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jonathan posted:AvE is pretty cool. I like him. He's well traveled and intelligent. I dont give one iota of a drat how far he has travelled or how intelligent he appears to be. Start ranting about some of the libertarian stupidity like he does then he can gently caress off. Elviscat posted:There's a Facebook post out there that shows a bunch of Whites rioting and burning poo poo 'cause City Name Sports Team won/lost, I really wouldn't be offended if POC wanted to burn most of this country to the ground based on the offenses they've seen. TBH the conditions are seriously ripe for some unrestrained social breakdown, what with a lot of actual justified fury at how people have been screwed over by the rich and now unemployment exploding (what is it up to now? 44 million?) as frankly how poo poo the economy actually is gets ruthlessly exposed and the virus that triggered the economy vomiting is currently racking up a huge death toll runs rampant esp amongst the poor.
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So Tuesday big boss asked if i wanted to take some time off as I have been smashed with work lately. I said "yep why not next week?" RIP the office. As far as I can tell from managers down to average joe workers still seem to think I'm coming in monday. The missed calls for the 2-3 hours between when I start and when the big boss might turn up is going to be hilarious to look at when I awaken from drunken slumber at midday or similar in the middle of a paddock in my swag after a full night of night photography.
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Talk about crash and burn. I was supposed to go into work last night, but as a favor (wasn't scheduled). I just woke up. I was supposed to be there at 10pm (it's 5am now). The week and a half of 2-3 hours of sleep a night caught up with me. I vaguely remember snoozing my alarm clock a few times.. Why the gently caress are keyboards so drat hard to find these days? Mine got misplaced during the move, the only one I could find in stock for less than $30 anywhere was a wireless Logitech at Walmart (and it was the only one on the shelf). It's not quite full size - somewhere between real keyboard and laptop keyboard. Fry's supposedly has a few lower end "gaming" keyboards on hand, but last time I was in there I didn't see ANY keyboards on the shelf. cakesmith handyman posted:God damnit STR, get me pics of  Pardon the mess. Still getting things situated here (and as you can tell by the light bulbs, banishing all of the incandescent bulbs around here). Nothing particularly special aside from being a decent late 1950s mid-century modern piece. e: ugh that bottom drawer is misaligned in the pic *OCD twitch*. It lines up fine, but the tracks are wood, so there's a little bit of play in them. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 11:32 on May 29, 2020 |
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May 29, 2020 11:00
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KillHour posted:I know lots of well traveled, intelligent, generally nice people with absolutely trash opinions on things. amen
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May 29, 2020 13:22
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Yeah, I've met people that own multi million dollar businesses, seem like they have it all together to the point I actually start to envy them, then I hear the N word come out of their mouth and any respect is instantly gone. Just like that, now you're just like any other lowly racist piece of poo poo and nothing special at all.
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May 29, 2020 13:31
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Or "When the looting starts the shooting starts" Not that I respected the cheeto ever.
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May 29, 2020 13:33
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jonathan posted:AvE is pretty cool. I like him. He's well traveled and intelligent. I don't watch machining/fabrication videos for the opinions or political commentary. He's generally good at what he does, but there are enough alternatives that I don't need to put up with his bullshit. Mr. Pete also has some terrible political opinions, but at least he confines them to specific videos (his vlogs) so I can ignore them.
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May 29, 2020 14:51
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How do I tell my insurance to gently caress off with a rate increase right now? Especially since I don’t drive my car anywhere but the grocery store, my mother in laws, and race tracks in the northeast. The last two obviously don’t happen anymore. I’m putting like 12 miles a month on the thing.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Yeah, I've met people that own multi million dollar businesses, seem like they have it all together to the point I actually start to envy them, then I hear the N word come out of their mouth and any respect is instantly gone. Just like that, now you're just like any other lowly racist piece of poo poo and nothing special at all. To me the worst is when you have people that just say like kind of racist stuff, or stuff that's not overtly racist but just the result of not critically thinking about stuff. If they drop the N word or whatever, gently caress em, doesn't matter. But if it's just like, stuff that could be born from ignorance, but you have to deal with these people in a professional setting. It's tough to figure out whether it's decent people just saying ignorant or uncritical stuff, or whether it's someone just kinda showing their true colors a lil bit to see if you're empathetic to their lovely viewpoints. Its especially weird when white people unleash their Hot Race Science takes on me because I am very clearly Asian.
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I'm seeing videos on facebook and reddit where there are obvious agent provocateurs operating in the area. There's a video of a white guy all in black with his face concealed using a hammer to break every window in an Auto Zone while the black protesters are pleading with him to stop Link. I'm aware of protests gone past where cops have had to arrest agent provocateurs in crowds who turned out to be other cops (you could tell from the boots the poo poo stirrers were wearing) when the protesters around them wouldn't go along with their poo poo Link. I'm not saying none of the protesters are looting or burning but as other people have said there are people with different agendas doing some of the breaking and burning for ulterior motives.
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May 29, 2020 15:10
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:To me the worst is when you have people that just say like kind of racist stuff, or stuff that's not overtly racist but just the result of not critically thinking about stuff. If they drop the N word or whatever, gently caress em, doesn't matter. But if it's just like, stuff that could be born from ignorance, but you have to deal with these people in a professional setting. It's tough to figure out whether it's decent people just saying ignorant or uncritical stuff, or whether it's someone just kinda showing their true colors a lil bit to see if you're empathetic to their lovely viewpoints. When it's younger people I tend to think ignorance sometimes, but older people don't get a pass, especially when they make it a point to use the N word and emphasize it so you hear them clearly, like they want you to make no mistake that they don't like black people. I've run into that I don't know how many times. Also it pisses me off how some people think just because they don't use the N word they're not racist, but it's cool to use slurs for Asian and Latino people.
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May 29, 2020 15:23
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STR posted:Why the gently caress are keyboards so drat hard to find these days? Mine got misplaced during the move, the only one I could find in stock for less than $30 anywhere was a wireless Logitech at Walmart (and it was the only one on the shelf). It's not quite full size - somewhere between real keyboard and laptop keyboard. Fry's supposedly has a few lower end "gaming" keyboards on hand, but last time I was in there I didn't see ANY keyboards on the shelf. Probably everyone suddenly WFH. Heaps of stuff like that in short supply currently.
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May 29, 2020 15:43
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Safety Dance posted:I have heard that second hand tools are widely available on Craigslist. twin cities craigo is particularly well stocked
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Applebees Appetizer posted:When it's younger people I tend to think ignorance sometimes, but older people don't get a pass, especially when they make it a point to use the N word and emphasize it so you hear them clearly, like they want you to make no mistake that they don't like black people. I've run into that I don't know how many times. fortunately since i'm not white it's pretty rare that white people drop N word around me. it's usually more subtle Race Science. now asian people, hoo boy. an absolutely astonishing number of asians are virulently racist against black people.
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Tremek posted:CSB: Was referencing HK directly due to this and this which TLDR say goodbye to HK as we know it. A good-sized chunk of the company I work at is Taiwanese. You can bet that poo poo is making them nervous. Not that the situation with mainland China has ever been great, but China cracking down on HK makes them wonder if Taiwan is next. I'm not real savvy on the situation as it regard to Taiwan, but I know they're nervous. KidDynamite posted:How do I tell my insurance to gently caress off with a rate increase right now? Especially since I don’t drive my car anywhere but the grocery store, my mother in laws, and race tracks in the northeast. The last two obviously don’t happen anymore. I’m putting like 12 miles a month on the thing. Isn't that amazing? Our insurance was all like "we're giving everyone a refund, since you're not driving", then a couple months later, raised our rates. You unmitigated bastards. Do you actually ever wonder why people hate you?
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slidebite posted:Bahco makes *excellent* stuff. They are part of the Snap-On group, and in a good way. I didn't even know they made stands though - is it made in Sweden? The last adjustable wrench was made in Sweden in 2006, I think some of their saws are still made in Sweden but everything else since then is made elsewhere, a big part of the brand is made in China nowadays. Snap-On basically bought the brand and then proceeded to throw everything else in the trash. The quality is still good (mostly), but the profits per piece has to be through the roof. KillHour posted:What car is that it's going to drive me crazy. Parts of it look Kia, but the steering wheel is wrong. 2nd gen Toyota Auris, called Corolla iM in the US I believe. EDIT: That's why I buy Knipex, excellent quality and still made in Germany.  I'm not going all CHINA BAD REEEEEEEEEEE, I just think that not moving all your industrial production to low wage countries is a good thing. Nidhg00670000 fucked around with this message at 16:20 on May 29, 2020 |
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Knipex stuff is FANTASTIC, and really not that expensive, a pair of Knipex dikes will cut more steel/copper than 100 pairs of cheap dikes.
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A LS swapped Saturn Sky is on BAT: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2007-saturn-sky-12/?fbclid=IwAR0BAvyMzXgWuCk_dd0-cerpF-QPGqvyVLld4vnd4wW5N0iXwwCI7Qq-Rz0 The Sky was definitely the better looking of the two Solstice twins. If you look at cutaway diagrams of how those cars were built you can see they were basically mini Corvettes. Shame they weighed as much as they did, 2800 lbs give or take, and had absolutely no trunk space. I like the idea of the engine swap but here lately the idea of the LFX v6 with its 300+ hp and potentially lighter weight and smaller packaging in some dimensions seems more appealing to me, especially for smaller cars like the Saturn Sky.
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Should have noted - "officials who have any authority to weigh in on this case/aren't mayors of some podunk town in another state 1,100 miles away using this as an opportunity to get on the news."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERhMCeLr1bg I don't buy into conspiracy theories much, but this is seriously hosed up.
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Coredump posted:History of that happening. You can find articles where the press has reported on police arresting protesters who come to find out are other police officers. Or even better, cops beating up one of their own because they they were embedded as protestors!
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Unfortunately my handful of contacts pared down to two that *could* get something but while I was hoping they'd expanded more into PO moves they have limited carriers for those type of moves so the average rate (changes with time of year) I'd look for is $1.65/mile for that move. Depending on how much your time is worth to you and how much you want to hands on the process you can likely save money booking something yourself through the websites you already mentioned.
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BraveUlysses posted:Or even better, cops beating up one of their own because they they were embedded as protestors! if i recall correctly a SLPD officer sued because he got the poo poo beat out of him when he was an undercover during the ferguson protests. naturally he got the poo poo beat out of him after the cops opened fire with bean bag rounds on a crowd without telling them to disperse, and he then was following the officer's orders when he got beat. also that guy is 1000000% a fuckin cop, fuckin shameful poo poo. i was probably more pro/neutral on cops than a lot of goons but at some point you just gotta recognize that one bad apple spoils the bunch
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:if i recall correctly a SLPD officer sued because he got the poo poo beat out of him when he was an undercover during the ferguson protests. naturally he got the poo poo beat out of him after the cops opened fire with bean bag rounds on a crowd without telling them to disperse, and he then was following the officer's orders when he got beat. I keep quiet about it most times but once you start to look into things, my god. Cops have no obligation to protect you Link, police departments purposely don't hire people that are too intelligent Link, etc etc. The guy who shot Daniel Shaver, not only did his AR-15 have a "You're hosed" engraved on it Link. But after all the outrage that happened and the department firing him they hired the cop back just long enough so he could get his pension Link. At that point you have to conclude its institutional. Coredump fucked around with this message at 18:24 on May 29, 2020 |
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I dont give one iota of a drat how far he has travelled or how intelligent he appears to be. Start ranting about some of the libertarian stupidity like he does then he can gently caress off. Luckily we live in an era where it's easy to filter out media personalities you don't like. Just block and move on. The issue isn't so much who is is or what he says, it's that he's public about it and that gets people angry. "I can't believe he's saying these things!" The way I look at it is, even the most virtuous of us still have depraved gross porn in our search history.
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It was mildly amusing seeing people say "well police only arrest people for rioting" well after the video of the police arresting a loving CNN reporter LIVE ON TV along with his camera man, sound guy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftLzQefpBvM
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Nidhg00670000 posted:The last adjustable wrench was made in Sweden in 2006, I think some of their saws are still made in Sweden but everything else since then is made elsewhere, a big part of the brand is made in China nowadays. Snap-On basically bought the brand and then proceeded to throw everything else in the trash. The quality is still good (mostly), but the profits per piece has to be through the roof. I could have swore the package said made in Sweden when I got it. I do know for a fact all the blades we have do. You made me curious now.
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jonathan posted:AvE is pretty cool. I like him. He's well traveled and intelligent. jonathan posted:Luckily we live in an era where it's easy to filter out media personalities you don't like. Just block and move on. The issue isn't so much who is is or what he says, it's that he's public about it and that gets people angry. "I can't believe he's saying these things!" You've expressed some pretty problematic social views here in AI, so I'm not surprised that you think that the misogynistic libertarian is A Good Guy. Libertarianism to the level of "masks are fascism" (I'm not going to try to argue the entire belief set, even though it IS pretty problematic) and Racism aren't just problems because we hear about them. They're loving problems.
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Krakkles posted:The issue is 100%, unequivocally, what he says (and the thoughts behind it). Meh. He lives in an area with zero cases (tested cases) I'm not sure what all the libertarian and racist views are. He calls cheap chinese junk "Chinesium". I guess that's racist? He's using the language of the common working class Canadian. Anyways I don't care to argue too much about a YouTube personality I've never met, but as a hard working socially progressive person, I think he's fine. I also tend to form my opinions on people based on their entire spectrum of actions. I'd say he's a net positive.
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jonathan posted:He calls cheap chinese junk "Chinesium". I guess that's racist? He's using the language of the common working class Canadian. Guess what, it is racist. Is it as bad as the n-word? Maybe not, but bigotry is bigotry. It's commonality in usage doesn't preclude it from being racist. I'm a working-class Canadian and I don't use that word.
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I don't think ave is actually personally a racist but the chinesium and oval office hair stuff is cringey more than anything. He also has a horrible case of engineer brain where knowing about something means you know everything and are smarter than everyone else. I liked his boltr series though, those were cool.
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Previa_fun posted:I don't think ave is actually personally a racist but the chinesium and oval office hair stuff is cringey more than anything.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:It was mildly amusing seeing people say "well police only arrest people for rioting" well after the video of the police arresting a loving CNN reporter LIVE ON TV along with his camera man, sound guy... This is tinpot dictator stuff right here, but hey when your cops happily commit murder on camera, who cares about arresting journalists live.
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Oh, you unmitigated orange gently caress. https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-launches-all-out-effort-to-regulate-social-media-companies This is *not* going to work out the way you think it is. I really hoped I could get through my life without dealing with this level of bullshit.
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Darchangel posted:Oh, you unmitigated orange gently caress. Like much of what he’s tried in the past, his lack of understanding of...well...much of anything, means there’s no way any of this will stop what he thinks it will stop, let alone stand up under court scrutiny. But he gets to tell his dribbling fans that he “beat” the liberal tech giants and “won” that battle, for the little guy. Like he obviously doesn’t understand that the 1A applies to the government preventing free speech. Private companies don’t have to let you say what you want on their platform.
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