one year.
There was an article in today’s WaPo about invasive fish and encouraging people to eat them (yum, snakehead). Anyway, cool pic of people with crossbows hunting the snakies. So you could use for that if you get out to the Chesapeake…
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