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happy new year guys I've been avoiding the forums, I have the week off so I've been doing stuff covid test came back negative, so I just have a scratchy throat for some random reason I'm working on a picture frame for my folks, hard maple with red oak splines, and so far it's coming out really good and I only have two or three more steps to gently caress it up I made wings tonight, half hotwings and half with carolina gold sauce the calamari I made last night came out pretty good too this year I resolve to use less punctuation in my posts
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Samadhi posted:I'm throwing up the Leper-signal for him an anyone else who plays D&D, looking for some input: Sorry, I basically didn't read this thread over the last day and a half. You posted in the right thread and probably got good advice there; I don't play D&D any more and have never read the 5e rules, so I'm not much help.
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Jan 5, 2021 00:36
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Spoeank posted:I literally said "what the gently caress" out loud. Guess I am boycotting safeway now Safeway? I skimmed the article, it seemed like it was just vons & albertsons, for now, but I might have missed something
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Jan 5, 2021 02:50
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I forgot that I wanted to respond to this:Bird in a Blender posted:For real, it’s a cutting board for her to use, so I can understand her wanting something that works because otherwise I’m just making her a gift that will aggravate her more. I’ll get it fixed, I think I was just venting because I was mad at myself for the mistake, and at that moment was frustrated with her. As a fellow still-learning-stuff woodworker, maybe this is something you can say to your wife: Woodworking is not just a collection of tool skills. The essential skill in woodworking, as with many crafting hobbies, is problem solving. And like all skills, problem solving requires practice. So, part of the process of making something, especially for the first time, is running into problems, and then working out how to deal with them, yourself. Yes, you can ask for advice if you're truly stuck, but even then, you'll have your own workspace, your own tools, and every chunk of wood is unique in its particular grain and behavior. So you still have to figure it out. How do I clamp this, with my clamps, my workbench, my glue, this particular wood? Why am I getting tearout here, is it this species, my tools, my technique? Why aren't these pieces lining up, did I plane them poorly, should I rearrange grain direction, did they warp after I cut them? This weekend I was figuring out this picture frame I'm making. I decided on the fly that I'm not happy with the quality of hardware-store hanging hardware. And I'd already made a couple of brass strips to hold in the stuff (glass, picture, backing, etc.); so, OK, I think maybe I'll cut and file some brass into one of those jaggy-teethed nail holder brackets, and can I set it flush in the frame? Sure, but that means the head of whatever nail or screw needs a space to be, so I need to cut a recess. How? Drill? Router? Chisel? Hand router plane? What shape? How deep? Do I need to sand? Experience told me to make the brass fitting first, position and outline it, and then cut within the outline, with a bit of space so the fit isn't overly snug. This maple has had a little tearout before, the grain isn't perfectly straight, so I decided to use a steel edge to scribe over my cut lines with a very sharp marking knife, cutting the grains before I did any more work. I started with a small chisel but I wanted a uniform depth, so I moved quickly to my little bitty router plane. But the iron on the plain requires some clearance, and I couldn't get clearance in all parts of the cutout, so I eventually went back to the chisels.  But that was just one approach, that I figured out, to a particular problem. I could have used other tools, or mounted the hardware not flush, or even just left off the hardware and left it to my parents to decide. If I got stuck, asking for advice isn't bad, and I could have learned from that advice, sure. But the process of doing what I described above... looking at my workpiece, deciding I wanted some feature or aspect of it to change, and then deciding how to implement that, was itself a skill I was exercising and developing, and it's a skill that you cannot do without, it's fundamental. tl;dr, when someone else tells you what to do with your project, they are taking away your opportunity to figure it out, and you need to figure a lot of projects out yourself (and make a lot of mistakes along the way) in order to get halfway decent at woodworking. Timby posted:Albertson's owns Safeway. Huh. I thought it was just vons/lucky/albertsons. I wonder what makes them decide to use one particular brand, since we have both albertsons and safeways around here. I've been inside both and it's not like one seems more upscale or different particularly. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Jan 5, 2021 03:01
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SHOAH NUFF posted:I’ve always wished I had the personality of a intelligent, patient man...like Leperflesh I never quite know how to respond to stuff like this. I guess I should just say thank you, but that feels inadequate. I appreciate you SN, and your compliments genuinely cheer me up. swickles posted:Leper, can you explain to us the proper way to use a can opener on a can of beans? throw away the can opener and just rub the can on the sidewalk
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Jan 5, 2021 04:39
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Intruder posted:Whoever designed this online manual where the text is in a small black font over the right side of the screen with pictures of tablets with black borders in the background and the left is an expanse of empty light colored space can go gently caress right off I would like to see it, please, if it's something you can share.
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Jan 5, 2021 22:32
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It is amazing to me, right now, that we did not have paddy wagons and riot cops en masse arresting people and teargassing the crowd within maybe 5 minutes or so of them breaching the capitol. Well not amazing, that's not the right word. Grimly predictable? Dissatisfyingly obvious? Abject. That's maybe it. Just abject.
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Jan 6, 2021 23:29
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seiferguy posted:https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/1346938705932648451?s=19 Anything the US government digitizes becomes less secure than it was when it was on paper
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Jan 6, 2021 23:33
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The Big Jesus posted:I mean, they can just redo them... Tinkering with the electoral process is not trivial. The current process does not, I believe, permit a "re-do" of the electoral college vote.
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Jan 6, 2021 23:45
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The Puppy Bowl posted:What's the thought here? Are the Capitol stormers not currently committing a crime? DC police are supposedly enforcing the curfew, and the sense is they won't be as deferential as the capitol police were today? I'll wait and see.
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Jan 6, 2021 23:47
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seiferguy posted:Joe Manchin is on ABC News (on call), saying that this act might be the thing that unites Americans, lmao get hosed sixty or seventy million trump supporters suddenly embrace bipartisanship because their coup attempt failed
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Jan 6, 2021 23:49
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saintonan posted:Not re-doing the vote itself, just submitting another copy of each state's results. When the electoral results are certified, a copy goes to the US Archivist. Those copies could just as easily be used to do the electoral count. Oh, yeah I'm sure. The veep presides and the congress does its thing and the details that aren't laid out by law are basically up to them to decide how to do. If they needed to validate their votes against the ones in the archives I doubt anyone would stop that.
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Jan 6, 2021 23:56
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Its Rinaldo posted:In before Leper! Hyena's are closer related to cats genetically hyenas (not hyena's) are closer to cats behaviorally and morphologically they are closer to dogs so, calling hyenas "dogs" is less correct than calling them "cats" only from a strictly genetic, dogmatically taxonomic reference point, but calling them "dogs" is a reasonable appellation from a descriptive, colloquial english perspective the actually correct thing to call the four extant species of hyenas collectively, in English, is either "hyenas" or, pedantically, "hyaenidae"
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Jan 7, 2021 00:30
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Dango Bango posted:Goddamn. The man "well, actually-ed" a "well, actually". thanks, I appreciate it when my efforts are acknowledged 
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Jan 7, 2021 00:33
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Its Rinaldo posted:As if I wasn't setting Leper up for the ally oop. yeah I pretty much had to
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Jan 7, 2021 00:36
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loeffler just withdrew her objection to certification, because she's shook by what happened today
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Jan 7, 2021 02:43
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I'm remembering 2000 and thinking that if there had been more time for florida to certify its votes, that would have made bush v gore harder for the supreme court to flagrantly throw an election.
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Jan 7, 2021 02:56
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Skwirl posted:Again, it needs to be a popular vote. Florida wouldn't have loving mattered if it was a popular vote. Well sure but the popular vote compact is the only way we're getting that... and the closer we get to the tipping point the harder it gets to get another state on board. If we have a popular vote, then it'd make sense to push for a constitutional amendment to just go ahead and abolish the electoral college, since it will have been effectively removed from relevance at that point, and while we're doing that, we can also shorten the election process. In the meantime, though, while any random state's votes could be critical, and those states all run their own elections in whatever cockamamie way they want, I'm happy to give them ample time to have their bullshit challenged and maybe re-challenged and get into court etc. etc. After certification of the vote we don't really need more time, probably, I'd be cool with counting electoral votes on the 6th and putting the president (and elected members of congress) into office on the 7th.
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Jan 7, 2021 03:02
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:If that pop vote compact is enacted it's going to be immediately squashed by this SC, you know it. Yeah could be, I wouldn't say never. But, the compact works because the states have the right to appoint their electors how they see fit, and that's precisely why the courts just rejected various states' objections to other states' EV certifications. So they'd have to come up with an excuse for why states signing on to the compact actually aren't allowed to allocate their votes that way. I suppose it'd be based on the idea that doing so disenfranchises their constituents within the state, so maybe equal protection clause? I dunno. But yeah nothing is beyond sufficiently motivated right wingers so I wouldn't say it's impossible.
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Jan 7, 2021 03:21
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The senate is waiting for these fuckers and they just keep going and going because every one of them wants to get their recorded message on video, even though they're all identical. They're all elderly people, too, it's super after their bedtime and they had a tiring experience today. Don't they just want to go to bed? Christ. Their idiot constituents are not going to care if they decided they'd done their pointless demonstration by 2 AM instead of forcing it to keep going even later.
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Jan 7, 2021 07:58
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Blowjob Overtime posted:Leper, what the gently caress is with this artificial rear end looking rods of snow on my deck right now? poo poo looks like splintered wood. sorry I wasn't around to answer your snow question, looks like someone else got it covered also I had no idea, I figured some weird kind of snow, there's lots of kinds I guess
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Jan 8, 2021 00:57
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There is some question as to whether "acting" sec's in the cabinet count for 25th amendment: those that are full confirmed sec's are, IMO, resigning in part because it takes the heat off them for not 25thing him.
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Jan 8, 2021 03:38
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I think it's obvious capitol police, at least some of them, assisted the breakin as it occurred. But I don't buy that that assistance was pre-planned; nobody anticipated trump stirring up that crowd, he ad-libbed all that poo poo, including the call to go to the capitol building. The capitol police assumed that the right-wing protests would mill around outside and do nothing. They were surprised when the mob moved on the doors, ambivalent when some of the mob flashed badges, and unwilling to fire on a crowd containing their own, so they retreated. Which is condemnable on its own, and doesn't require a conspiracy theory that somehow anticipates Trump's improvised call to action and intentionally prepares the capitol building for invasion. They let the people in and backed off from using lethal force in the most part, because they were white, and perceived as political allies, and some of the invaders were forces. Not because somehow hours earlier or the night before, their bosses knew that a push to gain entry was going to happen.
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Jan 8, 2021 23:45
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:If Trump can't be on Twitter he might actually try to get work done and that is scary. countdown to trump's new tiktok acct
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Jan 9, 2021 00:43
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Freaquency posted:I was saying that courting one of Murkowski or Collins would be the only hand the Dems had left if they split the runoffs in GA, I never thought Trump would wind up causing it to happen instead lmfao "Questions her future as a republican" is leverage, not necessarily a promise. However... Murkowski is up for re-election in 2022, and she's already announced she's running. Interestingly, that will be the first election with Alaska's new jungle rules - ranked-choice voting of 4 candidates in the general, I don't know if that plays into it. Alaska ballot measure 2 just passed this november, it's kinda cool and weird! https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_Ballot_Measure_2,_Top-Four_Ranked-Choice_Voting_and_Campaign_Finance_Laws_Initiative_(2020) I really wonder if this gives Murkowski an opening to keep office even as a Democrat, if she assumes multiple republican challengers might split the vote even with ranked-choice? E.g., each republican might have a lot of voters who pick them as 1st, but Murkowski as 2nd, and that plus all the democrat votes and a solid chunk of republican loyalists would win the office?
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Jan 9, 2021 00:52
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C-Euro posted:Hyperventilating over how many Trump tweets are now lost to time and people's Screenshots folders. And the library of congress, which is obligated to keep them all forever, haha. Don't worry, none of trump's presidential tweets are lost to history.
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Jan 9, 2021 00:53
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Freaquency posted:Yeah, and if she’s an Independent does she caucus with the GOP still? If so I don’t see a lot of point to standing up to the party by leaving it. Even if the Dems can’t count on her vote, if she caucuses with them that makes it easier to hold onto committee chairs. I don't see a whole lot of gap between her and Manchin. Maybe on unions. I expect they're 100% aligned on dirty resource extraction policy, which is super important in both states. I agree she'd more likely go independent, and if she went Dem I doubt she gets a committee chair (she's 'only' a three-term senator, and those generally go to the most senior, although not always). e. actually yeah 3 terms is enough, and she could probably demand a chair as payment for agreeing to caucus with the dems, hey
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Jan 9, 2021 01:01
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that's a hell of a deal on ketchup
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Jan 9, 2021 01:03
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Skwirl posted:Murkowski's actually pretty decent on environmental poo poo. My mom works for an environmental non-profit in Washington State and Murkowski has apparently been really helpful working with Cantwell and Murray about stuff protecting and funding parks and what not. https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/sen-lisa-murkowski-oil-drilling-in-arctic-refuge-can-be-done-safely/
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Jan 9, 2021 01:12
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Kalli posted:Anyway, in happier news: Dude, seriously, thank you for this. We have a 3d printer and I'm sending this to my folks to see if my mom could use one. I could mail one to them and have it in her hands by monday.
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Jan 9, 2021 02:07
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I like my pixel 3 a lot. good camera, good screen, good processor, always the latest android os, works perfectly with google fi, zero bundle-ware bullshit, standard usb for cheap charging accessories, not a fragile razor thin easily broken apple phone, and we go ours for half price during their anniversary sale 1.5 years ago so $350ish.
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Jan 9, 2021 22:46
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Thaddius the Large posted:God I miss the days when the internet was largely morons hurting themselves and porn, now it’s just hot takes and existential crises. Where’s the love gone?!?!? My friend, go to youtube and put the word "dashcam" in and then just watch everything that comes up
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Jan 13, 2021 05:45
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Feinstein probably isn't running again, she has to file that paperwork so that she doesn't have to like, give back all her campaign financing money or whatever.
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Jan 13, 2021 19:29
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3 DONG HORSE posted:Maybe there's some kind of deadly virus going around ? transmitted by doorbells e. dammit intruder
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Jan 13, 2021 21:41
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it's ok, per the article it's been safely bought out by a faceless conglomeration, you can drink your sleepy tea without worrying that you're supporting a weird cult, you're just supporting immoral capitalist corporations like normal
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Jan 14, 2021 04:02
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seiferguy posted:Its time for me to buy a new chair. My current one was a free one I got off offerup because it had a coffee stain on it, but my posture is slouching. We definitely had this convo in last year's thread but gently caress if I'm going to try and find it. I'm using a chair from Soma, that was fitted by an ergo specialist, and it's amazing. Doesn't have tons of bells & whistles, isn't futuristic looking or whatever, but I sit in this chair like 12h a day and it's holding up well after a year and a half. And a lot cheaper than some of the more popular brands like herman miller. I think mine is this one, or similar: https://www.somaergo.com/products/somacustom-chairs/somaform/somaform-sf-tbs It was helpful to have a specialist measure & pick sizes of the bits, since there's a ton of options. This one was particularly useful for my sciatica since it puts no pressure on the sciatic nerve area. They have PDFs for all the fitting stuff though so you can do that yourself too, especially if you can get someone to help you take some simple measurements.
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Jan 14, 2021 23:34
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:I wish there was a way to opt out of them. You can donate extra tax money to the government on your annual taxes. I mean, you can't actually just send extra, they'll refund you; but you can intentionally do nonoptimal things, like itemize even though the standard deduction would be more, or decline to take credits & deductions you're entitled to. But IMO it'd be better to just directly fund programs that the government refuses to adequately fund, like say food for poor people. e. or find someone who can't make rent and pay their rent.
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Jan 14, 2021 23:37
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Treat him as a prisoner of war, since he's carrying a battle flag of an enemy army.
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Jan 14, 2021 23:43
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follow-up https://twitter.com/MilesKlee/status/1349896353535541250
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Unions are super important, I was in a union, several family members are unions, etc. But without that protection, historically and probably still today, you bet your rear end the decision in some shops about weather to protect a given member or not would have been based on their race, or possibly religion. Or age, or seniority, or in some places, whether or not they were likely to flip on the corrupt union bosses if the union didn't have their back.
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